|
|
Albert Finney
What members say |
Filmography
Albert Finney - what members say
review by Tobster22 from
One of the best movies I've seen 15 September 2010
review by from Manchester, UK
Abortion, alcoholism and lustful adultery 28 March 2004
review by from Plymouth, England
Beautifully made period Gangster movie! 6 June 2006
Albert Finney - filmography
-
-
The Bourne Legacy
(2012)
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Joan Allen
Director: Tony Gilroy
Certificate: 
The fourth installment of the highly successful BOURNE series sees the return of the franchise's screenwriter, Tony Gilroy, this time stepping into the director's seat for an entry which sidelines main character Jason Bourne in order to focus on a fellow estranged assassin (Jeremy Renner). Edward ..read more »
 
100%
from 1 member
Not available for rental
-
-
The Bourne Legacy - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Joan Allen
Director: Tony Gilroy
Certificate:
The fourth installment of the highly successful BOURNE series sees the return of the franchise's screenwriter, Tony Gilroy, this time stepping into the director's seat for an entry which sidelines main character Jason Bourne in order to focus on a fellow estranged assassin (Jeremy Renner). Edward ..read more »
100%
from 1 member
Not available for rental
-
-
The Bourne Ultimatum - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen
Director: Paul Greengrass
Certificate: 
The government's most wanted amnesiac super-spy returns in this thrilling third instalment in the Jason Bourne franchise. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM picks up where the THE BOURNE SUPREMACY left off, with Bourne once again racing around the globe, desperate to uncover the secrets of his identity. Having ..read more »
83%
from 5,197 members
-
-
Amazing Grace
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Albert Finney
Director: Michael Apted
Certificate: 
"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 »
72%
from 27,298 members
-
-
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
69%
from 2,587 members
-
-
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
68%
from 544 members
Not currently released
-
-
Big Fish
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Edward Bloom has always told tall tales of his life, that charm everyone apart from his son Will. When Will's mother Sandra tries to bring the pair back together, Will must try and learn what parts of his father's epic tales of giants, witches and blizzards are fact and which are fiction.
65%
from 47,707 members
-
-
Big Fish - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
In Tim Burton's family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and vibrant ..read more »
71%
from 2,576 members
-
-
Delivering Milo
(2001)
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Albert Finney, Bridget Fonda
Director: Nick Castle
Certificate:
A lapsed guardian angel (Albert Finney) has just one day to convince a conflicted young unborn soul, Milo (Anton Yelchin), that life on earth is actually worth living, and not just a mass of pain and heartache. If Milo won't take the plunge, the order of the entire universe could be thrown off. ..read more »
75%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
Erin Brockovich
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote, Conchata Ferrell
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Certificate: 
In a world where heroes are often in short supply, the story of Erin Brockovich is an inspirational reminder of the power of the human spirit. Her passion, tenacity and steadfast desire to fight for the rights of the underdog defied the odds, her victory made even more sweet by the fact that while ..read more »
72%
from 20,565 members
-
-
Traffic
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Catherine Zeta Jones
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Certificate: 
Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless ..read more »
65%
from 18,994 members
-
-
Simpatico
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte
Director: Matthew Warchus
Certificate:
Based on the play by Shepard, SIMPATICO is the tale of a childhood friendship gone sour. When Lyle, a successful horse breeder in Kentucky, receives a desperate phone call from Vinnie, a troubled barfly living in Southern California, their shady past threatens to ruin them both once and for all. As ..read more »
45%
from 229 members
-
-
Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Albert Finney, Frances De La Tour, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Renny Rye
Certificate:
COLD LAZARUS is the second of two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live, Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared ..read more »
68%
from 78 members
-
-
Dennis Potter's Karaoke
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Hywel Bennett
Director: Renny Rye
Certificate:
A self-destructive loaner whose battle with pancreatic cancer has left him embittered and in great pain, Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) decides to focus his attention on a new screenplay entitled 'Karaoke'. A lurid tale concerning the murder of a young girl working in a seedy karaoke bar, the story ..read more »
78%
from 89 members
-
-
A Man Of No Importance
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon
Director: Suri Krishnamma
Certificate:
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 »
59%
from 187 members
-
-
The Browning Version
(1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Greta Scacchi
Director: Mike Figgis, John K. Watson
Certificate:
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 »
70%
from 473 members
Not currently released
-
-
The Playboys
(1992)
Starring: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
Certificate:
A young woman, Tara Maguire scandalises her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty. The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, ..read more »
57%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
The Green Man
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Albert Finney, Linda Marlowe, Sarah Berger
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Certificate:
Maurice Allington owns an upmarket country restaurant 10 miles outside Cambridge. Formerly an inn, The Green Man in the tradition of many old buildings, is reported to have had at least one ghost. Dr. Thomas Underhill, a 17th-century Doctor of Divinity, was rumoured to have been the perpetrator of ..read more »
64%
from 209 members
-
-
Miller's Crossing
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Joel Coen
Certificate:
Joel and Ethan Coen's third collaboration, the gangster film Miller's Crossing, stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of big-city Irish mob boss Leo (Albert Finney). The film opens with Italian mobster Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) and his second in command Eddie Dane (J.E. Freeman) ..read more »
68%
from 19,303 members
-
-
Miller's Crossing - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Joel Coen
Certificate:
An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian underboss (Jon Polito). Just as this threat erupts, the two sever their friendship when they realize that they love the same woman (Marcia ..read more »
78%
from 65 members
Not available for rental
-
-
Under The Volcano
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican Day of the Dead ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his ..read more »
60%
from 244 members
-
-
The Dresser
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
Director: Peter Yates
Certificate:
THE DRESSER is Peter Yates' intriguing look behind the scenes of a touring stage company in war-torn England, based on Ronald Harwood's play. Albert Finney stars as Sir, the ageing manager and lead actor of the troupe who begins to come undone from the pressure of touring in bombed-ravaged England. ..read more »
68%
from 998 members
-
-
Annie
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn
Director: John Huston
Certificate: 
The acclaimed and infectious stage musical gets the big screen treatment. Annie is a red-haired mop-top orphan (Aileen Quinn), yearning to break out of her dreary life in an orphanage run by an iron-fisted, boozy matron Miss Hannigan. But the little auburn angel manages to charm billionaire Oliver "..read more »
67%
from 5,354 members
-
-
Loophole
(1981)
Starring: Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Colin Blakely
Director: John Quested
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
57%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
Looker
(1981)
Starring: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey
Director: Michael Crichton
Certificate:
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the ..read more »
46%
from 10 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
Wolfen
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, Diane Venora
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Certificate:
Wolfen, a frightening horror movie based upon a novel by Whitley Strieber, is an absorbing update on the werewolf legend. Detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is assigned to investigate the strange murder of a millionaire and his wife in a downtown park. Wilson and his friend, city coroner ..read more »
56%
from 668 members
-
-
The Duellists
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate:
"To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists, trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage." Thus wrote Joseph Conrad in the opening paragraphs of the story that provides the basis for Ridley ..read more »
67%
from 1,870 member
-
-
Gumshoe
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Fulton MacKay
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Private eye Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) thinks he's Bogart -- if Bogie was a compere at a Merseyside bingo -- but his latest case may have bamboozled even Raymond Chandler himself. Accompanied by a mesmerising Andrew Lloyd Webber score, Frears' post-modern dismantling of the American detective ..read more »
64%
from 232 members
-
-
Scrooge - Blu-ray
(1970)
Starring: Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
SCROOGE was designed as a follow-up to 1968's OLIVER!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' OLIVER TWIST. The umpteenth musical version of Dickens' 1843 novelette A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SCROOGE features several sprightly Leslie Bricusse songs, including the bona fide hit 'Thank You Very ..read more »
71%
from 37 members
-
-
Scrooge
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
A delightful musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic starring Albert Finney in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, the cold-hearted miser visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve.
74%
from 957 members
-
-
Charlie Bubbles
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli, Albert Finney
Director: Albert Finney
Certificate:
Directed by and starring Albert Finney, CHARLIE BUBBLES tells the story of a working class man who has become a successful writer. He visits his estranged wife and son. CHARLIES BUBBLES sees the feature film debut of Liza Minnelli.
61%
from 136 members
-
-
Two For The Road
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron
Director: Stanley Donen
Certificate:
In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques popularized by the French nouvelle vague filmmakers. Jump cutting back and forth in time with seeming abandon, Donen and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael chronicle the 12-year ..read more »
59%
from 946 members
-
-
The Victors
(1963)
Starring: Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, George Hamilton
Director: Carl Foreman
Certificate:
War has no victors, only survivors. Killing destroys the killers as well as the killed; because it murders decency, self-respect and ultimately life itself. The story follows in the footsteps of a squad of young American solders from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce ..read more »
76%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
Tom Jones
(1963)
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Diane Cilento
Director: Tony Richardson
Certificate:
Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Fielding's classic comic novel, a sharp change of pace for a director of choleric contemporary fare, stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. A foundling whose mother is thought to be a housemaid (Joyce Redman), he's raised by her employer, the aptly ..read more »
59%
from 1,620 member
Not currently released
-
-
The Entertainer
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Laurence Olivier shocked audiences accustomed to seeing him in Shakespeare or period romances when he joined forces with the two defining figures of Britain's New Wave kitchen-sink realism, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne, by starring as third-rate seaside comedian Archie Rice ..read more »
66%
from 646 members
|
Albert Finney facts
|
...llar cast including Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Diana Quick, Edward Fox and Albert Finney among others are all thoroughly convincing, you come to sympathise with the cha...
