Cast: Romy Schneider

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Romy Schneider. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Purple Noon

1960 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Alain Delon · Maurice Ronet · Billy Kearns · Marie Laforêt

Plot René Clément's thriller Purple Noon stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the errant playboy Philippe Greenleaf...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

The Trial

1962 · Movie · 118 min. · France

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Anthony Perkins · Romy Schneider · Jeanne Moreau · Orson Welles

Plot Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused...

Max

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

Ludwig II

1972 · Movie · 264 min. · Italy

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Helmut Berger · Romy Schneider · Trevor Howard · Silvana Mangano

Plot Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno

2009 · Documentary · 102 min. · France

Direction Serge Bromberg · Ruxandra Medrea

Cast H.G. Clouzot · Romy Schneider · Serge Reggiani · Costa-Gavras

Plot In 1963, Clouzot began work on a project called "L'Enfer", a tale of jealousy that leads to madness, and the filmmaker was promised all the time and resources he needed...

7.2

229 votes

7.2

229 votes

Max and the Junkmen

1971 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Michel Piccoli · Romy Schneider · Georges Wilson · Bernard Fresson

Plot Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a...

7.0

534 votes

7.0

534 votes

Boccaccio '70

1962 · Movie · 210 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Federico Fellini · Mario Monicelli · Luchino Visconti

Cast Anita Ekberg · Sophia Loren · Romy Schneider · Peppino De Filippo

Plot An anthology of three adult tales by three leading Italian directors--a billboard photo of a scantily clad, sexy woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Things of Life

1970 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Michel Piccoli · Romy Schneider · Lea Massari · Gérard Lartigau

Plot The movie revolves around a car accident. The accident involves Pierre, a middle-aged man going through a mid-life crisis. He has problems with his son and wife, and his young...

6.9

642 votes

6.9

642 votes

The Cardinal

1963 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Tom Tryon · John Huston · Romy Schneider · Patrick O'Neal

Plot An Irish American priest whose strong commitment to social issues leads him through a labyrinth of church politics and eventually to the upper echelons of Catholic hierarchy as Cardinal. Crossing...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Inquisitor

1981 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Lino Ventura · Michel Serrault · Romy Schneider · Guy Marchand

Plot Inspector Gallien is investigating the rape and murder of two little girls. The only suspect is attorney Jerome Martinaud, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates...

6.8

510 votes

6.8

510 votes

César and Rosalie

1972 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Yves Montand · Romy Schneider · Sami Frey · Umberto Orsini

Plot Rosalie is amicably divorced, dividing her time between her mother's house, with her siblings and small daughter, and César's. He's self made, a scrap iron king, outgoing, amiable, in love...

6.8

377 votes

6.8

377 votes

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Romy Schneider · Fabio Testi · Jacques Dutronc · Claude Dauphin

Plot Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier, who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Death Watch

1980 · Movie · 128 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Romy Schneider · Harvey Keitel · Harry Dean Stanton · Max von Sydow

Plot Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will...

6.7

840 votes

6.7

840 votes

Fire and Ice

1962 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Alain Cavalier

Cast Romy Schneider · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Henri Serre · Diane Lepvrier

Plot The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant, of Z and The Conformist) leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s...

6.6

63 votes

6.6

63 votes

The Old Gun

1975 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Robert Enrico

Cast Philippe Noiret · Romy Schneider · Jean Bouise · Madeleine Ozeray

Plot Old Gun (Le Vieux Fusil) stars Philippe Noiret as an ageing, embittered French physician. During the occupation, Noiret loses his wife and daughter to Nazi bullets. He vows to personally...

6.5

539 votes

6.5

539 votes

A Simple Story

1978 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Romy Schneider · Bruno Cremer · Claude Brasseur · Arlette Bonnard

Plot Marie, a 38 old divorced woman has a lover named Serge, but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband Georges. Their daily life and...

6.5

302 votes

6.5

302 votes

6.5

305 votes

The Swimming Pool

1969 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Jacques Deray

Cast Alain Delon · Romy Schneider · Maurice Ronet · Jane Birkin

Plot Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she receives a...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Christine

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Romy Schneider · Alain Delon · Micheline Presle · Sophie Grimaldi

Plot Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner (Alain Delon) and the young Christine (Romy Schneider). Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning...

6.4

74 votes

6.4

74 votes

Innocents with Dirty Hands

1975 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Romy Schneider · Rod Steiger · François Maistre · Paolo Giusti

Plot Saint Tropez, France. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him,...

6.4

481 votes

6.4

481 votes

The Victors

1963 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction Carl Foreman

Cast Vince Edwards · Albert Finney · George Hamilton · Melina Mercouri

Plot Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

6.4

107 votes

6.4

107 votes