List of the best Lilli Palmer movies: Conspiracy of Hearts(1960), The House That Screamed(1970), My Girl Tisa(1948), The Gentle Sex(1943), Adorable Julia(1963), English Without Tears(1944), Body and Soul(1947), Miracle of the White Stallions(1963), Cloak and Dagger(1946), Notorious Gentleman(1945), The Long Dark Hall(1951), The Man With 100 Faces(1938) ... ...
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
Mother Katharine
nun nazi priest jew child mother superior inspiring emotional somber suspenseful convent italy concentration camp world war ii holocaust resistance religion helping others faith rescue
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
Horror
Spain
1970
104 Minutes
Sra. Fourneau
Lilli Palmer Cristina Galbó John Moulder-Brown Maribel Martín Mary Maude Cándida Losada
A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
Drama
USA
1948
95 Minutes
Tisa Kepes
Lilli Palmer Sam Wanamaker Akim Tamiroff Alan Hale Hugo Haas Gale Robbins Stella Adler Benny Baker Sumner Getchell Sid Tomack John Qualen
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has ... See full synopsis »
Comedy, War
UK
1943
92 Minutes
Lilli Palmer Rosamund John Joan Gates Jean Gillie Joan Greenwood Joyce Howard
volunteer army officer corporal captain army colonel refugee amusing lighthearted witty winsome cheeky charming england army camp world war iii women during wartime war effort propaganda military life romance
This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
Comedy
Austria|France
1963
97 Minutes
Julia Lambert
Lilli Palmer Charles Boyer Jean Sorel Thomas Fritsch Herbert Fux Charles Régnier
financial advisor couple actress rival amusing theater stage city home room serendipity attraction courtship following your heart personal tragedy power struggle forbidden love love temptation 1960s
A successful and married, although not quite young, actress at a London theatre, falls for a young man, only a little older than her son, involved with a young actress who uses him to advance her career and upstage the leading lady.
Romance
1944
89 Minutes
Brigid Knudsen
An English aristocrat (Penelope Ward) falls in love with her family's butler (Michael Wilding) during a bird-migration flap in Geneva.
Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Peg Born
John Garfield Lilli Palmer Hazel Brooks Anne Revere William Conrad Joseph Pevney Lloyd Gough Canada Lee Art Smith
father boxer promoter mother gritty rousing boxing ring hospital slum corruption death honor rise underdog 1940s
A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
Adventure
USA
1963
117 Minutes
Vedena Podhajsky
In 1945 the fate of Vienna's famous Lipizzaner stallions hangs into balance.American general Patton could save them but first he asks to see them perform.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
106 Minutes
Gina
Gary Cooper Lilli Palmer Robert Alda Vladimir Sokoloff J. Edward Bromberg Marjorie Hoshelle Ludwig Stossel Helene Thimig Dan Seymour Marc Lawrence James Flavin
traitor secret agent undercover agent boy spy imaginary friend airplane switzerland escape pursuit escape rescue
In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
109 Minutes
Rex Harrison Lilli Palmer Godfrey Tearle Griffith Jones Margaret Johnston Guy Middleton Jean Kent
playboy student secretary colonel best friend wife cool crafty engaging college england oxford university self-discovery seduction world war ii relationships bad behavior redemption discovery pursuit
Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1951
86 Minutes
Mary Groome
Rex Harrison Reginald Beck Lilli Palmer Denis O'Dea Tania Held Henrietta Barry Raymond Huntley Patricia Wayne Anthony Dawson Meriel Forbes Brenda De Banzie
murder suspect wife mistress murderer lawyer judge tense courtroom london apartment family home police station trial murder false accusations marriage infidelity mystery 1950s
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the only suspect when someone else murders her.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1938
79 Minutes
Tom Walls Lilli Palmer Noel Madison Edmond Breen Leon M. Lion Charles Heslop Ethel Griffies Henry Longhurst Michael Shepley Edmund Dalby Tarver Penna
Jack Drake,a man with a hundred faces and in reality a modern-day Robin Hood known only as Crackerjack, thrills all England with his exploits of stealing from the rich and giving to the ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1937
81 Minutes
Susan
Arthur Tracy Lilli Palmer Finlay Currie
1937. A renowned stage singer leaves the theatre to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer) and Lilli Palmer star in this romantic musical. Also stars Finlay Currie.
Comedy
USA
1952
103 Minutes
husband wife writer cheeky cool moving new york city bedroom household marriage ambition writing parenthood infidelity war love rise quest 1930s
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after ... See full summary »
Horror
UK
1940
80 Minutes
Leslie Banks Lilli Palmer Romilly Lunge Gina Malo Richard Bird Cathleen Nesbitt
A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.
Drama
1962
140 Minutes
William Holden Lilli Palmer Hugh Griffith Ernst Schroeder Eva Dahlbeck Eulf Palme Carl Raddatz Helo Gutschwager Erica Beer Charles Régnier Klaus Kinski
oil merchant intelligence officer spy nazi lover old friend tense gripping thrilling oil refinery prison sweden germany denmark working undercover espionage dangerous job blacklisting world war ii deception
A British intelligence officer (Hugh Griffith) pressures a Swedish oilman (William Holden) to spy on his Nazi customers.
Comedy
USA
1961
115 Minutes
Katharine `'Kate'` Dougherty
Fred Astaire Debbie Reynolds Lilli Palmer Tab Hunter Gary Merrill Charles Ruggles Harold Fong Elvia Allman Edith Head
daughter father bride rancher emotional heartwarming california family dysfunction marriage father/daughter relationship absence wedding love 1960s
San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father, "Pogo" Poole, whom she hasn't seen for years, comes to the... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France|Iran|USA
2018
122 Minutes
Zarah Valeska
John Huston Susan Strasberg Lilli Palmer Peter Bogdanovich Oja Kodar Robert Random Edmond O'Brien
A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.
Drama
UK
1968
97 Minutes
Jocasta
Christopher Plummer Orson Welles Lilli Palmer Richard Johnson Cyril Cusack Roger Livesey Donald Sutherland Alexis Mantheakis Dimos Starenios Friedrich Ledebur Oenone Luke
This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1969
106 Minutes
Adrianne
James Coburn Lee Remick Lilli Palmer Burgess Meredith Patrick Magee Sterling Hayden Claude Dauphin Helen Cherry Karen Black Sabine Sun
assassin cia agent socialite nazi divorcée cool thrilling europe airplane office tangiers, morocco assassination love morality transformation pursuit 1960s
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract
Crime, Drama
1968
101 Minutes
Sheila Quentin
Rod Taylor Christopher Plummer Lilli Palmer Camilla Sparv Daliah Lavi Clive Revill Franchot Tone
assassin spy police sergeant commissioner thrilling suspenseful sultry engaging confident london australia political intrigue mission murder investigation rivalry quest pursuit 1960s
An Australian policeman (Rod Taylor) faces assassins when sent to London to arrest an official (Christopher Plummer) for murder.
Fantasy, Drama
USA
1942
110 Minutes
Melanie Kurtz
Michael Redgrave Barbara Mullen James Mason Lilli Palmer Finlay Currie Frederick Valk Frederick Cooper Jean Shepherd Miles Malleson Barry Morse George Carney
journalist ship captain daughter immigrant passenger ghost dreamy eerie emotional england movie theater lighthouse michigan lake ghosts second chance political unrest visions world war ii journalism
Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1985
112 Minutes
Althene Holcroft
Michael Caine Anthony Andrews Victoria Tennant Lilli Palmer Mario Adorf Michael Lonsdale Bernard Hepton Richard Münch Carl Rigg André Penvern Andy Bradford
nazi nazi collaborator adolf hitler architect father son bleak thrilling suspenseful intense tense emotional new york city germany united states geneva nazi collaboration nazis money war crimes
The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.
Biography
West Germany|USA
1969
113 Minutes
Mme. de Montreuil
Keir Dullea Senta Berger John Huston Lilli Palmer Anna Massey Sonja Ziemann Christiane Krüger Uta Levka Barbara Stanek Susanne von Almassy Friedrich Schoenfelder
Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion. This colorful movie depicts DeSade's life from ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1971
100 Minutes
Dr. Viorne
Britt Ekland Mark Lester Hardy Kruger Lilli Palmer Harry Andrews Conchita Montes Collette Jack
A wicked boy (Mark Lester) develops an unhealthy attitude toward his stepmother (Britt Ekland) in their mansion in rural Spain.
Comedy, Drama
1968
100 Minutes
Elsa Shahn
Dirk Bogarde Susannah York John Gielgud Lilli Palmer Margaret Johnston Nigel Davenport Donald Sutherland
mathematician singer traitor general suspenseful engaging cool england love government secrets love escape 1960s
An Oxford professor (Dirk Bogarde) courts a colleague (Susannah York) while breaking an enemy code for a British spy chief (John Gielgud).
Horror
UK
1971
86 Minutes
Mrs. Charron
Jason Robards Herbert Lom Christine Kaufmann Adolfo Celi Lilli Palmer Maria Perschy Michael Dunn Pepe Calvo Peter Arne Luis Rivera
murderer wife partner actor theater owner police officer eerie frightening gory tense paris theater france stage cemetery acting murder investigation marriage love triangle premonition
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Comedy
UK
1965
125 Minutes
Dutchy
Kim Novak Richard Johnson Angela Lansbury Leo McKern Vittorio De Sica George Sanders Lilli Palmer Peter Butterworth
orphan young woman mayor son lady husband banker petty criminal thief ship captain priest prison guard amusing brash campy cheeky confident engaging frenetic gutsy
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
Drama, War
UK
1965
116 Minutes
Frieda
Sophia Loren George Peppard Trevor Howard John Mills Richard Johnson Tom Courtenay Jeremy Kemp Anthony Quayle Lilli Palmer Paul Henreid Helmut Dantine
lieutenant woman spy prime minister general colonel suspenseful intense germany london holland underground world war ii special ops espionage military working undercover quest sacrifice 1940s
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.