Henri Morelle Filmography

Sounds of Sand

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Issaka Sawadogo, Carole Karemara, Asma Nouman Aden, Said Abdallah Mohamed, Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed

Synopsis: Belgian director Marion Hänsel's feature Si le vent soulève les sables unfolds in a desert village that is being crushed under the weight of drought (which has dried the local well out completely) and decaying livestock. Though the majority of the populace migrates to the south in an essential Read More

The Right of the Weakest

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Eric Caravaca, Natacha Régnier, Lucas Belvaux, Patrick Descamps, Claude Semal

Synopsis: French helmer Lucas Belvaux's The Right of the Weakest - a stark kitchen sink drama with occasional and unpredictable flashes of humor - meditates on the question of when to resign oneself to a sad fate and when to buck the system, even if it means risking everything. This ensemble piece observes Read More

Black Night

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Fabrice Rodriguez, Yves-Marina Gnahoua, Raymond Pradel, Marie Lecomte, Philippe Corbisier

Synopsis: In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown. Oscar (Fabrice Rodriguez) is a conservator at the Natural Science Museum, and spends most of his days surrounded by bugs. When Oscar isn't tending to the tiny specimens that line Read More

Since Otar Left...

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Esther Gorintin, Dinara Droukarova, Nino Khomasuridze, Rusudan Bolkvadze

Synopsis: A family is forced into deception for the sake of their matriarch in this poignant drama. Three generations of women share a tiny apartment in Tbilisi, a Georgia city that has been devastated by war, political instability, and a ruined economy. Eka (Esther Gorintin) is an elderly woman whose Read More

Verder Dan de Maan

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Johanna ter Steege, Huub Stapel, Neeltje de Vree, Nyk Runia, Yannic Pieters

Sur le Bout des Doigts

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marina Hands, Anne-Sophie Latour, Martine Chevalier, Thierry Hancisse, Pierre Charras

Synopsis: Yves Angelo's Sur Le Bout Des Digts (On the Tips of Her Fingers) is a drama about a piano playing daughter and mother. Juliette (Marina Hands) has devoted her entire life into making her teenage daughter Julie (Anne-Sophie Latour) a concert pianist. Julie is exceedingly talented, but her love of Read More

No Man's Land

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Branco Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Katrin Cartlidge

Synopsis: The grim futility of the war between Bosnia and Serbia is reduced to its essence as two enemy soldiers are forced to share a wary trust for one another in this drama. A group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing upon Serbian territory during a misty night when the fog lifts at daybreak, making them Read More

Nuages

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: Marion Hansel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings on raising her young son on her own, while carefully shot and selected footage of different cloud formations from around the world provide a Read More

Lisa

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Jeanne Moreau, Marion Cotillard, Sagamore Stévenin, Michel Jonasz

Synopsis: A young man's interest in film history leads to a revelation about his own past in this drama. Sam (Benoit Magimel) is a student and film fan who is fascinated by Sylvain Marceau (Sagamore Stevenin), an actor who had a brief career in the 1930s but seems to have vanished while working on "Princess Read More

Bent Keltoum

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Roger Milo, Cylia Malki, Baya Belal

Synopsis: Mehdi Charef directs this gritty drama about the difficulties of being a women in the strict patriarchal societies of Northern Africa. The film centers on Rallia, abandoned by her mother as a baby and raised by a foster family in Switzerland, who is returning to her birth village for the first Read More

Dolce Far Niente

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Margherita Buy, François Cluzet, Pierfrancesco Favino, Isabella Ferrari, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: Nae Caranfil directs this playful movie about the two years that young French author Stendhal gallivanted about the Italian countryside. Stendhal (Francois Cluzet), then still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a gentleman-wanderer, looking for a direction in his life. He spends a Read More

Saint-Cyr

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Simon Reggiani, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: This historical drama is based on a true story from 17th century France. Madame de Maintenon (Isabelle Huppert) rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV (Jean-Pierre Kalfon). With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special Read More

The King Is Dancing

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Boris Terral, Tchéky Karyo, Colette Emmanuelle, Cecile Bois

Synopsis: While Louis XIV had the longest reign of any French monarch and used his nation's military might to significantly expand his nation's control of Europe, he was also a noted patron of the arts with a particular love for dance, and this historical drama looks at the unlikely relationship between the Read More

Amazone

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arielle Dombasle, Patrick Bouchitey, André Penvern

Synopsis: Craving a change in lifestyle, jewel thief and eight times-divorced Edouard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves Paris for the Patagonian jungle. One day, while out gathering grubs, he makes the acquaintance of an extraterrestrial little girl (Thylda Bares) who materializes out of nowhere and proceeds to Read More

Astérix et Obélix contre César

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Laetitia Casta, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Asterix and Obelix, the French comic book heroes created by René Goscinny and Albert Underzo (their adventures have sold 280 million copies to date in Europe), are brought to the big screen in their first live-action adventure. Set in 50 B.C., Asterix (Christian Clavier) and Obelix (Gérard Depardieu Read More

Combat De Fauves

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Ute Lemper, Papa Wemba, Jacqueline Nicolas, Roland Depauw

Synopsis: Advertising executive Charles Cuvelier (Richard Bohringer) sees a classified ad and decides to check on a luxury apartment. However, he winds up trapped in the building' elevator and has to spend the night there. A psychosexual game begins in the morning when he meets Carole Valmer (German Read More

C'est Pour la Bonne Cause

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Dominique Blanc, Loic Freynet, Laurie Lefret

Synopsis: When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the Read More

La Terza Luna

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Roberto Citran, Alessandra Acciai, Alexander Medvedev

Synopsis: In this Swiss-Italian-French co-production, architect Luca (Roberto Citran) goes to the Jewish section of Venice to restore a house where reclusive novelist Elio (Omero Antonutti) lives. When Elio lets Luca read the manuscript of his current novel about a famous composer, Luca begins to imagine Read More

Pedale Douce

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry, Michèle Laroque

Synopsis: A closeted gay man's attempts to "act straight" for the sake of his job have unexpected consequences in this French comedy. Adrien (Patrick Timsit) is a businessman who is trying to close a major deal with Alexandre (Richard Berry), a powerful banker. Alexandre invites Adrien to attend an upcoming Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Stephen Rea, Ling Chu, Adrian Brine, Maka Kotto, Mischa Aznavour

Synopsis: Two very different people become friends and partners in this nautical drama. Nikos (Stephen Rea) is a radio man working on a Greek freighter when he finds himself stranded in Hong Kong after the firm that owned his ship suddenly goes out of business. Nikos is already depressed over his recent Read More

Tale of the Three Jewels

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: A young boy sets forth on an almost magical quest in this Palestinian children's drama set on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. The boy, 12-year old Youssef, like his friends, lives in a broken home comprised of his mother, a fugitive brother, and a father who has been imprisoned by the Israelis. One Read More

Time Has Come

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Darina Al Joundi, Simon Abkarian, Rida Khoury, Antoine Moultaka, Nogi Souraly

Synopsis: This Lebanese love story comments upon the "lost generation" who left when the war began in 1975. Kamil, an unsuccessful musician, and the wealthy Raya are returning to Lebanon after extended absences. They while sailing to Beirut. Kamil is returning to make a music video. Raya returns to find her Read More

Dieu que les Femmes Sont Amoureuses

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Catherine Jacob, Etienne Chicot, Yves Beneyton, Mathieu Carrière, Grace de Capitani, Pascale Audret

Synopsis: A working mother deals with the people involved in her life in this French comedy. Anne is a TV series editor. She is mother to a teenage boy by her ex-husband Daniel, and to twin 8-year old daughters by a mysterious other man. The girls' father, Arthur an irresponsible musician, shows up suddenly Read More

Hey Stranger

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Vincent Rouche, Benedicte Loyen, Hanna Schygulla, William Hickey, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: Mystery and romance and political commentary are combined in this drama set in post-Communist Prague. When Orf sees the young and beautiful Sarka whistling and singing upon the rooftops he falls immediately in love. But just as their romance heats up, Orf leaves her to become heir to a large and Read More

Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Carmen Maura, Didier Bezace, Samuel Mussen, Jean-Pierre Cassel, André Delvaux

Synopsis: Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a Read More

Lovers on the Bridge

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant

Synopsis: Paris has its share of homeless people, and some of them live in little communities near the oldest bridge in the city, the Pont-Neuf. In the story, street-person Alex (Denis Lavant) has passed out along a much-traveled road, and a taxi has slightly injured his leg, which was in the way of Read More

Australia

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Tchéky Karyo, Agnes Soral, Hélène Surgère

Synopsis: Widower Edouard Pierson (Jeremy Irons) fought for Australia in World War Two, but he was born (and married) in Belgium. For the past twelve years, he has been living in Australia with his daughter. His occupation as a wool merchant is in keeping with his family's tradition. He is determined to Read More

Pentimento

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Magali Noël

Synopsis: In this frothy comedy, Lucie (Patricia Dinve) never knew her father, but she somehow finds out he has recently died and is to be buried on a certain day at a certain cemetary. In a belated attempt to connect with her roots, she rushes to the cemetary and joins a funeral gathering. She gets to know Read More

Il Maestro

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Charles Aznavour, Andréa Ferréol, Francis Le Maire

Synopsis: Through a series of flashbacks, the reason behind the mysterious inability of a famous conductor (Malcom McDowell) to continue preparing for a series of concerts is revealed. It all began while the conductor, a Jew, was hiding from the Nazis in a disused Italian convent, pretending to be a bank Read More

L'Oeuvre Au Noir

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Gian Maria Volonte leads the cast as Zenon, a Belgian doctor and alchemist in the 1500s. Zenon travels across Europe for many years hiding from the Inquisition, which eventually Read More

Les Noces Barbares

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marianne Basler, Thierry Frémont, André Penvern

Synopsis: Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn for his mother's affection. Nicole enters into a Read More

Mascara

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Sarrazin, Derek de Lint, Romy Haag, Eva Robbins

Synopsis: A police officer investigating the death of a transvestite masks feelings of love for his widowed sister (Charlotte Rampling) while raging against her lover (Derek DeLint) in this Belgian film directed by Patrick Conrad. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Lit

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Heinz Bennent, Natasha Parry, Francine Blistin, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: In this somber movie, Martin (Heinz Bennent), a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his second wife is at his bedside, comforted by his first wife -- also present. Director and writer Marion Hansel Read More

Menuet

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Carla Hardy, Akkemay, Theu Boermans

Synopsis: A young husband and wife live at close quarters in a small industrial town, where he works in the basement of a brewery, but she has designs on moving up in the world. The husband is fixated on keeping clippings of news stories about bizarre crimes and accidents - stories that are visually Read More

Het Beest

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ward De Ravet

Synopsis: Harry Melchior (Willem Ruis -- popular on Dutch television) was a normal, high-powered director of an investment company, with a wife and daughter and all the amenities of life -- until he killed someone's pet dog while out tooling around in his sports car. This unnerves him to such an extent that Read More

Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Nicole Garcia, Maurice Garrel, Jan Decleir

Synopsis: At the core of this docudrama are six French-speaking villages that were transferred to the jurisdiction of a Dutch-speaking province when political lines were drawn. The director of Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven (Jean-Jacques Andrien) was born and raised in this area and filmed scenes of the Read More

Prune Des Bois

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Christian Marin, Arlette Biernaux, Alexandre Von Sivers, Michel Castel

Synopsis: A children's film with enough independent spirit to overcome a few bumps, Prune des Bois is about a group of four youngsters around the age of ten who one day find a baby abandoned in the forest. Rather than search out their parents to take care of the infant and handle the whole situation, the Read More

5% de Risque

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aurore Clément, Pierre Michael, Fernand Guiot

Het verloren paradijs

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Willeke van Ammelrooy

Synopsis: In a Flemish village, pride and cupidity vie for control, and each of them loses. When the villagers hear that a highway might be built near their village, they perk up -- it could be just the thing for their faltering economy. The current mayor has scotched the easiest route, which would take the Read More

Jambon D'Ardenne

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Annie Girardot, Ann Petersen, Christian Barbier, Dominique Drouot

Synopsis: During the height of the tourist season, the rivalry between the manager of a slightly fancy restaurant and the proprietor of a nearby fast-food stand becomes quite heated, and shots are fired. In this comedy, the restaurant is run with an iron hand by its "patronne," (Annie Girardot), and the Read More

Rue Haute

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Annie Cordy, Mort Shuman, Bert Struys, Guy Verda, Elliot Tiber

Synopsis: Three unhappy people meet by chance and become embroiled in one another's lives. Set in the most picturesque portion of Brussels, the story centers on a woman who has been deranged by her grief at events which took place during the Second World War. She has a roommate, a German suffering from an Read More

Verbrande Brug

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Malka Ribovska, Jan Decleir, Doris Arden, Yves Beneyton

Synopsis: When they meet at a village fair, long buried tensions erupt between the individuals who make up two couples. Monique (Doris Arden) has had a child by another man; the child was adopted by her husband, Charel (Jan Decleir). Not otherwise a sensitive man, he bristles when he meets her former lover Read More

Trompe L'Oeil

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Max von Sydow, Micheline Presle, Francois Arnal

Synopsis: A Trompe L'Oeil is something which fools the eye, a harmless illusion, something which clearly cannot be what it appears to be. This suspense drama is about a woman who has reason to be afraid and suspicious but cannot get anyone to take her fears seriously. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

La Cage Aux Ours

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: In the Brussells suburb known as "Bear Cage," a poor grocer is at odds with his sexually hyperactive and fashionably Maoist son, who is also a college student. When the students at the college stage a protest in which his son is involved, his exasperation mounts. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Verloren Maandag

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: Murder and sex enliven this Belgian movie as it follows the quest of a Polish emigre to find the woman who helped his mother and himself escape that country. He searches the entire town of Antwerp. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Because of the Cats

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: Inspector Van der Valk's investigation of a series of rapes leads him to suspect a gang made up of "untouchable" rich kids. Their gang doesn't need to steal as they are all rich. Instead, they hold sadistic quasi-satanic rituals, wreck the houses of other rich people, and rape women. The boys call Read More