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| A selected list of Romy Schneider's films |

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Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht
1953, West Germany, Herzog-Film, 98 min.
Director: Hans Deppe
Cast: Magda Schneider (Romy's mother), Willy Fritsch
Romy's very first movie. Billed as Romy Schneider-Albach, she plays the film daughter of her real mother.
 > Buy this movie on VHS (German, PAL)

Feuerwerk
1953, West Germany, Herzog-Film, 99 min.
Director: Kurt Hoffmann
Cast: Romy Schneider, Lilli Palmer, Karl Schönböck
Now billed as Romy Schneider, the young actress has a major role in this drama about a circus family.
 > Buy this movie on VHS (German, PAL)

Mädchenjahre einer Königin
1954, Austria, Herzog-Film, 95 min.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven, Magda Scheider
Romy's first royal role has her playing a young Queen Victoria living in Kensignton Palace.
 > Buy this movie on VHS (German, PAL)

Die Deutschmeister
1955, Austria, Herzog-Film, 90 min.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Magda Scheider, Siegfried Breuer, Jr., Hans Moser
Young Cri-Cri (Schneider) leaves Salzburg for the big city (Vienna) and what her horoscope says will be happiness and the love of a soldier.
 > Buy this movie on VHS (German, PAL)

Der letzte Mann
1955, West Germany, 83 min.
Director: Harald Braun
Cast: Romy Schneider, Hans Albers
A trusted head waiter (Albers) in a grand hotel falls victim to the intrigue of others. Although in the end he comes out as “the last man” standing, he and the hotel owner's daughter (Schneider) must overcome many obstacles.

Sissi
1955, Austria, Herzog-Film, 105 min.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider
This is the first film in the Sissi trilogy that follows the life and adventures of Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria. In part one, young Franz-Joseph has succeeded his father to the Austrian throne, and his archduchess mother is trying to find him a suitable bride. But Franz irritates his mother by falling for the "wrong" bride (Sissi). This film and Romy's performance were a big hit with the public and critics at the time.
 > Buy this movie on DVD (German, Region 2)
  GERMAN BOX SET (SISSI 1-3) > Buy the DVD (German, Region 2)

Sissi - Forever my Love
1962, Austria
The U.S. condensed, English-dubbed version of the Sissi trilogy. Romy dubbed her own voice in English.
 > Buy this movie on VHS video (English, NTSC)

  GERMAN BOX SET (SISSI 1-3) > Buy the DVD (German, Region 2)

Sissi, die junge Kaiserin
1956, Austria, Herzog-Film, 105 min.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider
In part two of the Sissi trilogy Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria gets married.
 > Buy this movie on DVD (German, Region 2)
  GERMAN BOX SET (SISSI 1-3) > Buy the DVD (German, Region 2)

Kitty und die große Welt
1956, West Germany, Herzog-Film, 90 min.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann
Cast: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, O.E. Hasse

Robinson soll nicht sterben
1956, West Germany, Herzog-Film, 98 min.
Director: Josef von Baky
Cast: Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Erich Ponto, Magda Schneider
Romy co-stars with Horst Buchholz in this film set in 18th century London. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe manuscript is about to be lost forever — until rescuers appear.
 > Buy this movie on DVD (Region 2)

Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin
1957, Austria, UFA, 106 min.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider
Romy's last appearance as the royal Sissi.
 > Buy this movie on DVD (German, Region 2)
  GERMAN BOX SET (SISSI 1-3) > Buy the DVD (German, Region 2)

Monpti
1957, West Germany, 95 min.
Director: Helmut Käutner
Cast: Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane
In this love story with a sad ending, Buchholz is a young starving artist in Paris who meets and falls in love with the rich and beautiful Anne-Claire (Schneider).
 > Buy this movie on DVD (German, Region 2)

Scampolo
1957, West Germany, UFA, 100 min.
Director: Alfred Weidemann
Cast: Romy Schneider, Paul Hubschmid
Romy is a beautiful 18-year-old orphan (Sampolo) on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. Scampolo works as a tourist guide on local boat cruises, and she soon gets involved with a down-and-out architect who has come to visit the island.
 > Buy this movie on DVD (German, Region 2)

Mädchen in Uniform
1958, West Germany/France, 94 min.
Director: Geza Radvanyi
Cast: Romy Schneider, Lilli Palmer, Therese Giehse
An above-average remake of the classic 1931 German film about a lesbian relationship between a private school teacher (Palmer) and her student (Schneider).

Die Halbzarte
1958, Austria, UFA, 91 min.
Director: Rolf Thiele
Cast: Romy Schneider, Carlos Thompson, Magda Schneider, Josef Meinrad
Her fans were upset when Romy departed from her familiar Sissi image to play a shy poet who writes a scandalous bestseller under a pseudonym and ends up marrying her American publisher.
 > Buy this movie on DVD (German, Region 2)

Christine
1956, France/Italy, 95 min.
Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Cast: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Jean-Claude Brialy
Romy's first French production.

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Boccaccio 70
1961, Italy/France, Cinédis, 156 min.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Romy Schneider, Tomas Milian, Paolo Stoppa
It was Schneider's performance in this European film that got her an invitation to Hollywood in 1962.

The Trial
1962, France/West Germany/Italy, UFA, 120 min.
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Romy Schneider, Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles
The story goes that Romy talked Welles into playing the unfilled role of the prosecutor in his own film. - Amazon.com: "Orson Welles's take on Franz Kafka's nightmare comedy stars Anthony Perkins as a twitchy K, a man accused of a crime that is never specified. The story has been filmed several times over the years, but not quite with the air of noir fable Welles brings to it. Beginning with an unexpected prologue in which Welles, in voiceover, tells a haunting parable while we look at artwork by pioneer pinscreen animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff, The Trial is one surprising and visually startling chapter after another..."
 > Buy this movie on DVD

The Victors
1962/1963, USA, Columbia, 148 min.
Director: Carl Foreman
Cast: Romy Schneider, George Hamilton, George Peppard, James Mitchum, Peter Fonda, Eli Wallach, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, Elke Sommer, Albert Finney, Senta Berger
Vignettes of love and war during World War II. Romy plays a Belgian violinist (Regine) who is forced into prostitution. Notable for a winter scene of two soldiers being shot for desertion while we hear Frank Sinatra singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

The Cardinal
1963, USA, 95 min.
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Romy Schneider, Tom Tryon, John Huston, Burgess Meredith, Josef Meinrad, Carol Lynley, John Saxon, Peter Weck
Amazon.com: "At once sprawling and intimate, Otto Preminger's coolly observed story of the education of a Catholic cardinal (Tom Tryon) spans 25 years of 20th-century social history, hops from Rome to Boston to Vienna, and confronts abortion, celibacy, and racism along the way. If those issues seem tame today, Preminger turns them into vivid drama in his hero's crisis and triumph of faith. Tryon is rather stolid and stiff, but the supporting cast helps liven scenes: Romy Schneider as a tempting Fräulein, Ossie Davis as an American priest who requests the Vatican take a stand against racism, John Huston's performance as an irascible archbishop..."
 > Buy this movie on DVD

Good Neighbor Sam
1964, USA, Columbia, 130 min.
Director: David Swift
Cast: Romy Schneider, Jack Lemmon, Michael Connors, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine
One wonders how much better this zany 1960s suburban comedy would have been under the hand of someone like Billy Wilder, but Romy and Lemmon make it worth watching anyway. German title: Leih mir deinen Mann (Lend me your husband). Too bad there's no DVD version.
 > Buy this movie on VHS

What's New Pussycat?
1964, GB, 108 min.
Director: Clive Donner
Cast: Romy Schneider, Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Capucine,
Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress
Before most people knew who he was, Woody Allen wrote the script for this film. Michael James (O'Toole), a successful fashion journalist is engaged to the beautiful Berlitz language instructor Carole Werner (Schneider). He asks his mad psychotherapist, Dr. Fritz Fassbender (Sellers), for advice on how to resist the temptations of the many fashion models who constantly swirl around him. So begins this classic Peter Sellers comedy. - Hard to believe it's not on DVD!
 > Buy the VHS

Triple Cross/Spion zwischen zwei Fronten
1966, GB/France, 126 min. (English)
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Romy Schneider, Christopher Plummer, Gert Fröbe, Trevor Howard, Yul Brenner
Eddie Chapman (Plummer) is a charming burglar and con-artist who gets involved with the beautiful spy known simply as the "Countess" (Schneider) during World War II.
 > Buy the VHS (English, NTSC)
 > Buy the DVD (German, Region 2)

Otley
1968, GB, Columbia, 91 min.
Director: Dick Clement
Cast: Romy Schneider, Tom Courtney
A spy and murder drama in which Romy plays a secret agent.

La piscine/The Swimming Pool
1968, France/Italy, 91 min.
Director: Jacques Deray
Cast: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Jane Birkin, Maurice Ronet
Jean-Paul (Delon) and Marianne (Schneider) are enjoying a relaxing vacation in a villa near St. Tropez. Everything goes well until Marianne invites her former lover Harry (Ronet) and his daughter (Birkin) to spend a few days at the villa. Soon jealousy and testosterone lead to problems — and a murder. (Remade in 2003 as the British-French Swimming Pool with Charlotte Rampling, directed by François Ozon.)

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Bloomfield
1970, GB/Israel, 20th Century Fox, 94 min.
Director: Richard Harris
Cast: Romy Schneider, Richard Harris, Kim Burfield
Eitan, an aging, unstable, insecure soccer star (Harris), is in love with Nira (Schneider), a sculptor who just wants Eitan to quit soccer and marry her. But he has to do things his own way.

Ludwig II
1972, Italy/France/Germany, 183 min.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Romy Schneider, Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe
A biopic about King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Innocents with Dirty Hands/Les innocents aux mains sales
1975, France/Italy/Germany, Les Films la Boétie, 125 min.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Paolo Giusti, Jean Rochefort
Romy plays the neglected wife of the wealthy Louis Wormser (Steiger) in St. Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover Jeff hatch a plan to get rid of her nuisance husband, but something goes wrong.
 > Buy this movie on DVD (English, Region 1)

Bloodline
1979, USA/West Germany, 116 min.
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Romy Schneider, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe, Claudia Mori, Wolfgang Preiss
Most critics panned this film. Amazon customer review: “Enjoy it for what it is, a straightforward, by-the-numbers suspense thriller with plenty of '70s fashion and atmosphere. The ending, where Hepburn must decide to believe either Mason or Gazarra, is great.” - What, no mention of Romy?
 > Buy this movie on VHS (English, NTSC)

Clair de femme
1980, France, 103 min.
Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras
Cast: Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Jean Reno
Gloomy tale of two long-suffering people.

Death Watch
1979/1980, France/West Germany, 119 min.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean stanton, Max von Sydow
A highly praised sci-fi drama that criticizes media intrusiveness and manipulation.

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La banquiere
1980, France, 124 min.
Director: Francis Girod
Cast: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant
The rise and fall of an ambitious female bank president (Schneider).

Garde a vue
1981, France, 87 min.
Director: Claude Miller
Cast: Romy Schneider, Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault
A thriller centered around the interrogation of a man suspected of raping and murdering two girls.

La passante du Sans-Souci
1982, France/West Germany, 115 min.
Director: Jacques Rouffio
Cast: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli
Romy's last film.

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