Sami Frey Filmography

Anthony Zimmer

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Yvan Attal, Sami Frey, Gilles Lellouche, Daniel Olbrychski

Who Was Kafka?

Synopsis: A certified insomniac, the celebrated belletrist Franz Kafka whiled away the hours between dusk and dawn authoring tomes - tomes whose dreamlike, often nightmarish qualities (a human transformed into a giant cockroach, an unwitting fellow trapped in a labyrinthine bureaucratic web) were Read More

La Repentie

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Sami Frey, Samy Naceri, Aurore Clément, Catherine Mouchet

Synopsis: When an indistinct woman named Charlotte (Isabelle Adjani) leaves a train station in hopes of changing her life forever, she's followed by a mysterious stranger with ill intentions. After recovering a bag hidden adeptly within the women's bathroom, Charlotte re-enters the station, this time Read More

Les Acteurs

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The son of actor Bernard Blier, director Bertrand Blier is known throughout France for his documentaries and dark depictions of sex and its impact on society. Though his influences and personal opinions clearly shine through, Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous Read More

In and Out of Fashion

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, Anémone, André Dussollier, Zouc

Synopsis: The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers in this French documentary. Born in 1926, Klein is a native New Yorker who began living in Paris in 1948, studied painting with Fernand Leger, photographed for Vogue from Read More

Les Menteurs

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Lorraine Bracco, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless Read More

L'Amour Conjugal

Actors: Sami Frey, Caroline Sihol, Pierre Richard, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins in 1629, and the knight is Nathan Le Cerf who joins the regiments of Count Anchire after he loses his entire family to the plague. Nathan's first assignment is to Read More

Revenge of the Musketeers

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her Read More

En Compagnie d'Antonin Artaud

Actors: Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jezequel, Valerie Jeannet

Synopsis: This French film offers a powerful fictionalized account of renowned French poet, actor, and intellectual Antonin Artaud who in life walked a fine, often blurred line between genius and insanity. It is told from the viewpoint of Artaud's intimate friend, student, and pusher, the poet Jacques Read More

Traps

Actors: Saskia Reeves, Robert Reynolds, Sami Frey, Jacqueline McKenzie, Kiet Lam

Synopsis: Vietnamese director Pauline Chan, known for short films, made her feature debut with this story about a woman living in colonial Indochina. Chan co-wrote the screenplay based on a novel, Dreamhouse, by Kate Grenville. The sexual and emotional awakening of Louise Duffield (Saskia Reeves) takes Read More

Le Demenagement

Actors: Sami Frey

Hors Saison

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Dieter Meier, Sami Frey

Synopsis: The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms in order to relive his fond memories of the place. As he remembers, flashbacks reveal episodes in the lives of Read More

La Voix

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Sami Frey, Laura Morante, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: Lorraine and Gille are sharing a romantic dinner at a cafe in Rome while they celebrate their relationship with a vacation to that historic city. Gille is suddenly still, as he hears a voice out of sight that sounds familiar. Eventually he places it: it is the voice of his former flame Laura, a Read More

Contre L'Oubli

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the lives of political prisoners around the world. Each filmmaker speaks passionately on behalf of an individual whose life has been warped by political intolerance, imprisonment Read More

L'Africana

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Stefania Sandrelli, Sami Frey, Jan Biczycki, Alexandre Mnouchkine

Synopsis: Serious, logical Martha (Barbara Sukowa) and dreamy, superstitious Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) have been best friends. That is, until Martha's lover Victor (Sami Frey) decides he'd rather be Anna's lover. Mortified, Martha flees to Africa, leaving the field clear for her ex-friend. When Anna comes Read More

War & Remembrance: The Final Chapter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick, Sami Frey, Topol

Les Deux Fragonard

Actors: Joaquim de Almeida, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Robin Renucci, Sami Frey, Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis: The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early Read More

War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

L'Oeuvre Au Noir

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Gian Maria Volonte leads the cast as Zenon, a Belgian doctor and alchemist in the 1500s. Zenon travels across Europe for many years hiding from the Inquisition, which eventually Read More

De Sable et de Sang

Actors: Sami Frey, André Dussollier, Clémentine Célarié, Maria Casarés, Patrick Catalifo, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: The title of Sand and Blood has led some to assume that this 1988 French film is a remake of the old warhorse Blood and Sand. In fact, the only thing the two properties have in common is a bullfighter as a protagonist. A sensitive matador (Patrick Catalifo) grows weary of killing and tries to Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all Read More

Sauve-toi, Lola

Actors: Carole Laure, Sami Frey, Jeanne Moreau, Dominique Labourier, Robert Charlebois

Synopsis: Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Ania Francos, this tragi-comedy follows the diagnosis and internment of lawyer Lola Friedlander (Carole Laure) in the cancer ward of a large clinic. There Lola encounters Marie-Aude (Jeanne Moreau) and Cathy (Dominique Labourier), two very different Read More

Laputa

Actors: Sami Frey, Krystyna Janda

Synopsis: Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgortzata, a Polish photographer (Krystyna Janda) and her married French lover Paul (Sami Frey). The two rendezvous in West Berlin to spend some time together before Read More

L'Etat De Grâce

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Sami Frey, Pierre Arditi, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Antoine has a promising political career in front of him, if he can only keep from getting sidelined by inappropriate love affairs. He is a junior minister in France's socialist government, and he has had a hand in writing a number of important pieces of legislation. He has put his heart into Read More

L'Unique

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Sami Frey, Charles Denner, Jezabel Carpi

Synopsis: This routine drama's main distinctions are the musical numbers by Julia Migenes Johnson as a misbehaving singer and the computer-assisted scenes that are melded with actual scenes for the first time in French cinema. The singer has been missing her scheduled performances -- or just simply cuts out Read More

La Vie De Famille

Actors: Sami Frey, Mara Goyet, Juliet Berto, Juliette Binoche, Aina Walle

Synopsis: This is an affecting story about a father's attempts to mend the breaches in the relationship between himself and his 10-year-old daughter. Emmanuel (Sami Frey) is the father of Elise (Mara Goyet) by his first marriage, and the stepfather of an older daughter by his second marriage. He tries to Read More

Le Garde du Corps

Actors: Jane Birkin, Gérard Jugnot, Sami Frey, Didier Kaminka, Nicole Jamet

Synopsis: Much of the suspense is excised from this ordinary comic "whodunit" by revealing too much about the protagonists before their own characters betray themselves through their actions. Barbara (Jane Birkin) marries Julien (Sami Frey) a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul (Gérard Jugnot) Read More

The Little Drummer Girl

Actors: Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Cristofer

Synopsis: Based on John Le Carré's novel by the same name, this story about Charlie (Diane Keaton) a female double agent working between the Palestinians and Israelis, loses some of the excitement and in-depth characterization engendered by the long novel -- mainly because the novel is hard to capture in a Read More

Mortelle Randonnée

Actors: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Sami Frey

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial killer, seduces men and then murders them just before moving on to the next victim. She spreads her mayhem through various countries in Europe, only slightly ahead of the Read More

Écoute Voir...

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Sami Frey, Anne Parillaud, Didier Haudepin

Synopsis: In this detective thriller, Alphand (Catherine Deneuve) is a private detective called upon to rescue the kidnapped daughter of Arnaud (Sami Frey), an sinister inventor. Arnaud has developed a hypnotizing ray which enables its user to make powerful suggestions to people about their behavior without Read More

Pourquoi Pas!

Actors: Michel Aumont, Sami Frey, Mario Gonzalez, Nicole Jamet, Christine Murillo

Synopsis: A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man and woman (from different marriages) and the bisexual they get involved with. At first all three are happy in their new arrangement, but then the divorced fellow suddenly Read More

Une Page D'Amour

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Sami Frey, Guy Pion

Synopsis: François (Sami Frey), a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very ordered and secure and perhaps feels a bit claustrophobic. When he observes that a murderer has been declared psychologically incompetent and is to be placed in a mental Read More

Néa: A Young Emmanuelle

Actors: Ann Zacharias, Sami Frey, Micheline Presle, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Chafing under her suppressive parents, Nea begins keeping a secret diary, recording her innermost erotic yearnings. When imagination proves inadequate, she decides to experience first-hand the things she's previously only fantasized about. Nea eases into her sexual adventures out of boredom rather Read More

Le Jeu du Solitaire

Actors: Sami Frey, Alida Valli, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: A psychiatrist (Sami Frey) takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death. All the evidence points to a young orphan boy as the real murderer. Why is the psychiatrist claiming the murder as his own? ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Jardin Qui Bascule

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Anouk Ferjac, Patrick Jouane, Sami Frey, Philippe Chemin

Synopsis: The young hit man in this movie cannot bring himself to fulfill his contract on Katie (Delphine Seyrig), and for a little while the two have an affair. Even after their affair is over, he hesitates, which has dire consequences for the two of them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Sweet Movie

Actors: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallet

Synopsis: Like his WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev's controversial 1974 feature Sweet Movie is firmly rooted in the principles of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. In cinematic terms, this means bombarding the audience with an onset of imagery so visceral, disgusting and repellent that it 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

Rak

Actors: Lila Kedrova, Sami Frey, Anne Deleuze, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: In this French drama, the limitations of the medical system are exposed. Lila Kedrova plays a mature woman of Russian origin who is stricken with cancer ("rak" in Russian). She wants to live, and in order to do so she must fight the inertia and indifference of the specialists and bureaucrats she Read More

Paulina 1880

Actors: Eliana de Santis, Olga Karlatos, Maximilian Schell, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This French film is a tragic tale of thwarted love, set among the upper classes in turn-of-the-century Italy. As the only daughter in a large household, surrounded by watchful relatives, Paulina (Olga Karlatos) can only dream of romance. Between her romantic dreams and her deep religious devotion Read More

Les Mariés De L'An II

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the French title refers to the second year following the revolution. Those who guided the French Revolution renamed the days of the week, the months of the year, and much more. Read More

M Comme Mathieu

Actors: Sami Frey, Brigitte Fossey, Bulle Ogier, Roland Dubillard

Synopsis: This is a highly symbolic French drama in which truth and fantasy seem to mingle. When Mathieu's (Sami Frey) wife (Brigitte Fossey) picks him up at the hospital and drops him off at an apartment, he is left alone while she returns home to their son. When she sees her husband again, he confesses to Read More

Mister Freedom

Actors: John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called Freedom Incorporated. Receiving his orders from Doctor Freedom (Donald Pleasence), he battles the Russian Moujik Man and a fire-breathing dragon named Red China Man in this Read More

La Chasse Royale

Actors: Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Jean Champion

Manon 70

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Claude Brialy, Sami Frey, Elsa Martinelli, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Manon (Catherine Deneuve) is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings. The mistress of a wealthy man, she meets a handsome young reporter (Sami Frey) on a flight from Hong Kong to Paris. She gives the older man the boot before slipping into a hot Read More

L'Ecume Des Jours

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Perrin, Sami Frey, Alexandra Stewart, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: This uneven film has Colin (Jacques Perrin) marrying a delicate young girl who soon dies after their wedding. His friend Partre (Samy Frey) is an avid collector of objects belonging to his favorite author, often spending his remaining money on the souvenirs. After Colin's wife dies, he steals her Read More

Devil at My Heels

Angelique et le Roi

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jacques Toja, Sami Frey, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: Michelle Mercier continues in her role as Angelique, the beautiful woman in the court of King Louis XIV. She beds down several men before her husband, who she believed was dead, returns for her. This is the third in a series of romantic costumed dramas that chronicle Angelique's amorous Read More

Qui Etes-Vous Polly Magoo?

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Philippe Noiret, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Polly Dorothy MacGowan is a model who tells about her experiences when she is interviewed by a television crew in this offbeat satirical comedy. She dreams of a life with prince charming Sami Frey while contending with the lecherous advances of a whole string of men who constantly hit on her. Some Read More

Une Balle Au Coeur

Actors: Sami Frey, Françoise Hardy, Jenny Karezi

Synopsis: Francesco Sami Frey is an idle nobleman who inherits a crumbling castle in this action drama. When Sicilian gangsters take over his home, Francesco seeks vengeance against the mob to reclaim his home and property. He travels to Greece in his search to bring back the witness who can put the crime Read More

Bande à Part

Actors: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn

Synopsis: One of pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films is this French spin on Dolores Hitchens' novel Fool's Gold. It tells the tale of three disaffected youths who plan a burglary, leading to deadly results. The alienated young trio is marvelous, particularly Anna Karina, and the Read More

Couple Interdit

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Sami Frey, Jose Bodalo, Ana Casares

L'Appartement Des Filles

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina, Renate Ewert, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Tibere (Sami Frey) is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling operation in this light comedy. One woman is a snob, the second is adventurous, and Melanie (Mylene Demongeot) is sentimental about love. When Melanie and Tibere fall for each Read More

Cleo from 5 to 7

Actors: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanc, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for cancer. Director Agnes Varda stages the film in "real" rather than subjective time, its various Read More

Il Disordine

Actors: Renato Salvatori, Sami Frey, Louis Jourdan, Curd Jürgens, Antonella Lualdi, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Disorder was a French/Italian co-production, released as Le Desordre in France and Il Disordine in Italy (somebody was in a rut). This leisurely paced modern fable stars Renato Salvatore as a poor young man, struggling to pay for his mother's medical bills. Virtually everyone whom Salvatore Read More

Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marie-José Nat, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

Thérèse Desqueyroux

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey, Renee Devillers

Synopsis: Emmanelle Riva won a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of a tortured wife in this 1963 French-language adaptation of the novel by Francois Mauriac. Director Georges Franju remains faithful to the book. Riva plays the title character, who feels suffocated in her Read More

Jeunesse De Nuit

Actors: Magali Noël, Cristina Gajoni, Tod Windsor, Sami Frey

La Verité

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Marie-José Nat, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This French-Italian romantic crime thriller is titled The Truth in English. Henri-Georges Clouzot directed sexpot Brigitte Bardot as Dominique Marceau, who is accused of killing her boyfriend. The question for the jury is whether the murder was premeditated or a crime of passion. Marceau had come Read More

Le Travail C'Est La Liberte

Actors: Raymond Devos, Gerard Sety, Sami Frey, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: One of the several types of "New Wave" cinema emerging from France at this time, Le Travail C'est La Liberte does not make a very big splash. The story, meant to be amusing, involves three prison inmates who because of their good behavior are given the responsibility -- under strict police Read More