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Anthony Hopkins
Born 31 Dec 1937, in Port Talbot, Wales
Wise words: "I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
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Anthony Hopkins in negotiations to join Red 2 -
24 May 2012
-Sir Anthony Hopkins is in talks to go bad again as the villain in an all-star sequel to hit action movie Red.-The 2010 release featured Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Dame Helen Mirren as former special operations agents forced to come out of retiremen
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Hopkins had 'anxiety' over Thor eyepatch -
8 May 2011
-Sir Anthony Hopkins suffered from "moments of anxiety" while filming comic book epic Thor, because his character's eyepatch restricted his vision and forced him to rely on others to guide him around the set.-The Welsh star portrays Odin, the King of Asgard, in the big s
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Hopkins encouraged Branagh to portray Olivier -
5 May 2011
-Sir Anthony Hopkins gave his Thor director Kenneth Branagh the confidence to portray acting great Lord Olivier on the big screen by telling the star all about his encounters with the legend.-Branagh was mulling over the idea of playing Olivier opposite Michelle Williams
Anthony Hopkins - what members say
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Le Amistad 21 May 2011
review by from London, England
An Unforgettable Experience 12 July 2004
review by A customer from Wales
A winner from the reliable Merchant and Ivory team 10 June 2004
Anthony Hopkins - filmography
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Thor - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Director Kenneth Branagh (HENRY V) and I AM LEGEND scribe Mark Protosevich bring Marvel Comics strongman Thor (played by STAR TREK'S Chris Hemsworth) to the big screen in this big-budget adventure that chronicles the mystical roots of the Asgardian god. Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Jaimie ..read more »
 
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from 13,264 members
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Thor
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
69%
from 35,656 members
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The Rite - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Alice Braga, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Mikael Håfström
Certificate: 
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The Rite is a supernatural thriller that uncovers the Devil's reach to even one of the holiest places on Earth. Inspired by true events, the film follows seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), who is sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the ..read more »
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from 5,291 members
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The Rite
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Alice Braga, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Mikael Håfström
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The Rite is a supernatural thriller that uncovers the Devil's reach to even one of the holiest places on Earth. Inspired by true events, the film follows seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), who is sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the ..read more »
61%
from 9,510 members
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The Good Father
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter
Director: Mike Newell
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Hooper (Anthony Hopkins) is a man seething with anger. His wife (Harriet Walter) has divorced him. He is permitted one day a week with his child. Fifteen years ago, he was an outspoken advocate of women's liberation, and now, he feels, he is a victim of the women's movement - a man without rights.
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43%
from 191 members
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The City of Your Final Destination
(2009)
Starring: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Director: James Ivory
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28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund-his brother, widow, and younger mistress-so he can get authorization to write the biography.
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from 5 members
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The Wolfman
(2009)
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt
Director: Joe Johnston
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Universal Studios resurrects the classic lycanthrope with this tale of an American who experiences an unsettling transformation after returning to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain and being attacked by a rampaging werewolf. His brother having recently vanished without a trace, ..read more »
60%
from 847 members
Not available for rental
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The Wolfman - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt
Director: Joe Johnston
Certificate:
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Universal Studios resurrects the classic lycanthrope with this tale of an American who experiences an unsettling transformation after returning to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain and being attacked by a rampaging werewolf. His brother having recently vanished without a trace, ..read more »
60%
from 196 members
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Fracture - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear--highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is how Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), an assertive assistant D.A. on the verge signing with a major law ..read more »
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from 1,036 member
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Slipstream
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Camryn Manheim, Jeffrey Tambor, Christian Slater
Director: Anthony Hopkins
Certificate:
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An actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless. He is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. It's a surreal and dreamlike tale of one ..read more »
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from 315 members
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Beowulf - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Using the same CGI technique as his film The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis directs this adaptation of Beowulf and Grendel's legendary story. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone voice the epic heroes and villains with a script from Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
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from 8,243 members
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Fracture
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear--highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is how Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), an assertive assistant D.A. on the verge signing with a major law ..read more »
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from 50,571 members
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Beowulf - HD
(2007)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Using the same CGI technique as his film THE POLAR EXPRESS, Robert Zemeckis directs this adaptation of Beowulf and Grendel's legendary story. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone voice the epic heroes and villains with a script from Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
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from 813 members
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All The King's Men - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Director: Steven Zaillian
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Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ..read more »
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from 833 members
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All The King's Men
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Director: Steven Zaillian
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Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ..read more »
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from 9,972 members
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The World's Fastest Indian
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Chris Bruno, Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Based on a true story. After a lifetime of perfecting his classic 1920 Indian motorcycle, in 1967 Burt Munro set off from New Zealand to test his bike in Utah with only a shoestring budget. Even at the age of 68 Burt is a man who has never let the dreams of youth fade, and with the odds stacked ..read more »
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from 20,146 members
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Proof
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: John Madden, James D. Stern
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Based on the Pulizter Prize-winning play and directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Proof stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a powerful story about a young woman haunted by her father's past and the shadow of her own future. Catherine has devoted years to caring for her brilliant but unstable father ..read more »
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from 16,430 members
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The Human Stain
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris
Director: Robert Benton
Certificate: 
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Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth's 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production, with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a light-skinned African-American college professor who has kept his true racial identity secret for ..read more »
52%
from 11,661 members
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Red Dragon - HD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
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The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
68%
from 411 members
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Bad Company
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock join up in the action-packed buddy movie BAD COMPANY. When CIA undercover operative Kevin Pope is killed during tense negotiations for a nuclear weapon, agent Gaylord Oakes (Hopkins) recruits the man's twin brother, Jake Hayes (Rock), to take his place and prevent the ..read more »
59%
from 6,070 members
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Red Dragon
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
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Ex-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the case. But he soon ..read more »
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from 21,450 members
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Red Dragon
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
Certificate:
The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
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from 868 members
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Hannibal - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Zeljko Ivanek
Director: Ridley Scott
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After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media ..read more »
69%
from 853 members
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Hearts In Atlantis
(2001)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Morse, Hope Davis
Director: Scott Hicks
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Part mystery, part nostalgic coming-of-age tale, Scott Hicks's lyrical, leisurely film of Stephen King's story captures the innocence, pain, and confusion of childhood. In one unforgettable summer, Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin), a lonely 11-year-old boy, is befriended by Ted Brautigan (Anthony ..read more »
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from 1,427 member
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Hannibal
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Zeljko Ivanek
Director: Ridley Scott
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After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media ..read more »
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from 20,491 members
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The Grinch
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Catherine Baranov
Director: Ron Howard
Certificate: 
Director Ron Howard casts comedian Jim Carrey in the title role in this live-action adaptation of the famous Christmas tale by Dr. Seuss, giving this rendition of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS a delightfully manic spin. Carrey is virtually unrecognizable in his elaborate green makeup, but his ..read more »
61%
from 7,634 members
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The Grinch
(2000)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Catherine Baranov, Molly Shannon
Director: Ron Howard
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Director Ron Howard casts comedian Jim Carrey in the title role in this live-action adaptation of the famous Christmas tale by Dr. Seuss, giving this rendition of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS a delightfully manic spin. Carrey is virtually unrecognizable in his elaborate green makeup, but his ..read more »
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from 307 members
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Mission: Impossible 2 - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton
Director: John Woo
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This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
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from 3,247 members
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Mission: Impossible 2
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton
Director: John Woo
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This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
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from 30,354 members
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Mission: Impossible 2 - HD
(2000)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton
Director: John Woo
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This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
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from 326 members
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Instinct
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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Theo Caulder (Gooding, Jr.) is an ambitious psychiatrist who has been asked by his mentor Ben Hillard (Sutherland) to evaluate the case of legendary anthropologist and primatologist Ethan Powell (Hopkins). Powell- a highly educated man who holds an ominous secret in his past- is currently being ..read more »
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from 2,521 members
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Meet Joe Black
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Martin Brest
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This modern fantasy stars Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish, a wealthy New York City media mogul who suffers a heart attack on the eve of his 65th birthday; although he survives, he senses that his own death is near. On the same day, Parrish's younger daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) meets a ..read more »
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from 12,409 members
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Meet Joe Black - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Martin Brest
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This modern fantasy stars Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish, a wealthy New York City media mogul who suffers a heart attack on the eve of his 65th birthday; although he survives, he senses that his own death is near. On the same day, Parrish's younger daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) meets a ..read more »
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from 120 members
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Amistad
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Steven Spielberg
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In the summer of 1839, on a stormy night off the coast of Cuba, 53 Africans held captive in the cramped cargo holds of the Spanish slave ship La Amistad break free of their shackles. Led by Cinque, they arm themselves, take control of the ship and reclaim their freedom. They have one goal: to ..read more »
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from 6,511 members
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The Edge
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Elle Macpherson
Director: Lee Tamahori
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An aging billionaire (Hopkins) and a fashion photographer (Baldwin) having an affair with the rich man's wife must struggle against the elements--including a man-eating bear--after their plane goes down in the Alaskan wild. An unusually dense and cerebral wilderness thriller, penned by literatus ..read more »
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from 2,542 members
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August
(1996)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Phillips, Kate Burton
Director: Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, recasting the action in Hopkins' homeland of Wales. Ieuan Davies (Anthony Hopkins) has devoted most of his life to managing the estate of Professor Blathwaite (Leslie Phillips); while he's generally been ..read more »
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from 1 member
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Nixon
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, James Woods
Director: Oliver Stone
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A surprisingly sympathetic account of the life of Richard Nixon from Oliver Stone, NIXON stars Anthony Hopkins as the former American president. Told out of chronological order, the film traces Nixon's life from his strict Quaker upbringing, through his rise in the Republican party, to his wounding ..read more »
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from 3,542 members
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The Road To Wellville
(1994)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Broderick, Michael Lerner
Director: Alan Parker
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Based on the best-selling novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE satirises late-19th-century health fads and medical procedures. The story focuses on Will Lightbody (Matthew Broderick) and his wife, Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), guests at the health spa of eccentric and toothy cereal mogul ..read more »
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from 1,043 member
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Legends Of The Fall
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Tantoo Cardinal, Karina Lombard, Gordon Tootoosis
Director: Edward Zwick
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Director Edward Zwick's epic romance, set against the backdrop of WWI and the wide sky and rugged terrain of Montana, stars Anthony Hopkins as William Ludlow, an idealistic retired colonel who disapproves of the war and the army's indecent treatment of Native Americans. Abandoned by his blue-..read more »
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from 7,698 members
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In The Wild - Lions With Anthony Hopkins
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins
Director: Mike Fox
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Acclaimed actor Anthony Hopkins meets with the Masai, the East African tribe whose mystical beliefs hold the lion in high regard, then journeys into the wild to come face to face with the King of the Beasts.
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from 188 members
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The Remains of the Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Tim Pigott-Smith, Lena Headey
Director: James Ivory
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Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the perfect butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly ..read more »
72%
from 10,899 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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Howard's End
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: James Ivory
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One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is poor relation Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of ..read more »
69%
from 5,664 members
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The Trial
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Juliet Stevenson
Director: David Jones
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Franz Kafka's posthumously published novel, adapted by Harold Pinter for the screen, is the story of a future authoritarian state where an innocent bank clerk is arrested for no other reason but to assert the state's authority.
49%
from 316 members
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Chaplin
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Sir Richard Attenborough's CHAPLIN is a dramatised depiction of the highs and lows in the life of Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey, Jr. in a highly acclaimed performance), one of the true comic geniuses of the early silver screen. Presented as the memories of an elderly Chaplin, the narrative opens ..read more »
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from 4,054 members
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) is motivated more by romance ..read more »
68%
from 12,751 members
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Silence Of The Lambs
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn
Director: Jonathan Demme
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An evil serial killer who skins his female victims is on the loose. FBI agent, Clarice Starling is assigned to the case. Desperate for any leads she seeks the help of psychiatrist-turned-psychopath, Dr Hannibal Lecter..... Winner of 5 Oscars. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris.
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Silence Of The Lambs - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn
Director: Jonathan Demme
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An evil serial killer who skins his female victims is on the loose. FBI agent, Clarice Starling is assigned to the case. Desperate for any leads she seeks the help of psychiatrist-turned-psychopath, Dr Hannibal Lecter..... Winner of 5 Oscars. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris.
83%
from 2,373 members
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Spotswood
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Russell Crowe, Ben Mendelsohn
Director: Mark Joffe
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Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernisation he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such ..read more »
56%
from 376 members
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Freejack
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Mick Jagger, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Geoff Murphy
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In 2009, the world is polluted, the hole in the Ozone layer and the financial gulf between society's "haves" and "have nots" is so large that the rich must search the past to find healthy young bodies to replace their own. When Furlong, a race car driver, dies and leaves his body intact, he becomes ..read more »
54%
from 902 members
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The Tenth Man
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Derek Jacobi
Director: Jack Gold
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During the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940's, a group of men are dragged off the street by soldiers. The twenty-nine Frenchmen are all quite innocent, but the Germans have ordered that one out of every ten men must be executed. One such man, a French lawyer named Chavel, persuades a dying man ..read more »
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from 415 members
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A Chorus Of Disapproval
(1988)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Richard Briers
Director: Michael Winner
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Following the death of his wife, Guy Jones (Jeremy Irons) is moved by his company to a sleepy seaside town, where, faced with knowing no-one and nights of boredom in front of the TV, he decides to join the local amateur dramatics society.
He is enthusiastically welcomed by eccentric Welsh Director,..read more »
56%
from 248 members
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84 Charing Cross Road
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Eleanor David
Director: David Jones
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Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 ..read more »
71%
from 2,733 members
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Guilty Conscience
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Blythe Danner, Donegan Smith
Director: David Greene
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Mid-1980s US TV crime drama starring Anthony Hopkins as criminal defense attorney Arthur Jamison, who wants to get a divorce from his wife Louise (Blythe Danner) but is painfully aware of the hefty alimony payments his wife would be entitled to receive from him. Instead of facing this monetary ..read more »
52%
from 31 members
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Mussolini And I
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon
Director: Alberto Negrin
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Bob Hoskins stars as Mussolini in this lavish production which recreates the dramatic events which surrounded the destruction of the powerful Mussolini dynasty that ruled over forty million Italians for more than twenty years.
57%
from 99 members
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The Bounty
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Fox
Director: Roger Donaldson
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The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Captain Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
63%
from 2,572 members
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Arch of Triumph
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Lesley-Anne Down, Anthony Hopkins, Donald Pleasence
Director: Waris Hussein
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With a glittering cast which includes Anthony Hopkins (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) and Donald Pleasance (HALLOWEEN), ARCH OF TRIUMPH is the tale of a Parisian romance unfolding on the cusp of World War II. Dr. Ravic (Hopkins) is a German citizen who has escaped the clutches of the Nazi's by fleeing ..read more »
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from 120 members
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The Bunker
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman
Director: George Schaefer
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This exhaustive TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph Hitler's life, spent in his bunker in Berlin. Anthony Hopkins is repulsively riveting as Hitler, while Piper Laurie is even more frightening as fanatical Frau Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) feeds the Fuehrer's ego as the ..read more »
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from 88 members
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Othello
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins
Director: Colin Lowrey
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Shakespearean drama of jealousy and paranoia, covetousness and intrigue. This is the tragic tale of Othello the Moor and his bride Desdemona, driven to jealousy and death by the malicious plotting of those closest to them. 1978 Jonathan Miller production from the BBC which maintains a close loyalty ..read more »
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from 252 members
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The Elephant Man
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Lynch
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David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
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The Elephant Man - HD
(1980)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Lynch
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David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
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The Elephant Man - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Lynch
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David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
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A Change Of Seasons
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
Director: Richard Lang
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A self-centred university lecturer thinks it quite all right that he has taken one of his students as a lover, but is deeply hurt when his wife retaliates by taking a similar approach with a visiting carpenter. His announcement that he is off to the family holiday home for some skiing with his ..read more »
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Magic
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Anthony Hopkins is Corky, a painfully shy, failed magician who finds overnight success as a ventriloquist. His brash, foul-mouthed dummy, Fats, becomes a huge nightclub hit. With his star on the rise, talent agent Ben Greene (Burgess Meredith) arranges an important shot at national TV. But the ..read more »
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All Creatures Great And Small
(1974)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Simon Ward, Lisa Harrow
Director: Claude Whatham
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James Herriot (Ward) sets off for a tiny village in the pastoral Yorkshire hills to begin an apprenticeship with veterinarian Siegfried Farnon (Hopkins). Despite a rocky start, Herriot soon gains acceptance amongst the tight-knit rural community, building a deep friendship with his mentor and a ..read more »
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Arcata Promise
(1974)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Fraser, Kate Nelligan
Director: David Cunliffe
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Once upon a time, in the small town of Arcata in California, a rich and successful actor made a promise to a young, attractive and vulnerable girl: I shall love you. Look after you. I don't want to hurt you or oppress you, or deny you in any way. But the promise was broken. After being constantly ..read more »
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The Edwardians
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Annette Crosbie, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Powell
Director: James Cellan Jones, John H
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This eight-part BBC miniseries explores the influential characters of Britain's Edwardian Age--a period that underwent some of the greatest achievements, and most devastating disasters, of the country's history. Among its cast of complicated figures are Welsh politician David Lloyd George (Anthony ..read more »
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When Eight Bells Toll
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon
Director: Etienne Perier
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A Naval Secret Service agent's tough assignment is to stop the ruthless pirating of gold bullion in the Irish Sea. The trail takes him to a tiny port in the Hebrides where mysterious disappearances of boats, yachts and people are commonplace..
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Dylan Thomas - Return Journey
on DVD
Starring: Bob Kingdom
Director: Anthony Hopkins
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An interpretation of poet Dylan Thomas lectures in America. Dylan Thomas was one of the twentieth centurys most famous poets. Towards the end of his life Dylan Thomas toured America, performing his works before sell-out audiences across the country. DYLAN THOMAS: RETURN JOURNEY is an ..read more »
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... film that I have seen Matthew McConaughey in. Well acted by Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins. Sometimes a little hard to follow. Good film though. Held my attention....
