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Joss Ackland
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Joss Ackland - filmography
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How About You
(2007)
Starring: Joss Ackland, Hayley Atwell, Orla Brady
Director: Anthony Byrne
Certificate: 
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 behavior is so terrible ..read more »
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80%
from 5 members
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Flawless
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Constantine Gregory
Director: Michael Radford
Certificate: 
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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.
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62%
from 3,556 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 »
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51%
from 5,397 members
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I'll Be There
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Charlotte Church, Craig Ferguson, Jemma Redgrave
Director: Craig Ferguson
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Angel-voiced singer Charlotte Church stars in I'LL BE THERE, her film debut. Paul Kerr (Craig Ferguson, who also directs) is a dejected and ageing rock star who discovers he has a talented teenage daughter (Church) by an adoring fan (Jemma Redgrave). His newfound daughter hopes she can reunite her ..read more »
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55%
from 445 members
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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 »
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61%
from 7,237 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 »
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47%
from 3,956 members
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Milk
on DVD
(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 »
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49%
from 156 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.
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60%
from 113 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 »
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56%
from 385 members
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D3 - The Mighty Ducks
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Jeffrey Nordling, Heidi Kling
Director: Robert Lieberman
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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.
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67%
from 2,077 members
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Deadly Voyage
(1996)
Starring: Omar Epps, Joss Ackland
Director: John Mackenzie
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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 »
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53%
from 10 members
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Bible, The - Jacob
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sean Bean
Director: Peter Hall
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Based on the biblical story of Jacob who betrayed his brother Esau after battling him for his father's affections, then toiled long in penance before receiving God's grace and forgiveness.
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62%
from 384 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'.
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61%
from 274 members
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Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Joss Ackland
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 »
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68%
from 7,902 members
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A Murder Of Quality
on DVD
(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 »
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57%
from 534 members
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Lethal Weapon 2
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joss Ackland
Director: Richard Donner
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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 »
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69%
from 18,329 members
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Man Who Lived At The Ritz
on DVD
(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 »
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38%
from 43 members
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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 »
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46%
from 271 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 62 members
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Lady Jane
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jane Lapotaire, John Wood, Patrick Stewart
Director: Trevor Nunn
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After the death of King Henry VIII and his young son and heir Edward VI, Henry's 15-year-old great-niece, Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), is chosen to rule by a group of palace conspirators who vow to keep the country Protestant and out of the hands of the Church of Rome. She is crowned, ..read more »
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65%
from 1,006 member
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A Zed And Two Noughts
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway
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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 »
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62%
from 1,293 member
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The Little Prince
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Bob Fosse, Joss Ackland
Director: Stanley Donen
Certificate: 
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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 »
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55%
from 131 members
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The Three Musketeers
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain
Director: Richard Lester
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Richard Lester's rendition of Alexandre Dumas' classic swashbuckling adventure is a tongue-in-cheek comedy that thumbs its nose at its more serious predecessors. Having divided the story into two separate films, Lester manages to capture some of the more intricate details of book.The first film ..read more »
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69%
from 1,324 member
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The Mind Snatchers
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Ronny Cox, Claus Nissen
Director: Bernard Girard
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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.
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38%
from 62 members
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Mr Forbush And The Penguins
on DVD
(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.
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58%
from 165 members
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Villain
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Action thriller which centres around a vicious East End gangster, who loves his mother, beats up his boyfriend and has a ruthless contempt for society and his fellow men.
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65%
from 348 members
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Shadowlands
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.
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68%
from 8 members
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Coriolanus
on DVD
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 »
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60%
from 84 members
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Jekyll And Hyde
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 »
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53%
from 11 members
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The Happy Birthday
on DVD
Starring: Joss Ackland, Lynda Bellingham, Bernard Cribbins
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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!'
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40%
from 5 members
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K19 The Widowmaker
to Watch Now
(2002)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 138 minutes
Inspired by a true story, "K-19: The Widowmaker" follows Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) who, at the height of the Cold War, is ordered to take over command of the nuclear missile submarine K-19, pride of the Soviet Navy. His assignment: prepare the K-19 for sea and take her out on patrol -..read more »
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65%
from 44 members
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Lady Jane
to Watch Now
(1985)
Starring: Jane Lapotaire, John Wood, Patrick Stewart
Director: Trevor Nunn
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 136 minutes
After the death of King Henry VIII and his young son and heir Edward VI, Henry's 15-year-old great-niece, Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), is chosen to rule by a group of palace conspirators who vow to keep the country Protestant and out of the hands of the Church of Rome. She is crowned, ..read more »
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78%
from 5 members
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A Zed And Two Noughts
to Watch Now
(1985)
Starring: Geoffrey Palmer, Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway
Certificate: 
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Run time: 112 minutes
Two women passengers die in a car crash as a result of which the female driver has a leg amputated. The zoologist twin husbands of the dead women are fascinated by the processes of decay, start an affair with the amputee and liberate animals from a zoo. This provocative, funny and stylish film is ..read more »
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77%
from 7 members
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The Little Prince
to Watch Now
(1974)
Starring: Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse
Director: Stanley Donen
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 88 minutes
From Asteroid B-612... into our hearts. Antoine de Saint-Exupery's slender, beloved classic of innocence and discovery comes to the screen with its feet firmly on the Saharan sand, its eyes tilted to the stars and its spirit brightly soaring to the songs of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe (My ..read more »
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Joss Ackland facts
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'Right!' said Fred. 'You're nicked...' 20 May 2005
...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...
superb......... 21 May 2007
