Lila Kedrova

Acting

Lila Kedrova

Born — Died

1909-10-09 — 2000-02-16

Place of birth

Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Lila Kedrova (October 9, 1918 – February 16, 2000) was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964), and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lila Kedrova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Some Girls poster
5.8

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

Some Girls

1988

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poster
5.2

Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

1984

Tell Me a Riddle poster
6.8

Aging couple David and Eva have lost the spark that once infused their marriage. After nearly four decades together, the elderly duo is feel disconnected and lost. When they discover that Eva is sick, they decide to travel across the country to stay with their granddaughter in San Francisco. On the trip, with Eva's possible death looming, the couple rediscovers the passion and love that had been missing from their lives.

Tell Me a Riddle

1980

Blood Tide poster
5.1

An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

Blood Tide

1982

Two Men poster
7.0

Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of Toronto. Barna is now an upstanding citizen and a loving husband, but Alex will not rest until justice is served.

Two Men

1988

1970s · 17 titles

The Tenant poster
7.6

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

The Tenant

1976

Footprints on the Moon poster
6.3

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

Footprints on the Moon

1975

Soft Beds, Hard Battles poster
4.6

In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

1974

Womanlight poster
5.8

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.

Womanlight

1979

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday poster
6.2

Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

1974

The Kremlin Letter poster
5.9

After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.

The Kremlin Letter

1970

The Night Child poster
5.7

The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.

The Night Child

1975

The Skirt Chaser poster
5.7

A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.

The Skirt Chaser

1979

The Sewers of Paradise poster
6.4

In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.

The Sewers of Paradise

1979

Stop Calling Me Baby! poster
4.7

A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.

Stop Calling Me Baby!

1977

A Time for Loving poster
5.0

The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.

A Time for Loving

1972

Rak poster
6.5

David learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.

Rak

1972

No artwork available
9.0

During a trip organized by a municipality to cheer up the loneliness of the elderly in summer, seven "little old men" visit Orly airport and decide to leave one day for Tahiti. Penniless, they get organized by living in the same apartment and stealing from stores to finance their future tropical adventure. But a private detective is on their trail, hired by the local shopkeepers who are fed up with the repeated petty thefts. The "gang" make him disappear and decide to leave for Tahiti.

The Paradise of Riches

1978

Escape to the Sun poster
4.3

Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives

Escape to the Sun

1972

Widows' Nest poster
7.0

The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.

Widows' Nest

1977

Trotsky is Dead poster
NR

'It's as if the revolution was here again. They are storming the Winter Palace on my own doorstep.' In Palmerston Road, Reading, there is a crisis ...

Trotsky is Dead

1976

Eliza's Horoscope poster
4.4

A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man meant for her is right around the corner so she goes looking even among her odd rag tag group roommates.

Eliza's Horoscope

1975

1960s · 9 titles

Zorba the Greek poster
7.5

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Zorba the Greek

1964

Torn Curtain poster
6.6

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

Torn Curtain

1966

A High Wind in Jamaica poster
6.3

In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.

A High Wind in Jamaica

1965

Penelope poster
5.5

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.

Penelope

1966

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No poster
7.0

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

1968

Death of a Killer poster
6.2

When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.

Death of a Killer

1964

Maigret at the Pigalle poster
6.7

Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.

Maigret at the Pigalle

1966

Gypsy Law poster
10.0

The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.

Gypsy Law

1963

Le canard en fer blanc poster
5.4

In South America, airplane pilot François Cartier is searching for treasure for a group of political exiles who helped him escape the death penalty. But the members of the group are being murdered one by one. Having managed to get his hands on the loot, François will use it to exchange it for a beautiful revolutionary with whom he has fallen in love. But the return flight proves particularly perilous.

Le canard en fer blanc

1967

1950s · 12 titles

Razzia poster
6.7

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.

Razzia

1955

The Lovers of Montparnasse poster
6.9

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

The Lovers of Montparnasse

1958

People of No Importance poster
5.8

During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...

People of No Importance

1956

School for Love poster
5.1

Sophie and Elis, two young women at the Conservatory of Vienna. vie for the affection of head singing teacher Walter.

School for Love

1955

A Woman Like Satan poster
5.5

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.

A Woman Like Satan

1958

No Way Back poster
7.4

A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.

No Way Back

1954

My Pal the Gypsy poster
4.5

The "Védrines", whose head of family is a publisher, are well established in Paris. The "Pittuiti", on the other hand, are gypsies camping out in the suburbs. Young Zita belongs to the tribe and meets Théo Védrines, the publisher's son, a wild seducer. Zita is soon forced to tell her family that she is expecting a child. A scandal for the Pittuiti family, who instruct Zita's brother to apply the law of retaliation, Bruno must in turn seduce the pleasant Gisèle Védrines. And why not? But while Théo gradually becomes an anarchist, Bruno becomes more and more embourgeoise as Védrines discovers in him a real talent for writing. Still, Bruno and Gisèle will be as happy as Théo and Zita ever were.

My Pal the Gypsy

1959

Until the Last One poster
6.0

Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works. There, he falls in love with Gina but also arouses the jealousy of Quedchi, a fairground stall-holder who has seen him hiding the stolen money. After a while, Fredo Riccioni, the boss of the gang and his men, manage to trace him...

Until the Last One

1957

Main Street poster
6.3

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

Main Street

1956

The Ragpickers of Emmaus poster
7.4

The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.

The Ragpickers of Emmaus

1955

The Impure Ones poster
4.2

When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. His first assignment consists in seducing Michèle, a Montmartre nightclub singer and hostess, into signing a contract for Tangier. The young woman, however, who does this job only to support her young sister Danièle, falls for him and he for her. From then on Mario, without betraying himself, does his utmost to save Michèle -and Danièle for that matter - from the clutches of the gang...

The Impure Ones

1954

This Pretty World poster
5.5

Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.

This Pretty World

1957

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