Biography: Ian Bannen |
A respected character actor and occasional leading man of the stage, screen, and television, Scottish-born Ian Bannen acted in over 80 productions during his long career. Shortly after enrolling at Ratcliffe College, Bannen, who was born in Airdrie,... more
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Length: 106min
Mary McGuckian directs this bleak biopic about famed Manchester United soccer star George Best, who dumped his career down the drain with booze, brawling, and drugs. The film charts Best's (John Lynch) rise from Belfast, to fame, to dissipation. ~...
Tags: Drama Religious Drama Family Drama
Length: 96min
Director Martin Duffy adapts author Rhidian Brook's popular children's book concerning British bard and Celtic shaman Taliesin in this family oriented eligious drama starring Jonathan Pryce and John-Paul Macleoud, and featuring the final screen...
Tags: Comedy Comedy of Errors
Length: 90min
Just as the charming British film The Full Monty told the story of simple men willing to shed their clothes for money, Waking Ned Devine is the story of older Irish men who pursue money and take off their clothes. Commercial director Kirk Jones makes...
A Pin for the Butterfly (1994)
Cast: Joan Plowright
Tags: Family Drama Drama Political Drama
Length: 113min
This complex political drama zeroes in on the life of a small bourgeois family living in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. It is set in the 50's. The family is falling apart from the pressure to think along party lines, even in private. The mere mention of...
Something to Believe In (1998)
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: 112min
Lew Grade is the executive producer of this British-German co-production, a romantic drama that gets underway in Las Vegas with several casino cameos (Robert Wagner, Roddy McDowall, Jill St. John, William Hootkins). Lymphoma leaves Vegas croupier...
Cast: Richard Harris
Tags: Drama Message Movie Animal Picture Biopic
Length: 108min
The story of George Adamson, whose work helped inspire the book and subsequent film Born Free, is continued in the fact-based drama To Walk With Lions. In Kenya in the late 1980's, Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) is a young man from London who has a job...
Cast: Louis Malle Jeremy Irons Juliette Binoche
Tags: Romantic Drama Erotic Drama Drama
Length: 111min
Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming...
Cast: Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby Henry Mancini
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Comedy Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies
Length: 84min
Bill Cosby mugs so uncontrollably that it looks as if he may be the victim of a muscular disorder in the inane and unfunny Ghost Dad. Cosby plays Elliot, a workaholic widower with three children -- Danny (Salim Grant), Amanda (Brooke Fontainbe), and...
Cast: Ian Bannen
Tags: Family Family-Oriented Adventure
Length: 89min
In this children's film, George Waters (Nathaniel Moreau) is a young boy happily living with his eccentric grandfather, retired sailor Captain Waters (Ian Bannen) who tells the boy exciting tales of buried treasure. An interfering schoolteacher...
Cast: Liam Neeson Ennio Morricone
Tags: Drama Family Drama Sports Drama
Length: 95min
Filmmaker David Leland handled the directing chores on this British drama that stars Liam Neeson as an unemployed Scotsman whose inability to find a job threatens his family's wellbeing. Against his better judgement, Neeson is coerced into a...
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