Geraldine Chaplin Filmography

The Orphanage

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera

Synopsis: Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro produces director Juan Antonio Bayona's gothic frightener about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past. As a child, young orphan Laura spent her formative years being cared for by the staff of a large orphanage located by the Read More

Boxes

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Natacha Régnier

Synopsis: The French-language psychological drama Boxes - which represents veteran actress Jane Birkin's (Blow-up) directorial debut on a narrative feature - constitutes an extended, theatrically garrulous meditation on the rift of understanding inevitable between parents and children. In addition to Read More

Teresa, the Body of Christ

Actors: Paz Vega, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis Gómez, Eusebio Poncela

Synopsis: The daughter of a 16th Century Spanish nobleman strives to transcend her role as a woman in society and achieve something truly profound in this period drama starring Paz Vega and Geraldine Chaplin. Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada (Vega) knows well what is expected of her as a woman existing in a man's Read More

BloodRayne

Actors: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Billy Zane

Synopsis: The war against the forces of darkness becomes a family affair in this cinematic prequel to the popular video game Bloodrayne. In 16th century Europe, Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley) is an evil ruler who holds more power than any man alive, but he still dreams of having more, and when he's told of three Read More

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Actors: Robert De Niro, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Thornton Wilder's award-winning novel is given a lavish screen adaptation in this historical drama from writer and director Mary McGuckian. In Peru in 1714, a rickety bridge collapsed as five people were attempting to cross, forcing them to plunge to their deaths. Brother Fray Juniper (Gabriel Byrne Read More

Heidi

Actors: Emma Bolger

Synopsis: An A-list cast, with screen legends Max von Sydow (The Seventh Seal, Hannah and Her Sisters), Diana Rigg (TV's The Avengers, On Her Majesty's Secret Service), andGeraldine Chaplin (Nashville, Remember My Name), highlights this live-action, feature-length adaptation of Johanna Spyri's much-beloved Read More

Melissa P

Actors: Maria Valverde, Geraldine Chaplin, Primo Reggiani, Fabrizia Sacchi, Elio Germano

The Hidden

Actors: Laia Marull, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Angie Cepeda, Marta Belenguer, Gerardo Malla, Joaquín Climent, Geraldine Chaplin

Without Love

Christmas Carol: The Musical

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski

Synopsis: Differentiating this TV-movie version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol from the hundreds of other adaptations of the same Yuletide classic is its tongue-in-cheek ambience and a bundle of memorable tunes by perennial Disney composer Alan Menken and former Schoolhouse Rock lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Read More

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

Actors: Sydney Pollack, Charles Chaplin, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Allen, Milos Forman, Marcel Marceau

Synopsis: American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. Schickel offers an exploration into Chaplin's life, from his childhood in London until his death in 1977. The film also contains insight on his multifaceted film career and Read More

Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Eugene Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, Petula Clark

Synopsis: For a variety of reasons, mostly political, Charlie Chaplin left the United States in the early fifties living the final quarter-century of his life in Switzerland. Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years documents this last act in the legendary director's life. The film intersperses personal footage Read More

Talk to Her

Actors: Javier Camára, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Pedro Almodóvar follows his international success All About My Mother with an offbeat drama that explores the friendship of two men brought together under unusual but strangely similar circumstances. Benigno (Javier Camára) is a male nurse whose apartment overlooks a dance studio run by Katerina (Geraldine Chaplin Read More

The City of No Limits

Actors: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Fernandez, Adriana Ozores

Synopsis: Max (Fernando Fernán Gómez), the wealthy family patriarch and head of a pharmaceuticals business, is dying of cancer and has relocated from Madrid to a Paris hospital for treatment. The members of his family, including his wife, Marie (Geraldine Chaplin), have gathered around him there. Victor (Leonardo Sbaraglia Read More

Las Caras De La Luna

Actors: Carola Reyna, Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Carmen Montejo, Diana Bracho

Synopsis: Five women from wildly divergent backgrounds find themselves swapping views on feminism, politics, and culture in this talky ensemble drama. Magdalena (Diana Bracho) is the coordinator of Mexico City's Latin American Women's Film Festival, and she's brought together five women to review and rate Read More

Tu Que Harias Por Amor

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Patxi Freytez, Fele Martínez

Synopsis: The seamy underside of drug dealing in Spain is explored in this Spanish drama. Thirteen-year-old Milio (Alberto Escobar) and his older brother Luis (Fele Martinez) run drugs in Madrid for wholesaler Don Vicente (Francisco Rabal). While their mother (Geraldine Chaplin) disapproves of their Read More

In the Beginning

Actors: Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Eddie Cibrian, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, covers the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset), Isaac (Sean Pertwee), Rebeccah (Diana Rigg), Esau (Andrew Grainger), and Jacob Read More

Beresina oder die letzten Tage der Schweiz

Actors: Yelena Panova, Geraldine Chaplin, Martin Benrath, Ulrich Noethen, Ivan Darvas

Synopsis: A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina (Yelena Panova) is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in Read More

To Walk With Lions

Actors: Richard Harris, John Michie, Ian Bannen, Kerry Fox, Hugh Quarshie

Synopsis: The story of George Adamson, whose work helped inspire the book and subsequent film Born Free, is continued in the fact-based drama To Walk With Lions. In Kenya in the late 1980's, Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) is a young man from London who has a job as a driver with a safari guide company. Read More

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Actors: Pernilla August, Christian Bale, David Threlfall, Geraldine Chaplin, Melinda Kinnaman

Synopsis: "The Greatest Story Ever Told, As Seen Through a Mother's Eyes." Coproduced by Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her son Bobby Shriver, this reverent retelling of the Biblical story of the Madonna stars Melinda Kinnaman as young Mary, Perrilla August as the older Mary, David Threlfall as Joseph, and Toby Read More

Cousin Bette

Actors: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of Read More

Finisterre (Donde Termina El Mundo)

Actors: Nancho Novo, Elena Anaya, Enrique Alcides, Geraldine Chaplin, Chete Lera

Synopsis: Brothers Berto (Nancho Novo) and Mario (Enrique Alcides) grew up on Spain's Galician coast where their hippie parents settled during the '60s. Before they were grown, their father abandoned them, a trauma from which Mario has not completely recovered. Berto leaves home first, and many years pass Read More

Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, William Katt, Helena Carroll, Keene Curtis, Alan Shearman

Synopsis: Internationally known actress Geraldine Chaplin offers a moving portrayal of one of the 20th century's greatest humanitarians. This made-for-television miniseries honors the life and sacrifices made by the feisty Yugoslavian nun who spent most of her life tending the poor and the sick of India. Read More

Os Olhos Da Asia

Synopsis: Set in the 17th century, this earnest religious drama follows the struggle of the Catholic church to establish itself in Japan. Through missionaries and young Japanese converts, the Church seems about to solidify its position in the Nagasaki area when a Shogun, wanting to protect Japanese culture Read More

Jane Eyre

Actors: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic. The screenplay, by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitmore, remains relatively faithful to the original story, beginning with a condensed look at the troubled childhood of Read More

Gulliver's Travels

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Read More

Crimetime

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost, Geraldine Chaplin, Karen Black

Synopsis: Set in a future in which the media has become nearly omnipotent, this violent and gory crime thriller blurs the thin line between life and art while commenting upon the insanity of those who would do anything for fame. The trouble begins when unemployed actor Bobby is hired to play a serial killer Read More

Para Raciber el Canto de los Pajaros

Synopsis: In this Bolivian drama that serves as a plea for tolerance of cultural diversity in that country, a film crew travels to a remote Indian village on a high plateau and attempts to convince them to play extras in their movie about the 16th-century Spanish conquistadors who conquered them. The Indios Read More

Home for the Holidays

Actors: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares Read More

Words upon the Window Pane

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Geraldine James, Ian Richardson, John Lynch, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: The ghosts of Jonathan Swift and friends pay a visit to two Dublin spiritualists in this Irish drama, adapted from Yeat's one-act play. In 1928, Miss McKenna, an aging spinster and the head of the Dublin Spiritual Society invites a visiting medium, Mrs. Henderson over to try to contact Jonathan Read More

The Age of Innocence

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted Read More

A Foreign Field

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, two British World War II veterans (played by English stage and screen veterans Sir Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) have come back to Normandy together to revisit the site of their most harrowing wartime experiences, to look up the gravesite of a fallen comrade, and to Read More

Chaplin

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill Read More

Duel of Hearts

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Alison Doody, Jeremy Kemp, Virginia McKenna, Billie Whitelaw, Michael York, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Duel of Hearts is based on a novel by Barbara Cartland. It is difficult to believe that there's a Gothic-romance TV movie in existence that isn't based on a Cartland novel. Alison Doody plays gorgeous debutante Lady Caroline Faye, who falls for dashing nobleman Genuse Warlingham (Michael York Read More

The Children

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Siri Neal, Geraldine Chaplin, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley stars in this solid adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel (filmed previously in 1929 as The Marriage Playground). Kingsley plays Martin Boyne, an engineer in 1920s Europe who, after five years of correspondence, is planning to travel overseas to marry the recently widowed Rose Sellars Read More

Gentile Alouette

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Geraldine Chaplin, John Leguizamo, Alain Ollivier, Al Hamdou Traore

Synopsis: Is the colonel (Hector Alterio) in Paris because he's the chief of a South American country's spy agency, or because he's just another half-mad actor? Is his former mistress Angela (Geraldine Chaplin) really plotting against the colonel's government, or is she just the actress she seems to be? Is Read More

Buster's Bedroom

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin, Valentina Cortese, Amanda Ooms

Synopsis: At one time, even the great Buster Keaton was a regular visitor of the mental health, alcoholic rehabilitation-center system. Since main-character Micha is obsessed with Keaton and everything that has to do with him, it is appropriate that after trying to pull a stunt on the public highways in Read More

I Want to Go Home

Actors: Adolph Green, Gérard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Read More

The Return of the Musketeers

Actors: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Chamberlain, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Richard Lester returned to his double-barreled successes of the 1970s, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, with Return of the Musketeers, a film that was inexplicably shelved for several years, making its belated premiere on cable television. Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel Twenty Years Read More

White Mischief

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt

Synopsis: Based on one of the most scandalous murders in British history, White Mischief transpires in Kenya at a time just before the beginning of World War II. Jock Broughton (Joss Ackland) is a wealthy rancher who becomes taken with a young gold-digger named Diana (Greta Scacchi). Even though he is fully Read More

The Moderns

Actors: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: In the expatriate-littered Paris of the 1920s, painter Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) mingles with Ernest Hemingway (Kevin O'Connor) and other leading lights of the Lost Generation while palling around with gossip columnist Oiseau (Wallace Shawn), whose reportage has helped establish the Read More

L'Amour Par Terre

Actors: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Facundo Bo

Synopsis: The avant-garde founder of French New Wave Jacques Rivette, offers an on-going treatise of film versus theater in this basically non-story about two actresses and a director, or from another perspective, a play and a film. In the opening scenario, a couple come out of a bathroom and are surprised Read More

Heartburn

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "a clef" rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential food critic who marries charismatic columnist Mark (Jack Nicholson) Read More

Corsican Brothers

Synopsis: This version of the classic tale of estranged twin brothers, one good and one evil, whose lives and swords cross as adults, was made for British television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers

Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Roy Dotrice, Shelby Fiddis, Rikki Marin

Synopsis: Filmed on location "Somewhere in France", this umpteenth version of Dumas' The Corsican Brothers stars the zoned-out comedy team of Cheech and Chong. Perhaps inspired by the Ritz Bros.' spin on The Three Musketeers, the duo retains enough of the original story (about twin brothers who feel one Read More

La Vie Est Un Roman

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French directors, each of whom defined a particular era in his country's cinema Melies (the first French filmmaker to use narrative--his most famous film is A Trip to the Moon), the Read More

Les Uns et les autres

Actors: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all hailing from different nations and cultural backgrounds. Each of the principal actors plays multiple characters. Among the cast-members is James Caan, Robert Hossein and Read More

La Viuda De Montiel

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Nelson Villagra, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alejandro Parodi, Katy Jurado

Le Voyage en Douce

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Released outside of France as Travels on the Sky, Voyage en Douce stars Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin as sisters. Both ladies are married, though Chaplin has just left her husband. Insecure about this move, Chaplin joins the self-reliant Sanda for a weekend vacation in the south of France Read More

The Mirror Crack'd

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury takes over the legacy of Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie's dogged sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd. The story takes place on a film set in a small British town in the 1950s. Elizabeth Taylor plays a washed-up actress trying to make a comeback but is plagued by a Read More

La Viuda de Montiel

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Nelson Villagra

Synopsis: This routine, slightly wooden political and social drama contrasts the difference between the way a widow perceives her husband and how he really was. Geraldine Chaplin is Adelaida, widow of Montiel (Nelson Villagra), who grieves for her dead husband based on her life with him. As circumstances Read More

Mais Ou Est Donc Ornicar

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Brigitte Fossey, Jean-François Stévenin, Didier Flamand, Jean-Jacques Biraud

Synopsis: The relationships between men and women are examined in this drama. The story begins as two young women set out to find their own identities independent of men. One begins directing a video production unit for sociological research while the other becomes a successful garage mechanic. As she heads Read More

Mama Cumple Cien Años

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Amparo Muñoz, Rafaela Aparicio, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Norman Brisky

Synopsis: For the Spanish Mama Turns a Hundred, director Carlos Saura reassembles many of his cast members from his 1972 Anna and the Wolves. As Mama reaches the century mark, her wolf-pack relatives go fang and claw after currying her favor in hopes of a large legacy. The film is set during the Franco Read More

Remember My Name

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: This disquieting domestic thriller from writer and director Alan Rudolph was produced by his long-time mentor Robert Altman. Anthony Perkins stars as Neil Curry, a construction worker living happily in suburbia with his wife Barbara (Berry Berenson) until their home becomes vandalized during the Read More

A Wedding

Actors: Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Amy Stryker, Howard Duff, Geraldine Chaplin, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and Nettie Sloan (the groom's Read More

Los Ojos Vendados

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis Gómez, Xavier Elorriaga, Lola Cardona, André Falcon

Synopsis: While attending an international conference which seeks to reduce the incidence of the use of torture by nations around the globe, a movie director (Jose Luis Gomez) encounters a woman (Geraldine Chaplin) whom he decides to cast in a play about state torture. As events proceed, he and the woman Read More

L'Adoption

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