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  • Rampling rules out facelift - 10 February 2012
    -Veteran actress Charlotte Rampling refuses to go under the knife to preserve her looks as she's convinced facelifts make ageing stars look "creepy".-The Swimming Pool star has no plans to undergo cosmetic surgery after turning 66 years old on Sunday (05Feb12) because she's

Charlotte Rampling - what members say


  • Under The Sand
  • Under The Sand review by from Sheffield
    Rated - 4.0 stars Tender 22 September 2005
    ...This is an intimate portrait of love and loss. The camera effectively followed Charlotte Rampling around for the entire film. At times, I could almost feel her heart beat. This w...   Read customer review
  • Summer Things
  • Summer Things review by from Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars Delightful stuff 12 July 2004
    ... based on an English novel, this has a thoroughly French feel about it (despite Charlotte Rampling's British ex-pat leading character and the fact Lou Doillon is the daughter of ...   Read customer review
  • The Verdict
  • The Verdict review by from Derbyshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Truly Amazing Film 2 November 2004
    ...posing lawyer. Jack Warden as Galvin?s friend and assistant is amazing. Charlotte Rampling, in probably her best role since the Night Porter. Sidney Lumet is probably ...   Read customer review

Charlotte Rampling - filmography


  • The Mill And The Cross (2011)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Michael York,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Lech Majewski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bruegel capturing shards of their desperate stories on his canvas-in-the-making. Confronting the Spanish inquisition bloodily repressing the rise of Protestant reform in the Low Countries, the film offers a vibrant meditation on art and religion as ongoing, layered processes of collective ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 2 members
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  • Melancholia on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Kiefer Sutherland
    Director: Lars Von Trier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... MELANCHOLIA is a psychological ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,917 members
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  • Never Let Me Go - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Carey Mulligan,  Andrew Garfield
    Director: Mark Romanek
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As children, Ruth (Knightley), Kathy (Mulligan) and Tommy (Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 107 members
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  • Never Let Me Go on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Carey Mulligan,  Andrew Garfield
    Director: Mark Romanek
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As children, Ruth (Knightley), Kathy (Mulligan) and Tommy (Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 17,939 members
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  • Life During Wartime on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ally Sheedy,  Gaby Hoffmann,  Allison Janney
    Director: Todd Solondz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill (Hinds), Trish (Janney) is about to be married again. Bill is a pedophile, so Trish couldn't be more excited to have Harvey (Lerner), a "normal" father figure for her two sons. But when Bill is released from prison and the boys finally meet their future ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,346 member
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  • The Duchess on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Ralph Fiennes,  Hayley Atwell
    Director: Saul Dibb
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Like her direct descendent Princess Diana, Georgina Duchess of Devonshire was a glamorous royal, much loved by the public. While her attractiveness and charm afforded her popularity, the intelligent and vulnerable Duchess was trapped within a loveless marriage to one of the country's richest men. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 44,904 members
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  • Babylon A.D. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Vin Diesel,  Michelle Yeoh,  Melanie Thierry
    Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America in a post-apocalyptic world. But it isn't long before they are pursued by warring factions who are both determined to take the girl, and it is up to Thoorop to stop them.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 14,231 members
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  • The Duchess - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Ralph Fiennes,  Hayley Atwell
    Director: Saul Dibb
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    After PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and ATONEMENT, Keira Knightley continues her reign as the queen of the period film with this 18th-century costume drama. The corset-clad actress stars as Georgiana Spenser, the Duchess of Devonshire. With her marriage to the duke (Ralph Fiennes), Georgiana achieves an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,554 members
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  • Angel on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Janine Duvitski,  Christopher Benjamin,  Lucy Russell
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon directs this lush adaptation of a novel by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor. ANGEL begins in England in 1905, with the beauty of the title (Romola Garai) ardently pursuing a career as a writer. Her book catches the fancy of the British public, and soon ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,774 member
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  • Lemming on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Laurent Lucas,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Dominik Moll
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a perfect home and a prestigious new engeneering job. But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss' disconcenrtingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent, unaccountably stuck in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,814 members
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  • Immortal on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Linda Hardy,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Enki Bilal
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    New York 2095. In a strange pyramid floating in the sky, the gods of ancient Egypt are judging Horus. In the city, a young women with blue hair and tears is arrested, but she has a secret power, even to herself.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 7,350 members
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  • Swimming Pool on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Charlotte Rampling,  Ludivine Sagnier,  Charles Dance
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Francois Ozon's SWIMMING POOL, Charlotte Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a prim and proper British author who has written a successful series of mystery-crime novels. However, when she visits her London publisher (Charles Dance) in a dour mood, wearing a depressive pout, and complains that she's no ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 10,039 members
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  • Augustus (2003)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Roger Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    AUGUSTUS - THE FIRST EMPEROR. The classic tale sees Augustus travelling to Spain in order to help Julius Caesar in his struggle against the troops of Pompey. After victory and assignment to Greece, Augustus hears of Caesar's assassination. What ensues is the story of a power struggle between ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 393 members
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  • The Statement on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Tilda Swinton,  Jeremy Northam
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    While a secret society of Catholic priests hide him in various French abbeys, a network of bitter Jewish assassins track him, and a determined judge attempts to use the law to pin a prison sentence on him. This highly wanted man is Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who committed war crimes--not only ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,826 member
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  • Summer Things on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Carole Bouquet,  Charlotte Rampling,  Lou Doillon
    Director: Michel Blanc
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Elizabeth's husband comes up with every excuse to stay in Paris with his mistress, Elizabeth invites friend Julie, with her screaming baby in tow, on holiday instead. Based on the Joseph Connolly novel.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,558 member
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  • Superstition on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sienna Guillory,  Mark Strong,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Kenneth Hope
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a baby of a wealthy Italian couple is killed during a mysterious fire, the attention is focused on their young nanny Julie, who is branded a witch by the press. Whilst her lawyer and a former psychiatrist try and clear her name it becomes clear that the fire is not the only supernatural ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 216 members
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  • The Fourth Angel (2001)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Forest Whitaker,  Jason Priestley
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Magazine editor, Jack Elgin, is left distraught after his wife and three children are murdered in a terrorist attack. The perpetrators are caught and to Jack's disbelief they are then released. It is then that he decides to take the law into his own hands and with the help of his friend Kate they ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 807 members
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  • Under The Sand on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Charlotte Rampling,  Jacques Nolot,  Bruno Cremer
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Marie and Jean are a married couple, set in the rhythms of a life spent together. As they begin their regular holiday at their country house, nothing seems amiss. But one day at the beach, while Marie naps in the sand, Jean goes for a swim and vanishes without a trace. Frantic, Marie combs the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,835 members
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  • Aberdeen (2000)
    Starring: Lena Headey,  Stellan Skarsgard,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Hans Petter Moland
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together - at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favour: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged, larger-than-life father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 21 members
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  • The Wings Of The Dove on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter,  Linus Roache,  Alison Elliott
    Director: Iain Softley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A social-climbing young woman gains a foothold in the late Victorian upper crust by virtue of her wealthy and cultured aunt's social connections, but finds marriage to her true love, a poor hack journalist, incompatible with her new station. She cooks up a plan to use her lover to bilk a guileless ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,280 members
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  • Hammers Over The Anvil on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Charlotte Rampling,  Frankie J. Holden
    Director: Ann Turner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Russell Crowe stars in this sensitive, moving Australian drama about a young crippled boy's coming of age. The boy, Alan, is stricken with polio, and his dream in life is to become a great horse rider like East Driscoll (Crowe), an enigmatic and reclusive figure in Alan's hometown. Alan is one of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 190 members
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  • D.O.A. on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Meg Ryan,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Rocky Morton,  Annabel Jankel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In D.O.A., a washed-up writer/college professor (Dennis Quaid) discovers one day that someone has slipped him a poison, leaving him with only 48 hours to live. He spends his final days searching for his murderer. This version is a remake of the classic film noir.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 732 members
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  • Angel Heart - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Mickey Rourke,  Robert De Niro,  Lisa Bonet
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 710 members
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  • Angel Heart on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Mickey Rourke,  Robert De Niro,  Lisa Bonet
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 9,726 members
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  • Max Mon Amour on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Charlotte Rampling,  Anthony Higgins,  Victoria Abril
    Director: Nagisa Oshima
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A suspicious husband discovers that the object of his wife's infidelity is none other than a chimpanzee named Max. Not wanting to appear old-fashioned, he invites the simian lover to move in. In his obssession to discover the reason for his wife's attraction to a beast, the husband loses sight of ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 163 members
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  • Stardust Memories on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Charlotte Rampling,  Woody Allen,  Jessica Harper
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sandy Bates is a comic filmmaker who no longer feels funny. When he ventures into serious cinema for a new challenge, he is not well received by the critics or the public, and he becomes depressed. Spending a weekend at Stardust Hotel during a retrospective showing of his films, Sandy reflects upon ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,226 member
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  • Orca The Killer Whale (1977)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Charlotte Rampling,  Will Sampson
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Like a reverse MOBY DICK, ORCA: THE KILLER WHALE stars Richard Harris as a fisherman who kills a male orca's pregnant mate, bringing the whale's vengeance upon a small coastal village and setting the stage for a final nautical showdown between man and beast. This suspenseful thriller co-stars ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 393 members
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  • Farewell My Lovely on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Charlotte Rampling,  John Ireland
    Director: Dick Richards
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    This remake of the 1944 film, 'Murder, My Sweet,' also based on the Raymond Chandler novel, concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that he is forced ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 765 members
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  • Zardoz on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Charlotte Rampling,  Sara Kestelman
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labour of the neanderthal Brutals, since in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,008 member
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  • The Night Porter on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Liliana Cavani
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The Night Porter is one of the most provocative and haunting films ever made. Dirk Bogarde gives a characteristically charismatic performance as a former Gestapo officer who has escaped his past by becoming the Night Porter of a hotel in Vienna. Guilt and remorse flood back when he meets Lucia (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,281 members
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  • The Damned on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Ingrid Thulin,  Helmut Berger
    Director: Luchino Visconti
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the nervous patriarch attempts to appease the Nazis by appointing a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,054 member
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  • Charles Dickens Collection (8 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Michael Hordern,  Maggie Smith,  Bob Hoskins
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Featuring a box set of the BBC adaptations of popular tales from Charles Dickens. Includes: 'The Pickwick Papers', 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'Martin Chuzzlewit', 'David Copperfield', 'A Tale Of Two Cities', 'Great Expectations', and 'Our Mutual Friend'.
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Charlotte Rampling facts

5 most recent films

Cleanskin - Blu-ray - 3 stars
The Mill And The Cross - 4.0 stars
Cleanskin - 3 stars
Melancholia - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Melancholia - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Duchess - 3.5 stars
The Verdict - 3.5 stars
The Duchess - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Angel Heart - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Charles Dickens Collection - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cleanskin - 3 stars
The Eye of the Storm - 3 stars
Cleanskin - Blu-ray - 3 stars
The Actress' Ball - 1.5 stars
The Cherry Orchard - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Keira Knightley - 5 times - show films
George Sampson - 4 times - show films
James Mason - 4 times - show films
Chris Wilson - 4 times - show films
Tameka Empson - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 9 times - show films
Max Giwa - 4 times - show films
Dania Pasquini - 4 times - show films
Robert L. Rosen - 3 times - show films
Sidney Lumet - 3 times - show films