Serge Gainsbourg
Date of birth: 1928-04-02
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Lucien Ginsburg
Biography
Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music, he was renowned for his often provocative and scandalous releases, as well as his diverse artistic output, which embodied genres ranging from jazz, mambo, world, chanson, pop and yé-yé, to rock and roll, progressive rock, reggae, electronic, disco, new wave, and funk. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
Movie Credits
The Gardener of Argenteuil
1966-10-07
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris.
Mr. Freedom
1969-01-08
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to Fran
Les Enfants de la Pop 80's
2012-10-22
Serge Gainsbourg – D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
2005-04-25
Serge Gainsbourg: Some Other News from the Stars] Directed by Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Christophe Ave
I Love You All
1980-12-17
Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same ti
Anna
1967-01-13
Anna is working at a Parisian advertising agency. The director has fallen in love with a young woman
Cannabis
1970-09-02
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for
Charlotte for Ever
1986-12-10
Once a successful Hollywood screenwriter, Stan is now a depressive alcoholic who spends most of his
Paris Does Not Exist
1969-10-22
In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the
Come Dance with Me!
1959-12-18
The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a
Katmandu
1969-09-26
A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane
Droit de Réponse
1981-12-12
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 a
Gainsbourg... Casino de Paris 1986
1986-10-03
Slogan
1969-07-27
Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of frien
The Rage of War
1971-07-08
A group of 19 young women, led by a partizan man, are the only people available to escort a number o
Sweet Skin
1963-05-29
Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of e
Le Zenith de Gainsbourg
1989-11-07
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
1973-04-12
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the resi
Stan the Flasher
1990-03-07
Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as Sta
Serge Gainsbourg, entre les murs
2018-09-23
Romance of a Horsethief
1971-08-11
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the b
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019-05-07
A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug i
The Revolt of the Slaves
1960-12-30
A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Emp
The Fury of Hercules
1962-05-21
In a tyrannical kingdom there is an evil ruler and a queen who lusts after Hercules who is attracted
Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes
2003-01-01
A documentary directed by Birkin's friend, who produced the Birkin's Arabesque concert at the Odeon
Erotissimo
1969-06-07
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and
Serious as Pleasure
1975-01-15
Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television
Four Queens for an Ace
1966-10-05
Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad,
The Big Pardon
1982-01-27
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew
Jane by Charlotte
2022-01-12
Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r
The Looters
1967-08-08
Morgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When he c
The World of Gaston Rébuffat
2009-01-01
The World of Gaston Rébuffat is a documentary on mountaineering which takes place at Gendarme Du Pic
Gainsbourg, art(s) et essai(s)
2018-04-01
Melody
1971-12-22
Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in P
Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self Portrait
2012-02-15
Hailed in France as a national treasure, Serge Gainsbourg was beloved both for his music and for bei
Pasha
1968-03-14
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvio
Public Speaking
2011-02-23
Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n
The Day the Clown Cried
1972-01-01
An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi c
Love in the Night
1968-06-10
Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988-03-02
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collabora
Seduction Squad
1972-11-29
After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming tog
The Discreet Françoise Hardy
2016-09-23
Sensitive lookback on Françoise Hardy's career and life.
Reporters
1981-06-10
The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photog
Samson
1961-12-23
While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer
Gainsbourg... Le Zénith - Live
1990-01-01
De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre 1958-1991
2000-11-07
Extensive compilation of clips, interviews, TV appearances and other media excerpts that feature Ser
The Beaches of Agnès
2008-12-17
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967-05-01
Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a
L'inconnue de Hong Kong
1963-08-02
Jean the piano player introduces Georgia, a new, promising singer, to a handsome young-man in a Pari
Whitney: Can I Be Me
2017-04-24
The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.
Spécial Bardot
1968-06-08
And the image created the myth... Bardot as a brunette, blonde or redhead. Bardot in thigh-high boot
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
1968-06-07
Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie.
Jane Birkin - Alcaline le Concert
2017-11-03
Jane Birkin Alcaline le Concert
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
1980-10-28
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphe
All Mad About Him
1967-05-24
Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of pro
L'affaire Matzneff
2020-01-05
About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the
Jane Birkin: Simply an Icon
2019-11-01
A kaleidoscopic portrait of the English actress and singer Jane Birkin, heroine of pop culture.
Anna Karina, Remember
2020-06-13
Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her
Teuf-teuf
1963-10-05
An automobile tribute
La Story de Serge Gainsbourg : Le Punchliner
2021-02-28
Souvenirs of Serge
2011-02-27
Thirty years after their separation, Jane Birkin goes back, dipping into the memories of the family
Serge Gainsbourg, les meilleures chansons
2021-05-06
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010-04-11
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and
Christmas at Vaugirard
1966-12-23
The Nativity revisited by Chantal Goya and Serge Gainsbourg as biblical lovers! On New Year's Eve, M
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010-01-18
Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his li