Alice Krige Filmography

Lonely Hearts

Actors: John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Scott Caan, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Todd Robinson's Lonely Hearts features John Travolta and James Gandolfini as Elmer C. Robinson and Charles Hildebrandt, a pair of homicide detectives who are on the trail of lovers on a crime spree. The evil duo of Ray Fernandez (Jared Leto) and Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) take advantage of elderly Read More

The Contract

Actors: Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Jamie Anderson, Alice Krige, Megan Dodds

Synopsis: Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer in director Bruce Beresford's forest-bound thriller. Ray Keene (John Cusack) has lost his wife, and now the grieving Read More

Persuasion

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones star in this adaptation of the Jane Austin classic about a lovelorn woman who receives a second chance for true happiness. Anne Elliot was just nineteen when she fell hopelessly in love with dashing naval officer Frederick Wentworth, so when her family Read More

Silent Hill

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates

Synopsis: A mother and daughter flee to a strange abandoned town to seek out answers to the daughter's nightly psychological turmoil in Brotherhood of the Wolf director Christophe Gans' adaptation of the popular survival horror video game. Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) is a very sick child, yet rather than Read More

Ten Inch Hero

Actors: Alice Krige, Clea Duvall, Danneel Harris, Elisabeth Harnois, Jensen Ackles

Synopsis: Ten Inch Hero follows the love lives of several young adults who work together at a sandwich shop, The Beach City Grill, owned by a child of the sixties who adheres to the surfing lifestyle. The characters include Piper, who searches for the child she gave up for adoption; Tish, a sexually Read More

The Line of Beauty

Actors: Dan Stevens, Tim McInnerny, Alice Krige, Hayley Atwell, Alex Wyndham

Synopsis: Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts author Allan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel for the screen with this three-part saga of love, sex, class, and money set against the backdrop of the Thatcher era. As the conservative government rises to power in the turbulent 1980s and four Read More

Deadwood: Complications

Synopsis: Al (Ian McShane) regains consciousness, but he's in bad shape. Alma (Molly Parker) learns that she's pregnant, and, feeling that Doc (Brad Dourif) has been judgmental with her, she turns to Trixie (Paula Malcomson). Alma explains that she wants children of her own, but she has a physical deformity Read More

Dynasty: The Making Of a Guilty Pleasure

Actors: Pamela Reed, Alice Krige, Ritchie Singer, Bartholomew John, Melora Hardin

Synopsis: In the tradition of Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company and Growing Up Brady comes the telemovie Dynasty: the Making of a Guilty Pleasure: a slightly tongue-in-cheek docudrama that purports to tell the scintillating story behind the scenes of ABC's nine-season prime time Read More

Deadwood: Something Very Expensive

Synopsis: Alma (Molly Parker) proposes the formation of a bank in Deadwood, with Sol (John Hawkes) as chief officer. She also has a bout of morning sickness in the presence of Sol and Ellsworth (Jim Beaver). When Sol reports the news to Seth (Timothy Olyphant), he's less than thrilled. Merrick (Jeffrey Jones Read More

Deadwood: A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 2

Synopsis: In the wake of Martha (Anna Gunn) and William's (Josh Eriksson) arrival, Seth (Timothy Olyphant) tells Alma (Molly Parker) that they must either leave the camp immediately or "remain and sever connection." He wants Alma to decide their course, and gives her a few hours to do so. Trixie (Paula Malcomson Read More

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

Actors: Justine Waddell, Michael Weatherly, Matthew Settle, Colin Friels

Synopsis: This three-hour TV biopic of actress Natalie Wood emulates Citizen Kane by beginning at the end -- the tragically ironic drowning death of the water-phobic actress in 1981 -- then recounts her life story in flashback. Justine Waddell plays the adult Natalie, with younger performers Elizabeth Rice Read More

Deadly Friends

Children of Dune

Actors: Alec Newman, Julie Cox, Edward Atterton, Ian McNeice, Barbara Kodetova

Synopsis: Officially based on two of Frank Herbert's science fiction novels, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, this three-part, six-hour miniseries was actually a sequel to the Sci-Fi Channel's multipart adaptation of the original Dune. The story was set in the year 10,103: Having deposed the evil emperor Read More

Reign of Fire

Actors: Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Scott James Moutter

Synopsis: Medieval fantasy meets futuristic science fiction in this effects-heavy action epic from former X-Files director Rob Bowman. In present-day London, 12-year-old Quinn Abercromby witnesses the awakening of a hibernating dragon from a centuries-long slumber, the result of a construction dig Read More

Dinotopia

Synopsis: Based on the children's books by author/illustrator James Gurney, the three-part, six-hour ABC miniseries Dinotopia got under way when a pair of teenaged half brothers, Karl and David Scott, took over the controls of their father Frank's (Stuart Wilson) private plane. Not surprisingly, the boys Read More

Falling

Actors: Lee Williams, Angela Bettis, Koen de Bouw, Jill Clayburgh, Alice Krige

Attila

Actors: Gerard Butler, Powers Boothe, Simmone Mackinnon, Tim Curry, Reg Rogers

Synopsis: Attila the Hun, fabled leader of a band of nomadic warriors who fearlessly took on the might of the Roman Empire, has his life story brought to the screen in this two-part miniseries. Attila (Gerard Butler) raised an army from the people of Caspia, and in time created a fighting force so strong Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Endgame, Part I

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: The seven-year saga of Star Trek: Voyager ended with the two-part "time-straddling" adventure "Endgame." "Endgame, Pt. 1" begins some ten years after Voyager was able to return to earth, having spent 23 long years in the Delta Quadrant. Presiding over a reunion with her surviving crew, an Read More

The Little Vampire

Actors: Jonathan Lipnicki, Richard E. Grant, Jim Carter, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Nine-year-old Tony (Jerry Maguire's Jonathan Lipnicki) has just moved with his parents (Tommy Hinkley and Pamela Gidley) to a small town in the Scottish Highlands, where his father is overseeing the building of a golf course for old squire Lord McAshton (John Wood). Tony is picked on by his new Read More

The Calling

Synopsis: Lots of women get the feeling that their boyfriends become different people after they've married them, but one finds herself dealing with a much bigger problem than leaving socks around the house or not taking out the trash in this supernatural thriller. Kristie (Laura Harris) is a sweet but Read More

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Actors: David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Thom Hoffman, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to Read More

In the Company of Spies

Actors: Tom Berenger, Ron Silver, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Tom Berenger stars in this made-for-cable TV political thriller as Kevin Jefferson, a restaurant owner and retired CIA agent who's recruited back into action when a former colleague is captured by North Korean authorities, who are bent on using their valuable prisoner in a blackmail scheme Read More

Deep in My Heart

Synopsis: Given up for adoption in infancy, 34-year-old Barbara Ann Williams (Gloria Reuben) launches a desperate search for her biological mother when she is diagnosed with a severe medical condition. Painfully assembling the pieces of her fragmented life, Barbara learns that her mom, a white woman named Read More

Sharpe: The Legend

The Commissioner

Actors: John Hurt, Rosana Pastor, Alice Krige, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: George Sluizer (The Vanishing) directed this German-British-Belgian thriller about politico James Morton (John Hurt) who relocates in Brussels as the British commissioner to the Euro parliament, leaving his wife Isabelle (Alice Krige) behind. As British and German chemical outfits are about to Read More

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Nigel Whitmey, Shelley Duvall, Frank Gorshin, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love's darker aspects. After years of incarceration as a political prisoner, Peter Glahn (Nigel Whitney, who had his name removed from the credits because another actor redubbed his lines) finally returns to Read More

Waiting for Twilight

Actors: Guy Maddin, Tom Waits, Paul Cox, Pascale Bussières, Frank Gorshin, Alice Krige, Shelley Duvall

Synopsis: Tom Waits narrates this documentary about Manitoba filmmaker Guy Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Archangel), seen directing Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. Stills, clips, and home movies are combined with talking-head interviews with friends, actors, and co-workers, tracing the Read More

Habitat

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige, Susan Almgren, Kris Holdenreid

Synopsis: This chilling sci-fi drama is set in a sun-ravaged world no longer protected by the ozone layer. Human life has managed to continue, but it isn't easy. The tale centers on the insanely brilliant Hank Symes, a scientist who disregards the rules of his laboratory and swipes some biological materials Read More

Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Reed Diamond, Alice Krige, Michael Simms, Lori Triolo

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy not only stars in this made-for-TV drama, but also serves as director and executive producer. Accused of raping his associate Rebecca Daly (Alice Krige), powerful attorney Eddie Brannigan (Brian Dennehy) elects to defend himself in court. Dismissing Rebecca's charges, Eddie insists Read More

Star Trek: First Contact

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: The first "Trek" film to feature the cast of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series without any of the members of the original series, this action-packed hit was well received at the box office. The Federation comes under attack by its ongoing enemy, the Borg, a cybernetics-enhanced race Read More

Joseph

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Paul Mercurio

Synopsis: This television miniseries recounts the biblical story of Joseph, the 11th son of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob. Joseph (Paul Mercurio) has an extraordinary gift: the ability to interpret dreams. He also enjoys the special favor of his father. One day, Jacob (Martin Landau) presents his son a Read More

The Institute Benjamenta

Actors: Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John, Daniel Smith, Joseph Alessi

Synopsis: From the directing team of identical twin brothers Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life focuses on the experiences of Jakob Von Gunten (Mark Rylance), who has come to the titular institute to train to become a manservant. Amidst a series of Read More

Donor Unknown

Actors: Peter Onorati, Alice Krige, Sam Robards, Clancy Brown, Richard Portnow

Synopsis: In this drama a transplant recipient learns the deeply disturbing truth about his donor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sharpe's Honour

Actors: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Alice Krige, Hugh Fraser, Michael Byrne

Synopsis: In this action adventure, author Bernard Cornwell's fictional Major Sharpe goes undercover as a Spanish rebel and proves that, despite recent accusations to the contrary, he is indeed an honorable man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Deception

Synopsis: In classic noir tradition, the protagonist of the made-for-TV Double Deception is hard-boiled private eye John Kane (James Russo), who provides the first-person narration for the deliciously convoluted plotline. Kane knew that former call girl Pamela Sparrow (Alice Krige) was a keg of dynamite the Read More

Scarlet & Black

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Alice Krige, Stratford Johns, T.P. McKenna, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: Published in 1830, Stendhal's landmark historical novel Le Rouge et le Noir has long been required reading in college literature courses, but has generally defied most attempts at adaptation to other mediums. Noteworthy exceptions include the 1954 theatrical-film version by director Claude Autant-Lara Read More

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Susan Ruttan, Bill Sadler, Alice Krige, Byron Minns

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1992 made-for-TV crime drama Deadly Matrimony, police detective Reed (Brian Dennehy) returns, this time to bring in a murderous sociopath. He soon discovers, however, that this routine case is complicated by the U.S. government as they are using the killer as an informant and Read More

Judgment Day: The John List Story

Actors: Robert Blake, Beverly D'Angelo, Carroll Baker, Alice Krige, Melinda Dillon

Synopsis: This fact-based made-for-television drama chronicles a 17-year-long police investigation of John List, a New Jersey accountant who became a mass murderer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sleepwalkers

Actors: Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige, Mark Hamill, Jim Haynie, Ron Perlman, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: Stephen King wrote his first original screenplay for this horror gore fest that features cameos by directors Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and King himself (playing a cemetery attendant). The story concerns a twilight people named "sleepwalkers" --creatures similar to vampires Read More

Ladykiller

Actors: Mimi Rogers

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable thriller, Mimi Rogers portrays a cop who, burned out by her work, transfers to the forensics staff as an evidence photographer. While investigating a string of killings, the trail of evidence leads to the married man with whom she's having an affair. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

L'Amerique en Otage

Synopsis: A made for cable TV docudrama, former Carter administration aides Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon were responsible for the production of this miniseries which recounts the 1979 humiliation of America by a handful of Iranian radicals. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Embassy official married to Read More

Iran: Days of Crisis

Synopsis: Originally shown as a two-part special on TV, this is an effective drama set during the 1979 Iranian revolution and what has come to be known as the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Written by a political scientist, it gives an overview of the political crisis, which quite probably cost Jimmy Carter his Read More

Max and Helen

Actors: Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Treat Williams

Synopsis: Martin Landau plays legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in this made-for-cable offering from director Philip Saville. Based on Wiesenthal's book, Treat Williams plays Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor relating his story to Simon, who has tracked down the Nazi commandant in charge of the camp Read More

See You in the Morning

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: This film is a somewhat contrived pairing of two divorcees who are giving it a second go. They're up against considerable odds, however, because the children of each are not too pleased with their new "parent." Jeff Bridges stars as the husband and Alice Krige plays his second wife. ~ All Movie Read More

Haunted Summer

Actors: Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz, Alex Winter

Synopsis: Adapted by Lewis John Carlino from the speculative novel by Anne Edwards, Haunted Summer recounts one of the most tempestuous "menage a quatres" of the 19th century. During an Italian holiday in 1816, novelist Mary Godwin (Alice Krige) meets the man she is destined to marry, bisexual poet Percy Read More

Code Name: Chaos

Synopsis: A group of former CIA agents team up to ransom the entire world by staging an international crisis in the Orient. Only one man (Brian Kerwin), also an agent, can stop them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Barfly

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, J.C. Quinn

Synopsis: Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the surprisingly entertaining Barfly was based. The film concentrates on alcoholic writer Mickey Rourke (the Bukowski alter ego) who carries on a hate-hate relationship with bartender Frank Stallone. Rourke Read More

Baja Oklahoma

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, Billy Vera, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more than anything to be a rich and famous country-western songwriter. Unfortunately, she spends most of her time sorting out her many dead-end romances. Just when she thinks Read More

Second Serve

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Second Serve is that rare TV movie which refuses to sensationalize its so-called "sensational" material. This is the true story of Richard Raskind (here named Richard Radley): Yale grad, Naval officer, brilliant surgeon and tennis champ. What Richard has successfully hidden from practically Read More

Dream West

Synopsis: A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred Richard Chamberlain as colorful, controversial American explorer John Charles Fremont (1813-1890). The story detailed the visionary (and occasionally mercenary) Fremont's lifelong war Read More

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Actors: Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a perfection-plus TV biopic, scripted by Gerald Green (Holocaust) and directed by Lamont Johnson (who won an Emmy for his efforts). Richard Chamberlain plays Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a well-to-do family of Swedish bankers. Although he is a Christian "Aryan," Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in the Afternoon

Synopsis: Up-and-coming actress Nita Cochran (Alice Krige), who happens to be the niece of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), lands a plum role on a popular TV soap opera. Nita has been cast as a serial murderer--a fact that proves most unfortunate when an actual murder occurs at the TV studio. The victim Read More

King David

Actors: Richard Gere, Alice Krige, Edward Woodward, Denis Quilley, Niall Buggy, Jack Klaff

Synopsis: Director Bruce Beresford has safely stayed within the domain of the Bible and not strayed into patches of Hollywood fiction in this routine version of the story of David (Richard Gere). For that reason, anyone unfamiliar with Biblical history might be puzzled by the episodic presentation of Read More

Ellis Island

Synopsis: The seven-hour TV miniseries Ellis Island was adapted from a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart. Per its title, the film is a mosaic of subplots involving several European immigrants who passed through New York's Ellis Island before taking up residence in the Big Apple. Most of the characters are based Read More

Ghost Story

Actors: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson

Synopsis: This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who Read More

Chariots of Fire

Actors: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm, Daniel Gerroll, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a serious Christian Scotsman, believes that he has to succeed as a testament to his undying Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Actors: Peter Cushing, Chris Sarandon, Flora Robson

Synopsis: Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this Anglo-American TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. The ubiquitous producer/screenwriter combination of Norman Rosemont and John Gay was responsible for Read More