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Michael Gambon
Sir Michael Gambon has been in such programs as The Singing Detective in which he played Philip Marlow in the BBC television serial, also as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the last six Harry Potter films. The list goes on.
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Michael Gambon - news / articles
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Gambon shuns Potter books -
27 July 2009
-Sir Michael Gambon refuses to read the Harry Potter books - because he fears it would ruin the illusion of the wizard movies.-
-The veteran actor has played the role of headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the hit films since the third instalment, Harry Potter and the Prison
Michael Gambon - what members say
review by A customer from Hampshire, England
Period drama at its best 9 June 2005
review by from Abergele, North Wales
Brilliant piece of history 13 January 2005
review by from Hampshire
Harry Potter 3.. lets see.. 27 June 2005
Michael Gambon - filmography
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Page 8
(2011)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon
Director: David Hare
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Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door ..read more »
 
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Book of Eli
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ray Stevenson, Michael Gambon, Mila Kunis
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, Allen Hughs
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In the not-too-distant future, some 30 years after the final war, a solitary man walks across the wasteland that was once America. There is no civilization here, no law. The roads belong to gangs that would murder a man for his shoes, an ounce of water -- or for nothing at all. A warrior not by ..read more »
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from 44,603 members
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: George Clooney, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep
Director: Wes Anderson
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A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book. George Clooney supplies the voice for Mr. Fox, with Meryl Streep, Bill ..read more »
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from 7,528 members
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: George Clooney, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep
Director: Wes Anderson
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A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book. George Clooney supplies the voice for Mr. Fox, with Meryl Streep, Bill ..read more »
67%
from 27,993 members
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Emma
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Jim O'Hanlon
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Beautiful, clever, and rich Emma Woodhouse is convinced she is good at matchmaking after her older sister and her governess both marry suitable husbands. No matter that as Mr Knightley dryly observes, in reality, she had nothing to do with these relationships. Yet Emma, certain of her talents, ..read more »
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from 753 members
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Brideshead Revisited
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Matthew Goode
Director: Julian Jarrold
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The latest adaptation of the novel by Evelyn Waugh centres around the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and ..read more »
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from 8,571 members
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The Baker
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Damien Lewis, Kate Ashfield, Michael Gambon
Director: Gareth Lewis
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Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for the first time in his career, he is forced to escape the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. He hides out in a remote rural village where the locals mistake him for the new baker. Forced to bake bread ..read more »
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from 879 members
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Amazing Grace
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Albert Finney
Director: Michael Apted
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"Amazing Grace" is based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce (Gruffudd), who, as a Member of Parliament, navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Elected to the House of Commons at the age of 21, and on his way to a ..read more »
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from 27,298 members
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The Good Night
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Martin Freeman, Penelope Cruz
Director: Giles Nuttgens, Jake Paltrow
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Jake Paltrow directs his sister Gwyneth in this take on the midlife crisis. Gary (Martin Freeman) was once riding high as the member of a successful pop band. Now, seven years later, the band is no more and he pays the bills by composing mediocre music for commercials. To further add to his ..read more »
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from 3,599 members
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Cranford - Complete BBC Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Director: Simon Curtis
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This is the DVD of the lavish BBC costume drama, Cranford, based on three of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels including Cranford itself. The cast boasts some of Britain's best-loved and most experienced actresses, including Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis. The ..read more »
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from 3,062 members
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Cranford - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2007)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Director: Simon Curtis
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Set in a 1840s Cranford - a small, idyllic Northern English town - where the residents are coping with a sea of change that includes a new railway network that threatens to unleash a tide of immigrant workers that the locals fear will reduce their town to lawlessness...
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from 236 members
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The Good Shepherd
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro
Director: Robert De Niro, Robert de Vico
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Edward Wilson (Damon) believes in America, and will sacrifice everything he loves to protect it, but as one of the covert founders of the CIA, Edward's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him. Everybody has secrets... but will Edward's destroy him?
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from 48,658 members
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Michael G, Clemence Po, Daniel Radcliffe
Director: Mike Newell
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This year, Hogwarts is hosting the Tri Wizard festival, and there may be a plot afoot to off Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) during the proceedings. Hermione (Emma Watson) finds a man worthy of her in competing Russian Quidditch champion Viktor Krum (Stanislav Ivaneski), to the chagrin of Ron Weaselly (..read more »
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett
Director: Wes Anderson
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With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife (Huston), a journalist (Blanchett), and a man who may or may not be his son (Wilson).
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Layer Cake
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ..read more »
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from 74,194 members
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Open Range
(2004)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening
Director: Kevin Costner
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Packed with epic action and breathtaking gunfights, Kevin Costner's Open Range is a powerful, gripping Western. Four cowboys, trying to escape their pasts, are driving cattle and living off the land on the open range - free grazing outside of the law. When ruthless, evil rancher Denton Baxtor (..read more »
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Layer Cake - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Dexter Fletcher
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ..read more »
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from 3,547 members
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Sylvia
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris
Director: Christine Jeffs
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Director Christine Jeffs takes the heartbreaking story of writer Sylvia Plath's life and suicide (which has taken on mythological significance in certain literary circles) and renders it in a palette of surprising beauty. The film paints the story in dark greens, reds and the arresting blues of a ..read more »
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from 7,170 members
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The Actors
(2003)
Starring: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Lena Headey
Director: Conor McPherson
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In this hysterical comedy of errors Michael Caine plays O'Malley, adown-on-his-luck actor, who becomes convinced he can scam the local criminals using his acting skills. He recruits Tom (played by Dylan Moran) to help him in his scheme. Inevitably both end up way over their heads in trouble!
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from 2,257 members
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Path To War
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Bruce McGill
Director: John Frankenheimer
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PATH TO WAR, directed by John Frankenheimer, focuses on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson (Michael Gambon), the successor to assassinated American president John F. Kennedy. President Johnson felt that Communism was the greatest global threat during his term in the Oval Office, and was thus ..read more »
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from 308 members
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Ali G - Indahouse - The Movie
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Gambon, Kellie Bright
Director: Mark Mylod
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By the marginal-or-miss standards of British TV spin-offs, Ali G in da House is well above adequate, even though it drags out every smart line or decent routine until they lie dead on the screen just begging for a laugh track. The film pulls back a bit from the absolute obnoxiousness of the Ali G ..read more »
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from 6,207 members
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Perfect Strangers
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Lindsay Duncan, Matthew MacFadyan
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
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Perfect Strangers is a drama about a family reunion as told from the point of view of Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen). One of Daniel's relatives, Stephen (Anton Lester), has an archive of family photographs, which he is happy to share with everyone. This leads to Daniel discovering a whole other side to ..read more »
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High Heels And Low Lifes
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Mary McCormack, Minnie Driver, Kevin McNally
Director: Mel Smith
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THELMA AND LOUISE meets BRIDGET JONES' DIARY in this madcap British caper starring Minnie Driver as Sharon, a young, working-class nurse struggling to survive the work-a-day world of London with her best friend Frances (Mary McCormack). One night, while Sharon and Frances are eavesdropping on cell ..read more »
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from 1,452 member
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Gosford Park
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant
Director: Robert Altman
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In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE ..read more »
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from 16,401 members
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Charlotte Gray
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon
Director: Gillian Armstrong
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CHARLOTTE GRAY is directed by Gillian Armstrong (MRS. SOFFEL, OSCAR AND LUCINDA) with her signature recipe for success--a love story set in beautiful scenery played by an all-star cast. Here, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) is a Scottish woman in mid-WWII, living with an adventuresome pair of young ..read more »
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from 5,527 members
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Christmas Carol - The Movie
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Simon Callow, Nicolas Cage
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
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This animated version of Charles Dickens classic story Christmas Carol adds some new touches, but primarily follows the traditional tale of the miserly and cruel Ebenezer Scrooge being confronted by a series of ghosts who show him the true meaning of Christmas. His experience leads to his ..read more »
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from 754 members
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A Monkey's Tale
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: John Hurt, Michael York, Michael Gambon
Director: Jean-Francois Laguionie
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Gavin and Kom are two carefree monkeys of the Woonko community, who live at the very tops of the trees. Far below, at the base of the trees, live another community of monkeys, the Laankos, who are deeply feared by Gavin and Kom. But when Kom falls down one day, and is rescued and taken in by the ..read more »
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from 108 members
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Wives And Daughters
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Francesca Annis, Ian Carmichael, Michael Gambon
Director: Nicholas Renton
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The BBC presents Elizabeth Gaskell's timeless tale of romance in 19th-century England. WIVES AND DAUGHTERS is the humorous and often heart-wrenching story of two single women, one sweet and one sexy, searching for love and finding nothing but trouble when the man destined for one falls for her ..read more »
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from 4,353 members
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Sleepy Hollow - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always ..read more »
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Longitude
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Ian Hart
Director: Charles Sturridge
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In LONGITUDE, an 18th-century clock maker named Jon Harrison (Michael Gambon) begins what is to become a 40-year task to invent a system for determining longitude at sea with a nautical timepiece. Meanwhile, 200 years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons) discovers Harrison's ..read more »
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from 1,575 member
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The Insider
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer
Director: Michael Mann
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Based on the article The Man Who Knew Too Much, THE INSIDER depicts the true story of Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), a successful scientist who is fired from the Brown & Williamson tobacco company for objecting to certain lab tests. He signs a confidentiality agreement to ease the company's ..read more »
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from 16,273 members
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Sleepy Hollow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always ..read more »
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from 28,318 members
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Plunkett And Macleane
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Liv Tyler
Director: Jake Scott
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Will Plunkett (Carlyle) is a common thief who teams up with aristocrat James Macleane to rob from the rich, using their combined social connections and criminal knowhow to become "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when Macleane falls in love with the daughter of one of their wealthy victims, things ..read more »
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Dancing At Lughnasa
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke
Director: Pat O'Connor
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A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Their lives are interrupted by the arrival of two men - the boy's long-lost father, who is off to Spain to fight the war against Franco, and an elderly uncle who has "..read more »
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The Wings of the Dove
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Georgio Serafini, Philip Wright, Alison Elliott
Director: Iain Softley
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A social-climbing young woman gains a foothold in the late Victorian upper crust by virtue of her wealthy and cultured aunt's social connections, but finds marriage to her true love, a poor hack journalist, incompatible with her new station. She cooks up a plan to use her lover to bilk a guileless ..read more »
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from 2,322 members
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The Innocent Sleep
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Oliver Cotton
Director: Scott Michell
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When the lifeless body of a flashy international financier is discovered hanging by the Thames, the police dismiss the death as a simple suicide. But a witness to the hanging, a homeless man, knows otherwise - and sets out with the help of a jaded reporter to prove it. Based on a true story.
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Bullet To Beijing
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Mia Sara
Director: George Mihalka
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Secret agent Harry Palmer travels to Moscow to recover a stolen biological weapon - a germ so powerful it can wipe out an entire population. He soon becomes involved in cross and double-cross as he struggles to find the carrier...
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from 180 members
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Mary Reilly
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole
Director: Stephen Frears
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In this moody and melodramatic revision of the classic horror tale, based on the novel by Valerie Martin, the Jekyll and Hyde saga is told from the point of view of the doctor's long-time maid, Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts). Despite Mary's close collaboration with the staid Dr. Jekyll (John Malkovich)..read more »
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Nothing Personal
(1995)
Starring: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
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Belfast 1975. A bomb goes off in a crowded pub and battle lines are drawn. Loyalist and Republican bosses are negotiating a cease-fire but the foot soldiers want vengeance.
Leonard a high-ranking Loyalist, orders his men to keep control but gang leader Kenny wants blood. Innocently caught in the ..read more »
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from 179 members
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A Man Of No Importance
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon
Director: Suri Krishnamma
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The passengers on bus conductor Alfie Byrne's route are treated daily to excerpts from Oscar Wilde. Each year he produces a play in the church community hall and this year wants to produce 'Salome'. He finds his leading lady in the form of Adele but being homosexual is unhappy when his sister Lily ..read more »
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Clean Slate
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, James Earl Jones
Director: Mick Jackson
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Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa. Lucien (Philippe Noiret) is the bumbling police chief of Bourkasa, a ..read more »
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from 169 members
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The Browning Version
(1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Greta Scacchi
Director: Mike Figgis, John K. Watson
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Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher of Greek and Latin at a private school, is dubbed the 'Hitler of the Lower Sixth' by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for classical literature. But as he is poised to leave the school--forced into ..read more »
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from 473 members
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Toys
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Robin Williams, Joan Cusack, Michael Gambon
Director: Barry Levinson
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Robin Williams stars in this surreal anti-war fantasy directed by Barry Levinson (RAIN MAN, DINER). Williams plays Leslie Zevo, the son of a fun-loving toymaker. Leslie and his sister, Alsatia (Joan Cusack,) grew up surrounded by their father's whimsical creations in the fantastic factory that he ..read more »
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from 2,085 members
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Mobsters
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco
Director: Michael Karbelnikoff
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Four young men from humble backgrounds rise to the top through organised crime in 1920s New York. They find that their expanding crime empire brings with it its own problems, both between themselves and among other gangsters.
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from 672 members
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Paris by Night
(1988)
Starring: Niamh Cusack, Michael Gambon, Jane Asher
Director: David Hare
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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 »
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The Singing Detective
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
Director: Jon Amiel
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In this film noir spoof from Dennis Potter, mystery author Philip Marlow checks into the hospital with a bad skin condition, and his hallucinations project his psyche into his book's fictitious character, the "Singing Detective," and into his own boyhood memories. Featuring an award-winning ..read more »
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Turtle Diary
(1985)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson
Director: John Irvin
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Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
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The Other One - Series 1
(1977)
Starring: Richard Briers, Michael Gambon
Director: John Howard D
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Ralph Tanner, is a compulsive liar, he uses any means, no matter how embarrassing, to portray himself as a worldly, 'been there, seen it, done it all' chap, whereas, in reality, he is an inexperienced incompetent. Nevertheless, his brash front is enough to impress the gullible, timid Brian whom he ..read more »
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from 67 members
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The Catholics
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Michael Gambon, Trevor Howard
Director: Jack Gold
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Set in the near future, the Catholic Church has joined with other great western religions in an ecumenical movement that has irradicated much of original religious doctrines. A group of Irish monks rebel and begin saying the mass in Latin again and are starting to receive an international following...read more »
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Nothing But The Night
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
Director: Peter Sasdy
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Atmospheric chiller NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT-- based on the novel CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT by John Blackburn -- stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as a Scotland Yard inspector and a forensics expert sent to investigate a series of mysterious deaths among the elderly caretakers of a Scottish ..read more »
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Alan Plater at ITV
Starring: Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh, James Bolam
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Jarrow-born Alan Plater was one of Britain s most cherished playwrights. Equally at home either adapting existing works or crafting his own stories, the pinnacle of his prolific output is arguably the highly successful Beiderbecke trilogy starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. Plater excelled in ..read more »
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Michael Gambon facts
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...Andrew Davies's best adaptations and the acting is superb. I especially enjoyed Michael Gambon's performance. Justine Wadell and Keeley Hawes were well cast and their 'mother...
