Dominique Sanda
Actor
Dominique Sanda (born 11 March 1948) 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. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow).
She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film The Inheritance.
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Saint Laurent (2014)
As: Lucienne
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Léa Seydoux | Jérémie Renier | Gaspard Ulliel | Louis Garrel | Amira Casar
Going Away (2013)
As: Liliane Cambière
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Nicole Garcia
Stars: Eric Ruf | Louise Bourgoin | Dominique Sanda | Déborah François | Pierre Rochefort
The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (2001)
As: Marta Kadar
Descotes, a young map expert, discovers the marvelous erotic secret of an elaborate ancient map that she lusts to own.
Directed by: Michie Gleason
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Dominique Sanda | Natasha Little | Roland Gift | Yasna Zivanovic
The Crimson Rivers (2000)
As: Sister Andrée
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.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Stars: Jean Reno | Vincent Cassel | Nadia Farès | Dominique Sanda | Karim Belkhadra
Garage Olimpo (1999)
As: Diane
A beautiful Argentine activist receives preferential treatment from a man supposed to torture her.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Marco Bechis
Stars: Antonella Costa | Dominique Sanda | Paola Bechis | Pablo Razuk | Carlos Echevarría
The Universe of Jacques Demy (1995)
As: Herself
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Stars: Danielle Darrieux | Catherine Deneuve | Anouk Aimée | Jeanne Moreau | Agnès Varda
Nobody's Children (1994)
As: Stephanie Vaugier
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: David Wheatley
Stars: Clive Owen | Jay O. Sanders | Ann-Margret | Katrin Cartlidge | Dominique Sanda
Henry's Romance (1993)
As: La mère
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.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Thomas Koerfer
Stars: Thibault de Montalembert | Assumpta Serna | Florence Darel | Dominique Sanda | Andreas Schmid
Rosen-Emil (1993)
As: Bertha
Werner Stocker's last movie.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Radu Gabrea
Stars: Udo Schenk | Serge Reggiani | Dana Vávrová | Dominique Sanda | Werner Stocker
The Journey (1992)
As: Helena
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Fernando E. Solanas
Stars: Marc Berman | Walter Quiroz | Soledad Alfaro | Ricardo Bartis | Christina Becerra
Warriors and Prisoners (1990)
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Stars: Federico Luppi | Dominique Sanda | China Zorrilla | Gabriela Toscano | Leslie Caron
I, the Worst of All (1990)
As: La Virreina
A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxity. He engineers the election of a new abbess, severe and ascetic. The virreina visits Sor Juana often and inspires her to write passionate poetry that the archbishop finds ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: María Luisa Bemberg
Stars: Héctor Alterio | Assumpta Serna | Dominique Sanda | Lautaro Murúa | Graciela Araujo
Lenin: The Train (1990)
As: Inessa Armand
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 ...
Runtime: 198 min.
Directed by: Damiano Damiani
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Dominique Sanda | Timothy West | Jason Connery | Leslie Caron
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
As: Margot
Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple called Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer board the 'Achille Lauro'. The mood is cheerful and relaxed, everyone is looking forward to twelve days of sun, sea and ...
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: Alberto Negrin
Stars: Renzo Montagnani | Burt Lancaster | Eva Marie Saint | Joseph Nasser | Rebecca Schaeffer
Tolgo Il Disturbo (1990)
As: Carla
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Dino Risi
Stars: Firmine Richard | Eva Grimaldi | Dominique Sanda | Vittorio Gassman | Veronica Dei
On a Moonlit Night (1989)
As: Carol
An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Nastassja Kinski | Lorraine Bracco | Rutger Hauer | Massimo Wertmüller | Peter O'Toole
To Save Nine (1989)
As: Dame
Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The woman moves her nine children to Bologna, where their living conditions are deplorable. To avoid a hike in rent, she tells her landlady (Dominique Sanda) that she is living alone. Also known as To Save Nine ...
Directed by: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Piera Degli Esposti | Dominique Sanda | Giorgio Trestini | Hartmut Becker | Susanna Marcomeni
Corps et biens (1986)
As: Helene
The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Danielle Darrieux | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Dominique Sanda
Le matelot 512 (1984)
As: La Commandante / Mireille
Directed by: René Allio
Stars: Michel Piccoli | Dominique Sanda | Bruno Cremer | Laure Duthilleul | Jacques Penot
The Road to Bresson (1984)
As: Herself
A Dutch documentary film about Robert Bresson.
Runtime: 54 min.
Directed by: Leo de Boer | Jurriën Rood
Stars: Louis Malle | Dominique Sanda | Orson Welles | Andrei Tarkovsky | Robert Bresson
A Room in Town (1982)
As: Édith
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Stars: Michel Piccoli | Richard Berry | Anna Gaylor | Dominique Sanda | Fabienne Guyon
L'indiscrétion (1982)
As: Béatrice
An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then found dead and their killers description resembles the man.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Pierre Lary
Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade | Jean-Pierre Marielle | Roland Bertin | Jean Rochefort | Dominique Sanda
Les ailes de la colombe (1981)
As: Catherine Croy
A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Isabelle Huppert | Michele Placido | Dominique Sanda | Jean Sorel | Françoise Christophe
Cabo Blanco (1980)
As: Marie-Claire Allesandri
Giff Hoyt , a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Simon MacCorkindale | Charles Bronson | Fernando Rey | Jason Robards | Dominique Sanda
A Sweet Journey (1980)
As: Hélène
Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding of each others' personality and desires.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Michel Deville
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin | Dominique Sanda | Valerie Masterson | Jacques Zabor | Jean Crubelier
Break Of Day (1980)
A perfect summer divertissement, the very rare Break of Day is based on the quasi-autobiographical novel by Colette, a serene, sometimes joyous meditation in which the novelist puzzles through the state in which she found herself, an older woman, traduced and misused in love, fearing that she would never be wanted again. Instead of obsessing on loss, she insists, one must accept it; ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Stars: Dominique Sanda | Orane Demazis | Danièle Delorme | Jean Sorel
Le navire night (1979)
Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Marguerite Duras
Stars: Mathieu Carrière | Bulle Ogier | Dominique Sanda | Benoît Jacquot | Marguerite Duras
Utopia (1979)
As: Sylvie
No overview found.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Iradj Azimi
Stars: Dominique Sanda | Laurent Terzieff | Gérard Blain | Jean Dasté | Anne-Marie Deschodt
The Song of Roland (1978)
As: Anna
First of all, "La chanson de Roland" is a great film. But, unfortunately, it's quite an unknown one. Unlike other "medieval" films (e.g. Anthony Mann's "El Cid") there's no "sword-battle-american-pulp-shit" stuff, but a hard intellectual effort in order to offer us a realistic version of the European Middle Ages.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Frank Cassenti
Stars: Dominique Sanda | Klaus Kinski | Alain Cuny | Pierre Clémenti | Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Damnation Alley (1977)
As: Janice
A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the freakish weather mutated plant and animal life and other dangers along the way.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jack Smight
Stars: Jackie Earle Haley | Paul Winfield | Jan-Michael Vincent | Dominique Sanda | George Peppard
Beyond Good and Evil (1977)
As: Lou Andreas Salomé
The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Liliana Cavani
Stars: Virna Lisi | Dominique Sanda | Robert Powell | Michael Degen | Erland Josephson
The Inheritance (1976)
As: Irene Carelli Ferramonti
Rome, 1880. Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo (Gigi Proietti), Mario (Fabio Testi) and Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But Irene (Dominique Sanda), the wife of Pippo, a beautiful, calculating and ambitious young woman, wants to take over the inheritance. Acting on intelligence, weighing every step and its ...
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Fabio Testi | Gigi Proietti | Anthony Quinn | Dominique Sanda | Adriana Asti
1900 (1976)
As: Ada Fiestri Paulhan
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Runtime: 317 min.
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Robert De Niro | Gérard Depardieu | Stefania Sandrelli | Laura Betti | Dominique Sanda
Le berceau de cristal (1976)
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Anita Pallenberg | Dominique Sanda | Margareth Clémenti | Philippe Garrel | Nico
Conversation Piece (1974)
As: Professor's mother
Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper floor of his palazzo. From this point his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life is taking ...
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Silvana Mangano | Helmut Berger | Burt Lancaster | Claudia Marsani | Stefano Patrizi
Steppenwolf (1974)
As: Hermine
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Fred Haines
Stars: Max von Sydow | Dominique Sanda | Carla Romanelli | Pierre Clémenti | Roy Bosier
Story of a Love Story (1973)
As: Natalie
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Dominique Sanda | Alan Bates | Paul Crauchet | Michel Auclair | Evans Evans
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
As: Mrs. Smith
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.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: John Huston
Stars: Ian Bannen | Paul Newman | Dominique Sanda | James Mason | Harry Andrews
Night of The Flowers (1972)
As: Eva
The logical consequences of unrestrained hedonism are explored in the sensationalistic Italian drama La notte dei fiori. A woman pop star and her decadent entourage disport themselves in a country estate, making love, playing psychological games, and finally, committing multiple murders.
Runtime: 86 min.
Stars: Dominique Sanda | Macha Méril | Jürgen Drews | Hiram Keller | Giorgio Maulini
Without Apparent Motive (1971)
As: Sandra Forest
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Philippe Labro
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant | Dominique Sanda | Paul Crauchet | Carla Gravina | Sacha Distel
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
As: Micol
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Fabio Testi | Dominique Sanda | Lino Capolicchio | Helmut Berger | Romolo Valli
The Conformist (1970)
As: Anna
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Stefania Sandrelli | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Dominique Sanda | Gastone Moschin | Enzo Tarascio
First Love (1970)
As: Sinaida
Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Maximilian Schell
Stars: John Moulder-Brown | Maximilian Schell | Dominique Sanda | Valentina Cortese | Marius Goring
Une femme douce (1969)
As: Elle
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Robert Bresson
Stars: Dominique Sanda | Jeanne Lobre | Jacques Kébadian | Guy Frangin | Claude Ollier