Cast: Michael Lonsdale

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Nicole Hiss · Michael Lonsdale · Sylvie Nuytten

Synopsis Film consists almost entirely of images of the deserted, deteriorating Rothschild palace near Reims, and uses the soundtrack of India Song.

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Synopsis Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded group who are rehearsing another work by the same ancient...

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Sean Connery · Christian Slater · F. Murray Abraham · Michael Lonsdale

Synopsis The Name of the Rose (1986) follows Brother William of Baskerville, a Franciscan monk, and his novice Adso of Melk, as they arrive at a secluded abbey in 14th-century Italy. Tasked with investigating a mysterious death, they uncover a series...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Françoise Fabian · Bernadette Lafont · Michael Lonsdale · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis A story about two Parisian theater groups preparing Aeschylus plays and two eccentric loners, a middle-class deaf-mute (Jean-Pierre Laud) and a working-class flirt (Juliet Berto), who stumble upon evidence of a secret group that hopes to control Paris. (The coded...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Lea Massari · Benoît Ferreux · Daniel Gélin · Michael Lonsdale

Synopsis This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Emma Thompson · James Fox · Christopher Reeve

Synopsis The Remains of the Day (1993) follows Stevens, a dedicated butler, as he embarks on a journey through the English countryside. Reflecting on his years of service at Darlington Hall, he grapples with memories of loyalty, duty, and unspoken emotions....

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel

Synopsis Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group...

Direction Simon Langton

Cast Alec Guinness · Eileen Atkins · Bernard Hepton · Bill Paterson

Synopsis George Smiley is once again called out of innocent retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee. The shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going...

Direction Orson Welles

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

Synopsis 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 of. In order to find out about the reason of...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Louis Seigner · Roland Bertin · Michael Lonsdale · Ivo Garrani

Synopsis In occupied France during WWII, a German naval officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti

Synopsis One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on lavatories round a dinner table on, occasionally retiring to a...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale

Synopsis Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of...

Direction Marcel Hanoun

Cast Michael Lonsdale · Raymonde Godeau · Véronique Andriès · Catherine Binet

Direction Marcel Hanoun

Cast Tiziana Siffi · Michael Lonsdale · Christian Barbier · Frédéric Latin

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Michel Serrault · Claire Nadeau · Françoise Brion

Synopsis Struggling to pay off mounting debts Nelly (Béart) meets Mr Arnaud (Serrault) a retired judge 40 years her senior who offers to clear her bills. She reluctantly accepts his offer and decides to leave her lazy unemployed husband for good....

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Eric Bana · Daniel Craig · Ciarán Hinds · Mathieu Kassovitz

Synopsis Munich (2005) follows a gripping tale of vengeance and moral conflict in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. A young Israeli agent is recruited to lead a secret mission targeting those responsible for the tragic event. As he...

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Ben Cross · Ian Charleson · Nigel Havers · Cheryl Campbell

Synopsis Chariots of Fire (1981) tells the inspiring story of two British athletes, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, as they prepare for the 1924 Olympics. Abrahams, a Jewish sprinter, faces societal prejudice and strives to prove himself through sheer determination. Liddell,...

Direction Serge Leroy

Cast Mimsy Farmer · Jean-Luc Bideau · Michael Lonsdale · Philippe Léotard

Synopsis On a visit in the Norman countryside at the week-end, a young English woman, Helen Wells, who is looking for a country place to rent, is offered assistance by a Frenchman, Philippe Mansart, who is joining a hunting party later....

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Rich · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michel Bouquet

Synopsis Julie Kohler, whose husband is inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by his mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her....

Direction José Luis López-Linares · Javier Rioyo

Cast Luis Buñuel · Eduardo Ducay · José Bello · Carlos Saura

Synopsis Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox....