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Ian Holm
Born in 1931, Ian Holm started his acting career on the stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company before moving into TV and Film.
Ian's acting skills came to prominence in 1979 when he starred as Ash in sci fi thriller / horror " Alien" alongside Sigourney Weaver.
He was Oscar nominated for his supporting role as coach in Chariots Of Fire.
Ian will probably be remembered most for playing Bilboa Baggins in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
in other roles he has starred as Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, Jack the Ripper in " From Hell" alongside Johnny Depp. He also starred in other filems such as Time Bandits, Greystoke - The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes and Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Also he has lent his voice to many animated films including Animal Farm, Miracle Maker and more recently Ratatouille
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Ratatouille - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Brad Garrett, Ian Holm
Director: Brad Bird
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A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, ..read more »

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Ratatouille
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Brad Garrett, Ian Holm
Director: Brad Bird
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A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, ..read more »

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from 81,256 members
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O Jerusalem
(2006)
Starring: JJ Feild, Said Taghmaoui, Maria Papas
Director: Elie Chouraqui
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"O Jerusalem" meticulously re-creates the historic struggle surrounding the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. At the center of these events are two young, American friends - one Jewish, the other Arab. The film is told from the alternating viewpoints of the Jews, Arabs and Brits, all of ..read more »

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The Treatment
(2006)
Starring: Chris Eigeman, Ian Holm, Famke Janssen
Director: Oren Rudavsky
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Jake Singer is an anxious young schoolteacher in New York - barely on speaking terms with his father, recently abandoned by his girlfriend, and heading for a life of compromise and mediocrity. Emotionally paralyzed by his mothers death, he embarks on a course of psychoanalysis with a maniacal ..read more »

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Lord of War
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ian Holm, Sammi Rotibi, Eamonn Walker
Director: Andrew Niccol
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Based on actual events, this black comedy-drama stars Nicholas Cage as international arms smuggler Uri Orlov. The story follows Uri from his humble beginnings as a Soviet immigrant in 1970s Brooklyn and peaks with his involvement in selling off the stockpiled arsenal of post-Cold War Ukraine to ..read more »

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Lord of War - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Ian Holm, Sammi Rotibi, Eamonn Walker
Director: Andrew Niccol
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Based on actual events, this black comedy-drama stars Nicholas Cage as international arms smuggler Uri Orlov. The story follows Uri from his humble beginnings as a Soviet immigrant in 1970s Brooklyn and peaks with his involvement in selling off the stockpiled arsenal of post-Cold War Ukraine to ..read more »

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Garden State - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Zach Braff
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Aspiring actor living in Los Angles, Andrew "Large" Largeman (Braff) has managed to avoid a visit to his hometown in New Jersey and the inevitable confrontation with his father. But as he reconnects with the place once he returns, a twist of fate introduces him to Sam (Portman), a quirky young ..read more »

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from 291 members
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The Aviator
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR is a lavish spectacle of a motion picture that harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era in telling the story of Howard Hughes, one of 20th-century America's most pioneering and influential figures. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric billionaire, Scorsese's biopic ..read more »

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The Day After Tomorrow
(2004)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
Director: Roland Emmerich
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Scientists talk about the planet being threatened by a possible climatological disaster. In this big budget feature the threat becomes a reality in quick time. The planet's oceans become cooler sparking deadly storms. A new ice age begins.

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Garden State
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Zach Braff
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Aspiring actor living in Los Angles, Andrew "Large" Largeman (Braff) has managed to avoid a visit to his hometown in New Jersey and the inevitable confrontation with his father. But as he reconnects with the place once he returns, a twist of fate introduces him to Sam (Portman), a quirky young ..read more »

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Prisoner of Paradise
(2003)
Starring: Ian Holm
Director: Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
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A chronicle of the true story of Kurt Gerron, a well known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920's and '30's. Among his greatest accomplishments, he co-starred with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the film classic, "The Blue Angel." He also sang "Mack ..read more »

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From Hell - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Director: Albert Hughes
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FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this ..read more »

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From Hell
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Susan Lynch, Paul Rhys
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
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FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this ..read more »

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from 15,740 members
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The Emperor's New Clothes
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny
Director: Alan Taylor
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THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES recasts history in 19th Century France. Based on the novel by Simon Leys, The Death of Napoleon, the film supposes that Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile in St. Helena and returned to Paris in 1821, whereas the history books say he died that year. With imaginative ..read more »

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from 195 members
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Miracle Maker
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: James Frain, Richard E. Grant, Ian Holm
Director: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
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A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A ..read more »

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Joe Gould's Secret
(2000)
Starring: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis
Director: Stanley Tucci
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Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with ..read more »

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Beautiful Joe
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Billy Connolly, Ian Holm, Gil Bellows
Director: Stephen Metcalfe
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Having left the Big Apple after a string of startling personal revelations, Joe (Billy Connolly) washes up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he happens upon a sultry ex-stripper named Hush (Sharon Stone) who is in serious debt to local crime czar George the Geek. Soon enough, Joe's fallen in love, and ..read more »

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Last Of The Blonde Bombshells
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Elizabeth, the youngest of The Blonde Bombshells, recalls her days during the Second World War when the group entertained the nation. When she meets up with Patrick, the only male member of the group, she has the idea on reforming the band to play together again for one last time.

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Bless The Child
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Holliston Coleman
Director: Charles Russell
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Maggie O'Connor (Kim Basinger) is an ordinary single woman whose life is turned upside down by the sudden appearance of her long-lost sister Jenna, a drug addict who drops off her newborn daughter and disappears again. Maggie adopts the girl, Cody, as her own and raises her, forming a close mother-..read more »

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Animal Farm
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Julia Ormond, Peter Ustinov
Director: John Stephenson
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British production of George Orwell's revolutionary novel, where animals (workers) take over their farm (means of production) and form a society. An esteemed cast of actors voice the convincing animatronic animals, which, BABE-style, were created by the Jim Henson Creature Shop. Director Stephenson ..read more »

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Existenz
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Kristopher Lemche
Director: David Cronenberg
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Set in the near-future, eXistenZ depicts a society in which game designers are worshipped as superstars and players can organically enter inside the games. At the center of the story is Allegra Geller whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users fears and desires that it blurs ..read more »

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The Match
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Max Beesley, Ian Holm
Director: Mick Davis
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A romantic comedy which follows Wullie Smith and his love for Rosemary Bailey. To win her over he must help a team of misfits win their yearly football match against an opposing pub team.

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The Fifth Element
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich
Director: Luc Besson
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Good and evil battle for the future of 23rd century Earth in this visually striking big-budget science fiction epic. In the movie's prologue, which is set in 1914, scientists gather in Egypt at the site of an event that transpired centuries earlier. Aliens, it seemed, arrived to collect four stones ..read more »

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The Sweet Hereafter
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood, David Hemblen
Director: Atom Egoyan
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A small Canadian town is torn apart by the appearance of an ambulance-chasing lawyer after a tragic accident involving a school bus killed many of the town's children. One key witness, however, eludes the troubled attorney: a gifted young woman confined by the tragedy to a wheelchair for the rest ..read more »

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The Fifth Element - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich
Director: Luc Besson
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A visual feast combining ancient mysticism, cyberpunk sensibilities, flamboyant entertainment personalities, and gun-toting alien mercenaries. In the 23rd century, Korben Dallas, an ex-special forces agent who now practices as a down-and-out cabbie, finds himself caught in a struggle to defy a ..read more »

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A Life Less Ordinary
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Maury Chaykin, Dan Hedaya, Judith Ivey
Director: Danny Boyle
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Petulant, rich honeypie Celine and scruffily adorable janitor Robert find themselves on the road to romance after he kidnaps her to avenge his termination at the hands of her callous father. But what they don't realize is that their love is celestially predetermined, as a pair of gun-toting angels ..read more »

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Night Falls On Manhattan
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley. When a carefully-planned bust of drug dealer Jordan Washington (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) goes sour, a shootout between Washington and officers from three precincts ..read more »

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Big Night
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini
Director: Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
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In this witty drama, a pair of brothers debate integrity versus compromise as they try to succeed in the restaurant business. Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci) have journeyed from Italy to New Jersey in the mid-1950s, determined to make a killing with an authentic Italian restaurant,..read more »

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his actions. He succeeds in his quest to create a man, but his creature (Robert De Niro) is both revolting and ..read more »

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Hour of the Pig
(1993)
Starring: Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Peasence
Director: Leslie Megahey
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In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a ..read more »

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Beatrix Potter - Complete
(1993)
Starring: Ian Holm, Hugh Laurie, Felicity Kendal
Director: Roger Mainwood, Geoff Dunbar
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Nine complete Beatrix Potter features in this animated collection of classic children's stories. The set includes THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT AND BENJAMIN BUNNY, THE TALE OF MR. TOD, THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES AND MRS. TITTLEMOUSE, THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND, THE TALE OF SAMUEL WHISKERS OR THE ROLY-..read more »

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The Borrowers - Series 1
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard
Director: John Henderson
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The first series of the splendid BBC adaptation of Mary Norton's novel. This wonderfully believable adaptation stars Ian Holm as Pod and Penelope Wilton as his wife Homily. They are 6 inches high humans, who live like mice in the nooks and crannies of a house with their equally tiny daughter ..read more »

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Kafka
(1991)
Starring: Theresa Russell, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Irons
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he ..read more »

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Naked Lunch
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Judy Davis
Director: David Cronenberg
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From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical account of ..read more »

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Hamlet
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father ..read more »

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Another Woman
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, John Houseman
Director: Woody Allen
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A university professor, Marion Post is experiencing a type of midlife crisis, so she rents an apartment in order to write a book. The apartment is next to a psychiatrist's office, and she inadvertently hears what transpires between the doctor and some of her patients. She becomes obsessed with the ..read more »

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Brazil - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »

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Dance With A Stranger
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
Director: Mike Newell
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The moving true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Great Britain. The last man executed in that country was later found to be innocent, a regrettable (to say the least) incident which led to the abandonment of the practice.

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Wetherby
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench
Director: David Hare
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A lonely Yorkshire schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave), hosts a dinner party for her friends at her cottage in Wetherby. A stranger, John Morgan (Tim McInnerny), arrives at the party with Marcia and Stanley Pilborough (Judi Dench and Ian Holm). Unexpectedly, he returns the next day and ..read more »

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Brazil
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »

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Chariots Of Fire - Blu-ray
(1981)
Starring: Ben Cross, Cheryl Campbell, Ian Charleson
Director: Hugh Hudson
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Director Hugh Hudson's absorbing drama, based on a true story, deals with the personal struggles faced by two very different long-distance runners competing for Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) is a devout Christian who sees victory as a testament to the glory ..read more »

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Chariots Of Fire
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Ben Cross, Cheryl Campbell, Ian Charleson
Director: Hugh Hudson
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Director Hugh Hudson's absorbing drama, based on a true story, deals with the personal struggles faced by two very different long-distance runners competing for Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) is a devout Christian who sees victory as a testament to the glory ..read more »

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Time Bandits - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Born from the brilliant minds of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam and
Michael Palin, Time Bandits is a British masterstroke in fantasy
adventure. When a young boy's wardrobe shapeshifts into the gateway of
another world, he finds himself embroiled in a series of eccentric
encounters with famous ..read more »

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Time Bandits
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Plunging headfirst into history, director Terry Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children's fairy tales to bear as he navigates through myth and legend in a bizarre, ingenious retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ. A boy and six good-natured little persons careen through time-twisting interactions ..read more »

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SOS Titanic
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Susan Saint James
Director: William Hale
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April 15th 1912 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in history, the day the Titantic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Of the 2, 206 passengers and crew only 703 survived that fateful journey and this is their story. Based on eyewitness accounts S.O.S Titanic is one ..read more »

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Alien - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »

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Alien
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »

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All Quiet on the Western Front
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Director: Delbert Mann
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In 1914 a group of fresh-faced and idealistic German schoolboys are goaded by their chauvinistic schoolmaster to troop off to the 'Glorious War'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up, however, their disenchantment begins during the brutal basic training. Later, as they board the train ..read more »

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March Or Die
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Max von Sydow
Director: Dick Richards
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Expelled from West Point, a man enlists in the French Foreign Legion and commands a motley crew of men assigned to protect an archaeological expedition. Things don't go as planned. Filmed in the Sahara Desert and starring Gene Hackman.

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Robin And Marian
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw
Director: Richard Lester
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This romantic epic takes a bittersweet look at Robin Hood and Maid Marian in their later years. After King Richard's death in the Holy Land, Robin Hood (Sean Connery) and his trusty companion Little John finally return home to England. Despite his two-decade absence, Robin immediately determines to ..read more »

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Shout At The Devil
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins
Director: Peter R. Hunt
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Two self-styled African empire builders (Lee Marvin and Roger Moore) set out to annex a large part of the German territory in WWI Africa. After one of them (Moore) falls in love with the other's daughter (Barbara Parkins), all three set out on a dangerous quest for glory and revenge.

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The Homecoming
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston
Director: Peter Hall
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Possibly the best of the universally excellent films produced by the American Film Theatre, producer Ely Landau's programme that allowed moviegoers to subscribe to film versions of classic plays, Peter Hall's THE HOMECOMING is a magnificent adaptation of Harold Pinter's play. In it, a successful ..read more »

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Mary Queen Of Scots
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Glenda Jackson, Ian Holm
Director: Charles Jarrott
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Political intrigue, strong women, weak men, and countless conspiracies fuel this beautifully staged--though not completely accurate--historical drama about the life of 'Fiery' Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (Vanessa Redgrave). In the wake of the Protestant Reformation, Mary Stuart becomes enmeshed in ..read more »

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A Severed Head
(1970)
Starring: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm
Director: Dick Clement
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Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin ..read more »

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The Last Dragon
on DVD
Starring: Ian Holm
Director: Justin Hardy
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Fantasy becomes reality in this two hour special that imagines what the world would have been like if these incredible fire-breathing creatures actually did exist. Through vivid dramatic re-creations, stunning computer animation and life-like models of internal organs, viewers will get to see the ..read more »

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The Borrowers - Series 2
on DVD
Starring: Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton
Director: John Henderson
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The second series of the television series which follows The Borrowers, a family of tiny people who live under the stairs in an old house populated by the larger version of the human being. One day a tiny member of the family befriends a member of the 'bigger' household... Based on the novel by ..read more »

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King Lear
Starring: Ian Holm, Amanda Redman, Barbara Flynn
Director: Richard Eyre
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Adapted from the acclaimed 1997 production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ian Holm stars as the tragic monarch, King Lear, wise, headstrong but blind to his weaknesses. Richard Eyre directs.

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