Actresses such as Jeanne Moreau, Anna Karina and Jean Seberg played a starring role in France’s cinematic revolution.

Jeanne Moreau, the French actress and New Wave icon who brought sublime complexity to her performances in films such as François Truffaut’s “Jules et Jim,” Louis Malle’s “Elevator to ...

Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who in the 1960s established herself as a fixture in films directed by Jean-Luc Godard, died on Saturday in Paris. She was 79. France's culture minister ...

Valentina Cortese, an Italian film actress best known ... including the best supporting actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Image Ms. Cortese with Jean-Pierre Aumont in François ...

one of the initial salvos of the French New Wave — she had already been a successful stage actress for years and had 20 small, undistinguished movie roles to her credit. “Nine years of bad ...