Joss AcklandFilmography

Flawless

Actors: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker, Nicholas Jones, Joss Ackland, Shaughan Seymour

Synopsis: 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 London, the tense crime thriller stars Michael Caine Read More

Prisoners of the Sun

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, David Charvet, Carmen Chaplin, Joss Ackland, Emily Holmes

Above and Beyond

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Jason Priestley, Liane Balaban, Jonathan Scarfe, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: 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 love in the RAF. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

These Foolish Things

Synopsis: An aspiring West End actress intent on maintaining her famous mother's legacy finds her dreams suddenly clouded by the warplanes that buzz overhead in this bittersweet war drama from director Julia Taylor-Stanley. Diana (Zoe Tapper) is a London actress who knows deep within that she has what it Read More

Moscow Zero

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Val Kilmer, Rade Serbedzija, Joaquim de Almeida, Sage Stallone

Synopsis: When a Russian anthropologist disappears beneath the city of Moscow, the rescue team assigned the task of tracking him down makes a most unusual discovery in this subterranean thriller starring Vincent Gallo and Val Kilmer. Deep beneath the city of Moscow dwells a group of people who have grown Read More

Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

Actors: David Jason, David Warner, Ian Richardson, Joss Ackland, Marc Warren, Michelle Dockery

Synopsis: 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 receive gifts, not from Santa Claus, but from Read More

Asylum

Actors: Ian McKellen, Natasha Richardson, Marton Csokas, Hugh Bonneville, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: Directed by David Mackenzie, Asylum follows a 1950s family living in a home on the grounds of an asylum after Max (Hugh Bonneville), the patriarch, is assigned to serve as deputy director of a remote psychiatric hospital. Neither his wife, Stella (Natasha Richardson), nor his young son, Charlie Read More

Frederick Forsyth's Icon

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Ben Cross, Annika Peterson, Patrick Bergin, Niko Nicotera, Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: In this two-part cable miniseries based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth (hence the proprietary title), a post-Communist Russia is mired in chaos and confusion. Emerging from the crowd to lead his fellow Russians out of the darkness and into the light is the fabulously popular presidential Read More

A Different Loyalty

Actors: Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett

Synopsis: The Marek Kanievska thriller A Different Loyalty stars Rupert Everett and Sharon Stone as war reporters who come across each other's path while they are both on assignment in Beirut. When Everett's character goes missing, Stone's character begins an investigation on her own. She soon realizes that Read More

No Good Deed

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård, Doug Hutchison, Joss Ackland, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: 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 up in the home of an elderly couple (Joss Read More

I'll Be There

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Jemma Redgrave, Charlotte Church, Joss Ackland, Ralph Brown

Synopsis: 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 the assumption that he has become suicidal. Read More

K-19: The Widowmaker

Actors: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel

Synopsis: A real-life historical incident becomes the basis for this military thriller 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 Ford stars as Captain Alexi Vostrikov, a Read More

Othello

Actors: Joss Ackland, Keeley Hawes, Del Synnott, Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston

Synopsis: This British TV production of Othello is more than a mere updating of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy; with freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, the film qualifies as a "rethinking" of the 17th century Shakespearean play, albeit still retaining the original's power and Read More

Passion of Mind

Actors: Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård, William Fichtner, Sinéad Cusack, Peter Riegert

Synopsis: Demi Moore stars in this unusual psychological drama about two women caught between reality and imagination. Marie (Moore) is an American widow trying to raise two children under difficult circumstances in a small town in France. Marty (also played by Moore) is a successful businesswoman in New Read More

Firelight

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Joss Ackland, Lia Williams

Synopsis: A woman is torn by both romantic and maternal love in this period romantic drama set in the 1830s. Elisabeth (Sophie Marceau), a Swiss governess, is the beautiful daughter of a once-prosperous landowner who has fallen deeply into debt. Charles Godwin (Stephen Dillane) is a prominent British Read More

Milk

Actors: James Fleet, Phyllida Law, Joss Ackland, Clotilde Courau, Peter Jones

Synopsis: 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 unmarried, unworldly, and unstable dairy farmer Read More

Heat of the Sun

Actors: Michael Byrne, Trevor Eve, Susannah Harker, Julian Rhind-Tutt

Synopsis: The British miniseries Heat of the Sun was set in 1933. After several instances of insubordination, Scotland Yard supervisor Albert Tyburn (Trevor Eve) was discplined by being shipped off to the Nairobi, Kenya. While grappling with the resentment of his fellow expatriates, Tyburn endeavored to Read More

Swept From The Sea

Actors: Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss Swaffer (Kathy Bates). Dr. Kennedy despises Read More

Deadly Voyage

Actors: Omar Epps, Joss Ackland, David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Jean-Claude LaMarre

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Omar Epps as Ofusu, one of nine asylum-seeking African refugees who sneak aboard a Russian cargo vessel en route to France. When the ship's captain (Joss Ackland) discovers the stowaways, he is reminded by his aggressively ambitious executive officer (Sean Pertwee Read More

Surviving Picasso

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Peter Eyre, Diane Venora

Synopsis: This unusual biography of the renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is a Merchant-Ivory film. The team of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been responsible for many period dramas, including A Room with a View and Howard's End. The story of Read More

D3: The Mighty Ducks

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Jeffrey Nordling, Joshua Jackson, David Selby, Heidi Kling

Synopsis: Everybody's favorite underdog youth hockey team hits the ice for a third adventure in D3: The Mighty Ducks. This time out, the Ducks' improbable success under lawyer-turned-hockey player Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) has earned the group of misfits a certain degree of fame, and the entire team is Read More

To the Ends of Time

Synopsis: Aimed at children, this epic fantasy adventure is set in the mythical and peaceful land of Aralon and centers on its king's courageous struggle to protect his people from the warlike Morlin people. To forever quell the violence and bloodshed, the desperate King Francis requests that the royal Read More

Citizen X

Actors: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of Burakov (Rea), a Russian forensic pathologist assigned to track down a brutal serial killer who is targeting young drifters. The nature of the Read More

Daisies in December

Actors: Joss Ackland, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: An unlikely romance blossoms at a seaside home in this British made-for-television movie. Joss Ackland stars as Gerald Carmody, an irascible stockbroker who doesn't expect much from his rest at a senior citizen-populated hotel. When he meets Katherine Palmer (Jean Simmons) though, his spirits pick Read More

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Synopsis: This comedy offers yet another sanitized and very loose adaptation of Mark Twain's dark satire A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. This time, the story centers on Calvin Fuller, a nerdy young adolescent living in Reseda. The gangly, unsure youth is first seen standing at bat, ready for yet another Read More

OcchioPinocchio

Synopsis: Elements of the original Italian fairy tale, Pinocchio can still be found in this modern and loose adaptation which was filmed in Texas, Louisiana, and Tuscany. In a mythical, unnamed country, Brando is a tough old banking magnate who discovers upon his despised brother suicide that he has a son. Read More

Shameless

Synopsis: In this British thriller, an aristocratic, wealthy and snobbish Englishwoman who is addicted to heroin falls for an American student who tries to help her kick her deadly habit. Meanwhile, narcotics-officer Stringer is determined to find the pusher, who has been sexually involved with her Read More

Jacob

Actors: Sean Bean, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: The biblical story of Jacob explored in this made-for-TV movie starring Matthew Modine as the titular religious figure and Lara Flynn Boyle as his love Rachel. Set against the backdrop of Jacob's many trials from God throughout his life, Turner Pictures' production focuses on the romantic aspect Read More

Mother's Boys

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: A psychotic estranged wife attempts to sabotage her husband's new romance by turning her children against his lover in this thriller. Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) had abandoned her husband Robert (Peter Gallagher) and their three sons several years earlier. Unfortunately, now that Robert has filed for Read More

Giorgino

Actors: John Abineri, Jeff Dahlgren, Mylene Farmer, Joss Ackland, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This lush French melodrama set in post World War I Europe was filmed on location in remote areas of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The film is set in October 1918 and follows the return of Giorgino, a French lieutenant, as he searches a strange and spooky village for the retarded children he Read More

Miracle on 34th Street

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, Mara Wilson, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: The 1947 holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street is transplanted to the 1990s with few changes in this family-oriented remake. The screenplay by the prolific John Hughes sticks close to the original outline, centering on Macy's executive Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins) and her young daughter Susan Read More

Nowhere to Run

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Joss Ackland, Ted Levine, Tiffany Taubman, Kieran Culkin

Synopsis: An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thief who, despite his criminal past, is an essentially decent man; he ended up behind bars after taking a murder rap for his partner. Sam escapes from prison in a Read More

The Mighty Ducks

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: This fill-in-the-blanks children's comedy from Disney was such a success that it spawned a number of fill-in-the-blanks sequels -- along with a real-life professional hockey team. The basic story -- outcast coach handles a team of outcast kids and turns them from losers into winners -- has been Read More

Once Upon a Crime

Actors: John Candy, Cybill Shepherd, James Belushi, Giancarlo Giannini, Sean Young, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: The murder of a millionaire has unexpectedly humorous results in this farcical comedy. When Phoebe (Sean Young) and Julian (Richard Lewis), two Americans on a tour of Europe, discover a lost dachshund, they learn that a $5,000 reward has been posted for the dog's return. Phoebe and Julian head to Read More

Project: Shadowchaser

Actors: Martin Kove, Meg Foster, Frank Zagarino, Paul Koslo, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: In this exciting sci-fi thriller, a newly designed and extremely expensive android with plenty of strength but neither emotions nor a conscience busts out of a secret government lab and ends up in the hands of terrorists who commandeer the top story of a hospital and hold the daughter of the Read More

The Princess and the Goblin

Actors: Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, Peter Murray, Rik Mayall

Synopsis: This animated fantasy is based on a famed fairy tale by late-19th century writer George MacDonald. It is the tale of a brave princess who teams up with the son of a miner to go underground and stop the mischievous goblins from revolting. The film spent many years in production, which explains the Read More

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Bill Sadler, Joss Ackland, Pam Grier

Synopsis: Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey find the two obtuse pals battling The Grim Reaper, God, robots, great philosophical questions, and girls -- although not necessarily in that order. In this loose parody of the Terminator movies, directed by Peter Hewitt, the ultimate has happened -- at Bill and Ted Read More

The Object of Beauty

Actors: John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Michael Lindsay-Hogg wrote and directed this cool and sleek comedy about a seemingly perfect combination -- an American couple staying at a chic London hotel whose pride doesn't permit them to recognize that they are broke, and a hotel staff so brimming with proper British reserve that they can't Read More

Ashenden, Part 1

Synopsis: Made for British television, the four-part Ashenden was offered in two-part form over America's A&E cable service on June 7 and 8, 1993. The production was adapted from a Somerset Maugham tale, which in turn was based on his own espionage activities "for King and Country" during World War I. Alex Jennings Read More

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

Actors: Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Jenny Seagrove, Claude Akins, Richard Todd

Synopsis: Four countries--Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg--were in on the financing of 1991's Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls. At first glance, Christopher Lee seems too old to play Conan Doyle's master detective, but the script allows for this by having the story takes place on the Read More

Ashenden, Part 2

Synopsis: When first telecast in Britain in 1991, Ashenden consisted of four hour-long episodes. When the production was shown over America's A&E cable service on June 7 and 8, 1993, the four episodes were combined into two, with a brace of stories offered in each 2-hour dollop. In A&E's second installment Read More

A Murder of Quality

Actors: Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: A murder investigation at a cloistered boy's school is the subject of this British made-for-television adaptation of John Le Carre's novel. Le Carre's famous detective-hero George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) returns from retirement to look for answers in a mysterious murder at a boarding school Read More

Voices in the Garden

The Bridge

Actors: Saskia Reeves, David Patrick O'Hara, Joss Ackland, Anthony Higgins, Rosemary Harris

Synopsis: Middle class Victorians tended to get a lot of mileage out of their peccadillos -- first, by having scruples before engaging in them, then by feeling guilty during the act itself, and finally by endless self-castigation and self-analysis afterward. In this costume romance, Isobel Heatherington has Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls

Synopsis: In this mystery, an aging Sherlock Holmes allows King Edward to persuade him to bring a precious diamond back from South Africa. Along the way, Holmes meets Teddy Roosevelt and finds himself involved in intrigue and adventure. The story was originally a four-hour TV mini-series and was heavily Read More

First and Last

The Hunt for Red October

Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill

Synopsis: The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders Read More

Jekyll and Hyde

Actors: Joss Ackland, Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Ronald Pickup

Synopsis: In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde, writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his 1988 adaptation of Jack the Ripper--including props, costumes, sets, and star Michael Caine. Caine goes through the standard motions as kindly Henry Jekyll, who dabbles Read More

Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

Actors: Jason Connery

Synopsis: This made-for-cable adventure chronicles the fictionalized exploits of the famed British reporter cum novelist who created the character "James Bond." Starring Jason Connery, the son of the first feature-film 007 Sean Connery, the story alleges that Fleming based Bond's adventures on his own Read More

To Kill a Priest

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland, David Suchet

Synopsis: One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Read More

Lethal Weapon 2

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon 2 reteams Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" LA detective Martin Riggs and Riggs' partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going Read More

Codename: Kyril

Actors: Ian Charleson

Synopsis: Based on John Trenhaile's A Man Called Kyril, this byzantine-plotted spy melodrama stars Ian Charleson in the title role. Kyril is a supposed Soviet defector who relocates in London. In fact, his defection is a smoke-screen: Kyril has been sent by the KGB to seek out a British mole in Moscow Read More

Dimenticare Palermo

Actors: James Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Philippe Noiret, Carolina Rosi

Synopsis: This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches a campaign for the legalization of heretofore illegal narcotics. Alarmed by the support it gets, Mafiosos frame the candidate for a crime he did not commit and force him to Read More

White Mischief

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt

Synopsis: Based on one of the most scandalous murders in British history, White Mischief transpires in Kenya at a time just before the beginning of World War II. Jock Broughton (Joss Ackland) is a wealthy rancher who becomes taken with a young gold-digger named Diana (Greta Scacchi). Even though he is fully Read More

It Couldn't Happen Here

Actors: Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Joss Ackland, Neil Dickson, Gareth Hunt

Synopsis: This half-hearted avant garde feature is a thinly disguised exploitation feature for the British synth-pop duo The Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tenant and Chris Lowe). They travel though London where they encounter a variety of colorful characters. Several songs appear as well, including the title track Read More

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

Synopsis: In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible. Read More

The Sicilian

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Barbara Sukowa, Richard Bauer

Synopsis: Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule and make it Read More

A Zed & Two Noughts

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky Read More

Queenie

Actors: Mia Sara, Kirk Douglas, Martin Balsam, Claire Bloom, Topol

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Queenie was adapted from the roman a clef by Michael Korda. This is the story of Queenie Kelly,an English girl (Mia Sara) from the slums of Calcutta who is kept from full knowledge of her Indian heritage by her protective mother (Jean Simmons). As a means of bettering Read More

Lady Jane

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hordern, Jill Bennett

Synopsis: Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane Grey's sickly cousin, who becomes Edward VI upon the death of Henry VIII, is on the threshold of death himself. The Protestant powers-that-be Read More

New World

Actors: James Fox, Bernard Hill, Betsy Brantley, Frederick Jaeger, John Ringham

Synopsis: Filmed for British television in 1986, The New World made it to American shores in 1988. Bernard Hill and James Fox star in this dramatization of the founding of the Plymouth Colony. The dramatic thrust of the film is a power struggle between two self-appointed pilgrim leaders. Betsy Brantley Read More

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Natasha Richardson, Joss Ackland, Lottie Ward

Synopsis: "The Cooper Beeches" is an episode of the television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, produced in Britain for Granada TV. In this episode, directed by Paul Annett, Jeremy Brett portrays the famed detective, aided by his Read More

Shadowlands

Actors: Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom

Synopsis: A real-life incident involving two major literary figures was dramatized for British television in 1985 under the title Shadowlands. Joss Ackland stars as English author C.S. Lewis, who in 1950 begins a correspondence with American poet Joy Gresham, here played by Claire Bloom. Though Lewis is a Read More

Shroud For a Nightingale

Actors: Roy Marsden

Synopsis: Based on the P.D. James novels, the miniseries Shroud for a Nightingale follows the investigations of Commander Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden). Also starring John Vine and Joss Ackland. This box set from Wellspring Media offers three videos. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective

Actors: Bernard Cribbins, Bill Maynard, Joss Ackland, Bernard Lee, Frank Windsor

Synopsis: In this comic-detective movie, Dangerous Davies, a bungling gumshoe uses archaic methods to solve his cases. This time he must solve a 15-year-old murder involving an adolescent girl. He finds himself on a convoluted trail surrounded by the lowest of the lowlife. It is not until the picture is Read More

Rough Cut

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven, Patrick Magee, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Notorious international jewel thief Jack Rhodes (Burt Reynolds) is out to steal $30 million in uncut diamonds in this visually opulent, uneven comedy. Chief Inspector Cyril Willis (David Niven) is Rhodes' nemesis. He wants to retire from Scotland Yard but would like to capture Rhodes as a final Read More

The Apple

Actors: Catherine Stewart, George Gilmour, Joss Ackland, Vladek Sheybal, Grace Kennedy

Synopsis: Unleashed just as the disco phenomenon had peaked and was slipping out of public favor, this one-of-a-kind pop musical is set in 1994, when a Mephistophelean entrepreneur named Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) controls the international recording industry through the Worldvision Song Contest. Read More

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Actors: Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston

Synopsis: Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of service Read More

Saint Jack

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes

Synopsis: After a couple of major studio flops, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his 1960s filmmaking roots with this Roger Corman-produced low budget film. Easygoing expatriate Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara) makes his living in early-1970s Singapore legally and illegally looking after the needs of American and Read More

The Big Scam

Actors: Gloria Grahame, David Niven, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square was the original title of this British caper film. David Niven does his suave 'n' blase bit as a criminal mastermind planning a giant bank heist. Richard Jordan co-stars as an American ex-con tapped to oversee the operation. Gloria Grahame, in one of her last Read More

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Actors: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is first-class. His doctor has given him stern warnings that he must lose over one hundred pounds, or he will die of heart failure. The presence of so many four-star chefs in Read More

Watership Down

Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Simon Cadell

Synopsis: Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will find poetic and moving. It doesn't pull any punches. Death -- violent, disturbing death -- is ever present, portrayed in a manner that is astonishingly Read More

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization As We Know it

Synopsis: John Cleese co-wrote and stars in this satiric comedy as the less-than-spectacular progeny of the world's greatest detective. A mysterious super-villain announces across the globe that the world will come to an end in five days unless their demands are met. Research reveals that the fiend in Read More

Silver Bears

Actors: Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan, Stéphane Audran, Tom Smothers

Synopsis: Director Ivan Passer and screenwriter Peter Stone adapted Paul Erdman's novel concerning a group of con men who arrive in Switzerland and end up conning each other. Michael Caine stars as Doc Fletcher, a lackey for gangster Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam), who is sent to Switzerland to purchase a bank Read More

Operation Daybreak

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Karel Curda, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the Read More

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Joan Sims

Synopsis: In this comical Disney espionage adventure, a herd of nannies team up with Scotland Yard and set off to find important microfilm that was concealed, by a wicked Chinese spy, within the skeleton of a dinosaur that now sits in the British Natural History Museum ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Royal Flash

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Britt Ekland

Synopsis: Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on one of the books in his "Harry Flashman" series, loose sequels to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" that followed that story's central bully character through his checkered Read More

The Little Prince

Actors: Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Stanley Donen directed this lugubrious musical fantasy based on the classic Antoine de Saint-Exupery children's parable, featuring a musical score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- their first film score since Gigi. The simple story concerns a French aviator (Richard Kiley) who crashes his Read More

The Black Windmill

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill, John Vernon

Synopsis: Michael Caine stars as an espionage agent whose young son is kidnapped. Complicating matters is the fact that the kidnappers (John Vernon and Delphine Seyrig) are Caine's own colleagues. They want to secure Caine's aid in rounding up a diamond smuggling ring, and they don't care who they have to Read More

S*P*Y*S

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Shane Rimmer

Synopsis: In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in this lightweight spy spoof, directed by Irvin Kershner. Gould and Sutherland 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

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Actors: Richard Fescud, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: Alec Guinness plays against stereotype, imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity in Ennio De Concini's Hitler: The Last Ten Days. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker, the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Read More

England Made Me

Actors: Bill Baskiville, Cvetka Cupar, Mira Nikolic, Vladan Zivkovic, Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegard Neil, Michael Hordern, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Graham Greene that uses the rise of Nazi Germany as its backdrop, this drama stars Michael York as Anthony Farrant, an idealistic young British businessman. On his way home after a trip to the Far East, Anthony takes a friend up on her advice and makes a stop in Germany, where Read More

Penny Gold

Synopsis: A detective investigating the murder of a young girl makes a startling discovery that leads him into the world of international stamp collectors in this thriller from Academy Award-winning cinematographer-turned-director Jack Cardiff. A young girl lies slain, and the only hope for revealing the Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so, it followed the plot of Dumas' novel fairly closely, its liberties Read More

The Mind Snatchers

Synopsis: Based on the long-running Broadway play by Dennis Reardon, The Happiness Cage, a multinational filmmaking effort, is a drama about medical experimentation in the U.S. military. The experiment is a brain operation which removes pain, replacing it either with bliss or sensual satisfaction. It is at Read More

Cry of the Penguins

Actors: Dudley Sutton, John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Tony Britton

Synopsis: A great deal of director Al Viola's version of this film was pruned away for its general release. The missing portions are not only the heart of the story, but they are the heart of the novel by Graham Billings which gave rise to the film. The whole story is that Forbush (John Hurt) is going Read More

The House That Dripped Blood

Actors: John Bennett, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee

Synopsis: This anthology picture about a bad-luck mansion is a thriller with four episodes--all framed by a police investigation. A review of the files of the local policeman (John Bennett) shows that everyone who has owned the mansion has died in a horrible fashion. In the first episode, "Method for Read More

Villain

Actors: Shirley Cain, Wendy Hutchinson, Lindy Miller, Bonita Thomas, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: This melodramatic crime drama tells the story of homosexual gang leader Vic Dakin (Richard Burton), who likes a bit of rough sex with his petty criminal pal Wolfe (Ian McShane). Aside from payroll robberies, his gang is not above blackmailing sexually deviant members of Parliament. A Scotland Yard Read More

Crescendo

Synopsis: In this horror film, an American graduate student travels to southern France to research her thesis. She is writing about a famed composer who recently died. She stays with his widow and his son, a disabled drug-addict. She becomes more involved in the family than she wanted after she finds the Read More

Avengers: The Morning After

Synopsis: This time the villain is a treacherous double agent named Merlin (Peter Barkworth), who uses sleeping gas to elude his captors. Knocked cold by the snooze gas, Steed, Tara, and Merlin awaken in a deserted -- and heavily guarded -- small town. Handcuffed to Merlin, Steed must rely upon his aid to Read More

Rasputin, the Mad Monk

Actors: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Suzanne Farmer

Synopsis: The life story of the legendary Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin gets the highly fictionalized Hammer Films treatment with this liberal mix of horror and history that presents the mysterious sage as a demonic, otherworldly creature. Christopher Lee stars as the titular monk, who gains entrée to the Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Synopsis: This 1961 adaptation of Shakespeare's magical comedy of errors was performed entirely by puppets. Let's qualify that: the puppets are of the stop-motion variety, expertly manipulated into "humanity" by Czech animator Jiri Trnka. The adaptation is faithful to the text, while the technique allows a Read More

Z Cars [TV Series]

Actors: Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, James Ellis, Dudley Foster, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: The incredibly durable cop show Z Cars (pronounced "Zed Cars") was one of the great guilty pleasures of British television -- a program which everyone watched, but no one would admit to watching. Created by Troy Kennedy Martin, the series focused on a "typical" crime-ridden Liverpool police Read More

Ghost Ship

Actors: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden, John Robinson, Joss Ambler

Synopsis: This waterlogged adaptation of an obscure Grand Guignol stage play finds a hapless couple (Dermot Walsh and Hazel Court) convinced that their newly-acquired yacht is haunted by mysterious and deadly forces. After numerous fatalities, the couple eventually hires a paranormal investigator (John Robinson Read More

Seven Days to Noon

Actors: Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, Andre Morell, Sheila Manahan, Hugh Cross

Synopsis: Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of his work, Jones constructs his own bomb and threatens to blow up London within one week. His terms: Stop the atomic research or suffer the consequences. As London is Read More

The Ghost Ship

Actors: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Lawrence Tierney, Ben Bard, Edmund Glover

Synopsis: RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars as the ship's captain, a tortured soul who teeters on the verge of madness. Seaman Russell Wade notices the captain's deterioration, but his warnings are dismissed by the Read More

C.S. Lewis: Through the Shadowlands