Michael Lonsdale Movies

A paean to Darwin and his theories, this documentary on the increasing complexity of life forms as they go up the evolutionary scale is fascinating...

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...

Constructed like an animated painting in a single fixed shot where light, voice, music and movements interfere.

Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing...

A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send...

Summer is slowly drawing to a close. Jeanne, in her sixties, is abandoned on the side of the road with her suitcase. With nowhere else to go, Jeanne...

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...

After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.

Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by...

A budding electronica artist gives up his shot at stardom to pursue a woman from a telephone dating network.

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful,...

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

A meditation on the passing of time, on a film that was never completed, upon Bazin’s death, on restoration and the future of ruins and on...

The demoness Sylvie Bréal offers voyeurs a breast to die for. Notable for being the first French feature shot on video.

A TV film of the play by Edward Albee. Mild-mannered, complacent Peter is startled when an aggressive stranger, Jerry, starts haranguing him as he...

Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed...

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

The life and work of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made...

Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.