Michael CaineFilmography

Is Anybody There?

Actors: Michael Caine, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, Rosemary Harris, Elizabeth Spriggs, Bill Milner

Synopsis: Boy A director John Crowley followed up that award-winning film festival favorite with this eerie yet eloquent drama concerning a young boy fascinated by death due to the fact that he lives in the hospice home for the elderly that's owned by his parents. Perhaps due to the morose surroundings in Read More

Harry Brown

Actors: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ben Drew, Liam Cunningham

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominee Daniel Barber (The Tonto Woman) makes his feature directorial debut with this gritty critique on contemporary British society starring Michael Caine as an elderly shut-in who's spurned into action by a senseless act of violence. Harry Brown (Caine) resides in a desolate Read More

The Dark Knight

Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played Read More

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

Sleuth

Actors: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter

Synopsis: The Anthony Shaffer play originally brought to the screen in 1972 gets the remake treatment in this updating that finds Michael Caine stepping into the role of the brilliant thriller writer portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the original, and Jude Law following in Caine's footsteps as the young Read More

The Prestige

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie, Rebecca Hall

Synopsis: Obsession, jealousy, and deceit define the tense relationship shared between two turn-of-the-century magicians in Memento and Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan's dizzying tale of sleight of hand. Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are London-based magicians of Read More

Children of Men

Actors: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Claire-Hope Ashitey

Synopsis: Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to the helm to tell this futuristic tale in which society is without hope since humankind lost its ability to procreate. The year is 2027, and women can no longer give birth. The youngest inhabitant of Read More

The Weather Man

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Michael Rispoli, Gil Bellows, Gemmenne De la Pena, Nicholas Hoult

Synopsis: A man struggles to get a grip on a life that's spinning out of control in this emotional comedy drama. Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) is a television weatherman on a high-profile Chicago news program. Professionally, Dave is doing just fine -- he makes great money for a job that demands little effort Read More

Bewitched

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: Nora Ephron directed and co-wrote this updated adaptation of a classic situation comedy that also casts a satirical eye on the entertainment industry. Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) is a movie star whose career has been going into a slow and steady decline. Desperate for a project that will give his Read More

Batman Begins

Actors: Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The origins of the Caped Crusader of Gotham City are finally brought to the big screen in this new adaptation of the perennially popular comic-book series. The young Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) leads a privileged life as the son of wealthy, philanthropist parents, both of whom stress their commitment Read More

Around the Bend

Actors: Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Jonah Bobo

Synopsis: Four generations of an American family are brought together by difficult circumstances while facing some unpleasant truths in this drama. Henry (Michael Caine) is an elderly man in failing health living in a small town in the Southwest, where he's cared for by his live-in nurse (Glenne Headly). As Read More

The Actors

Actors: Alan Rickman, Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Abigail Iversen, Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: Conor McPherson's comedy The Actors stars Michael Caine as an aging never-was performer. Anthony O'Malley (Caine) convinces young colleague and castmate Tom (Dylan Moran) to hone his craft by pretending to be someone he isn't in real life. Tony suggests that they rip off gangster Barreller (Michael Gambon Read More

The Statement

Actors: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, John Neville, William Hutt

Synopsis: A man who has been able to avoid the consequences of his actions for nearly 50 years suddenly finds he must answer pursuers on both sides of the law in this drama, based on the novel by Brian Moore and inspired by a true story. After France fell to German occupation during World War II, the Read More

Secondhand Lions

Actors: Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Nicky Katt

Synopsis: In this family-friendly comedy drama, Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is a shy and bookish boy just short of his teens whose mother impulsively decides to leave him for the summer with his eccentric grand-uncles, Hub (Robert Duvall) and Garth (Michael Caine). Walter isn't especially happy about being Read More

The Quiet American

Actors: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija

Synopsis: Graham Greene's allegorical novel about America's role in the Vietnam conflict, and how it was perceived by the rest of the world, is brought to the screen for the second time in this adaptation directed by Phillip Noyce. Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) is a British journalist who in 1952 is Read More

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Actors: Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Mike Myers' phenomenally successful spy spoof gains a few more characters, a slew of celebrity cameos, and even more free-associative laughs in this third installment of the popular franchise. Austin Powers in Goldmember continues the exploits of the swinging-'60s leftover, who, as the film opens Read More

Last Orders

Actors: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Ray Winstone, Helen Mirren

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker known for such classics as The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Six Degrees of Separation, Fred Schepisi tells this story about a group of lifelong chums coming to terms with their friend's death, based on a prize-winning novel by Graham Swift. When Jack Dodd (Michael Caine) Read More

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Actors: Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: What would life amongst the Muppets have been without their unofficial leader Kermit the Frog? That's the question posed by this made-for-TV confection, which not only spoofs the Yuletide classic It's a Wonderful Life, but also takes satirical aim at such pop cultural phenomena as Moulin Rouge and Fear Factor Read More

Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

Quicksand

Actors: Michael Caine, Michael Keaton

Synopsis: British filmmaker John MacKenzie directs the crime thriller Quicksand, based on the book by Desmond Lowden. Michael Keaton plays Martin Raikes, a New York banker who goes to Monaco to investigate some questionable transactions. He discovers that the shifty bank account belongs to film producer Read More

Miss Congeniality

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, John DiResta, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is an FBI agent with a reputation for being aggressive and hard-nosed, who has long wanted to duplicate the career of her deceased mother, also an FBI agent, who died in the line of duty. Her cantankerous nature, though, has made her few friends, excepting her Read More

Quills

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis: The Marquis de Sade was a man who liked to stir up trouble, at a time when his native France was in a state of tremendous political turmoil, and this historical drama examines how much controversy he could cause even under repressive circumstances. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the Read More

Get Carter

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: A man who has made murder his business is thrown into the underbelly of an unfamiliar criminal world in this thriller. Jack Carter (Sylvester Stallone) is a ruthless hired killer whose bloody career in Los Angeles has driven a wedge between himself and his family in the Northwest. When he learns Read More

Shiner

Actors: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber, Claire Rushbrook, Frank Harper

Synopsis: A minor-league criminal suddenly finds himself in deep trouble in this thriller. Billy "Shiner" Simpson (Michael Caine) is a man who has spent much of his life making a living by skirting the law, but he thinks he may finally have a legitimate path to the big time managing his son Eddie (Matthew Read More

Shadow Run

Actors: Michael Caine, Kenneth Colley, James Fox, Leslie Grantham, Christopher Cazenove

Synopsis: The crime film Shadow Run stars Michael Caine as Haskell, an expert criminal who works with another thief (James Fox) in order to rip off an armored truck. The two distrust each other, but know they need each other in order to make this giant score. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Roger Moore - A Matter of Class

Synopsis: Roger Moore won many audiences over with his ability to play the James Bond character with a touch of humor. He has played numerous roles, including several on such early television series as The Saint, The Persuaders, and Maverick. However, his movie roles in the seven Bond films are likely to be Read More

The Cider House Rules

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine

Synopsis: John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan who spent most of his childhood at the St. Cloud Orphanage in rural Maine, where he grew up under the strong but affectionate care of Dr. Read More

Little Voice

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: Based on Jim Cartright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, this screen adaptation directed by Mark Herman is an underdog film about an underdog girl named Little Voice (or LV for short). LV (Jane Horrocks from Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet who does all her own singing) is a shy, mousy woman Read More

Curtain Call

Actors: James Spader, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Polly Walker, Buck Henry

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy with supernatural touches, Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) works for a large publishing house, editing and acquiring new projects. Lowe's new boss is after him to buy fewer books that are good and more books that will sell, while his girlfriend Julia (Polly Walker) is trying Read More

Mandela and de Klerk

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Tina Lifford, Ian Roberts

Synopsis: In an historical docudrama that was made for television, Sidney Poitier performs the role of Nelson Mandela, while Michael Caine plays the South African president Frederick Willem De Klerk, the man who instituted the reforms that would abolish apartheid, who released Nelson Mandela from nearly 30 Read More

Midnight in St. Petersburg

Actors: Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Michael Caine reprises the role of Harry Palmer in this low-budget thriller. This time he finds himself in Russia trying to save a Russian ballerina from kidnappers and stop a nuclear war. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Actors: Michael Caine, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Sara, Bryan Brown, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Synopsis: The second of two network-TV adaptations of Jules Verne's speculative 1868 novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, this two-part ABC version originally aired on May 11 and 12, 1997, some two months after CBS's shorter -- and infinitely more faithful -- version. The year is 1886, and an unknown Read More

Blood and Wine

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez, Judy Davis, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson reunited with director Bob Rafelson, director of Five Easy Pieces and The King Of Marvin Gardens, for this violent, downbeat crime drama. Alex (Jack Nicholson) is a wine dealer whose business is going belly-up, along with his life. His step-son Jason (Stephen Dorff) hates him, his Read More

Bullet to Beijing

Actors: Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Mia Sara, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Working-class espionage-agent Harry Palmer returns in this spy thriller. The story begins in London after a murder occurs during a demonstration at the North Korean embassy. Palmer, who was supposed to ensure nothing happened, fears repercussions from his higher-ups. They tell him that since the Read More

On Deadly Ground

Actors: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Jennings (Michael Caine), a corrupt company owner will stop at nothing to open a new refinery in Alaska. Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal), a disgruntled former employee is chosen by an Eskimo chief as savior of his people. Forrest's mission is to prevent the new refinery from beginning work before Read More

World War II: When Lions Roared

Actors: Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Ed Begley, Jr., Jan Triska

Synopsis: This made-for-TV historical drama focuses on the sometimes uneasy alliances between three of the world's great leaders -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Lithgow), Winston Churchill (Bob Hoskins), and Joseph Stalin (Michael Caine) -- as they met in 1943 for the Tehran Conference, in which they Read More

Blue Ice

Crew: Producer

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

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Actors: Michael Caine, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz

Synopsis: Brian Henson, the son of Muppet founder Jim Henson, took over directing duties after the untimely death of his father for The Muppet Christmas Carol, a sluggish re-telling of the Charles Dickens tale. Michael Caine, surrounded by legions of fuzzy, felt puppets, plays it straight as the crotchety Read More

Noises Off

Actors: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mark Linn-Baker

Synopsis: Michael Frayn's frantic West End and Broadway farce makes a literal transformation to the screen in Peter Bogdanoch's faithful adaptation, which is transplanted from the London suburbs to Des Moines, Iowa to accommodate the (mostly) American cast. Michael Caine stars as director Lloyd Fellowes Read More

Rabbit Ears: King Midas and the Golden Touch

Synopsis: This delightful presentation is illustrated with photographed graphics. The musical background is performed by Yo Yo Ma. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Michael Caine - Breaking the Mold

Synopsis: This video biography celebrates the life and work of actor Michael Caine. Twice honored with Oscars for Best Actor (Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules), Michael Caine is one of the world's most admired actors. Other stellar performances include Educating Rita, The Man Who Would Be Read More

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Synopsis: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Read More

Mr. Destiny

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Hart Bochner

Synopsis: Businessman Larry Burrows (James Belushi) has a wife who ignores him, a screwball friend who won't leave him alone, and a car that continually breaks down. All that and more is enough to give him a mid-life crisis. After his car stalls once more, he enters a bar looking for help and encounters a Read More

A Shock to the System

Actors: Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert, Swoosie Kurtz, Will Patton

Synopsis: Shock to the System is a black comedy about a middle-aged advertising executive (Michael Caine) who loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man (Peter Reigret). In frustration, Caine accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train--and he gets away with the death. Realizing that Read More

Bullseye!

Actors: Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Sally Kirkland, Deborah Barrymore, Mark Burns

Synopsis: A hectic caper flick with farcical overtones, Bullseye! doesn't quite hit the....oh, you know. Government scientist Michael Caine and his titled pal Roger Moore plan to auction off a cold fusion formula to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, a pair of con artists-also played by Caine and 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

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Evelyn Keyes, Arthur Miller, Michael Caine

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most distinguished directors, John Huston is profiled in this no-holds-barred documentary. Discounting the hokey framing device of host Robert Mitchum wandering through an attic full of Huston memorabilia, this two-hour plus film is a remarkable chronicle of a remarkable man. We Read More

Michael Caine: Acting in Film

Synopsis: This instructional video features the Oscar winning actor Michael Caine offering a number of tricks to assist any screen actor. He touches upon a numerous of topics including preparation, learning not to blink, and understanding how the camera "sees." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Actors: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris

Synopsis: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of the 1964 film farce Bedtime Story. Steve Martin and Michael Caine take over the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and David Niven: two international con artists, plying their trade on gullible wealthy women up and down the Riviera. Martin and Caine vie Read More

Without a Clue

Actors: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman

Synopsis: According to Without a Clue, master detective Sherlock Holmes was a wholly fictional character. Well, we knew that; what we didn't know was that Holmes was a figment of the imagination of his chronicler, Dr. John Watson (Ben Kingsley). When Holmes' fame begins to grow, would-be clients besiege Read More

Jack the Ripper

Actors: Michael Gothard, Richard Morant, Armand Assante, Ken Bones, Michael Caine

Synopsis: TheTV movie Jack the Ripper endeavors to shed new light on one of the most notorious unsolved cases in history. The Ripper, of course, was the London serial killer who, in 1888, killed and disemboweled five prostitutes. Michael Caine stars not as the Ripper but as a Scotland-Yard inspector who is Read More

Surrender

Actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Veteran television writer-director Jerry Belson concocted this sweet comedy that stars Michael Caine as Sean Stein, a best-selling mystery novelist who's been constantly hurt by women he's fallen for. Sally Field plays Daisy Morgan, an artist who has not yet hit it big. She and Stein are at a Read More

The Fourth Protocol

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Betsy Brantley, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: Scripted by Frederick Forsyth from his own novel, The Fourth Protocol is a fact-based spy thriller. The titular protocol is a secret agreement between America, Britain and Russia to cease smuggling nuclear weapons into their respective countries. This figures into the schemes of several rogue Read More

Jaws: The Revenge

Actors: Michael Caine, Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young

Synopsis: This third sequel to the 1975 mega-hit Jaws returns Lorraine Gary to the role of Ellen Brody, widow of the Roy Scheider character from the first two films. When her son Sean, the current police chief of shark-plagued Amity Island, is killed by the beast, Ellen goes to the Bahamas to comfort her Read More

The Whistle Blower

Actors: Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Felicity Dean, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Superpatriotic Briton Michael Caine learns from his son Nigel Havers, a Russian translator with Government Communications Headquarters, that the CIA might have ordered the deaths of some GCH employees to avoid any security leaks. When Havers mentions that he's thinking about blowing the whistle on Read More

The Golden Gong: The British Cinema Collection

Synopsis: Take a trip to the top of the British film industry as narrator Michael Caine chronicles the rise of movie mogul J. Arthur Rank in a documentary produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the studio behind such classics as The Red Shoes, Caesar and Cleopatra, The League of Gentlemen, and Brief Encounter Read More

Half Moon Street

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Keith Buckley, Nadim Sawalha

Synopsis: Based on Paul Theroux's Doctor Slaughter, Half-Moon Street is motivated by the moneymaking schemes of the heroine, PhD researcher Laura Slaughter (Sigourney Weaver). Stuck in a low-paying government job in London, Laura decides to increase her bank account by working for what is euphemistically Read More

Mona Lisa

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Kate Hardie, Clarke Peters

Synopsis: Bob Hoskins plays George, a tough but basically goodhearted British mob flunky, recently released from prison, where he'd served a term to cover up for his gangster boss (Michael Caine). Still willing to be everyone's doormat, George agrees to act as chauffeur for Simone (Cathy Tyson), a haughty Read More

Sweet Liberty

Actors: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins, Lise Hilboldt

Synopsis: Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this satirical film about the corruption of the film industry's approach to history. Alda plays Michael Burgess, a college professor who has written a historical novel about the American Revolution. The book has been turned into a script, and a Hollywood Read More

Water

Actors: Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Billy Connolly, Leonard Rossiter

Synopsis: Meant to be a parody of the recent invasions of Grenada and the Falkland Islands, this comedy about the laid-back governor (Michael Caine) of "Cascara," a fictional British island somewhere in the Caribbean, and the international parade of characters who come through his territory is a pastiche Read More

Hannah and Her Sisters

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey) to discuss the week's events. It's what they don't always tell Read More

The Holcroft Covenant

Actors: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Director John Frankenheimer and writers Edward Anhalt and George Axelrod try to inject some life into this adaptation of Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novel. Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft, who was adopted in Germany by an American family in the waning days of World War II. Now Read More

The Jigsaw Man

Actors: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray

Synopsis: This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963. But this fictional, unsophisticated, if not naive Read More

Blame It on Rio

Actors: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Jose Lewgoy

Synopsis: This attempt to remake the clever 1977 French farce Un Moment d'Egarement stars 50-film-a-year man Michael Caine as an executive named Matthew Hollis, who, together with friend Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), travels to Rio de Janeiro on business. Victor sets out on the town in search of a lambada Read More

Educating Rita

Actors: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley

Synopsis: A trio of Oscar nominations and a pair of Golden Globes went to this acclaimed romantic comedy-drama based on the play by Willy Russell. Julie Walters stars as Rita, a witty, 26-year-old working class British hairdresser who decides to seek an education at Open University. Rita needs a tutor, and Read More

Beyond the Limit

Actors: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: John Mackenzie directed this schematic adaptation of Graham Greene's best-selling thriller The Honorary Consul. Richard Gere stars as Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a brilliant doctor who has chosen to practice in the provinces rather than the teeming city of Buenos Aires because his father remains a Read More

Deathtrap

Actors: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet provides another of his film adaptations of Broadway successes -- in this case Ira Levin's 1978 clever Broadway murder mystery that starred John Wood in a triumphant turn as down-on-his-luck playwright Sidney Bruhl. Wood's brittle airiness is replaced in the film version by Michael Caine Read More

The Hand

Actors: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill, Viveca Lindfors, Mara Hobel

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's first directorial effort for a major studio (and his second horror film after the 1974 Seizure) came shortly after the phenomenal success of Midnight Express, which was based on Stone's Oscar-winning screenplay. The director turned to Mark Brandel's obscure thriller "The Lizard's Read More

Victory

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pelé, Werner Roth

Synopsis: John Huston directed this exciting World War II action film, which culminates in a rousing soccer game. In a German prisoner of war camp, Major Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), the camp commander, once a member of the German national soccer team, decides to put together a soccer match between a Read More

The Island

Actors: Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson

Synopsis: The Island, a turgid action drama directed by Michael Ritchie, revolves around the adventures of Maynard (Michael Caine), a newspaper reporter who tries to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. Maynard, and his son crash-land on a remote island ruled by a gang of pirates who kill anyone who Read More

Dressed to Kill

Actors: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz

Synopsis: One of Brian De Palma's most divisive films, Dressed to Kill is a spine-chilling Alfred Hitchcock update for the late 1970s. Sexually frustrated wife and mother Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) visits her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Elliott (Michael Caine), to complain about her unfulfilling erotic Read More

Ashanti

Actors: Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Kabir Bedi, Rex Harrison

Synopsis: Released simply as Ashanti, this search-and-rescue film was adapted by scenarist Stephen Geller (Slaughterhouse-Five) from Evano, a novel by Alberto Vasques-Figueroa. Odious middle-eastern slave trader Peter Ustinov sets the plot in motion by kidnapping Beverly Johnson, the wife of World Health Read More

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Actors: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Irwin Allen's second water-logged disaster film picks up where The Poseidon Adventure left off; Salvagers Michael Caine, Karl Malden and Sally Field enter the Poseidon to take what they can, unaware that evil salvager Telly Savalas and his henchmen lie in wait. When an explosion rocks the ship Read More

The Swarm

Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the genre's chief architect, Irwin Allen, and written by Stirling Silliphant, scribe of The Poseidon Adventure. Haughty entomologist Brad Crane (Michael Caine) shows up at a secret Read More

California Suite

Actors: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie. In the first episode, the divorced couple of Bill and Hannah 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

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

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Actors: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Harry and Walter Go to New York was born of the theory that, the more stars and money that you throw into a film, the better the film will be. The theory has seldom been proven true, and it certainly wasn't in this case. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliot Gould) are a third-rate vaudeville Read More

Don Rickles: Buy This Tape, You Hockey Puck

Actors: Don Rickles

The Eagle Has Landed

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk Read More

The Man Who Would Be King

Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine

Synopsis: The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon revealed to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnahan (Michael Caine). As Kipling listens in rapt fascination Read More

The Romantic Englishwoman

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Béatrice Romand, Natalie Delon

Synopsis: Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman's intricate script for The Romantic Englishwoman credibly explores the notion that a writer can manipulate the people in his life as deftly as he can manipulate the characters in his imagination. The title character Elizabeth, played by Glenda Jackson, is the wife Read More

Peeper

Actors: Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Thayer David, Liam Dunn

Synopsis: In this comedy drama that spoofs detective pictures from the 1940s, Tucker (Michael Caine) is a private eye hired by Anglich (Michael Constantine), a wealthy man who is trying to find the whereabouts of his long lost daughter. Tucker's sleuthing leads him to Ellen (Natalie Wood) and Mianne (Kitty Winn Read More

The Wilby Conspiracy

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Persis Khambatta

Synopsis: The Wilby Conspiracy is set in South Africa, at a time when Apartheid was the order of the day. Political activist Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) finds an unlikely -- and reluctant -- ally in the form of the British Keogh (Michael Caine). Both Twala and Keogh are scrutinized by racist police 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

The Destructors

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Set in the City of Light, this crime melodrama chronicles the attempts of a US drug agent to stop a major drug-lord. Though the agent realizes his three predecessors have been assassinated, and that the French government doesn't necessarily approve of the Yank's harassment of a French citizen, he Read More

X, Y and Zee

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton, John Standing

Synopsis: More commonly known as Zee & Co., this cautionary tale of extramarital discretions finds a threatened and desperate wife lashing out in order to salvage a faltering marriage. An upper-crust couple living the high-life in post-'60s London, Zee (Elizabeth Taylor) and Robert (Michael Caine) Blakely's Read More

Pulp

Actors: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini

Synopsis: A year after Get Carter (1971), director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine reunited for this comic crime thriller. Caine stars as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels, living in Rome and cranking one noir book after another. King is approached by Ben Dinuccio (Lionel Stander) Read More

Sleuth

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine

Synopsis: The mystery stage play by Anthony Shaffer was adapted by the author into this stylish film from director Joseph L. Manciewicz. Laurence Olivier stars as Andrew Wyke, a best-selling author of detective fiction living in a grand 16th century mansion. Andrew is visited by Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) Read More

The Last Valley

Actors: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Noted novelist and sometime film director James Clavell, wrote, directed, and produced this adaptation of J.B. Pick's novel, set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. During the chaotic confrontations and shifting alliances of the war, a hidden valley protected from the outside world becomes Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Claire Nielson, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas

Synopsis: Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing instead to adhere to the story as written. Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David 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

Too Late the Hero

Actors: Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Filmed on location in the Philippines Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero is set in the last months of World War II. Lackadaisical navy lieutenant Cliff Robertson, who happens to speak fluent Japanese, is ordered to go on a suicide mission to wipe out an enemy observation post. Robertson's equally Read More

Simon, Simon

The Italian Job

Actors: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley

Synopsis: The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. Read More

Battle of Britain

Actors: Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Curd Jürgens, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: James Bond-flick director Guy Hamilton helmed this episodic, all-star World War II film. With Sir Laurence Olivier heading up an ensemble cast as flight commander Sir Hugh Dowdling, The Battle of Britain pays tribute to other nationalities instrumental in fending off the waves of Luftwaffe planes Read More

Play Dirty

Actors: Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is the British army leader who is ordered to lead a band of mercenaries into the desert. Their mission is to knock out an enemy fuel reserve. The inexperienced captain contends with a veteran Colonel (Nigel Green) who is enamored with using old history books to Read More

Deadfall

Actors: Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, David Buck

Synopsis: In this clunky suspense film, straining to be Hitchcockian, Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic Henry Clarke, who finds himself enticed into the home of Fe Moreau (Giovanna Ralli), where he discovers an unusual arrangement -- apparently Fe Moreau would rather engage in a relationship with an Read More

The Magus

Actors: Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina, Paul Stassino

Synopsis: In Guy Green's adaptation of John Fowles's acclaimed second novel, Michael Caine plays Nicholas Urfe, an English schoolteacher evading serious romantic commitment with stewardess Anne (Godard muse Anna Karina). As a last resort, Urfe escapes the clutches of his paramour by accepting a Read More

Sette Volte Donna

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays opposite Peter Sellers as a widow at her husband's funeral. In "Amateur Night," she's a wife who's Read More

Billion Dollar Brain

Actors: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Françoise Dorléac, Oscar Homolka, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), the reluctant secret agent from The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966) -- both (like the source for this movie) based on novels by Len Deighton -- is back again in Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain. Having left Britain's espionage service, Palmer is Read More

Tonite Let's All Make Love In London

Synopsis: Peter Whitehead's 1967 documentary of London scene in the swinging-60's is a visual treat for Mod enthusiasts everywhere. Featuring a who's-who of the scene, Tonight Let's All Make Love In London is a visual patchwork of 60's culture, seen through the eyes of the people leading it. Mick Jagger Read More

Hurry Sundown

Actors: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Robert Hooks

Synopsis: Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a land owner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. However, two parcels of land have escaped Read More

The Wrong Box

Actors: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys. Each of the boys' parents had placed 1000 pounds in a pool, to be invested and expanded upon. The resultant fortune will go to the last surving member of the tontine. A Read More

Funeral in Berlin

Actors: Michael Caine, Paul Hubschmid, Oscar Homolka, Eva Renzi, Guy Doleman

Synopsis: Funeral in Berlin was the second of three films based on the Harry Palmer novels by Len Deighton. As he did in The Ipcress File, Michael Caine stars as Palmer, Deighton's bespectacled, somewhat disreputable British secret agent. In the manner of Graham Greene's The Third Man, Palmer is dispatched Read More

Alfie

Actors: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher

Synopsis: Michael Caine's first starring role was a foray into dramatic irony, scripted by Bill Naughton from his novel and play. Alfie (Caine) is a charming, rogueish Cockney who cannot get his fill of women. He uses them without shame or malice, jumping from one promiscuous female's bed to another without Read More

Gambit

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Ideal and reality clash in this humorous tale of the heist that could have been. As scheming career cat burglar Harry Dean (Michael Cane) prepares to steal a priceless statue from the world's richest man, he seeks out the assistance of Eurasian showgirl Suzy Chang Shirley Maclaine). Though the Read More

The Ipcress File

Actors: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Michael Caine made his first appearance as novelist Len Deighton's bespectacled British-spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File. Palmer has no real love of espionage, but he doesn't really know any other life. With studied insolence, he takes on the case of locating missing doctor Radcliffe (Aubrey Richards Read More

Solo for Sparrow

Synopsis: In this British crime drama a small-town detective gets tired of Scotland Yard's constant meddling and takes a leave-of-absence from his regular duties to start his own detective agency. It is there that he solves the puzzling jewelry store heist that caused the death of the owner's wife who Read More

Zulu

Actors: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker Read More

The Wrong Arm of the Law

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Bill Kerr, Davy Kaye, Nanette Newman

Synopsis: When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket. Benevolent burglar Peter Sellers, the man in charge of all "respectable" crooks in town (he even offers such incentives as a vacation plan and filmed training sessions!), sets about Read More

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Actors: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Bernard Braden, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Despite its come-on title, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an intelligent, disturbing piece of speculative fiction. Through the eyes of British reporter Peter Stenning (Edward Judd), we learn that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have simultaneously set off nuclear explosions to test their Read More

The Bulldog Breed

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Robert Urquhart, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The weak story in The Bulldog Breed is an excuse to tie together a long series of funny episodes, slapstick incidents, and absurd situations. What does bring everything into a certain unity is the comic character type created by Norman Wisdom, an inept, likeable loser whose efforts to succeed Read More

Foxhole in Cairo

Actors: James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Van Eyck, Robert Urquhart, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Albert Lieven plays German general Erwin Rommel in this British war drama set in Libya and Egypt. A spy working on behalf of Rommel slips behind British lines and swipes "valuable" battle plans. Actually the information is false, planted by counterintelligence in hopes of misleading the "desert Read More

Breakout

Actors: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Sr., Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the various prisoners. Richard Todd is Lt. Col. David Baird, intensely and single-mindedly set on escaping. Bernard Lee is Lt. Col. Huxley who is the careful senior British Read More

Blind Spot

Synopsis: British producers Robert Baker and Monty S. Berman, the team later responsible for the classic TV series The Saint, assembled the 1953 crime melodrama Blind Spot. U.S. Army officer Dan Adams Robert MacKenzie, blinded during the war, is framed on a diamond-smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight Read More

Carve Her Name With Pride

Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury

Synopsis: The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British government. Born Violette Bushell (Virginia McKenna) to a French mother and an English father, she chances to meet Etienne Szabo (Alain Saury), a French officer, whom she later Read More

The Two-Headed Spy

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Alexander Knox, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: This WWII espionage drama is based on the true tale of a British spy, as told in the story by J. Alvin Kugelmass. Alex Schottland (Jack Hawkins) is a career agent for England, having served during WWI. He is assigned to Nazi Germany and rises to the rank of general as WWII breaks out. His contact Read More

Room 43

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors, Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, Brenda de Banzie

Synopsis: Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash "Lemmy Caution," he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed and he needs a big loan, he agrees to a five-minute marriage to Malou, a naive French girl, so she can become a British citizen. Read More

The Steel Bayonet

Actors: Michael Caine, Kieron Moore, Michael Medwin, Robert Brown, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: This British WW II drama takes place in the wilds of Tunis. Major Gerrard (Leo Genn) is ordered to lead a desperate mission to capture a Nazi-held farmhouse. Despite the fact that this undertaking is tantamount to committing suicide, Gerrard has no trouble rounding up volunteers. There's a bit too Read More

The Key

Actors: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: The Key was adapted by Carl Foreman from Stella, a novel by Jan De Hartog. The time is WW2: The place, Plymouth England. Canadian tug captain David Ross (William Holden) and his British counterpart Chris Ford (Trevor Howard) pay a visit to Ford's lady friend Stella (Sophia Loren). Before the men Read More

A Woman of Mystery

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a reporter begins looking into a young woman's suicide and finds that she was murdered. While looking for the murderer, the reporter exposes a counterfeiting ring. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, Wendy Hiller, Katie Johnson, Anthony Newley

Synopsis: This satire takes a sharp poke at the intrinsic laziness of British aristocracy who would rather die of starvation than perform an honest day's work. The tale begins when a destitute nobleman conspires to murder his rich Canadian uncle for the inheritance. Unfortunately he continually fails in his Read More

Hell in Korea

Actors: George Baker, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Ronald Lewis

Synopsis: Filmed in Surrey, England, Hell in Korea was shipped out to more conservative movie houses as A Hill in Korea. The title essentially tells all in this no-nonsense account of a group of UN soldiers during the Korean "police action" of the early 1950s. This "skeleton" patrol maintains its tenuous Read More

Panic in the Parlour

Actors: Michael Caine, Peggy Mount, Cyril Smith, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: Sailor Beware was originally released in England as Panic in the Parlour. The panic begins when a sailor named Albert (Ronald Lewis) plans to get married to a gal named Shirley (Shirley Eaton). On the day of the ceremony, Albert gets cold feet when he discovers that Shirley's gorgonlike mother Read More