Catherine Spaak
Nascimento : 1945-04-03, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Morte : 2022-04-17
História
Catherine Spaak (3 April 1945 - 17 April 2022) is a French-Italian actress and singer.
Spaak spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Spaak was the lead actress in at least 12 movies. As an adult, she appeared in many comedies and a few dramas from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Most of them were for the Italian film industry, with some Hollywood or international productions. Among her most notable titles are Circle of Love (1964, directed by Roger Vadim), The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965, starring Marcello Mastroianni), The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1966, written by Age & Scarpelli), Adultery Italian Style (1966), Hotel (1967), the sex comedy The Libertine (1969), Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969, with Claudia Cardinale), the drama The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971, written and directed by Dario Argento), the nunsploitation film Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), the controversial My Darling Slave (1973), the western Take a Hard Ride (1975), Sunday Lovers (1980), and Miele di donna (1981).
Carla
A vida de Valerio, um charmoso jovem de 30 anos afetado pelo transtorno bipolar, ganha um novo significado quando ele conhece Carla, uma senhora que manifesta os primeiros sintomas da doença de Alzheimer. Duas almas complexas que encontram em uma amizade inesperada a força para se confrontar com o seu passado.
la madre di Andrea (lei)
Esmeralda
Bianca
Ex amante
La mère supérieure
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
Conduttrice TV
Elisa
Three orphans that grew up in an institution and refused to be separated by adoption meet again after becoming adults at the wedding of one of them.
Veronica Benetti
As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.
Madre di Camilla
Laura
While reviewing her video diary, a woman finds footage of her husband cheating on her with her female friend. In desperation, she contemplates suicide, but her male film director friend suggests that they make an actual film about her.
Francesca
Francesca
Giordana Muller
Writer
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
Claudia Parise
Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than any human.
Elena De Fanti - la moglie di Arturo
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
Ottavio's Wife (segment "Il teorema gregoriano")
For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists.
Gabriella
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Milena Banotti
Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet and fall in love. They suffer from being unable to realize their love without hurting their marriages but they don't know their respective spouses share a hot relationship...
Catherine
Cavalgue com os mais duros homens do velho oeste, em um passeio pelo inferno... Com um chefe que é um osso duro de roer (Jim Brown), um jogador esperto (Fred Williamson) e um cruel e frio caçador de recompensas (Lee Van Cleef). Acrescente ainda a este grupo, um mestre das artes marciais (Jim Kelly), uma prostituta desesperada (Catherine Spaak) e vários pistoleiros loucos e gananciosos. Misture tudo isso e solte na fronteira mexicana, e veja todos correrem atrás de uma fortuna em dinheiro vivo, teremos um épico de ação que, conseguiu reunir todos os grandes astros num western urbano e clássico inigualável. Lendários de Hollywood como: Dana Andrews, Barry Sullivan e Harry Carey Jr. co-estrelam esta aventura fantástica, considerada pela crítica como o último grande western da década! Mais uma brilhante performance de Van Cleef, o grande mestre de filmes do gênero ao lado de Jim Brown, Fred Williamson e Catherine Spaak.
Elisa
Fiorenza
In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.
Sister Elisabeth
A woman who was promised to a powerful family's son at birth falls in love with another man, refuses to renounce him, and is sent to a nunnery by her shocked parents. Once there, she first undergoes degradation to acclimatize her to convent life; then she experiences rampant lesbianism by the repressed nuns, and becomes pregnant by her lover. Finally, her refusal to accede to one nun's lascivious lesbian advances leads to plotting and treachery, and her lover being murdered out of jealousy. Her life now ruined, she further scandalises her family by refusing to take her vows, and leaves the convent, devoting her existence to those in need. Claims to be based on a true story!
Madeleine
An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.
Françoise
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
Ernesta Maini
Film directed by Marcello Fondato.
Claire, Nick's daughter
Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.
Anna Terzi
Um repórter de jornal e um jornalista aposentado e cego tentam resolver uma série de assassinatos ligados a projetos experimentais de pesquisa ultra secreta de uma empresa farmacêutica e, ao fazê-lo, tornam-se alvos do assassino.
Françoise
Nanda
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
Woman Posing for Photographer
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
Claudia
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Margherita
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Allegra
Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
Valentine
Giovanna
Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
Jeanne Rochefort
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
Ombrina
Garota é criada em um submarino sem qualquer noção do mundo exterior.
Matelda
Em plena Itália do Século 11, o cavaleiro Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman), uma espécie de Don Quixote maltrapilho, forma um exército de quatro miseráveis mortos de fome e parte em direção a um feudo a que julga ter direito. Durante o longo percurso pela Europa da Idade Média, no lombo de um pangaré chamado "Aquilante" (uma referência ao "Rocinante" de Don Quixote), ele vai se defrontar com a peste negra, bruxas e bárbaros de todas as espécies, numa sátira demolidora dos conceitos de honra e coragem sobre os heróis medievais.
Marta
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
Magdeleine de Maupin
Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
Giovanna
Italian comedy film in three segments
Carolina (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 2")
Mais um filme de episódios, típico do cinema Italiano dos anos 60 e 70.
Um grupo de italianos pega um voo para a Suécia - mas entre eles estão os turistas e os imigrantes.
Dois casais burgueses escolhem um restaurante típico italiano pelo seu nome, "La Trattoria", e ficam chocados pelo mau serviço e pela desordem.
Uma dama elegante em sua esplêndida Ferrari é abordada por um italiano e já imagina que vai ser paquerada, mas ele só tem interesse... no carro.
Uma esposa italiana encontra o marido na cama com outra mulher, mas ele é tão bom com sua explicação que ela acaba acreditando que foi tudo culpa dela por não dar atenção suficiente para ele.
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Maria / Silvana / Caterina
A young woman tries to deceive both her husband and her prospective lover, but is hoist with her own petard.
Jeanne
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
La midinette
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Ghiga /Giselle/ Cirilla
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
Sergia
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
Cecilia
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
Sister Celeste
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
Dora
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
Valeria (segment "Le donne")
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Lilli Cortona
No verão de 1962, Bruno, um playboy quarentão, leva Roberto, um tímido estudante de direito, para uma viagem de dois dias pelas estradas de Roma e da Toscana. Neste período, vivem uma série de aventuras e desventuras, com um desfecho surpreendente.
Nicole Molino
An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
Francesca
A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Danièle Pièges
Three Faces of Sin (French: Le Puits aux trois vérités) is a 1961 French language motion picture comedy directed by François Villiers, based on novel by Jean-Jaques Gauthier. The music score is by Maurice Jarre. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Spaak and Scilla Gabel. It tells the story of a painter who parts from his mistress and marries her daughter.
Francesca
Francesca, a seventeen-year-old Roman, is finally sure she has found love. Almost sure. She spends the day observing other lovers' behaviors and considering whether she is ready to jump. Her age notwithstanding, this movie is more about coming of age than about improper or illegal romantic relationships.
Nicole
Quatro detentos estão planejando fugir da prisão quando outro prisioneiro, Claude Gaspard, é transferido para a cela deles. Eles arriscam e resolvem compartilhar seu plano com o recém-chegado. Ao longo de três dias, os cinco homens começam a jornada, mas a fuga está longe de estar garantida.
