Michael Lonsdale Movies

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller...

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him...

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...

Herbert, a Candide-like idealistic teenager, wants to become a doctor to help humanity, but his parents insist that he become a rich aviator. Herbert...

While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his...

Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men...

Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about...

A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of...

The 8th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Fictionalised documentary about Emile Reynau who invented the praxinoscope...

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own...

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to...

Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a...

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is...

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very...

When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between...

In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town.