James FaulknerFilmography

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Actors: Anthony Amedori, James Faulkner, Rick McCrank, Lukács Bicskey, John Mackie

The Bank Job

Actors: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner

Synopsis: Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows star in director Roger Donaldson's cinematic account of the true-life 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the authorities and fascinated the public. Terry Leather (Statham) was a small-time car dealer who was trying to leave his shady past behind and start a Read More

Franklyn

Actors: Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill, James Faulkner

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter Gerald McMorrow makes his feature debut with this ambitious psychological sci-fi drama set between contemporary London and the dystopic Meanwhile City, where the separation between church and state has been obliterated to make way for a religion-dominated society. As atheist Read More

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones

Synopsis: Based on author Helen Fielding's sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget's Read More

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old CIA operative Cody Banks (played by Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz) is back in action in this comedy adventure, which sends the youthful secret agent to Old Blighty. Banks returns to Kamp Woody, the CIA training center disguised as a summer camp, where he's given a new Read More

Le Loup de la côte Ouest

Actors: James Faulkner, Anna Mouglalis, Gerard Watkins, Valerie Dreville, Lizzie Brocheré

Synopsis: Hugo Santiago's stylish detective film The Wolf of the West Coast is based on a short story by crime novelist Ross MacDonald. James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodyguard. When Millar arrives at the criminal's French hideaway, the gangster Read More

Bridget Jones's Diary

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal Read More

All The Little Animals

Actors: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali, James Faulkner

Synopsis: British producer Jeremy Thomas made his directorial debut with this drama adapted from the novel by Walker Hamilton. Hindered by a childhood auto accident, teen Bobby (Christian Bale) is a misfit from a well-to-do family; he suffers yet another setback after the premature death of his mother. His Read More

Le Poulpe

Actors: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clotilde Courau, Stephane Boucher, Julie Delarme, Aristide Demonico

Synopsis: Gillaume Nicloux directed this French comedy drama about amateur sleuth Gabriel Lecouvreur, aka The Octopus (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a Gallic gumshoe with no fixed address, who travels with his girlfriend Cheryl (Clotilde Courau) to a harbor town in western France. The graves of Cheryl's Read More

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

La Femme Nikita: War

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: The Registry, a file listing the whereabouts of all Section One agents, is now in the hands of the Red Cell, a terrorist group. As the Red Cell minions begin stalking agents all over the world, Michael (Roy Dupuis) makes an astonishing security error by informing Nikita (Peta Wilson) where Section Read More

A Kid in Aladdin's Palace

Actors: James Faulkner, Taylor Negron, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Rhona Mitra, Nicholas Irons

Synopsis: This sequel to A Kid in King Arthur's Court follows the adventures of a teenage pizza delivery driver who finds a magic lamp and soon has a genie on his side. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Crimetime

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost, Geraldine Chaplin, Karen Black

Synopsis: Set in a future in which the media has become nearly omnipotent, this violent and gory crime thriller blurs the thin line between life and art while commenting upon the insanity of those who would do anything for fame. The trouble begins when unemployed actor Bobby is hired to play a serial killer Read More

Highlander: Pharoah's Daughter

Actors: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Michel Modo, Nia Peeples

Synopsis: Nia Peeples guest stars as Nefertiti, handmaiden to Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Released from her sarcophagus after 2000 years, Nefertiti swears vengeance against her ex-lover, immortal Roman General Marcus Constantine (James Faulkner). Now a gentle museum curator, Constantine insists that Nefertiti Read More

Guinevere

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Sean Patrick Flanery, Noah Wyle, Brid Brennan, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: This made-for-TV romance is a reworking of the legend of King Arthur's queen and tells how she forsook her real love and married Arthur in order to bring England together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Carry on Columbus

Actors: Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Maureen Lipman, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle

Synopsis: In this last gasp of the "Carry On" series, minus most of the "Carry On" players, Jim Dale plays Spanish map-maker Christopher Columbus, who has a plan to navigate a new route to India, bypassing the Sultan of Turkey (Rik Mayall) and his sky-high tributes. He convinces King Ferdinand of Spain (Leslie Phillips Read More

The Blackheath Poisonings

Actors: Christine Kavanagh, Ian McNeice, Zoë Wanamaker, Judy Parfitt, Patrick Malahide

Synopsis: Based on the 1978 novel by Julian Symons, the two-part, four-hour British miniseries The Blackheath Poisonings was set during the Victorian era. When the head of a prominent household is poisoned, virtually everyone within a 50 mile radius falls under suspicion. As the plot thickens, more Read More

Inspector Morse: Greeks Bearing Gifts

Actors: Martin Jarvis, James Hazeldine, James Faulkner

Synopsis: Inspector Morse (John Thaw) and Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately) dig up another mystery in this episode of the popular British TV series. In "Greeks Bearing Gifts," the city of Oxford is turned upside-down when one of the area's Greek chefs is found dead and a baby goes missing. It's up to Morse and Read More

The Maid

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Victoria Shalet, James Faulkner

Synopsis: Martin Sheen and Jacqueline Bisset star in this romantic comedy based and filmed in Paris. An American businessman (Sheen) travels to France to work at a bank, and falls in love with its president (Bisset). He then poses as her new housekeeper to see more of her, and must try to keep up the Read More

Just Another Secret

Actors: Beau Bridges, Alan Howard, Kenneth Cranham, Beatie Edney, James Faulkner

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable espionage adventure, a U.S. espionage agent's look into the disappearance of a colleague stationed in East Berlin leads to his uncovering a conspiracy to murder a prominent Soviet leader. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Contract

Synopsis: This thrilling tale of Cold War espionage follows a British spy helping a Russian scientist defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc. The BBC telefilm stars acclaimed English actors Kevin McNally, Bernard Hepton, and James Faulkner. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Bourne Identity

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Yorgo Voyagis, Peter Vaughan, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Quayle

Synopsis: Roger Young's made-for-TV adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel, The Bourne Identity stars Richard Chamberlain as Jason Bourne, who washes up on the beach and is cared for by a doctor. Bourne has no memories, but is intrigued enough to investigate why he has the number of a Swiss bank account on Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Jeremy Brett

Synopsis: There is certainly nothing wrong with this remake of the Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing mystery of 1939. The question, however, is why one would want to substitute others when the original was so superlative. Jeremy Brett, however, does a fine job as Sherlock Holms as he investigates strange Read More

Still Crazy Like a Fox

Actors: Jack Warden, John Rubinstein, Penny Peyser

Synopsis: Still Crazy Like a Fox was a 1987 TV-movie effort to revive the lighthearted detective series originally telecast in 1984-86. Jack Warden is back as eccentric detective Harry Fox, with John Rubinstein as his conservative lawyer son Harrison. Father and son are lifted from their natural San Read More

First Among Equals

Actors: Tom Wilkinson, James Faulkner, David Robb, Jeremy Child

Synopsis: Adapted from the best-selling novel by British author and former politician Jeffrey Archer, the ten-part television series First Among Equals spans twenty years in the lives of four members of Parliament who are each intent on becoming Prime Minster. As the years pass and the rivalries intensify Read More

Deceptions

Actors: Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Stefanie Powers does double duty as twin sisters in the two-part TV movie Deceptions. Stefanie #1 is a glamorous globetrotter; Stefanie #2 is a drab New Jersey housewife. On a whim, the two siblings exchange identities, leading to a dizzying series of unexpected complications. Filmed on location Read More

Lace II

Actors: Brooke Adams, Deborah Raffin, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins

Synopsis: In this sequel to the original miniseries, Lili (Phoebe Cates), having discovered the true identity of her mother, now begins looking for her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Flashpoint Africa

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, James Faulkner, Siegfried Rauch

Synopsis: The role of media manipulation of the news is also the starring role in this political drama involving a female broadcast journalist who travels to Africa to cover a breaking story about a revolution, only to have her material cut and recast back in her London studios. Lisa Ford (Gayle Hunnicutt) Read More

Real Life

Actors: Rupert Everett, Cristina Raines, Catherine Rabett, James Faulkner, Isla Blair

Synopsis: In this British romance, a lively London lad decides to create a little excitement by dreaming up a convincing story involving the theft of a Rembrandt; he then tells the story to a local newspaper. According to the imaginative imp, the painting was stolen by a motely gang who worked for a Read More

Priest of Love

Actors: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: The later years of the life of author D.H. Lawrence are dramatized in this screen biography. Following the controversial reception of his novel The Rainbow, David Herbert Lawrence (Ian McKellen) and his wife Frieda (Janet Suzman) leave England for the U.S., where they hope that Lawrence's bold Read More

Eureka

Actors: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: A reclusive, unhappy gold magnate finds his isolated tropical paradise threatened by the intrusion of organized criminals in director Nicolas Roeg's convoluted, arty drama. Gene Hackman stars as Jack McCann, a one-time gold prospector who his parlayed the discovery of a rich deposit in the Read More

Zulu Dawn

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, John Mills, Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege by thousands of Zulu warriors. Fifteen hundred soldiers were killed in the epic battle. This film portrays the tensions existing between the tribal factions and the British Read More

Night of the Askari

Synopsis: South Africa provides the setting for this dark tale of racial unrest and turmoil. The story centers upon a policeman out to exact revenge for the man who killed and raped his fiancee. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Flüsternde Tod

Actors: Christopher Lee, James Faulkner, Trevor Howard, Horst Frank, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: An albino terrorist stalks Africa in this violent action film from the director of the similar Slavers. Terrick (James Faulkner), a former cop, tries to bring the albino to justice, but not before he scalps and rapes pretty Sally (Sybil Danning), the daughter of an evil plantation owner (Trevor Howard Read More

Conduct Unbecoming

Actors: Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Based on a play by Barry England, the British Conduct Unbecoming revolves around a sexual violation--which may or may not have occurred. In British India, highborn Mrs. Scarlett (Susannah York) accuses 2nd Lt. Millington, a Bengal Lancer officer (James Faulkner) of raping her. Lieutenant Arthur Read More

Great Expectations

Actors: Joss Ackland, Margaret Leighton, James Mason, Michael York, Sarah Miles

Synopsis: This third talking-picture version of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations stars Michael York as Pip, the humble British lad whose aspirations to become a gentleman are financed by a mysterious benefactor. We first see young Pip (played by Simon Gipps-Kent) coming to the aid of escaped Read More

The Abdication

Actors: Franz Drago, Suzanne Huddart, Liv Ullmann, Peter Finch, Cyril Cusack, Graham Crowden

Synopsis: In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina (Liv Ullmann) decides in 1654 to give up her throne in order to embrace Catholicism. However, as she studies the faith, she falls in love with Cardinal Azzolino (Peter Finch), a cleric being considered for the papacy. Greta Garbo Read More

The Great Waltz

Synopsis: The romantic and professional life of composer Johann Strauss Jr. provides the basis of this colorful remake of the 1938 version. Highlights include the location shots in Austria and the soundtrack. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More