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Joss Ackland
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Joss Ackland - what members say
review by from London, England
'Right!' said Fred. 'You're nicked...' 20 May 2005
review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
superb......... 21 May 2007
review by A customer from Pershore
Flawless by name and nature 12 May 2010
Joss Ackland - filmography
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How About You...
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Joss Ackland, Hayley Atwell, Orla Brady
Director: Anthony Byrne
Certificate: 
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Ellie is left in charge of an elderly residential home, and while most of the residents have left to spend Christmas with their families, four residents known as 'The Hard Core' remain. The Hard Core have become impossible to live with. In fact, their rude and objectionable behaviour is so terrible ..read more »
 
68%
from 653 members
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Flawless
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Constantine Gregory
Director: Michael Radford
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A crime/drama set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
63%
from 6,012 members
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Asylum
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Hugh Bonneville
Director: David Mackenzie
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Set in late-1950s England, David Mackenzie's ASYLUM is a Gothic romance filled with erotic obsession, deception, and murder.
Natasha Richardson gives a bravura performance as Stella Raphael, an unhappy woman who is forced to move with her son, Charlie (Gus Lewis), to rural Yorkshire when her ..read more »
52%
from 5,866 members
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I'll Be There
(2003)
Starring: Charlotte Church, Craig Ferguson, Jemma Redgrave
Director: Craig Ferguson
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New York-based Maxi dela Cerna is an up and coming fashion designer who has been sponsored to open up her own boutique. Her recently deceased mother left her with a piece of land in the province, part of the property she shared with her estranged father, Poch, and Maxi hopes to sell the land pay ..read more »
55%
from 466 members
Not currently released
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K-19: The Widowmaker
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Joss Ackland
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Inspired by a true story that was kept secret until the fall of communism, K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER is a tale of ordinary men who sacrifice everything for their shipmates and their country. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, an ill-prepared Russian nuclear missile submarine embarks on its maiden ..read more »
62%
from 7,983 members
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No Good Deed
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Bob Rafelson
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While pursuing a runaway teenager, cop Jack (Samuel L. Jackson) stumbles across a gang of crooks trying to pull off a heist. When they are alerted to his presence, Jack is taken hostage, and left in the custody of Erin (Milla Jovovich), the gang leader's girlfriend. While they are left alone, Jack ..read more »
47%
from 4,212 members
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Milk
(1999)
Starring: Dawn French, James Fleet, Phyllida Law
Director: William Brookfield
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This British comedy, written and directed by William Brookfield, stars James Fleet as the middle-aged mama's boy who has just lost his mother. This seemingly tragic event actually leads to good things for the man, whose country neighbors and friends have lots of plans for how he can use his time in ..read more »
51%
from 194 members
Not currently released
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The Happy Birthday
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Joss Ackland, Lynda Bellingham, Johnny Morris
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A collection of seven animated films - each with a different birthday theme.'Badger's Bring - Something Party' 'It's My Birthday' 'The Trouble With Jack' 'How Many Days To My Birthday?' 'Elephant Pie' ' Bear's Birthday' 'Surprise! Surprise!'
41%
from 6 members
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Diana - The People's Princess
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Trevor McDonald, Joss Ackland
Director: Andy Stevenson
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A warm and sensitive portrait of Lady Di, spotlighting her involvement in different charitable causes worldwide, as well as her winning smile and loving motherhood. The DVD includes two programmes, 'The People's Princess' narrated by Trevor McDonald and 'Her Life', narrated by Joss Ackland.
61%
from 124 members
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Amy Foster
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen
Director: Beeban Kidron
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The intolerant inhabitants of a seaside town ostracize an introverted young woman, branded a simpleton because of her refusal to relate to uncaring townsfolk, and her lover, a shipwrecked, unkempt Ukrainian man, considered to be equally dim. When the two misfits marry and have a son, the ..read more »
57%
from 469 members
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D3 - The Mighty Ducks
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Jeffrey Nordling, Heidi Kling
Director: Robert Lieberman
Certificate: 
The Ducks get scholarships to a snooty prep school, and now they've got to prove themselves to their fellow students and their new coach. Off-ice pranks give way to on-ice action in this final entry in the against-all-odds hockey saga.
68%
from 2,437 members
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Deadly Voyage
(1996)
Starring: Omar Epps, Joss Ackland
Director: John Mackenzie
Certificate: 
A group of stowaways on a ship bound for America are discovered by the Russian crew and taken prisoner by the ship's alcoholic captain. Not wanting to risk his career for stowaways, the captain orders his prisoners killed one by one, and when one threatens the diabolical plan by escaping, the ..read more »
54%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Mighty Ducks Are The Champions
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith
Director: Stephen Herek
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Screen favourite Emilio Estevez stars in the hilarious comedy hit, The Mighty Ducks are the Champions! Aggressive trial lawyer Gordon Bombay (Estevez) has never lost a case. But when he's sentenced to a community service assignment, he must coach a ragtag team of Pee Wee Hockey players who can't ..read more »
71%
from 2,785 members
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Shakespeare - Animated
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Felicity Kendal, Alun Armstrong, Joss Ackland
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Features twelve animated adaptations of some of Shakespeare's finest plays. Includes 'Macbeth', 'Hamlet', 'Romeo And Juliet', 'Othello', 'Twelfth Night', 'As You Like It', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'The Taming Of The Shrew', 'A Winter's Tale', 'Richard III', 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Tempest'.
61%
from 323 members
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Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Alex Winter
Director: Peter Hewitt
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After miraculously graduating San Dimas high school, Bill and Ted are preparing for a battle of the bands. But somewhere in the future the evil De Nomolos creates identical Bill and Ted robots to kill the originals, take their place and lose the contest. Bill and Ted must dodge Death and fulfill ..read more »
69%
from 9,088 members
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A Murder Of Quality
(1991)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson
Director: Gavin Millar
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The British class system is under fire in this adaptation of John Le Carre's novel. One-time spy master George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) is called in to investigate the murder of Stella Strode, a schoolteacher's wife at a public school. She had predicted her own death in a letter to a friend. ..read more »
58%
from 566 members
Currently unavailable
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Jekyll And Hyde
(1990)
Starring: Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland
Director: David Wickes
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Henry Jekyll has lost his wife to pneumonia but finds solace in the arms of his sister-in-law. But her father forbids any contact. However when Jekyll's experiments result in a personality splitting drug he finds he can do as he wishes when he is "Mr Hyde". But it isn't long before he begins to ..read more »
58%
from 19 members
Currently unavailable
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Lethal Weapon 2
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Joe Pesci, Derrick O'Connor, Mark Rolston
Director: Richard Donner
Certificate: 
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In Richard Donner's sequel to LETHAL WEAPON, Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is still the family man. Riggs (Mel Gibson) is still the daredevil, but now he counts the odds before bucking them. This time, the two cops must protect Leo Getz (Joe Pesci), an accountant who has laundered a half billion dollars ..read more »
70%
from 21,123 members
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Codename - Kyril - Complete
(1988)
Starring: Ian Charleson, Joss Ackland, Richard E. Grant
Director: Ian Sharp
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Among an illustrious cast that includes Joss Ackland, Peter Vaughan, Richard E. Grant and Denholm Elliott, Edward Woodward (Callan) stars opposite Ian Charleson (Chariots of Fire) in a taut and skilfully plotted Cold War thriller.
Thought to be one of the last great made-for television spy series, ..read more »
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Man Who Lived At The Ritz
(1988)
Starring: Perry King, Cherie Lunghi, David McCallum
Director: Desmond Davis
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This is an intruiging film about an American art student (Perry King) who visits Paris and stays at the Hotel Ritz during a critical moment in World War II. As Germans take greater hold of France, the American suddenly finds himself living amongst a sea of Nazis at the hotel and enmeshed in their ..read more »
40%
from 50 members
Currently unavailable
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The Sicilian
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Joss Ackland, Terence Stamp
Director: Michael Cimino
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Christopher Lambert stars in an operatic biography of the violent outlaw folk hero Salvatore Giuliano. A bandit, a patriot, and a real-life Robin Hood, Giuliano was the infamous bandit who, together with his ragtag band of guerrillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule. Cimino ..read more »
47%
from 317 members
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White Mischief
on DVD
(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 »
64%
from 311 members
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Lady Jane
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jane Lapotaire, John Wood, Patrick Stewart
Director: Trevor Nunn
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Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane Grey's sickly cousin, who becomes Edward VI upon the death of Henry VIII, is on the threshold of death himself. The Protestant powers-that-be, ..read more »
66%
from 1,489 member
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Shadowlands
(1985)
Starring: Claire Bloom, Alan MacNaughton, David Waller
Director: Norman Stone
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The original BBC production of this dramatic film which enters the private world of the legendary C.S. Lewis and tells the poignant, tragic story of his relationship with Joy Davidman, an American poet. Winner of two British Academy Awards and an international Emmy.
68%
from 17 members
Currently unavailable
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A Zed and Two Noughts
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway, Peter Greena
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The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. This tale concerns twin zoologist brothers whose wives are killed in a freak car crash involving a rare swan. The brothers form an unusual and strangely close relationship with Alba, the woman who was driving the ..read more »
62%
from 1,556 member
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A Zed And Two Noughts - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway
Certificate:
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The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. This tale concerns twin zoologist brothers whose wives are killed in a freak car crash involving a rare swan. The brothers form an unusual and strangely close relationship with Alba, the woman who was driving the ..read more »
57%
from 12 members
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Coriolanus
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Alan Howard, Joss Ackland, Irene Worth
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Caius Marcus ..read more »
61%
from 135 members
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The Little Prince
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse
Director: Stanley Donen
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Based on the children's fantasy by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and embraced by the soaring music of Lerner and Loewe, the musical story of a pilot's crash in the Sahara Desert and his encounter with a strange little boy receives the glowing attention to detail, colour, and charm that a film adaptation ..read more »
57%
from 264 members
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S*P*Y*S
(1974)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou
Director: Irvin Kershner
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In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in this lightweight spy spoof, directed by Irvin Kershner. Gould and ..read more »
40%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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The Three Musketeers
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain
Director: Richard Lester
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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 1,639 member
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The Mind Snatchers
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Ronny Cox, Claus Nissen
Director: Bernard Girard
Certificate:
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Private James Reece is chosen for a pioneering brain operation by the US Army designed to remove aggressive behaviour. But things don't go exactly to plan... Based on the play 'The Happiness Cage' by Dennis Reardon.
42%
from 75 members
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Mr Forbush And The Penguins
(1971)
Starring: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton
Director: Al Viola
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JOHN HURT stars as Richard Forbush, biologist and womaniser who outlook on life is changed when he is sent to Antarctica to study the penguins. Alone apart from a radio telephone link and thousands of birds, Forbush has to battle to survive when a blizzard hits hard.
59%
from 186 members
Currently unavailable
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Crescendo
(1970)
Starring: Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott
Director: Alan Gibson
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In this horror film, an American graduate student travels to southern France to research her thesis. She is writing about a famed composer who recently died. She stays with his widow and his son, a disabled drug-addict. She becomes more involved in the family than she wanted after she finds the ..read more »
65%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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...or provides the key to the whole mystery as a medically retired police officer, Joss Ackland is suitably terrifying as Davies' boss and Bernard 'M' Lee (probably giving his...
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