5x2 2004  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Francois Ozon
Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stephane Freiss, Geraldine Pailhas, Francoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale, Antoine Chappey, Marc Ruchmann, Jason Tavassoli, Joan-Pol Brissart
The story begins with Marion and Gilles (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Stephane Freiss) signing divorce papers and then reverts to the past to show five segments of their married life that evolve from innocence–through lies and secrets that, ultimately, lead to the tragedy of divorce.
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Behold a Pale Horse 1964  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa, Mildred Dunnock, Christian Marguand, Daniela Rocca, Michael Lonsdale, Rosalie Crutchley
A Spanish Civil War guerilla fighter, Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck), continues to fight for the Loyalist cause after Franco's victory–until he runs into corrupt police officer Captain Vinolas (Anthony Quinn) who decides to put an end to Artiguez's efforts.
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The Bride Wore Black 1967  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger, Luce Fabiole, Alexandra Stewart, Paul Pavel
A bride's (Jeanne Moreau) husband is accidentally killed on their wedding day, and now she sets out to track down those who did the deed. An exciting tribute to Hitchcock by Truffaut with an excellent musical score.
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The Bunker 1981 TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Schaefer
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton, Michael Lonsdale, Susan Blakely, Edward Hardwicke, Martin Jarvis, Michael Kitchen, Andrew Ray, Yves Brainville
Anthony Hopkins won the Emmy for his role of Adolph Hitler during the last weeks of Hitler's life, which were spent in a Berlin bunker. Piper Laurie was nominated for her role as Magda Goebbels.
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The Day of the Jackal 1973  PG, 144 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, David(2) Swift, Denis Carey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Lonsdale, Olga Georges-Picot, Derek Jacobi, Raymond Gerome
Conspiring French generals hire the Jackal (Edward Fox) to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) in the early 1960s. The French Security Force is suspicious when the French generals who hired the Jackal have gone into hiding. They kidnap the generals' errand boy, and when questioned he reveals the assassins name. The Security Force hires ace detective Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) to track down the Jackal before he kills DeGaulle. The Jackal now assumes a new identity that will make it even more difficult for Lebel to catch him before he completes the assassination. And the mystery deepens.
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Don Juan 1998  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
Director: Jacques Weber
Cast: Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Beart, Penelope Cruz, Ariadna Gil, Denis Lavant, Michael Lonsdale, Jacques Frantz, Pierre Gerard, Philippe Khorsand
Jacques Weber directs and stars in this adaptation of Moliere's play about the womanizer who ignores the feelings of two women (Penelope Cruz and Ariadna Gil) in his quest for self-gratification.
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Galileo 1975 PG, 145 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill, Margaret Leighton, John Gielgud, Michael Gough, Michael Lonsdale, Richard O'Callaghan, Tim Woodward, Judy Parfitt
When his findings about planetary movement contradict teachings of the Church, 17th-century scientist Galileo (Topol) renounces his theory but privately continues to believe in it and hopes that time will prove him right.
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Goya's Ghosts 2006 R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard, Randy Quaid, Blanca Portillo, Michael Lonsdale, Jose Luis Gomez, Mabel Rivera, Craig Stevenson, Julian Wadham, Simon Andreu, Jack Taylor, David Calder
In 18th-century Spain during the Inquisition, painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard) is working on a portrait of the archconservative Brother Lorenzo and, at the same time, is painting a portrait of one of his favorite models, Ines (Natalie Portman). After Ines is arrested on suspicion of being a Jew, she is thrown into prison where she is tortured and then raped by Lorenzo. Her father Tomas (Jose Luis Gomez) begs Goya to intercede. But Goya, who is terrified of the Church, will only stand on the sidelines unwilling to help. Fifteen years later, Napoleon (Craig Stevenson) and his army "liberate" Spain, and Lorenzo is now Napoleon's prosecutor. Ines is set free from prison and tells Lorenzo that they have a daughter. Lorenzo declares Ines insane, institutionalizes her, and sets out to find the daughter. Once again, Goya watches helplessly from the sidelines.
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The Holcroft Covenant 1985 R, 112 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Michael Lonsdale, Bernard Hepton, Richard Munch, Carl Rigg, Andre Penvern, Shane Rimmer, Andy Bradford
Based on Robert Ludlum's novel, this story revolves around the efforts of Noel (Michael Caine) to find the fortune willed by his German General father to make war reparations. The plot contains so many twists and turns that it is difficult to separate the good guys from the bad.
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Jefferson in Paris 1995 PG-13, 142 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, James Earl Jones, Thandie Newton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Simon Callow, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Michael Lonsdale, Nancy Marchand, Seth Gilliam
This film chronicles the period of Thomas Jefferson's life (1784-89) when he was U.S. Ambassador to France and a member of the Court of Versailles during the romantic and politically charged pre-Revolutionary era. It also addresses Jefferson's persona, including a love for a black slave and a black man who claimed to be Jefferson's son.
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Monsieur Klein 1976 PG, 122 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Mr. Klein
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michael Lonsdale, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise, Francine Berge, Massimo Girotti, Michel Aumont, Roland Bertin, Hermine Karagheuz, Jean Champion
Set in Paris during 1942, this story involves French/Catholic antiques dealer Robert Klein (Alain Delon) who finds that his name is also being used by a Jewish refugee. Gradually, the refugee siphons off more and more of Klein's identity until Klein himself evolves into a Jewish identity.
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 Moonraker 1979 PG, 126 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Richard Kiel, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Geoffrey Keen, Desmond Llewelyn, Emily Bolton, Toshiro Suga, Blanche Ravalec, Irka Bochenko, Leila Shenna, Mike Marshall
This is the 11th James Bond film, and it is filled with many stunts as Bond, Agent 007, (Roger Moore) investigates the theft of a space shuttle built by Drax Industries. Bond arrives at Drax Industries and meets NASA astronaut and CIA agent Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) who has been investigating Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) for plotting to replace humans with a super race. As Bond and Goodhead attempt to protect the world from the evil outer-space tyrant Drax, they encounter many problems including traps and villains standing in their way.
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 Munich 2005  R, 164 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Geoffrey Rush, Ayelet Zurer, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric, Gila Almagor, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Meret Becker
After a Palestinian terrorist group, Black September, takes hostage and then kills 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, the Israeli government recruits Avner (Eric Bana) and his crew (Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Hanns Zischler). Their secret mission is to assassinate those responsible for the brutal murders. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Director.
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Murmur of the Heart 1971 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Lea Massari, Benoit Ferreux, Daniel Gelin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen, Fabien Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Micheline Bona, Henri Poirier
The incestuous affair involving a precocious 15 year old (Benoit Ferreux) and his mother (Lea Massari) is treated sensibly and with humor in this good coming-of-age film.
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The Name of the Rose 1986 R, 128 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Elya Baskin, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., William Hickey, Michael Lonsdale, Ron Perlman, Dwight Weist, Volker Prechtel
Murders are occurring in a 14th-century monastery, and a Franciscan monk (Sean Connery) sets out to solve them.
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The Passage 1979 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Kay Lenz, Christopher Lee, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paul Clemens
One step ahead of their Nazi pursuer, Von Berkow (Malcolm McDowell), Professor Bergson (James Mason), his wife, Ariel (Patricia Neal), and their children are aided by a Basque (Anthony Quinn) in a trek across France to reach freedom in Spain.
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 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Specter of Freedom
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic, Michael Lonsdale, Anne-Marie Deschott, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Adolfo Celi
Talk about bizarre! At age 75, Luis Bunuel still had the knack for innovative filmmaking. This surrealistic comedy is a collection of barely related sketches that include a group of patriots in the Napoleonic era egging on a firing squad to shoot them, a missing girl helping police fill out a missing person report on her, and the well-known scene of an elegantly dressed group sitting on toilets around a dinner table until hunger strikes, when they retire to stalls in a separate room to eat. And that's just a sample.
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The Remains of the Day 1993 PG, 134 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant, Michael Lonsdale, Tim Pigott-Smith, Peter Cellier, Peter Eyre, Caroline Hunt, John Haycraft, Paula Jacobs, Ben Chaplin, Patrick Godfrey
Years into his career as butler, James Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) looks back on younger days when he had choices concerning his future. Through flashbacks, James remembers Mary Kenton (Emma Thompson), the head housekeeper, who fell in love with him and provided the challenges to him concerning his employer, Lord Darlington (James Fox) and his devotion to the Nazi cause in pre-World War II Britain. There were eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director.
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The Romantic Englishwoman 1975 R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale, Beatrice Romand, Kate Nelligan, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Marcus Richardson, Nathalie Delon, Julie Peasgood, Anna Steele, Frankie Jordan, Frances Tomelty, David de Keyser, Phil Brown
This sophisticated British comedy is entertaining as it interweaves fact with fiction in the lives of British writer Lewis Fielding (Michael Caine) and his wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson) who has just returned from Europe. Lewis imagines that Elizabeth has been unfaithful. In fact, she had been attracted to drug smuggler Thomas (Helmut Berger). Lewis invites Thomas into their home for a visit. Now, Elizabeth starts to fall in love with Thomas, and Lewis realizes he has made a big mistake.
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 Ronin 1998 R, 121 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Jonathan Pryce, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Skipp Sudduth, Sean Bean, Michael Lonsdale, Jan Triska, Bernard Bloch, Feodor Atkine, Tolsty, Ron Perkins, Amadou, Leopoldine Serre
Irish activist Dierdre (Natascha McElhone) hires a team to track down a mysterious briefcase–contents unknown. They do not know who hired them, but former CIA agent Sam (Robert De Niro), former Euro intelligence agent Vincent (Jean Reno), former KGB agent Gregor (Stellan Skarsgard), British demolitions expert Spence (Sean Bean), and driver Larry (Skipp Sudduth) set out to track down the briefcase. And the chase is on, with a few twists and turns, car chases, and action scenes as they travel from Paris, to Cannes, and then to Nice.
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Smiley's People 1982 TV, 325 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Simon Langton
Cast: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, Michael Byrne, Barry Foster, Michael Lonsdale, Bill Paterson, Beryl Reid, Curt Jurgens, Vladek Sheybal, Patrick Stewart
George Smiley (Alec Guinness) comes out of retirement and rejoins the British Intelligence to investigate the death of an agent friend. Clues lead Smiley to Paris, Germany, and Switzwerland as he tracks down his old nemesis, the Soviet double-agent Karla (Patrick Stewart).
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Souvenir 1989 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Geoffrey Reeve
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Catherine Hicks, Michael Lonsdale, Christopher Cazenove, Patrick Bailey, Amelie Pick, Lisa Daniely, Jean Badin
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a German soldier and a French woman fall in love. Now, 43 years later, that soldier (Christopher Plummer) returns to France where he faces the destruction caused by his Nazi forces during the war.
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Special Section 1975 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Louis Seigner, Michael Lonsdale, Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Dux, Henri Serre, Roland Bertin, Ivo Garrani, Francois Maistre, Jacques Spiesser
Based on a true story involving Marxists killing a German officer in a Paris subway, this film explores forces behind the Vichy government's appeasement of Nazis even when judges and cabinet members were in no immediate danger themselves.
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Stavisky 1974 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Francois Perier, Anny Duperey, Michael Lonsdale, Roberto Bisacco, Claude Rich, Pierre Vernier, Jacques Spiesser, Gerard Depardieu
Small-time swindler Stavisky (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rose to great wealth and power in the early 1930s through his drive, cleverness, and charm. After his shady dealings and rumors that he had bought out members of the French government, he was abandoned by his friends, resulting in his suicide. Based on a true story that nearly brought down the French government during the Depression.
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Stolen Kisses 1968 R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy / Romance
aka: Baisers Voles
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi, Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Rispal, Claire Duhamel, Andre Falcon, Serge Rousseau, Harry-Max, Catherine Lutz, Martine Ferriere, Paul Pavel, Albert Simono
This comedy continues the series of films about Antoine (Jean-Pierre Leaud). At this stage in his life, Antoine, recently discharged from the Army, looks for romance in all the wrong places and, in the process, falls in love with his old girlfriend Christine (Claude Jade). The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.
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| 1. 5x2 (2004)
2. Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
3. The Bride Wore Black (1967)
4. The Bunker (1981)
5. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
6. Don Juan (1998)
7. Enigma (1982)
8. Galileo (1975)
9. Goya's Ghosts (2006)
10. The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
11. Jefferson in Paris (1995)
12. Monsieur Klein (1976)
aka: Mr. Klein
13. Moonraker (1979)
14. Munich (2005)
15. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
16. The Name of the Rose (1986)
17. Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
18. The Passage (1979)
19. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
aka: The Specter of Freedom
20. The Remains of the Day (1993)
21. The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
22. Ronin (1998)
23. Smiley's People (1982)
24. Souvenir (1989)
25. Special Section (1975)
26. Stavisky (1974)
27. Stolen Kisses (1968)
aka: Baisers Voles
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