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Ian Bannen
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Ian Bannen - what members say
review by JediSi from Kent
And don't take it personally, Finn, but I bought you some expensive, fruity soaps. 19 January 2008
review by A customer from Yorkshire
Very unsettling but worth seeing 7 September 2007
review by A customer from
The Hill 22 December 2011
Ian Bannen - filmography
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To Walk With Lions
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Richard Harris, Ian Bannen, John Michie
Director: Carl Schultz
Certificate: 
The continuing story of George Adamson and his battle to save wildlife in Kenya. This time George and Tony, a down-and-out from London, try to put a stop to illegal trading for rhino horn and ivory...
 
64%
from 277 members
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Waking Ned
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Ian Bannen, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch
Director: Kirk Jones
Certificate: 
A comedy about the inhabitants of Tulley More, a small Irish town with a population of fifty-two and dwindling. When Jackie and Michael discover that someone in their town has won the national lottery, they intend to uncover the lucky individual and talk him into sharing the jackpot with them. ..read more »
70%
from 3,385 members
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Doctor Finlay - Snowblind
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: David Rintoul, Jessica Turner, Annette Crosbie
Director: Rodney Bennett
Certificate:
Completing the popular series, this festive episode sees Dr Cameron suffering from a heart attack while dining at Arden House. With the phone line out of order and the roads blocked with snow, Dr Finlay must rely on his own resources to act fast and save his colleague's life.
63%
from 18 members
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The Politician's Wife
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Ian Bannen
Director: Graham Theakston
Certificate: 
Juliet Stevenson turns in a powerfully nuanced performance as a jilted housewife bent on revenge in this suspenseful British mini-series of political and sexual intrigue. Stevenson stars as Flora Matlock, the dutiful wife of smarmy, Machiavellian politician Duncan Matlock (Trevor Eve), a social-..read more »
70%
from 442 members
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Damage
(1992)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
Director: Louis Malle
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Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of ..read more »
55%
from 1,988 member
Currently unavailable
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The Big Man
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Billy Connolly
Director: David Leland
Certificate:
An unemployed Glaswegian miner is forced into bare-knuckle fighting to support his family. He finds himself in a nightmare world of drugs and crooks but prepares to turn the tables on the chief mobster, Matt Mason.....
63%
from 437 members
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The Courier
(1988)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bannen, Cait O'Riordan
Director: Frank Deasy, Joe Lee
Certificate: 
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.
50%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Defence Of The Realm
(1985)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott
Director: David Drury
Certificate:
This fast-paced thriller examines the amorality of a nation's secret services and the responsibility of journalistic investigations in an era of nuclear tensions and bureaucratic deceit. The film examines an unspooling series of events occurring after a near crash of a nuclear bomber at an American ..read more »
60%
from 354 members
Not available for rental
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Lamb
(1985)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ian Bannen, Frances Tomelty
Director: Colin Gregg
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A Catholic priest struggling with his faith is moved by the mistreatment of a deeply troubled boy at a school for delinquent youths on the Atrim Coast of Ireland. Renouncing his vows and taking the boy with him, the two head toward an uncertain fate.
61%
from 230 members
Currently unavailable
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Eye Of The Needle
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen
Director: Richard Marquand
Certificate:
In Richard Marquand's WWII-era thriller, Faber (Donald Sutherland), a German spy washes up on a small island off the Scottish coast and is taken in by Lucy, (Kate Nelligan), the frustrated wife of a paraplegic (Christopher Cazenove). Her desire for intimacy is immediately apparent to the equally ..read more »
67%
from 531 members
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Inglorious Bastards
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Certificate:
Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they're being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the ..read more »
45%
from 3,200 members
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Bite The Bullet
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn
Director: Richard Brooks
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Filmed in the classic Western tradition, this tale of a 700-mile horse race in the early 1900s takes its stalwart competitors over some rough western terrain and through various inclement conditions. The wide variety of contestants has differing reasons for entering the grueling race, but each and ..read more »
60%
from 355 members
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The Voyage
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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Adriana De Mauro (Sophia Loren) finds herself unable to be with the man she loves, as his father decreed that his brother should be the one to marry her. So her love Cesar Braggi (Richard Burton) steps aside to allow his sibling Antonio (Ian Bannen), to take her hand. But when fate intervenes in ..read more »
53%
from 32 members
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Offence
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery, in a career-defining role) has been on the Force for twenty years. He has seen too much dying, too much lying and too much maiming. When confronted with a suspect in a child-molesting case, he can no longer contain his fury.
64%
from 687 members
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Doomwatch
(1972)
Starring: Judy Geeson, Ian Bannen, Simon Oates
Director: Peter Sasdy
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A pollution expert travels to a remote island to study the effects of radiation, and there meets a strange and mysterious race of people. Based on the British television program, DOOMWATCH explores a frightening world of mutated lifeforms and murderous monsters. The investigators of the island must ..read more »
52%
from 310 members
Currently unavailable
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Fright
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Susan George, Honor Blackman, Dennis Waterman
Director: Peter Collinson
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When Amanda agreed to babysit for a friend, little did she realise it would begin an endless night of terror. For her neighbour's insane ex-husband has managed to escape from a mental asylum. And tonight is the night he has chosen to come home.....
56%
from 239 members
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Jane Eyre
(1970)
Starring: Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins, Susannah York
Director: Delbert Mann
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In Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian tale of Jane Eyre (Susannah York), an orphan girl secures the position of governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott), Lord of the English manor house Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret. Jane and the moody and tyrannical ..read more »
47%
from 65 members
Not currently released
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Too Late The Hero
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's pulsating World War II thriller, Lawson (Cliff Robertson), an American naval officer specializing in Asiatic languages, is sent to the Pacific theater to assist a group of British soldiers (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews) in a seemingly simple mission--knock ..read more »
60%
from 915 members
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The Hill
(1965)
Starring: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Director: Sidney Lumet
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THE HILL, a World War II drama directed by Sidney Lumet, focuses on the cruel British soldiers who were based in the desert in Libya, Africa.
74%
from 209 members
Currently unavailable
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The Flight Of The Phoenix
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's 'The Flight Of The Phoenix', based on Elleston Trevor's novel, a small plane carrying oil workers and military personnel crashes, stranding a group of survivors in the Sahara Desert. As the lethal heat and grating sand begin to take a toll on the group, the conscientious pilot, ..read more »
70%
from 2,024 members
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Suspect
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
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After years of research scientists are ready to reveal their greatest triumph - a virulent germ that can stamp out bubonic and syphus epidemics. However, the Authority invokes the Official Secrets Act and gags the team, claiming that in the wrong hands this formula could be used for germ warfare. A ..read more »
55%
from 63 members
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A Tale Of Two Cities
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Paul Guers
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate: 
An unusually faithful cinematic adaptation of Dickens' timeless classic. This sensitive film succeeds in portraying not only vast social upheaval, but also the personal and individual consequences of such change.
66%
from 611 members
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The Long Arm
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Director: Charles Frend
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A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar crimes over the past two years. In every instance the make of the safe was the same.
73%
from 272 members
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Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
on DVD
Starring: David Hemmings, Ian Bannen, Toyah Wilcox
Director: Alastair Reid
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David Hemmings stars as the virtuous Dr Jekyll who discovers a formula to unleash the dark side of man. The result is Mr Edward Hyde, his depraved inner demon who is let loose to enjoy the more decadent side of Victorian society. As his experiments continue Mr Hyde grows stronger as his creator ..read more »
49%
from 135 members
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Ian Bannen facts
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...the most cynical moviegoer laugh out loud. The cast are incredible, especially Ian Bannen as Jackie, and David Kelly as Michael. Micheal's motorcycle ride to Ned's house...
