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  • Wish You Were Here
  • Wish You Were Here review by from Bristol
    Rated - 5.0 stars Sex at the seaside 5 January 2005
    ...at’s it all about”. She starts to have an affair with a dirty old man played by Tom Bell and teases the hell out of all the local teenage boys. This is at times a ve...   Read customer review
  • Darling
  • Darling review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Caron and Christie 26 August 2005
    ... actress), Brock Peters (gay, black jazz musician),Pat Pheonix (prostitute) and Tom Bell (failed writer).Director Bryan Forbes avoids stereotypes in this moving charact...   Read customer review
  • Out - The Complete Series
  • Out - The Complete Series review by A customer from boro
    Rated - 4.0 stars GRITTY STUFF 11 January 2006
    ...a kid in the late 70's.Time has been good to this great show,superb acting from Tom Bell,as Frank Ross,and Brian 'haniball'Cox ,as the villian of the piece.TOUGH GRITTY...   Read customer review

Tom Bell - filmography


  • Love Me Still on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Andrew Howard,  Geoff Bell,  Alex Reid
    Director: Danny Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    As the result of an armed robbery Mickey Ronson has served eight years in prison, leaving his wife Gemma and their child Lucy to cope on their own. As the time of Mickey’s release draws near he can’t wait to get back to his family and continue on with their lives. He plans a surprise for his loved ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 68 members
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  • Dead Man's Cards on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Paul Barber,  Robin John Barlow,  Kimberley Barrett
    Director: James Marquand
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ex Boxer Tom (James McMartin) is on the ropes. His promising fight career is over, his marriage is on the rocks and he's broke. When a chance encounter leads to the offer of work as a doorman at a run down nightclub, the jury is out on whether he has taken a step on the road to redemption or ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 456 members
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  • The Last Minute (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Max Beesley,  Stephen Graham,  Stephen Dorff
    Director: Stephen Norrington
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    LAST MINUTE is a dark comedy that exudes a well-defined feeling of outlandish exaggeration and startling truth in one smoothly paced motion. Directed by Stephen Norrington (BLADE) and set in London, it is the story of Billy Byrne (Max Beesley), a self-obsessed up-and-coming star. Working as an ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 221 members
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  • My Kingdom on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Lynn Redgrave,  Emma Catherwood
    Director: Don Boyd
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bringing together two recent trends--British gangster movies and modern-dress Shakespeare--My Kingdom is King Lear in contemporary Liverpool. Richard Harris, who ought to be giving his real Lear about now, is fine in the early sections as the complacent gang boss who thinks he's above the street-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 500 members
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  • Amy Foster on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Vincent Perez,  Rachel Weisz,  Ian McKellen
    Director: Beeban Kidron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 464 members
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  • Prime Suspect 3 on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Tom Bell,  Peter Capaldi
    Director: David Drury
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    PRIME SUSPECT 3 takes detective Superintendent Jane Tennison to the Soho Vice Squad, where she is involved in cleaning up the neighborhood known for male and female prostitutes. A young boy-for-hire dies in a fire at the home of transsexual cabaret artiste Vera (Peter Capaldi) and Jane again must ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,162 members
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  • Let Him Have It on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Paul Reynolds,  Tom Bell
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Two teenagers are surprised by police during a break-in. One, epileptic with the mental age of 11 and IQ of 66 is arrested, the other, a gun-toting hood refuses to give up his weapon. Shouting Let Him Have It! to his friend, he fires, wounding one officer and killing another. Both boys face the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,444 member
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  • Prime Suspect 1 on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Tom Bell,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Christopher Menaul
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Called in to head a murder enquiry, D.C.I. Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is immediately confronted by hostility and aggression from her male colleagues. With her strength of character and skills as a detective continually tested to the limit, she exposes a far-reaching cover-up within the force. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3,289 members
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  • The Krays on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Gary Kemp,  Martin Kemp,  Susan Fleetwood
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    During the 1960's twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray dominated London's underworld. They emerged from their violent schooldays into leaders of their own criminal mob. Soon their personal lives crumbled, they were tried for two brutal murders and are now serving a 30 year prison sentence. Based on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,285 members
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  • Resurrected on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Tom Bell,  Rita Tushingham,  David Thewlis
    Director: Paul Greengrass
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Kevin Deakin went missing at the height of the Falklands War and was reported as missing, presumed dead. Forty-nine days later Kevin returns apparantly suffering from amnesia. Already commemorated as a war hero he becomes an embarrassment to the country who honoured him....did he desert or did he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 19 members
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  • Wish You Were Here on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Emily Lloyd,  Tom Bell,  Jesse Birdsall
    Director: David Leland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A high-spirited tale of a rebellious teenage girl in 1950s Britain who energetically flouts the repressive sexual mores of her working-class seaside town. 16-year-old Lynda enjoys shocking her neighbours with her foul mouth and lascivious behaviour, but underneath her flamboyantly cheeky facade is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,535 member
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  • Reilly - Ace Of Spys (3 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Leo McKern,  Tom Bell
    Director: Jim Goddard,  Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sam Neill stars in this TV mini-series as Sidney Reilly, an enigmatic spy operating in Europe and Asia. The character is based on a real person, who was the primary inspiration behind the creation of James Bond.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 12 members
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  • Holocaust (3 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  James Woods,  Tom Bell
    Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An original TV dramatisation of one of the most monstrous crimes in world history the slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis. Dramatically and definitively, the story covers an entire decade, the eventful years from 1935 to 1945. HOLOCAUST focuses on the tragedy and triumph of a single family the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 874 members
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  • Out - The Complete Series (2 discs) (1978)
    Starring: Tom Bell
    Director: Jim Goddard,  Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Frank Ross (Tom Bell) is a bankrobber who is released from prison after eight years inside. He emerges to find his marriage destroyed and his life in ruins. Ross becomes totally consumed with a passion to track down and extract his revenge on those who have betrayed him. This 2-disc set contains ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 114 members
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  • Royal Flash (1975)
    Starring: Malcolm McDowell,  Alan Bates,  Florinda Bolkan
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    McDowell stars as Captain Harry Flashman, a cowardly rogue in 19th century Europe. His attempts at climbing the social ladder draw him into the devious plans of others and into the arms of a duchess (Bond beauty Britt Ekland). Things don't go as planned, and Flashman has to escape, traveling ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 72 members
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  • Armchair Theatre - Vol.1 (1970)
    Starring: Colin Welland,  Peter Barkworth,  Billie Whitelaw
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Armchair Theatre was ITV’s flagship drama anthology series. Initially screened between 1956 and 1973, it was hugely popular, with viewing figures occasionally reaching twenty million, and became a byword for quality in televised drama.
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 7 members
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  • Darling on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Julie Christie,  Dirk Bogarde,  Laurence Harvey
    Director: John Schlesinger,  Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,173 members
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  • Prize Of Arms on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Tom Bell,  Patrick Magee
    Director: Cliff Owen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Never in the history of crime was so much taken from so many by so few. A gang of criminals acquire an old army truck and try to pass themselves off as military policemen. Their plan is to steal a £250,000 payroll intended for soldiers in the Middle East. Turpin recruits Fenner and Swavek to make ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 201 members
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  • The L-Shaped Room on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Cicely Courtneidge,  Brock Peters,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 340 members
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  • H.M.S. Defiant on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Dirk Bogarde,  Anthony Quayle
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Alec Guinness must battle a mutinous crew and Napoleon's fleet in the rousing, historical adventure H.M.S Defiant. As commander of the British warship H.M.S. Defiant, the humane Crawford (Guinness) strives to maintain order throughout the ship against the ceaseless brutality of sadistic first mate ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 578 members
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  • Oh Marbella! on DVD
    Starring: Rik Mayall,  Tom Bell,  Mike Reid
    Director: Piers Ashworth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Welcome to Marbella, the original Costa De Sol paradise for the rich and famous - and for those wishing they were. Where the sun shines down on you regardless of whether you`re a couple trying to revive your romance or a hitman doing one last job. Marbella is the place to be. It`s where the crazy ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 50 members
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  • Quest For Love
    Starring: Joan Collins,  Denholm Elliot,  Tom Bell
    Director: Ralph Thomas,  Peter Rogers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but has some striking differences. In this other reality the Second World War had never occurred, mankind had not yet ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 3 members
    Due for release on 26th March 2012
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Tom Bell facts

5 most recent films

Love Me Still - 2.5 stars
Dead Man's Cards - 3.0 stars
Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act - 4.0 stars
Devil's Gate - 2.5 stars
The Last Minute - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act - 4.0 stars
Prime Suspect 3 - 4.0 stars
Prime Suspect 1 - 4.0 stars
The L-Shaped Room - 4.0 stars
Prospero's Books - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Quest For Love - 0.5 stars
Armchair Theatre - Vol.1 - 2.0 stars
Devil's Gate - 2.5 stars
Oh Marbella! - 2.5 stars
All The Right Noises - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sam Neill - 5 times - show films
Leo McKern - 5 times - show films
Helen Mirren - 5 times - show films
Norman Rodway - 5 times - show films
Kate Ashfield - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jim Goddard - 8 times - show films
Martin Campbell - 5 times - show films
Peter Medak - 5 times - show films
Stephen Norrington - 4 times - show films
Marvin J. Chomsky - 4 times - show films