Results for : Billie Whitelaw

Twisted Nerve

6.7

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Twisted Nerve [HD] (1968)

1968–

Twisted Nerve [HD] (1968)

Hywel Bennett stars as Martin Durnley, a rich but damaged Oxford University drop-out with a hatred of his banker stepfather, played by Frank Finlay. His mum babies the boy, a consequence of Martin's elder brother, a Down Syndrome sufferer (or 'Mongoloid' - or even 'mentally backward' as they say here), being in full-time care, and the doctors having warned Martin's parents not to have any more children - just to be on the safe side. Too late: troubled mummy's boy Martin, with his cuddly toys and penchant for smashing his own reflection, appears to have proved the doctors misgivings.

6.7 /10

Camille

5.8

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Camille [HD] (1984)

1984–

Camille [HD] (1984)

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.

5.8 /10

Start the Revolution Without Me

6.1

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Start the Revolution Without Me [HD] (1970)

1970–

Start the Revolution Without Me [HD] (1970)

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.

6.1 /10

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

6.0

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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman [HD] (1982)

1982–

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman [HD] (1982)

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.

6.0 /10

The Dark Crystal

7.1

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The Dark Crystal [HD] (1982)

1982–

The Dark Crystal [HD] (1982)

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

7.1 /10

Slayground

4.7

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Slayground [HD] (1983)

1983–

Slayground [HD] (1983)

Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.

4.7 /10

The Water Babies

5.5

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The Water Babies [HD] (1978)

1978–

The Water Babies [HD] (1978)

This children's fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel.

5.5 /10

Gumshoe

6.7

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Gumshoe [HD] (1971)

1971–

Gumshoe [HD] (1971)

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

6.7 /10

Lorna Doone

6.2

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Lorna Doone [HD] (1990)

1990–

Lorna Doone [HD] (1990)

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

6.2 /10

Night Watch

6.1

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Night Watch [HD] (1973)

1973–

Night Watch [HD] (1973)

Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

6.1 /10

Hell Is a City

7.1

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Hell Is a City [HD] (1960)

1960–

Hell Is a City [HD] (1960)

Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.

7.1 /10

The Omen

7.4

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The Omen [HD] (1976)

1976–

The Omen [HD] (1976)

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

7.4 /10

I, Of Whom I Know Nothing

5.0

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I, Of Whom I Know Nothing [HD] (2014)

2014–

I, Of Whom I Know Nothing [HD] (2014)

John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, where Calder met with Billie Whitelaw, the muse, so to speak, of Beckett’s stage work, who is now relegated to a nursing home for actors.

5.0 /10

Jamaica Inn

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Jamaica Inn [HD] (1983)

1983–

Jamaica Inn [HD] (1983)

The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.

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Small Hotel

6.5

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Small Hotel [HD] (1957)

1957–

Small Hotel [HD] (1957)

The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.

6.5 /10

Charlie Bubbles

6.4

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Charlie Bubbles [HD] (1968)

1968–

Charlie Bubbles [HD] (1968)

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.

6.4 /10

The Lost Son

6.1

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The Lost Son [HD] (1999)

1999–

The Lost Son [HD] (1999)

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.

6.1 /10

The Dressmaker

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The Dressmaker [HD] (1988)

1988–

The Dressmaker [HD] (1988)

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

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The Adding Machine

5.0

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The Adding Machine [HD] (1969)

1969–

The Adding Machine [HD] (1969)

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

5.0 /10

The Fake

5.6

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The Fake [HD] (1953)

1953–

The Fake [HD] (1953)

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.

5.6 /10

The Sleeping Tiger

6.1

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The Sleeping Tiger [HD] (1954)

1954–

The Sleeping Tiger [HD] (1954)

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

6.1 /10

A Tale of Two Cities

6.0

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A Tale of Two Cities [HD] (1980)

1980–

A Tale of Two Cities [HD] (1980)

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

6.0 /10

The Krays

6.1

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The Krays [HD] (1990)

1990–

The Krays [HD] (1990)

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.

6.1 /10

Rockaby

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Rockaby [HD] (1981)

1981–

Rockaby [HD] (1981)

A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produced by Labeille on behalf of the State University of New York's Programs in the Arts for a festival and symposium in commemoration of Beckett's 75th birthday (Wikipedia). A self-reflective drama of a figure, W, rocking "to and fro" in her dead mother's rocking chair wearing her mother's sequined funereal garment. With the aid of her pre-recorded voice, W recounts the different phases of a single memory in a bid to connect with "another creature like herself" before rocking herself into an eternal sleep.

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Leo the Last

5.0

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Leo the Last [HD] (1970)

1970–

Leo the Last [HD] (1970)

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.

5.0 /10

Miracle in Soho

6.3

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Miracle in Soho [HD] (1957)

1957–

Miracle in Soho [HD] (1957)

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a barmaid, and "The Miracle" happens.

6.3 /10

The Cloning of Joanna May

0

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The Cloning of Joanna May [HD] (1992)

1992–

The Cloning of Joanna May [HD] (1992)

Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her

0 /10

Duel of Hearts

0

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Duel of Hearts [HD] (1992)

1992–

Duel of Hearts [HD] (1992)

Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent

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Payroll

7.1

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Payroll [HD] (1961)

1961–

Payroll [HD] (1961)

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

7.1 /10

No Love for Johnnie

5.5

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No Love for Johnnie [HD] (1961)

1961–

No Love for Johnnie [HD] (1961)

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

5.5 /10