Acting

Lila Kedrova

Born October 9, 1909 · Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

Died February 16, 2000 · aged 90

Lila Kedrova (October 9, 1918 – February 16, 2000) was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964), and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lila Kedrova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contr…

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Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain · 1966

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

The Tenant

The Tenant · 1976

MovieThrillerMystery

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

The Lovers of Montparnasse

The Lovers of Montparnasse · 1958

The Lovers of Montparnasse

MovieRomanceDrama

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

Razzia

MovieCrimeDrama

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.

Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek · 1964

Zorba the Greek

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Ultimatum

Ultimatum · 1938

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

Some Girls

Some Girls · 1988

MovieComedyDrama

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight · 1984

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

MovieAdventureFantasy

Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.

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Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain · 1966

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

Countess Kuchinska

The Tenant

The Tenant · 1976

MovieThrillerMystery

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Madame Gaderian

The Lovers of Montparnasse

The Lovers of Montparnasse · 1958

The Lovers of Montparnasse

MovieRomanceDrama

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

Anna Zborowsky

Razzia

MovieCrimeDrama

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.

Léa, la toxicomane

Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek · 1964

Zorba the Greek

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Madame Hortense

Ultimatum

Ultimatum · 1938

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

Irina

Some Girls

Some Girls · 1988

MovieComedyDrama

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

Granny

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight · 1984

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

MovieAdventureFantasy

Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.

Lady of Lyonesse

A High Wind in Jamaica

A High Wind in Jamaica · 1965

A High Wind in Jamaica

MovieAdventureDrama

In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.

Rosa

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

Soft Beds, Hard Battles · 1974

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.

Madame Grenier

Womanlight

Womanlight · 1979

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.

Sonia Tovalski

Footprints on the Moon

Footprints on the Moon · 1975

Footprints on the Moon

MovieThrillerMystery

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

Mrs. Heim

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday · 1974

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.

Contessa Mafalda

The Kremlin Letter

The Kremlin Letter · 1970

The Kremlin Letter

MovieThrillerAction

After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.

Madam Sophie

School for Love

School for Love · 1955

School for Love

MovieComedyDrama

Sophie and Elis, two young women at the Conservatory of Vienna. vie for the affection of head singing teacher Walter.

Mrs. Dimater, Sophie's mother

Penelope

Penelope · 1966

MovieComedyCrime

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.

Princess Sadaba

Tell Me a Riddle

Tell Me a Riddle · 1980

Tell Me a Riddle

Aging couple David and Eva have lost the spark that once infused their marriage. After nearly four decades together, the elderly duo is feel disconnected and lost. When they discover that Eva is sick, they decide to travel across the country to stay with their granddaughter in San Francisco. On the trip, with Eva's possible death looming, the couple rediscovers the passion and love that had been missing from their lives.

Eva

The Night Child

The Night Child · 1975

The Night Child

The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.

Contessa Cappelli

The Skirt Chaser

The Skirt Chaser · 1979

The Skirt Chaser

A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.

Olga

A Woman Like Satan

A Woman Like Satan · 1958

A Woman Like Satan

MovieDramaRomance

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.

Manuela

A Star for Two

A Star for Two · 1991

MovieRomanceDrama

Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.

Simone

The Sewers of Paradise

The Sewers of Paradise · 1979

The Sewers of Paradise

MovieActionCrime

In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.

Charlotte

Blood Tide

Blood Tide · 1982

MovieAdventureHorror

An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

Sister Anna

Rak

David learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.

David's mother

American Playhouse

American Playhouse · 1982

American Playhouse

SeriesDramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Eva

Cool Million

Cool Million · 1972

SeriesDramaCrime

A globe-trotting adventurer takes on cases to track down shady individuals who want to stay hidden, earning a million dollars per assignment.

Mme. Martine