Anna Karina

Born: 1940-09-22

Anna Karina  (22 September 1940 - 14 December 2019) was a Danish film actress, director, and screenwriter who spent most of her working life in France. Karina was known as a muse of the director Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave. Her notable collaborations with Godard include The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961) and Vivre sa vie (1962). With A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival.


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Alphaville

as Natacha von Braun
Released: 1965-05-05

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent...

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Pierrot le Fou

as Marianne Renoir
Released: 1965-11-05

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with...

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Band of Outsiders

as Odile
Released: 1964-08-05

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs...

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I, Cesar

as Gloria
Released: 2003-04-09

Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar...

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To Each His Own Cinema

as (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Released: 2007-10-31

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema"...

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Vivre Sa Vie

as Nana Kleinfrankenheim
Released: 1962-09-20

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

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Chloé

as Katia
Released: 1996-06-11

After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with...

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Le Petit Soldat

as Veronica Dreyer
Released: 1963-01-25

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who...

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The Stranger

as Marie Cardona
Released: 1967-10-14

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This...

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Scheherazade

as Shéhérazade
Released: 1963-05-10

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy...

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Cléo from 5 to 7

as Anna, The Blonde Bride / Actress in Silent Film
Released: 1962-04-11

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer...

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The Magus

as Anne
Released: 1968-12-10

A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus...

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Bread and Chocolate

as Elena
Released: 1974-05-05

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly...

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The Nun

as Suzanne
Released: 1966-05-06

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three...

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A Woman Is a Woman

as Angela
Released: 1961-09-06

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

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The Truth About Charlie

as Karina
Released: 2002-10-25

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her...

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L'Âge d'or de la pub

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-06-02

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Justine

as Melissa
Released: 1969-08-06

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through...

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The Oldest Profession

as Natasha (segment "Anticipation, ou l'amour en l'an 2000")
Released: 1967-04-07

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

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Chinese Roulette

as Irene Cartis
Released: 1977-02-23

A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at...

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Made in U.S.A

as Paula Nelson
Released: 1967-01-27

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and...

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Circle of Love

as Rose
Released: 1964-10-16

In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max...

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The Salzburg Connection

as Anna Bryant
Released: 1972-08-30

An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian...

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Just Like at Home

as Anna
Released: 1978-10-26

On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends...

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A Friend of Vincent

as Eleonore
Released: 1983-09-28

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to...

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Before Winter Comes

as Maria
Released: 1969-01-17

Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd...

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Living Together

as Julie Andersen
Released: 1973-05-03

A stodgy, married schoolteacher has a chance encounter with a free spirited young woman who...

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All About Loving

as Hélène
Released: 1964-12-28

Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes...

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The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge

as Anna, The Blonde Girl
Released: 1961-01-01

A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow...

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Morel's Invention

as Faustine
Released: 1974-01-01

A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a...

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Ave Maria

as Berthe Granjeux
Released: 1984-10-31

Naive villagers find themselves duped by a pair of con artists who sweep into town proclaiming...

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Sweet and Sour

as Ginette
Released: 1963-09-04

Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows...

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The Camp Followers

as Elenitza
Released: 1965-07-17

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the...

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The Abyss

as Catherine
Released: 1988-05-13

The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings,...

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Treasure Island

as Mother
Released: 1986-01-01

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to...

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The Lovely Month of May

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1963-05-01

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and...

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Godard Cinema

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-06-05

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he...

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Cayenne Palace

as Lola
Released: 1987-12-16

French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In...

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Up, Down, Fragile

as Sarah
Released: 1995-04-12

The film will tell what happens to a group of characters, precisely between July 14 and August...

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Anna

as Anna
Released: 1967-01-13

Anna is working at a parisian advertising agency. The director has fallen in love with a young...

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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

as Self
Released: 1964-05-19

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the...

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Anna Karina, Remember

as Self
Released: 2020-06-13

Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s....

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A Propos D'Un Crime

as Self
Released: 1967-01-01

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna...

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Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel

as Elisabeth Kohlhaas
Released: 1969-04-11

In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment...

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Ausgerechnet Bananen

as Natascha
Released: 1978-06-07

A ringmaster, his son Max, and a monkey named Johnny are trying hard to make the business bring...

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Set Me Free

as Nana Kleinfrankenheim (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1999-02-12

A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set...

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The Four Truths

as Colombe (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
Released: 1962-12-21

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments,...

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She'll Have to Go

as Toni Oberon
Released: 1962-03-31

When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family...

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The Wedding Ring

as Jeanne
Released: 1971-01-15

A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden

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Quantum Cowboys

as Blacky's Memory
Released: 2023-10-14

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across...

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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak

as Clara (voice)
Released: 1961-11-20

Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a...

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Tonight or Never

as Valérie
Released: 1961-09-29

A theatrical director's relationship with his aspiring actress girlfriend begins to unravel when...

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Appointment in Bray

as Elle
Released: 1971-12-22

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to...

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Surprise Sock

as Nathalie
Released: 1978-06-14

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord....

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In the Darkness of Time

as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2002-09-03

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du...

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The Thief of Tibadabo

as Maria
Released: 1965-02-12

In this lighthearted crime comedy, Nicolas is a Barcelona ice cream vendor who inadvertently...

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Birth of a Nation

as Self
Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Regina Roma

as Regina
Released: 1982-01-01

An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a...

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Sun in Your Eyes

as Emma
Released: 1962-06-22

A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières)...

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Carlos

as Clara
Released: 1971-11-20

In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his...

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Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer

as Self / Narrator
Released: 1965-04-08

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Lovers

as Self (archive footage) / Natacha von Braun
Released: 2024-08-08

A short film that endeavors to capture & portray the love between iconic couples Jane Birkin &...

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Scrambled Eggs

as Clara Dutilleul
Released: 1976-03-30

Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his...

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Carl Th. Dreyer

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1966-11-14

A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he...

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Husband for Sale

as Béatrice Reinhof
Released: 1965-07-26

Berenice, a wealthy, spoiled and temperamental girl, loves a winter sports buddy and wants to...

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The Time to Die

as The Young Woman
Released: 1970-07-08

The movie starts with a mysterious girl riding her horse into a tree. Then she's rescued by...

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Manden der ville være skyldig

as Edith
Released: 1990-09-07

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Lamiel

as Lamiel
Released: 1967-08-30

Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama....

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Last Song

as Susan
Released: 1987-01-14

Rock star Billy Jackson is found dead with a bullet in his head, a death classified as suicide....

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Laughter in the Dark

as Margot
Released: 1969-05-11

Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young...

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Cinépanorama: Anna Karina

as Self
Released: 1962-04-07

Anna Karina talks about her start as an actress a few months before the release of Jean-Luc...

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Tender Sharks

as Elena / Costa
Released: 1967-03-10

While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.

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Petit Jour

as Self
Released: 1962-01-01

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Sem Título #8: Vai Sobreviver

as (archive footage)
Released: 2022-04-01

A tribute to Anna Karina (1940-2019).

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Blockhaus USA

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

Jean-Luc and Catherine are chased by the police. They find refuge in a house in southern France....

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Z-Cars

as Lady Customer (uncredited)
First aired: 1962-01-02

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Champs-Elysées

as Self
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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Discorama

as Self
First aired: 1959-02-04

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Madame le Juge

as Emma
First aired: 1978-03-11

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