Dominique Sanda

Acting

Dominique Sanda

Born March 11, 1951 · Paris, France (age 75)

Dominique Sanda (born 11 March 1951) is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne (née Pinchon) and Gérard Sanda. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. S…

Known For

A Room in TownA Room in Town · 1982
A Room in Town
6.41982
MovieDramaRomance
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
The Crimson RiversThe Crimson Rivers · 2000
The Crimson Rivers
6.92000
MovieCrimeMystery
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
First LoveFirst Love · 1970
First Love
5.71970
MovieDramaRomance
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
JosephJoseph · 1995
Joseph
8.21995
MovieAdventureDrama
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead.
Vita miaVita mia · 2026
Vita mia
2026
MovieDramaHistory
Didi, a Hungarian noblewoman who survived war and communism, has lived in Salento for years, cared for by Vita, a young woman from Puglia. She spends her final days amidst memories, guilt, and friendship, searching for peace.
Damnation AlleyDamnation Alley · 1977
Damnation Alley
5.11977
MovieAdventureScience Fiction
Following World War III, four survivors at a desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
19001900 · 1976
1900
7.81976
MovieDramaHistory
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
The World of Jacques DemyThe World of Jacques Demy · 1995
The World of Jacques Demy
6.91995
MovieDocumentary
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

Movies

A Room in TownA Room in Town · 1982
A Room in Town
6.41982
MovieDramaRomance
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
The Crimson RiversThe Crimson Rivers · 2000
The Crimson Rivers
6.92000
MovieCrimeMystery
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
First LoveFirst Love · 1970
First Love
5.71970
MovieDramaRomance
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
JosephJoseph · 1995
Joseph
8.21995
MovieAdventureDrama
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead.
Vita miaVita mia · 2026
Vita mia
2026
MovieDramaHistory
Didi, a Hungarian noblewoman who survived war and communism, has lived in Salento for years, cared for by Vita, a young woman from Puglia. She spends her final days amidst memories, guilt, and friendship, searching for peace.
Damnation AlleyDamnation Alley · 1977
Damnation Alley
5.11977
MovieAdventureScience Fiction
Following World War III, four survivors at a desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
19001900 · 1976
1900
7.81976
MovieDramaHistory
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
The World of Jacques DemyThe World of Jacques Demy · 1995
The World of Jacques Demy
6.91995
MovieDocumentary
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
The ConformistThe Conformist · 1971
The Conformist
7.61971
MovieDrama
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Garage OlimpoGarage Olimpo · 1999
Garage Olimpo
6.81999
MovieDrama
María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.
A Gentle WomanA Gentle Woman · 1969
A Gentle Woman
6.81969
MovieRomanceDrama
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
Henry's RomanceHenry's Romance · 1993
Henry's Romance
5.61993
MovieDrama
It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.
Lenin: The TrainLenin: The Train · 1988
Lenin: The Train
6.41988
MovieDramaHistory
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....
Belmondo: The IncorrigibleBelmondo: The Incorrigible · 2022
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
8.22022
MovieDocumentary
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
UtopiaUtopia · 1979
Utopia
8.01979
MovieDrama
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found and the city is silent.
The MacKintosh ManThe MacKintosh Man · 1973
The MacKintosh Man
6.11973
MovieThriller
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
The Cinema According to BertolucciThe Cinema According to Bertolucci · 1976
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
7.01976
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Song of RolandThe Song of Roland · 1978
The Song of Roland
5.51978
MovieDramaAdventure
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.
On a Moonlit NightOn a Moonlit Night · 1989
On a Moonlit Night
6.71989
MovieDrama
An American journalist working for a French newspaper is writing an article on the public reaction to those with AIDS, unaware that he too is infected. Once he finds out, he decides to go into reclusion, leaving his wife and daughter.
Le Navire NightLe Navire Night · 1979
Le Navire Night
6.71979
MovieDrama
Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman, terminally ill with leukemia, living in isolation at her wealthy father's villa, and a man working night shifts at a telephone company. They have never met in person.
Without Apparent MotiveWithout Apparent Motive · 1971
Without Apparent Motive
5.91971
MovieCrimeMystery
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
KarakolKarakol · 2020
Karakol
2020
MovieDrama
Conversation PieceConversation Piece · 1974
Conversation Piece
7.31974
MovieDramaRomance
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Vittorio De Sica: Staging LifeVittorio De Sica: Staging Life · 2026
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
2026
MovieDocumentary
A documentary feature film about Vittorio De Sica, one of the greatest masters of world cinema. Through a new access to his family, rare archives and testimonies of contemporary artists and filmmakers from the entire world, the ilm retraces his life, his work and legacy. An intimate portrait of an author able to transform the observation of the real in an universal emotion and reveals the modernity of a gaze which keeps on illuminating cinema and our way of seeing the world.

TV Shows

Les Rendez-vous du dimancheLes Rendez-vous du dimanche · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
6.01975
Series
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Dim Dam DomDim Dam Dom · 1965
Dim Dam Dom
8.01965
SeriesDocumentary
By Way of the StarsBy Way of the Stars · 1992
By Way of the Stars
6.31992
SeriesDrama
A young boy's search for his father takes him from 19th century Prussia to the wilds of the American West.
Lenin... The TrainLenin... The Train · 1988
Lenin... The Train
6.01988
Series
In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, political tensions and personal dramas unfold, culminating in a historic arrival.
JosephJoseph · 1995
Joseph
7.31995
SeriesDrama
The Biblical story of Joseph, who was sold to slavery by his brothers who were jealous of his prophetic abilities to analyze dreams and of his being their fathers' favorite.