Catherine Ringer

Acting

Catherine Ringer

Born — Died

1957-10-18 — 2026-09-14

Place of birth

Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Catherine Ringer (October 18, 1957 – September 14, 2026) was a French singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, choreographer, actress, former pornographic performer, and co-founder of the pop rock group Les Rita Mitsouko. She is the daughter of French artist Sam Ringer. She is also the lead vocalist for Plaza Francia Orchestra where she performs with Eduardo Makaroff and Christoph H. Müller, formerly of Gotan Project. Ringer started her professional career on stage in the late 1970s in productions with Michael Lonsdale's Théâtre de Recherche Musicale as well as musical and dance productions. In 1976, she met the Argentine dancer and choreographer Marcia Moretto with whom…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Cannes chante le cinéma poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cannes chante le cinéma

2023

Taratata - Hommage spécial à Catherine Ringer poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Taratata - Hommage spécial à Catherine Ringer

2026

Taratata numéro 600 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taratata numéro 600

2025

Sparks au château d'Hérouville poster
8.0

Sparks, the cult duo consecrated by the musical Annette, make a stopover at the Château d'Hérouville. Live and in confidence, an anthology session, with Catherine Ringer as guest star.

Sparks au château d'Hérouville

2023

Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024 poster
10.0

A charity event with renowned french artists brought together for the first time to offer the public new interpretations of the most emblematic titles linked to women's rights.

Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024

2024

Catherine Ringer chante les Rita Mitsouko poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Catherine Ringer chante les Rita Mitsouko

2020

Heads or Fails poster
6.7

Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the wrong side of luck. When she teams up with Ronnie one night, everything changes — they win it all. And when you hit a winning streak, you have to know when to stop.

Heads or Fails

2025

Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime poster
6.7

Thirty-four years ago, Johnny Hallyday performed for the first time on the Bercy stage. He remains the artist who played the venue the greatest number of times. For the inauguration of the Esplanade Johnny-Hallyday, his unique voice will once again fill the legendary concert hall for a tribute show.

Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime

2021

Michel Polnareff, la soirée événement poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Michel Polnareff, la soirée événement

2022

Catherine Ringer chante les Rita Mitsouko à We Love Green poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Catherine Ringer chante les Rita Mitsouko à We Love Green

2020

2010s · 6 titles

Taratata fête ses 25 ans 100% live au Zénith poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Taratata fête ses 25 ans 100% live au Zénith

2017

Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise poster
7.2

When Conny died at the age of only 47, his son Stephan was just 13 years old. Twenty-five years later, together with co-director Reto Caduff, he went in search of the man he often only experienced behind the mixing desk as a child. At the same time it became the search for the artistic legacy of his father.

Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise

2017

Oh Les Filles! poster
7.4

What if French Rock were born with Edith Piaf? From sweet sixties pop to today's gender-indifferent anthems, from feminist rebels of the seventies to fashion icons of the social media age, from Françoise Hardy to Christine & The Queens, via Vanessa Paradis, Catherine Ringer, Charlotte Gainsbourg and many more, Oh Les Filles! tells the untold story of French female rock stars. Narrated by Clémence Poésy, this groundbreaking documentary combines interviews and iconic footage to radically reverse perspectives and give the patriarchy a kick!

Oh Les Filles!

2019

Soirée Pyjama poster
NR

To celebrate 2019, Barthès & Dedienne are hosting a sleepover with some friends.

Soirée Pyjama

2019

Catherine Ringer sings Les Rita Mitsouko @ Philharmonie de Paris poster
10.0

In tribute to Catherine Ringer, immerse yourself once more in the utterly mad world of Les Rita Mitsouko. A spirited and colourful performance by an icon of French pop music, filmed at the Philharmonie de Paris in September 2019.

Catherine Ringer sings Les Rita Mitsouko @ Philharmonie de Paris

2019

Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show poster
NR

On the occasion of Jean Paul Gaultier's 40-year career and his show "Fashion Freak Show" at the Folies Bergère, France 2 has given carte blanche to the most famous French couturier of the world who has created for the first time a great show of varieties fully immersed in his universe. Jean Paul Gaultier who, in his childhood, dreamed while watching the variety shows of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier, takes the reins of this great entertainment mixing music and fashion.

Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show

2018

1980s · 17 titles

Keep Your Right Up poster
6.1

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.

Keep Your Right Up

1987

The Boulugres poster
10.0

Herbert, a Candide-like idealistic teenager, wants to become a doctor to help humanity, but his parents insist that he become a rich aviator. Herbert runs away to study medicine with a wise old Boulugre, and vows to help the natives of undeveloped countries. He finds that the Boulugres are a tribe whose men have a disgusting mushroom growing from their heads. He develops a vaccine for them, wants to give it to them free, and fights with Chousk, a pharmaceutical tycoon who wants to sell it to them. But the Boulugres are deathly afraid of needles and refuse to be inoculated by anyone. Herbert, disillusioned, escapes into love with a Yugoslav airline stewardess.

The Boulugres

1983

La Bocca poster
NR

Italian hardcore film.

La Bocca

1987

Gorges profondes et petites filles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gorges profondes et petites filles

1981

L'Éducation d'Orphélie poster
NR

Orfelia (Susane Larson) has just been married to a rich villa-owner and they meet in the garden. As he thinks she is not experienced enough in sexual matters, he decide to bring her in a castle, where she will get a 'decent' sexual education by a couple. While riding in the car Orfelia experiment a new technique. Once there, she'll meet different people like the Mistress and the Master, played by Catherine Ringer and Alain Martin. But first, she is dressed up by Sylvie (Marianne Aubert). An the then the education begin. The film starts with a scene where Ofelia runs away but is caught by the Mistress. This scene should obviously be somewhere in the middle of the movie to make this scene match with the story.

L'Éducation d'Orphélie

1981

No artwork available
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Histoires de cul

1980

Countryside Girls in Heat poster
6.0

Gerard returns to a provincial town where he reminisces about the happy moments he shared with the local women. They all still seem to be around, and so he invites them over into his hotel room to renew their bonds – and on a few occasions the maid Milene joins in.

Countryside Girls in Heat

1981

Natacha baronne vicieuse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Natacha baronne vicieuse

1982

Innocence impudique poster
7.0

A young girl runs away from a boarding house and takes refuge in a house she believes to be abandoned, but to her astonishment, every time she opens a door, she discovers couples locked in each other’s arms, making wild love. She eventually joins in...

Innocence impudique

1981

Bizarre Marilyn poster
8.2

Manuella is a young and rich heiress married to Jean-Pierre. The latter is the director of the company owned by his wife, who merely signs contracts and invoices. Manuella suffers from a trauma that dates back to adolescence, when she witnessed the rape and then the murder of her older sister Nathalie by a simple-minded man. A shock she never recovered, which leads regularly to depression, even violent crises requiring treatment that administers her husband through bites. In order to change his ideas, Jean-Pierre takes his wife to winter sports, in Haute-Savoie where he rented a chalet. He meets his mistress Françoise, accompanied by her Patrick, his friend, who is aware of the liaison of his girlfriend with Jean-Pierre. In fact, the latter, with the help of Françoise, plans to sink Manuella into irreversible madness, in order to seize his property.

Bizarre Marilyn

1982

Greta, Monica, Suzel... poster
7.7

Jacques Gateau with his wife Dominique Saint Claire leads a theatrical troupe round country districts in a red double-decker Leyland bus (passenger entry at rear, but there is no anal in this film!). A rich man asks them to stay at his mansion and performs in a play he has written. This turns out to be hard core and they leave, but their bus breaks down. After Jacques sends his daughter to seduce a mechanic from the next village to repair it and two other girls lead the mechanic off into the woods for a threesome to avoid paying, they return to the mansion and do the play. Jacques' daughter marries the rich man and there is a wedding party orgy on the bus.

Greta, Monica, Suzel...

1980

Les petits trous libertins poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les petits trous libertins

1980

Lea poster
6.0

A couple experience some difficulties in their sex life when a German au pair girl arrives.

Lea

1981

Teenage Emanuelle poster
6.0

Emy joins a group of charming young ladies applying at a school. The school's headmistress initially welcomes Emy. Then she rejects her, but agrees after letting her undergo a medical examination. The movie, shot in Italian with a primarily Italian cast and an Italian director in 1981, with the title "Quella porcacciona di mia moglie," was caught in a censorship scandal and was repackaged with French inserts (and several different titles) and redubbed for the French market. It was later released in Italy in 1983.

Teenage Emanuelle

1981

Intimate Lingerie poster
7.6

Young Marc inherits a lingerie shop and sales have skyrocketed since he took over. The female clientele pours in since the fitting room has become the scene of increasing intimate pleasure. Exhausted, Marc decides to hire, Aline, a young, sassy saleswoman.

Intimate Lingerie

1981

Rien ne vaut la première fois poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Rien ne vaut la première fois

1981

L'inconnue poster
6.5

The head of state of a small African country arrives incognito on a visit, but causes scandal and trouble with his wild parties and sexual escapades.

L'inconnue

1982

1970s · 5 titles

Series credits

Bonsoir bonsoir! poster
4.0

Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but also, and most importantly, on their passions, interests and opinions.

Bonsoir bonsoir!

2019

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

Taratata poster
7.8

Live performances, more live performances. Every episode features a lineup of French and international artists, cult classics, unexpected duets, and original covers... A truly prestigious music stage, graced by both the biggest names and those on their way to stardom.

Taratata

1993

Le monde est à vous poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le monde est à vous

1987

Nulle part ailleurs poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Nulle part ailleurs

1987

Victoires de la musique poster
3.3

No synopsis available yet.

Victoires de la musique

1985

Capitaine Marleau poster
6.1

Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.

Capitaine Marleau

2015

La chanson de l'année poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La chanson de l'année

2004

Le Late avec Alain Chabat poster
8.7

Alain Chabat hosts a brand-new late show for TF1: games, fake ads, stand up, live music and interviews with all the personalities of the entertainment world!

Le Late avec Alain Chabat

2022

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022

La Fille au cœur de cochon poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La Fille au cœur de cochon

2022

A History of the European Rural Life poster
7.2

The history of the European peasantry, which has undergone many upheavals over the centuries: from its rise in the Middle Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, through the oppression of the nobility and the Church, to the struggles for freedom and modernization in the present era.

A History of the European Rural Life

2024