Movies by Michael Lonsdale

Spring

Spring

One of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two parallel stories: a man, fleeing the forces of order, takes refuge in the forest, while a young girl living with her grandmother in a nearby village approaches the threshold of adolescence, and begins to discover both the world and herself. - Anthology Film Archive

The Judge

The Judge

A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.

Gebo and the Shadow

Gebo and the Shadow

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be hiding something, especially to Doroteia, who is anxiously waiting to see her son again. Sofia is also waiting for her husband to come home, and yet she fears him. All of a sudden, João arrives and everything changes.

Comédie

Comédie

An adaptation of the Beckett play

Mersonne ne m'aime

Mersonne ne m'aime

After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

This is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly unfinished literary work. We will try to trace back to the origins of his inspiration so as to understand why his work met and still meets with so much success. How did JRR Tolkien manage, through the power of words alone, to so widely instill wisps of magic in the midst of a particularly disenchanted 20th century?

Enigma

Enigma

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.

Cela s'appelle l'amour

Cela s'appelle l'amour

The theme of Romeo and Juliet is the starting point from which the film spins a web of several stories. A love story between a boy and a girl whose families are Algerian: they are young, beautiful and they are trying to build a family and a social life in France. They love each other, and yet conflicts, family pressure and contradicting desires alternately tear them apart and unite them. The story of Romeo and Juliet, minus death.

Five Times Two

Five Times Two

As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.

Concerto for an Exile

Concerto for an Exile

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black

Julie Kohler, whose husband was inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her.

Adieu

Adieu

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him the time he is away. In the letters that he writes to the daughter that he left behind in his homeland, he tells his own story in the guise of the biblical tale of Jonas and the Whale. Somewhere in France, an elderly farmer has just lost his young son. His three other children help him as much as they can to get through the trial of the funeral, but the ceremony is halted when the old man falls...

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge

The history of women through the Middle Ages as told to and by little boys and girls and an old man (Michael Lonsdale)

Hail! Mafia

Hail! Mafia

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung

20 years later, the recreation of the trial of a simple man that confesses himself as a war criminal, Carl Emmanuel Jung.

The First, the Last

The First, the Last

Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...

The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

Maestro

Maestro

Henry, a young actor, finds himself involved in a film by cinema superstar, Cédric Rovere. Charmed by his benevolence, feelings hitherto unknown are aroused, while Rovere, intrigued by Henry's dream, lives this shoot as an unexpected gift.

Hitler in Hollywood

Hitler in Hollywood

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.