Alun Armstrong Filmography

The Girls of Belarus

Actors: Alun Armstrong, Lindsey Coulson, Samantha Robinson

Synopsis: A loving couple suffering through an emotionally exhaustive case of empty nest syndrome offers temporary shelter to a pair of girls from Belarus who have been displaced as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. Bob (Alun Armstrong) and Julie Jenkins (Lindsey Coulson) are in a bittersweet position; Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Leanne Rowe

Synopsis: Director Roman Polanski gives one of Charles Dickens' best-loved stories a new and dynamic interpretation in this period drama. Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is a young orphan in Victorian England who has been sent to a dank workhouse run by the miserly Mr. Bumble (Jeremy Swift) when it is learned Read More

Millions

Actors: Alex Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan, Christopher Fulford

Synopsis: Director Danny Boyle revisits a theme from his Shallow Grave and Trainspotting days -- greed -- but focuses on a much younger protagonist with this comedy drama. Millions opens with recent widower Ronnie (James Nesbitt) moving his two precocious pre-pubescent sons to the suburbs. Missing his Read More

It's All About Love

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn, Douglas Henshall, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: An estranged couple are brought back together as they run for their lives in a future world where science as well as emotions have gone haywire in this sci-fi drama from director Thomas Vinterberg. In the year 2021, the world seems to have become a very strange place; an unexplained ailment is Read More

Van Helsing

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Shuler Hensley, Elena Anaya, Will Kemp, Kevin J. O'Connor, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The greatest monster hunter of them all has his work cut out for him as he tracks down three deadly foes in this action-adventure saga. Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a man who has dedicated his life to battling evil forces who exist outside the bounds of nature; Van Helsing's work has not Read More

When I'm 64

Actors: Paul Freeman, Alun Armstrong, Tamzin Outhwaite, Jason Flemyng, Oscar Grounds

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

Actors: Hugh Jackman

Synopsis: Van Helsing: The London Assignment offers a glimpse into the title character's life before he became a renowned monster hunter, and chronicles the sequence of events leading to his acceptance of the position. With the city being terrorized by nightly crime sprees, the Knights of the Holy Order Read More

Paradise Found

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski

Synopsis: 24 star Kiefer Sutherland stars as celebrated French painter Paul Gauguin in director Mario Andreacchio's slice of life biopic. A highly successful Paris stockbroker, Gaugin decides to drop out of the rat race in favor of developing his self-taught painting skills. Despite his determination to use Read More

Harrison's Flowers

Actors: Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Elias Koteas, Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: French director Elie Chouraqui adapts the novel of the same name into this drama, that, although set in 1991, became tragically topical in the weeks before its release due to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah, a photo editor for Newsweek and Read More

Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine

Actors: Ken Stott

The Mummy Returns

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: This big-budget sequel from writer/director Stephen Sommers navigates much of the same cliffhanger territory as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones franchise. It is 1933, eight years after the events of The Mummy (1999). Legionnaire Rick O'Connell Brendan Fraser has married his Read More

Strictly Sinatra

Actors: Ian Hart, Kelly MacDonald, Alun Armstrong, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan

Synopsis: A nobody walks a dangerous path in a bid to become a big-shot in this gritty drama from the United Kingdom. Tony Cocozza (Ian Hart) is a small-time Scottish vocalist with a gimmick -- he loves the music of Frank Sinatra, and his repertoire consists almost entirely of songs associated with Ol' Blue Read More

Proof of Life

Actors: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed, David Caruso

Synopsis: A woman whose marriage is in trouble finds herself falling for a new man as her husband's life hangs in the balance in this thriller. Peter Bowman (David Morse) and his wife Alice (Meg Ryan) have relocated to a small Latin American nation called Tecala; Peter works for an American engineering and Read More

Onegin

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Another member of the Fiennes family leaves a mark in the film business, as Martha Fiennes makes her big-screen directorial debut with a screen adaptation of the verse novel by Aleksander Pushkin, with her big brother Ralph Fiennes in the leading role. Onegin (Fiennes) is a blase man who has grown Read More

Sleepy Hollow

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. Read More

David Copperfield

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Ciarán McMenamin

Synopsis: A distinguished cast highlights this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved novels. Young David Copperfield (Daniel Radcliffe) is loved by his mother Clara (Emilia Fox), but does not get along with his foul-tempered stepfather, Murdstone (Trevor Eve). After biting Murdstone Read More

G:MT (Greenwich Mean Time)

Actors: Alec Newman, Melanie Gutteridge, Georgia Mackenzie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Steve John Shepherd

Synopsis: Director John Strickland creates this gritty look at race and class in southeast London, as he focuses on a multi-racial group of youths who form a band called Greenwich Mean Time. Between gigs, the band members negotiate the currents of their lives, including girlfriend problems, an ill-fated Read More

Aristocrats

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution. The three-part TV miniseries follows the four Lennox sisters, daughters of Lord Richmond, from youth to Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Andy Serkis, Alex Crowley, Sam Smith, David Ross, Julie Walters, Roger Lloyd Pack, Michael Kitchen, Robert Lindsay

Synopsis: This 2000 television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Victorian classic was originally released as a six-hour, three-part miniseries on PBS. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale, this version of Oliver Twist gives viewers a new look at an old story, waiting 90 minutes to even introduce its eponymous hero Read More

With or Without You

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Dervla Kirwan, Yvan Attal, Julie Graham, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: Old New Borrowed Blue is a bittersweet love story of modern times. Rosie and Vincent are desperately trying to have a baby, but this is causing an unavoidable stress on their sex life. When Benoit, a French postal worker and teenage pen pal of Rosie's, arrives on their doorstep with romantic Read More

The Saint

Actors: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valery Nikolaev, Henry Goodman

Synopsis: Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this genre picture from director Phillip Noyce mixed romance and character development with dangerous stunts, geopolitical intrigue, and a variety of elaborate disguises, resulting in an uneven stew of a spy Read More

Breaking the Code

Actors: Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Originally produced for the BBC and Masterpiece Theatre, Breaking the Code tells the life story of the famed mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, the primary designer of the Turing Machine, an early computer used to solve the German Enigma code during World War II, a solution Read More

Les Miserables: In Concert - The Dream Cast

Actors: Anthony Crivello, Adam Searles, Hannah Chick, Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Ruthie Henshall, Michael Ball, Judy Kuhn, Lea Salonga, Alun Armstrong, Jenny Galloway, Michael Maguire

Synopsis: Recorded live at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1995, this tenth anniversary performance of Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's landmark musical features a one-night-only "dream cast" of Les Mis veterans. Colm Wilkinson reprises his original role as Jean Valjean, the hero imprisoned 17 Read More

Les Miserables: 10th Anniversary Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall

Actors: Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Ruthie Henshall, Jenny Galloway, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: Les Miserables: 10th Anniversary Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall features a concert consisting of the songs from the celebrated musical performed b a number of past and present cast members including Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, and Jenny Galloway. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Braveheart

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, came into his own as a director with Braveheart, an account of the life and times of medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace and, to a lesser degree, Robert the Bruce's struggle to unify his nation against its English oppressors. The story Read More

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Nicholas Farrell

Synopsis: Angus MacGyver returns in this made-for-television movie based on the popular TV-series. Richard Dean Anderson stars as MacGyver, the cool hero with a knack for creating technical gadgets to save the day. Here, MacGyver is in London for the birthday of his old friend Paul Moran (Nicholas Farrell). Read More

Black Beauty

Actors: Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Jim Carter, Peter Davison, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The fourth screen adaptation of Anna Sewell's classic novel is, in some ways, the most faithful and accomplished. Screenwriter and director Caroline Thompson recounts the life of Black Beauty, an aging, handsome stallion living in Victorian England. The film is narrated by Alan Cumming as the Read More

An Awfully Big Adventure

Actors: Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth

Synopsis: A misleading title and a different type of performance from Hugh Grant are two of the offbeat features of An Awfully Big Adventure. Virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates), who speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe in 1947 England headed by manipulative director Read More

American Friends

Actors: Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado, Connie Booth, Alfred Molina, David Calder

Synopsis: Monty Python's Michael Palin plays an Oxford don with acute female trouble in American Friends. While on holiday in the Swiss Alps, Palin crosses the path of American tourist Connie Booth and her adopted daughter Trini Alvarado. Both women express an inordinate desire for the bookish Palin Read More

Blue Ice

Actors: Michael Caine, Sean Young, Ian Holm, Alun Armstrong, Sam Kelly

Synopsis: Released in the US on cable television, Blue Ice stars Michael Caine as an older, tireder version of his 1960s "Harry Palmer" character (his name, in fact, is Harry Anders). An M16 agent-turned-nightclub owner, Caine is a man of steadfast loyalties. Thus he takes it personally when several friends Read More

London Kills Me

Actors: Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw

Synopsis: Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi marked his directorial debut in this slice-of-life chronicle about a collection of drug-dealing slackers in London. Centering on a band of delinquents calling themselves "the posse," the group is led by an ambitious male hustler named Muffdiver (Steven Mackintosh). His Read More

Patriot Games

Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch

Synopsis: In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean Read More

Split Second

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The year is 2008 and something is terrorizing the streets of London, leaving numerous heartless corpses behind. Fortunately detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) is on the case and discovers that the murderous monster behind the killings is just that. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Married... With Children: England Show, Part 3

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story filmed in England (and subtitled "We're Spending As Fast as We Can", the Bundys are trapped between two rival mobs on the border separating the towns of Upper Uncton and Lower Uncton. Slated to be killed in order to lift the "curse of darkness" imposed upon Read More

Married... With Children: England Show, Part 1

Synopsis: Lust! Greed! Passion! Shoes! In the first episode of a three-part "saga", the Bundys travel to England, having been invited to the country by the citizens of Lower Uncton. Little do they realizes that Lower Uncton has been under a curse of perpetual darkness since 1653--a curse that will be ended Read More

Married... With Children: England Show, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story filmed in England (and subtitled "Wastin' the Company's Money), Kelly (Christina Applegate) is alerted to the fact that her dad Al (Ed O'Neill) and brother Bud (David Faustino) are doomed to die the moment they set foot in the village of Upper Uncton Read More

White Hunter, Black Heart

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson

Synopsis: Something of a sleeper in its 1990 release, White Hunter, Black Heart is one of Clint Eastwood's most engaging films. It is based on Peter Vietel's novel about the location shoot of John Huston's immortal The African Queen. But the focus is never on Bogie and Hepburn. Egomaniacal director John Read More

That Summer of White Roses

Actors: Tom Conti, Susan George, Rod Steiger, Alun Armstrong, John Gill

Synopsis: That Summer of White Roses is a World War II drama about a lifeguard at a Yugoslavian summer resort who falls in love with a woman who fights against the country's Nazi occupation. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Number 27

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Number One

Actors: Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, P.H. Moriarty, Phil Daniels

Synopsis: In this conventional, formulaic tale about a nonchalant snooker (pool, British style) hustler who is conned into competing in a national championship, good ensemble acting carries the story beyond its predictable evolution. Bob Geldof is Harry (Flash) Gordon, the snooker player who hustles games Read More

Krull

Actors: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: Meant to be a whimsical sword-and-sorcery film about a prince out to save his princess from the jaws of the Beast, Krull has enough scenes borrowed from blockbuster predecessors (Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Robin Hood, Star Wars) and is gentle enough to be rather derivative, ordinary fare. Read More

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell

Synopsis: John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a story of Victorian sexual and social oppression within the bounds of a 1970s viewpoint. How does one convey this time-frame dichotomy on film? The decision made by director Karel Reisz Read More

Measure for Measure

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Colley, Tim Pigott-Smith

Synopsis: Vincentio (Kenneth Colley), Duke of Vienna, is a good and kindly ruler, but his leniency has allowed vice to thrive. So he decides to leave town temporarily, putting in charge his stern chief deputy, Angelo (Tim Piggott-Smith). Immediately, Angelo condemns the young nobleman, Claudio (Christopher Strauli Read More

A Bridge Too Far

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox

Synopsis: It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Read More

The Duellists

Actors: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Cristina Raines, Edward Fox, Robert Stephens

Synopsis: The Duellists is based on a story by Joseph Conrad, variously titled The Duel and The Point of Honour. Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel play officers in Napoleon's army -- D'Hubert and Feraud, respectively -- who spend their off-hours challenging each other to bloody duels. This goes on for Read More

The New Avengers: Dirtier by the Dozen

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, John Castle, Shaun Curry

Synopsis: The New Avengers investigate when a high-ranking military officer (Michael Barrington) disappears. Our heroes come across a band of mercenaries led by rogue colonel "Mad Jack" Miller (John Castle), who intends to launch an invasion of the Middle East and thus trigger World War 3. Ah, but Miller Read More

The Likely Lads

Actors: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam

Synopsis: Likely Lads was inspired by the popular British television series of the same name. Returning to their TV roles after an absence of several years are Rodney Bewes and James Bolam, playing a pair of Northern English screw-ups. With their girl friends in tow, Bewes and Bolam embark on a motor trip Read More

Villains [TV Series]

Actors: Martin Shaw, Bob Hoskins, Bryan Marshall, Hilary Dwyer, David Daker

Synopsis: Like the earlier BBC anthology The Villains, the similarly titled Villains dramatized the lives of criminals both famous and obscure. Unlike the earlier series, which focused on England's North Country, the later program detailed stories about crooks and scoundrels from all parts of the British Read More

The 14

Synopsis: In this sad British drama, a family of 14 children is suddenly orphaned and must now consider how to keep themselves from being separated by the authorities. They launch a brave campaign in the face of nosy social workers who want to place them in assorted reform schools and foster homes. Read More

Get Carter

Actors: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley

Synopsis: Get Carter stars Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a powerful British gangster out for blood. His brother has been murdered in Newcastle, prompting Carter to declare a one-man war on other racketeers. Carter must also get his niece out of the life she is leading as an actress in pornographic films. Read More