1900 1976  R, 320 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Novecento
Nineteen Hundred
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Stefania Sandrelli, Romolo Valli, Laura Betti, Alida Valli, Franchesca Bertini, Werner Bruhns, Stefania Casini, Anna Henkel, Ellen Schwiers
The lives of two young men, Alfredo Berlinghieri and Olmo Dalco (Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu)–both born in 1900–and the stories of their descendants are depicted as they live through the competing forces of socialism, fascism, and capitalism in Italy during the 20th century.
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Caboblanco 1980  R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Simon MacCorkindale, Camilla Sparv, Denny Miller, Gilbert Roland, James Booth, Jorge Russek, Clifton James, Martin LaSalle
Bar owner Giff Hoyt (Charles Bronson) watches as misfits flit in and out of his bar–including a former Nazi, Gunther Beckdorff (Jason Robards), and beautiful, but mysterious Marie Claire Allesandri (Dominique Sanda). "Casablanca" this isn't.
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 The Conformist 1970  R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Jose Quaglio, Yvonne Sanson, Giuseppe Addobbati
Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) represses his homosexual tendencies in an attempt to conform to the 1930s' middle-class Italian society. He even marries Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli). But on his way to Paris for their honeymoon, Marcello's fascist bosses give him a gun and orders to assassinate his old teacher, a political dissident. Doubts now begin to plague Marcello, and he is not sure that he is up to the task at hand.
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Conversation Piece 1974 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsoni, Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Patrizi, Elvira Cortese, Romolo Valli, Dominique Sanda, Guy Trejan
A down-and-out professor (Burt Lancaster) finds a renewed interest in life when a couple with a teenage daughter moves into the upstairs apartment. There is also an Italian-language version.
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1971  R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Raffaele Curi, Camillo Cesarei, Inna Alexeievna, Katina Morisani, Cinzia Bruno, Barbara Pilaven
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is the story of the wealthy Jewish family, Finzi-Continis, who ignored the dangers of fascism in the late 1930s that overtook Italy–until it was too late. While many Jewish families left Italy, the Finzi-Continis family remained believing that their sprawling estate would protect them from fascism. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is invited to their home to do research for his school studies and falls in love with Micol Finzi-Contini (Dominique Sanda). Giorgio tries to draw Micol away from Italy, but she refuses, and now the politics of war close in on them.
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I, the Worst of All 1990 R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Cast: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Hector Alterio, Lautaro Murua, Alberto Segado, Franklin Caicedo, Graciela Araujo, Gerardo Romano, Hugo Soto, Margara Alonso
Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) had a good life in the convent since entering at age 19 in 17th-century Mexico. She spent time teaching music, studying and writing poetry, and other activities. This tragic real-life story of one of Mexico's greatest poets takes a turn for the worse during this time in history, which followed a brutal inquisition. A woman-hating Archbishop arrives who believes the Sister's ideas are radical and that she is dangerous. A well-made film that is somewhat long, thus distracting from the story. Based on a book ("The Pitfalls of Faith") by poet/writer Octavio Paz.
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The Inheritance 1976 R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Gigi Proietti, Adriana Asti, Paolo Bonacelli, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Harold Bradley, Silvia Cerio, Maria Russo, Rossella Rusconi, Simone Santo, Carlo Palmucci
Gregorio (Anthony Quinn) is a domineering, wealthy man who knows that he hasn't many years left. He sells his bakery and decides not to leave any money to two of his grown children since they had not pleased him. Instead, all will go to third son, Pippo (Luigi Proietti), who has stayed with Gregorio's bakery over the years. The lecherous Gregorio is also having an affair with Pippo's wife.
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Joseph 1995 TV, 185 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Roger Young
Cast: Paul Mercurio, Ben Kingsley, Martin Landau, Lesley Ann Warren, Alice Krige, Dominique Sanda, Warren Clarke, Monica Bellucci, Stefano Dionisi, Valeria Cavalli, Kelly Miller, Michael Angelis
This TV miniseries provides a good retelling the Biblical story of Joseph (Paul Mercurio). Joseph's brothers, jealous of his being the favorite son and his ability to interpret dreams, sell Joseph into slavery to the Egyption Pharaoh. Joseph eventually rises to a powerful position in the government and, eventually, is reunited with his family.
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Les Rivieres Pourpres 2000 R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Crimson Rivers
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Fares, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Didier Flamand, Francois Levantal, Francine Berge, Philippe Nahon
Two French policemen–Commissaire Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno) and Lieutenant Max Kerkerian (Vincent Cassel)–follow clues in separate investigations that converge on the perpetrator of grisly serial killings.
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The Mackintosh Man 1973 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Action
Director: John Huston
Cast: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Nigel Patrick, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Roland Culver, Peter Vaughan, Percy Herbert
In this cold war spy thriller, agent Rearden (Paul Newman) sets out to get Communist spy Sir George Wheeler (James Mason). Good car chase.
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Steppenwolf 1974  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Haines
Cast: Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi, Carla Romanelli, Roy Bosier, Alfred Baillou, Niels-Peter Rudolph, Helmut Fombacher, Charles Regnier, Eduard Linkers, Silvia Reize
Herman Hesse's novel is brought to the screen with Max von Sydow in the role of lonely writer Harry Haller who believes he has multiple personalities and contemplates suicide at age 50. Then, he meets a mysterious woman (Dominique Sanda) who introduces him to a world of hallucinations, and his life takes a turn.
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Voyage en Douce 1980 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy
Director: Michel Deville
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Valerie Masterson, Cecile Le Bailly, Jacqueline Parent, Jacques Pieiller, Francoise Morhange, Frederic Andrei, Christophe Malavoy, Andre Marcon
Best friends Helene (Dominique Sanda) and Lucie (Geraldine Chaplin) travel by car from Paris into the French countryside and, through many long discussions, present different viewpoints concerning the subjects of their erotic and intellectual lives. The end result is that, by trip's end, each has a better understanding of the other's feelings about life.
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| 1. 1900 (1976)
aka: Novecento
aka: Nineteen Hundred
2. Caboblanco (1980)
3. The Conformist (1970)
4. Conversation Piece (1974)
5. Damnation Alley (1977)
6. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
7. I, the Worst of All (1990)
8. The Inheritance (1976)
9. Joseph (1995)
10. Les Rivieres Pourpres (2000)
aka: The Crimson Rivers
11. The Mackintosh Man (1973)
12. Steppenwolf (1974)
13. Voyage en Douce (1980)
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