Cast: Howard Vernon

Direction Jean-Claude Biette

Cast Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Philippe Chemin · Martine Simonet

Direction Jean-Claude Biette

Cast Jean-Christophe Bouvet · Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Laura Betti

Direction John Frankenheimer

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

Synopsis 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 to give him the train. Labiche, a French railway official...

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 Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Synopsis 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 Huillet stage the action of the film in rural Sicily,...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon

Synopsis Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.

Direction Woody Allen

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

Synopsis 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, Boris enlists in the army to fight against Napoleon. Time...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

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

Synopsis 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. Howard Vernon plays Von Ebrennae, a cultured Nazi officer who...

Direction Fritz Lang

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

Synopsis 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. But a dark force prevents Cornelius from seeing the man...

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Marc Caro

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

Synopsis 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 for his services as a handyman. This surrealistic world is...

Direction André S. Labarthe

Cast Fritz Lang · Jean-Luc Godard · Howard Vernon

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

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

Synopsis 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 casino in Dauville.

Direction Anatole Litvak

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

Synopsis 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 taking decades.

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

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

Synopsis 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 enters in a church, randomly choses a priest and starts...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

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

Synopsis 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 Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

Direction Sacha Guitry

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

Synopsis 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 in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after...

Direction Terence Young

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

Synopsis 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 free. The Germans buy his story and send him to...

Direction Josep Maria Forn

Cast Antonio Vilar · José María Rodero · Nadia Gray · Antonio Almorós

Direction Jesús Franco

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

Synopsis 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 the laughing stock of his colleagues. His daughter will avenge...

Direction Jesús Franco

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

Synopsis 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 monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better...