Cast: Howard Vernon

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


Le Théâtre des matières

1977 · Movie · 122 min. · France

8.1

27 votes

8.1

27 votes

8.0

27 votes

The Train

1964 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Scofield · Jeanne Moreau · Michel Simon

Plot Oberst von Waldheim wants to bring modern paintings, the ones the Nazis called "degenerate", out of Paris before the Allied Forces liberate Paris. He is able to persuade his bosses...

7.8

6K votes

7.8

6K votes

The Day of the Jackal

1973 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fred Zinnemann

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

Plot 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...

7.5

9K votes

7.5

9K votes

The Death of Empedocles

1987 · Movie · 132 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Martina Baratta · Ute Cremer

Plot German romantic playwright Friedrich Hölderlin's unfinished play Empedokles tells the story of the titular Greek philosopher and poet's exile and death by casting himself into an active volcano. Straub and...

7.5

78 votes

7.5

78 votes

Black Sin

1990 · Movie · 42 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon

Plot Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.

7.4

49 votes

7.4

49 votes

Love and Death

1975 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Olga Georges-Picot · James Tolkan

Plot Early 19th Century. Boris Grushenko lives in a small Russian village obsessed with death and his cousin Sonia, who is about to marry a herring trader. Obliged by his family,...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

The Silence of the Sea

1949 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Howard Vernon · Jean-Marie Robain · Nicole Stephane · Georges Patrix

Plot Le Silence de la Mer was based upon a popular wartime "underground" novel by Vercours. Most of the film is confined to the living room of a bourgeois French family....

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Dawn Addams · Peter van Eyck · Gert Fröbe · Wolfgang Preiss

Plot Lang's last film. Reporter Peter Barter gets murdered while driving to his tv station. Commisioner Kras gets a phone call from clairvoyant Cornelius who saw Barters death in a vision....

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Delicatessen

1991 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Marc Caro

Cast Dominique Pinon · Howard Vernon · Chick Ortega · Pascal Benezech

Plot A young drifter named Louison (Dominique Pinon), arrives in a middle-of-nowhere town seeking work and lodging, and is given a place to stay above a local butcher's shop in exchange...

7.2

44K votes

7.2

44K votes

Bob the Gambler

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Roger Duchesne · Isabelle Corey · Daniel Cauchy · Guy Decomble

Plot Bob, a old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides in spite of the warnings of a friend, a high official from the police, to rob a gambling...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Night of the Generals

1966 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Tom Courtenay · Donald Pleasence

Plot In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Léon Morin, Priest

1961 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Emmanuelle Riva · Iréne Tunc · Nicole Mirel

Plot A little French town during the Occupation. Barny is a young sexually frustrated widow, living with her little girl France. She is also a communist militant, and one days she...

7.0

356 votes

7.0

356 votes

Alphaville

1965 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Eddie Constantine · Anna Karina · Akim Tamiroff · Valérie Boisgel

Plot Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

Affairs in Versailles

1954 · Movie · 165 min. · France

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jean Marais · Georges Marchal · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Brigitte Bardot

Plot Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed...

6.4

77 votes

6.4

77 votes

Triple Cross

1966 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Christopher Plummer · Romy Schneider · Yul Brynner · Trevor Howard

Plot Plummer is a British safecracker imprisoned on the channel islands at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans move in, he offers to work for them if they set him...

6.1

590 votes

6.1

590 votes

Death at Dawn

1960 · Movie · 94 min. · Spain

6.1

108 votes

6.1

108 votes

The Diabolical Dr. Z

1966 · Movie · 86 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Antonio Jiménez Escribano · Guy Mairesse · Howard Vernon · Fernando Montes

Plot A scientist claims that he’s discovered a way to turn criminals into docile individuals by operating on their nervous system. Subjected to the community’s mocking, the doctor will die as...

6.1

299 votes

6.1

299 votes

Screams in the Night

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Howard Vernon · Conrado San Martín · Diana Lorys · Perla Cristal

Plot Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed...

6.1

663 votes

6.1

663 votes