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Albert Finney
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Albert Finney - filmography
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Amazing Grace
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Rufus Sewell
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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Big Fish - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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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 »
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Big Fish
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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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.
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Erin Brockovich
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, Albert Finney
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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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 »
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from 18,205 members
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Traffic
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Catherine Zeta Jones
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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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 »
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from 16,831 members
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Simpatico
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte
Director: Matthew Warchus
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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 »
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from 192 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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56%
from 118 members
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The Browning Version
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Greta Scacchi
Director: Mike Figgis, John K. Watson
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Watch now: £2.49
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 334 members
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Miller's Crossing
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Joel Coen
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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 »
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from 15,877 members
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The Dresser
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
Director: Peter Yates
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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 »
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from 776 members
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Wolfen
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, Diane Venora
Director: Michael Wadleigh
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Detective Dewey Wilson is investigating several strange murders in New York City. All the vicitms look as if they have been mutilated by wild animals. His investigation leads him to a group of Native Americans who tell him about the legend of a superior species that once roamed the area, but who ..read more »
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from 547 members
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Annie
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett
Director: John Huston
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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 »
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66%
from 4,696 members
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The Duellists
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox
Director: Ridley Scott
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"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 »
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Gumshoe
(1971)
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Fulton MacKay
Director: Stephen Frears
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A Liverpudlian bingo caller dreams of becoming a Bogart type private eye. He decides to advertise his services as a private investigator, and that's when his troubles really start...
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from 28 members
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Scrooge
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Albert Finney
Director: Ronald Neame
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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.
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Two For The Road
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron
Director: Stanley Donen
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After 12 years of marriage, British couple Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney find themselves wondering whether they should continue forward through life together or go their separate ways. Bickering and bliss get equal time as husband and wife remember the past in its sunny and stormy times, and ..read more »
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Tom Jones
(1963)
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Diane Cilento
Director: Tony Richardson
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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 »
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The Entertainer
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
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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 »
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The Green Man
on DVD
Starring: Albert Finney, Linda Marlowe
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
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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 »
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from 128 members
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Charlie Bubbles
on DVD
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli, Albert Finney
Director: Albert Finney
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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.
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The Playboys
Starring: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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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 »
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The Browning Version
to Watch Now
(1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine
Director: Mike Figgis, John K. Watson
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 97 minutes
"One of Albert Finney's greatest performances... Sweeping, lavish and beautiful." --Jeffrey Lyons, SNEAK PREVIEWS Dead Poet's Society. Stand And Deliver. Film fans fondly recall them as tales of a teacher who inspires his students. The Browning Version is the memorable story of a student who ..read more »
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Abortion, alcoholism and lustful adultery 28 March 2004
... It?s a first rate kitchen sink drama with grainy atmospherics in abundance.
Albert Finney is great. He plays a young, world weary factory worker. Cynical and disenchante...
Inspiring 26 April 2004
