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
Direction Jean-Claude Biette
Cast Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Philippe Chemin · Martine Simonet
8.1
27 votes
8.1
27 votes
Loin de Manhattan
1982 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Jean-Claude Biette
Cast Jean-Christophe Bouvet · Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Laura Betti
8.0
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
Cinéastes de notre temps: Le dinosaure et le bebé. Dialogue en huit parties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard (TV)
1967 · Documentary · 61 min. · France
Direction André S. Labarthe
Cast Fritz Lang · Jean-Luc Godard · Howard Vernon
7.1
301 votes
7.1
301 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
Direction Josep Maria Forn
Cast Antonio Vilar · José María Rodero · Nadia Gray · Antonio Almorós
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