Delphine SeyrigFilmography

Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Ines Sastre

Synopsis: While traveling on the Trans-Mongolian Railway, when a cozy group of female western tourists are abducted by a horde of female Mongolians wearing tribal dress, they fear the worst. They are forced to learn traditional Mongolian ways, and are made to do all sorts of onerous chores in the Read More

Seven Women, Seven Sins

Actors: Evelyne Didi, Gabriela Herz, Delphine Seyrig, Roberta Wallach

Synopsis: In this feature-length anthology of short films, seven women filmmakers from around the world interpret the seven "deadly sins" for a modern age. New Yorkers Bette Gordon and Maxi Cohen direct "Greed" and "Anger," respectively; Germans Helke Sander and Ulrike Ottinger take on "Gluttony" and Read More

Golden Eighties

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Myriam Boyer, Fanny Cottençon, Lio, Marie Pillet, Pascale Salkin, Nicolas Tronc, John Berry, Charles Denner, Isabelle Gruault, Jean-François Balmer, Francoise Goussard

Synopsis: Fannie Cottencon stars as Lilli, beauty salon owner and uncrowned queen of the shopping mall where the film, in its entirety, takes place. Delphine Seyrig costars as a mall boutique owner, suddenly confronted with her wartime lover. Before we're quite aware of it, the film has become a New Age Romeo and Juliet Read More

Vivement Truffaut

Synopsis: A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he Read More

Dorian Gray Im Spiegel Der Boulevardpresse

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann

Synopsis: In another avant-garde, underground film, director Ulrike Ottinger takes up the decadent, self-indulgent character of Dorian Gray (Veruschka von Lehndorff) and uses him/her to explore the seamier side of Berlin night and street life -- for 2 1/2 hours of running time. About half that time would Read More

Le Grain de Sable

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Geneviève Fontanel

Synopsis: Delphine Seyrig plays a middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past. She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown. Here she dreams of locating and rekindling an old love. Seyrig is less inscrutable Read More

I Sent a Letter to My Love

Actors: Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, Geneviève Fontanel, Dominique Labourier

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Bernice Rubens, I Sent a Letter to My Love stars Simone Signoret as a woman who has reached middle age without truly learning how to live. Responsible for the constant care of her paraplegic brother Jean Rochefort, Signoret seeks a brief respite from her confinement by Read More

Freak Orlando

Actors: Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Jackie Raynal

Synopsis: As Orlando (Magdalena Montezuma) enters the world of "freaks," the movie develops scenes from a mythological netherworld, the Spanish Inquisition, the Middle Ages, and a few other settings to focus on unusual characters with physical or mental oddities. By the time the various vignettes that take Read More

Documenteur

Actors: Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Lisa Blok, Tom Taplin

Synopsis: An unhappy Frenchwoman is living in Los Angeles, alone with her son now that her boyfriend has left for good. She works typing for a filmmaker, on a beach that is as bleak and desolate as she feels at this juncture in her life. The daily routine is hard to bear in the face of her loneliness, and Read More

Utkozben

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Nowicki, Djoko Rosic, Beata Tyszkiewicz

Synopsis: A serious decision coming from a mid-life crisis comes off as a casual fling in this routine drama by Marta Meszaros. Barbara (Delphine Seyrig) is a biologist, a mother with two grown children, whose relationship to her husband has weakened over time. After a friend is killed in an accident Read More

Le Chemin Perdu

Actors: Charles Vanel, Delphine Seyrig, Magali Noël, Christine Pascal

Reperages

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Delphine Seyrig, Lea Massari, Valérie Mairesse, Roger Jendly

Synopsis: In the story of Reperages, Victor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a film director who has arranged to shoot a version of Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters. Casting her in the lead will enable his troubled wife, who has separated from him, to earn some money and receive some much-needed emotional Read More

Sois Belle Et Tais-toi

Crew: Director

Der Letzte Schrei

Actors: Barry Foster, Delphine Seyrig, Peter Hall

Synopsis: Ironies abound in this witty romance which tells a tale of greed and love. Edward is a lawyer who works for a women's underwear factory. He is ambitious, and wants to take the factory over. He hits on the scheme of wooing both the wife of the factory owner and her daughter. Several things go wrong Read More

Caro Michele

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément, Marcella Michelangeli, Lou Castel

Synopsis: Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would Read More

Baxter, Vera Baxter

Actors: Claudine Gabay, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu, Noelle Chatelet

Synopsis: Vera Baxter (Claudine Gabay) is talking to a woman in a bar. It seems that the woman was attracted to her by hearing her name called out: "Baxter, Vera Baxter." In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre (Gerard Depardieu Read More

Son Nom De Venise Dans Calcutta Deser

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Nicole Hiss

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte

Synopsis: A classic of both feminist and experimental filmmaking, Chantal Akerman's marathon dissection of the life of Belgian housewife/mother/prostitute Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) stays on the surface of the details of Jeanne's humdrum daily life, as if it were a real-life, real-time documentary of Read More

Le Jardin Qui Bascule

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Anouk Ferjac, Patrick Jouane, Sami Frey, Philippe Chemin

Synopsis: The young hit man in this movie cannot bring himself to fulfill his contract on Katie (Delphine Seyrig), and for a little while the two have an affair. Even after their affair is over, he hesitates, which has dire consequences for the two of them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

India Song

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff

Synopsis: When Anne-Marie (Delphine Seyrig), the wife of the French vice-consul, grows weary of her oppressive life in 1930s India, she compulsively makes love so as to forget her situation. Her husband (Michel Lonsdale) is aware of her affairs but understands the cause of them and affects not to notice. Read More

Le Cri du Coeur

Actors: Eric Damain, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Madeleine Barbulee

Synopsis: Alexandre (Eric Damain), the neglected teenager in this drama, finally gets some attention when he has a very serious accident while climbing a tree: it leads to the amputation of one of his legs. When he finds out that his mother (Stephane Audran) has a lover, he blackmails her into telling him Read More

Dites-le Avec Des Fleurs

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, John Moulder-Brown, Fernando Rey, Rocio Dúrcal

Synopsis: In this bizarre psychological thriller, a handsome young boy (John Mouder-Brown), who is marred by a strange birthmark on his face, tells a disturbing tale about how his family died. The family had been living for some time in a villa which was overgrown with flowering vines. Some of the vines Read More

The Black Windmill

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill, John Vernon

Synopsis: Michael Caine stars as an espionage agent whose young son is kidnapped. Complicating matters is the fact that the kidnappers (John Vernon and Delphine Seyrig) are Caine's own colleagues. They want to secure Caine's aid in rounding up a diamond smuggling ring, and they don't care who they have to Read More

Aloise

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Lonsdale, Monique Lejeune, Roger Blin, Marc Eyraud

Synopsis: The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Read More

A Doll's House

Actors: Jane Fonda, David Warner, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig, Edward Fox

Synopsis: This Joseph Losey-directed 1973 version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House marks one of two cinematizations of the story released during the same year. Here, Jane Fonda plays Nora Helmer, the mousy Norwegian wife who eventually turns on her insensitive husband Torvald (David Warner). At the time of Read More

The Day of the Jackal

Actors: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Terry Alexander

Synopsis: In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox Read More

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Actors: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society. Buñuel applies his surrealist touch to a mundane event: a dinner party that may never come to pass. A group of well-to-do friends attempt to gather for a social evening, but Read More

Le Journal d'Un Suicide

Actors: Delphine Seyrig

Synopsis: As they travel the Mediterranean, a Guide (Sami Frey) tells many stories to the Interpreter (Delphine Seyrig) -- at her request -- but his biggest story seems to warp reality. A pair of anarchists bomb a government minister's family, killing all except a young girl, who now is guarded by a Read More

Daughters of Darkness

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Daniele Ouimet, John Karlen, Andrea Rau, Paul Esser

Synopsis: Le Rouge aux Levres is a stylish, fascinating, very erotic vampire film based on Sheridan le Fanu's Camilla, the classic tale of a lesbian vampire. A young married couple, Stefan (John Karlen) and Valerie (Daniele Ouimet), honeymoon at a deserted oceanside resort where they meet Countess Elisabeth Read More

Donkey Skin

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey Skin. Based on a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (of Cinderella fame), the bizarre story concerns the king (Jean Marais) of a strange, enchanted land. Catherine Deneuve plays Read More

La Voie Lactée

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with both faith and the contradictions of dogma provided Read More

Mister Freedom

Actors: John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called Freedom Incorporated. Receiving his orders from Doctor Freedom (Donald Pleasence), he battles the Russian Moujik Man and a fire-breathing dragon named Red China Man in this Read More

Stolen Kisses

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an Read More

Accident

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Vivien Merchant

Synopsis: The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this difficult but rewarding drama. Director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter had previously collaborated on 1963's The Servant, and they surrounded this Read More

La Musica

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Robert Hossein, Julie Dassin

Synopsis: A man (Robert Hossein) returns to his hometown right after his wife (Delphine Seyrig) has finalized their divorce in this brow-beating psychological drama. The two argue over their past relationship, a union marred by mutual infidelity. A young American woman (Julie Dassin) on a tour of France has Read More

Muriel ou le Temps d'un Retour

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thierree, Claude Sainval

Synopsis: Alain Resnais's third feature film, like his earlier Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, is devoted to the vagaries of memory. The title character is seen only in the 8-millimeter films run over and over again by Bernard (Jean-Baptiste Thierée). A veteran of the French/Algerian war Read More

Last Year at Marienbad

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Francoise Spira

Synopsis: A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone Read More

Pull My Daisy

Actors: Jack Kerouac

Synopsis: Robert Frank's half-hour, black-and-white short film Pull My Daisy has also been released under the title The Beat Generation, and for good reason. Featuring narration written and performed by author Jack Kerouac, the film presents an affectionate portrait of beat culture at its height through the Read More