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  • Sarandon honours Deneuve as she scoops up top acting award - 3 April 2012
    -Actress Susan Sarandon honoured her one-time co-star Catherine Deneuve during an industry awards ceremony in New York on Monday (02Apr12).-The French icon was handed the prestigious Chaplin Award for her lifetime achievements at the Film Society of Lincoln Center gala and


  • WIN! A Catherine Deneuve box set with Potiche - 16 June 2011
    - -Potiche, starring screen legend and international icon Catherine Deneuve, comes to cinemas on 17 of June, and to mark its release we have a Catherine Deneuve DVD boxset to give away.- -North of France, Sainte-Gudule, 1977. Suzanne (Deneuve) is the submissive, hous

Catherine Deneuve - what members say


  • Dancer In The Dark
  • Dancer In The Dark review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
    Rated - 5.0 stars Dancer in the Dark 4 May 2008
    ... fit for both Selma and the film and she, impressively, acts such luminaries as Catherine Deneuve off the screen with her raw, emotionally naked performance. Von Trier is clear...   Read customer review
  • East West
  • East West review by from LONDON
    Rated - 5.0 stars 27 April 2004
    ...have happened?, but it did... Juliette Binoche plays well and looks the part. Catherine Deneuve, although picutred all over the cover, only palys a minor supporting role. A d...   Read customer review
  • Belle De Jour
  • Belle De Jour review by from Scotland
    Rated - 4.0 stars Classic French cinema - from the Spanish master. 22 October 2005
    ...A lightly surrealistic and gently erotic film, the young Catherine Deneuve is wonderful in one of her best ever performances. Well worthy of repeat viewings. ...   Read customer review

Catherine Deneuve - filmography


  • Beloved on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Chiara Mastroianni,  Ludivine Sagnier
    Director: Christophe Honore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starring Catherine Deneuve and (her real-life daughter) Chiara Mastroianni, this sly and exquisitely romantic musical drama from Christophe Honoré (Love Songs, Dans Paris) spans over three decades as it follows a mother and daughter's misadventures in love. In the ‘60s, Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier)..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 208 members
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  • The Big Picture on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Romain Duris,  Catherine Deneuve,  Marina Fois
    Director: Eric Lartigau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Exben is a success story; a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons. Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,435 member
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  • The Big Picture - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Romain Duris,  Catherine Deneuve,  Marina Fois
    Director: Eric Lartigau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Exben is a success story a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons. Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 715 members
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  • Potiche on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Gerard Depardieu,  Judith Godreche
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Starring two of the most iconic stars of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Francois Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool), Potiche is a hilarious, stylish and subversive romantic comedy that turns the battle of the sexes on its head and refuses to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,660 members
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  • Potiche - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Evelyne Dandry,  Karin Viard,  Judith Godreche
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    French comedy starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Suzanne (Deneuve) is the trophy wife of ruthless umbrella tycoon Robert Pujol (Fabrice Luchini). When Robert's workers go on strike and take him hostage, Suzanne takes over the running of the factory and - with the help of her former ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,231 member
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  • Je Veux Voir on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Rabih Mroue,  Abbas Jaber
    Director: Joana Hadjithomas,  Khalil Joreige
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Catherine Deneuve and Rabih Mroue star in this political docu-drama set against the backdrop of the aftermath of the 2006 Israel/Lebanon war. Deneuve plays a fictionalised version of herself, an iconic French actress who arrives in Beirut as the special guest of the French ambassador for a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 132 members
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  • Irene (2009)
    Starring: Alain Cavalier,  Catherine Deneuve,  Vanessa Widhoff
    Director: Alain Cavalier
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
    1 star out of 5 23% from 3 members
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  • My Stars (2008)
    Starring: Kad Merad,  Catherine Deneuve,  Emmanuelle Beart
    Director: Laetitia Colombani
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A movie fan finds a way to make himself a presence in the lives of his favorite actresses in this comedy from French writer-director Laetitia Colombani. Robert Lepage (Kad Merad) is a janitor who is part of the cleaning crew at the offices of the biggest talent agency in Paris. Ordinarily, this job ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 5 members
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  • A Christmas Tale on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Mathieu Amalric,  Chiara Mastroianni
    Director: Arnaud Desplechin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    "A Christmas Story" is a tragically comic tale of love, death, and familial strife and forgiveness. The film centers around the strife and heartache in one family, over the course of decades, and how tragedy can bring them together despite all the odds.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,237 member
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  • Family Hero (2006)
    Starring: Gerard Lanvin,  Catherine Deneuve,  Emmanuelle Beart
    Director: Thierry Klifa
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A down-and-out sleight-of-hand artist tries to pull off the trick of a lifetime by keeping a decaying cabaret in business in this comedy-drama with music from director Thierry Klifa. Gabriel Stern (Claude Brasseur) has spent over four decades running the Blue Parrot, a Parisian nightclub where he ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
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  • Kings And Queen on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Maurice Garrel,  Mathieu Amalric,  Nathalie Boutefeu
    Director: Arnaud Desplechin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    French drama from director Arnaud Desplechin. Two stories intertwine as single mother Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) prepares to marry for the third time, and as her eccentric ex-husband Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) is mistakenly committed to a psychiatric ward. As Nora becomes more concerned about her son's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,709 member
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  • 8 Women on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Danielle Darri,  Ludivine Sagnier,  Virginie Ledoyen
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season... But there will be no celebration--their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6,025 members
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  • The Musketeer (2001)
    Starring: Stephen Rea,  Tim Roth,  Justin Chambers
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 17th century Paris, a dashing swordsman named D'Artagnan finds himself at odds with the powerful forces taking over France. As he sets out to avenge the murder of his parents, he finds his country cleaved by chaos and civil unrest. D'Artagnan's heart softens only for Francesca, a fiery peasant ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 664 members
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  • Dancer In The Dark on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Peter Stormare,  Stellan Skarsgard,  David Morse
    Director: Lars Von Trier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Selma (Bjork) is a Czech immigrant who works as a machine operator in an American tool factory. Almost blind herself, she struggles to make enough money to pay for the operation which will save her son's eyesight, and has nearly collected the complete sum when the money is stolen from her by the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 9,831 members
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  • Time Regained on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Emmanuelle Beart,  Marie-France Pisier,  Pascal Greggory
    Director: Raul Ruiz
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the concluding installment of Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past," a dying Proust reflects upon his life from his deathbed, remembering many of the people who've affected and influenced him during the course of his adult life, from the 1880s to the early ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,219 member
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  • East West (1999)
    Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire,  Bogdan Stupka,  Ruben Tupiero
    Director: Regis Wargnier
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In the years following World War Two, Alexi (Oleg Menchikov) and Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire), two Russians living In France, decide to accept Stalin's offer of amnesty and return to their homeland. But shortly after arriving in Odessa, they see their friends imprisoned and executed, and are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 553 members
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  • Place Vendome (1998)
    Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri,  Jacques Dutronc,  Francois Berleand
    Director: Nicole Garcia
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Marianne (Catherine Deneuve) is suffering from an alcoholic depression following the suicide of her husband Vincent, and the revelation that his apparently successful jewellery business was crippled by debt. Her mourning is interrupted by the discovery of seven diamonds, secretly hidden by Vincent.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,058 member
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  • voleurs, Les (1996)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Daniel Auteuil,  Laurence Côte
    Director: Andre Techine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks as told ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 10 members
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  • My Favorite Season (1994)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Daniel Auteuil,  Marthe Villalonga
    Director: André Téchiné
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A troubled family, living in genteel, suburban comfort in the south of France is jolted by the deteriorating health of their elderly grandmother and the reappearance of an absented sibling. Catherine Deneuve plays Emilie, a disillusioned parent and frustrated wife, who finds herself drawn away from ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 26 members
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  • Indochine on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Linh Dan Pham,  Gerard Lartigau,  Linh Da
    Director: Regis Wargnier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Regis Wargnier's epic about French Indochina -- from the years of French colonial imperialism to the days when American presence made itself felt and the country became known as Vietnam -- is a story of romance and separation told through the backdrop of a country in turmoil. The film centers on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,757 members
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  • The Hunger on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Susan Sarandon,  Catherine Deneuve,  David Bowie
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The exquisitely beautiful Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam, a centuries-old vampire capable of bestowing the gift of immortality on her lovers -- namely her current partner John (David Bowie). To sustain their sanguinary requirements, the pair cruises New York nightclubs in search of victims (as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,186 members
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  • Choix des armes, Le (1981)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Gerard Depardieu,  Yves Montand
    Director: Alain Corneau
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
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  • The Last Metro on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Paulette Dubost,  Stephane Audran,  Stephane Audran
    Director: Francois Truffaut
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,198 members
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  • March Or Die on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Terence Hill,  Max von Sydow,  Ian Holm
    Director: Dick Richards
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 1918, Major Foster (Gene Hackman) of the French Foreign Legion is recommended to accompany and protect the archaeological expedition being led by Marneau (Max Von Sydow). Foster, who regards Marneau's activities as little better than grave robbing, reluctantly obeys, but the excavation offends ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 216 members
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  • That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
    Starring: Carole Bouquet,  Fernando Rey,  Angela Molina
    Director: Luis Bunuel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Luis Buñuel's last film is as just audacious as any of his classics. Wealthy sadomasochist Fernando Rey falls hard for a young maid and she's only too happy to make him suffer. Buñuel's bizarre stroke is having Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina alternate playing the maid!
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,075 member
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  • Un Flic on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Alain Delon,  Richard Crenna,  Catherine Deneuve
    Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jean-Pierre Melville's last film stars Alain Delon as Police Commissioner Coleman who finds himself playing a game of cat and mouse with a gang of thieves after a bank robbery in a small Riviera town goes wrong. The gang is led by Coleman's friend, Simon (Richard Crenna), a night-club owner and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 454 members
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  • Donkey Skin on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Jean Marais,  Delphine Seyrig,  Catherine Deneuve
    Director: Jacques Demy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    French fairytale drama, directed by Jacques Demy. The King (Jean Marais) is distraught at the death of his wife (Catherine Deneuve), and promises never to marry anyone less beautiful than her. But when he is compelled to marry his own daughter (also Deneuve), her fairy godmother manages to save her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 335 members
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  • Tristana on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Lola Gaos,  Michel Piccoli,  Jeanne Moreau
    Director: Luis Bunuel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Luis Buñuel's Tristana is a surreal criticism of Catholicism and the modern world, told through the story of the title character, who is portrayed by Catherine Deneuve. Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,129 member
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  • Belle De Jour on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Angela Molina,  Catherine Deneuve,  Franco Nero
    Director: Luis Bunuel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Severine is married to a French doctor. She is unable to deal with his sexual advances so seeks work in a brothel. Based on a novel by Joseph Kessel.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,558 members
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  • Belle De Jour - Blu-ray (1967)
    Starring: Michel Piccoli,  Geneviève Page,  Fernando Rey
    Director: Luis Bunuel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A bored doctor's wife (Catherine Deneuve) hears of a brothel operating near her home. Struck by a sudden desire, she goes to the brothel and offers her services in the afternoons. She encounters a wide range of characters, eventually running into a friend of her husband...Surreal tale directed by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 403 members
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  • Repulsion on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Yvonne Furneaux,  John Fraser,  Ian Hendry
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The first English-language film of director Roman Polanski is a psychological thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and his own later film Rosemary's Baby (1968). Catherine Deneuve stars as Carol Ledoux, a Belgian manicurist living with her sister, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), in a ..read more »
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  • The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Ellen Farner,  Nino Castelnuovo,  Anne Vernon
    Director: Jacques Demy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A story of lost love, with all the dialogue sung rather than spoken. In the French seaside town of Cherbourg, Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve, in her first screen role) discovers that she is pregnant by her boyfriend, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). When Guy is drafted into the army, Genevieve marries diamond ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,888 members
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  • Bob le Flambeur on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Isabelle Corey,  Roger Duchesne,  Daniel Cauchy
    Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Both a tribute to classic American gangster films and the source of inspiration for French New Wave filmmakers, Bob le Flambeur is the first in a series of stylish noirs that Jean-Pierre Melville started in the mid-'50s. Co-scripted by the popular crime writer Auguste Le Breton (Rififi), this is a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,140 member
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  • The Leos Carax Collection (3 discs)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Michel Piccoli,  Juliette Binoche
    Director: Leos Carax
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Compilation of films by French cinema's enfant terrible Leos Carax. 'Boy Meets Girl' (1983) is the directorial debut for Carax and features a darkly comic, gentle love story involving two strangers destined to meet after their relationships break down. 'Night is Young' (1986) sees petty thief and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 259 members
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  • Luis Bunuel collection
    Starring: Michel Piccoli,  Fernando Rey,  Jeanne Moreau
    Director: Luis Bunuel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The collected works of the famed Spanish-born director Luis Bunuel. Titles included: 'That Obscure Object of Desire', (1977) 'The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie', (1972) 'The Diary of A Chambermaid', (1964) 'Phantom Of Liberty', (1974) 'Milky Way' (1969) 'Tristana', (1970) 'La Joven', (1960) and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,949 member
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  • A Slightly Pregnant Man on DVD
    Starring: Marcello Mastroianni,  Catherine Deneuve
    Director: Jacques Demy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Off-beat French comedy. Marco (Marcello Mastroianni) is a Parisian driving-school instructor. When he starts to feel a little bit unwell, he makes an appointment with his doctor, and is shocked to be informed that he is four month's pregnant. When news of this leaks out, Marco is turned into a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 206 members
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  • Manon 70 on DVD
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve
    Director: Jean Aurel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    MANON 70 A 1960’s version of an 18th century French novel and a 19th century Italian opera, Denueve plays the confused Manon, torn between a young but penniless lover and an older, richer suitor whose generosity she finds very tempting...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 72 members
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Catherine Deneuve facts

5 most recent films

Beloved - 2.5 stars
The Big Picture - 3.5 stars
The Big Picture - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Potiche - 3.5 stars
Potiche - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Nip/Tuck - Season 4 - 4.0 stars
Persepolis - 3.5 stars
Persepolis - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
That Obscure Object of Desire - 3.5 stars
The Phantom of Liberty - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Irene - 1.0 stars
Yves Saint-Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris - 1.5 stars
Family Hero - 2.0 stars
My Stars - 2.5 stars
Vie de Chateau, La - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michel Piccoli - 21 times - show films
Michel Piccoli - 20 times - show films
Jean Sorel - 14 times - show films
Franco Nero - 13 times - show films
Jeanne Moreau - 13 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Luis Bunuel - 15 times - show films
Elodie Keene - 6 times - show films
Michael M. Robin - 6 times - show films
Jacques Demy - 6 times - show films
Ryan Murphy - 6 times - show films