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Michael Lonsdale
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Filmography
Michael Lonsdale - what members say
review by from West Sussex
A different kind of James Bond 16 August 2005
review by JHawk from Edinburgh, Scotland
Stunning, relevant and inspired. 18 March 2011
review by steadichris from London
Storytelling on a different level. 18 January 2011
Michael Lonsdale - filmography
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Free Men
(2012)
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby
Director: IsmaëL Ferroukhi
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1942, in German-occupied Paris. Tahar Rahim ('A Prophet') stars as Younes - a young Algerian rogue, living on the wrong side of the law selling goods to fellow North African immigrants on the black market. In a time of oppression and radicalism, Younes is loyal only to himself and his family back ..read more »
 
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Due for release on 17th September 2012
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Free Men - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby
Director: IsmaëL Ferroukhi
Certificate:
1942, in German-occupied Paris. Tahar Rahim ('A Prophet') stars as Younes - a young Algerian rogue, living on the wrong side of the law selling goods to fellow North African immigrants on the black market. In a time of oppression and radicalism, Younes is loyal only to himself and his family back ..read more »
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from 1 member
Due for release on 17th September 2012
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Of Gods and Men
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Director: Xavier Beauvois
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A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers.
When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks ..read more »
69%
from 5,302 members
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Agora
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Rupert Evans
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
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4th Century A.D. Egypt under the Roman Empire... Violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the City's famous Library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the Ancient World... Among them, the two men ..read more »
61%
from 5,770 members
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The Last Mistress
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida
Director: Catherine Breillat
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Two of cinema's most thrilling and dynamic female talents - the provocative Asia Argentino and the controversial Catherine Breilllat - join forces in this audacious and sexually-charged tale of lust and seduction. Argentino gives an electifying performance as Vellini, the beautiful and headstrong ..read more »
53%
from 1,709 member
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Heartbeat Detector
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Valérie Dréville, Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale
Director: Nicolas Klotz
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Heartbeat Detector is an immersive corporate thriller in which Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Quantum Of Solace) plays Simon Kessler, an in-house corporate psychologist, who is asked to investigate the erratic behaviour of the company CEO (Michael Lonsdale). His ..read more »
49%
from 1,126 member
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Bye Bye Blackbird
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jodhi May, Derek Jacobi, James Thiérrée
Director: Robinson Savary
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Starring Derek Jacobi and Jodhi May, Bye Bye Blackbird is a tragic and compelling love story set in a turn of the century travelling circus. When Josef falls in love with the beautiful trapeze artist, Alice, he knows the only way to woo her is if he too masters the trapeze. Lord Dempsey the circus ..read more »
53%
from 55 members
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5 X 2
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Géraldine Pailhas, Francoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale
Director: Francois Ozon
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Francois Ozon's (Swimming Pool, 8 Women) highly acclaimed latest film focuses on the five key moments in the life of a modern couple. 5x2 examines Gilles (Stephane Freiss) and Marion's (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) turbulent marriage, but the story is told in reverse order beginning with the divorce and ..read more »
55%
from 5,527 members
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Jefferson In Paris
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandie Newton
Director: James Ivory
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Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
53%
from 286 members
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The Remains of the Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Tim Pigott-Smith, Lena Headey
Director: James Ivory
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Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the perfect butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly ..read more »
72%
from 10,899 members
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Ma Vie Est Un Enfer
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Richard Berry
Director: Josiane Balasko
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When a dowdy nurse, Leah, becomes infatuated with her boss she sells her soul to the Devil's apprentice, Abargadon, in return for a new glamorous look. When the angel Gabriel deems the deal null and void due to a technicality, the situation is further complicated by the fact that Leah and Abargadon ..read more »
54%
from 637 members
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Louis Malle - Milou En Mai
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Aurore Clement, Benoit Fereux
Director: Louis Malle
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Against the background of the 1968 student unrest, Milou's children, grandchildren, in-laws, and assorted others gather at his vineyard for his mother's funeral. To start with everyone is squabbling over the inheritance but gradually the countryside, the May weather, and life with unexpected ..read more »
72%
from 494 members
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The Name Of The Rose
(1986)
Starring: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Lonsdale
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William ..read more »
70%
from 6,365 members
Not currently released
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The Holcroft Covenant
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Michael Lonsdale
Director: John Frankenheimer
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Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft in John Frankenheimer's adaptation of Robert Ludlum's novel. A German native adopted by American parents, Noel learns that his biological father was one of Hitler's financial advisers, and he has left his son a bequest of four billion dollars with the intention ..read more »
46%
from 380 members
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The Bunker
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman
Director: George Schaefer
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This exhaustive TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph Hitler's life, spent in his bunker in Berlin. Anthony Hopkins is repulsively riveting as Hitler, while Piper Laurie is even more frightening as fanatical Frau Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) feeds the Fuehrer's ego as the ..read more »
63%
from 88 members
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Moonraker - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Geoffrey Keen, Desmond Llewelyn, Roger Moore
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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In the 11th installment of the 007 series, director Lewis Gilbert delivers a visually thrilling progression in filmmaking. Roger Moore returns as dashing secret service agent James Bond. This time around Bond must investigate the theft of a space shuttle with help from beautiful CIA agent Dr. Holly ..read more »
68%
from 637 members
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The Passage
(1979)
Starring: Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Director J. Lee Thompson directed this World War II adventure drama from a script by author Bruce Nicolaysen who adapted the screenplay from his novel The Perilous Passage. Anthony Quinn stars as a brave Basque mountaineer who is hired by the American military to guide Professor Bergsson (James ..read more »
30%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Moonraker
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Geoffrey Keen, Desmond Llewelyn, Roger Moore
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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In the 11th installment of the 007 series, director Lewis Gilbert delivers a visually thrilling progression in filmmaking. Roger Moore returns as dashing secret service agent James Bond. This time around Bond must investigate the theft of a space shuttle with help from beautiful CIA agent Dr. Holly ..read more »
63%
from 11,846 members
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The Romantic Englishwoman
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger
Director: Joseph Losey
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When Elizabeth and Lewis Fielding's marriage shifts from perfect into boring, Elizabeth decides to leave her comfortable home and travel abroad. Suddenly overcome with jealousy, Lewis imagines his wife in a myriad of sordid situations. And when Elizabeth returns to England, she starts checking up ..read more »
52%
from 132 members
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Day Of The Jackal
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Eric Porter, Timothy West
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as The Jackal (Edward ..read more »
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from 9,268 members
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Michael Lonsdale facts
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...illiam of Baskerville, backed up the menacing F Murray Abraham, Ron Perlman and Michael Lonsdale who, together with a line-up of the grotesque, the ugly and the bizarre create ...
