Actors: Jane Birkin
In homage to actor and style icon Jane Birkin, this week we present a selection of films both featuring her and about her, as befits someone whose personal life and career had such an impact on French culture in the 1960s and beyond.
Jane by Charlotte
(Jane par Charlotte)
Charlotte Gainsbourg begins filming her mother, Jane Birkin, in order to see her in a new light.
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- France, United Kingdom, Japan • 2022
- Director Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Hoopla
The Railroad Lady
(La femme et le TGV)
Sometimes life seems to pass at 300 km/h
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- Switzerland • 2016
- Director Timo von Gunten
- Cast Jane Birkin, Julie Dray, Lucien Guignard, Manuela Biedermann, Mathieu Bisson, Viola von Scarpatetti
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Kanopy
Around a Small Mountain
(36 vues du pic Saint-Loup)
A wanderer joins a woman's small traveling circus and helps her overcome her tortured past.
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- France, Italy • 2009
- Director Jacques Rivette
- Cast Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Vimala Pons
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Metrograph
La Belle Noiseuse
A formerly famous painter lives quietly with his wife in their country house in Provence, until a young artist arrives with his beautiful girlfriend.
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- France, Switzerland • 1991
- Director Jacques Rivette
- Cast Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt, David Bursztein, Gilles Arbona
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Jane B. by Agnès V.
(Jane B. par Agnès V.)
Newly 40, actress Jane Birkin reflects on her past in a series of interviews and vignettes.
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- France • 1988
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Jane Birkin, Agnès Varda, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laura Betti, Farid Chopel, Alain Souchon
- Genre Documentary, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel
Kung-Fu Master!
A lonely 40-year-old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year-old Julien.
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- France • 1988
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon, Gary Chekchak, Frank Laurent
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Love on the Ground
(L'Amour par terre)
Two actresses fall prey to the supernatural manipulations of a nightclub magician.
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- France • 1984
- Director Jacques Rivette
- Cast Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Isabelle Linnartz, Sandra Montaigu, László Szabó
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Available on Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Evil Under the Sun
A star dies while on her honeymoon on an island in the Adriatic. Hercule Poirot must find the killer.
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- United Kingdom • 1982
- Director Guy Hamilton
- Cast Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Denis Quilley
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, Britbox Apple TV Channel , Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
I Love You, I Don't
(Je t'aime moi non plus)
I Love You, I Don't
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- France • 1976
- Director Serge Gainsbourg
- Cast Joe Dallesandro, Jane Birkin, Hugues Quester, Gérard Depardieu, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Michel Blanc
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
(La morte negli occhi del gatto)
When a serial killer strikes a Scottish village, the townspeople suspect the residents of the haunted castle.
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- Italy, France, West Germany • 1973
- Director Antonio Margheriti
- Cast Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller, Françoise Christophe, Venantino Venantini, Doris Kunstmann, Anton Diffring
- Genre Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Night Flight Plus, Full Moon Amazon Channel
The Swimming Pool
(La Piscine)
Tensions rise when a woman invites her ex and his teenage daughter to a villa where she is spending the summer with her boyfriend.
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- France, Italy • 1969
- Director Jacques Deray
- Cast Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Steve Eckardt
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Fandango At Home
Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonioni's first British film
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- United Kingdom, Italy, United States • 1966
- Director Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Jane Birkin
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV