Jacqueline BissetFilmography

Vivaldi

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Lena Headey, Malcolm McDowell, Jacqueline Bisset, Carice van Houten

Synopsis: A youthful pastor hired in as the music master at a school for the abandoned and illegitimate daughters of Venice nightwalkers forms a powerful bond with the children that eventually leads him to perform before the pope in director Boris Damast's screen biography of Four Seasons composer Antonio Vivaldi Read More

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Helene Joy, Tatiana Maslany

Synopsis: Based on the beloved story by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, director Graeme Campbell's holiday-themed family drama tells the tale of a headstrong teenager who seeks to rescue her family from financial ruin by writing to her long lost grandmother, a wealthy New York socialite. Mathilda Read More

Nick Nolte: No Exit

Synopsis: Nick Nolte offers a unique glimpse into his life and his art in this documentary. In Nick Nolte: No Exit, the respected actor appears both as himself and as a television journalist who is interviewing Nolte for a film on his career. The smart-suited reporter grills the slightly scruffy actor about Read More

Carolina Moon

Actors: Claire Forlani, Oliver Hudson, Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: Author Nora Roberts' tense tale of second sight comes to the screen in this drama directed by Stephen Tolkin. Lately, Tory Bodeen (Claire Forlani) has been experiencing a series of frightening visions that seem to be beckoning her back to her small hometown. As the visions become increasingly Read More

Save the Last Dance 2: Stepping Up

Actors: Izabella Miko, Columbus Short, Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: As Sarah Johnson (Izabella Miko)'s ultimate dream of attending Julliard and becoming a professional ballerina begin to take roots in reality, her interest in the art of hip-hop dance threatens to sideline her education in this sequel to the popular 2001 dance drama. Sarah Johnson may be at Read More

Nip/Tuck: Season 04

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley, Roma Maffia

Synopsis: Season 4, the last in Miami for Christian and Sean (Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh), opens with a celebration: their 5000th surgery together. Out of the operating room, Christian's shrink (Brooke Shields), who's obsessed with him, tells him that his fear of emotional intimacy stems from a desire Read More

Domino

Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: The (mostly) true story of a Hollywood princess turned bounty hunter is told in this witty action-drama from director Tony Scott. Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) was the daughter of famed actor Laurence Harvey (played by Jesse Pate) who passed on when Domino was only eight years old. Domino's Read More

Fascination

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Adam Garcia, Alice Evans, James Naughton, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: A pair of stepsiblings are torn between desire and suspicion in this sexy thriller. Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) is a young man in his early twenties who is still coming to terms with the unexpected death of his father (James Naughton) when he learns that his mother, Maureen (Jacqueline Bisset), is Read More

The Fine Art of Love

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Mary Nighy, Natalia Tena, Anna Maguire, Emily Pimm

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Synopsis: The Z Channel wasn't America's first premium cable outlet specializing in feature films, and it wasn't the most commercially successful, but few, if any, had as strong an impact on the film industry or a more influential list of customers. Based in California and blanketing sections of the state Read More

Swing

Actors: Innis Casey, Tom Skerritt, Jacqueline Bisset, Dahlia Waingort

Synopsis: A talented young musician attempts to balance his musical ambition with his deep-rooted desire to please both his demanding father (Tom Skerritt) and his career-oriented fiancé (Dahlia Waingort) in this affective drama about important life choices from filmmaker Martin Guigui. There's nothing that Read More

Latter Days

Actors: Wesley A. Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Rebekah Jordan, Amber Benson, Khary Payton

Synopsis: Sweet Home Alabama screenwriter C. Jay Cox directs the independent romance Latter Days. Christian (Wesley A. Ramsey) is a young gay party boy who lives in Southern California. When a group of good-looking Mormon missionary guys move into his apartment complex, he's determined to pick one up. He Read More

The Survivors Club

Actors: Roma Downey, James Remar, Jacqueline Bisset, Lauren Lee Smith, Brian Markinson

Synopsis: The title of this made-for-TV drama refers to a grim-visaged trio of women who were all raped by the same man. Forming a united front to help track the suspected rapist down are Jillian Hayes (played by Roma Downey, who also produced film), Carol Rossen (Jacqueline Bisset) and Meg Pesaturo (Lauren Read More

America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story

Actors: Kris Polaha, Jacqueline Bisset, Portia de Rossi, Tara Chocol, Rob Smith

Synopsis: Originally titled America's Son, this cable-TV biopic of John F. Kennedy Jr. begins at the end, with the plane crash of July 19, 1999, that took the lives of Kennedy, his wife Caroline, and his sister-in-law. From this tragic vantage point, the film segues into flashbacks detailing the very public Read More

The Sleepy Time Gal

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Martha Plimpton, Nick Stahl, Amy Madigan, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: Two women connected by family are drawn closer by fate in this low-key drama. Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman in her early fifties who had already begun to sense time was running out for her when she learned that she has cancer. While Frances is fighting the disease through medical Read More

Ally McBeal: Playing With Matches

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Portia de Rossi, Regina Hall, Josh Hopkins, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden

Dancing at the Harvest Moon

Synopsis: Jacqueline Bisset stars as Maggie, a Keats-quoting professor of English literature, on the verge of celebrating her 25th anniversary. But Maggie's euphoria evaporates when she discovers that her husband Tom has been flagrantly cheating on her for these many years. Dispirited, she returns to her Read More

The Making of Bullitt

Synopsis: Go behind the scenes of one of the most legendary cop thrillers in cinematic history with this documentary from director Ronald Saland. The winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Editing, Bullitt is among the best-loved pictures of the late Steve McQueen's career, and McQueen is on hand here along with Read More

Ally McBeal: I Want Love

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Regina Hall, Josh Hopkins, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden

Britannic

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, John Rhys-Davies, Edward Atterton, Amanda Ryan

Synopsis: H.M.S. Britannic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and like its more famous sibling, the ship was fated to be lost while at sea. This drama imagines what might have led up to the ship's sinking on its final voyage. Vera Campbell (Amanda Ryan) is an attractive young woman who is an Read More

John Singer Sargent: Outside the Frame

Synopsis: After the First World War had shattered the glib excesses of the Gilded Age and ushered in modernism, artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was dismissed as a shallow, commercialized portraitist who pandered to vain aristocrats. In more recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of Read More

New Year's Day

Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jacqueline Bisset, Anastasia Hille

Synopsis: British director Suri Kishnamma follows his quiet character study A Man of No Importance (1994) with this raucous feel-good suicide-pact comedy-drama. The film opens with buddies Jake (Andrew Lee Potts) and Steven (Robby Barry) enjoying a little joie de vivre on French ski slopes during a school 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

Jesus

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Debra Messing, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: He was a poor carpenter who never traveled further than 50 miles from his home and died at the age of 33, but his teachings changed the world and he's still followed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, 2,000 years after his death. Jesus, originally produced as a television Read More

Sex & Mrs. X

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Linda Hamilton, Paolo Seganti

Synopsis: A reporter learns some lessons about love from a woman who has made it her business in this made-for-TV comedy-drama. Joanna Scott (Linda Hamilton) is a woman who thought she had the perfect life -- a successful career as a journalist and a strong marriage with her husband, Dale (Stewart Bick) Read More

Let the Devil Wear Black

Actors: Jonathan Penner, Jacqueline Bisset, Mary-Louise Parker, Jamey Sheridan, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Director and screenwriter Stacy Title (best known for the independent feature The Last Supper) obviously knows a good story when she sees one, and proves it with Let The Devil Wear Black, which takes the framework of Shakespeare's Hamlet and recasts it with present-day characters and dialogue. Read More

Joan of Arc

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Neil Patrick Harris, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: A literal interpretation of the oft-produced biography of 15th century historical heroine Joan d'Arc, this four-hour television miniseries version of Joan's story is lavishly produced. In a tiny village during the Hundred Years' War, teenager Joan d'Arc (Leelee Sobieski) has been raised by her Read More

Van Gogh's Van Goghs

Synopsis: The National Gallery of Art in Washington hosted an exhibition of 70 of Van Gogh's best paintings. The master's work can be divided into three separate periods marked by his time spent living in the Netherlands, his reaction to French Impressionism in Paris, and the highly productive time he spent Read More

Witch Hunt

Synopsis: Set in Victoria, Australia, the made-for-TV Witch Hunt concerns an infant girl named Hannah, who is abducted by her grandmother Barbara Thomas (Jacqueline Bisset). Hannah's father David Overton (Cameron Daddo), convinced that Barbara is the head of a coven of witches, inaugurates a desperate Read More

Les Gens qui s'aiment

Actors: Richard Berry, Jacqueline Bisset, Julie Gayet, Bruno Putzulu, Marie Collins

Synopsis: Neither the youthful or the experienced have a monopoly on the joys or the follies of romance -- or at least that appears to be the message of Jean-Charles Tacchella's Les Gens Qui S'Aiment. Jean-Francois (Richard Berry) and Angie (Jacqueline Bisset) have known each other for 25 years and have Read More

Dangerous Beauty

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly

Synopsis: Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest Courtesan. Positioned outside of the Venetian court, Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) hopes to rise above her station, but her interest in nobleman's son Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell Read More

Intimate Portrait: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: Model and film actress Jacqueline Bisset's turbulent personal life and struggle for artistic respect are the subject of this Lifetime {^Intimate Portrait}. Born in Weybridge, England, into an idyllic family life, Bisset's innocence was shattered by her mother's battle with multiple sclerosis and Read More

End of Summer

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Peter Weller, Karyn Dwyer, Amy Locane, Colin Fox

Synopsis: In this romance, a wealthy, single woman dutifully dotes upon her ailing father while watching the man she once loved fool around with a pair of younger lassies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Once You Meet a Stranger

Synopsis: Filmed for television, Once You Meet a Stranger is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, using the same Patricia Highsmith novel as its source but transforming the protagonists into females. A chance meeting brings together former child star Sheila Gaines (Jacqueline Bisset) and the Read More

September

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Mariel Hemingway

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rosemunde Pilcher, the British miniseries September boasted a fairly impressive cast in a fairly impressive production. Jacqueline Bisset starred as Pandora, a worldly middle-aged woman who after many years at large returned to her hometown, a provincial Scottish village. Read More

La Cérémonie

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: When Catherine Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset) hires mousy and taciturn Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) as a housemaid, she thinks that she found a treasure. Mr. Lelievre (Jean-Pierre Cassel) seems to agree with her, pointing out that the maid just has yet to learn how to serve dinner correctly. Wealthy Read More

Est & Ouest: Les Paradis Perdus

Actors: Alena Antonova, Phillipe Bergerone, Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: In this quasi-semi-documentary, a Russian angel leads viewers in a quest to discover what, if anything, remains of the great, utopian "American Dream" now that the so-called "Worker's Paradise" dream of Russia has passed completely into oblivion. Along the way, real celebrities and working members Read More

Les Marmottes

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Christine Boisson, Gérard Lanvin, Jacqueline Bisset, André Dussollier

Synopsis: According to reviewers, an expert cast of character actors make this bedroom farce eminently watchable, despite glitches in the storytelling. In the story, a group of old friends and relations gather each year to celebrate Christmas together on the ski resort of Chamonix. They don't do much Read More

Crime Broker

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: Holly McPhee (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman leading two lives. Most people know her as a well-regarded judge and faithful wife, but only a few realize she is also the brains and beauty behind a crime ring responsible for a string of daring robberies, which she coordinates with her lover. Holly's Read More

The Maid

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Victoria Shalet, James Faulkner

Synopsis: Martin Sheen and Jacqueline Bisset star in this romantic comedy based and filmed in Paris. An American businessman (Sheen) travels to France to work at a bank, and falls in love with its president (Bisset). He then poses as her new housekeeper to see more of her, and must try to keep up the Read More

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Robert Beltran, Mary Woronov, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: In this satirical skewering of the lifestyles of the rich and famous, a divorced Beverly Hills gal ends up on the doorstep of her next-door neighbor, an out-of-work TV sitcom actress who happens to have a socially eclectic group of friends and a deceased husband who can't accept the fact that he Read More

High Season

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas, Sebastian Shaw, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a photographer who lives in the exotic Greek islands with her sculptor husband Patrick (James Fox) in this comedy. The film lampoons tourists, contains beautiful scenery, and focuses on the relationship and eventual reconciliation of Katherine and Patrick. Side Read More

La Maison De Jade

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Vincent Perez, Véronique Silver, Yves Lambrecht

Synopsis: Jane Lambert (Jacqueline Bisset) is a middle-aged novelist whose marriage has ended in part because of her inability to bear children. She falls for Bernard (Vincent Perez), the self-centered businessman who is not yet 30. Jane ignores her career and follows her heart as she and Bernard begin a Read More

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story

Actors: Armand Assante, Jacqueline Bisset

Choices

Synopsis: When a man learns that both his wife and his young, unmarried daughter are both pregnant, he is forced to rethink his opposition to abortion in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Anna Karenina

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Reeve, Paul Scofield

Synopsis: The best-known of the 12 filmed adaptations of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina include the 1936 Garbo vehicle and the 1947 Vivien Leigh vehicle. This made-for-TV version is every bit as elaborate and tasteful as those earlier efforts. Jacqueline Bisset makes her TV-movie debut as Anna, the wife of 19th Read More

Forbidden

Synopsis: Forbidden represented not only the TV-movie bow of Jacqueline Bisset, but also the American debut of German film favorite Jurgen Prochnow. Filmed in Berlin by a British production crew, this fact-based story concerns German countess Nina von Halder (Bissett). Despite the anti-Semitic edicts of the Read More

Forbidden Alliance

Observations Under the Volcano

Actors: John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Michael Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Director Christian Blackwood filmed this documentary of John Huston directing his actors and camera crew -- and taking time out -- as he created the 1984, award-winning Under the Volcano. Best for film aficionados, Blackwood shows how scenes were developed, run through, and then completed -- and Read More

Under the Volcano

Actors: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican "Day of the Dead" ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his Read More

Notes From Under The Volcano

Actors: John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Unlike Christian Blackwood's documentary covering this identical subject, Gary Conklin has not gone into depth on the making of Under The Volcano but stays with views of the camera crew, director, and actors at work, as well as some comical scenes of real-life prostitutes (who played prostitutes Read More

Class

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy, Stuart Margolin, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: With a plot that is a cross between a teen, low-brow farce and a coming-of-age story, Class opens with scenes of two best friends -- nerdy whiz Jonathan (Andrew McCarthy) and carefree jock Skip (Rob Lowe) -- going around in lingerie; they also barf on a double date, break into a quiet meeting at a Read More

Rich and Famous

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success in this glossy remake of Old Acquaintance. Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s. Liz has become a highly Read More

Inchon

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: This infamous Korean War drama is best known as the movie produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church, though more people seem to have read stories about its troubled production or disastrous reception at the box office than to have actually seen it: on its initial release, it grossed Read More

When Time Ran Out

Actors: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons

Synopsis: After producer Irwin Allen highlighted the dangers of fire in the Towering Inferno and the dangers of water in the Poseidon Adventure, he is back to fire again but this time it is within the earth, at least for awhile. This fairly routine disaster film is set on a resort island with a volcano that Read More

Amo Non Amo

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Terence Stamp, Monica Guerritore

Synopsis: In a resort town near Rome, Louise (Jacqueline Bisset) attempts to cope with her divorce, a new career, and John (Maximilian Schell), a boyfriend who is not much of an improvement on the husband she left behind. She has a demanding son, a demanding career, a demanding lover, and makes some Read More

The Greek Tycoon

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, James Franciscus

Synopsis: The producers of The Greek Tycoon insisted that their film was not based on any "actual persons, living or dead." Yeh, right. Anthony Quinn stars as Greek shipping-magnate Theo Tomassis, who becomes the second husband of socialite Liz Cassidy (Jacqueline Bisset). It seems that Liz is the widow of Read More

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Actors: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is first-class. His doctor has given him stern warnings that he must lose over one hundred pounds, or he will die of heart failure. The presence of so many four-star chefs in Read More

The Deep

Actors: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr., Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. Scuba divers David Sanders and Gail Berke (Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset), assisted by Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), discover a sunken treasure off the Bermuda coast. They also find a stash of narcotics. David and Gail spend the rest of the Read More

St. Ives

Actors: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could trigger an all-out mob war. Amazingly, St. Ives fails Read More

La Donna della Domenica

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Aldo Reggiani, Pino Caruso

Synopsis: In this Italian mystery, a detective journeys into the rarified world of the idle rich to look into a puzzling murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Spiral Staircase

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law

Synopsis: This made-for-television remake of a taut thriller from 1946 concerns a small-town psycho stalking disabled female victims, whom he shoots with a silencer pistol. His next intended prey is a poor young woman who cannot speak. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Richter und sein Henker

Actors: Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger

Synopsis: Actor Maximillian Schell functioned as coproducer and director of End of the Game. Conversely, director Martin Ritt is the leading actor in this existentialist crime story. Ritt plays Hans Barlach, a Swiss police inspector who has spent 30 years trying to pin the murder of the woman he loved on Read More

Murder on the Orient Express

Actors: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and Read More

Le Magnifique

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Monique Tarbes

Synopsis: In this parody of James Bond movies, a dullard of a spy novelist finds himself the subject of an English sociology student's term papers. She travels to his Paris apartment to do her research and their relationship is interspliced with episodes from the writer's newest book that features his Read More

Day for Night

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dani

Synopsis: Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called "Meet Pamela" about the tragedy that follows when a young French Read More

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Bud Yorkin directed this middling comedy, written by Walter Hill from a novel by Terrence Lore Smith. Ryan O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out Read More

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Actors: Alfred G. Bosnos, Fred Brookfield, Karen Carr, Dolores Clark, Margo Epper, Barbara J. Longo, Lee Meza, Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston

Synopsis: Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. Upon arriving in the tiny West Texas town of Vinegaroon, Roy Bean draws a moustache on a wanted poster of himself, marches into a saloon, and declares his presence. He is immediately Read More

Stand up and Be Counted

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: This gag-filled movie makes a stab at examining the women's liberation movement but never quite gets there. The effects of the movement are shown through a series of comic and romantic episodes between men and women. The story is loosely tied together as the research of Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset Read More

Secrets

Actors: Per Oscarsson, Robert Powell, Tarka Kings

Synopsis: A sexy day in the life of a young family provides the basis of this sudsy drama. During this time the husband, the wife, and their daughter each have their own secret sexual interlude. Many enjoy this film because it contains five minutes of nudity starring the luscious Jacqueline Bisset. ~ Sandra Read More

The Mephisto Waltz

Actors: Terence Scammell, Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom

Synopsis: Adapted from a Fred Mustard Stewart novel, this offbeat occult thriller stars Alan Alda (just prior to his eleven-year stint on M*A*S*H) as journalist and burgeoning musician Myles Clarkson, whose long-sought interview with ailing concert pianist (and closet Satanist) Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens) Read More

Believe in Me

Actors: Elizabeth Brown, Suzannah Norstrand, Barbara Thurston, Larry Weber

Synopsis: A drug addict seduces his lover into sharing his chemical joys and together they begin a wrenching downward spiral into destruction in this unflinching, well-wrought drama. Before getting hooked on speed, the woman had a successful career. But, despite the efforts of those who would help her, the Read More

Airport

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy

Synopsis: Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the complexity or characters found in Arthur Hailey's best-selling potboiler. Essentially built around 12 harrowing hours at a major Midwestern airport, the film had everything Read More

L'Echelle Blanche

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Gisèle Pascal, Pierre Zimmer, Marc Porel, Jean-Francois Maurin

Synopsis: Wendy (Jacqueline Bisset) is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is their 20-year-old son and a 12-year-old nephew whose parents were killed in an automobile accident. The father and son both try to Read More

The First Time

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Wes Stern, Ricky Kelman, Wink Roberts, Gerard Parkes

Synopsis: Three teenage boys yearn for their first sexual experience in The First Time. Kenny (Wes Stern) is sent to Buffalo for the summer to visit his grandmother. Terminally bored, he writes letters back home to his friends telling them what a good time he is having. Of particular interest is a bordello Read More

La Promesse

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Gisèle Pascal, Jean-Francois Maurin, Pierre Zimmer

The Grasshopper

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Corbett Monica, Ramon Bieri

Synopsis: Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is the young bank teller who is bored with her job and her husband. She leaves for Las Vegas where she scores a job as a chorus girl. The beautiful Christine does not have the talent to parlay the job into an upwardly mobile career. She marries an older man and Read More

The Detective

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy's psychotic former roommate Read More

The Sweet Ride

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: On California's Malibu Beach in the late 1960s, young people are enjoying a life with few responsibilities and plenty of romantic opportunities. Denny McGuire (Michael Sarrazin) is a beach bum without ambition. His roommate Collie Ransom (Tony Franciosa) is a professional tennis player who soaks Read More

Bullitt

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Robert L. Pike's crime novel Mute Witness makes the transition to the big screen in this film from director Peter Yates. In one of his most famous roles, Steve McQueen stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt. The story begins with Bullitt assigned to a seemingly routine detail Read More

Casino Royale

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet

Synopsis: Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees Read More

Two for the Road

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques popularized by the French "nouvelle vague" filmmakers. Jump cutting back and forth in time with seeming abandon, Donen and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael chronicle the Read More

The Cape Town Affair

Synopsis: After a purse is stolen on a South African bus, this tale is set in motion--involving secret information and communist espionage. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Drop Dead, Darling

Actors: Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan

Synopsis: This uneven black comedy went into production as My Last Duchess. It then went through three title changes, representing, in the words of historian Leslie Halliwell, "a descending order of wit": Arrividerci, Baby, Drop Dead, Darling, and You Just Kill Me! Tony Curtis plays a charming contemporary Read More

Cul-de-Sac

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, William Franklyn

Synopsis: The fact that there isn't a single likeable character in Cul de Sac does not diminish its artistic value in the least. Ageing, furtively kinky Donald Pleasence is married to sexy young Francoise Dorleac. The couple's hermitlike tranquility is shattered when wounded gangsters Jack MacGowan and Lionel Stander Read More

The Knack ... And How to Get It

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, John Bluthal

Synopsis: Colin (Michael Crawford, who much later won a Tony Award for his role in Broadway's Phantom of the Opera) is an uptight schoolteacher whose housemate, Tolen (Ray Brooks) is a consummate womanizer. Colin imagines a long line of young women in tight white sweaters on his stairwell, waiting to get Read More