Dennis Berry

Directing

Dennis Berry

Born 1944-08-11 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Dennis Charles Berry was an American-French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was the son of director John Berry. Berry was born on August 11, 1944 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Last Song (1987), Stargate SG-1 (1997) and Highlander (1992). He was married to Anna Karina and Jean Seberg. He died on June 12, 2021 in Paris, France.

Acting credits

Borsalino poster
6.9

In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.

Borsalino

1970

La Collectionneuse poster
6.9

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.

La Collectionneuse

1967

L'Amour fou poster
6.5

A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

L'Amour fou

1969

Jean Seberg Forever poster
6.3

French documentary about the life of American actress and New Wave icon Jean Seberg.

Jean Seberg Forever

2014

Caméléons poster
NR

The means used by foreign spy services to obtain the trade secret of a French invention.

Caméléons

1971

The Girl Across the Way poster
4.0

A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he sees a young girl in front of her home. Although attractive, the woman's face has been badly scarred. He finds out her phone number and the two engage in pleasant conversation. He gets up enough nerve to ask to meet her in person, but the socially inept young man becomes paralyzed with fear. He again summons the courage to meet with her before he is plagued with fear once again.

The Girl Across the Way

1968

Singapore, Singapore poster
6.5

Singapore. Following the mysterious disappearance of several Marines on leave, the U.S. Secret Service appoints young Art Smith to lead the investigation. Four volunteers decide to assist him in his dangerous undertaking, and prepare to act as bait for the kidnappers.

Singapore, Singapore

1967

No artwork available
4.7

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.

Homeo

1967

Promise at Dawn poster
5.5

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.

Promise at Dawn

1970

Paulina Is Leaving poster
4.0

Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes brutal confrontations. Thrust into a world of madness and violence (or is it gaslighting?), Paulina is shuttled from a psychiatric institution to a brothel, while her brothers become resistance fighters in some enigmatic version of France.

Paulina Is Leaving

1969

The Great Chase poster
4.2

A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.

The Great Chase

1968

Paris Does Not Exist poster
5.4

In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment where he sees the vision of a woman who had lived there 30 years ago. His psychedelic hallucinations increase with time. Starring Richard Leduc and Danièle Gaubert with Serge Gainsbourg who also did the score.

Paris Does Not Exist

1969

Anna Karina, Remember poster
5.0

Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the story of her memories with Jean-Luc Godard and the great directors she knew, her memorable meeting with Serge Gainsbourg, and also, more recently, her career as a singer. With a gaze halfway between mischief and severity, the New Wave's Danish muse embodied a new feminity – deeply linked with women's liberation.

Anna Karina, Remember

2020

Behind the camera

Chloé poster
5.9

After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.

Chloé

1996

Chloé poster
5.9

After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.

Chloé

1996

The Big Delirium poster
4.7

A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love with Emily, John's mistress. After the death of the father of his hosts, he has the idea of ​​transforming their peaceful house into a brothel.

The Big Delirium

1975

The Big Delirium poster
4.7

A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love with Emily, John's mistress. After the death of the father of his hosts, he has the idea of ​​transforming their peaceful house into a brothel.

The Big Delirium

1975

Wild poster
2.5

Nora comes out of prison. She only has one thing in mind: finding a youg neo-punk artist she admires, Léa. Mirror of one another, these two soulmates will get to know each other and rebuild their lives together.

Wild

2019

Hotel Laguna poster
4.9

Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.

Hotel Laguna

2001

Poison poster
3.4

Traci is a devious teenage girl who befriends and kills anyone who comes between her and her mother, Dana, a failed movie actress who lies for and protects Traci. If looks could kill, they'd look like Traci: young, innocent, appealing, deadly. Traci clings like ivy to her devoted mother and strikes with a vengeance at any man who intrudes on their relationship. Traci's mother is an attractive woman with a healthy sexual appetite, and the attention she pays to the men in her life, whether for business or pleasure, sends Traci into a frenzy of jealousy and rage. Now Traci, using her budding sexuality, will do anything... seduce anyone... murder everyone who threatens to come between them.

Poison

2000

Poison poster
3.4

Traci is a devious teenage girl who befriends and kills anyone who comes between her and her mother, Dana, a failed movie actress who lies for and protects Traci. If looks could kill, they'd look like Traci: young, innocent, appealing, deadly. Traci clings like ivy to her devoted mother and strikes with a vengeance at any man who intrudes on their relationship. Traci's mother is an attractive woman with a healthy sexual appetite, and the attention she pays to the men in her life, whether for business or pleasure, sends Traci into a frenzy of jealousy and rage. Now Traci, using her budding sexuality, will do anything... seduce anyone... murder everyone who threatens to come between them.

Poison

2000

Last Song poster
8.0

Rock star Billy Jackson is found dead with a bullet in his head, a death classified as suicide. His brother Tom leaves the United States to come to Paris to investigate Billy's former relatives.

Last Song

1987

Highlander: Counterfeit poster
6.7

Horton, an old mortal enemy, puts a criminal through plastic surgery to make her look like Tessa. The false Tessa sets Duncan up for the final death.

Highlander: Counterfeit

1994

Midnight Lace poster
8.0

A TV reporter is mercilessly stalked by a mysterious assassin in this remake of the 1960 Doris Day thriller.

Midnight Lace

1981

The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau poster
4.3

A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.

The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau

1988

Anna Karina, Remember poster
5.0

Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the story of her memories with Jean-Luc Godard and the great directors she knew, her memorable meeting with Serge Gainsbourg, and also, more recently, her career as a singer. With a gaze halfway between mischief and severity, the New Wave's Danish muse embodied a new feminity – deeply linked with women's liberation.

Anna Karina, Remember

2020

Anna Karina, Remember poster
5.0

Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the story of her memories with Jean-Luc Godard and the great directors she knew, her memorable meeting with Serge Gainsbourg, and also, more recently, her career as a singer. With a gaze halfway between mischief and severity, the New Wave's Danish muse embodied a new feminity – deeply linked with women's liberation.

Anna Karina, Remember

2020

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ballad for Billy the Kid

1974

The Saint: The Blue Dulac poster
7.0

Simon Templar uses twin sisters and a rare Russian necklace to trap a ruthless American in Paris.

The Saint: The Blue Dulac

1989