Lilli Palmer Filmography

The Holcroft Covenant

Actors: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Director John Frankenheimer and writers Edward Anhalt and George Axelrod try to inject some life into this adaptation of Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novel. Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft, who was adopted in Germany by an American family in the waning days of World War II. Now Read More

Feine Gesellschaft, Beschraenkte Haftung

Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Lilli Palmer, Heinz Schubert, Hardy Kruger, Wolf Roth

Synopsis: The action in this comedy is set within a 24-hour period, as unusual events unfold in the lives of two elderly sisters, Else (Elisabeth Bergner) and Hilde (Lilli Palmer). The sisters were living together in the family mansion in Hamburg when Else got tired of that life and hit the streets to make Read More

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The Boys From Brazil

Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot Read More

Lotte in Weimar

Actors: Lilli Palmer

Synopsis: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this East German film, based on a book by Read More

Only the Cool

Synopsis: In this drama, a jealous wife murders her husband, a French antique dealer, after she suspects him of marital infidelity. In reality, the man was frequently gone at night because he was doubling as a secret agent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

What the Peeper Saw

Synopsis: Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died a mysterious death. Marcus simultaneously resents his Read More

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Actors: Christine Kaufmann, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: The fourth film to explore Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, this clever adaptation takes some rather broad liberties with the source material. A flamboyant Jason Robards plays Cesar Charron, owner of a Grand Guignol theatre in 19th-century Paris, who is launching a stage adaptation of "Murders in Read More

La Peau de torpedo

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Lilli Palmer, Klaus Kinski, Michel Constantin, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this routine espionage drama. Dominique (Stephane Audran) is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both of them. Dominique Read More

The House That Screamed

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbo, John Moulder-Brown, Mary Maude

Synopsis: This stylishly eerie Spanish production stars elegant Lili Palmer as the severe headmistress of a French boarding school for young women, where the rigid constraints of 19th-century social conditioning have turned the place into a hothouse of barely contained sexual urges (leading to lots of gauzy Read More

Hauser's Memory

Actors: David McCallum, Lilli Palmer, Susan Strasberg

Synopsis: David McCallum stars in Hauser's Memory as scientist Hillel Mondoro. At the behest of the CIA, Mondoro willingly has himself injected with the brain fluid from a dying fellow scientist named Hauser. The purpose of this experiment is to preserve the missile secrets lodged in Hauser's memory banks. Read More

Hard Contract

Actors: James Coburn, Lee Remick, Lilli Palmer, Burgess Meredith, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: John Cunningham (James Coburn) is a cold-blooded assassin sent by his superior Ramsey (Burgess Meredith) to murder three people in Europe. He takes off for Spain where he meets a foursome of jet-setting socialites. Sheila (Lee Remick) is a wealthy divorcee who falls for John. Alexi (Patrick Magee) Read More

De Sade

Actors: Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer, Anna Massey, Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: Keir Dullea dives into a bevy of babes with an open wine bottle as the notorious Marquis de Sade in this low-budget debauch from American International Pictures -- purveyors of fine entertainment morsels for the connoisseur. The film takes place as an extended flashback after de Sade has escaped Read More

Oedipus the King

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: The classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles stars Christopher Plummer as the psychologically tortured Oedipus. The successful monarch begins his downward slide after he discovers he has murdered his father and had children with his own mother. Oedipus is called on to avenge the death of the previous Read More

Sebastian

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser, John Gielgud, Margaret Johnston

Synopsis: Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British government. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Susannah York. The film dwells upon Sebastian's rather lax morals (even by 1968 standards), culminating Read More

The High Commissioner

Actors: Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Camilla Sparv, Daliah Lavi

Synopsis: A police investigator is forced to rely on the man he's been instructed to apprehend in this cold war thriller. Sir James Quentin (Christopher Plummer) is a high level negotiator with the British government who is approached by Scobie Malone (Rod Taylor), an Australian detective who has been Read More

Jack of Diamonds

Actors: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Evans, Wolfgang Preiss

Synopsis: The success of several 1960s-era cat-burglar movies depended upon the suave and agreeable machinations of the film's antiheroic hero, as he stylishly worked to remove surplus wealth from the obscenely wealthy. That formula reaped a box-office bonanza, and here the producers are back with it again Read More

Paarungen

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Paul Verhoeven, Karl Michael Vogler

Synopsis: The literal translation of the German title is "Pairings." Alice (Lilli Palmer) and Edgar (Paul Verhoeven) are a married couple who have argued during most of their 20-year marriage. Alice's cousin Kurt (Karl Michael Volger) arrives to visit them in the North Sea island home after an extended stay Read More

Le Voyage du Père

Actors: Fernandel, Lilli Palmer, Laurent Terzieff, Madeleine Robinson, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Beloved French comic Fernadel displays his flair for the dramatic in this somber drama. Quantin (Fernadel) is a mild-mannered husband whose wife Isabelle (Lilli Palmer) constantly bothers him for not having enough money to spend on their daughters. When the eldest daughter is unable to come home Read More

An Affair of States

Zwei Girls Vom Roten Stern

Le Tonnerre de Dieu

Actors: Jean Gabin, Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Lilli Palmer, Georges Géret

Synopsis: Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone (Michele Mercier), Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who Read More

Der Kongress Amuesiert Sich

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Paul Meurisse, Hannes Messemer

Synopsis: Walter Slezak plays a guide in a Vienna wax museum in this fantasy. When the tourists get to the figure of Chancellor Metternich, they are magically transported back in time to the Viennese Congress of 1814. The aristocrats are much more interested in parties and social affairs than the affairs of Read More

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Actors: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer, Leo McKern, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This rambunctious filmization of Daniel Defoe's "naughty" novel stars Novak as a poverty-stricken 18th century damsel who rises to the top of society surrendering her virtue--time Read More

Operation Crossbow

Actors: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Kemp, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the Read More

Le Grain de Sable

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Lilli Palmer, Laurent Terzieff, Sylva Koscina

The Circular Triangle

Synopsis: In this thriller three people are murdered during a business power play. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

End of Mrs. Cheney

Synopsis: In this French drama, set upon the Riviera, a widow works a jewel thief on the side. She keeps this up until she meets a handsome gent. She soon cleans up her act. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Das Grosse Liebesspiel

Actors: Thomas Fritsch, Lilli Palmer, Nadja Tiller, Daliah Lavi, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Alexandra Stewart, Martin Held

Synopsis: This overdone German film relies on a repetitive plot centered around bedroom antics worthy of daytime dramas. A call girl (Hildegard Knef) teaches the "ways of love" to a boy (Thomas Fritsch). The boy uses the knowledge to seduce the young wife (Alexandra Stewart) of his professor (Martin Held). Read More

L'Amore Difficile

Actors: Claudia Mori, Catherine Spaak, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Romance, sex, and marriage are the themes of this episodic Italian comedy. The first of the four vignettes, "The Women" tells the story of a bored adulterer who feels ignored by his gaggle of mistresses and decides to obsess upon seducing an old conquest one more time. He later inadvertently Read More

La Mysterieuse Madame Cheney

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson, Martin Held, Françoise Rosay

Finche Dura La Tempesta

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a captain attempts to navigate his Italian submarine through enemy waters. He is stalked by a British commander assigned to destroy the sub. The Italian captain somehow succeeds in getting into neutral waters and is granted permission to stay there a fortnight. The British Read More

Miracle of the White Stallions

Actors: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert, James Franciscus

Synopsis: In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the dedication of Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), the instructor at a prestigious Vienna equestrian school. The colonel is in charge of the safety and health of the royal Read More

Adorable Julia

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Charles Boyer, Jean Sorel, Jean Valerie

Synopsis: Adorable Julia, by director Alfred Weidenmann, is perhaps a little too provincial or out-moded for most audiences in spite of the sophisticated allure of Lili Palmer and Charles Boyer in the lead roles. Palmer plays the title character Julia, the philandering wife of Michel (Boyer), a very Read More

The Counterfeit Traitor

Actors: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Erica Beer, Ernst Schroeder, Eva Dahlbeck

Synopsis: In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in Read More

Dark Journey

Leviathan

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Lilli Palmer, Marie Laforêt, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: In this dark drama, a married tutor in a French village finds himself obsessed by a beautiful young girl and begins to stalk her. He soon finds out that she is the mistress of the man whose son he has been tutoring. The tutor confronts her, and she denies it. He then makes a pass at her. When she Read More

Frau Cheneys Ende

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson, Martin Held, Françoise Rosay, Maria Sebaldt

Synopsis: Mrs. Cheney (Lilli Palmer) is a genteel widow whose outward appearances hide her involvement as a thief. With the help of her faithful butler, she steals diamonds from a wealthy matron. When she falls in love with a handsome international playboy, her thoughts quickly change from larceny to love Read More

The Pleasure of His Company

Actors: Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill

Synopsis: Based on a play by Samuel Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Pleasure of His Company is an old-fashioned romantic comedy. Fred Astaire plays Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, the long-absent prodigal father of Jessica Poole (Debbie Reynolds), who is just about to be married. Much to the dismay of his Read More

Le Rendez-vous de Minuit

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Maurice Ronet, Robert Lombard, Lucienne Lemarchand

Synopsis: A slight screenplay and surface characterization undermine the telling of this dramatic tale by director Roger Leenhardt. Like a few other directors during this period, Leenhardt works with the idea of the story in a film being juxtaposed with real life. When a film critic comes across a woman Read More

Conspiracy of Hearts

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven

Synopsis: Lilli Palmer stars as a nun in a World War 2-era Italian convent. At the risk of her own life and those of her cloistered colleagues, Palmer hides a group of Jewish orphans from the Nazis. She then attempts to shepherd the kids to the safety of foster homes. Danger looms in the form of Nazi Read More

Frau Warrens Gewerbe

Synopsis: An unexceptional drama of the exceptional George Bernard Shaw's story of a conflict of morals, Frau Warren's Gewerbe stars Lilli Palmer in the role of Mrs. Kitty Warren and Johanna Matz as her daughter Vivie. The mathematically talented and well-educated Vivie owes her accomplishments to her Read More

But Not for Me

Actors: Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb, Barry Coe

Synopsis: Clark Gable stars in this standard romantic comedy, one of his last films before his death in 1960. Based on the play Accent on Youth, this adaption of the love affair between an older man and his 22-year-old secretary ends differently. Russ Ward (Gable) has been producing for thirty years, and Read More

Geliebte Bestie

Synopsis: For some reason, European filmmakers are irresistibly attracted to the notion of sex and betrayal under the big top. The Austrian/German Hippodrome stars Gerhard Riedmann as a circus tiger trainer, hopelessly in love with ballerina Margit Nunme. The girl plays up to Riedmann so that she can join Read More

Montparnasse 19

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani, Lino Ventura, Gerard Sety

Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More

La Vie a Deux

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More

Mädchen in Uniform

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: Christa Winsloe's novel Maedchen in Uniform was first filmed in Germany in 1933. The story, about a sensitive schoolgirl's lesbian attachment to her headmistress, was handled tastefully, albeit with remarkable frankness for its period. The 1958 remake is somewhat toned down and the material Read More

Der Glaeserne Turm

Synopsis: All the money in the world cannot provide the security the rich industrialist in this drama seems to crave. Although wealthy and powerful, the man is terribly afraid of losing his beauteous wife to another. His fears rule his private life; to keep her safe, the man begins holding her prisoner. Read More

Eine Frau, Die Weiss, Was Sie Will

Teufel in Seide

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Winnie Markus, Adelheid Seeck, Hans Nielsen

Synopsis: Lilli Palmer stars in the German Teufel in Seide (Devil in Silk). Lilli plays Melanie, the new wife of famed concert pianist Thomas Ritter (Curd Juergens--later known as Curt Jurgens). It isn't long before Ritter discovers that his wife is jealous to the point of insanity. When Melanie finds Read More

Zwischen Zeit und Ewigkeit

Wie Ein Sturmwind

Anastasia - Die Letzte Zarentochter

Feuerwerk

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Karl Schoenboeck, Romy Schneider, Claus Biederstadt, Werner Hinz

The Four Poster

Actors: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer

Synopsis: Jan de Hartog's two-person stage play The Fourposter has always seemed to attract married acting couples, a tradition established by the play's first Broadway stars Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. The film version featured Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, who (you guessed it) were man and wife at the Read More

Pictura

Synopsis: Pictura is a feature-length collection of several short-subject documentary celebrations of great artists and their work. The film consists of six separate "episodes," many of these representing a collaboration between Luciano Emmer and another director. "The Lost Paradise," co-directed by Enrico Read More

The Long Dark Hall

Actors: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Henrietta Barry

Synopsis: Rex Harrison's extramarital relationship with Patricia Wayne comes to an end when Wayne is murdered. All evidence points to Harrison; we know that he's innocent, but the detectives don't have this advantage. With his faithful wife Lilli Palmer at his side, Harrison goes on trial for his life. Anthony Dawson Read More

Hans le Marin

Actors: Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lilli Palmer, Roger Blin

Synopsis: The French Hans le Marin secured an American distributor on the strength of its three stars. Jean-Pierre Aumont plays the title character, a Canadian sailor docked in Marseilles. Here he carries on a torrid romance with cabaret owner Dolores (Maria Montez). When he is robbed and left for dead Read More

My Girl Tisa

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Sam Wanamaker, Akim Tamiroff, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New York at the turn of the century. Tisa Kepes (Lilli Palmer) is a newly arrived immigrant girl who hopes to bring her father to America. She is fleeced by travel-agent Hugo Haas Read More

No Minor Vices

Actors: Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, Louis Jourdan, Jane Wyatt, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis: Another interesting effort from independent Enterprise Productions, No Minor Vices stars recent French import Louis Jourdan. Into the staid, conservative lives of pediatrician Perry Ashwell (Dana Andrews) and his wife April (Lilli Palmer) comes the flamboyantly eccentric Greenwich Village artist Read More

Body and Soul

Actors: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, James Burke, Anne Revere, Canada Lee, Mary Currier, Joe Devlin, Hazel Brooks, William Conrad

Synopsis: This riveting 1947 drama, regarded by many as the greatest boxing movie of all time, centers on a former pugilist who looks back on his life in and out of the ring and realizes that self-respect is a more important prize than winning. John Garfield is Charlie Davis, a former boxing champion who Read More

Cloak and Dagger

Actors: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg, Marjorie Hoshelle

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, Cloak and Dagger was first major "atomic power" melodrama of the postwar era. Gary Cooper stars as bookish physics professor Alvah Jesper, a character obviously based on A-bomb codeveloper J. Robert Oppenheimer. Pressed into service by the OSS in the last months of WW2 Read More

Beware of Pity

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper, Linden Travers

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, this is the story of a baroness who believes she has found love with an officer but discovers that his marriage proposal was not made for love but because of her physical handicap and his pity for her. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Notorious Gentleman

Actors: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Jean Kent, Margaret Johnston, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed due to what was considered graphically amoral and sexual content for its time. Harrison is Vivian Kenway, an unrepentant cad who embarks on a campaign of irresponsible Read More

English without Tears

Actors: Michael Wilding, Sr., Lilli Palmer, Claude Dauphin, Albert Lieven

Synopsis: English without Tears is a gentle satire of the temporary relaxation of class barriers in wartime England. Michael Wilding portrays the faithful family butler to a fabulously wealthy household. Each member of the family greets the news of upcoming world conflict with a different reaction, the most Read More