Lambert Wilson
Actor
Lambert Wilson (born August 3, 1958) is a French actor. He is internationally known for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix movies.
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De Gaulle (2020)
As: Le Général de Gaulle
Directed by: Gabriel Le Bomin
Stars: Andrew Bicknell | Lambert Wilson | Olivier Gourmet | Isabelle Carré | Sophie Quinton
The Translators (2019)
As: Éric Angstrom
Nine translators have been picked by a ruthless publisher and locked in a luxury bunker to translate the highly anticipated book of a famous author in record time. Although the translators are confined to prevent any kind of leak because of the high financial stakes, a crisis erupts when someone posts the first 10 pages of the novel online and blackmails the publisher to pay 5 million euros. A hunt for the ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Régis Roinsard
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Riccardo Scamarcio | Sidse Babett Knudsen | Olga Kurylenko | Alex Lawther
Les guerres de Coco Chanel (2019)
As: Narrator (voice)
Directed by: Jean Lauritano
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Coco Chanel
Volontaire (2018)
As: Rivière
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the rules that apply within the institution. But Laure is a determined woman, and she has a thirst for knowledge – still. A thirst to learn to get to know and ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Hélène Fillières
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Alex Descas | Diane Rouxel | Corentin Fila | Igor Kovalsky
In Your Hands (2018)
As: Pierre Geithner
A young man from a modest family gets the chance of a lifetime to reveal his hidden talent for piano but can he find the strength and courage to live up to the challenge?
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Ludovic Bernard
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Kristin Scott Thomas | André Marcon | Karidja Touré | Jules Benchetrit
Blessed Virgin (2018)
As: The Nuncio
The story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 15th century nun who was hailed as a visionary but later accused of fabricated miracles, homosexuality and other charges, and imprisoned for 35 years.
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Olivier Rabourdin | Charlotte Rampling | Virginie Efira | Daphne Patakia
The Royal Exchange (2017)
As: Philippe V
In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-year-old Spanish infanta. The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14-year-old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Madrid responds ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Marc Dugain
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Olivier Gourmet | Anamaria Vartolomei | Juliane Lepoureau | Igor van Dessel
Corporate (2017)
As: Stéphane Froncart
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the higher-ups' requirements. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. Afflicted by the terrific death of her colleague, she ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Silhol
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Stéphane De Groodt | Alice de Lencquesaing | Céline Sallette | Violaine Fumeau
Like Mother, Like Daughter (2017)
As: Marc
An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Noémie Saglio
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jean-Luc Bideau | Juliette Binoche | Stéfi Celma | Camille Cottin
L'Empereur (2017)
As: Le Narrateur
A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Luc Jacquet
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Lambert Wilson
The Odyssey (2016)
As: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Biopic of the great French ocean-going adventurer and filmmaker
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Jérôme Salle
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Pierre Niney | Laurent Lucas | Audrey Tautou | Benjamin Lavernhe
Tout de suite maintenant (2016)
As: Barsac
Workplace drama doesn’t get any messier than in this intriguingly knotty tale of corporate backbiting and buried secrets. Nora (Agathe Bonitzer) is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses (Lambert Wilson and Pascal Greggory) share a tumultuous history with her prickly mathematician father (Jean-Pierre Bacri). Meanwhile, ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Pascal Bonitzer
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Isabelle Huppert | Agathe Bonitzer | Jean-Pierre Bacri | Vincent Lacoste
Le confessioni (2016)
As: Kis
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Roberto Andò
Stars: Connie Nielsen | Moritz Bleibtreu | Pierfrancesco Favino | Toni Servillo | Daniel Auteuil
Hugo Pratt, trait pour trait (2016)
As: Narrator (voice)
Runtime: 56 min.
Directed by: Thierry Thomas
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Hugo Pratt
One Man and his Cow (2016)
As: Philippe
An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Mohamed Hamidi
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jamel Debbouze | Julia Piaton | Fatsah Bouyahmed | Hajar Masdouki
Qui n'a pas sa part d'ombre (2016)
As: Voix off
The Finance Minister is cornered by journalists. The news is out, they've found proof of his hidden account in Switzerland. Scandal! Shame! He should resign! How did things get to this point? In order to find an escape plan, the minister digs deep into his past.
Runtime: 15 min.
Directed by: Léo Favier
Stars: Lambert Wilson
Assolo (2016)
As: Michele
Directed by: Laura Morante
Stars: Carolina Crescentini | Piera Degli Esposti | Laura Morante | Marco Giallini | Francesco Pannofino
Rabid Dogs (2015)
As: The Father
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Éric Hannezo
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Virginie Ledoyen | François Arnaud | Guillaume Gouix | Franck Gastambide
Suite Française (2015)
As: Viscount de Montmort
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Saul Dibb
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas | Michelle Williams | Matthias Schoenaerts | Sam Riley | Ruth Wilson
Posthumous (2014)
As: Daniel S. Volpe
After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Lulu Wang
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jack Huston | Tom Schilling | Nikolai Kinski | Brit Marling
Les ailes de Johnny May (2014)
As: Narrator
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Marc Fafard
Stars: Lambert Wilson
The Nostalgist (2014)
As: The Man
In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim ...
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: Giacomo Cimini
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Samuel Joslin | Darrell D'Silva
Barbecue (2014)
As: Antoine
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Eric Lavaine
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jérôme Commandeur | Franck Dubosc | Florence Foresti | Guillaume de Tonquédec
5 to 7 (2014)
As: Valery Pierpont
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Victor Levin
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Anton Yelchin | Frank Langella | Olivia Thirlby | Bérénice Marlohe
Vinodentro (2013)
As: Professore
For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo Da Ponte in his libretto for "Don Giovanni" by Mozart. The instant he tasted the blood-red drop of nectar John felt a sort of pleasant and mysterious explosion of the senses, and from that moment on, his nature is transformed. In just three years, from shy ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani
Stars: Erika Blanc | Vincenzo Amato | Pietro Sermonti | Giovanna Mezzogiorno | Gioele Dix
Bicycling with Molière (2013)
As: Gauthier Valence
Serge Tanneur (Fabrice Luchini) is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence (Lambert Wilson), a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serge a role in his directorial debut – a rendition of Molière’s classic play, “The Misanthrope”. Serge refuses ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Fabrice Luchini | Maya Sansa | Philippe du Janerand | Camille Japy
Ernest et Célestine (2012)
As: Ernest (voice)
Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career; Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Renner | Vincent Patar | Stéphane Aubier
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Brigitte Virtudes | Patrice Melennec | Anne-Marie Loop | Pauline Brunner
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
As: Orphée #2
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Mathieu Amalric | Michel Piccoli | Anne Consigny | Sabine Azéma
State Conspiracy (2012)
As: Franck Barrot
French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, programmed bombs will explode gradually on the national railway network. Despite the operation deployed by the anti-terrorist unit, the Home Office has no other choice but to call Franck Barrot, police superintendent well-known for his controversial methods, to ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Laurent Herbiet
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Sabrina Ouazani | Didier Bezace | Arié Elmaleh | Smadi Wolfman
HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami (2012)
As: Général Pochero
When reporter Dan Geraldo (Alain Chabat) arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery... With his resourceful local guide Pablito (Jamel Debbouze), D an has one surprise after another during a thrilling adventure that allows him to bring the world some spectacular news: the Marsupilami, a mythical and mischievous animal, really does ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Alain Chabat
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jamel Debbouze | Fred Testot | Alain Chabat | Patrick Timsit
Blind Man (2012)
As: Narvik
A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Xavier Palud
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jacques Gamblin | Raphaëlle Agogué | David Capelle | Arnaud Cosson
Africa, Blood & Beauty (2012)
This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapshots of their traditional lifestyles before they are gone for good.
Directed by: Sergey Yastrzhembsky
Stars: Lambert Wilson
The Princess of Montpensier (2010)
As: François de Chabannes
Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Mélanie Thierry | Gaspard Ulliel | Raphaël Personnaz
Of Gods and Men (2010)
As: Christian
French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Xavier Beauvois
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Olivier Rabourdin | Michael Lonsdale | Philippe Laudenbach | Jacques Herlin
Imogène McCarthery (2010)
As: Samuel Tyler
Elle est rousse. Elle est écossaise. Elle aime le rugby et la cornemuse. Elle vit à Londres, mais se considère en exil. Elle a un fichu caractère et une sacrée descente au whisky. Elle s’appelle Imogène Mc Carthery… du clan des McLeod !
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Alexandre Charlot | Franck Magnier
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Lionel Abelanski | Danièle Lebrun | Michel Aumont | Catherine Frot
Victor (2009)
As: Courcelle
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Thomas Gilou
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Sara Forestier | Clémentine Célarié | Pierre Richard | Antoine Duléry
Comme les autres (2008)
As: Docteur Emmanuel François Xavier Bernier dit / Manu
They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge, at the risk of losing Philippe. But how do you make a child when you are gay?
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Vincent Garenq
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Pilar López de Ayala | Anne Brochet | Pascal Elbé | Andrée Damant
The Lazarus Project (2008)
As: Avery
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: John Glenn
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Linda Cardellini | Paul Walker | Piper Perabo | Shawn Hatosy
Babylon A.D. (2008)
As: Darquandier
In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Vin Diesel | Charlotte Rampling | Michelle Yeoh | Mélanie Thierry
The Great Alibi (2008)
As: Pierre Collier
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Pascal Bonitzer
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Pierre Arditi | Miou-Miou | Anne Consigny | Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Dante 01 (2008)
As: Saint-Georges
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Marc Caro
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Bruno Lochet | Dominique Pinon | Linh Đan Phạm | Simona Maicanescu
Flawless (2007)
As: Finch
A female executive (Demi Moore) and a night janitor (Michael Caine) conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Michael Radford
Stars: Michael Caine | Lambert Wilson | Nathaniel Parker | Demi Moore | Shaughan Seymour
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007)
As: Lucky Luke (Stimme franz. Fassung)
The Daltons have escaped to New York, where their accumulated loot is hidden in the carts of Monsieur Pierre's group of honest, naive European immigrants, who naively bought land in California from Crook, who inserted a clause they must claim it within 80 days. Joe emotionally blackmails Luke to guide them there, hoping to escape on the way. The usual route must shortened from 6 to 2 months, so no danger ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Olivier Jean-Marie
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Clovis Cornillac | Bernard Alane | François Morel | Edgar Givry
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
As: Dan
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Laura Morante | Pierre Arditi | André Dussollier | Sabine Azéma
Gentille (2005)
As: Philipe
As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou (Emmanuelle Devos) is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he looks normal, but she's sorry, she doesn't have time to have coffee with him. When he convincingly protests that he was not following her, she apologizes and asks him to have coffee. Fontaine would seem to have a relatively ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Sophie Fillières
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Michael Lonsdale | Julie-Anne Roth | Bulle Ogier | Emmanuelle Devos
Royal Palace (2005)
As: Prince Arnaud
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Valérie Lemercier
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Catherine Deneuve | Denis Podalydès | Mathilde Seigner | Valérie Lemercier
L'Anniversaire (2005)
As: Raphaël
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Diane Kurys
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Michèle Laroque | Antoine Duléry | Pierre Palmade
Sahara (2005)
As: Yves Massarde
Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Breck Eisner
Stars: Lennie James | William H. Macy | Penélope Cruz | Steve Zahn | Matthew McConaughey
Catwoman (2004)
As: George Hedare
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat -- and she's eager to use her new skills ... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse," handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Pitof
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Frances Conroy | Benjamin Bratt | Sharon Stone | Halle Berry
People Jet set 2 (2004)
As: Frère Arthus
John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and everyone will queue to get on the guest list. The former party prince among the jet setters in Paris, Charles de Poulignac, is therefore in no doubt about where he should go in order to revenge his former clients. He flies to Ibiza, where he hopes to make an ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Fabien Onteniente
Stars: Elie Semoun | José Garcia | Rupert Everett | Ornella Muti | Patrice Cols
Timeline (2003)
As: Lord Arnaut
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: David Thewlis | Paul Walker | Gerard Butler | Frances O'Connor | Billy Connolly
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
As: The Merovingian
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Lilly Wachowski | Lana Wachowski
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Keanu Reeves | Laurence Fishburne | Carrie-Anne Moss | Mary Alice
Labyrinth (2003)
As: Brennac
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: René Manzor
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Sylvie Testud | Michel Duchaussoy | Frédéric Diefenthal | Edouard Montoute
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
As: The Merovingian
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of ...
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Lilly Wachowski | Lana Wachowski
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Keanu Reeves | Laurence Fishburne | Carrie-Anne Moss | Helmut Bakaitis
It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
As: Aurelio
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade | Chiara Mastroianni | Denis Podalydès | Roberto Herlitzka | Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
The Holy Child (2001)
As: Pere Marc Aubray
Marc (Lambert Wilson) is a man of the cloth who's gained a bit of celebrity for his public espousal of religious celibacy. In fact, he's even written a book about the subject. But Marc's 15 minutes of fame could be up when a bratty teenager turns up claiming to be the priest's son. Together, they forge a pact that will keep the "secret" under wraps … but all bets are off when the celibate ...
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Stéphane Clavier
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Marthe Villalonga | Agathe Teyssier | Adrien Aumont
Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
As: Sebatol / un Pirate
Raul Ruiz's Love Torn in a Dream is introduced with a fake newsreel, taking place in postwar France, in which the cast of the film meet with the producer, who explains the film's complex weave of nine narratives. A diagram in which each story is represented by a letter of the alphabet explicates the intertwining of the nine tales. As the producer explains each actor's role, the film begins. The ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Raúl Ruiz
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Melvil Poupaud | Diogo Dória | Elsa Zylberstein | Christian Vadim
Jet Set (2000)
As: Arthus de Poulignac
Pour sauver leur bar de la faillite, Jimmy et Fifi, deux potes de banlieue, ont une illumination: faire venir la jet-set parisienne, cette caste habituee a avoir sa photo dans les magazines people. Pour reussir, ils demandent a Mike, beau gosse et comedien au chomage, d'infiltrer la jet pour se constituer un carnet d'adresses de VIP. Au milieu des stars ephemeres du show-biz, des fils a papa, des veuves de ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Fabien Onteniente
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Lorànt Deutsch | Estelle Larrivaz | Samuel Le Bihan | Bruno Solo
The Last September (2000)
As: Hugo Montmorency
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Deborah Warner
Stars: Richard Roxburgh | Maggie Smith | Michael Gambon | David Tennant | Keeley Hawes
Don Quixote (2000)
As: Duke
The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Peter Yates
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Bob Hoskins | Isabella Rossellini | John Lithgow | Vanessa Williams
Trop (peu) d'amour (1998)
As: Paul
Seventeen-year-old Emma is invited to filmmaker Paul’s house after sending him the outline of a film. Ostensibly there to work on the outline with him she spends her time flirting with Paul, his wife, and his daughter.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jérémie Lippmann | Lou Doillon | Alexia Stresi | Elise Perrier
Same Old Song (1997)
As: Marc Duveyrier
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Stars: Pierre Arditi | André Dussollier | Jean-Pierre Bacri | Agnès Jaoui | Sabine Azéma
Marquise (1997)
As: Racine
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Véra Belmont
Stars: Sophie Marceau | Lambert Wilson | Thierry Lhermitte | Patrick Timsit | Bernard Giraudeau
The Leading Man (1996)
As: Felix Webb
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: John Duigan
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jon Bon Jovi | Thandie Newton | Anna Galiena | Barry Humphries
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
As: Marquis de Lafayette
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally ...
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: James Ivory
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow | Nick Nolte | Greta Scacchi | Thandie Newton | Jean-Pierre Aumont
Frankenstein (1992)
As: Clerval
In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation (Randy Quaid, National Lampoon’s Vacation) disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would ...
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: David Wickes
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Randy Quaid | John Mills | Patrick Bergin | Fiona Gillies
Warszawa. Année 5703 (1992)
As: Alek
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Janusz Kijowski
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Hanna Schygulla | Julie Delpy | Piotr Cieslak | Władysław Kowalski
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre (1989)
As: L'abbé Pierre
Runtime: 102 min.
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Claudia Cardinale | Robert Hirsch | Bernie Bonvoisin | Antoine Vitez
Suivez Cet Avion (1989)
In this screwball crime comedy, a perfectly innocent computer jockey (Lambert Wilson) becomes the prime suspect in a bank robbery. Among the tribulations he must suffer is that the real culprit is his landlady. Another source of suffering for the poor man is his extremely strong-willed mother, whose wants must be catered to. Meanwhile, he is being rabidly pursued by one of his female coworkers, who has ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Patrice Ambard
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Clovis Cornillac | Isabelle Gélinas | Claude Piéplu | Maria Meriko
La Vouivre (1989)
As: Arsène Muselier
Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury. As he renews his acquaintance with the people he left behind - his mother, the old farmhand who brought him up after his father's death, his former girlfriend, and many others - he becomes fascinated by the legend of La Vouivre, a creature ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Georges Wilson
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jean Carmet | Macha Méril | Jacques Dufilho | Suzanne Flon
El Dorado (1988)
As: Ursúa
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Runtime: 149 min.
Directed by: Carlos Saura
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Eusebio Poncela Aprea | Omero Antonutti | Inés Sastre
The Possessed (1988)
As: Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin
French-polish movie adaptation of the novel by Dostoievski (also known as Demons), directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Isabelle Huppert | Bernard Blier | Omar Sharif | Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
As: Caspasian Speckler
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Brian Dennehy | Chloe Webb | Stefania Casini | Sergio Fantoni
Chouans! (1987)
As: Tarquin
L'histoire d'une famille noble et éclairée, celle du comte Savinien de Kerfadec, lors des grandes révoltes chouannes dans les campagnes vendeenne et bretonne. L'histoire de ses enfants, dechirés entre le souffle de l'esprit révolutionnaire et la resistance épique des blancs a la montée de l'opportuniste bourgeoisie.
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Philippe de Broca
Stars: Sophie Marceau | Lambert Wilson | Philippe Noiret | Stéphane Freiss | Roger Dumas
Corps et biens (1986)
As: Michel Sauvage
The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Danielle Darrieux | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Dominique Sanda
Blue Hell (1986)
As: Ned
Ned, a petty criminal, falls into the trap laid by Frank, a sadistic cop who, after having beaten him, takes him home. But Frank's wife Lily helps Ned escape and they fall in love.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Yves Boisset
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Tchéky Karyo | Agnès Soral | Myriem Roussel
La storia (1986)
Directed by Luigi Comencini.
Runtime: 240 min.
Directed by: Luigi Comencini
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Claudia Cardinale | Francisco Rabal
Red Kiss (1985)
As: Stéphane
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Véra Belmont
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Marthe Keller | Charlotte Valandrey | Laurent Terzieff | Günter Lamprecht
L'Homme aux Yeux d'Argent (1985)
After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Juliette Brac | Tanya Lopert | Alain Souchon
Rendez-vous (1985)
As: Quentin
A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous dismay, she's willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot's friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won't take him as a ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: André Téchiné
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Dominique Lavanant | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Juliette Binoche | Wadeck Stanczak
The Public Woman (1984)
As: Milan Mliska
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Andrzej Żuławski
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Francis Huster | Patrick Bauchau | Valérie Kaprisky | Giselle Pascal
The Blood of Others (1984)
As: Paul
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Sam Neill | Jodie Foster | Stéphane Audran | Michael Ontkean
Sahara (1983)
As: Jaffar
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: John Rhys-Davies | Lambert Wilson | Brooke Shields | Horst Buchholz | Ronald Lacey
La Boum 2 (1982)
As: Félix Maréchal
The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Claude Pinoteau
Stars: Sophie Marceau | Claude Brasseur | Brigitte Fossey | Denise Grey | Pierre Cosso
Five Days One Summer (1982)
As: Johann Biari
A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Sean Connery | Lambert Wilson | Betsy Brantley | Isabel Dean | Jennifer Hilary
Hamlet Revenant ()
A modern-day version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', which explores a young man's psyche as he contemplates avenging his father's death.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Ken McMullen
Stars: Ian McKellen | Connie Nielsen | Gabriel Byrne | Mikkel Boe Følsgaard | Maria Boda