Christopher Lambert Filmography

Trivial

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sophie Marceau, Nicolas Briancon, Simon Abkarian, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: A suicidal police detective travels from La Havre to Deauville at the behest of a mysterious femme fatale in the suspenseful sophomore feature from actress-turned-director Sophie Marceau. For Lt. Jacques Renard (Christopher Lambert), every night is a struggle. Rendered sleepless following the Read More

Day of Wrath

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: A 16th Century Spanish sheriff presiding over a provincial city attempts to solve a gruesome series of murders in this period thriller starring Christopher Lambert. When a number of high-ranking nobles are found viciously slaughtered with large letters carved into their chests, it's up to Read More

A Ton Image

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Lambert, Audrey Dewilder, Francine Bergé, Andrzej Seweryn

The Confessor

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Christian Slater, Molly Parker, Stephen Rea, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: A priest caught in the middle of a deadly murder investigation must risk his life to prove the innocence of a fellow clergyman in a tense, religious-themed thriller directed by Lewin Webb and starring Christian Slater. Daniel Clemens (Slater) is a fallen priest who has lost his faith. Now a loyal Read More

Janis et John

Actors: Sergi López, Marie Trintignant, François Cluzet, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: First-time director Samuel Benmchetrit's 2003 debut Janis et John (Janis and John) follows the comedic exploits of a down-on-his luck insurance salesman as he attempts to make up for some very poor financial decisions. Pablo Sterni (Sergi Lopez), the aforementioned insurance salesman, has, until Read More

Absolon

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kelly Brook, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: Storyboard artist David Barto directs the sci-fi action thriller Absolon, released straight-to-video following a very brief television premiere. In the near future, a virus has killed billions of people. The remaining humans rely on a drug called "Absolon" in order to survive. Norman Scott (Christopher Lambert Read More

The Target

Actors: Simon Majiba, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Lambert, Diane Kruger

Synopsis: As a notorious crime lord, Christo (Simon Majiba), is about to be released from a South African prison and Alex Laney (Christopher Lambert) is hired to protect corrupt accountant Robert Nile (Dennis Hopper), who has a history with Christo. With Nile's adult daughter (Diane Kruger) in tow, they go Read More

Druids

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Ines Sastre, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Synopsis: The life of the fabled Gallic leader Vercingetorix is brought to the screen in this epic international production. Young Vercingetorix came of age in 60 B.C., as soldiers of the Roman Empire ran roughshod over Gaul and his father was captured and executed by Romans. A wise and philosophical druid Read More

The Point Men

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Kerry Fox, Vincent Regan

Synopsis: In this espionage thriller, Christopher Lambert stars as Tony Eckhardt, an Israeli intelligence agent with the Mossad. Tony has a license to kill and he may be forced to put it to use as he finds himself chasing a notorious Palestinian terrorist who is determined to put a stop to peace Read More

Highlander: Endgame

Actors: Adrian Paul, Christopher Lambert, Bruce Payne, Lisa Barbuscia, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: In this fantasy adventure tale, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and his kinsman Duncan (Adrian Paul) are "Immortals," members of a secret clan who can be killed only through decapitation. Connor and Duncan find themselves thrown into a tournament where Immortals both good and evil battle one Read More

Beowulf

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Oliver Cotton, Götz Otto, Layla Roberts

Synopsis: The epic eighth-century poem of Saxon lore gets moved into the Scandinavian future in this science fiction adaptation of Beowulf. Here, Beowulf (Christopher Lambert) rescues a damsel in distress, Pendra (Patricia Velasquez), who is being menaced by two men with large swords and bad tempers. Read More

Resurrection

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jayne Eastwood, Barbara Tyson, Mike Anscombe, Christopher Lambert, James Kidnie

Synopsis: Christopher Lambert stars in this thriller about a psychotic serial killer whose M.O. is unusual even by the standards of his deadly trade. Beginning shortly before Easter, he begins accumulating body parts for a bizarre, grisly religious ritual -- he intends to reassemble the body of Christ in Read More

Fortress 2: Re-Entry

Actors: David Roberson, Aidan Rea, Christopher Lambert, Pam Grier, Patrick Malahide, Willie Garson, Beth Toussaint

Synopsis: In this follow-up to Fortress, Stuart Gordon's 1993 sci-fi adventure drama, John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Beth Toussaint) are once again on the run in a totalitarian regime of the future, where a multi-national corporation called Men-Tel has taken control of the world. Read More

Gideon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Shelley Winters, Charlton Heston, Carroll O'Connor, Shirley Jones

Synopsis: In the comic fable Gideon, the residents of the Lakeview Retirement Home are drifting through their final years with quiet dissatisfaction. A former cook (Carrol O'Connor) can't stand the food, a former fighter (Mike Connors) wishes he could still box, a one-time philosophy professor (Charlton Heston Read More

Nirvana

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: A computer virus endows Solo (Diego Abatantuono), the hero of a virtual reality game, with human consciousness, thereby creating all kinds of headaches for his creator Jimi (Christopher Lambert). The trouble begins in the futuristic metropolis of Northern Agglomerate three days before Christmas. Read More

Arlette

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Marie Bigard

Synopsis: A middle-aged, slightly pudgy and earthy waitress finds herself wooed by a handsome marine animal trainer from a local theme park. Arlette (comedienne Josiane Balasko, France's answer to Roseanne) has no idea that she is the long-lost heir to the vast fortune of a dying business tycoon. Her new Read More

Mean Guns

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ice-T, Michael Halsey, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Tina Cote

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a crime boss ponies up $10 million to the winner of a gunfight to be held in a derelict correctional facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

North Star

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Caan, Christopher Lambert, Catherine McCormack, Burt Young

Synopsis: The lust for gold provides the motivation in this outdoor adventure. Set in turn-of-the-century Nome, Alaska, it centers on the struggle between an Inuit who comes to the area to claim a gold-rich but sacred land tract and a greedy local businessman who wants it for himself. Desperate enough for Read More

Hercule Et Sherlock

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Roland Blanche

Adrenalin: Fear the Rush

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Natasha Henstridge, Norbert Weisser, Elizabeth Barondes, Xavier de Clie

Synopsis: In 2007 AD, a virus sweeps across Europe. Many flee to the United States where they are held in quarantine camps. At the Boston camp, police officer Delon (Natasha Henstridge), hoping to leave with her son, has used black-market contacts to acquire a passport. Delon's partner is decapitated while Read More

When Saturday Comes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite, John McEnery, Ann Bell

Synopsis: British writer-director Maria Giese filmed this independent sports drama, which centers around the wasted opportunities of young footballer Jimmy Muir (Sean Bean). Muir works in a brewery and lives with his parents and younger brother in the hard-scrabble industrial city of Sheffield, England. He Read More

Highlander: The Final Dimension

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger, Mako, Martin Neufeld

Synopsis: Conner MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) returns in this, the third film in the Highlander series. MacLeod is an "Immortal," a 16th century Scottish soldier who has been both blessed and cursed with the gift of eternal life. After the death of his beloved wife (a common occurrence for him, but one Read More

The Hunted

Actors: Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada, Yoko Shimada

Synopsis: In this international action thriller, Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) is an American salesman with a computer firm who is in Japan on business. While spending an evening in a bar, he meets Kirina (Joan Chen), a beautiful but mysterious woman. Paul buys Kirina a drink, one thing leads to Read More

Nine Months

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: A single man faces the terrifying prospect of seeing his carefree life dashed by a visit from the stork in this comedy. Samuel Falkner (Hugh Grant) is a child psychiatrist who has no kids of his own and doesn't want any, which leaves him a bit shaken when his girlfriend of five years, Rebecca Read More

Mortal Kombat

Actors: Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Christopher Lambert

Synopsis: Three reluctant fighters are drafted for an intergalactic martial-arts tournament that will determine the fate of the human race in this special-effects-driven adventure. Inspired by the popular and notoriously bloody video game, Mortal Kombat provides a semblance of a plot as an excuse for Read More

Gunmen

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Denis Leary, Patrick Stewart, Kadeem Hardison

Synopsis: This film opens with a big fat close-up of a sweaty prisoner with a fly (on a string) crawling on his face. The prisoner quickly pops the fly in his mouth and spits it out. Then he leeringly laughs about it to the prisoner next door. Nope. This is not a bad undiscovered Sergio Leone spaghetti Read More

Road Flower

Synopsis: The Road Flower was given a limited release in 1993, then reissued two years later under the title The Road Killers. Essentially a rehash of the old drive-in perennial Hot Rods to Hell, the film stars Christopher Lambert as the taciturn head of a vacationing family. While motoring somewhere in the Read More

Dead Beat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bruce Ramsay, Balthazar Getty, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Meredith Salenger, Deborah Harry

Synopsis: This drama combines elements of humor and sarcasm to chronicle to story of a charming serial killer in Albuquerque circa 1965. It is loosely based on a true story, a story that is said to have inspired Charles Manson. Kit is the narcissistic pathological liar and killer with a love of women. His Read More

Neuf Mois

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patrick Braoudé, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Catherine Jacob, Daniel Russo, Patrick Bouchitey

Synopsis: This French comedy delivers many laughs as it labors to poke fun at pregnancy from the man's viewpoint. Shrink Samuel flips out after he learns that his girlfriend Mathilde, an interpreter is pregnant. He is much older than she. Meanwhile Samuel's artist friend Marc has just split from his wife Read More

The Road Killers

Actors: David Arquette, Christopher Lambert

Synopsis: A family on a road trip through the Arizona desert is terrorized by a teenage gang led by a deranged killer. They kidnap the family's teenage daughter, and the father must track down the gang and rescue his daughter. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Highlander: The Gathering

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Christopher Lambert, Wendell Wright

Synopsis: This theatrical sci-fi action tale is actually the first in a series of direct-to-video features derived from re-edited episodes of the syndicated television show Highlander (1992-1997). Adrian Paul stars as Duncan "Mac" MacLeod, kin of Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), the main character from Read More

Fortress

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklin, Kurtwood Smith, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez

Synopsis: Elements of Orwellian science-fiction and old-fashioned prison dramas are combined in this futuristic action film, as an unjustly imprisoned couple attempts to escape from a high-tech jail known as The Fortress. The Fortress is the tool of a repressive government, an imposing, computerized hell Read More

Knight Moves

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin, Charles Bailey-Gates

Synopsis: This murder mystery from director Carl Schenkel stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander) as Peter Sanderson, an expert chess champion. When a woman Sanderson has recently slept with is among several women brutally murdered at a chess tournament, he becomes a suspect. But when the murderer contacts Read More

Max et Jeremie

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christophe Odent, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.

Synopsis: Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate Read More

Highlander II: The Quickening

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside, John C. McGinley, Allan Rich

Synopsis: At the end of Highlander, Juan Ramirez (Sean Connery) died and Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) was rendered mortal. "Highlander 2: The Quickening begins in 1999 when Connor solves the problem of an ever-depleting ozone layer on the earth by devising a giant shield around the entire planet. Read More

Why Me?

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Greist, J.T. Walsh, Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: In this comedy, the ancient curse of a priceless ruby, known as the Byzantine Fire, comes into play when it is accidentally stolen by a group of thieves, headed by Gus Cardinale (Christopher Lambert). The crooks soon discover that their heist might have been more trouble than it was worth when Read More

To Kill a Priest

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland, David Suchet

Synopsis: One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Read More

Love Dream

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Francesco Quinn, Claudia Ohana

Synopsis: In this Italian romantic fantasy, a has-been rocker finds renewal when on the beach he stumbles across a bottle that contains a beautiful genie who is capable of making all of his dreams come true. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sicilian

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Richard Bauer, Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis: Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule and make it Read More

Paroles Et Musique

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Jacques Perrin, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with two children at home who starts an affair with Jeremy (Christophe Lambert), one of the singers she promotes through her company. Margaux's husband is away in New York working Read More

Highlander

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, Beatie Edney

Synopsis: With the ultimate throw-down, "There can be only one," Highlander captured the imaginations of fantasy fans seeking a well-executed swordplay epic, becoming a cult classic in the process. Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is one of a waning few survivors of a clan of immortals. The breed have Read More

I Love You

Actors: Anémone, Eddy Mitchell, Christopher Lambert, Agnes Soral, Flora Barillaro

Synopsis: In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director (Marco Ferreri) features (Christopher Lambert) as Michel, a miserable man who has failed at love and finds solace in a mechanical key holder. Michel has just been dumped by Barbara (Anemone) Read More

Subway

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno

Synopsis: Coming in on the heels of his internationally acclaimed first film, Le Dernier Combat, 26-year-old director Luc Besson created this tongue-in-cheek look at filmmaking and at the denizens in the tunnels of the Paris Metro -- a new kind of underground movie. Fred (Christopher Lambert) has just Read More

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell

Synopsis: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a reverent retelling of the Edgar Rice Burroughs original, with a 1980s-sensibilities slant. Shipwrecked on the coast of Africa, Lord Jack Clayton (Paul Geoffrey) and his pregnant wife Lady Alice (Cheryl Campbell) attempt to survive in the Read More

Legitime Violence

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Veronique Genest, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Planchon, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery gone wrong. They were never vindicated since the police seem unable (if not reluctant) to solve the case. Driven in part because he survived and they did not, and frustrated Read More

Une Sale Affaire

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Victor Lanoux, Patrick Bouchitey, Agnes Chateau

Synopsis: Novak (Victor Lanoux) is a police inspector to whom any means is fair in getting evidence on criminals - especially drug dealers. He is after a drug ring that includes a city official and desperately needs evidence to bring the corrupt politician to trial, and to close down the ring. To that end Read More

Le Bar du Telephone

Actors: Daniel Duval, François Perier, Georges Wilson, Julien Guiomar, Raymond Pellegrin

Synopsis: Director Claude Barrois based this crime thriller on an actual 1978 barroom massacre. When a yahoo criminal (Daniel Duval) offends a gangland don, the don hires a group of thugs to eliminate the lone upstart. The thugs invade the bar and shoot everyone in sight, but unfortunately their sole target Read More