Chris Menges

Activities : Director, Director of Photography

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (4 films)

Route Irish (2010) Director : Ken Loach Actors : Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop, Trevor Williams, Geoff Bell... Associate production company : Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Liverpool, August 1976. 5-year-old Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school. They’ve been in each others’ shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming about...

Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (The) (2004) Director : Tommy Lee Jones Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio César Cedillo, January Jones, Dwight Yoakam... Associate production company : EuropaCorp Genres : Fiction Synopsis : A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body....

The Good Thief (2003) Director : Neil Jordan Actors : Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Emir Kusturica... Co-production : Tnvo Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Bob Montagnet no longer has a home to go to. Life for this former thief and art collectioner has become a succession of nights spent at gambling tables in smoky, seedy dives. When he loses the only money he's got left at the races...

The Lost Son (1999) Director : Chris Menges Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Katrin Cartlidge, Nastassja Kinski, Marianne Denicourt Associate production company : Ima Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Xavier Lombard is a former drug squad officer, exiled to London after a bomb killed his wife and daughter. Alone and disillusioned, he ekes out a living as a private detective. One day Carlos, a friend and former colleague, asks...