Michael Lonsdale
21 titles
Filmography
21 results

A Dirty Story
(1977)
Gebo and the Shadow
(2012)The final feature film of Portuguese master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. Gebo lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter-in-law, Sofia. But the family is haunted by the absence of João, Gebo’s son and Sofia’s husband. Rumors are circulating of robberies and even darker dealings in neighboring towns. Is João responsible? One night, he arrives home and all is brought to light.

Of Gods and Men
(2010)Loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibéhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996, OF GODS AND MEN tells a story of eight French Christian monks who live in harmony with their Muslim brothers.

Special Section
(1975)In occupied France during the WWII, a German 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.

Free Men
(2011)In WWII France, an Algerian back marketeer risks his life when he joins the Paris Mosque in a clandestine mission to help Jews escape the Nazis.

India Song
(1975)
Moonraker
(1979)Roger Moore, in his fourth role as Agent 007, is sent to outer space to protect Britain and the world from a madman who would destroy the earth in this pulse-pounding, out-of-this-universe adventure.

Five Times Two
(2004)The beginning and end of the love between a woman and a man plays out in five key stages of their life together.

The Romantic Englishwoman
(1975)Fact and fiction blur when a writer’s wife returns from Germany with a young man in tow, leading to an affair and a dustup with a group of gangsters.

Papa, the Lil' Boats
(1971)Marc and his gang have a brilliant idea: they will kidnap Vénus de Palma, a rich heiress. This idea soon proves to be a nightmare… After she’s abducted, the seductive and intelligent Vénus manages to entice one member of the gang after the other, pitting them against each other.

Agora
(2009)In Roman-ruled Egypt, astronomer Hypatia leads her disciples in a courageous fight to preserve the wisdom of the Ancient World against rising chaos.

A Monkey's Tale
(1999)Two monkey tribes are divided by centuries of fear and prejudice. When curious teenager Kom plummets from his home, his family consider him lost forever. Below, however, his life is spared, and he soon becomes the King's favourite - which angers the Chancellor, who plans seize power for himself. Kom and loyal maid, Gina, uncover the plot, plan to reunite the two tribes and save the day.

The Bunker
(1981)In WWII's final days, Adolf Hitler and his closest advisers face turmoil in a Berlin bunker as the city falls around them during the battle.

Enigma
(1982)An emotionally frail code-breaker revisits the scene of his breakdown to crack a Nazi code and stop a deadly Russian plot, in this true story.

Bye Bye Blackbird
(2005)After being spotted dancing on high-rise girders, a construction worker joins the circus and gets paired with the owner's aerialist daughter.

The Name of the Rose
(1986)An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of gruesome and mysterious deaths plaguing an isolated medieval abbey.

Goya's Ghosts
(2006)Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

Murmur of the Heart
(1971)At the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.

The Last Mistress
(2007)In this provocative romance, Asia Argento stars as the feisty Spanish mistress who will stop at nothing to be in the arms of her forbidden lover.

The Holcroft Covenant
(1985)The son of one of Hitler’s top Generals in WWII must find the massive fortune his dead father stole from the Nazis for reparations.