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Peter Firth
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Peter Firth - what members say
review by fuzzy from St.Helens
superb thriller 12 January 2004
review by from Silsden, West Yorkshire
Thumbs up 4 November 2005
Peter Firth - filmography
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South Riding
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Charlie Clark, Shaun Dooley, Peter Firth
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Certificate: 
Andrew Davies' sparkling adaptation of Winifred Holtby's acclaimed novel. Insightful, warm and full of memorable characters, South Riding tells a fraught love story and paints a panoramic portrait of a between-the-wars Yorkshire community.
In depression-hit Thirties Britain, Sarah Burton returns ..read more »
 
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from 371 members
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Spooks - Complete Season 7
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones, Miranda Raison, Miranda Raison
Director: Colm McCarthy
Certificate: 
The world is still facing the threat of Islamist terrorism and with Russia also emerging as a new super power, the MI5 team face even more frightening and deadly challenges in this series of Spooks. Six months on from their terrifying ordeal at the hands of the Red Backs, Adam is back on the Grid ..read more »
87%
from 1,612 member
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Justin Ashforth, George Asprey
Director: Bill Paxton
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This inspirational true story of triumph over adversity is another crowd-pleasing winner from Walt Disney Pictures. Young amateur golfer Francis Ouimet has nothing but talent and a dream to challenge the world's greatest players at the highest level of his sport. A working-class kid caught between ..read more »
70%
from 4,606 members
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Chill Factor
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth
Director: Hugh Johnson
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A decade after an army accident involving a chemical weapon with the power to fry the skin off every living thing within a five-mile radius, the army major who wrongly took the blame is released from prison and is out for vengeance. The means
58%
from 623 members
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White Angel
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Harriet Robinson, Peter Firth, Don Henderson
Director: Chris Jones
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Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of murdering him. To top it all off, she has reason to believe that her new tenant Leslie Steckler is the serial killer responsible for a number of deaths in ..read more »
52%
from 52 members
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Shadowlands
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Set in England in 1952, Shadowlands is the tender and deeply moving true story of the love affair between CS Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and Joy Gresham (Debra Winger). CS Lewis, a highly acclaimed writer (The Narnia Chronicles) lived a quiet and ordered life as a professor of English Literature at ..read more »
69%
from 8,841 members
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The Hunt For Red October
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill
Director: John McTiernan
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The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and ..read more »
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from 12,283 members
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The Hunt For Red October - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill
Director: John McTiernan
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It is the pre-Glasnost era, and the captain of a Soviet sub intends to betray his brutal government and defect, but as the deadly "Red October" approaches the eastern seaboard of the United States, only special agent Jack Ryan might be able to head off a nuclear confrontation. Based on Tom Clancy's ..read more »
79%
from 351 members
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Prisoner Of Rio
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth
Director: Lech Majewski
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Based on the true story of Ronnie Biggs, a member of the team who committed the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Having escaped after only serving a two-year sentence, Biggs is safely out of the reach of British law, having made his home in Brazil. Safe, that is, until now. Jack McFarland of Scotland ..read more »
38%
from 24 members
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Northanger Abbey
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy
Director: Giles Foster
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An Eighteenth Century drama adapted from the novel by Jane Austen. Catherine Morland arrives at Northanger upon the invitation of Henry Tilney and discovers that the place is shrouded in mystery and intrigue.
45%
from 1,517 member
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Lifeforce
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Director: Tobe Hooper
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As Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE begins, American and British space travelers discover humanoids while exploring near Halley's Comet. The astronauts bring three of these aliens aboard their spaceship and head back to earth. However, their guests turn out to be evil vampires who kill all but one of the ..read more »
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from 1,917 member
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Letter To Brezhnev
(1985)
Starring: Margi Clarke, Peter Firth, Alexandra Pigg
Director: Chris Bernard
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Two working class girls Teresa and Elaine (Clarke and Pigg) attempt to escape the dreariness of their grimy industrial Liverpool life at the factory by frequenting the local disco in search of sex, adventure and romance. They meet a pair of Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter (Firth and Molina) and ..read more »
65%
from 622 members
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Tess
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on Thomas Hardy's tragic 1891 novel TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, TESS follows the hard life of a beautiful young Wessex peasant girl, who seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Tess's tragic fate is sealed the moment the manipulative ..read more »
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from 1,739 member
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Equus
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Lumet directed this film version of Peter Shaffer's dramatic play, transforming theatrical symbolism into cinematic realism. Richard Burton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Martin Dysert, a psychiatrist determined to unravel the disturbed mind of ..read more »
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from 1,194 member
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Joseph Andrews
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret, Jim Dale
Director: Tony Richardson
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Henry Fielding's rollicking, bawdy tale is brought to lusty life on screen by Tony Richardson. Employed as a servant in the household of Sir Thomas Booby (Peter Bull), the pure-hearted Joseph (Peter Firth) is in love with Fanny Goodwill (Natalie Ogle), one of the housemaids. But Joseph is plagued ..read more »
52%
from 38 members
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Aces High
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Simon Ward
Director: Jack Gold
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A moving story of comradeship and bravery, loneliness and fear. Aces High contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever staged leading to a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. Under Jack Gold's sensitive direction, this is ..read more »
64%
from 1,045 member
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Here Come the Double Deckers
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Brinsley Forde, Peter Firth, Debbie Russ
Director: Harry Booth
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All 17 episodes from the classic children's series. "Get on board, get on board, come and join the Double Deckers..." A song that brought joy to a whole generation of children thanks to Here Come The Double Deckers, a huge TV hit in the early '70s.
This much-loved series follows the trials and ..read more »
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from 93 members
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...afraid to show it with some great acting from matthew macFadyen (tom quinn) and Peter Firth (harry pearce)...
