Jane Birkin
Birthday: 1946-12-14
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE (December 14, 1946 – July 16, 2023) was a British-French actress, singer, and designer. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. In addition to her prolific career in French cinema, she appeared in several English-language films including Blowup (1966), Death on the Nile (1978), Evil Under the Sun (1982), and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998). She was the mother of photographer Kate Barry with her first husband composer John Barry; of actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg with Serge Gainsbourg; and of musician Lou Doillon with Jacques Doillon.
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Blow-Up
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and...
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Fifty Years Later
Agnès Vincent-Deray, the widow of director Jacques Deray, made this short documentary on the product...
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Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours
In January 2023, the Enfoirés performed at La Halle Tony Garnier in Lyon. True to the caused started...
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Same Old Song
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has ju...
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Catherine & Co.
Catherine, a young British sexworker living in Paris, decides to start her own "company" after learn...
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Death on the Nile
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on b...
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Evil Under the Sun
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to ...
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Sex-Power
A young Frenchman arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love and ends up encounter...
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I Love You, I Don't
The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. S...
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The Swimming Pool
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spendin...
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The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you th...
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Animal
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their ...
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La Belle Noiseuse
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the Fr...
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A Friend of Vincent
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge h...
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Kaleidoscope
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer bec...
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Too Small My Friend
Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank....
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Alain Souchon - One Day, One Fate
Alain Souchon has never been able to be as it should be and that has long saddened him. His failures...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to sco...
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Love at the Top
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When...
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The Wild Goose Chase
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the ...
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La Pirate
Shortly after returning home one evening with her husband, Alma is visited by her one-time lesbian l...
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The Prodigal Daughter
A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her ...
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The Woman of My Life
Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the m...
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Cannabis
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for...
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Love on the Ground
A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which cons...
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Comédie !
In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once...
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Kung-Fu Master!
A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old J...
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Wonderwall
The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model P...
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Keep Your Right Up
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles t...
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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphe...
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Against Oblivion
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to...
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A Hell of a Day
Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that ...
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Katmandu
A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane...
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The Bodyguard
Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Jul...
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Poor Cherry
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through p...
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I'm Losing My Temper
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into...
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Jane B. by Agnès V.
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collabora...
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Slogan
Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of frien...
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The Rage of War
A group of 19 young women, led by a partizan man, are the only people available to escort a number o...
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The Very Merry Widows
Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with h...
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Dust
A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his pla...
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This Is My Body
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial...
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Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tel...
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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartender...
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-l...
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Black for Remembrance
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is k...
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Thelma, Louise et Chantal
Chantal, Gabrielle and Nelly, three fiftyish women, decide to make the trip to the wedding of an ex ...
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In Mom's Head
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to disco...
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Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world....
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One Hundred and One Nights
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en...
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector wi...
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Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is susp...
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Around a Small Mountain
Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vitt...
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Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the resi...
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Seduction Squad
After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming tog...
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Twice Born
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Saraje...
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Daddy Nostalgia
A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart ...
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Dark Places
A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only p...
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Jane Birkin « Oh ! Pardon tu dormais... », le concert
Inspired by her eponymous play on the couple, Jane Birkin gives herself up with an open heart in thi...
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Jane Birkin et nous
Jane Birkin has forged a unique bond with France and the French. Between the small Englishwoman, mus...
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Burnt By A Scalding Passion
Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and d...
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depr...
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Romance of a Horsethief
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the b...
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Undressing a Legacy
In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Pi...
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Bunker
Bunker is a young man who has built a mental universe to withstand the pressures of life. But the wo...
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug i...
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Boxes
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things ...
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in...
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The French Minister
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athleti...
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Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes
A documentary directed by Birkin's friend, who produced the Birkin's Arabesque concert at the Odeon ...
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May Morning
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford Un...
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Serious as Pleasure
Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy...
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television ...
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Honey
Agustín, a school teacher, visits Paco, a former student, whose mother asks him to help her get the ...
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Red Fox
“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based ...
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Melody
Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in P...
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Beethoven's Nephew
The plot centers around old Beethoven's fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a ...
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970...
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Death on the Tagus
A curious fictional documentary filmed in London about two actors from the film "Death on the Nile,"...
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Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte....
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Bleu Catacombes
The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Co...
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The Devil in the Heart
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl...
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Cinderella
Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father...
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Leave All Fair
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Ka...
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n...
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre...
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Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of A...
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Make Room for Tomorrow
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a l...
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosse...
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The Railroad Lady
Élise Lafontaine has a secret routine. Every morning and evening for many years, she has been waving...
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Electric Blue 006
Vanessa del Rio hosts this men's video magazine which features profiles on British photographer Suze...
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De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre 1958-1991
Extensive compilation of clips, interviews, TV appearances and other media excerpts that feature Ser...
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Melancoly Baby
Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he...
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Thank You, Doctor Rey
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaiso...
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The Beaches of Agnès
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F...
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The Last September
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their h...
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The Idol
A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous ...
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Private Screening
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to...
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La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some impo...
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Turn Me On
Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring...
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Jane Birkin: Simply an Icon
A kaleidoscopic portrait of the English actress and singer Jane Birkin, heroine of pop culture....
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Vadim Mister Cool
As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, p...
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Whoever Was Using This Bed
A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are...
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Souvenirs of Serge
Thirty years after their separation, Jane Birkin goes back, dipping into the memories of the family ...
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Jane by Charlotte
Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...
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Agnes V. by Jane B.
Actor Jane Birkin talks about her friendship with director Agnes Varda, and about their work on 'Jan...
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Gainsbourg and His Girls
Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his li...
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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with a...
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