Marthe KellerFilmography

Final Arrangements

Actors: Didier Bourdon, Marc-André Grondin, Bérénice Bejo, Gérard Depardieu, Marthe Keller

Synopsis: A veteran undertaker has to learn how to keep up with the times in this comedy from France. Gervais (Didier Bourdon) has been working for an upscale funeral home in Paris for years, but the business isn't making as much money as it once did. The owners of the home think Gervais could use some Read More

Chrysalis

Actors: Albert Dupontel, Estelle Lefébure, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller, Mélanie Thierry

Synopsis: Film noir meets future shock in first-time feature filmmaker Julien Leclercq's ambitious sci fi thriller about a hard-boiled French police lieutenant investigating the mysterious death of an illegal immigrant. Years ago, wanted human trafficker Dimitry Nicolov (Alain Figlarz) murdered Police Read More

Fragile

Actors: Marthe Keller, Stefanie Gunther, Felipe Castro, Joel Demarty, Sandra Korol

Time of the Wolf

Actors: Devin Douglas Drewitz

Synopsis: A boy makes an unusual and dangerous friend in this family drama. Aaron McGregor (Devin Douglas Drewitz) is a young boy who, after the death of his parents, goes to live with his aunt and uncle in a rural community. Aaron feels like an outcast in his new home, not accepted by his schoolmates and Read More

Le Derrière

Actors: Valérie Lemercier, Claude Rich, Dieudonne, Marthe Keller, Patrick Catalifo

Synopsis: This is a comedy about homosexuals, transvestites, and taboos. The main character is a young woman from the provinces whose gay father lives in Paris. She decides to dress like a man to understand social prejudice. The director, who plays the main character, wrote the script with her sister. Their Read More

The School of Flesh

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Martinez, Vincent Lindon, Marthe Keller, François Berléand

Synopsis: Benoit Jacquot directed this French drama about an older woman and a younger man, adapted from the novel by Yukio Mishima. When career woman Dominique (Isabelle Huppert) goes out to a nightclub one evening, her attraction to bartender Quentin (Vincent Martinez) is observed by cross-dressing Chris (Vincent Lindon Read More

Women

Actors: Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller, Marisa Berenson, Guesch Patti

Synopsis: Shot in Lisbon, this drama examines the issue of aging as seen from the viewpoints of five women facing middle age -- self-destructive actress-singer Branca (Guesch Patti), losing the respect of her daughter; single literature professor Eva (Miou-Miou), attracted to the son of her friend Barbara (Marthe Keller Read More

K

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Isabella Ferrari, Marthe Keller, Pinkas Braun, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer Joseph Katz (Pinkas Braun), a friend of Paris detective Sam Bellamy (singer Patrick Bruel). Romantically involved with the victim's daughter Emma Guter (Isabella Ferrari) Read More

Nuits Blanches

Actors: Alexandre Arbatt, Marthe Keller, Matthieu Roze

Afirma Pereira

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This drama, set in 1938, chronicles a month in the life of the Portuguese journalist Pereira. He is first seen as a lonely, widowed, and overweight editor of the culture page of a second-rate Lisbon newspaper. Earlier in his career, he had been a news reporter. Pereira is fascinated with old Read More

Mon Amie Max

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Marthe Keller, Johanne McKay, Marie Guillard, Michel Rivard

Synopsis: A woman looks for her lost son in this Canadian-French melodrama set in Quebec city. Marie-Alexandrine (nicknamed Max) has not been in this city for over 25 years. Max burst into the home of her former best friend and classmate at the Conservatoire de Musique, Catherine Mercier, a renowned concert Read More

Young Catherine

Actors: Julia Ormond

Synopsis: The made-for-cable costume drama Young Catherine is the story of Catherine the Great (Julia Ormond). As the film begins, Catherine is a teen-aged German girl who marries into the Russian royal family of the 18th century; by the end of the long production, she has ascended to the throne of Russia. Read More

Mémoire Traquée

Actors: John Hurt, Marthe Keller, Mathew Mackay, Kathleen Robertson

Synopsis: When the teen-aged Canadian student Bruce (Mathew Mackay) discovers an old U.S. passport in some of his family's papers bearing a picture of him as a child -- a passport with an entirely different name -- he is intrigued. When his parents grow extremely nervous during a visit from a man they tell Read More

The Nightmare Years

Synopsis: The Nightmare Years was a surprisingly underadvertised three-part miniseries, originally telecast over the TNT cable network. The production was based on a book by William L. Shirer, who in the mid-1930s was an American news correspondent in Berlin. In Part 1 (telecast September 17, 1989), Shirer (Sam Waterston Read More

Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy, Rebecca Miller, Nigel le Vaillant

Synopsis: Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer makes his directorial debut with The Seven Minutes (released in Germany as Georg Elser-Einer aus Deutschland. Brandauer also stars, playing a solid citizen of 1939 Berlin. Though loyal to the Fatherland, he despises Hitler and the Nazis. A few weeks after the start of Read More

Dark Eyes

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Yelena Safonova, Pina Cei, Vsevolod Larionov

Synopsis: Oci Ciornie was an international co-production tailored for Marcello Mastroianni. It received good reviews in Italy and France, and Mastroianni was awarded "Best Actor" at the Cannes Film Festival. However, some in Russia felt that director Mikhalkov (who previously received wide acclaim for Read More

Joan Lui: Ma Un Giorno Nel Paese Arrivo 10 Di Lunedi

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori, Marthe Keller, Al Yamanouchi, Federica Moro

Synopsis: Viewers should be warned off this failed attempt at farce by its title alone. The film makes just about as much sense. Scripted, directed, and edited by Adriano Celentano a total of $10,000,000 was spent to poke almost violent "fun" at Christ's Second Coming. Joan Lui (Christ, played by Read More

Rouge Baiser

Actors: Charlotte Valandrey, Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller, Günter Lamprecht, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: Red Kiss is set in the politically supercharged Paris of 1952. 15-year-old French girl Charlotte Valandrey, the daughter of radicals, is severely beaten by the constabulary while attending a communist rally. Photojournalist Lambert Wilson pauses long enough to take a picture of the bloodied Valandrey Read More

Femmes De Personne

Actors: Marthe Keller, Caroline Cellier, Fanny Cottençon, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Femmes De Personne is a French "feminist" film that comes off as slightly misogynistic (not to mention misanthropic) at times. Is it possible to be happy in business and still be happy in bed? The four leading ladies, all successful career women, don't seem particularly blissful. On the contrary Read More

Wagner

Actors: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laszlo Galffi, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken its long-winded cue from the lengthy operas of the famous 19th-century German composer and musical theorist -- the Ring des Nibelungen is 14-15 hours in itself, divided into Read More

The Amateur

Actors: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: CIA computer technician John Savage seeks revenge for the terrorist killing of his girlfriend. Threatening to make public his insider's information, Savage forces his reluctant bosses to train him in the art of assassination. He then heads into enemy territory (at least, it was enemy territory Read More

The Formula

Actors: George C. Scott, Marthe Keller, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, John van Dreelen, Calvin Jung, G.D. Spradlin

Synopsis: With George C. Scott and Marlon Brando heading the cast, The Formula should have been far better than it is. Adapted by Steve Shagan from his own best-selling novel, the film is predicated on the concept that a formula for synthetic fuel had been developed by the Nazis during WW II. In the Read More

Fedora

Actors: William Holden, Hildegarde Neff, José Ferrer, Marthe Keller, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism, regret, understanding, and awe. Fedora (Marthe Keller) is film's most intriguing movie queen. Rumored to be well into her sixties, the actress has remained a starlet for over four Read More

Bobby Deerfield

Actors: Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Walter McGinn, Romolo Valli

Synopsis: Starring Al Pacino and directed by Sydney Pollack, Bobby Deerfield stars Pacino plays the title character, a reckless race car driver. As his fame grows, Bobby becomes increasingly full of himself, which seriously jeopardizes his performance on the track and his private life. Marthe Keller plays Read More

Black Sunday

Actors: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats

Synopsis: Bruce Dern is ideally cast as Lander, a crazed Vietnam veteran, in Black Sunday. Lander joins terrorists Dahlia (Marthe Keller) and Fasil (Bekim Fehmu) in a plot to create a bloodbath at the annual Super Bowl. Piloting the ubiquitous Goodyear blimp, Lander is to ram the aircraft into the capacity Read More

Le Guêpier

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Marthe Keller, Gabriele Ferzetti, John Steiner

Synopsis: In this caper film, two separate individuals become embroiled in a search for a courier's illegal million-dollar haul. They wind up sharing the loot, and during the ensuing chase, the various factions searching for the money kill themselves off, leaving the duo happily well-off. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More

Marathon Man

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller

Synopsis: Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the U.S. government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New Read More

Per Le Antiche Scale

Synopsis: In this drama, set during the 1930s, the head shrink at an Italian insane asylum believes that insanity is caused by a virus. His intensive research has caused him to spend all his time at the hospital. He hasn't left it for eight years. A young female doctor comes and gets close to the chief Read More

Toute une Vie

Actors: Marthe Keller, Charles Denner, André Dussollier, Charles Gerard

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Toute une Vie chronicles three different love affairs over three generations during the 20th century. Marthe Keller and Charles Denner portray different members of the families in each of the generations. The stories involve a cameraman's son who suffers and Read More

Die Antwort Kennt Nur der Wind

Actors: Marthe Keller, Maurice Ronet, Raymond Pellegrin, Karin Dor

Synopsis: An insurance agent, informed that he will die young from a heart ailment, decides to live a wild and uproarious life in the time he has left. He finds himself involved in heart-stopping car chases and explosions on the Riviera while trying to fill in the gaps in an important police investigation. Read More

Elle Court, Elle Court la Banlieue

Actors: Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This dark French comedy satirizes suburban living. Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin play a newly married couple who have just moved into the suburbs. Nearly everything is oppressive: among other things, the walls of their house are too thin and their neighbors harangue them with complaints of all Read More

La Raison du Plus Fou

Actors: Raymond Devos, Alice Sapritch, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: When sanitarium cook Surveillant (Raymond Devos) liberates a couple of patients and takes them on a trip to gaze on the ocean for the first time, he lands in hot water with his boss the director, who is a hard-hearted harridan with no time for such nonsense. In any event, the bumbling cook has Read More

La Chute d'un Corps

Actors: Marthe Keller, Daniel Ceccaldi, Fernando Rey, Tania Balachova

Synopsis: Gurus and something resembling Zen figure in this French drama about a bored housewife whose husband is absent just a little too often. The guru lives in an apartment above hers, and she grows increasingly curious about him until the day the body of a dead girl falls from an upstairs apartment Read More

La Vieille Fille

Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Michel Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: Muriel (Annie Giradot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French Read More

Un Cave

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Pierre Tornade

Synopsis: In this humorous French crime drama, Cave (Claude Brasseur) is a small-time hood, doing jail time for his deeds. While there, he makes friends with a much bigger criminal, and promises to help him out when they leave prison. The big-time hood is killed soon after his release from prison, but by Read More

The Seven Minutes

Actors: Robert Moloney, John Sarno, Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey, Edy Williams, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy Read More

Les Caprices de Marie

Actors: Marthe Keller, Valentina Cortese, Bert Convy, Fernand Gravey, Philippe Noiret, François Perier

Synopsis: Marie (Marthe Keller) is the most beautiful girl in her small village. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby town and wins the top prize. Broderick (Bert Convey) is the young American businessman who falls in love with the newly crowned beauty queen. She agrees to marry him but states she cannot Read More

Le Diable Par La Queue

Actors: Yves Montand, Maria Schell, Madeleine Renaud, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: An eccentric family in need of money turns their crumbling chateau into a hotel in order to renovate the old place. Repairs are made to the aging structure, but they only have one guest and too many empty rooms. The young granddaughter, with the help of her mechanic boyfriend, manages to make sure Read More

Wilder Reiter GmbH

Actors: Herbert Fux, Bernd Herzsprung, Rainer Basedow, Ellen Umlauf

Synopsis: Kim (Herbert Fux) is an offbeat American student living near Munich who aspires to become a pop singer. His publicity manager suggests that Kim perform several stunts that will be photographed to help boost his career, and he soon becomes a media darling with his escapades. Several sight gags are Read More

Funeral in Berlin

Actors: Michael Caine, Paul Hubschmid, Oscar Homolka, Eva Renzi, Guy Doleman

Synopsis: Funeral in Berlin was the second of three films based on the Harry Palmer novels by Len Deighton. As he did in The Ipcress File, Michael Caine stars as Palmer, Deighton's bespectacled, somewhat disreputable British secret agent. In the manner of Graham Greene's The Third Man, Palmer is dispatched Read More