Movies with Michael Lonsdale

007 Moonraker

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

Starring: Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Geoffrey Keen

Directors: Lewis Gilbert

Country: UK, France

Year: 1979

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

When a U.S. space shuttle is stolen in a midair hijacking, only Bond can find the evil genius responsible. The clues point to billionaire Hugo Drax, who has devised a scheme to destroy all human life on earth! As Bond races against time to stop Drax's evil plot, he joins forces with Dr. Holly Goodhead, a NASA scientist who is as beautiful as she is brilliant. And 007 needs all the help he can get, for Drax's henchman is none other Bond's old nemesis Jaws, the indestructible steel-toothed giant. Their adventure leads all the way to a gigantic space station, where the stage is set for an epic battle for the fate of all mankind.

 

The Bunker

Genres: Drama, History, War

Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Hopkins, James Naughton, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Martin Jarvis, Michael Lonsdale

Directors: George Schaefer

Country: USA, France

Year: 1981

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

 

The Name of the Rose

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Ron Perlman, Christian Slater, William Hickey, Sean Connery, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Vernon Dobtcheff, Leopoldo Trieste

Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Country: Italy, West Germany, France

Year: 1986

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accu...

 

Munich

Genres: Thriller, Drama, History

Starring: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Lonsdale, Yvan Attal, Ayelet Zurer

Directors: Steven Spielberg

Country: USA, Canada, France

Year: 2005

In the wake of 1972 Munich Olympic tragedy, the Mossad retaliates by deploying a team of agents (led by Avner) in Europe to assassinate Palestinian terrorist leaders suspected of planning the attack, which left eleven Israeli athletes dead.

 

Goya's Ghosts

Genres: Drama

Starring: Javier Bardem, Randy Quaid, Frank Baker, Michael Lonsdale, Natalie Portman, Unax Ugalde, Mabel Rivera

Directors: Milos Forman

Country: USA, Spain

Year: 2006

The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter.

 

Bye Bye Blackbird

Genres: Drama

Starring: Derek Jacobi, Michael Lonsdale, Jodhi May, Izabella Miko, James Thiérrée

Directors: Robinson Savary

Country: Germany, UK, Luxembourg, Austria

Year: 2005

A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying gravity on the trapeze, however, he endeavors to pair Josef with his aerialist daughter Alice in a perilous sky-high pas de deux. Offers a romantic view of big top life, with a moth-eaten angel in his feathered, tattered costume.

 

The Trial

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Fantasy

Starring: Arnoldo Foà, Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider, Michael Lonsdale, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Jeanne Moreau

Directors: Orson Welles

Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, West Germany, France

Year: 1962

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.

 

Ronin

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Sean Bean, Robert De Niro, Natascha McElhone, Ron Perkins, Jonathan Pryce, Jean Reno, Jan Triska

Directors: John Frankenheimer

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1998

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. Dierdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about to sell it to the Russians. After the mission has been completed successfully, the suitcase immediately gets switched by a member of the team who seems to work into his own pocket. The complex net of everyone tricking everyone begins to surface slowly, and deadly...

 

Agora

Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama

Starring: Rachel Weisz, Manuel Cauchi, Rupert Evans, Oscar Isaac, Max Minghella, Michael Lonsdale, Homayoun Ershadi

Directors: Alejandro Amenábar

Country: Spain, Malta

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.

 

The Romantic Englishwoman

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Michael Caine, Kate Nelligan, Michael Lonsdale, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger, Nathalie Delon, Reinhard Kolldehoff

Directors: Joseph Losey

Country: UK, France

Year: 1975

What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had a brief encounter in a lift with a German who says he is a poet. Now the German is in England, gets himself invited to tea where he claims he admires Fielding's books. Which one does he like the best? "Tom Jones." Amused at being confused with the other Fielding, the novelist works the German into the plot.

 

Kaena: The Prophecy

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Greg Proops, Kirsten Dunst, Keith David, Michael McShane, Tom Kenny, Tara Strong

Directors: Chris Delaporte, Pascal Pinon

Country: Canada, France

Year: 2003

AXIS, a gigantic coiling plant, stretches high above the clouds... At its center is a village whose people are in mortal danger because Axis is withering... it's sap is drying up. The people beg their gods for help... but to no avail. Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds... A dying world, an evil force, a terrible secret...