Biography: Joss Ackland |
Another illustrious graduate of London's Central School of Speech and Drama, Joss Ackland made his first professional stage appearance at 17 in the 1945 production The Hasty Heart. For the next decade, Ackland learned his craft in a variety of... more
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Cast: Michael Caine Demi Moore Michael Radford
Tags: Thriller Caper Period Film Crime Drama
Length: 105min
Michael Radford (Il Postino and The Merchant of Venice) directs screenwriter Edward Anderson's script about an aging janitor and an American executive who form an unlikely alliance in order to carry out an elaborate jewel heist. Set in 1960s-era...
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Cast: Richard E. Grant
Tags: Romantic Drama War Drama Drama
Length: 179min
The World War II set romantic drama Above and Beyond concerns a young man and woman who fall in love, but must consider putting country before self in order to do what is right for the world. Richard E. Grant and Jason Priestley star in this tale of...
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006)
Cast: David Warner Ian Richardson
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Fantasy
Length: 189min
From the mind of bestselling author Terry Pratchet comes this off-the-wall holiday film. In the parallel universe of Discworld, they don't celebrate Christmas. Instead, children look forward to December 32nd, also known as Hogswatchnight, when they'll...
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave Joss Ackland
Tags: Comedy Drama Holiday Film Slice of Life
Length: 100min
This Irish comedy focuses on a woman named Ellie, who despite her family reputation as the wild free spirit, is left in charge of her sister Kate's retirement home when Kate is called home to care for their ailing mother. Ellie already has an aversion...
Cast: Harrison Ford Liam Neeson Kathryn Bigelow
Tags: Thriller Sea Adventure Action Thriller
Length: 138min
A real-life historical incident becomes the basis for this military hriller from director Kathryn Bigelow that's reminiscent of such submarine dramas as Das Boot (1981), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Crimson Tide (1995), and U-571 (2000). Harrison...
Cast: William Shakespeare Christopher Eccleston
Tags: Tragedy Drama Police Drama
Length: 104min
This British TV production of +Othello is more than a mere updating of the classic William Shakespeare ragedy; with freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, the film qualifies as a "rethinking" of the 17th century Shakespearean play,...
Tags: Comedy Family Drama Domestic Comedy
Length: 104min
A has-been '80s pop star whose phone stopped ringing some time ago, Paul Kerr (Craig Ferguson) is an alcoholic on a downward spiral. After crashing his motorcycle through a window and into a fountain in his estate, Paul is sent to a mental hospital on...
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson Stellan Skarsgård
Tags: Crime Crime Thriller Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Thriller
Length: 103min
Based on a story of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, the crime thriller The House on Turk Street was directed by veteran filmmaker Bob Rafelson. Cello-playing cop Jack Friar (Samuel L. Jackson) searches for a teenage runaway on Turk Street and ends...
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Drama Family Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 115min
The first feature by Bill Brookfield, Milk is an offbeat British comedy about a family in mourning. The death of an 81-year-old woman sets the scene for this tale about family funerals and the difficulty of burying one's mother. Adrian is an...
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