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Greta Scacchi
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Greta Scacchi - filmography
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Miss Austen Regrets
on DVD (2008)
Starring: Jack Huston, Pip Torrens, Olivia Williams
Director: Jeremy Lovering
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A passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries. As Jane Austen approaches her forties, her success as a writer is assured and her witty and sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. To her niece, Fanny ..read more »
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67%
from 750 members
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Shoot On Sight
(2007)
Starring: Clemency Burton-Hill, Brian Cox, Taru Devani
Director: Jag Mundhra
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"Shoot On Sight" is a gripping thriller and riveting family drama that unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Pakistan, married to an English woman, and with two kids, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a ..read more »
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46%
from 20 members
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Broken Trail
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi
Director: Walter Hill
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Set in 1898, Print Ritter (Robert Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls (introducing Caroline Chan, Olivia Cheng, Jadyn Wong, Valerie Tian, and Gwendoline Yeo). Ritter and Harte's attempts to care ..read more »
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69%
from 2,035 members
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The Book of Revelation
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels
Director: Ana Kokkinos
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Book Of Revelation is a story of sex, betrayal, and obsession. Daniel (Tom Long) is a successful dancer and, along with his partner and lover Bridget (Anna Torv), the toast of the dance world. But Tom is arrogant, and his ego is often his biggest stumbling block to greatness, or so claims his long ..read more »
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37%
from 857 members
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Looking For Alibrandi
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi, Anthony La Paglia
Director: Kate Woods
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A teenage Australian girl deals with the traumas of everyday life. These include her difficult relationship with her single mother, the unexpected return of her long-lost father, the disapproving nuns at her strict Catholic school, the acceptance of her schoolmates,and romantic dilemmas over two ..read more »
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60%
from 124 members
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The Manor
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Gabrielle Anwar, Peter O'Toole
Director: Kenneth Burns
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A wickedly funny and intelligent comedy of manners, where lies and deception rule.
An investigator (Martin Dejdar) searches for the truth of two dead men in an old manor run by an overbearing woman (Greta Scachhi) and finds out quickly that he's caught in a web of lies and deceit. Everyone is a ..read more »
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42%
from 31 members
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Tom's Midnight Garden
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Nigel Le Vaillant, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby
Director: Willard Carroll
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While staying with his aunt and uncle, young Tom Long (Anthony Way) discovers he can enter a magical garden when the grandfather clock strikes midnight. Tom is joined by a girl named Hatty (Florence Hoath) on his adventures in the garden. The film also stars Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, and Joan ..read more »
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68%
from 166 members
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The Red Violin
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi
Director: Francois Girard
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Following the unusual journey of an original and unique violin (painted red with the blood of his beloved and deceased wife), as it survives three centuries to a present-day auction in Montreal. The violin weaves a Svengali over all those who play it and becomes the subject of passion, deception ..read more »
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73%
from 359 members
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The Odyssey
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
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This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic--complete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat--chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus the King Of Ithaca, after the ten year Trojan war.
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67%
from 131 members
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The Serpent's Kiss
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard E. Grant
Director: Philippe Rousselot
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The young Dutch artist Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) has been summoned to a secluded country estate where the wealthy Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) has commissioned an extravagant garden to be created. The instructions for its creation come from the evil Fitzmaurice (Richard E. Grant), whose ..read more »
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53%
from 103 members
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Emma
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath's film is an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), a well-to-do young woman whose kindhearted attempts at matchmaking mask her own lack of romantic attachment. She takes it upon herself to find the perfect man for her friend ..read more »
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70%
from 2,191 members
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Jefferson In Paris
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandie Newton
Director: James Ivory
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Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
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51%
from 191 members
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The Browning Version
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Greta Scacchi
Director: Mike Figgis
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Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher of Greek and Latin at a private school, is dubbed the 'Hitler of the Lower Sixth' by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for classical literature. But as he is poised to leave the school--forced into ..read more »
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69%
from 140 members
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The Player
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating blend of real life and ..read more »
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71%
from 1,618 members
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Shattered
(1991)
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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A wealthy and powerful architect is left with a completely disfigured face and amnesia after his car plummets off a cliff. As he struggles to reconstruct his life, he experiences strange flashbacks of nightmarish and erotic memories that don't match the story he has been told.
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67%
from 12 members
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Presumed Innocent
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Greta Scacchi, Raul Julia
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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PRESUMED INNOCENT, like most of director Alan J. Pakula's films is also a complex character study. Based on a best-selling novel by Scott Turrow, the courtroom murder mystery tells the story of prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) who is accused of murdering his former mistress, the beautiful ..read more »
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67%
from 460 members
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White Mischief
(1987)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Radford
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If there was a paradise untouched by the war in the winter of 1940, it was Kenya's Happy Valley. There the tall, blond and impeccably groomed Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Errol, enjoyed a decadent life of pleasure with his fellow aristocrats.
Their's was a society in which adultery was routine and ..read more »
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60%
from 57 members
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Defence Of The Realm
(1985)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott
Director: David Drury
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DEFENCE OF THE REALM is a gripping thriller that stars Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, and Denholm Elliott. Nick Mullen (Byrne), a young reporter for a national daily newspaper, is beginning to drift into a cynical and bored routine when he suddenly stumbles across a political cover-up. With the aid ..read more »
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60%
from 331 members
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Heat And Dust
on DVD (1982)
Starring: Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor, Christopher Cazenove
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory's HEAT AND DUST tells two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule. In 1920s India, a young English bride, Olivia (Greta Scacchi), finds herself in a passionate, forbidden affair with the local Nawab (Shashi Kapoor). In the ..read more »
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64%
from 114 members
Greta Scacchi - downloads
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Defence of the Realm
for Download (1985)
Starring: Bill Paterson, Denholm Elliott, Fulton MacKay
Director: David Drury
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Run time: 96 minutes
A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government cover-up,Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and ..read more »
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75%
from 4 members
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Tiresome 24 July 2008
...f examination of the Hollywood system. As pleasing as she is to the eye I found Greta Scacchi's performance unconvincing & Tim Robbins was little better. The constant merry ...
Quiet, quality drama 28 February 2007
