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Frank Finlay
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Frank Finlay - what members say
review by from Crystal Palace, London
They don't make 'em like this anymore! 20 August 2004
review by GraftheGreatest from London, England
Not Polanski's best but still Oscars galore 21 June 2004
review by A customer from UK
Excellent, well worth watching. 4 October 2005
Frank Finlay - filmography
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The Waiting Room
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, Ralf Little, Rupert Graves
Director: Roger Goldby
Certificate: 
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Two complete strangers, Anna and Stephen, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions ..read more »
 
63%
from 3,126 members
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Lighthouse Hill
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Kirsty Mitchell, Frank Finlay
Director: David Fairman
Certificate: 
Jason Flemyng stars (Rock Star, Snatch, Lock Stock) with rising star Kirsty Mitchell in this funny and thought-provoking story of the conflict between love and the realisation of a dream, the power of money and what happens when we turn our backs on everything familiar...Charlie Davidson (Flemyng) ..read more »
48%
from 44 members
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Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ben Miles, Mark Strong
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate:
Detective Superintendent Tennison takes over a murder investigation by pulling rank on a junior officer. Her team identify a chief suspect but are unable to find enough evidence for an arrest. When another murder occurs the arrest is secured, but Tennison is convinced that there's more here than ..read more »
77%
from 1,856 member
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The Pianist - HD
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate:
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
80%
from 614 members
Not currently released
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The Pianist
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate:
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living in Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
77%
from 47,147 members
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The Pianist - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate:
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
82%
from 1,285 member
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The Martins
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett
Director: Tony Grounds
Certificate:
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THE MARTINS is a Ken Loach style comically tinged drama about a working class English family from TV drama director Tony Grounds. After failing to win a holiday in a competition, jobless Robert Martin (Lee Evans) embarks on a crime spree in an effort to please his children and long suffering wife (..read more »
61%
from 1,213 member
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Station Jim
(2001)
Starring: George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, Frank Finlay
Director: John Roberts
Certificate: 
It is the 1890s. Bob Gregson is a young lad who works as a porter at a rural railway station. He is keen to impress the stationmaster who is looking for a successor because he is about to retire. Having fallen in love with a teacher called Harriet Collins, Bob wants to raise money to save the local ..read more »
37%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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The Sins
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Caroline Hayes
Director: Sallie Aprahamian, Simon Curtis
Certificate:
Bank robber Len Green (Pete Postlethwaite) has just finished a four-and-a-half year stretch in prison and he's now determined to go straight. However, with a wife (Geraldine James) and four grown daughters to take care of, it's not going to be easy. Uncle Irwin (Frank Finlay) helps out by offering ..read more »
67%
from 44 members
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The Return of the Musketeers
(1989)
Starring: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay
Director: Richard Lester
Certificate:
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbot, and Athos, a brawler raising ..read more »
66%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Lifeforce
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Director: Tobe Hooper
Certificate: 
As Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE begins, American and British space travelers discover humanoids while exploring near Halley's Comet. The astronauts bring three of these aliens aboard their spaceship and head back to earth. However, their guests turn out to be evil vampires who kill all but one of the ..read more »
58%
from 1,887 member
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A Christmas Carol - Blu-ray
(1984)
Starring: George C. Scott, Frank Finlay, Susannah York
Director: Clive Donner
Certificate: 
A musical adaptation of the book by Charles Dickens about an old miser called 'Scrooge', who is visited by the ghosts of his old partners and the ghosts of 'Christmas Past, Present and Future', in the hope that he will change his ways.
67%
from 17 members
Not available for rental
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The Key
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Frank Finlay, Stefania Sandrelli, Barbara Cupisti
Director: Tinto Brass
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This erotic outing by Tinto Brass (CALIGULA) is based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Husband and wife Nino and Teresa attempt to revive their sex lives by each writing their most intimate fantasies in separate diaries. A series of resulting sexual adventures liberates them from their tired ..read more »
42%
from 1,192 member
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The Ploughman's Lunch
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Rosemary Harris
Director: Richard Eyre
Certificate:
A deceitful journalist tries every trick in the book to enable him to climb to the top in his career. In the midst of his plans he discovers that he has been the object of a deception far more clever than his own.
58%
from 31 members
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The Wild Geese - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Hardy Kruger
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Certificate:
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A British industrialist recruits a group of mercenaries to penetrate the African wilderness and rescue a deposed political leader awaiting execution at the hands of a military despot. While the prisoner is a man with noble visions of racial reform, the industrialist who's financing the operation ..read more »
68%
from 8 members
Due for release on 12th March 2012
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The Wild Geese
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Hardy Kruger
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Certificate:
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A British industrialist recruits a group of mercenaries to penetrate the African wilderness and rescue a deposed political leader awaiting execution at the hands of a military despot. While the prisoner is a man with noble visions of racial reform, the industrialist who's financing the operation ..read more »
69%
from 2,114 members
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Count Dracula
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Susan Penhaligon, Louis Jourdan, Jack Shepherd
Director: Philip Saville
Certificate:
Regarded as one of the best adaptations of the classic Bram Stoker tale, COUNT DRACULA benefits from a critically-acclaimed performance from Louis Jourdan as the title character. A cult classic from the seventies, the film faithfully recreates Stoker's characters and prose.
66%
from 345 members
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The Four Musketeers - Blu-ray
(1975)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch
Director: Richard Lester
Certificate: 
With D’Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king’s service, his army besieges
the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling
by the English before the city falls. He dispatches Milady de Winter to London
with orders to assassinate Buckingham if necessary. But she ..read more »
66%
from 60 members
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The Four Musketeers
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch
Director: Richard Lester
Certificate:
With D’Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king’s service, his army besieges
the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling
by the English before the city falls. He dispatches Milady de Winter to London
with orders to assassinate Buckingham if necessary. But she ..read more »
69%
from 1,297 member
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The Three Musketeers
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain
Director: Richard Lester
Certificate:
From Director Richard Lester and featuring a stellar cast including Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch and Christopher Lee, The Three Musketeers is a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel with belly laughs a-plenty and endless swashbuckling.In 17th Century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D’..read more »
69%
from 1,612 member
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Casanova
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Frank Finlay, Norman Rossington, Christine Noonan
Director: Mark Cullingham, John Glenister
Certificate:
Dennis Potter's first adaptation, CASANOVA is a six part TV series, loosely based on the 18th century hedonist's own memoirs. Frank Finlay plays the eponymous lover of lasciviousness, newly escaped from his Venetian prison. Charting the egomaniac's umpteen erotic encounters with heaving busomed ..read more »
53%
from 306 members
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Assault
(1971)
Starring: Suzy Kendal, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones
Director: Sidney Hayers
Certificate:
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After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of the local papers, and against the wishes of a psychologist at the local hospital, a young ..read more »
54%
from 55 members
Not available for rental
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Gumshoe
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Fulton MacKay
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate:
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Private eye Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) thinks he's Bogart -- if Bogie was a compere at a Merseyside bingo -- but his latest case may have bamboozled even Raymond Chandler himself. Accompanied by a mesmerising Andrew Lloyd Webber score, Frears' post-modern dismantling of the American detective ..read more »
63%
from 221 members
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Cromwell
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, Stratford Johns
Director: Ken Hughes
Certificate:
Following the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) to power as Lord Protector and in the process was central to bringing King Charles I to trial and exectution. In doing so, Cromwell laid the seeds for the more democratic Great Britain of today. This amazing story is told in an epic and lavish ..read more »
67%
from 1,393 member
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The Molly Maguires
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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This grim historical drama from director Martin Ritt was loosely based on real-life events. Richard Harris stars as James McParlan, an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1876. The Pinkertons have been hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist ..read more »
62%
from 315 members
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Inspector Clouseau
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Patrick Cargill
Director: Bud Yorkin
Certificate:
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Part of the Pink Panther collection in which Alan Arkin plays the part of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau who is sent to London to try to investigate the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery.
50%
from 149 members
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Robbery
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth
Director: Peter Yates
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Inspired by true events (the great train robbery of 1963) Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Paul Clifton has assembled a team of highly skilled thieves and plans a daring heist with intricate precision. Although a preliminary robbery to raise funds ..read more »
68%
from 376 members
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Othello - Laurence Olivier
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Robert Lang
Director: Stuart Burge
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Shakespeare's tragic story of how a great man's vanity is manipulated by a jealous aide to bring about his downfall. A film by Stuart Burge of John Dexter's production of 'Othello' at the National Theatre. This famous production stars Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith.
60%
from 288 members
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Frank Finlay facts
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... friendship, honour and betrayal. With a cast like Ollie Reed, Charlton Heston, Frank Finlay and Raquel Welch you can't go wrong. BTW, the remakes are uniformly AWFUL....
