Patrick BauchauFilmography

The Perfect Sleep

Actors: Anton Pardoe, Roselyn Sanchez, Patrick Bauchau, Peter J. Lucas, Tony Amendola

Synopsis: Anton Pardoe, Roselyn Sanchez, and Patrick Bauchau star in this nightmarish film noir about a tortured soul who returns to the city he vowed to leave behind in order to save the woman he knows he can never have. He was a ruthless killer whose disregard for his own life and devotion to the Read More

The Possibility Of An Island

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Patrick Bauchau, Ramata Koite

Synopsis: Celebrated French novelist and philosopher Michel Houellebecq makes his directorial debut with this screen adaptation of his best-selling novel. Daniel (Benoit Magimel}) is the son of a distinguished scientist and politician (Patrick Bauchau) who is the head of a sect called the Elohim sometime in Read More

La Velocita' Della Luce

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Peppino Mazzotta, Beatrice Orlandini

Boy Culture

Actors: Derek Magyar, Patrick Bauchau, Darryl Stephens, Jonathan Trent, Peyton Hinson

Synopsis: A male prostitute who has dismissed the need for love in his life learns a lesson about affection from one of his customers in this independent comedy drama from filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka. X (Derek Magyar) is a gay hustler whose enigmatic name reflects his emotional distance from the world around Read More

Thieves

Actors: Juan José Ballesta, Maria Valverde, Patrick Bauchau, Maria Ballesteros, Carlos Kaniowsky

Synopsis: Having just recently been released from the orphanage where he spend the vast majority of his childhood, a young thief named Alex befriends a pretty kleptomaniac named Sara in this tender tale of love among the nimble-fingered. Ten years ago, Alex's mother taught him to be the perfect thief. Now Read More

The Gray Man

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Jack Conley, John Aylward, Silas Weir Mitchell, Lexi Ainsworth

Synopsis: The story of one of America's most reviled yet little-known serial killers comes to the screen in this true crime thriller tracing the hunt for Albert Fish. When ten year old Grace Bud's parents allowed their daughter to attend a children's birthday party with a grandfatherly old man named Albert 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

Karla

Actors: Laura Prepon, Misha Collins, Tess Harper, Patrick Bauchau, Leonard Kelly-Young

Synopsis: Laura Prepon and Misha Collins star as the murderous pair whose deplorable crimes sent shock waves of terror rippling across Canada in director Joel Bender's unflinching look at the crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. On the surface Bernardo (Collins) and Homolka (Prepon) were your average Read More

Carnivàle: Season 02

Actors: Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown

House: Cursed

Synopsis: After developing a rash and several symptoms of pneumonia, 12-year-old Gabriel Reilich (Daryl Sabara) concludes that his Ouija board is right, and that he has been "cursed." House (Hugh Laurie), of course, is certain that there is a more logical answer, but to get that answer he'll have to Read More

Ray

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Aunjanue Ellis, Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis: Directed by Taylor Hackford, this biopic profiles the life of legendary musician Ray Charles. Despite humble beginnings and the loss of his eyesight due to glaucoma at the age of six, Charles, depicted by Jamie Foxx, would nonetheless become an icon in both the music industry and the civil rights Read More

The Five Obstructions

Actors: Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier, Jacqueline Arenal, Daniel Hernández Rodríguez, Patrick Bauchau

Synopsis: Danish auteur Lars von Trier directs the documentary-of-sorts The Five Obstructions (De Fem Benspænd). In 2001, von Trier convinces veteran filmmaker Jørgen Leth to create five remakes of his 1967 short The Perfect Human. Calling himself the Obstructor, von Trier orders Leth to make his films in Read More

Shade

Actors: Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith, Sylvester Stallone

Synopsis: Shade, the first feature film from real-life card shark Damian Nieman, who wrote and directed the picture, stars Gabriel Byrne and Thandie Newton as a duo of con artists looking to beat the "Dean" (Sylvester Stallone), a legendary card shark, in a high-stakes poker game. Their first step is hiring Read More

Carnivàle: Season 01

Actors: Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown, Michael J. Anderson, Clea Duvall, Patrick Bauchau, Tim DeKay

Secretary

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Sadomasochism provides the backdrop for a very unusual employer/employee relationship in this very offbeat romantic drama from filmmaker Steven Shainberg. Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a shy young woman, who, after a brief spell in a mental institution, is released in the care of her Read More

Panic Room

Actors: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Kristen Stewart

Synopsis: A well-regarded spec script by A-list screenwriter David Koepp became this stylish thriller from director David Fincher. Jodie Foster stars as Meg Altman, a single mother of an diabetic preteen daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Meg's going through an unhappy divorce that forces her and Sarah to Read More

Jackpot

Actors: Mac Davis, Mark Polish, Jon Gries, Garrett Morris, Daryl Hannah, Kool Moe Dee

Synopsis: Director Michael Polish and his twin brother Mark, who co-wrote and co-starred in the low-key, yet bizarre Twin Falls Idaho, about a woman who falls in love with a conjoined twin, follow up that modest cult hit with Jackpot. Jackpot is named for the town of Jackpot, NV, said in the film to be Read More

The Cell

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jake Weber, Dylan Baker, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Synopsis: In this science fiction thriller, child psychiatrist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) has developed a technique that allows her to travel through the minds of her patients. When Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio), a multiple murderer who methodically drowns his victims and performs bizarre rituals with Read More

The Demon Within

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Patrick Bauchau, Katie Wright, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Allen Cutler, Vivis Colombetti

Synopsis: In this psychological thriller, Sarah (Katie Wright) is a young women from England studying art in San Francisco who has started dating Chris (Allen Cutler), a fellow student. Sarah's next door neighbor is Matthew (Jeff Fahey), a violent lunatic malignly obsessed with Sylvie (Emmanuelle Vaugier) Read More

Twin Falls Idaho

Actors: Michael Polish, Mark Polish, Michele Hicks, Jon Gries, Patrick Bauchau, Garrett Morris, William Katt, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Identical twin brothers Mark Polish and Michael Polish have written, directed, and starred in an emotional romance about a prostitute who falls in love with Siamese twins. The Polish Brothers play the conjoined twins Blake and Francis Falls, who are joined at the chest and thus share many vital Read More

Enfants De Salaud

Actors: Anémone, Nathalie Baye, François Cluzet, Molly Ringwald, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: In a Brussels courthouse, notoriously brutal killer Julius Mandenne stands trial for dismembering a woman and cryptically painting the letter "s" on a wall with her tongue. Attending the gruesome trial are his four illegitimate off-spring, none of whom knew the other existed. With grim Gallic Read More

I Magi Randagi

Synopsis: The three performers (one Italian, one Frenchman and one German) in a ramshackle and miniscule traveling circus are traveling through rural Italy looking for an audience when they encounter Father Gregorio who asks them to portray the three wise men in his village Christmas pageant. This comedy Read More

The Pretender: Season 01

Actors: Michael T. Weiss, Patrick Bauchau, Andrea Parker

Tom Clancy's 'OP Center'

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Deidre Hall, Carl Weathers, Rod Steiger, John Savage

Synopsis: Another Tom Clancy political thriller is put to film with this made-for-television movie. Harry Hamlin stars as Paul Hood, the new director of an obsolete government crisis management center. Hood is assigned to downsize the center, but during first day on the job some nuclear warheads are Read More

Jenipapo

Actors: Henry Czerny

Synopsis: The fate of a remote Brazilian province will be determined by the passage of a reclamation bill. If the bill goes through the land will be destroyed. Fortunately, Father Stephen Lewis is working hard to stop it. For months he has led numerous high-profile protests, but then just a few days before Read More

Serpent's Lair

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Heather Medway, Anthony Palermo, Kathleen Noone

Synopsis: An ornery alley cat sets in motion a chilling series of supernatural events in this horror film. The terror begins as a newlywed couple moves into a gloomy old Los Angeles apartment. They are not there long before the ominous kitty shows up. For some reason she utterly despises the bride, Alex Read More

Dark Side of Genius

Actors: Brent Fraser, Finola Hughes, Glenn Shadix, Moon Zappa, Patrick Richwood

Synopsis: In this thriller, a young art critic falls for a psychotic artist. Jennifer Cole can't help it. She is in love with artist Julian Jons. It doesn't matter that he was just released after spending 7 years in prison for killing his model/girlfriend in the heat of obsessive passion. It doesn't matter Read More

Clear and Present Danger

Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Read More

Havanera

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Fernando Guillen Cuervo, Abel Folk, Jordi Dauder, Patrick Bauchau

Synopsis: This action-filled Spanish melodrama takes dramatic license with the facts surrounding the illegal slave trade in early nineteenth century Cuba. It is 1820 and Amelia has recently been wed to Ton, a Cuban plantation owner whom she barely knows as part of a business contract. With Ton's sinister Read More

The New Age

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau, Corbin Bernsen, Jonathan Hadary

Synopsis: A wealthy Beverly Hills husband and wife are forced to reevaluate their lives after losing their jobs in writer-director Michael Tolkin's aloof satire. Peter Witner (Peter Weller) and Katherine Witner (Judy Davis) have become so accustomed to their high-class, shallow lifestyle that they feel Read More

Day of Reckoning

Lisbon Story

Synopsis: This beautifully photographed German drama is set in Lisbon, a major center for contemporary European culture, and offers insight into the nature of cinema. Sound recordist Phillip Winter is driving to Lisbon to meet his old friend Friedrich Monroe who recently sent him a postcard asking Winter to Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

Acting on Impulse

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy Allen, Judith Hoag, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with two lovers preparing to marry. The three get into all sorts of trouble that ends with the death of the fiancee. Once again, the actress finds herself accused of the crime Read More

Blood Ties

Actors: Jason London

Synopsis: This passable made-for-cable-TV vampire opus explores the clever concept of a Transylvanian immigrant community in the western United States. Young Cody (Jason London) is introduced to their legacy one fateful night when his parents are awakened, staked, and set on fire by ruthless Read More

Everybreath

Actors: Judd Nelson, Joanna Pacula, Patrick Bauchau, Willie Garson, Rebeca Arthur

Synopsis: Judd Nelson is the ex-brat-packer in this particular direct-to-video gem. Befriended by a wealthy but depraved young couple (Joanna Pacula and Patrick Bauchau), Nelson joins the pair in their bizarre notions of fun and games. He thinks he knows the score, but even he isn't parade for the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Monte Carlo Murders

Synopsis: Now it's off to Monte Carlo, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) pays a visit to her old friend, the owner of a luxury hotel.. Unfortunately, the hotel proves to be the final destination for a much-despised businessman. In her efforts to solve this murder and recover a diamond stolen from the victim's Read More

Chain of Desire

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, Elias Koteas, Grace Zabriskie, Assumpta Serna, Tim Guinee, Patrick Bauchau, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Temistocles Lopez's Chain of Desire, based on Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, plays like an AIDS-era version of The Yellow Rolls Royce, in which a series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a "chain of desire." The film begins as Alma D'Angeli (Linda Fiorentino) flees from a lover and runs Read More

The Rapture

Actors: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Patrick Bauchau, Carole R. Davis, Will Patton

Synopsis: An audacious film about faith, The Rapture is a contemporary fantasy that keeps its feet unnervingly planted in reality even as reality starts to collapse. Mimi Rogers, in a strikingly accomplished performance, stars as Sharon, a telephone operator who spends her off-hours engaging in casual group Read More

Robert's Movie

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Asli Altan, John Kelly, Sinan Çetin

Synopsis: Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a pop singer, a woman half his age who gives Read More

Il Nodo Alla Cravatta

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Delia Boccardo, Eleanora Danco, Fabio Ferrari

Synopsis: Carlino is an insufferable young teenager who is convinced that his father is really his stepfather. Surely he is the son of one of his mother's former lovers, a much more glamorous character. The only person in the family he feels much connection to is his older sister, and she has just gotten Read More

Visioni privati

Actors: Jessica Forde, Patrick Bauchau, Anthony Caldarella, Antonio Alveario, Maurizio Puglisi

Synopsis: There have been quite a few spoofs of Hollywood, and a similar number of spoofs about filmmaking in general. This is one of the few spoofs which is about film festivals and, in particular, the Taormina festival in Italy. It was shot during the 1988 festival using many of the actual participants in Read More

Lo Mas Natural

The Music Teacher

Actors: Jose van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: The title character in the Belgian-French The Music Teacher is a retired opera star, played by Jose Van Dam. The teacher's most gifted pupil is singer/musician Anne Roussel. Her love for her teacher is one of the motivating factors of the story, as is Roussel and Van Dam's relationship with Read More

Comedie d'amour

Actors: Michel Serrault, Annie Girardot, Aurore Clément, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Carel

Synopsis: The very busy actor Michel Serrault lends his talents to the depiction of a monstre sacree of French literature, the extremely repugnant but very clever Paul Leautaud, who was famous for his rude, clever observations and his epigrams. Although unkempt and very mean, his rapier-like wit and strong Read More

Columbo: Murder, A Self Portrait

Synopsis: Columbo: Murder, A Self Portrait stars Patrick Bauchau as an artist hounded by a contentious ex-wife (Fionulla Flanagan). He murders his former spouse on the beach at Malibu, but arranges things to make it seem he was far away in his art studio at the time of the killing. Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) Read More

Erreur de Jeunesse

Actors: Francis Frappat, Muni, Geraldine Dannon, Geraldine Danon, Patrick Bauchau, Didier Flamand

Synopsis: The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles translated to Errors of Youth or Youthful Indiscretion. One was a Russian film, the other was a French picture, originally titled Erreur de Jeunesse. In this one, would-be poet Francis Frappat breezes Read More

Australia

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

Double Identity

Actors: Nick Mancuso

Synopsis: The gloom-laden Canadian/French Double Identity stars Nick Mancuso as a sedate college professor residing in the small university town of New Hope. Not given to talking about himself much, Mancuso's past is a mystery to his friends, colleagues, and new lady friend Leah Pinsent. The film's noir-ish Read More

La Travestie

Actors: Zabou, Anna Galiena, Valerie Steffen, Yves Afonso, Christine Pascal

Synopsis: Nicole (Zabou) is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes Read More

Friendship's Death

Actors: Bill Paterson, Tilda Swinton, Patrick Bauchau, Ruby Baker, Joumana Gill

Synopsis: The conflict in Palestine during the '70s provides the setting for this challenging political sci-fi film that centers on an alien woman from a distant galaxy who has come to make peace. As the tale begins, archival films of the "Black September," battles that leveled Amman, Jordan are shown. The Read More

Accroche-Coeur

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Sandrine Dumas, Laszlo Szabo, Elizabeth Kaza

Synopsis: Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event in solitude. Unfortunately for him, his young girlfriend, an unperceptive sprite, is too much in love with him to let him out of her sight. He is on his way to a resort in the south of France, and Read More

Love Among Thieves

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Orbach, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Made for TV on a feature-film budget, Love Among Thieves stars Audrey Hepburn and Robert Wagner--but fails to be worthy of the talents of either star. Ms. Hepburn plays a widowed baroness and classical pianist, who steals three Faberge eggs from a museum in order to ransom her kidnapped fiance. En Read More

Cross

Actors: Roland Giraud, Patrick Bauchau, Marie-Anne Chazel, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: French pop singer Michel Sardou plays detective Thomas "Cross" Crosky in this uneven thriller. When Cross's ex-wife and daughter are kidnapped, he hires notorious hit man Eli Cantor (Roland Giraud) to help carry out his plan of vengeance. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Riviera

Synopsis: In this drama, a former US agent attempt to rejoin society as he endeavors to reopen his deceased father's chateau. Soon he again finds himself surrounded by mystery and danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

O Archangelos Tou Pathous

Actors: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Isabel Otero, Patrick Bauchau, Olia Lazaridou

Synopsis: In this highly symbolic, moody and artistic film, a young composer supposes that he has given his life over to passion. When his girlfriend dies, he impetuously promises her ghost that he will commit suicide in one month if he doesn't hear the word "passion" from the lips of a woman. The woman he Read More

Conseil De Famille

Actors: Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand, Laurent Romor, Remi Martin

Synopsis: Renowned director Constantin Costa-Gavras (whose 1969's feature Z won multiple international awards and was a box office success) tries his hand at an unusual mix of comedy and crime in this story. When a father (Johnny Hallyday) gets out of prison, he comes home to his wife (Fanny Ardant) and two Read More

Motten Im Licht

Synopsis: aka: Flies in the Light Although it is stylistically developed and refined, this thriller does not live up to its name since any "thrills" are sacrificed for the look and feel of B-movies in moods, sets, and camerawork. The plot wanders around in several directions at once but in a general sense Read More

A Balada Da Praia Dos Caes

Actors: Raul Solnado, Assumpta Serna, Patrick Bauchau, Sergi Mateu, Carmen Dolores

Synopsis: Captain Luis Dantas (Patrick Bauchau) is the escaped military officer found murdered in this often surrealistic crime drama. Inspector Elias (Raul Solnado) is called on to investigate the man's death, and the story is told by the sleuth in narrative form with the help of flashbacks. The inquiry Read More

Phenomena

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Patrick Bauchau, Dalila di Lazzaro

Synopsis: Declared "my most personal film" by Italy's premier horror director Dario Argento, this production marked the director's return to the eerie thematic territory he pioneered in 1977 with the horror classic Suspiria. Much like that film, Phenomena conforms to the logic of nightmares. Jennifer Connelly Read More

Christopher Columbus

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking out a swifter route to the lucrative Indies, Genoa-born Columbus begs King John of Portugal (Max Von Sydow) to finance a westbound expedition. Failing this, he turns to Read More

Lola

Actors: Ángela Molina, Patrick Bauchau, Féodor Atkine, Assumpta Serna, Angela Gutierrez

Synopsis: This suspense thriller about a bad relationship concerns Lola (Angela Molina), who is working hard for a living but becomes caught up in a sado-masochistic affair with the vicious Mario (Feodor Atkine). Finally breaking away from her own neurosis and a punishing lifestyle, Lola meets and marries Read More

Dario Argento's World of Horror

Actors: Dario Argento

Synopsis: This documentary showcases the career of Italian horror-film director Dario Argento. Included are clips from his films and behind-the-scenes footage from all of his films from the 1970s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to the 1980s Creepers. Argento himself is interviewed several times during the Read More

La Moitie De L'Amour

Actors: Margit Carstensen, Christophe Donnay, Patrick Bauchau, Alexandre Von Sivers

Synopsis: In this surreal psychological thriller, Yvi (Margit Carstensen) is experiencing a selective amnesia after she suffers a bullet wound to the head and is now in the care of doctors in the very same Institute where she was working as a doctor. After a new friend named Adrian (Christopher Donnay) Read More

A View to a Kill

Actors: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: Secret Agent 007 must stop a megalomaniacal technology mogul from destroying Silicon Valley in this unexceptional entry in the James Bond series. Computer baron Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) is planning to trigger a major California earthquake in order to wipe out his competitors. Bond is Read More

La Femme Publique

Actors: Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson, Roger Dumas

Synopsis: An aspiring young actress (Valerie Kaprisky) accepts a leading role in a film version of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. Dissatisfied by her performance, the eccentric filmmaker (Francis Huster) begins a rigorous course of indoctrination, sexual domination, and acting lessons, leaving the mentally Read More

Nucleo Zero

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Antonella Murgia, Mirella Banti, Francesco Capitano, Paolo Graziosi

Synopsis: Spread too thin, with a neutral stance on its many protagonists, this political drama about terrorists active in Italy delivers too mild a message to make much of an effect. Based on a book by Luce D'Eramo, the three-hour story is about leftists who renounce guerrilla tactics and turn to common Read More

Choose Me

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: The lives of five L.A. natives intertwine in this romantic comedy from independent filmmaker and former Robert Altman protégé Alan Rudolph. Eve (Lesley Ann Warren) is a bar owner who has sworn off permanent commitments, seeking only the temporary sexual satisfaction of men. Her roommate Ann (Genevieve Bujold Read More

Le Voyage D'Hiver

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Mieczyslaw Voit, Christian Barbier, Jean Franval

Synopsis: In this complex muddle of a spy story, Salomon (Miescyslaw Voit) is a Russian agent who was sent to West Berlin to complete an assassination and steal a notebook -- but ends up looking for his former lover and her son in Brussels while secret agents from all colors of the political spectrum are Read More

Entre Nous

Actors: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Guy Marchand, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a book she co-wrote with Olivier Cohen. The semi-autobiographical story is based on the life of the director's mother. Lena (Isabelle Huppert) is a Jewish refugee from Belgium Read More

Crystal Gazing

Der Stand der Dinge

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Isabelle Weingarten, Viva

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge) was financed by one of the director's chief mentors, Francis Ford Coppola. This highly autobiographical work concerns a shoestring movie producer and his ragtag crew. Stranded in the outer reaches of Portugal, the director doesn't even have Read More

Enigma

Actors: Martin Sheen, Brigitte Fossey, Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: Directed by TV-anthology veteran Jeannot Szwarc, Enigma has a certain small-screen "feel" to it. Adopting a musical-comedy foreign accent, Martin Sheen plays Alex Holbeck, an Iron Curtain defector who returns to East Germany at the behest of the CIA. His mission is to save five political Read More

Guns

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Juliet Berto, Peggy Frankston, Hermine Karagheuz, Beatrice Lord

Synopsis: The title tells all -- or nearly all -- in the French melodrama Guns. The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters are bad guys. In fact, the guns are to be used by a resistance group who hope Read More

La Amante

Synopsis: Translated as The Lover, this movie is presented in Spanish and tells the tale of passion and conquest in the "jet set". ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

La Collectionneuse

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Haydee Politoff, Patrick Bauchau, Daniel Pommereulle, Mijanou Bardot, Eugene Archer

Synopsis: La Collectionneuse is the third of director Eric Rohmer's "Six contes moraux" (six moral tales), and also the first of the series to attain full feature-length status (each of the first two entries, La Boulangere de Monceau and La Carriere de la Suzanne, ran less than one hour). Patrick Bauchau Read More

La Carriere de Suzanne

Actors: Christian Charriere

Synopsis: Suzanne's Career is the second of six short films that make up the Six Moral Tales series by French New Wave director Eric Rohmer. This 54-minute segment was shot in Paris with 16 mm black-and-white film. Bertrand (Philippe Beuzen) and Guillaume (Christian Charrière) are friends. They take Read More