Julie Christie
Actor
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England where she attended boarding school. In 1961, she began her acting career in a BBC television series, and the following year, she had her first major film role in a romantic comedy. In 1965, she became known to international audiences as the model "Diana Scott" in the film Darling. That same year she played the part of "Lara" in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood (2015)
Runtime: 53 min.
Directed by: Olivier Nicklaus
Stars: Isabelle Adjani | Chiara Mastroianni | Annette Bening | Warren Beatty | Leslie Caron
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... (2015)
The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look Now, Performance, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Roeg reflects on his career, which began as a leading cinematographer, and on the themes that have obsessed him, such as our perception of time and the difficulty of human relationships.
Runtime: 65 min.
Directed by: David Thompson
Stars: Donald Sutherland | Julie Christie | Jenny Agutter | Luc Roeg | Dilly Barlow
The Company You Keep (2012)
As: Mimi Lurie
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Robert Redford
Stars: Nick Nolte | Susan Sarandon | Robert Redford | Shia LaBeouf | Julie Christie
Final Cut - Ladies & Gentlemen (2012)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: György Pálfi
Stars: Isabelle Adjani | Julie Andrews | Fanny Ardant | Agustín Almodóvar | Rosanna Arquette
Red Riding Hood (2011)
As: Grandmother
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Stars: Gary Oldman | Billy Burke | Shiloh Fernandez | Amanda Seyfried | Max Irons
Glorious 39 (2009)
As: Aunt Elizabeth
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff
Stars: Bill Nighy | Juno Temple | Julie Christie | Romola Garai | Eddie Redmayne
New York, I Love You (2008)
As: Isabelle (segment "Shekhar Kapur")
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Natalie Portman | Jiang Wen | Randall Balsmeyer | Shekhar Kapur | Joshua Marston | Brett Ratner | Shunji Iwai | Yvan Attal | Allen Hughes | Mira Nair | Fatih Akin
Stars: Natalie Portman | Irrfan Khan | Hayden Christensen | Rachel Bilson | Andy García
Away from Her (2006)
As: Fiona
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Sarah Polley
Stars: Michael Murphy | Gordon Pinsent | Olympia Dukakis | Julie Christie | Kristen Thomson
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
As: Inge
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate moments together that will change their lives forever.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Isabel Coixet
Stars: Tim Robbins | Javier Cámara | Sarah Polley | Danny Cunningham | Dean Lennox Kelly
Garbo (2005)
As: Narrator
An original (2005) documentary from Turner Classic Movies narrated by Julie Christie.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Christopher Bird | Kevin Brownlow
Stars: Julie Christie | Greta Garbo
Finding Neverland (2004)
As: Mrs. Emma du Maurier
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece “Peter Pan.”
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Marc Forster
Stars: Kate Winslet | Johnny Depp | Freddie Highmore | Julie Christie | Dustin Hoffman
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
As: Madame Rosmerta
Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for another magic-filled year. Harry comes face to face with danger yet again, this time in the form of escaped convict, Sirius Black – and turns to sympathetic Professor Lupin for help.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Gary Oldman | David Thewlis | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
Troy (2004)
As: Thetis
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off ...
Runtime: 163 min.
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Brian Cox | Brad Pitt | Sean Bean | Orlando Bloom | Eric Bana
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
As: Herself
Documentary on the effects of 1970s filmmaking.
Runtime: 152 min.
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese | Ted Demme
Stars: Robert Altman | Julie Christie | Sydney Pollack | Francis Ford Coppola | Paul Schrader
Snapshots (2002)
As: Narma
An aging hippy and a beautiful young woman meet in Amsterdam and find love.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Rudolf van den Berg
Stars: Carmen Chaplin | Burt Reynolds | Julie Christie | Jemima Rooper
No Such Thing (2001)
As: Dr. Anna
Tells the story of Beatrice (Sarah Polley), a tabloid journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. She ends up falling in love with the monster in the end. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by contacting a scientist who can destroy matter painlessly.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Hal Hartley
Stars: Helen Mirren | Sarah Polley | Robert John Burke | Julie Christie | Margrét Ákadóttir
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)
As: Glenda Spender
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Jean-Paul Salomé
Stars: Sophie Marceau | Michel Serrault | Frédéric Diefenthal | Julie Christie
The Miracle Maker (2000)
As: Rachel
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Derek W. Hayes | Stanislav M. Sokolov
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | James Frain | Julie Christie | Michael Bryant | Rebecca Callard
Afterglow (1997)
As: Phyllis Mann
A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Stars: Nick Nolte | Lara Flynn Boyle | Jay Underwood | Julie Christie | Jonny Lee Miller
Hamlet (1996)
As: Gertrude
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Runtime: 242 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Kate Winslet | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Briers | Julie Christie
DragonHeart (1996)
As: Queen Aislinn
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Rob Cohen
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | David Thewlis | Dina Meyer | Dennis Quaid | Julie Christie
The Railway Station Man (1992)
As: Helen Cuffe
An Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bombing, gradually learns that the American man she has become involved with is not who he seems.
Directed by: Michael Whyte
Stars: John Lynch | Mark Tandy | Ingrid Craigie | Donald Sutherland | Julie Christie
Fools of Fortune (1990)
As: Mrs Quinton
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: Julie Christie | Iain Glen | Tom Hickey | Michael Kitchen | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Dadah Is Death (1988)
As: Barbara Barlow
On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to ...
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: Jerry London
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Sarah Jessica Parker | John Polson | Julie Christie | Kerry Armstrong
Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films (1987)
As: Narrator
A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison and broke out of jail to edit "Yol". The film includes the last interview Guney did before his death.
Runtime: 53 min.
Directed by: Jane Cousins-Mills
Stars: Julie Christie | Yılmaz Güney
Väter und Söhne (1986)
As: Charlotte Deutz geb. von Döring
Directed by: Bernhard Sinkel
Stars: Bruno Ganz | Rüdiger Vogler | Dieter Laser | Julie Christie | Burt Lancaster
Miss Mary (1986)
As: Mary Mulligan
A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: María Luisa Bemberg
Stars: Julie Christie
Power (1986)
As: Ellen Freeman
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Denzel Washington | Richard Gere | Kate Capshaw | Gene Hackman | Julie Christie
Champagne amer (1986)
As: Betty Rivière
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Henri Vart | Ridha Behi
Stars: Amidou | Patrick Bruel | Jean Carmet | Julie Christie | Ben Gazzara
Heat and Dust (1983)
As: Anne
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: James Ivory
Stars: Greta Scacchi | Christopher Cazenove | Julian Glover | Patrick Godfrey | Susan Fleetwood
The Gold Diggers (1983)
As: Ruby
An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Sally Potter
Stars: George Antoni | Julie Christie | David Gale | Kassandra Colson | Colette Laffont
Separate tables (1983)
As: Mrs. Shankland / Miss Railton-Bell
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a meek woman harbors a secret love for a man accused of fraud and sex offenses, forcing her to take a stand for the first time in her life.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Stars: Claire Bloom | Irene Worth | Alan Bates | Julie Christie | Sylvia Barter
The Return of the Soldier (1982)
As: Kitty Baldry
The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock--not even his long-term marriage to snooty Julie Christie. Spinsterish Ann-Margret, who has long harbored a fondness for Bates, hopes to take advantage of his memory loss. But both Christie and Ann-Margret are challenged by a third woman, Bates' childhood sweetheart Glenda Jackson. ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Alan Bridges
Stars: Ian Holm | Ann-Margret | Alan Bates | Julie Christie | Glenda Jackson
The Roaring Forties (1982)
The Last Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is a non-fiction book by Ron Hall and Nicholas Tomblin about a man who first cheated to win an international sailing competition and then disappeared from his sailboat in the final lap of the race -- a story that serves as the inspiration for this film. Director Christian de Chalonge and writer Andre G. Brunelin have changed the setting to France, ...
Directed by: Christian de Chalonge
Stars: Michel Serrault | Julie Christie | Jacques Perrin
The Animals Film (1981)
As: Narrator (voice)
The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Myriam Alaux | Victor Schonfeld
Stars: Julie Christie | Sandy Dennis
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
As: 'D'
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: David Gladwell
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne | Julie Christie | Leonie Mellinger | Christopher Guard | Debbie Hutchings
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
As: Betty Logan
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Buck Henry | Warren Beatty
Stars: Charles Grodin | Jack Warden | Warren Beatty | Julie Christie | James Mason
Demon Seed (1977)
As: Susan Harris
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Donald Cammell
Stars: Lisa Lu | Gerrit Graham | Julie Christie | Berry Kroeger | Fritz Weaver
Nashville (1975)
As: Herself
This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected to the music business in Nashville. Barbara Jean is the reigning queen of Nashville but is near collapse. Linnea and Delbert Reese have a shaky marriage and 2 deaf children. Opal is a British journalist touring the area. These and other stories come together in a dramatic climax.
Runtime: 160 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Karen Black | Ned Beatty | David Arkin | Barbara Baxley | Ronee Blakley
Shampoo (1975)
As: Jackie Shawn
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Stars: Jack Warden | Warren Beatty | Julie Christie | Goldie Hawn | Lee Grant
Don't Look Now (1973)
As: Laura Baxter
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it seems too good to be true. Perhaps it is...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Donald Sutherland | Clelia Matania | Julie Christie | Hilary Mason | Massimo Serato
The Go-Between (1971)
As: Lady Marian Trimingham
Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Stars: Alan Bates | Julie Christie | Margaret Leighton | Michael Redgrave | Dominic Guard
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
As: Constance Miller
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: William Devane | John Schuck | Warren Beatty | Julie Christie | Rene Auberjonois
In Search Of Gregory (1969)
As: Catherine Morelli
Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a near nymphomaniac pursuit of a mystery man called Gregory.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Peter Wood
Stars: John Hurt | Michael Sarrazin | Julie Christie | Adolfo Celi | Paola Pitagora
Petulia (1968)
As: Petulia Danner
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Shirley Knight | George C. Scott | Julie Christie | Arthur Hill | Richard Chamberlain
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)
As: Herself
Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a different theme underscored by music: A early version of Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive” plays behind some arty nightclub scenes, while Chris Farlowe’s rendition of the Rolling Stones’ “Out ...
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Michael Caine | Julie Christie | Mick Jagger | Allen Ginsberg | Vashti Bunyan
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
As: Bathsheba Everdene
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Runtime: 168 min.
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Stars: Terence Stamp | Fiona Walker | Alan Bates | Julie Christie | Peter Finch
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
As: Clarisse / Linda Montag
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: François Truffaut
Stars: Julie Christie | Anton Diffring | Cyril Cusack | Oskar Werner | Bee Duffell
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
As: Lara Antipova
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adaptation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other yet because of their current situation cannot find a way be together.
Runtime: 197 min.
Directed by: David Lean
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin | Alec Guinness | Rod Steiger | Julie Christie | Omar Sharif
Darling (1965)
As: Diana Scott
A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Stars: Julie Christie | Dirk Bogarde | Laurence Harvey | Roland Curram | José Luis de Villalonga
Young Cassidy (1965)
As: Daisy Battles
Dublin playwright Sean O'Casey (Rod Taylor) loves a librarian (Maggie Smith), sleeps with a chorus girl (Julie Christie) and meets Yeats.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: John Ford | Jack Cardiff
Stars: Maggie Smith | Julie Christie | Edith Evans | Rod Taylor | Michael Redgrave
Billy Liar (1963)
As: Liz
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Stars: Mona Washbourne | Finlay Currie | Wilfred Pickles | Ethel Griffies | Tom Courtenay
The Fast Lady (1962)
As: Claire
A Scottish civil servant (Stanley Baxter) must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's (Julie Christie) tycoon father (James Robertson Justice).
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Ken Annakin
Stars: Leslie Phillips | Julie Christie | Stanley Baxter | James Robertson Justice | Kathleen Harrison
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
As: Babette LaVern
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ken Annakin
Stars: Leslie Phillips | Julie Christie | Stanley Baxter | Wilfrid Hyde-White | James Robertson Justice