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Catherine Deneuve Films Viewed by Kathy

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6.7

6.2

The April Fools (1969)

Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy, Charles Boyer, Harvey Korman, Sally Kellerman, Gary Dubin, Melinda Dillon, Kenneth Mars, David Doyle, Susan Barrett, Dee Gardner, Harvey Korman and Lisa Todd

A married stockbroker meets his boss's wife at a cocktail party and decides to run off with her to Paris.

kathy's rating:

878

7.8

7.7

Belle de Jour

Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian, Macha Méril, Maria Latour, Marguerite Muni, Francis Blanche, François Maistre, Georges Marchal and Francisco Rabal

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

kathy's rating:

7.6

6.8

Benjamin (1968) (1968)

Director: Michel Deville
Starring: Michèle Morgan, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Clémenti, Michel Piccoli, Francine Bergé, Anna Gaël, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Dufilho and Odile Versois

In the eighteenth century, seventeen-year-old virgin Benjamin comes with his old servant to stay at the estate of his aunt, Countess de Valandry, who is having an affair with Count Philippe. Benjamin is pursued by various women, including the beautiful Anne, who really loves Philippe.

kathy's rating:

159

6.9

A Christmas Tale (2008)

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos and Chiara Mastroianni

When steely French matriarch Junon learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family Christmas gathering to see if they are eligible to become bone marrow donors. This causes deep friction in the family, especially between Junon's daughter Elizabeth and son Henri, who already have a tumultuous relationship. Their mother's sickness also recalls the traumatic loss of their brother Joseph when they were children.

kathy's rating:

7.6

7.4

East-West

Director: Régis Wargnier
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menchikov, Catherine Deneuve, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Bohdan Stupka, Tatyana Dogileva and Valentin Ganev

Based on real events. At the end of World War II, Stalin invited Russians who had fled the country to return. Talented young doctor, Alexei Golovine, accompanied by his French bride Marie and their son, optimistically return to the Soviet Union. Their arrival is a rude one - interrogations are followed by the grim reality of post-war Soviet Union: shared apartments, suspicious neighbors and lack of privacy.

Marie soon starts to rebel against the circumstances but her husband finds that his talents are needed and appreciated by the authorities so he starts to get ahead. Marie meets up with a touring French actress and soon faces a terrifying choice: to leave her husband and child for freedom or stay and confront a grim future.

kathy's rating:

7.1

The Girl On The Train (2009)

Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Emilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Mathieu Demy, Ronit Elkabetz, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Jérémie Quaegebeur

A young woman, dumped by her drug-dealing boyfriend, sets off a national uproar by cutting her face, painting swastikas on her body and claiming to have been assaulted by anti-Semitic skinheads.

kathy's rating:

496

6.7

6.6

The Hunger

Director: Tony Scott
Based on the novel by Whitley Strieber
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Dan Hedaya, James Aubrey, Willem Dafoe and Sophie Ward

Miriam, a centuries-old vampire, preys on urban clubgoers with her vampire lover John. When John suddenly ages and wastes away, Miriam casts her spell upon Sarah, a doctor who researches premature ageing.

kathy's rating:

6.8

6.1

Hustle (1975)

Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, Colleen Brennan, Catherine Bach and Jack Carter

The dead body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found on a Los Angeles beach and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results and attempts to investigate the case on his own.

kathy's rating:

109

7.2

7.1

Indochine (1992)

Director: Régis Wargnier
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham and Jean Yanne

Set in 1930 in French Indochina against a backdrop of political tension between the French and Vietnamese. Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Eliane's secret lover, the scandalous lovers' triangle threatens to destroy their entire family.

kathy's rating:

6.3

6.2

I Want To See (2008)

Directors: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Curmi, Joseph Silva and Rabih Mroué

An actress, a loyal fan and her bodyguard witness the beauty and devastation of Lebanon following the 2006 war.

kathy's rating:

243

7.2

7.4

The Last Metro

Director: François Truffaut
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent and Andréa Ferréol

When the Nazis occupy Paris, Jewish theater owner Lucas Steiner goes into hiding in the cellar, ceding control of the theater to his gentile wife, Marion. She mounts a new play and gives a break to upstart actor Bernard Granger by casting him in the lead. The two soon develop feelings for one another and she is torn between the two men. Things grow ever more complicated when Marion discovers that Bernard is harboring a secret of his own.

kathy's rating:

5.8

6.4

March or Die (1977)

Director: Dick Richards
Starring: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow and Ian Holm

An ex-West Point cadet leads a potpourri of thieves, murderers, exiles and aristocrats seeking adventure in the 1920s French Foreign Legion on a semi-suicidal mission to protect an archaeological dig in the Moroccan wilderness.

kathy's rating:

7.2

My Favorite Season (1993)

Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Chiara Mastroianni and Carmen Chaplin

French drama about two estranged adult siblings who are forced to reunite when their elderly widowed mother suffers a stroke.

kathy's rating:

6.8

6.5

Place Vendôme (1998)

Director: Nicole Garcia
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson, François Berléand, Dragan Nikolić, Larry Lamb, Otto Tausig, László Szabó, Elisabeth Commelin, Philippe Clévenot, Malik Zidi, Eric Ruf,
Nidal Al-Askhar, Julian Fellowes and Michael Culkin

The death of Vincent Mallivert, director of one of the prestigious jewelry shops on Place Vendme, leaves his wife Marianne at a terrible crossroads in her life. Marianne lives in a boozy stupor most of the time... until the day she discovers seven magnificent diamonds stashed away in her husband's hidden chest.

kathy's rating:

145

6.7

6.4

Potiche

Director: François Ozon
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche and Jérémie Renier

In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes over management duties during Robert's convalescence. To her own surprise, Suzanne turns out to be a natural leader whose less dictatorial management inspires both her workers and local liberal politician Babin.

kathy's rating:

1056

7.7

Repulsion (1965)

Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, Valerie Taylor, James Villiers, Helen Fraser, Hugh Futcher, Mike Pratt, Renée Houston, Monica Merlin and Imogen Graham

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

kathy's rating:

7.6

6.8

Thieves

Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel, Didier Bezace, Julien Rivière, Ivan Desny, Fabienne Babe, Régis Betoule, Pierre Perez and Naguime Bendidi

When Ivan gets involved in the shady world of car theft, it leads to tragic results that reverberate throughout the lives of those around him. The beautiful Juliette is romantically linked to both Ivan and his brother Alex, an uptight police officer. Meanwhile, Marie, a philosophy professor, harbors feelings for Juliette as well. Crime and passion tie these characters together, leaving them caught in a complex web of drama.

kathy's rating:

7.7

6.7

Time Regained (1999)

Director: Raúl Ruiz
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Marcello Mazzarella, John Malkovich, Marie-France Pisier and Vincent Perez

In 1922 Marcel Proust is on his deathbed. Looking through photographs, he reflects on his past, recalling his life and the people he has known and loved. Gradually, the memories of his life are supplanted by the memories of the characters in his novels, and soon, fiction overwhelms reality. The happy days and lost paradise of his childhood alternate with more recent memories of his social and literary life.

kathy's rating: