Geneviève Bujold Filmography

Born:: July 1, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With her warm, intelligent performances and piercing almond eyes, the French-Canadian actress Genevieve Bujold cut a striking figure throughout the international film community during the 1960s and beyond. Born July 1, 1942, in Montréal, Quebec, Bujold studied acting at the Montréal Conservatoire...Read More

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La Mémoire des Anges

Synopsis: With La Mémoire des anges, director Luc Bourdon cuts together over 120 memorable extracts from National Film Board of Canada films. In so doing, he accomplishes several goals, simultaneously paying homage to the rich and extraordinarily diverse cinematic history of Canada and particularly Québec; Read More

2008
Downtown: A Street Tale

Actors: Joey Dedio, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: Life on the streets is never easy, and when a disparate group of homeless teens attempt to mold a hopeful future from nothing more than cardboard and food dredged out of the local dumpster a street-smart counselor does her best to ensure that their efforts aren't made in vain. Genevieve Bujold Read More

4/20/07
Disappearances

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Lothaire Bluteau, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson, Charlie McDermott

Synopsis: Longtime actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson stars as a whiskey-smuggling schemer desperate to preserve his endangered cattle herd in director Jay Craven's adaptation of Howard Frank Mosher's best-selling novel. The year is 1932; Prohibition is still in place, and smuggling whiskey has long been a Read More

2006
Delivrez-moi

Actors: Juliette Gosselin, Patrice Robitaille, Celine Bonnier, Geneviève Bujold

2006
By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Actors: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Geneviève Bujold, Laurent Terzieff, Valérie Kaprisky

2005
Jericho Mansions

Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Maribel Verdú, Jennifer Tilly, Peter Keleghan

Synopsis: Alberto Sciamma's psychological thriller Jericho Mansions stars James Caan as Leonard Gray, the superintendent of the apartment building that gives the film its title. He has devoted his life to the building and to its many tenants; however, the denizens of the building begin to turn on him. A Read More

2003
Finding Home

Actors: Lisa Brenner, Geneviève Bujold, Louise Fletcher, Jeanetta Arnette, Misha Collins

Synopsis: Director Lawrence D. Foldes teams with producer Victoria Page Meyerink to weave a haunting tale of family tragedy and painful memories starring Geneviève Bujold, Louise Fletcher, and Lisa Brenner. Troubled by traumatic memories of being forcefully removed from her grandmother's serine New England Read More

2003
La Turbulence Des Fluides

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Julie Gayet, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Geneviève Bujold, Vincent Bilodeau

Synopsis: A scientist living in Tokyo is sent to a small Canadian town to study the tides in this visually inventive feature from director Manon Briand. Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice (Pascale Bussieres) arrives in her hometown of Read More

2002
Claude Jutra, Portrait Sur Film

Actors: Claude Jutra, Michel Brault, Bernardo Bertolucci, Geneviève Bujold, Saul Ribinek

2002
Alex in Wonder

Actors: Angela Gots, Robert Hays, Ellen Greene, Sean Flynn, Danny Masterson

Synopsis: A gifted teenager is thrown for a loop when her parents' marriage falls apart in this coming-of-age drama set in the early '70s. Alex Markov (Angela Gots) is a 16-year-old who dreams of a career as a professional dancer; unlike many girls with similar goals, Alex is blessed with supportive Read More

2001
Eye of the Beholder

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin, k.d. lang, Jason Priestley

Synopsis: Part high-tech spy thriller and part psychological study, Eye of the Beholder was Ewan McGregor's first feature film following his mainstream breakthrough performance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Eye (Ewan McGregor) is an agent of the British Secret Service, equipped with the Read More

1/28/00
Matisse & Picasso

Synopsis: Originally aired on public television in 2001, Matisse & Picasso is one of the first documentaries filmed in high-definition television. The program explores the competitive nature of the relationship between Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic, and ceramic artist Pablo Picasso and French painter Read More

2000
Last Night

Actors: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg

Synopsis: Don McKellar wrote and directed this comedy-drama about the last night of the world, part of the 12-film Arte series of movies about the Millennium. Set in Toronto, Patrick (McKellar) endures a faux Christmas celebration with his family while Sandra (Sandra Oh) tries to get across town to commit Read More

11/5/99
You Can Thank Me Later

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Plummer, Ted Levine, Mark Blum, Mary McDonnell

Synopsis: Shimon Dotan directed this Canadian comedy-drama from Oren Safdie's screenplay based on Safdie's play, Hyper-Allergenic, set in a hospital room where a dysfunctional family awaits the results of surgery. Shirley Cooperberg (Ellen Burstyn) heads a Montreal Jewish family, and during her husband's Read More

1998
The House of Yes

Actors: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: A wealthy young man wants to wed a painfully ordinary girl, and a few hours with his family will convince anyone why he's doing so in this black comedy. Marty Pascal (Josh Hamilton) is engaged to marry Lesly (Tori Spelling), a dizzy blonde he met when she was working at a doughnut shop, and he Read More

1997
The Adventures of Pinocchio

Actors: Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Synopsis: Unlike the more familiar animated Pinocchio by Disney, there are no song interludes here, and characters added to the story by Disney (such as Jiminy Cricket) are not included. Producer Francis Ford Coppola and director Steve Barron, (known for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film) closely Read More

1996
Dead Innocent

Actors: Nancy Beatty, Geneviève Bujold, Graham Greene

Synopsis: Canadian actress Genvieve Bujold headlines this taut tale of an attorney whose irate client holds her daughter at gunpoint and threatens to kill her unless the lawyer commit suicide. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Mon Amie Max

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Marthe Keller, Johanne McKay, Marie Guillard, Michel Rivard

Synopsis: A woman looks for her lost son in this Canadian-French melodrama set in Quebec city. Marie-Alexandrine (nicknamed Max) has not been in this city for over 25 years. Max burst into the home of her former best friend and classmate at the Conservatoire de Musique, Catherine Mercier, a renowned concert Read More

1994
An Ambush of Ghosts

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Geneviève Bujold, Bruce Davison, Anne Heche

Synopsis: Ten years earlier, George's mother (Genvieve Bujold) ran over his younger brother in the family driveway and killed him. Since then, she's been permanently out to lunch, and he has many responsibilities around the house. He's a teenager now, with the usual insecurities that go along with that, but Read More

1993
Oh, What a Night

Actors: Corey Haim, Barbara Williams, Keir Dullea, Geneviève Bujold, Andrew Miller, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: A young man who fantasizes about an older woman discovers his daydreams may be turning into realities in this coming-of-age comedy-drama. Eric (Corey Haim) and Donald (Andrew Miller) are two teenage boys growing up in a small farming community in Canada in the mid-1950's. Eric and Donald are at Read More

1992
The Dance Goes on

Synopsis: In this drama, an avaricious city boy leaves his LA home to meet his estranged father on the family homestead in Quebec. They have both inherited the land from a recently deceased uncle. The father has stayed close to his rural roots and cannot understand why his son is so indifferent to his Read More

1992
False Identity

Actors: Stacy Keach, Geneviève Bujold, Tobin Bell, Mike Champion, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Waylaid and left for dead by an enemy agent, U.S. intelligence officer Harlan Erickkson (Stacy Keach) awakens with amnesia. Because his assailant had switched clothes and identification with him, Erickkson now believes that he's the enemy spy. The authorities think so too, and lock up Erickkson Read More

1990
Rue Du Bac

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Vincent Vallier, Françoise Brion

1990
Paper Wedding

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Manuel Aranguiz, Dorothee Berryman, Monique Lepage, Teo Spychalski

Synopsis: A couple are forced to get to know one another after they've gotten married in this drama. Claire (Genevieve Bujold) is a 40-ish college professor who lives and teaches in Montreal, supplementing her earnings by writing textbooks. Claire isn't especially satisfied with her career, and her on-going Read More

1990
Red Earth, White Earth

Synopsis: The ads for Red Earth, White Earth ballyhooed the soap-opera aspects of the made-for-TV film, particularly the fact that the young protagonist's (Tim Daly) best friend was shacking up with the boy's mother. Played down in the ads was the central crisis of the film: A battle between a white farm Read More

1989
Dead Ringers

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas

Synopsis: Two twin brothers, both renowned gynecologists, descend into madness after becoming romantically involved with the same woman in this disturbing, horrific drama. Jeremy Irons delivers a bravura performance as both Beverly and Elliot Mantle, Toronto-based surgeons who operate an exclusive Read More

9/23/88
The Moderns

Actors: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: In the expatriate-littered Paris of the 1920s, painter Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) mingles with Ernest Hemingway (Kevin O'Connor) and other leading lights of the Lost Generation while palling around with gossip columnist Oiseau (Wallace Shawn), whose reportage has helped establish the Read More

4/15/88
Trouble in Mind

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold, Joe Morton

Synopsis: The time is The Future: the place is Rain City, formerly Seattle. The city is a police state, while the citizens have adopted the manner and dress of 1940s gangsters. Recently released from prison, ex-cop Kris Kristofferson tries to touch base with his ex-girlfriend Genevieve Bujold, who runs a Read More

12/18/85
Choose Me

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: The lives of five L.A. natives intertwine in this romantic comedy from independent filmmaker and former Robert Altman protégé Alan Rudolph. Eve (Lesley Ann Warren) is a bar owner who has sworn off permanent commitments, seeking only the temporary sexual satisfaction of men. Her roommate Ann (Genevieve Bujold Read More

1984
Tightrope

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Jennifer Beck

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood plays a New Orleans detective determined to track down a serial killer of prostitutes. Complicating matters is the fact that the unknown culprit is very likely an S&M fetishist....and so is Eastwood. The detective is profoundly disturbed at the likelihood that he and the killer have Read More

1984
Monsignor

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: An ambitious priest discovers that honoring the Ten Commandments isn't as easy as he imagined in this drama. Father John Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) is a Catholic priest who was ordained during World War II, and soon found himself forced to fight enemy forces while serving as a chaplain in the Read More

1982
Mistress of Paradise

Synopsis: In her first TV-movie appearance, Genevieve Bujold plays Elizabeth, an attractive heiress from the North who becomes the second wife of aristocratic Creole plantation owner Charlie Beaufort (Chad Everett) in the mid-19th century. As the new "Mistress of Paradise," Elizabeth immediately finds Read More

1981
Final Assignment

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael York, Burgess Meredith, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis: In this complex spy caper, Nicole (Genevieve Bujold) is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former U.S.S.R. She is there to cover a visit by the Canadian prime minister, but along the way she discovers an unethical experimentation on children involving the use of steroids. Read More

1980
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

Actors: Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Rick Schroder, Tammy Lauren, John Fujioka

Synopsis: Even animal lovers may balk at this light, light drama about how a missionary (Genevieve Bujold) and Bobby (Rick Schroder), a young boy manage to populate a deserving island with critters of all types. Noah Dugan (Elliott Gould) is a pilot in need of escaping his creditors and he agrees to fly the Read More

1980
Murder by Decree

Actors: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, David Hemmings

Synopsis: The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the attention of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer), but he does not receive the expected call from Scotland Yard because he is being purposefully excluded from the investigation. Instead, Robert Lees (Donald Sutherland), a Read More

1979
Coma

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark

Synopsis: A feisty, feminist intern uncovers a medical conspiracy in this icy thriller about mysterious goings-on at Boston Memorial Hospital. When her best friend and aerobics partner, Nancy Greenly (Lois Chiles), emerges in a vegetative state from a routine abortion, Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) Read More

2/1/78
Un Autre Homme Une Autre Chance

Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Another Man, Another Chance is set in 1870. Fleeing from the Franco-Prussian war, Jeanne (Genevieve Bujold) and boyfriend Francis (Francis Huster) escape to the American west. Their course does not run smooth, and soon Jeanne is left alone to care for her baby. Meanwhile, American Read More

1977
Obsession

Actors: Stanley Reyes, Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia "Kuumba" Williams, Wanda Blackman

Synopsis: Love never dies in Brian De Palma's psychological thriller, though money certainly complicates matters. Rich New Orleans real estate developer Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) lost his beloved wife Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) and their daughter during a botched kidnap rescue, after he chose to Read More

1976
Alex and the Gypsy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Geneviève Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt

Synopsis: Alexander Main (Jack Lemmon) is a tired, middle-aged bail bondsman who hears from his former girlfriend Maritza (Genevieve Bujold) for the first time in quite a while. The news isn't good: Maritza is accused of the attempted murder of her abusive lover, and she hopes that Alex can get her out of Read More

1976
Swashbuckler

Actors: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: A latter-day attempt to update the swordplay success of Errol Flynn movies, this film is part burlesque, part homage to old-fashioned pirate films. James Earl Jones and Robert Shaw play Nick Debrett and Ned Lynch, two pirates who save a noblewoman, Jane Barnet (Geneviève Bujold), and take her to Read More

1976
Caesar and Cleopatra

1976
L'Incorrigible

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gerard, Capucine

Synopsis: Right after his release from prison, Victor (Jean-Paul Belmondo) resumes his con-man activities. He rents apartments he doesn't own, sells nonexistent fighter planes to African countries, and by turns pretends to be a gardener, lawyer, private detective, governmental official, and even a Read More

1975
Earthquake

Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ongoing vignettes which include cameos from numerous celebrities and stars are tied together by the ongoing efforts of Read More

1974
Kamouraska

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Philippe Léotard, Marcel Cuvelier

Synopsis: Elizabeth (Genvieve Bujold) lives in a small French-speaking village in early 19th-century Canada. She was widowed once, thanks to the kind offices of an American royalist doctor. Her first husband's death was arranged by Elizabeth and the doctor, but after a crisis of conscience, the doctor Read More

1973
Antigone

Synopsis: Adapted by French playwright Jean Anouilh from the Sophocles original, Antigone was originally produced onstage in 1942, while France was under German occupation, and the production is set in modern times. As the film begins, we discover that after the death of Oedipus, king of Thebes, his sons Read More

1972
Journey

Actors: John Vernon

Synopsis: Genevieve Bujold stars as a girl who is rescued from the brink of drowning by a Quebecois pioneer (John Vernon); after settling in his community, she brings bad luck to all those who cross her path. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
The Trojan Women

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Geneviève Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: The Trojan Women is a film of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, which is a highly mannered, ritual-like stage play. It was not easy to transform it into a movie while remaining faithful to the play, but there are many rewards for the patient viewer. The score by Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek Read More

1971
The Man From Malpaso

Synopsis: This documentary about the life and career of Clint Eastwood includes exclusive footage and interviews with a number of his colleagues and co-stars, including Geneviève Bujold, Frances Fisher, Gene Hackman, and Marsha Mason. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
The Act of the Heart

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Bill Mitchell, Suzanne Langlois

Synopsis: A woman is led to the edge of madness as she wrestles between her spiritual life and her romantic longings in this unusual drama. Martha Hayes (Genevieve Bujold) is a young woman who was raised in a small rural community. A deeply committed Christian, Hayes moves to Montreal, where she earns a Read More

1970
Anne of the Thousand Days

Actors: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos

Synopsis: Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the romance between Britain's King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) and his ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold). After holding out for marriage rather than an Read More

1969
Isabel

Actors: Marc Strange, Gerard Parkes, Elton Hayes, Ede Kerr, Al Waxman

Synopsis: Written and directed by Paul Almont, Isabel takes place in a Canadian coastal village. Genevieve Bujold, who must hold the patent for Enigmatic Young Women, plays a girl whose flawlessly beautiful face masks the maelstrom swirling in her mind. Isabel is haunted by the images of her family members Read More

1968
Le Voleur

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: Louis Malle directed this light comedy about crime and class in the City of Light. Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a young man living in Paris at the turn of the century who is due to inherit a considerable fortune. However, his uncle, who is acting as his guardian, manages to spend Read More

1967
Entre la Mer et L'eau Douce

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Claude Gauthier, Paul Gauthier, Robert Charlebois

Synopsis: A young man (Claude Gauthier) sets out from his hometown of Quebec and travels to Montreal to seek his fortune. He takes a succession of odd jobs before hitting it big as a singer. He has eyes for a waitress (Genevieve Bujold) in a greasy spoon diner before his crooning career takes him to hang Read More

1967
King of Hearts

Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More

12/21/66
La Guerre Est Finie

Actors: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to a logical progression of events in relating this jaundiced tale of political activism. Yves Montand plays a tired Read More

1966
La Terre a Boire

1964
La Fleur De L'Age, ou Les adolescentes

Synopsis: Filmed in French, the Canadian Adolescents consists of three short tales of the trials and tribulations of teenhood. In "Fiametta", Micaela Esdra moons over her deceased father, whose omniprescent memory squelches her mother's latest romance. "Genevieve" features Genevieve Bujold and Louise Marleau Read More

1964
Amanita Pestilens

Actors: Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: A man neglects his wife and daughter in favor of his passion for gardening in this quirky drama from director Rene Bonniere. He is appalled to find a poisonous mushroom one day on his well-manicured lawn, and in spite of his considerable efforts, his lawn is soon filled with the deadly fungi. Read More

1963

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