Michael Lonsdale

Michael Lonsdale

May 24, 1931 · 95 years old

Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villa…

Known For

42 titles
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Munich

Munich

2005 · 2h 44m · Movie

After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.

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Ronin

Ronin

1998 · 2h 2m · Movie

A freelancing former U.S. intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that's wanted by both the Irish and the Russian governments.

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The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

1986 · 2h 10m · Movie

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

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Moonraker

Moonraker

1979 · 2h 6m · Movie

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

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The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

1993 · 2h 14m · Movie

A butler sacrifices love for duty in 1930s England.

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Agora

Agora

2009 · 2h 7m · Movie

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 Al...

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The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal

1973 · 2h 23m · Movie

In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.

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Goya's Ghosts

Goya's Ghosts

2006 · 1h 53m · Movie

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

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The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

1974 · 1h 44m · Movie

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

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Of Gods and Men

Of Gods and Men

2010 · 2h 2m · Movie

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

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Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses

1968 · 1h 31m · Movie

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.

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Murmur of the Heart

Murmur of the Heart

1971 · 1h 58m · Movie

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.

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Five Times Two

Five Times Two

2004 · 1h 30m · Movie

Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.

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The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black

1968 · 1h 47m · Movie

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

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Mr. Klein

Mr. Klein

1976 · 2h 3m · Movie

In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear ...

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Hibernatus

Hibernatus

1969 · 1h 22m · Movie

A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.

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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

1995 · 1h 46m · Movie

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.

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Kaena: The Prophecy

Kaena: The Prophecy

2003 · 1h 32m · Movie

On the distant planet Axis, rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl Kaena defies the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take a perilous journey and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.

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The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant

1985 · 1h 52m · Movie

The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.

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The Last Mistress

The Last Mistress

2007 · 1h 49m · Movie

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

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21
Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris

1995 · 2h 19m · Movie

Widower Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president 1801-09) lives in Paris 1785-90 with his daughter. He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France. He has an alleged affair with her resulting in children.

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India Song

India Song

1975 · 2h 0m · Movie

Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.

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23
The Bunker

The Bunker

1981 · 2h 30m · Movie

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

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Stavisky

Stavisky

1974 · 2h 0m · Movie

A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.

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The Passage

The Passage

1979 · 1h 38m · Movie

During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by underground operatives who want him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while they're being pursued by a sadistic German officer.

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Enigma

Enigma

1982 · 1h 41m · Movie

A C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.

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Special Section

Special Section

1975 · 1h 50m · Movie

In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

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Out 1

Out 1

1990 · 12h 56m · Movie

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

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The Romantic Englishwoman

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975 · 1h 56m · Movie

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.

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Free Men

Free Men

2011 · 1h 39m · Movie

In Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.

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Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

1974 · 1h 45m · Movie

A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora.

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Sotto falso nome

Sotto falso nome

2004 · 1h 45m · Movie

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

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La traque

La traque

1975 · 1h 37m · Movie

A young tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.

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Gebo and the Shadow

Gebo and the Shadow

2012 · 1h 35m · Movie

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

6.4
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Galileo

Galileo

1975 · 2h 25m · Movie

This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicu...

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Erendira

Erendira

1983 · 1h 43m · Movie

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 order to extract restitution from the gir...

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