Romy SchneiderFilmography

La Passante Du Sans-Souci

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Mathieu Carrière, Wendelin Werner, Gerard Klein

Synopsis: A man's tragic past leads him to take justice into his own hands in this troubling look at life in Europe after WWII. Max Baumstein (Michel Piccoli) is a well-known human rights activist and avowed pacifist who, to the shock and puzzlement of many, murders a politician from South America. As Read More

Fantasma d'Amore

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: Just when life was deep into a well-hewn rut for Nino Conti (Marcello Mastroianni) and the socialite he married, he runs into an old, impoverished charwoman (Romy Schneider) on a bus. She later gets in touch with him by telephone and lets him know that she is the very same Anna he had loved two Read More

Garde à Vue

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls under suspicion in a double rape/murder case. The police bring the lawyer in for questioning; at first politely, and then less so, the interrogation team (Lino Venture, Guy Marchand Read More

La Mort En Direct

Actors: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Therese Liotard, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the Read More

La Banquière

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Mesguich

Clair De Femme

Actors: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Lila Kedrova, Heinz Bennent

Synopsis: Noted political filmmaker Costa-Gavras turned his attention to personal issues in this drama. Michel (Yves Montand) has had to deal with the death of his wife, while Lydia (Romy Schneider) is mourning the loss of her daughter. Both Michel and Lydia are lonely, and they are attempting to start a Read More

Bloodline

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: Bloodline, a thriller based on a mystery novel by Sidney Sheldon and directed by Terence Young, is the story of Elizabeth Roffe (Audrey Hepburn), who inherits a huge pharmaceutical company and then discovers that some of her family members may be plotting her death in order to gain control of the Read More

Une Histoire Simple

Actors: Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut, Arlette Bonnard, Sophie Daumier

Synopsis: Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters as dictated by their environment. Romy Schneider plays Marie, a fortysomething working woman whose tiresome existence has prompted her to inaugurate an affair. Marie Read More

Gruppenbild mit Dame

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Galabru, Brad Dourif, Fritz Lichtenhahn

Synopsis: The West German/French Group Portrait with Lady (Gluppenbild mit Dame) is based on a bestselling novel by Heinrich Böll. The film is a string of anecdotes, some longer than others, related to the topic of German war guilt. The main plotline involves German woman Romy Schneider's affair with Read More

Mado

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Romy Schneider, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife crisis, Simon becomes virtually oblivious to the social changes around him. The businessman tries to counter advancing age with an increased sex life, but finds that women Read More

Une Femme à Sa Fenetre

Actors: Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: Social classes and different cultures collide as three disparate men try to court a wealthy young woman (Romy Schneider) in this French drama. One of them, an impoverished aristocrat marries her for her money. Though he is terribly cynical, he does, in some strange way, love her. She is also loved Read More

Innocents With Dirty Hands

Actors: Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Paolo Giusti, Jean Rochefort, François Maistre

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a philandering wife plans to ill her alcoholic husband so she can run away with her lover. It all goes according to plan, and the widow is finally happy. Her happiness is short lived, as the "dead" husband shows up alive on her doorstep. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Important c'est d'aimer

Actors: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Klaus Kinski, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be movie star who thus far has only been able to find work in cheap exploitation movies. Trying to win her affection, Servais borrows the money from his underworld employers Read More

Le Vieux Fusil

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Madeleine Ozeray

Synopsis: Old Gun (Le Vieux Fusil) stars Philippe Noiret as an aging, embittered French physician. During the occupation, Noiret loses his wife and daughter to Nazi bullets. He vows to personally kill every one of the Germans responsible (along with a few who weren't) in order to assuage his grief. Romy Schneider Read More

Le Trio Infernal

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Mascha Gonska, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli is irresistibly slimy in the role of a conniving attorney. Making the acquaintance of two lovely sisters (Romy Schneider and Andrea Ferreol), Piccoli seduces them both. He then invites the sisters into his latest scam: marrying and murdering gullible men and women, then cheating Read More

Love at the Top

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jane Birkin, Florinda Bolkan, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: In this French satire, a meek little bank (Jean-Louis Trintignant) clerk finds fame and fortune when he begins getting lessons from an impoverished novelist (Jean-Pierre Cassel) . Soon the clerk is wowing the Parisians with his ability to make the women swoon, and for his talent at attracting Read More

Un Amour de Pluie

Actors: Romy Schneider, Nino Castelnuovo, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: Elizabeth (Romy Schneider) and her daughter (Benedicte Bucher) take a holiday together, and each of them has a brief romance: the mother has an affair with a suitably mysterious Italian (Nino Castelnuovo) and the girl has a satisfying flirtation with a boy her own age (Alain David). ~ Clarke Read More

The Last Train

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Nike Arrighi, Regine, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: At the beginning of World War II, while the Germans entered France from the north, many people had reason to believe that the Germans would not treat them kindly, and they fled by train to the south. This French film tells the story of a few of them. Because they were fleeing the best-organized Read More

Ludwig

Actors: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: Luchino Visconti (Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone) was a film director, true, but he was also a nobleman and a grand patron of traditional European culture: opera, art, music, crafts and literature. These interests enliven many of his films, but few have been so inspired as the four-hour Read More

Cesar & Rosalie

Actors: Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey, Umberto Orsini, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's romantic drama César et Rosalie (Cesar and Rosalie) stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman happily married to successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a Read More

The Assassination of Trotsky

Actors: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Luigi Vannucchi

Synopsis: This film is Joseph Losey's mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson (Alain Delon), the assassin of exiled Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton). The tale chronicles the final few months of Trotsky's life, from the May 1940 raid upon Trotsky's Mexican Read More

Max et les Férrailleurs

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, François Perier, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom, where evidence matters more than guilt, lead him to join the police force. Independently wealthy, he uses all his official and personal resources to make criminals pay for Read More

Bloomfield

Synopsis: A soccer player, a child and an artist find their lives entangled in a story which achieves it climax in a pivotal soccer match. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Califfa

Actors: Romy Schneider, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Here the director adapts his own novel about Mira (Romy Schneider), a firebrand of a woman, who moves from being a ferocious labor organizer to being the mistress of her town's factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi). Labor negotiations provide a background for their brief but devastating romantic affair. Read More

Qui?

Actors: Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti, Simone Bach

Synopsis: Mariana (Romy Schneider) is riding along with her weekend date when she infuriates him by insulting his virility. The irate man drives off a high cliff and crashes into the ocean. She emerges unscathed and she is rescued by the victim's brother. Mariana and the brother become lovers, but he soon Read More

My Lover, My Son

Actors: Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Patricia Blake, William Dexter

Synopsis: The British/American co-production My Lover, My Son stars Romy Schneider as Frances, the unhappy wife of businessman Robert (Donald Houston). When her lover is accidentally drowned, Frances turns to her teenaged son James (Dennis Waterman) for comfort. Her husband doesn't like this set-up and Read More

Les Choses de la Vie

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari, Jean Bouise, Bobby Lapointe

Synopsis: After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with moviegoers in Les Choses de la Vie. The plot isn't much: the hero, businessman Michel Piccoli, must choose between his wife and his mistress, two women whom he loves with equal Read More

La Piscine

Actors: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin

Synopsis: Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she receives as call from the record executive Harry (Maurice Ronet). He arrives with his nubile young daughter (Jane Birkin). Read More

Otley

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers, Leonard Rossiter

Synopsis: Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a British secret agent called in to investigate the murder of a suspected influence pedlar and document smuggler. He trails double agents and double martinis at a posh cocktail party before discovering the villains have the cooperation of top government Read More

The Triple Cross

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: Adapted from his autobiography The Eddie Chapman Story, this is the story of a British safecracker who was in prison when WWII broke out. When the Germans occupied the area, he offers to work for them if they will set him free and they do so, sending him as a spy to England. Once there, however Read More

La Voleuse

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Julia (Romy Schneider) gave away her infant son to a foster couple before she married Werner (Michel Piccoli). Now she selfishly wants her child from the foster parents who have never officially adopted the boy. Radek (Hans Christian Blech) is the foster father who refuses to give up the boy he Read More

10:30 p.m. Summer

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch, Julián Mateos

Synopsis: Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not stop Finch from fooling around with other women, however, and an affair flares up Read More

What's New Pussycat?

Actors: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: A notorious womanizer, fashion editor Michael James (Peter O'Toole) decides to seek the help of a psychiatrist when he begins to feel that his inability to commit to a relationship is adversely affecting his personal life. Desperate to remain faithful to his fiancée Carole (Romy Schneider) Read More

Good Neighbor Sam

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Edward Andrews, Michael Connors

Synopsis: Disgusted by the smarminess of his 1963 vehicle Under the Yum Yum Tree, Jack Lemmon vowed that his next effort would be a wholesome family picture. Good Neighbor Sam is suitable for all ages, to be sure, but that doesn't stop producer-writer-director David Swift from injecting plenty of Read More

The Trial

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Suzanne Flon, Elsa Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story in clear, precise fashion. Sometimes, as in such films as Touch of Evil, Welles' spotty storytelling skills can be forgiven in the light of the excellent visuals. In other Read More

The Victors

Actors: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, James Mitchum, Rosanna Schiaffino, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the novel The Human Kind by Alexander Baron. It follows the adventures of an American infantry platoon based in Sicily that participates in the invasion of France, marches into Read More

The Cardinal

Actors: Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Dorothy Gish, Romy Schneider, Maggie McNamara, John Huston, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from Monsignor to the College of Cardinals, Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) must undergo several grueling life experiences: standing up to bigots in Georgia, defying Nazis in Read More

Boccaccio '70

Actors: Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top filmmakers. Each story is written in the style of the famed Italian essayist Boccaccio, albeit told in contemporary terms. First up is "The Raffle", written by Cesare Zavattini Read More

Forever My Love

Actors: Romy Schneider, Carl Boehm, Magda Schneider, Vilma Degischer, Gustav Knuth

Synopsis: The trilogy on Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and his queen Empress Elizabeth by director Ernest Marischka has been cut and spliced to make this interesting though slow-paced, two and a half-hour compilation costume drama. The tale starts out with the courtship of the future queen, known as Read More

Le Combat dans l'île

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre

Synopsis: The political overtones in this action-oriented drama may be a little murky outside of its time and place, yet the story is well told. Clement (Jean-Louis Tritignant) is a right-wing rabblerouser married to aspiring young actress Anne (Romy Schneider). He belongs to an underground terrorist group Read More

Die Halbzarte

Actors: Romy Schneider, Carlos Thompson, Magda Schneider, Gertraud Jesserer

Synopsis: A wooden, routine satire about love, sex, and a fascination with Americans, Die Halbzarte features an eccentric Austrian family who come up with a novel idea for making money. They decide to collectively write a sexy play about a young American that because of its content, is sure to become Read More

Katia

Actors: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Monique Melinand, Gabrielle Dorziat, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day films. Produced in France, Magnificent Sinner stars Curt Jurgens as Czar Alexander II, with Romy Schneider as schoolgirl Katja. The Czar takes Katja as his mistress Read More

Ein Engel auf Erden

Christine

Actors: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Sophie Grimaldi, Micheline Presle, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzer, this is a rather flat remake of the 1932 film Liebelei that featured Magda Schneider as Christine. Director Pierre Gaspard-Huit keeps it all in the family by putting Schneider's daughter Romy Schneider in the top female slot. Opposite her is newcomer Alain Delon 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

Monpti

Actors: Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane, Boy Gobert

Synopsis: Monpti is better known by its English-language title Love From Paris. Romy Schneider stars as Anne Claire, a seamstress who pretends to be wealthy in order to crash society. In this guise, she meets and falls in love with starving artist Monpti (Horst Buchholz), who has no time for women of Read More

Scampolo

Synopsis: In this drama, an amiable architect assists a sad little orphan and helps her find happiness at last. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sissi, Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin

Actors: Romy Schneider, Walter Reyer

Robinson Soll Nicht Sterben

Synopsis: 17th century author Daniel Defoe is assisted by a group of children in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Der Letzte Mann

Actors: Hans Albers, Romy Schneider, Rudolf Forster, Joachim Fuchsberger, Michael Heltau

Synopsis: It took nerve for director Harald Braun to attempt an all-talking remake of F.W. Murnau's silent masterpiece The Last Laugh, though it can't be denied that Braun's version has its moment. Still, the remake, Der Letze Mann (The Last Man) lacks the originality and nuance of the silent film, if only Read More

Sissi, Die Junge Kaiserin

Actors: Romy Schneider

Synopsis: Trouble rears its ugly head when the young emperor and empress of Austria arrive in Budapest for their coronation. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Kitty und Die Grosse Welt

Die Deutschmeister

Synopsis: This comical mix up features a baron who falls for a young woman on her way to visit her aunt in Vienna. When he call to ask for the girls hand in marriage, he calls the wrong aunt about the wrong niece. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sissi

Actors: Romy Schneider, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth, Uta Franz

Synopsis: Romy Schneider makes an impressive starring debut in the delightful Austrian comedy Sissi. The titular heroine is a preteen 19th century lass of noble birth, who charms everyone she meets. Especially impressed is young Franz Joseph, emperor the Hapsburg Empire. When Sissi comes of age, the emperor Read More

Mädchenjahre Einer Koenigin

Actors: Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Magda Schneider, Christl Mardayn

Synopsis: Filmed in 1954 as Madchenjahre einer Konigin, The Story of Vickie stars 16-year-old Romy Schneider as England's soon-to-be Queen Victoria. Purportedly based on the Queen's diary and letters, the story concerns the early romance between "Vickie" and her beloved Prince Albert (Adrian Hoven). When Read More

Feuerwerk

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