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  • First Churchills, The - Part 2
  • First Churchills, The - Part 2 review by A customer from Manchester, UJ
    Rated - 5 stars SUBLIME 22 August 2005
    ...mpshire hold centre stage throughout but the supporting actors are all quality, John Standing is very good as Goldolphin with wonderful portrayal of the intrigues and treach...  

John Standing - filmography


  • Before the Rains on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Leopold Benedict,  Rahul Bose,  Nandita Das
    Director: Santosh Sivan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement, "Before the Rains" is the English language debut of acclaimed Indian director Santosh Sivan. An idealistic young Indian man finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 677 members
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  • 8.1/2 Women on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Standing,  Matthew Delamere,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Peter Greenaway
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Another erotic comedy from Peter Greenaway, 8 1/2 WOMEN takes its inspiration from one of cinema's greatest films. After a businessman (John Standing) tragically loses his wife, his son (Matthew Delamere) returns to Geneva from managing a series of Pachinko Parlors in Kyoto, Japan. When the pair ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 880 members
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  • Mad Cows on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joanna Lumley,  Anna Friel,  Greg Wise
    Director: Sarah Sugarman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In MAD COWS, Anna Friel stars as Maddy, a feisty single mother from Australia with few friends in the world, apart from the fabulous Gillian (Joanna Lumley). While searching for her baby's father, the irresponsible Alex (Greg Wise), Maddy is nabbed for unwittingly stealing a bag of frozen peas from ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 235 members
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  • Mrs Dalloway (1997)
    Starring: Vanessa Redgrave,  Natascha McElhone,  Rupert Graves
    Director: Marleen Gorris
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Critically-acclaimed adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. It's a lovely summer day and Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for an elaborate party. During the day of her party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful, vivacious and much-courted young woman. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,221 member
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  • The Woman in White (1997)
    Starring: Tara Fitzgerald,  Justine Waddell,  Andrew Lincoln
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 9 members
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  • A Touch Of Love on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Sandy Dennis,  Ian McKellen,  Michael Coles
    Director: Waris Hussein
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Pregnant after her first sexual encounter, Rosamund is determined to keep her baby no matter what interferes with her post-graduate studies, she refuses to involve the father. Then her daughter falls seriously ill and she must act fast to save the most important part of her new life.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 18 members
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  • Walk, Don't Run on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Samantha Eggar,  Jim Hutton
    Director: Charles Walters
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When an English businessman (Cary Grant, in his final performance) arrives in Tokyo, the influx of tourists for the upcoming Olympic Games makes it impossible to find lodging. He is able to talk his way into sharing an apartment with a beautiful British woman (Samantha Eggar) and finds himself ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 303 members
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  • Rabbit Fever on DVD
    Starring: Lisa Barbuscia,  Julian Rhind-Tutt,  Tara Summers
    Director: Ian Denyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Mockumentary about the joys and pitfalls of self gratification via the currently popular 'women's accoutrement' starring some unlikely actors. Bane of the existence of many a perfectly functioning hot-blooded male in the noughties, the Rampant Rabbit vibrator, has made addicts out of many an ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 194 members
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  • Before The Rains to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Leopold Benedict,  Rahul Bose,  Nandita Das
    Director: Santosh Sivan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 133 minutes
    Legendary producers Merchant Ivory, the Academy Award Winning creators of "Howard's End", "The Remains Of The Day" and "A Room With A View" present "Before The Rains", a bold, intensely beautiful tale of romance torn between two worlds. Southern India in the 1930s: against the tumultuous backdrop ..read more »
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  • Rabbit Fever to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: Lisa Barbuscia,  Julian Rhind-Tutt,  Tara Summers
    Director: Ian Denyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 86 minutes
    Rabbit Fever is the first film to follow the trials and tribulations of a group who desperately try to quit using the much-fabled rabbit vibrator! Watch the ensuing hilarity as they try to kick the habit!
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 11 members
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John Standing facts

5 most recent films

Before the Rains - 3.0 stars
The Falklands Play - 3.5 stars
8.1/2 Women - 2.0 stars
Mad Cows - 2.0 stars
The Man Who Knew Too Little - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Eagle Has Landed - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Knew Too Little - 3.5 stars
The Falklands Play - 3.5 stars
First Churchills, The - Part 2 - 3.0 stars
Walk, Don't Run - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Woman in White - 3.0 stars
A Touch Of Love - 3.0 stars
Rogue Male - 3.5 stars
Queen's Messenger - 2.0 stars
Rabbit Fever - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tara Summers - 2 times - show films
Ejji K. Umamahesh - 2 times - show films
Sienna Guillory - 2 times - show films
Indrajit - 2 times - show films
Lisa Barbuscia - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Giles - 2 times - show films
Santosh Sivan - 2 times - show films
Ian Denyer - 2 times - show films
Marleen Gorris - 1 times - show films
Joseph Brooks - 1 times - show films