Anouk Aimée Filmography

Marcello: A Sweet Life

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ettore Scola, Armando Trovajoli, Chiara Mastroianni, Barbara Mastroianni

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A favorite of such directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Mastroianni's fame in Europe extended to the United States, where he was nominated Read More

Happily Ever After

Actors: Yvan Attal

Synopsis: Writer, director, and actor Yvan Attal takes another look at the ups and downs of love and monogamy in this biting romantic comedy. Vincent (Yvan Attal), Fred (Alain Cohen), and Georges (Alain Chabat) are three Parisian men in their early forties who are coming to the unfortunate realization that Read More

La Petite Prairie Aux Bouleaux

Actors: Anouk Aimée, August Diehl, Marilu Marini, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Elise Otzenberger

Synopsis: Anouk Aimée portrays a holocaust survivor in Marcelline Loridan-Ivens' debut film, The Birch-Tree Meadow. Myriam (Aimée) attends a reunion of survivors where she wins a ticket to Krakow, Poland. After some debate, she decides to journey back to the place of the worst horror she has ever known. Read More

Federico Fellini: Mit den Augen der Anderen

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Dino de Laurentiis, Anita Ekberg, Tullio Kezich, Sandra Milo

Synopsis: German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt tracks down many high-profile Italian movie folks for the documentary portrait Federico Fellini: Through the Eyes of Others. Actresses Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, and Sandra Milo provide commentary about the director's behavior on and off the set. Other interview Read More

Festival In Cannes

Actors: Jenny Gabrielle, Greta Scacchi, Kim Kolarich, Rachel Bailit, Zack Norman

Synopsis: The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film marketplace -- provides the backdrop for this typically understated comedy-drama from director Henry Jaglom. Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) is a well-known American actress who Read More

Napoleon

Actors: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich

Synopsis: Filmed in France, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, and Canada, this ambitious biographical TV miniseries chronicles the life and times of the "Little Corporal" from Corsica who managed to conquer nearly all of Europe within a period of a dozen years. The narrative begins in the Read More

Une Pour Toutes

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Parillaud, Alessandra Martines, Marianne Denicourt, Alice Evans

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Claude Leloud directs this romantic comedy about a trio of femme fatale musketeers. In order to repay a stack of debts after a disastrous self-financed production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters," Olga (Anne Parillaud), Macha (Alice Evans), and Irina (Marianne Denicourt) hatch a Read More

Solomon

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Max von Sydow, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Ben Cross, Vivica A. Fox

Synopsis: This drama was the ninth in a series of made-for-TV features dramatizing famous stories from the Bible. Solomon (Ben Cross), the son of David (Max Von Sydow), inherits his father's kingdom and becomes the ruler of Israel. While Solomon consolidates power through his marriages, it is his Read More

1999 Madeleine

Actors: Vera Briole, Manuel Blanc, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Michel Fête, Jean-François Gallotte

Synopsis: 1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 1999-2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. Episode one is about Madeline, a lonely woman obsessed by religion and cleanliness. Read More

L.A. Without a Map

Actors: David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Cameron Bancroft

Synopsis: Mika Kaurismaki directed this British-French-Finnish romantic comedy adapted from Richard Rayner's autobiographical novel about a series of Hollywood misadventures. Vacationing in the North of England, aspiring Los Angeles actress Barbara (Vinessa Shaw) stops briefly in a village where she meets Read More

Les Menteurs

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Lorraine Bracco, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless Read More

Hommes, Femmes: Mode d'Emploi

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Tapie, Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: A feather-light and funny musing on the nature of love, fate and starting over, Claude Lelouch's comedy begins with the meeting of Fabio Lini, an actor turned undercover Paris cop and the notorious lawyer-cum-businessman Benoit Blanc . Both have come to the same clinic to have their ulcers Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

The World of Jacques Demy

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third such tribute and is the only one to look deeply into Demy's vision as a director and his filmmaking techniques. To do so, she uses perfectly preserved film clips from each of Read More

Dis-Moi Oui...

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Julia Maraval, Claude Rich, Nadia Farès

Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

Ruptures

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Piccoli, Laurent Grévill, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: In this drama, filmed in a series of vignettes, a diverse cast of characters tries to pick up the pieces of their lives after Paul's ladyfriend commits suicide. Not only that, but Paul (Michel Piccoli) must cope with having four house guests, including an infant baby, the infant's recently Read More

Les Marmottes

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Christine Boisson, Gérard Lanvin, Jacqueline Bisset, André Dussollier

Synopsis: According to reviewers, an expert cast of character actors make this bedroom farce eminently watchable, despite glitches in the storytelling. In the story, a group of old friends and relations gather each year to celebrate Christmas together on the ski resort of Chamonix. They don't do much Read More

Voices in the Garden

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore, Harrison Liu, Anouk Aimée, James Pax

Synopsis: Having previously essayed the role of real-life Canadian physician/political activist Norman Bethune in a 1977 TV movie, Donald Sutherland returns to the role in the 1989 theatrical feature Bethune: The Making of a Hero. Over a period of several decades, Dr. Bethune grows increasingly disenchanted Read More

Arrivederci E Grazie

La Table Tournante

Actors: Paul Grimault, Anouk Aimée, Mathieu Demy

Synopsis: Paul Grimault and Jacques Demy collaborated to create this unconventional retrospective of Grimault's career. One of the most renowned French animators, Grimault comes to his studio one day and meets an animated clown who proceeds to question the man about his career. This leads to a series of Read More

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Marie-Sophie Pochat, Richard Berry, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu

Synopsis: It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully appreciate the film, it's best to catch Lelouch's 1966 blockbuster A Man and a Woman first. True to its word, the 1986 film brings us up to date with the protagonists of the Read More

Success is the Best Revenge

Actors: Michael York, Janna Szerzerbic, Michael Lyndon, George Skolimowski, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Read More

Viva la Vie!

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Through a series of convoluted turns, like a tornado going through Kansas, director Claude Lelouch has managed to keep a vacuum at the center of his film. A corporate executive (Michel Piccoli and a young actress (Evelyne Bouix) suddenly disappear and reappear and disappear, almost as fast as Read More

Le General de I'Armee Morte

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Gerard Klein, Sergio Castellitto

Synopsis: Falling a little short of either comedy or drama or whatever the intent may have been, this bland film directed by first-timer Luciano Tovoli is about an Italian general (Marcel Mastroianni) sent to Albania along with an army chaplain (Michel Piccoli) to bring back the remains of 3,000 compatriot Read More

Qu-est-ce Qui Fait Courir David?

Actors: Francis Huster, Charles Aznavour, Magali Noël, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Nell

Synopsis: In making this film about a director who is presently working on an autobiographical movie, real-life director Elie Chouraqui has played on a Jewish cultural theme (the "reel" director is Jewish) and the intermixing of 1960s movie-making techniques. In the film, director David is in his 30s and Read More

La Tragedia di un Uomo Ridicolo

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Victor Cavallo, Ricardo Tognazzi

Synopsis: After his son disappears, an Italian cheese manufacturer is threatened by political terrorists who will supposedly kill the son if he does not pay a large ransom. Unsure if they really have his son and if the son is still alive, he has to decide if he should or should not sell his business to Read More

Qu'est-Ce Qui Fait Courir David?

Actors: Francis Huster, Charles Aznavour, Anouk Aimée, Nicole Garcia

Salto nel Vuoto

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Michele Placido, Gisella Burinato

Synopsis: The old Guy De Maupassant story The Devil would seem to be the springboard for the Italian-made Leap Into the Void. Michel Piccoli plays an Italian jurist whose sister Anouk Aimee is a bit "light in the belfry". Piccoli entreats Michele Placido to convince the awkward Aimee to kill herself. The Read More

Une Page d'amour

Mon Premier Amour

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jacques Villeret, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that she is dying of leukemia, he tries to get to know her. By the end of the film, the two have reconciled and she dies feeling at peace. ~ Sandra Read More

Si C'Etait à Refaire

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Charles Denner, Francis Huster, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon (Jean-Jacques Briot), who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome Read More

Justine

Actors: Severn Darden, Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Anna Karina, Philippe Noiret, Michael York

Synopsis: Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial minister, Justine works her way up from her beginnings as a hooker, but continues to use her sexual allure as a tool to win her and her husband's ends. Along the way, she Read More

The Appointment

Actors: Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Lotte Lenya, Fausto Tozzi, Ennio Balbo

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet directed this romantic melodrama involving deceit and marital secrets. The film takes place in Rome where lawyer Federico Fendi (Omar Sharif) falls in love with his colleague Renzo's (Fausto Tozzi) fiancee Carla (Anouk Aimee). Renzo warns Federico that Carla is actually a high-priced Read More

The Model Shop

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole, Severn Darden

Synopsis: George (Gary Lockwood) is a disillusioned 26-year-old who has just quit his stifling job. He lives in Los Angeles with an aspiring young actress named Gloria (Alexandra Hay), who is none to pleased with his recent unemployment. Hanging over his head is the constant threat of repossession of his Read More

Un Soir ... un Train

Actors: Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, François Beukelaers, Hector Camerlynck, Adriana Bogdan

Synopsis: Mathias (Yves Montand) is a Flemish professor who takes a vacation when the university students go on strike. He decides he will visit his mistress Anne (Anouk Aimee) to get away from the social and political upheaval. He finds that Anne has embraced the social causes despite an illness that could Read More

Le Stagioni del Nostro Amore

Actors: Enrico Maria Salerno, Jacqueline Sassard, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: In this slow-moving, sentimental drama, Vittorio (Enrico M. Salerno) is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress dumps him, Vittorio returns to the town where he spent his childhood to reflect on the Read More

A Man and a Woman

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valerie Lagrange, Henri Chemin

Synopsis: The ultimate "date" movie of the mid-1960s, director Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee in the title roles. The twosome meet at the boarding school where their children are enrolled. Aimee, an actress, misses her train home, and Read More

A Very Handy Man

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Pierre Brasseur, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: In this Italian bedroom farce, a humble village peasant has managed to remain a bachelor despite the fact that he has fathered numerous illegitimate children. The trouble begins when he finds himself entangled in a fight over water rights. Though others attempt to blame him, the clever fellow Read More

La Fuga

Actors: Giovanna Ralli, Anouk Aimée, Paul Guers, Enrico Maria Salerno

Synopsis: Caught in an unhappy marriage, Piera Fabbri (Giovanna Ralli) leaves her physicist husband Andrea (Paul Guers) and runs off with her lesbian lover, Luisa (Anouk Aimee). However, Piera soon discovers that her new-found relationship may not be the answer to her problems. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Il Successo

Synopsis: An ambitious Italian financier (Vittorio Gassman) will stop at nothing to further his economic expansion. He forsakes old friends, relatives and his wife as he compromises his integrity in the pursuit for more money. He becomes a shameless bootlicker for a wealthy man who can help his financial Read More

Le Voci Bianche

Actors: Paolo Ferrari, Sandra Milo, Graziella Granata, Anouk Aimée, Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis: "White Voices" is a vernacular term referring to Italian Castrati of the 18th century Vatican Choir. The Castrati were male children who were castrated so that they could retain their beautiful soprano singing voices into maturity. Paolo Ferrari plays a Roman youth who isn't keen on being gelded Read More

Liola

Il Terrorista

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Philippe Leroy, Anouk Aimée, Giulio Bosetti

Les Grands Chemins

Actors: Robert Hossein, Anouk Aimée, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: The French-made Of Flesh and Blood plays like "Dostoyevsky Meets Roger Corman." Robert Hossein finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence. Understandably unnerved by all this, Hossein murders an old woman. Read More

8 1/2

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Read More

Il Successo

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Maria Grazia Spina

Sodom and Gomorrah

Actors: Stewart Granger, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Anouk Aimée, Rossana Podestà

Synopsis: This 153-minute Biblical epic about salt and sin is directed by Robert Aldrich and has enough dynamic interactions between its chief protagonists to sustain interest in-between climactic scenes. Stewart Granger is Lot, the Hebrew leader who takes his people to camp in the Valley of Jordan only to Read More

L'Improvisto

Actors: Tomas Milian, Anouk Aimée, Jean Valerie, Raymond Pellegrin

Synopsis: L'Improvisto is a suspenseful, effective drama by Alberto Lattuada about the careful planning and execution of a kidnapping. The "ringleader" and instigator of the clever plan is Tomas, a professor from a provincial town. His two cohorts are Claire (Anouk Aimée), his wife, and Juliette (Jeanne Valerie Read More

Lola

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Elina Labourdette, Alan Scott, Annie Duperoux

Synopsis: Jacques Demy's auspicious debut -- "a musical without music" set in the port city of Nantes -- stars Anouk Aimée as the title character, a cabaret singer awaiting the return of Michel (Jacques Hardin), her long-absent lover and the father of her child. Michel went to America seven years ago and Read More

II Giudizio Universale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More

La Dolce Vita

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker

Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More

Quai Notre Dame

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Christian Pezy, Jacques Dacqmine, Geneviève Fontanel

Synopsis: In this routine soap opera, a young man is engaged to be married even though he professes not to believe in true love, not at all. He works for the owner of a second-hand store and his fiancée is the owner's daughter. One day he sees a sophisticated, classy woman walk into a fashionable shop and Read More

Le Farceur

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Geneviève Cluny, Anne Tonietti, Palau

Synopsis: The joie de vivre of a young Parisian provides the basis for this romantic tale. The hero truly loves everything about life. He is especially fond of young women with he frequently falls in love. The lad lives with his supportive uncle, his brother, and his brother's wife, a former lover of the Read More

Les Dragueurs

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Anouk Aimée, Nicole Berger, Dany Robin, Dany Carrel, Estella Blain

Synopsis: This is the first film directed by the well-known Jean-Pierre Mocky who at this stage in his young life had something in common with the age group in question -- two youths out on the night circuit, looking for women. Freddy (Jacques Charrier) and Joseph (Charles Aznavour) have high hopes as they Read More

The Journey

Actors: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Morley, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: The two romantic leads in this standard but well-acted political drama renew a famous pairing that began with The King and I in 1956. Deborah Kerr is Lady Diana Ashmore, caught at the wrong side of the Hungarian-Austrian border in 1956, and Yul Brynner is Major Surov, a Russian commander who works Read More

Montparnasse 19

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lino Ventura, Lea Padovani, Gerard Sety

Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More

La Tête Contre les Murs

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Charles Aznavour, Anouk Aimée, Jean Galland

Synopsis: La Tete Contre Les Muirs (U.S. title: The Keepers) was director Georges Franju's 2nd cinematic offering for 1958, and his first purely fictional film. Franju's prior training in documentaries helps to bring a veneer of reality to this harrowing glimpse within the walls of an insane asylum. Pierre Brasseur Read More

Everybody Wants to Kill Me

Synopsis: Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their resources in hopes of pulling off the perfect heist. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More