Geneviève Page Filmography

L'Inconnu dans la Maison

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Renée Faure, Francois Perrot, Hubert Deschamps

Synopsis: Loursat (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a lawyer who has spent the last decade drinking himself into insensibility with a huge cache of gourmet wine in response to his grief at the death of his beloved wife. In the process, he has managed to alienate his now-grown daughter and is barely on speaking terms Read More

Les Bois Noirs

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Stéphane Freiss, Philippe Volter, Geneviève Page, Herve Laudiere

Synopsis: In this gothic romance based on a 1950s novel by Robert Margerit, after a whirlwind romance, Violette (Beatrice Dalle), a Parisian girl, has married Gustave Dupin (Philippe Volter), a charming aristocrat, and returned with him to live on his country estate. There, she begins to discover that all Read More

Aria

Actors: Theresa Russell, Nicola Swain, Buck Henry, Jack Kyle, Julie Hagerty, Marianne McLoughlin, Marion Peterson, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising Read More

Cartoline Italiane

Actors: Geneviève Page, Lindsay Kemp, David Brandon, Stefano Davanzati

Synopsis: Lidia (Christiana Borghi) passes herself off as a stage actress to interview international star Silvana (Genevieve Page) for her writer boyfriend (David Brandon). Her first obstacle is the boarding house owner and former stage star Pola Mareschi, who is very protective of her tenant's privacy. Read More

Beyond Therapy

Actors: Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. Arrogant Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) grows bored with his live-in lover, Bob (Christopher Guest), so he looks for a change by placing an ad Read More

Mortelle Randonnée

Actors: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Sami Frey

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial killer, seduces men and then murders them just before moving on to the next victim. She spreads her mayhem through various countries in Europe, only slightly ahead of the Read More

Buffet Froid

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Geneviève Page, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) Read More

Brother Carl

Synopsis: This English-language film was made in Sweden by American essayist Susan Sontag and includes a French and Swedish cast. There is a similar confusion in the storyline. Four artistic adults (two men and two women) have gone to an island at the same time. They are people who have caused one another Read More

La Cavale

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Catherine Rouvel, Yvette Lebon

Synopsis: No blame is assessed in this unusual French prison drama, which is based on the book by Albertine Sarrazin. All the usual violence, opportunism and homosexuality are present, but they serve as a backdrop to the story of thieves Annick (Juliet Berto) and Jean (Jean-Claude Bouillon), who are in Read More

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Actors: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl, Geneviève Page, Stanley Holloway, Christopher Lee, Tamara Toumanova

Synopsis: In Billy Wilder's cinematic homage to the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British stage luminary Robert Stephens plays Holmes, while Colin Blakely is his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson. This self-described "hitherto suppressed and thoroughly fascinating" tale concerns Holmes' search for Read More

A Talent for Loving

Synopsis: Richard Widmark stars as a professional gambler who finds himself financially embarrassed. To bail himself out, Widmark marries into a wealthy Mexican household. What he doesn't know is that the family is cursed: its female members are compelled to love their men literally to death. Chaim Topol Read More

Mayerling

Actors: Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera (Catherine Deneuve), and their untimely demise at Mayerling, the sight of the Austrian royal family's hunting lodge. Rudolf verbally spars with his father Emperor Franz-Josef (James Mason) Read More

Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher

Actors: Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier

Synopsis: In this feather-weight version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall, Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the Read More

Belle de Jour

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Macha Meril, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a Read More

Tender Scoundrel

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Geneviève Page, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a Read More

Grand Prix

Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Brian Bedford

Synopsis: There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix. Among the participants in this annual cross-continent competition are characters played by James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, and Antonio Sabato. Interested parties Read More

Le Majordome

Actors: Paul Meurisse, Geneviève Page, Noël Roquevert, Paul Hubschmid

Synopsis: Leopold (Paul Meurisse) is an attorney who gets involved with underworld thugs trying to hijack a truck containing a shipment of gold in this uneven crime comedy. He decides to kidnap everyone involved, especially when he falls for the felonious female Agnes (Genevieve Page). Leopold gets off easy Read More

Youngblood Hawke

Actors: James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor, Edward Andrews, Werner Klemperer

Synopsis: Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets editor Jeanne Green (Suzanne Pleshette), who sees talent in Hawke's work. Jeanne falls for the handsome Kentuckian and helps him put together a book deal. His first book is Read More

L'Honorable Stanislas, Agent Secret

Actors: Jean Marais, Geneviève Page, Maurice Teynac, Jean Galland

The Day and the Hour

Actors: Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Dux, Reggie Nalder

Synopsis: This French/Italian effort travelled under the titles Le Jour Et L'Heure, Il Giorno e L'Ora and Viviamo Oggi in Europe. In Great Britain, it was known as Today We Live. No matter the title, the film stars Simone Signoret as a world-weary French aristocrat who finds a purpose in life by joining the Read More

The Reluctant Spy

Synopsis: Reluctant Spy is a title that could have been applied to any number of espionage spoofs in the 1960s. This French film stars Jean Marais in the title role. Though he wants no part of espionage at first, Marais begins to enjoy the excitement, and soon he's comporting himself like a Gallic James Read More

El Cid

Actors: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Ralph Truman, John Fraser

Synopsis: When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Read More

Song without End

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: Hoping to recapture the success of its 1945 Frederic Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures concocted the 1960 Technicolor costume drama Song Without End. Dirk Bogarde is cast as musical genius Franz Liszt. Bogarde's piano scenes are dubbed with another's singing voice, but this Read More

Revolt of the Tartars

Synopsis: Into his adventure, a prominent Czar tries to get an important message sent to the Grand Duke. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Agguato a Tangeri

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Geneviève Page, Gino Cervi, José Guardiola

Synopsis: Director Riccardo Freda does not take this uninspired, turgid spy film very far in its story about a federal agent (Edmund Purdom) and his efforts at blasting apart an international drug cartel. In one of the more unlikely turns of a plotline, the agent falls in love with the daughter of the Read More

Un Amour de Poche

Actors: Jean Marais, Geneviève Page, Agnes Laurent, Regine Lovi, Amedee

Synopsis: Filmed in 1957 but not released in the U.S. until 1962, Girl in His Pocket was released to more liberal markets as Nude in His Pocket. Jean Marais plays Prof. Jerome, a researcher who is intrigued with the theory of suspended animation. With the help of his sexy assistant Monette (Agnes Laurent) Read More

Michel Strogoff

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Geneviève Page, Jean Parédès, Sylva Koscina, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: The Russian Czar's special courier, Jurgens, is entrusted with an important message destined for the Czar's troops and he sets off across the Tartars' land with Page in this 19th century setting. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Silken Affair

Actors: David Niven, Geneviève Page, Ronald Squire, Beatrice Straight

Synopsis: Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who finds himself digging deeper and deeper into trouble. Not only is he suddenly smitten by a French model (Geneviève Page) despite his marriage to his wife (Dorothy Alison) Read More

Foreign Intrigue

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Geneviève Page, Ingrid Thulin, Frederick O'Brady, Eugene Deckers

Synopsis: Foreign Intrigue was one of the first major Hollywood films to be based on a popular TV series. Robert Mitchum stars as an American press agent who travels the length and breadth of Europe to learn the past of a recently deceased multimillionaire. After stopovers at the Riviera, Stockholm and Read More

Cherchez La Femme

Actors: Georges Marchal, Geneviève Page

Fanfan la Tulipe

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Oliver Hussenot, Noël Roquevert, Nerio Bernardi

Synopsis: Pauline Kael once characterized the French adventure film Fanfan the Tulip as a "Louis XV western". This is a pretty broad interpretation, though it is true that the film never stops moving--an excellent method of sustaining audience attention and plugging up the plot holes. Gerard Philipe plays Read More

Lettre Ouverte

Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Jean-Marc Thibault, Geneviève Page

Pas De Pitie Pour Les Femmes

Actors: Simone Renant, Geneviève Page, Michel Auclair, Marcel Herrand

Synopsis: Pas De Pitie Pour Les Femmes is a tricky French-filmed murder mystery. It is so tricky, in fact, that it defied the efforts by contemporary reviewers to synopsize the plot! Most observers agreed on this much: At stake in the proceedings is a vast inheritance, fought over by a group of remarkably Read More

Ce Siecle A Cinquante Ans

Actors: François Perier, Geneviève Page, Marie Daems

Synopsis: As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing Read More