List of the best Michael Lonsdale movies: The Day of the Jackal(1973), Of Gods and Men(2010), India Song(1974), Maestro(2014), Heartbeat Detector(2007), Stolen Kisses(1968), Souvenir(1988), Erendira(1983), Gebo and the Shadow(2012), The Mystery of the Yellow Room(2003), Moonraker(1979), Mr. Klein(1976) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|France
1973
141 Minutes
Lebel
Edward Fox Michael Lonsdale Tony Britton Terence Alexander Cyril Cusack Alan Badel Michel Auclair Denis Carey Maurice Denham Adrien Cayla-Legrand Vernon Dobtcheff
hit man charles de gaulle police detective police officer suspenseful engaging paris apartment building assassination plot political intrigue investigation secret identity torture quest pursuit 1960s
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
Drama
France
2010
122 Minutes
Lambert Wilson Michael Lonsdale Olivier Rabourdin Philippe Laudenbach Jacques Herlin Loïc Pichon Xavier Maly Jean-Marie Frin Abdelhafid Metalsi Sabrina Ouazani
monk doctor terrorist muslim catholic powerful tense disturbing algeria monastery faith terrorism political unrest poverty war difficult decision underdog transformation escape sacrifice
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Drama, Comedy
France
1974
120 Minutes
Delphine Seyrig Michael Lonsdale Mathieu Carrière Claude Mann
Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.
Comedy
2014
81 Minutes
Pio Marmaï Michael Lonsdale Déborah François Alice Belaïdi Nicolas Bridet Dominique Reymond Micha Lescot Scali Delpeyrat Gregory Montel
A world-famous arthouse filmmaker (Michael Lonsdale) sees potential in a struggling actor (Pio Marmaï) and teaches the young man how to become a better thespian.
Drama
2007
140 Minutes
Mathieu Amalric Michael Lonsdale Jean-Pierre Kalfon Lou Castel
psychiatrist manager ceo secretary nazi board member intricate suspenseful powerful emotional paris corporate headquarters office car rave corporate culture investigation mental illness fascism class distinctions
Comedy, Drama
France
1968
90 Minutes
Georges Tabard
Jean-Pierre Léaud Delphine Seyrig Michael Lonsdale Claude Jade Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel Catherine Lutz André Falcon
anti-hero girlfriend boss sexy woman charming quirky tender paris shop apartment park affair rebellion romance love triangle discovery growing up love 1960s
After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.
Drama
UK
1988
93 Minutes
Xavier Lorion
Christopher Plummer Catherine Hicks Michael Lonsdale Christopher Cazenove Patrick Bailey Jean Badin
In 1944, a dashing German soldier and a beautiful French girl fell deeply in love while World War II raged on. More than forty years later, Ernest Kestner, retired and recently widowed, ... See full summary »
Drama
Mexico|France|West Germany
1983
103 Minutes
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Irene Papas Claudia Ohana Michael Lonsdale Oliver Wehe
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Portugal
2012
95 Minutes
Gebo
Claudia Cardinale Jeanne Moreau Michael Lonsdale Ricardo Trêpa Leonor Silveira Luís Miguel Cintra Bastien Guio
Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.
Mystery & Thriller
Belgium|France
2003
119 Minutes
Stangerson
Denis Podalydès Sabine Azéma Michael Lonsdale Pierre Arditi Claude Rich Olivier Gourmet Julos Beaucarne Jean-Noël Brouté Isabelle Candelier Dominique Parent
A woman is sleeping in her bedroom. Her room can not be opened from the outside, but only from inside. When suddenly one night somebody attempted to murder her. Before the police arrived ... See full summary »
Action
UK|France
1979
126 Minutes
Hugo Drax
Roger Moore Lois Chiles Michael Lonsdale Richard Kiel Corinne Clery Bernard Lee Desmond Llewelyn Lois Maxwell
james bond secret agent villain mastermind suspenseful thrilling rio de janeiro venice outer space spaceship space travel dangerous assignment apocalypse cia rescue pursuit 1970s
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
Mystery & Thriller
1976
122 Minutes
Pierre
Alain Delon Jeanne Moreau Michael Lonsdale Suzanne Flon Juliet Berto Jean Bouise Francine Bergé Massimo Girotti
doppelganger catholic art dealer resistance fighter jew mistress suspenseful frightening occupied france big city auschwitz paris misunderstanding greed fascism investigation switched identities persecution 1940s
In Nazi-occupied France, an art dealer who profits at the expense of cash-needy Jews finds that the tables are turned.
Comedy, Drama
France|Italy|West Germany
1971
118 Minutes
Father Henri
Léa Massari Benoît Ferreux Daniel Gélin Michael Lonsdale Ave Ninchi Gila von Weitershausen Fabien Ferreux Marc Winocourt Micheline Bona Henri Poirier Liliane Sorval
young boy young girl priest mother father charming dark playful france church bar family home coming of age sex scandal illness alcohol incest growing up temptation
As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.
Comedy
France|Italy
1969
80 Minutes
Le professeur Édouard Loriebat
Louis De Funès Claude Gensac Martine Kelly Michael Lonsdale Bernard Alane Olivier de Funès Yves Vincent Pascal Mazzotti
uncle relative family thrilling body the arctic trapped life transformation 1900s
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His... See full summary »
Romance, Adventure, Drama, History
Spain|Malta|Bulgaria
2009
126 Minutes
Theon
Rachel Weisz Max Minghella Oscar Isaac Ashraf Barhoum Michael Lonsdale Rupert Evans Richard Durden Sami Samir Manuel Cauchi Homayoun Ershadi Oshri Cohen
philosopher father student slave christian classmate melodramatic disheartening striking gripping alexandria, egypt library classroom street political unrest teaching unrequited love hypatia science vs. religion philosophical conflict
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
Biography
France|Italy
1974
117 Minutes
Docteur Mézy
Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Boyer Anny Duperey François Périer Michael Lonsdale Robert Ben Claude Rich Gérard Depardieu
businessman wife baron lawyer physician inspector offbeat gripping paris casino hotel beach financial crisis anti-semitism corruption crime serge alexandre stavisky on the run fall wretched excess
A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.
Drama
France|Italy
2007
104 Minutes
Asia Argento Fu'ad Ait Aatou Roxane Mesquida Yolande Moreau Michael Lonsdale Anne Parillaud Amira Casar Lio Caroline Ducey Isabelle Renauld Jean-Philippe Tesse
young man fiancée courtesan grandmother aristocrat mistress hedonistic shocking witty sad paris desert church spain bedroom commitment marriage love triangle obsession sex
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Drama
Austria|Luxembourg|Germany|UK
2005
99 Minutes
Robert
James Thiérrée Derek Jacobi Izabella Miko Jodhi May Michael Lonsdale
A period drama set in the early years of the twentieth century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus.... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
2004
90 Minutes
Bernard
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Stéphane Freiss Géraldine Pailhas Françoise Fabian Michael Lonsdale Antoine Chappey Marc Ruchmann Jason Tavassoli Jean-Pol Brissart
husband wife lawyer brother boyfriend dark emotional intense moving house france beach italy resort divorce marriage infidelity pregnancy affair love
Various stages in the relationship between a man (Stéphane Freiss) and his wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) lead to their divorce.
Mystery & Thriller
1982
101 Minutes
Bodley
Martin Sheen Brigitte Fossey Sam Neill Derek Jacobi Michael Lonsdale Frank Finlay
cia agent defector kgb agent assassin lover suspenseful intense east berlin east germany eastern europe assassination plot cold war government secrets international conspiracy secret mission iron curtain quest pursuit escape rivalry
An ex-lover (Brigitte Fossey) aids a radio reporter (Martin Sheen), sent to East Germany by the CIA to steal a Soviet computer chip.
Drama
France|Italy|Germany
1996
105 Minutes
Dolabella
Emmanuelle Béart Michel Serrault Jean-Hugues Anglade Charles Berling Daniele Lebrun Michael Lonsdale Michel Albertini Michèle Laroque Claire Nadeau Francoise Brion Jean-Pierre Lorit
wealthy man publisher secretary husband wife middle-aged man emotional engaging apartment coffee shop france household paris office helping others love triangle marital problems financial troubles new job jealousy
When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.
Drama, History
USA|Spain
2006
117 Minutes
Inquisitor General
Javier Bardem Natalie Portman Stellan Skarsgård Randy Quaid José Luis Gómez Michael Lonsdale Blanca Portillo Mabel Rivera Unax Ugalde Craig Stevenson Julian Wadham
francisco goya priest muse merchant dark powerful gripping spain art deception torture betrayal spanish inquisition father/daughter relationship rivalry 15th century
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1985
112 Minutes
Ernst Manfredi
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.
Mystery & Thriller
1968
107 Minutes
Rene Morane
Jeanne Moreau Claude Rich Jean-Claude Brialy Michel Bouquet Charles Denner Michael Lonsdale Daniel Boulanger Alexandra Stewart
murderer woman mother young boy prisoner widow dark tense chilling france wedding prison house funeral concert hall death hit list trauma disguise accident
Francois Truffaut's Hitchcockian account of a widow's efforts to take revenge against the men who killed her husband.
Drama
USA|UK
1993
135 Minutes
Dupont D'Ivry
Anthony Hopkins Emma Thompson James Fox Christopher Reeve Peter Vaughan Hugh Grant Michael Lonsdale Tim Pigott-Smith Patrick Godfrey
butler aristocrat housekeeper congressman lord cook emotional tense bleak estate england manor loyalty anti-semitism world war ii duty class conflict regret transformation love
A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
UK|USA|France
1998
118 Minutes
Jean-Pierre
Robert De Niro Jean Reno Natascha McElhone Stellan Skarsgård Sean Bean Skipp Sudduth Michael Lonsdale Jan Tríska Jonathan Pryce Féodor Atkine Katarina Witt
irishwoman intelligence officer soldier russian expert mercenary gritty suspenseful brooding intense paris nice, france villa arena warehouse france irish republican army theft espionage betrayal
A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.
Adventure, Romance
Spain|France|Germany
1998
104 Minutes
Don Luis
Jacques Weber Michel Boujenah Emmanuelle Béart Penélope Cruz Ariadna Gil Denis Lavant Michael Lonsdale Jacques Frantz Pierre Gerard Arnaud Bedouet Philippe Khorsand
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1975
117 Minutes
Swan
Glenda Jackson Michael Caine Helmut Berger Marcus Richardson Kate Nelligan Reinhard Kolldehoff Michael Lonsdale Béatrice Romand Anna Steele Nathalie Delon Bill Wallis
writer wife drug dealer intricate witty creative playful england germany house elevator adultery writer's block writing imagination love marriage pursuit forbidden love rivalry
A British writer's (Michael Caine) fiction reflects his wife (Glenda Jackson) and her shady lover (Helmut Berger).
Crime, Drama
France
2013
84 Minutes
Jean Virno
Richard Bohringer Claude Brasseur Philippe Chevallier Béatrice Dalle Frédéric Diefenthal Antoine Duléry Dominique Lavanant Michael Lonsdale
The author Charles Senac is hated by the regulars of the bar "le Renard jaune", whom he regularly insults. One morning he is found dead at home and Inspector Giraud is on the case.
Comedy
1967
86 Minutes
Lastac , Lataque, expert en écritures , La voix du juge d'instruction
Claude Rich Francis Blanche Michel Serrault Paola Pitagora Jean Tissier Marcel Pérès Micha Bayard Michael Lonsdale Roland Dubillard Catherine Rich
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
France
2005
117 Minutes
Professor Stangerson
Denis Podalydès Sabine Azéma Zabou Olivier Gourmet Jean-Noel Broute Pierre Arditi Bruno Podalydès Vincent Elbaz Michael Lonsdale
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.