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  • The Relief Of Belsen
  • The Relief Of Belsen review by Lorenzo57 from Birmingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars The Relief Of Belsen 10 July 2008
    ...Starring: Jemma Redgrave | Tobias Menzies | Simon Day | Iain Glen | Corin Redgrave Director: Justin Hardy The extraordinary story is told through dramatisation, testimo...   Read customer review

Iain Glen - filmography


  • Prisoners' Wives - Series 2 on DVD (2013)
    Starring: Polly Walker,  Pippa Haywood,  Sally Carman
    Director: Harry Bradbeer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All four episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama following the lives of women whose loved ones are serving prison sentences. In this series, two new characters appear - happily married Kim (Sally Carman), whose world is rocked when her husband is remanded after being accused of a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 20 members
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  • Game Of Thrones (5 discs) on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Harry Lloyd,  Mark Addy,  Alfie Allen
    Director: Thomas McCarthy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 13,355 members
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  • Game Of Thrones - Blu-ray (5 discs) (2011)
    Starring: Harry Lloyd,  Mark Addy,  Alfie Allen
    Director: Thomas McCarthy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 6,237 members
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  • Jack Taylor: Collection One (3 discs) on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Ralph Brown,  Tara Breathnach
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Collection of made-for-TV dramas based on the novels by Ken Bruen and starring Iain Glen as an Irish ex-cop who now works as a private investigator. 'The Pikemen' (2011) sees Jack return to Galway, newly sober and determined to stay out of trouble. Will he succeed? In 'The Magdalen Martyrs' (2011) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 36 members
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  • Harry Brown - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Emily Mortimer,  Iain Glen
    Director: Daniel Barber
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Gritty British thriller starring Michael Caine. Harry Brown (Caine) is a widowed ex-serviceman living a quiet, modest life on a London housing estate. When his only friend Leonard (David Bradley) is brutally murdered by a gang of thugs on the estate, Harry becomes intent on avenging his death, and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 15,538 members
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  • Harry Brown on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Emily Mortimer,  Iain Glen
    Director: Daniel Barber
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Gritty British thriller starring Michael Caine. Harry Brown (Caine) is a widowed ex-serviceman living a quiet, modest life on a London housing estate. When his only friend Leonard (David Bradley) is brutally murdered by a gang of thugs on the estate, Harry becomes intent on avenging his death, and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 46,699 members
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  • The Diary of Anne Frank on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Ellie Kendrick,  Tamsin Greig
    Director: Jon Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    BBC drama based on the famous wartime diary of Anne Frank (Ellie Kendrick). Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday in June 1942 just two weeks before she and her family were forced to go into hiding from the Nazis in occupied Holland. Over the next two years she wrote a moving, feisty and often ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 3,146 members
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  • The Relief Of Belsen on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Simon Day,  Tobias Menzies
    Director: Justin Hardy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Television drama about what happened when a British ambulance unit was diverted from the frontline to deal with the aftermath of the liberation of the concentration camp at Belsen. Believing they are on the way to a prisoner of war camp to assist with a medical emergency, the group are totally ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 316 members
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  • Resident Evil - Extinction on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Milla Jovovich,  Oded Fehr,  Ali Larter
    Director: Russell Mulcahy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Third film in the series based on the popular computer game. Milla Jovovich reprise her role as Alice, alone now, years after the Raccoon City disaster. Aware that she has become a liability and likely to endanger those around her, she is struggling to survive and bring down the Umbrella ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 27,105 members
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  • Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Catherine Tate,  Iain Glen,  Brittany Ashworth
    Director: Billie Eltringham
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    1960s Yorkshire. Socialist Frank Ratcliffe (Glen) takes a job in East Germany, bringing his family along for the ride. But once there, they find that all is not as rosy as they believed, and meek wife Dorothy (Tate) begins to question her husband’s leadership.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,699 member
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  • Kidnapped on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Kirstin Smith,  Adrian Dunbar
    Director: Brendan Maher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    BBC television adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Young David Balfour (James Pearson) is told by his dying father that he has an inheritance to claim as the new Laird of Shaws, kept in trust for him by his estranged uncle Ebeneezer (Adrian Dunbar). Travelling to his new ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 217 members
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  • Kingdom Of Heaven on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Orlando Bloom,  Jeremy Irons,  Liam Neeson
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Epic adventure about a common man who finds himself thrust into a decades-long war. Orlando Bloom plays a humble blacksmith who discovers that he is the son of a knght, and travels to the Holy Land to fight in the crusades. A stranger in a strange land, he serves a doomed King, falls in love with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 65,210 members
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  • Kingdom Of Heaven - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Orlando Bloom,  Jeremy Irons,  Liam Neeson
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ridley Scott's epic adventure about a common man who finds himself thrust into a decades-long war. Orlando Bloom plays a humble blacksmith who discovers that he is the son of a knght, and travels to the Holy Land to fight in the crusades. A stranger in a strange land, he serves a doomed King, falls ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,741 members
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  • The Soul Keeper (2004)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Emilia Fox,  Craig Ferguson
    Director: Roberto Faenza
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1905 a nineteen-year-old girl is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich where she has arrived from Russia in desperate condition. The girl suffers from a severe form of hysteria and refuses to eat. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time ever, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 3 members
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  • Darkness on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Giancarlo Giannini,  Lena Olin
    Director: Jaume Balaguero
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Three weeks ago, just before the lunar eclipse, American teenager Regina and her family moved into a charming old house in the remote Spanish countryside. Since then, nothing has been the same. Day by day, a strange force seems to be pulling the family apart and Regina is the only one brave enough ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 7,598 members
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  • Lara Croft - Tomb Raider on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Robert Phillips,  Julian Rhind-Tutt
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Big-screen version of the popular computer game that features the buxom heroine, Lara Croft. Angelina Jolie takes the role with her real-life father (Jon Voight) playing her father, Lord Croft, who has recently died. Lara is a well-educated English aristocrat who has a secret life; she looks for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 22,560 members
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  • Gabriel And Me on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Sean Landless,  Billy Connolly
    Director: Udayan Prasad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jimmy Spud (Sean Landless) is an 11-year-old boy from Newcastle who decides he wants to become an angel. His unemployed dad (Iain Glen) disapproves of his plans, thinking he should get into football and girls instead, but when the Archangel Gabriel (Billy Connolly) comes for a visit, young Jimmy ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 283 members
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  • Beautiful Creatures on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Tom Mannion,  Maurice Roeves
    Director: Bill Eagles
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dorothy (Susan Lynch) has decided to leave her violent heroin-addict boyfriend and make a new start for herself in London, but just as she is about to leave she witnesses a vicious attack on a young woman, Petula (Rachel Weisz), and intervenes. However, in the ensuing struggle Petula's would-be ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 943 members
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  • Wives And Daughters (2 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Justine W,  Justine Waddell
    Director: Nicholas Renton
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's unfinished novel. The decision of long-time widower Mr Gibson (Bill Paterson) to remarry has several repercussions for his daughter, Molly (Justine Waddell), who resents the arrival of her stepmother (Francesca Annis). However, Molly also acquires a stepsister, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,452 members
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  • Paranoid on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Ewen Bremner,  Jessica Alba
    Director: John Duigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Successful fashion model Chloe Keene (Jessica Alaba) has been receiving a series of upsetting anonymous phone calls and is glad when her musician boyfriend Ned (Gary Love) offers her the chance of a weekend in the country. But when Ned's wife turns up, Chloe is left stranded with Ned's mate Stan (..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 780 members
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  • Frankie's House (1992)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Sean Flynn,  Kevin Dillon
    Director: Peter Fisk
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young photographer meets Errol Flynn's son in the middle of the Vietnam war. Together they relish in taking risks which their older and war-weary colleagues shun. When they return exhausted from the nightmares of the battlefield, they seek oblivion in sex, drugs and rock and roll. Iain Glen and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5 members
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  • Mountains Of The Moon (1989)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Patrick Bergin,  Fiona Shaw
    Director: Bob Rafelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on William Harrison's biographical novel this is the tale of one of the greatest adventures of the 19th Century, the search for the source of the Nile. John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) and Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) lead two expeditions.The first ends in tragedy and both men are injured by ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 398 members
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  • The Fear (1988)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Jerome Flynn,  Susannah Harker
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All five episodes of the British crime thriller series starring Iain Glen as Carl Galton, a young gangster who makes his living from various extortion and protection rackets in Islington, North London. When Carl's younger brother is killed in a brawl in an East End bar, Carl sets out for revenge - ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 12 members
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  • Gorillas In The Mist on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Bryan Brown,  John Omirah Miluwi
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sigourney Weaver plays Diane Fossey, crusader for the protection of gorillas, in this dramatisation of her life. A dedicated scientist, Fossey devoted her whole life to studying gorillas and produced ground breaking research into their natures. But her fiercely protective nature led to frequent run-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,905 members
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  • Paris by Night (1988)
    Starring: Niamh Cusack,  Michael Gambon,  Jane Asher
    Director: David Hare
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    British playwright David Hare both wrote and directed the complicated political melodrama Paris By Night. Charlotte Rampling plays a Tory member of the European parliament, who lets absolutely nothing get in way of her ambitions. At present, Rampling is convinced that she is being blackmailed by ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 2 members
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  • City Of Vice - Series 1 (2 discs)
    Starring: Ian McDiarmid,  Iain Glen,  Fraces Magee
    Director: Justin Hardy,  Dan Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1793 the crime situation in the centre of London had reached breaking point. It was left to novelist and magistate Henry Fielding and his brother John who created 'The Bow Street Runners' to try and rid the streets of London of prostitution and crime.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 285 members
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  • Silent Scream on DVD
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Caroline Paterson,  Kenneth Glenaan
    Director: David Hayman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In 1963, Larry Winters was sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting a Soho barman. This film, based on his writings, traces his crime, his life in prison and his death from a drugs overdose in 1977.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 38 members
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Iain Glen facts

5 most recent films

Prisoners' Wives - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Game Of Thrones - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
Game Of Thrones - Season 2 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Game Of Thrones - 4.5 stars
Game Of Thrones - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Game Of Thrones - Season 2 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Game Of Thrones - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
Game Of Thrones - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Game Of Thrones - 4.5 stars
Doctor Who - Series 5 Vol.2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Pope Joan - 1.5 stars
The Soul Keeper - 2.0 stars
Paris by Night - 2.5 stars
Silent Scream - 3.0 stars
Frankie's House - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - 6 times - show films
Liam Cunningham - 5 times - show films
David Bradley - 5 times - show films
Michelle Fairley - 4 times - show films
Emilia Clarke - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Nutter - 7 times - show films
Alan Taylor - 7 times - show films
Thomas McCarthy - 7 times - show films
David Petrarca - 7 times - show films
Simon West - 3 times - show films