Lou Castel — Actor (20)
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The Leopard (1963) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il gattopardo
9.2 (5 ratings) director: Luchino Visconti actor: Burt Lancaster / Claudia Cardinale …
other title: Il gattopardo / Leoparden …
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
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The American Friend (1977) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB Douban
Der amerikanische Freund
director: Wim Wenders actor: Dennis Hopper / Bruno Ganz …
other title: L'amico americano / Den amerikanske ven …
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
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I Feel Good (2018) [Movie] TMDB
I Feel Good
director: Benoît Delépine / Gustave Kervern actor: Jean Dujardin / Yolande Moreau …
other title: Me Siento Bien
He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants – to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined with cheap plastic surgery. Jacques moves in with his older sister, Monique, who manages an Emmaus village in the south west of France. And before long, the smooth-talking chancer has convinced a group of workers to pool their meagre funds and set out on a trip to a clinic in Bulgaria, where all their dreams of a brighter and more beautiful future will all come true. If only…
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Irma Vep (1996) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
Irma Vep
director: Olivier Assayas actor: Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk / Jean-Pierre Léaud …
other title: 이마 베프 / イルマ・ヴェップ …
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…
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Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder actor: Lou Castel / Eddie Constantine …
other title: Attenzione alla puttana santa! / Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte …
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
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Drive Me Home (2019) [Movie] TMDB
Drive Me Home
director: Simone Catania actor: Vinicio Marchioni / Marco D'Amore …
other title: Drive Me Home - Portami a casa
Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.
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Dear Michele (1976) [Movie] TMDB
Caro Michele
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Mariangela Melato / Delphine Seyrig …
other title: Caro Michele
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
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A Bullet for the General (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Quién sabe?
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Gian Maria Volonté / Klaus Kinski …
other title: Quién sabe? / O Mercenário …
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
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Marx Can Wait (2021) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
Marx può aspettare
director: Marco Bellocchio actor: Alberto Bellocchio / Letizia Bellocchio …
other title: Marx può aspettare / Marx kann warten …
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
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The Eyes, the Mouth (1982) [Movie] TMDB
Gli occhi, la bocca
director: Marco Bellocchio actor: Lou Castel / Ángela Molina …
other title: Gli occhi, la bocca / Die Augen, der Mund …
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.
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Paranoia (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Orgasmo
director: Umberto Lenzi actor: Carroll Baker / Lou Castel …
other title: Orgasmo / Une folle envie d'aimer
Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa. After quickly succumbing to the charms of a local man, she lets him move into the villa and the two are later joined by his sister, which soon leads to complications.
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In the Name of the Father (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Nel nome del padre
director: Marco Bellocchio actor: Yves Beneyton / Renato Scarpa …
other title: Nel nome del padre / Au nom du père …
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
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Matalo! (Kill Him) (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
¡Mátalo!
director: Cesare Canevari actor: Corrado Pani / Lou Castel …
other title: ¡Mátalo! / Willkommen in der Hölle …
A gang of cattle thieves rescue a criminal from the gallows, and later rob a stagecoach loaded with gold. When they get the loot, he is betrayed and left dying in the middle of the desert. In the escape they reach a mysterious ghost town, where they perceive there is something strange about ...
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Kill and Pray (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Requiescant
director: Carlo Lizzani actor: Lou Castel / Mark Damon …
other title: Requiescant / Réquiem Para Matar …
A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist). On his journey to help his half-sister out of a complicated situation, he crosses paths with the men who killed his family, unbeknownst to him.
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Francis of Assisi (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Francesco d'Assisi
director: Liliana Cavani actor: Lou Castel / Giancarlo Sbragia …
other title: Francesco d'Assisi
A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith.
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Change of Sex (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cambio de sexo
director: Vicente Aranda actor: Victoria Abril / Lou Castel …
other title: Je veux être femme / Cambio de sexo
Young José María goes through a painful journey until he discovers that he is a transsexual.
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C.I.A. Secret Story (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Faccia di spia
director: Giuseppe Ferrara actor: Adalberto Maria Merli / Mariangela Melato …
other title: Faccia di spia / Terrorismo oficial …
Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
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Everyday Objects (2013) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Halbschatten
director: Nicolas Wackerbarth actor: Anne Ratte-Polle / Lou Castel …
other title: Objectos do Quotidiano / Halbschatten …
Merle follows the invitation of her lover to spend the summer in the South of France. She is surprised to find only his children in the summer house. Did she expect more than she should have? An ambiguous summer full of silent desire.