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  • Bacall: 'Hollywood is a zoo' - 24 August 2009
    -Screen legend Lauren Bacall has hit out at the current state of Hollywood, insisting modern movie stars are only interested in fame.- -The How To Marry A Millionaire actress, who is considered part of Hollywood's golden age, blames tabloid culture for breeding an obse

Lauren Bacall - what members say


  • Key Largo
  • Key Largo review by A customer from Newcastle
    Rated - 5.0 stars Bogey gets a slap 9 July 2004
    ...ave as he confronts the gangsters headed by Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Rocco. Lauren Bacall plays the widow of Bogey's war time friend and the venerable Lionel Barrymore i...   Read customer review
  • The Big Sleep
  • The Big Sleep review by from Scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Who killed the Chauffeur? 3 January 2004
    ... - a tarnished knight getting paid $30 a day to deal in other peoples troubles. Lauren Bacall is the beautiful Catherine Sternwood, high living, hard drinking spoilt brat. ...   Read customer review
  • The Shootist
  • The Shootist review by from Lancashire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Wayne's finest 13 June 2005
    ...worth against him. The performances are uniformly excellent, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Harry Morgan. In the Documentary you are told that the original sc...   Read customer review

Lauren Bacall - filmography


  • The Forger (2012)
    Starring: Josh Hutcherson,  Hayden Panettiere,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Lawrence Roeck
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Teenager Joshua is abandoned after his drug addict mother goes on the run. He finds himself in the affluent community of Carmel, California. After finding himself in trouble, the authorities attempt to track down his mother. However, a successful local artist and businessman offers to take in ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 7 members
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  • Jack Cardiff - Cameraman on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jack Cardiff,  John Mills,  Thelma Schoonmaker
    Director: Craig McCall
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Craig McCall directs this documentary tribute to cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who died in April 2009. After working as a cameraman for Hitchcock and for Powell and Pressburger in the 1940s, Cardiff was asked by director Michael Powell to oversee the cinematography for the 1946 film 'A Matter of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 187 members
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  • Scooby Doo And The Goblin King on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Wallace Shawn,  Wayne Knight,  James Belushi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Feature-length animated adventure with Scooby and the gang. When a deranged magician begins transforming people into monsters, Scooby and Shaggy must travel to the creepy depths of Halloween land to stop him. During their mission, the pair encounter a host of colourful villains before eventually ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 600 members
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  • These Foolish Things on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Anjelica Huston,  Zoe Tapper,  Terence Stamp
    Director: Julia Taylor-Stanley
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    These Foolish Things follows the fluctuating fortunes of a young actress as she struggles to emulate her famous mother's glittering career on the London stage. These Foolish Things stars luminaries of the silver screen Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Terence Stamp and features a strong ensemble ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 200 members
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  • Manderlay on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Danny Glover,  Chloe Sevigny,  Jeremy Davies
    Director: Lars Von Trier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. By chance their cars stop in the state of Alabama in front of a large iron gate bearing a thick chain and a padlock. Beside the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 6,404 members
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  • Howl's Moving Castle on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki,  Akio Ohtsuka,  Haruko Kato
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Sophie, a diligent teenage girl working in her family's hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when a handsome-but-mysterious wizard named Howl sweeps her off her feet. This innocent encounter enrages the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste, who transforms Sophie into a 90-year-old woman. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 26,760 members
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  • Birth on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Lauren Bacall,  Anne Heche
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Enigmatic psychological drama directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Nicole Kidman as Anna, a wealthy widow in her mid-30s living in New York's Upper East Side. Anna is finally recovering after the death of her husband, Sean, and is coming to terms with her new life to the extent that she is now ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 31,079 members
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  • Dogville (2003)
    Starring: Harriet Andersson,  Nicole Kidman,  Lauren Bacall
    Director: Lars Von Trier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Unusual, theatrical drama by pioneering director Lars Von Trier, co-founder of the Dogme film movement - which uses pared-down filming techniques inspired by Bertolt Brecht. The entire film is shot on a bare wooden sound stage without special effects or artificial lighting, the streets and homes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 24,237 members
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  • Presence Of Mind on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Harvey Keitel,  Sadie Frost,  Jack Taylor
    Director: Antonio Aloy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sadie Frost stars in this adaptation of Henry James' classic chiller 'The Turn of the Screw'. Upon the death of her incestuous father, a beautiful but repressed young woman (Frost) takes a post as governess for two children, Miles and Flora, who have been in the custody of their uncle, the Master (..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 116 members
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  • My Fellow Americans (1996)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  James Garner,  Dan Aykroyd
    Director: Peter Segal
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, having individually discovered a cover-up by the current president (Aykroyd), flee together when they are almost assassinated by the Secret Service.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 79 members
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  • Pret A Porter (1994)
    Starring: Sally Kellerman,  Sophia Loren,  Jean
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual Pret-a-Porter fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 1,629 member
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  • A Foreign Field on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Geraldine Chaplin,  John Randolph,  Jeanne Moreau
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An old soldier re-opens the past when he returns to the battlefield. Written by Roy Clarke, the story focusses on two WWII veterans who return to the scene of their battles, intent on visiting the grave of a fallen comrade. But with their visit, they re-open many old wounds from the past, re-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 433 members
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  • All I Want For Christmas on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Thora Birch,  Ethan Randall,  Harley Jane Kozak
    Director: Robert Lieberman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Brother and sister, Ethan, 13, and Hallie, 11, are about to experience their first Christmas since the divorce of their parents, but the kids cook up a complex Christmas Eve plot to get rid of Mom's obnoxious new boyfriend and effect a reconciliation with Dad.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,103 member
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  • Misery - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: James Caan,  Richard Farnsworth,  Kathy Bates
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Sick of his 19th Century romantic heroine, Misery Chastain, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) kills her off and writes a more personal, modern novel. When his car crashes in remote mountains he is saved by 'number one fan' Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who adores Misery and has even named her pig ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 131 members
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  • A Little Piece Of Sunshine on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Larry Lamb,  Chris Cooper,  Kitty Aldridge
    Director: James Cellan Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Televison drama adapted from a scenario penned by Frederick Forsyth. Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island hitherto under British rule, is set to become independent. However, in the run-up to the island's presidential elections the British governor of the island is shot and killed. The ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 10 members
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  • Misery on DVD (1990)
    Starring: James Caan,  Richard Farnsworth,  Kathy Bates
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (Caan) completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe car ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 19,650 members
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  • Appointment With Death (1988)
    Starring: Peter Ustinov,  Piper Laurie,  Carrie Fisher
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Peter Ustinov plays Agatha Christie's Belgian mastermind Hercule Poirot in this star-studded murder mystery. When a wealthy widower, Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), is murdered while holidaying in Jerusalem, there is no shortage of suspects. Emily had been in the process of blackmailing the family ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 275 members
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  • The Shootist on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Ron Howard,  John Carradine,  James Stewart
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), You have a cancer. Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of duty. In his remaining two months, Books ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,032 members
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  • Northwest Frontier on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Kenneth More,  Ian Hunter,  Kenneth More
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In 1905 India, British army officer Captain Scott (Kenneth More) is charged with protecting the six-year-old Hindu prince from would-be Muslim assassins. Along with the prince's governess (Lauren Bacall), a cynical reporter, an arms merchant and a pair of upper class Brits, Scott attempts to sneak ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 427 members
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  • Young Man With A Horn on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Lauren Bacall,  Doris Day
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. To the exclusion of anything else in life, Rick becomes a star trumpeter, but his volatile personality ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 195 members
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  • Key Largo (1948)
    Starring: Thomas Gomez,  Marc Lawrence,  Edward G. Robinson
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,347 members
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  • The Big Sleep on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Elisha Cook,  Sonia Darrin,  Martha Vickers
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 9,527 members
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  • Douglas Sirk Collection on DVD
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Sandra Dee,  Jane Wyman
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Douglas Sirk's body of work collected for posterity. The man is a Hollywood icon to actors and producers that have followed in his footsteps. His influence is still felt in the work of Todd Haynes, Rainer Fassbinder, John Walters, Martin Scorsese and others.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,004 member
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Lauren Bacall facts

5 most recent films

The Forger - 4.5 stars
Jack Cardiff - Cameraman - 4.0 stars
Scooby Doo And The Goblin King - 3.5 stars
The Walker - 2.5 stars
These Foolish Things - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Misery - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Howl's Moving Castle - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Howl's Moving Castle - 4.0 stars
Jack Cardiff - Cameraman - 4.0 stars
Humphrey Bogart Classics - Vol. 2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Kenneth More Collection - 2.5 stars
Hollywood - The Fabulous Era - 2.5 stars
A Little Piece Of Sunshine - 2.5 stars
Designing Woman - 3.0 stars
The Forger - 4.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Humphrey Bogart - 8 times - show films
Akio Ohtsuka - 4 times - show films
Haruko Kato - 4 times - show films
Chieko Baisho - 4 times - show films
Ryunosuke Kamiki - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Hayao Miyazaki - 4 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 4 times - show films
John Huston - 3 times - show films
Lars Von Trier - 3 times - show films
Rob Reiner - 3 times - show films