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Anthony Hopkins

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


  • 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


  • 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


  • Amistad
  • Amistad review by A customer from
    Rated - 3.5 stars Le Amistad 21 May 2011
    ... 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....   Read customer review
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Elephant Man review by from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars An Unforgettable Experience 12 July 2004
    ...through the eyes of Dr Frederick Treves, a benevolent doctor played superbly by Anthony Hopkins, who is the first person in the film to challenge the social ostracism of the E...   Read customer review
  • The Remains of the Day
  • The Remains of the Day review by A customer from Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars A winner from the reliable Merchant and Ivory team 10 June 2004
    ...Beautiful to watch, this story of a repressed love is played perfectly by Anthony Hopkins; and Emma Thompson, whom I normally find a grossly overated lighweight, holds her end...   Read customer review

Anthony Hopkins - filmography


  • Hitchcock - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Helen Mirren,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Sacha Gervasi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Anthony Hopkins plays the legendary director in this biopic that chronicles the personal and professional relationship between Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of his 1960 classic 'Psycho'. It's 1959 and, increasingly worried about his relevance, Hitchcock ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
    Due for release on 16th August 2013
  • Thor on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jaimie Alexander
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Kenneth Branagh directs this fantasy superhero adventure based on the Marvel comics character, which in turn is based on the ancient myth of Norse God of Thunder, Thor. Moving between present day Earth and the fantastic realm of Asgard, the film tells the story of the Mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 47,099 members
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  • 360 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Rachel Weisz,  Jude Law
    Director: Fernando Meirelles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    360 is a kaleidoscope of interconnected love and relationships linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of romantic life in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,436 member
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  • Thor - 3D Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Chris Hemsworth,  Anthony Hopkins,  Natalie Portman
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Kenneth Branagh directs this fantasy superhero adventure based on the Marvel comics character, which in turn is based on the ancient myth of Norse God of Thunder, Thor. Moving between present day Earth and the fantastic realm of Asgard, the film tells the story of the Mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 139 members
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  • Thor - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jaimie Alexander
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Kenneth Branagh directs this fantasy superhero adventure based on the Marvel comics character, which in turn is based on the ancient myth of Norse God of Thunder, Thor. Moving between present day Earth and the fantastic realm of Asgard, the film tells the story of the Mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 18,477 members
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  • 360 - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Rachel Weisz,  Jude Law
    Director: Fernando Meirelles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    360 is a kaleidoscope of interconnected love and relationships linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of romantic life in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 543 members
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  • The Rite on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Alice Braga,  Anthony Hopkins,  Ciarán Hinds
    Director: Mikael Håfström
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,315 members
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  • The Rite - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Toby Jones,  Rutger Hauer
    Director: Mikael Håfström
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Horror drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin O'Donoghue. The film is based on the book by Matt Baglio, inspired by real events, that follows the story of an American parish priest, Father Gary Thomas (Donoghue), who travels to Rome to train as an exorcist at a Vatican-associated university. As ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 6,150 members
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  • The Good Father (2010)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Anthony Hopkins and Jim Broadbent play two men, recently estranged from their wives and children, and trying to come to terms with their sense of frustration and despair. Directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings And A Funeral), this moving drama is packed with a rich array of stars including; Joanna ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 209 members
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  • The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
    Starring: Omar Metwally,  Anthony Hopkins,  Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8 members
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  • The Wolfman - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Benicio Del Toro,  Benicio Del Toro,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Remake of the 1941 horror film of the same name set in the 1880s. Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a gentleman tormented by the death of his mother and subsequent end of his childhood, who leaves home to try and rid himself of the memories and hurt. However, years later he is contacted by ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 517 members
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  • Beowulf - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Anthony Hopkins,  Angelina Jolie
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Director's cut of the epic adventure starring Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins. In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf (Winstone). After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother (Angelina Jolie), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8,611 members
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  • Slipstream on DVD (2007)
    Starring: John Turturro,  Anthony Hopkins,  Michael Clarke Duncan
    Director: Anthony Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comedy drama written, directed and starring Academy Award Winner Anthony Hopkins. Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins) is a screenwriter who has become prone to letting himself get caught up in his imagination and the stories that he devises. When Felix begins to lose his ability to distinguish reality from ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 380 members
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  • Fracture - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Fiona Shaw,  Billy Burke
    Director: Gregory Hoblit
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Courtroom drama starring Anthony Hopkins. Engineering tycoon Ted Crawford (Hopkins) is a meticulous man in all things but, when he shoots his wife for stepping out on him, he may have taken on more than he can control. He confesses to the crime, gains the right to represent himself in court and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,299 member
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  • All The King's Men - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jude Law,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Steven Zaillian
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Remake of the 1949 feature film based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren - the portrait of a politician's declining morality in the face of his ascent to power. In a character purportedly based on legendary real life southern glad-hander, Huey P. Long, Willie 'Boss' Stark (Sean Penn), a weak ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 880 members
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  • All The King's Men on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jude Law,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Steven Zaillian
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Remake of the 1949 feature film based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren - the portrait of a politician's declining morality in the face of his ascent to power. In a character purportedly based on legendary real life southern glad-hander, Huey P. Long, Willie 'Boss' Stark (Sean Penn), a weak ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 10,232 members
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  • Proof on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Jake Gyllenhaal
    Director: John Madden,  James D. Stern
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A devoted daughter comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, forcing her to face her own long-harbored fears and emotions. She adjusts to his death with the help of one of her father's former mathematical students, who ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 17,070 members
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  • The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
    Starring: Wesley Dowdell,  Tim Farmer,  Juliana Bellinger
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    In the late 1960s, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian motorcycle, Burt sets off from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With all odds against him, Burt puts his irrepressible kiwi spirit to the test, braving the ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 21,878 members
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  • Alexander on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jared Leto
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders, Alexander the Great--a man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-seven. Alexander led his virtually invincible Greek and Macedonian armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 46,331 members
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  • The Human Stain on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Wentworth Miller,  Ed Harris
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Director Robert Benton's drama based on the Philip Roth novel set during the Clinton era of the 1990s. Esteemed college professor Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) has a secret. A 50-year-old secret that he has kept hidden from everyone - including his wife and children. After he makes an apparent ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 11,830 members
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  • Bad Company on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Shea Whigham,  John Slattery
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    CIA agents Gaylord Oakes (Anthony Hopkins) and Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) are working undercover in Prague, attempting to infiltrate a gang of black market arms dealers and prevent a nuclear bomb from being detonated on US soil. When Kevin is killed by a gang of rival criminals, the agency tracks down ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,221 members
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  • Red Dragon - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) returns in his third film outing (based on the first Thomas Harris novel which introduced the character). FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) has retired with his family to Florida after a near-death experience when he tracked down and captured Lecter. However, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,021 member
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  • Red Dragon on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 21,965 members
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  • Hannibal on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Giancarlo Giannini,  Anthony Hopkins,  Mark Margolis
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991). It is ten years since the events of the previous film and FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore), recently in trouble with her superiors over a bungled shoot-out, suddenly receives a letter from the escaped Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins). It does not ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 20,817 members
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  • Hearts In Atlantis (2001)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Mika Boorem,  David Morse
    Director: Scott Hicks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A coming-of-age tale set in New England during the summer of 1960 and based on the book by Stephen King. When 11-year-old Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin) makes friends with Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins), the old man who lives in the apartment upstairs, he gets a glimpse of a world of intrigue and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,477 member
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  • Hannibal - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Giancarlo Giannini,  Anthony Hopkins,  Mark Margolis
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991). It is ten years since the events of the previous film and FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore), recently in trouble with her superiors over a bungled shoot-out, suddenly receives a letter from the escaped Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins). It does not ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 984 members
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  • Mission: Impossible 2 on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Dougray Scott,  Brendan Gleeson
    Director: John Woo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sequel to the hugely successful 1996 spin-off of the popular Sixties espionage series. Impossible Missions Force's Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is charged with tracking down renegade fellow agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott), who has stolen the only known supply of Bellophron - the antidote to man-made ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 31,223 members
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  • The Grinch - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Catherine Baranov,  Molly Shannon
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Grinch (Jim Carrey) is a grouchy green monster who lives high up on a mountain overlooking the town of Whoville. The Grinch hates happiness, hates merriment, and most of all, hates Christmas. So one year, as the festive season approaches, he decides that enough is enough and draws up plans to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 363 members
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  • The Grinch on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Catherine Baranov,  Molly Shannon
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Grinch (Jim Carrey) is a grouchy green monster who lives high up on a mountain overlooking the town of Whoville. The Grinch hates happiness, hates merriment, and most of all, hates Christmas. So one year, as the festive season approaches, he decides that enough is enough and draws up plans to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 7,863 members
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  • Titus on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Osheen Jones
    Director: Julie Taymor
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Lavish big screen adaptation of Shakespeare's early tragedy. Roman general Titus Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) returns in triumph from his wars with the Goths, symbolically sacrificing the son of captured enemy empress Tamora (Jessica Lange). Newly appointed Roman emperor Saturninus (Alan Cumming) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,542 member
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  • Instinct on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Donald Sutherland,  Cuba Gooding Jr.
    Director: Jon Turteltaub
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Young psychiatric resident Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding Jr) is chosen to evaluate the mental competence of anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), determining whether he is fit to stand trial for murder. Powell has been extradited from Rwanda where he was captured by the authorities after ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,621 members
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  • The Mask of Zorro - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: ,  ,  
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Box set featuring two swashbuckling adventure movies. In 'The Mask of Zorro' (1998), Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) is a swashbuckling legend, adopting the moniker Zorro and donning a mask in his fight against Spanish despots in Alta California. Twenty years after hanging up his sword, he ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 445 members
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  • The Mask of Zorro on DVD (1998)
    Starring: ,  ,  
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) is a swashbuckling legend, adopting the moniker Zorro and donning a mask in his fight against Spanish despots in Alta California. Twenty years after hanging up his sword, he needs to find a successor to gain revenge on Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson), the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 16,367 members
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  • Meet Joe Black on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Claire Forlani,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jake Weber
    Director: Martin Brest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Media tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) is approaching his sixty-fifth birthday when he encounters Death (Brad Pitt) himself. Parrish is offered a few extra days of life if he allows the Grim Reaper into his home and, keen to finish off an important company merger, agrees, introducing his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 12,859 members
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  • Meet Joe Black - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Claire Forlani,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jake Weber
    Director: Martin Brest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Media tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) is approaching his sixty-fifth birthday when he encounters Death (Brad Pitt) himself. Parrish is offered a few extra days of life if he allows the Grim Reaper into his home and, keen to finish off an important company merger, agrees, introducing his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 173 members
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  • The Edge on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Alec Baldwin,  Elle Macpherson
    Director: Lee Tamahori
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When millionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) joins his supermodel wife Mickey (Elle MacPherson) for a photo-shoot in Alaska, he does not expect to be plunged into a dangerous battle for survival. Charles accompanies fashion photographer Robert Green (Alec Baldwin) when he flies out to an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,681 members
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  • Amistad on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Geno Silva,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,805 members
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  • August (1996)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Leslie Phillips,  Kate Burton
    Director: Anthony Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 4 members
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  • Nixon on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Paul Sorvino,  Anthony Hopkins,  David Paymer
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone turns his attention to one of the most controversial figures in American history, President Nixon. Anthony Hopkins stars as the President in a film that traces his political career, from his battles with the CIA and J. Edgar Hoover, his plans for world peace with Henry Kissinger, his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,682 members
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  • Legends Of The Fall on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Anthony Hopkins,  Gordon Tootoosis
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    US Cavalry officer Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) takes early retirement after despairing of the Government's treatment of the Western Tribes. In the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies he builds a ranch where he brings up his three sons. When the youngest son Samuel (Henry Thomas) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,953 members
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  • Legends Of The Fall - Blu-ray (1994)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Anthony Hopkins,  Gordon Tootoosis
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    US Cavalry officer Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) takes early retirement after despairing of the Government's treatment of the Western Tribes. In the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies he builds a ranch where he brings up his three sons. When the youngest son Samuel (Henry Thomas) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 624 members
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  • The Road To Wellville (1994)
    Starring: Michael,  Dana Carvey,  John Neville
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alan Parker directs Anthony Hopkins in this comedy. Hopkins stars as Dr John Harvey Kellog, inventor of amongst other things cornflakes. Kellog was a militant vegetarian and promoter of clean bowels and ran a health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, where patients were submitted to up to five ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,077 member
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  • Shadowlands on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  James Frain,  Michael Denison
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Richard Attenborough directs this adaptation of William Nichoson's play based on the true story of the love affair between C.S. Lewis and American Joy Gresham. Oxford don and acclaimed novelist (The Narnia Chronicles) C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) lives a quiet and reflective existence with his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,019 members
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  • In The Wild - Lions With Anthony Hopkins (1993)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Mike Fox
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins, famous for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter, travels to Africa to observe some lions in their natural habitat. Following the route of the first safaris, the great Welsh thespian journeys into the Serengeti in search of the majestic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 196 members
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  • The Remains of the Day on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Lena Headey
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 11,536 members
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  • Chaplin - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Paul Rhys,  Diane Lane,  David Duchovny
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Downey Jr takes the lead role in this biopic of the legendary Charlie Chaplin, which traces his entire career from poverty stricken childhood all the way through to final Swiss exile and lifetime Oscar recognition. Along the way there were four marriages, troubles with the US government, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 339 members
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  • The Trial on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Juliet Stevenson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Michael Kitchen
    Director: David Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on Kafka's famous novel, with Kyle Mclachlan playing Josef K, the civil servant who wakes up one day to find himself accused of an undisclosed crime. As he attempts to prove his innocence, he is drawn deeper and deeper into a world of bottomless bureaucracy and unexplained accusations. Alfred ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 336 members
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  • Howard's End on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Samuel West
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
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  • Bram Stoker's Dracula on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Winona Ryder,  Bill Campbell
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 13,146 members
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  • Chaplin on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Paul Rhys,  Diane Lane,  David Duchovny
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Downey Jr takes the lead role in this biopic of the legendary Charlie Chaplin, which traces his entire career from poverty stricken childhood all the way through to final Swiss exile and lifetime Oscar recognition. Along the way there were four marriages, troubles with the US government, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 4,341 members
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  • Silence Of The Lambs - Blu-ray (1991)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Jodie Foster,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 2,600 members
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  • Freejack on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Mick Jagger,  Anthony Hopkins,  David Johansen
    Director: Geoff Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Racing car driver Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) is heading into a fatal car crash when he is plucked from his seat and transported twenty years into the future. He has been brought forward in time by Vacendak (Mick Jagger), a mercenary hired to recapture a body from the past so that it might be ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 951 members
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  • Silence Of The Lambs on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Jodie Foster,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 69,924 members
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  • Desperate Hours on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Mickey Rourke,  Mimi Rogers
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fast-paced thriller starring Mickey Rourke as a psychotic killer on the run. When Michael Bosworth (Rourke) takes the wealthy Cornell family hostage, the various members are forced to reassess their lives and relationships. The father (Anthony Hopkins) gradually builds up the mental strength to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 41 members
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  • A Chorus Of Disapproval (1988)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Jeremy Irons,  Richard Briers
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 254 members
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  • The Tenth Man on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Timothy Watson,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Anthony Hopkins stars in this World War II drama as Chavel, a wealthy lawyer in a small French village, who is taken hostage by the Nazis and sentenced to death. Awaiting his execution, he meets another prisoner and convinces him to chage places, promising to pass on a fortune to the man's family ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 468 members
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  • 84 Charing Cross Road on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Eleanor David,  Maurice Denham
    Director: David Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,829 members
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  • Mussolini And I (1985)
    Starring: Annie Girardot,  Anthony Hopkins,  Susan Sarandon
    Director: Alberto Negrin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The darkest days of World War II set the backdrop for this made-for-TV drama about the turbulent life and death of Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist dictator, popularly known as Il Duce. This historic drama follows Mussolini (Bob Hoskins) from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 104 members
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  • Guilty Conscience on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Wiley Harker,  Blythe Danner
    Director: David Greene
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Mid-1980s US TV crime drama starring Anthony Hopkins as criminal defence 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 37 members
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  • Arch of Triumph on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Donald Pleasence,  Lesley-Anne Down
    Director: Waris Hussein
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Made-for-TV wartime romance starring Anthony Hopkins and Lesley-Anne Down as ill-fated lovers trying to escape occupied Paris. Recently escaped from a concentration camp, Austrian Dr. Ravic (Hopkins) manages to prevent jilted mistress Joan Madou (Down) from committing suicide. As the two fall in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 138 members
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  • The Bounty on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Bernard Hill
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A revisionist remake of the famous maritime story. Captain William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) is in charge of the Bounty as it endures a long and harrowing voyage across the South Seas. When the ship reaches Tahiti, and the crew go to shore in search of breadfruit, they soon become used to the island ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,666 members
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  • The Hunchback Of Notre Dame on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  David Suchet,  John Gi
    Director: Michael Tuchner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Made-for-TV film adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel with Anthony Hopkins in the title role as Quasimodo the hunchback, who falls for gypsy girl Esmeralda (Lesley Anne-Down). The film is set in the year 1450 against the background of the famed Paris cathedral which was recreated in Pinewood ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 129 members
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  • The Bunker on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Piper Laurie,  Cliff Gorman
    Director: George Schaefer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Made-for-television feature film drama recounting the last three months of Adolf Hitler (Anthony Hopkins)'s life spent in a bunker in Berlin. The film explores Hitler's desperation during his last few months up until his suicide and the events which followed after his body was discovered.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 104 members
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  • Othello on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Colin Lowrey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 265 members
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  • The Elephant Man on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Wendy Hiller,  John Hurt
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as The Elephant Man. Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 13,560 members
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  • The Elephant Man - Blu-ray (1980)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Wendy Hiller,  John Hurt
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Brutalised in childhood for his appalling deformities, 'Elephant Man' John Merrick (John Hurt) has been treated as a human freak ever since. When he is discovered by London doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins), Merrick is finally treated with the kindness and intelligence he deserves. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 762 members
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  • A Change of Seasons on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Anthony Hopkins,  Bo Derek
    Director: Richard Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 42 members
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  • Magic on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Ed Lauter,  Anthony Hopkins,  Burgess Meredith
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Corky (Anthony Hopkins) is a nightclub entertainer whose act combines magic with ventriloquism. His dummy, Fats, accompanies him everywhere, and gives voice to all of Corky's repressed fears and desires. With Corky verging on the edge of the big time, Fats begins to take over his personality, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 683 members
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  • Audrey Rose on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Susan Swift,  Marsha Mason
    Director: Robert Wise
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This supernatural thriller stars Anthony Hopkins as a man convinced that the 12-year-old daughter of another couple is in fact his own dead daughter reincarnated. With Marsha Mason and John Beck.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 586 members
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  • Juggernaut on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Ian Holm,  Richard Harris
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A sentimental excursion becomes a voyage from hell when a disgruntled explosives expert targets a luxury liner in this white-knuckler that stars Omar Sharif, Richard Harris and Anthony Hopkins.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 481 members
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  • The Arcata Promise (1974)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  John Fraser,  Kate Nelligan
    Director: David Cunliffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Made-for-TV drama starring Anthony Hopkins as a famous actor with leisure to repent his past mistakes. Perhaps the biggest regret of Theo Gunge (Hopkins) is his treatment of Laura (Kate Nelligan), the young girl from the small town of Arcata in California whom he swore to love and protect. Theo's ..read more »
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  • All Creatures Great And Small (1974)
    Starring: Brian Stirner,  Anthony Hopkins,  Lisa Harrow
    Director: Claude Whatham
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    An autobiographical story about vet-turned novelist James Herriot's first few years in Yorkshire during the 1930s. James (Simon Ward) arrives as a newly qualified vet at a tiny Yorkshire village to assist eccentric vet Siegfried Farnon (Anthony Hopkins). Together they struggle to overcome the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 555 members
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  • Young Winston on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Patrick Magee,  Jack Hawkins,  John Mills
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Attenborough directs this biopic telling the story of Winston Churchill's early years. Covering the young Churchill's childhood, his time as a war correspondent in India, and his military experience in the Boer War, the film culminates with the future Prime Minister's first speech in the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 373 members
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  • War And Peace (5 discs) on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Faith Brook,  Anthony Hopkins,  Colin Baker
    Director: John Davies
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Anthony Hopkins stars in this lavish 1972 BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic novel. Set in Russia at the turn of the 19th century, the series follows the mixed fortunes of Pierre Bezuhov (Hopkins), the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, who along with his friend Andrei Bolkonsky (Alan Dobie) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 577 members
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  • The Edwardians (4 discs) on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Ron Moody,  Annette Crosbie
    Director: John H,  James Cellan Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Eight-part BBC drama series from 1972, starring Anthony Hopkins and Timothy West, which examines the dynamic and enterprising individuals of Edwardian Britain: an era which is accountable for some of the greatest accomplishments, and most catastrophic failures, in the country's history. Hopkins ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 57 members
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  • When Eight Bells Toll on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Anthony Hopkins,  Corin Redgrave
    Director: Etienne Perier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Anthony Hopkins stars in this high seas drama, as the Naval Secret agent on a mission to stop the hijacking of gold bullion in the Irish Sea and encountering the wrath of a small Hebridian port where boats and people have often disappeared.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 578 members
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  • The Looking Glass War on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Ralph Richardson,  Paul Rogers
    Director: Frank R. Pierson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Action thriller based on the novel by John Le Carre. In exchange for political asylum, Polish defector Leiser (Christopher Jones) agrees to return behind the Iron Curtain to confirm the suspicions of the British Security Chief that East Germany is building a rocket in violation of the disarmament ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 380 members
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  • Hamlet on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Judy Parfitt,  Anthony Hopkins,  Gordon Jackson
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Nicol Williamson takes the lead role in this star-studded 1969 version of William Shakespeare's tragedy. Prince Hamlet mourns both his father's death and his mother's remarriage to Claudius. When the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him and tells him that Claudius has poisoned him, Hamlet swears ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 139 members
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  • The Lion In Winter on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Nigel Terry,  John Castle,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Anthony Harvey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In the south of France, 1183, Henry II (Peter O'Toole) summons his family to a Christmas conference. His sons all have designs on his crown, whilst the presence of the King's mistress (Jane Merrow) adds spice to his exchanges with his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Hepburn ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,064 members
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  • Dylan Thomas - Return Journey
    Starring: Bob Kingdom
    Director: Anthony Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    This film is an interpretation of Dylan Thomas' lectures in America. The production was originally performed on stage to packed audiences, and is captured here on video. Sir Anthony Hopkins directs. Poems include 'Fern Hill', 'Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night', 'And Death Shall Have No ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 74 members
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Anthony Hopkins facts

5 most recent films

Noah - 0.5 stars
Thor - The Dark World - 4.0 stars
Red 2 - 3.0 stars
Hitchcock - Blu-ray - 0.5 stars
Hitchcock - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Silence Of The Lambs - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Elephant Man - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
A Bridge Too Far - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The World's Fastest Indian - 4.0 stars
Silence Of The Lambs - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Arcata Promise - 3 stars
Hitchcock - Blu-ray - 0.5 stars
Noah - 0.5 stars
Blunt: The Fourth Man - 0.5 stars
August - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jeffrey Tambor - 9 times - show films
David Swift - 6 times - show films
Frankie R. Faison - 6 times - show films
Faith Brook - 6 times - show films
Gary Oldman - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Richard Attenborough - 10 times - show films
John Davies - 6 times - show films
James Ivory - 5 times - show films
James Cellan Jones - 5 times - show films
Brian Farnham - 5 times - show films