
Birthday:
04-03-1945
Deathday:
04-17-2022 (77 years)
Birthplace:
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Biography
Catherine Spaak (3 April 1945 – 17 April 2022) was a French-Italian actress, singer, model, and media personality. A member of the Spaak family, she was known as an iconic "It girl" in Italy during the 1960s, becoming a star of commedia all'italiana films, before later becoming prominent as a talk show host and media personality.
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For Love and Gold
Act like Matelda
event1966 star_border 7.7
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A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Il Sorpasso
Act like Lilli Cortona
event1962 star_border 8.2
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Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Act like Woman Posing for Photographer
event1969 star_border 5.7
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A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Take a Hard Ride
Act like Catherine
event1975 star_border 5.3
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After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Circle of Love
Act like The Midinette
event1964 star_border 5.8
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In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Made in Italy
Act like Carolina (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 2")
event1965 star_border 6
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A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Catherine and I
Act like Claudia Parise
event1980 star_border 5.4
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Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than any human.
The Libertine
Act like Margherita
event1968 star_border 5.4
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A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Sweet Deceptions
Act like Francesca
event1960 star_border 6.3
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Francesca, a seventeen-year-old Roman, is finally sure she has found love. Almost sure. She spends the day observing other lovers' behaviors and considering whether she is ready to jump. Her age notwithstanding, this movie is more about coming of age than about improper or illegal romantic relationships.
La calda vita
Act like Sergia
event1964 star_border 6
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Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
My Darling Slave
Act like Rosalba
event1973 star_border 4.8
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Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano.
After their wedding, Rosalba's attitude changes when she decides to try turning Demetrio into the modern husband she'd like.
This causes a problem, as Demetrius prefers sticking to what he sees as more traditional gender roles. Despite her attempts, Rosalba's persistent attempts to convert him to the rituals of high society, enlightened, or feminine tastes do little more than annoy him.
Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can fulfill his visions of peaceful married life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a new wife as a slave. The choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua that he trains to act the way he'd like, then proudly shows to friends and to his former wife, attracting curiosity, envy, and his ex-wife's resentment.
Dear Parents
Act like Madeleine
event1973 star_border 6
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An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.
Weekend at Dunkirk
Act like Jeanne
event1964 star_border 7
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In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
The Empty Canvas
Act like Cecilia
event1963 star_border 6.1
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An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
Kiss the Other Sheik
Act like Giovanna
event1965 star_border 6.6
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Italian comedy film in three segments
Story of a Cloistered Nun
Act like Sister Elisabeth
event1973 star_border 5.5
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Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
The Precarious Bank Teller
Act like Elena De Fanti - la moglie di Arturo
event1980 star_border 5.5
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The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
Burnt By A Scalding Passion
Act like Milena Banotti
event1976 star_border 2.2
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Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet and fall in love. They suffer from being unable to realize their love without hurting their marriages but they don't know their respective spouses share a hot relationship...
Crazy Desire
Act like Francesca
event1962 star_border 6.5
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A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
L'uomo privato
Act like Ex amante
event2007 star_border 6
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Between Turin and Pisa unfolds the life of a socially and professionally successful university professor of law. Endowed with great intelligence and an elusive charm, the man and the professor lead a “withdrawn” existence that occasionally borders on the beds of casual lovers. Determined to control reality and keep it carefully at arm's length, he becomes involved despite himself in the suicide death of a student. The boy, obsessed with the professor's life, has painstakingly recorded his lectures, his behavior, his habits...
Adultery Italian Style
Act like Marta
event1966 star_border 6.1
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A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.
Eighteen in the Sun
Act like Nicole Molino
event1962 star_border 5.2
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An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Act like Nanda
event1969 star_border 5.8
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Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
With What Love, With What Love
Act like Françoise
event1970
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After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andrea discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best friend. Andrea decides to forgive them, but as time passes he realizes that he wants to win Francesca back and decides to play all his cards during his rival's absence...
Mademoiselle de Maupin
Act like Magdeleine de Maupin
event1966 star_border 6
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Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
The Girl from Parma
Act like Dora
event1963 star_border 7.5
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Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
The Boxer
Act like Claire, Nick's daughter
event1972 star_border 8.1
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Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.
Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
Act like Ottavio's Wife (segment "Il teorema gregoriano")
event1978 star_border 3.2
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For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists.
Cause of Divorce
Act like Ernesta Maini
event1972 star_border 3
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A couple is short of money and got marital problems. Sylverte knows Enrica and intent to marry her but before he needs divorce from his wife.
Promessa d'amore
Act like Elisa
event2004
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Three orphans that grew up in an institution and refused to be separated by adoption meet again after becoming adults at the wedding of one of them.
A Murder Is a Murder
Act like Françoise
event1972 star_border 5.4
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Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
The Man with the Balloons
Act like Giovanna
event1967 star_border 6.7
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Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
The Little Nuns
Act like Sister Celeste
event1963 star_border 7
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Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
Three Nights of Love
Act like Ghiga /Giselle/ Cirilla
event1964 star_border 5.8
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Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
Hotel
Act like Jeanne Rochefort
event1967 star_border 6.1
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This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
Six Days a Week
Act like Maria / Silvana / Caterina
event1965 star_border 7.2
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Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana who is a real life airline hostess. She lies to the count and the dentist about her flight schedules and her whereabouts so she can spend three days a week with each of them. She spends the remaining day of the week with the student who thinks she is a fellow student. One day surprising news of the real Silvana break out. Comedy and confusion ensure when Maria is forced to come up with a more elaborate scheme to cover her tracks and keep her boyfriends happy.
Horse Fever
Act like Gabriella
event1976 star_border 7.3
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Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Honey
Act like Writer
event1981 star_border 4.8
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A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
The Way of the Baboons
Act like Fiorenza
event1974 star_border 5.2
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In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.
Three Faces of Sin
Act like Danièle Pièges
event1961 star_border 6.3
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Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Act like Veronica Benetti
event2000 star_border 5
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As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.
Secret Scandal
Act like Laura
event1990 star_border 4.5
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Marguerite receives as a gift from a filmmaker friend: a very modern, automatic camera, complete with remote control. Her life will change dramatically, as the machine reveals to her not only her husband's betrayal with her best friend, but also the desolation of her own existence.
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Act like Allegra
event1968 star_border 6
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Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
La vacanza
Act like Carla
event2020 star_border 6.6
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An upcoming film directed by Enrico Iannaccone. Valerio (Antonio Folletto) is a thirty year old man who leads a self-destructive life. The still beautiful Carla (Catherine Spaak) is an ex-magistrate, who begins to show the first signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's. Contrary to Valerio she has an overwhelming desire to live. These two tormented souls become friends and together they find the strength to confront the pains and secrets of their past. They are both related to a mysterious woman, Anneke (Veruschka von Lehndorff ). This is a journey of two people who are so different and yet so similar, sharing their most painful emotions. It will lead them to the discovery of a new way of loving.
Sex Can Be Difficult
Act like Valeria (segment "Le donne")
event1962 star_border 6
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A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Le Trou
Act like Nicole
event1960 star_border 8.2
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Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Act like Anna Terzi
event1971 star_border 6.7
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A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
A Rather Complicated Girl
Act like Claudia
event1969 star_border 5.2
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Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Act like La mère supérieure
event2005 star_border 4
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Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
Night Is Made for Stealing
Act like Valentine
event1967
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A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted.
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
event2007 star_border 6.8
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The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.
Cyrano
Act like Rossana
event1978
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Italian musical adaptation of the french play "Cyrano de Bergerac" featuring Domenico Modugno
The Merv Griffin Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 5.6
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The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
Zen
Act like Donata (3 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.3
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Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking.
Family Business
Act like Marisa Benetti (6 ep.)
event1986
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The story of two sisters, two very different women: one is a determined and concrete businessman, the other a sweet and sensitive artist. Divided over everything, they will fall in love with the same man.
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Act like La mère supérieure (2 ep.)
event2004
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Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
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