Irène Jacob
Birthday: 1966-07-15
Place of Birth: Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Biography: Irène Marie Jacob (born 15 July 1966) is a French-born Swiss actress considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation. Jacob gained international recognition and acclaim through her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski, who cast her in the lead role of The Double Life of Véronique and Three Colors: Red. She came to represent an image of European sophistication, through her "classic beauty and thoughtful, almost melancholic style of acting." Description above from the Wikipedia article Irène Jacob, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Three Colors: Red
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At fir...
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The Double Life of Véronique
Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in P...
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Au Revoir les Enfants
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...
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U.S. Marshals
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane...
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Beyond the Clouds
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives...
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The Wild One
In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the forma...
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Who by Fire
Seventeen-year-old Jeff stays at film director Blake Cadieux's wilderness lodge after being invited ...
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Four Play
A romantic comedy about the fleeting attractions between men and women on the set of a popular Briti...
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American Cuisine
Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves...
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Talking Heads 2021
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki...
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Déchaînées
Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her...
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Spy Games
A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) ...
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The Big Brass Ring
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a sto...
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Incognito
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and...
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Othello
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in th...
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Victory
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Suraba...
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My Life So Far
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a str...
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The Education of Fairies
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves....
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The Landlords
Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment r...
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in ...
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The French Kissers
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of va...
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The Dust of Time
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story ...
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Rio Sex Comedy
A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, the...
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Gang of Four
Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned fil...
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Autumn
Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a chi...
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Battle of the Brave
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance betwee...
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Shoot to Live
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years....
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Runaways
Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a lit...
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Kieslowski: Dialogue
Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the...
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker'...
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Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
This film revisits the career and development of Marie Trintignant through the loving and often amus...
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The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
Legend has it that Archangel Michael confronted the Dragon and imprisoned him under a huge stone cal...
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Love Flesh
During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments...
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La solitude du pouvoir
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating ...
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The Man Who Made Angels Fly
When the lights dim and the stage is revealed, Meschke channels life through the strings of his pupp...
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We Love You, You Bastard
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four d...
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The Secret Garden
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...
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All Men Are Mortal
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed...
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Dying of the Light
Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence t...
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Shikun
A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As ...
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Tales of Mexico
The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents,...
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Le Voyage en pyjama
40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler...
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Fallen Heroes
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who ...
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Paris, Love, Cut
At 45 Arnaud wants to have a child with Chloe, shoot his second movie....but he is blocked.After lea...
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Hôtel Silence
Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere ...
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Errors of Youth
The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles tr...
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Sayonara
The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative bra...
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Meeting with Pol Pot
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to c...
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The Legend of Princess Parva
The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villai...
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The Prediction
A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He t...
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a strang...
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The Marcorelle Affair
François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young P...
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Eternity
Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation...
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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema a...
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Why War
In 1932, Albert Einstein was invited by the League of Nations to address a letter on any subject to ...
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The Pornographer: A Love Story
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life ...
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Two Snails Set Off
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because th...
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Claude
A hapless, bad-luck prone loser meets a free-spirited Frenchwoman who inspires him to get his life b...
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The Lanzac Clan
A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdro...
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Kieślowski Cannes 94
A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival,...
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the l...
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À cause des filles…?
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfo...
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Letter to Theo
The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set o...
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places
Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a t...
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The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
Jean-Luc and his old gang of 1968 pacifists, now in their seventies, reunite to make a film protesti...
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Ella Maillart: Double Journey
Summer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make an ...
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Villa Caprice
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his cl...
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The Easy Way Out
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long t...
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Home Away From Home
A taxi driver, a young girl and a backpacker simultaneously experience a wonderful journey in Tokyo,...
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Enak
The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While ...
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The Prominents
Centers on a group of Nazi Germany's most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe ...
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Maigret and the Dead Lover
Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoisel...
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13 Summers Underwater
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate throu...
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A Private Life
Following the death of Paula, one of her long-time patients, psychiatrist Lilian Steiner becomes con...
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Golem in Pompei
The film documents Amos Gitai's play "Golem" at the ancient theater in Pompeii, combined with fictio...
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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