Results for : Alan Bates

    The Grotesque
    7.0
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    The Grotesque [HD] (1995)

    Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?

    7.0 /10
    We Think the World of You
    8.0
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    We Think the World of You [HD] (1988)

    An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.

    8.0 /10
    Royal Flash
    6.2
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    Royal Flash [HD] (1975)

    Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.

    6.2 /10
    Bertie and Elizabeth
    5.6
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    Bertie and Elizabeth [HD] (2002)

    The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.

    5.6 /10
    Salem Witch Trials
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    Salem Witch Trials [HD] (2002)

    The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected - but unproved - presence of the occult in the small New England town.

    6.6 /10
    The Caretaker
    7.5
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    The Caretaker [HD] (1964)

    Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies (Donald Pleasence), an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a cafΓ©. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick (Alan Bates) - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders. Eventually Aston, himself irritated by the cantankerous old man, puts him out.

    7.5 /10
    St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
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    St. Patrick: The Irish Legend [HD] (2000)

    A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a slave. Enduring many hardships, he finds comfort and eventually salvation in his faith. After several years, he escapes back to England, where he joins a convent to prove his faith. His greatest desire is to return to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. Years later, he is given the opportunity. Upon setting foot on the Irish soil, all snakes are aitomatically driven from the land. He then overcomes many obstacles, including disagreements with the British Cardinal (Malcolm McDowell), to fulfill his destiny and ultimately being given Sainthood.

    5.0 /10
    102 Boulevard Haussmann
    6.0
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    102 Boulevard Haussmann [HD] (1990)

    In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

    6.0 /10
    Mister Frost
    6.3
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    Mister Frost [HD] (1990)

    Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be.

    6.3 /10
    A Kind of Loving
    7.5
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    A Kind of Loving [HD] (1962)

    As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

    7.5 /10
    Zorba the Greek
    7.4
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    Zorba the Greek [HD] (1964)

    An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

    7.4 /10
    The Statement
    5.7
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    The Statement [HD] (2003)

    The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...

    5.7 /10
    An Unmarried Woman
    6.6
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    An Unmarried Woman [HD] (1978)

    A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

    6.6 /10
    Whistle Down the Wind
    7.4
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    Whistle Down the Wind [HD] (1961)

    When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

    7.4 /10
    An Englishman Abroad
    6.3
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    An Englishman Abroad [HD] (1983)

    Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.

    6.3 /10
    Dr. Fischer of Geneva
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    Dr. Fischer of Geneva [HD] (1984)

    Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby β€” to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?

    0 /10
    Women in Love
    6.4
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    Women in Love [HD] (1969)

    Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

    6.4 /10
    Story of a Love Story
    5.0
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    Story of a Love Story [HD] (1973)

    Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.

    5.0 /10
    Second Best
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    Second Best [HD] (1972)

    A short film based on a story by D.H. Lawrence in which two sisters meet after being apart for a long time.

    0 /10
    Britannia Hospital
    6.9
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    Britannia Hospital [HD] (1982)

    Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, and African cannibal dictator and sinister human experiments.

    6.9 /10
    A Voyage Round My Father
    9.0
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    A Voyage Round My Father [HD] (1984)

    A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process learns to love in return.

    9.0 /10
    Georgy Girl
    6.8
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    Georgy Girl [HD] (1966)

    A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.

    6.8 /10
    Uncontrollable Circumstances
    6.4
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    Uncontrollable Circumstances [HD] (1989)

    Force Majeure (Uncontrollable Circumstances) begins with a drug deal involving tourists Phillipe (Patrick Bruel) and Daniel (Francois Cluzet), and a Dutch stranger. Two years pass: the Dutchman has been arrested in an unspecified Asian country, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death. Phillipe and Daniel agree to admit that the hashish partly belongs to them, which will reduce the Dutchman's sentence, but also subject the twosome to a prison sentence themselves. Malcolm Forrest (Alan Bates), a representative of Amnesty International, does what he can to aid all three of the unfortunate young men. Force Majeure was co-written by Michele De Broca, wife of director Philippe De Broca.

    6.4 /10
    The Fixer
    6.2
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    The Fixer [HD] (1968)

    Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the β€œritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.

    6.2 /10
    Nothing But the Best
    5.0
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    Nothing But the Best [HD] (1964)

    Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!

    5.0 /10
    The Running Man
    7.3
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    The Running Man [HD] (1963)

    An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.

    7.3 /10
    The Wicked Lady
    4.1
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    The Wicked Lady [HD] (1983)

    Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.

    4.1 /10