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Jeremy Irons - news / articles
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Irons chastises politician over bankers' bonuses -
23 January 2012
-Actor Jeremy Irons used an appearance on a political TV show on Sunday (22Jan12) to tackle Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about the huge bonuses awarded to bankers.-The Brideshead Revisited star was appearing on The Andrew Marr Show to promote his new film Margin C
Jeremy Irons - what members say
review by A customer from Manchester
Good film 31 December 2004
review by rcoldbreath from London
A yelp of glee 13 December 2004
review by Al80 from Brighton, England
Much, much more like it 11 July 2007
Jeremy Irons - filmography
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Margin Call - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Jeremy Irons
Director: J.C. Chandor
Certificate: 
Investment-firm analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) uncovers sensitive information that could easily plunge the entire business into peril, inadvertently destroying the lives and careers of his colleagues in this tense thriller set during the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. Over the course ..read more »
 
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The Words
(2012)
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana
Director: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
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Rory Jansen, a struggling writer, aspires to be the next great literary voice. When he discovers a lost manuscript in a weathered attaché case, he realizes he possesses something extraordinary that he desperately wishes he had created. Rory decides to pass the work off as his own and finally ..read more »
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Margin Call
(2011)
Starring: Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Kevin Spacey
Director: J.C. Chandor
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Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) is handed an unfinished report into his company's current financials and as he completes it discovers that the place he works in is in huge financial meltdown. Delivering the news to his bosses they conduct a 24 hour meeting to discuss what can be done - to save ..read more »
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The Borgias - Series 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger
Director: Neil Jordan
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The Showtime Original Series The Borgias is the sordid saga of one of the most remarkable and legendary families in history. Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons) to the papacy, where he ..read more »
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from 1,019 member
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Appaloosa - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall
Director: Ed Harris
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The Western genre continues its resurgence with this drama from actor-director Actor Ed Harris takes only his second stab at directing, following the Oscar-winning feature POLLOCK (2000) with this spirited western. Harris draws on a strong cast, many of whom have acted with him in previous films, ..read more »
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from 2,244 members
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Appaloosa
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, Ed Harris
Director: Ed Harris
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When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg ..read more »
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from 15,694 members
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Inland Empire
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Diane Ladd, William Macy, Laura Dern
Director: David Lynch
Certificate:
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With INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch--creator of such mind-bending works as ERASERHEAD and LOST HIGHWAY--delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a film, INLAND EMPIRE takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, ..read more »
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from 9,086 members
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Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 3
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: David Tennant, Nigella Lawson, Julia Sawalha
Certificate: 
Explore the world of genealogy and learn how to trace your family history. Follow celebrities as they search into their past and find out interesting and surprising facts about their ancestors. Includes all ten episodes from the show's third series.
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from 208 members
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Eragon
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Edward Speleers, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Irons
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Certificate: 
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg - a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
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from 37,546 members
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Eragon - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Edward Speleers, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Irons
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
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Based on the first novel in Christopher Paolini's popular INHERITANCE trilogy, ERAGON is a fantastical adventure in a vein similar to that of the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. A classic story of a quest driven by destiny and set in a land where elves, magicians, and humans ..read more »
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from 3,058 members
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Inland Empire - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Diane Ladd, William Macy, Laura Dern
Director: David Lynch
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
With INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch--creator of such mind-bending works as ERASERHEAD and LOST HIGHWAY--delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a film, INLAND EMPIRE takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, ..read more »
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from 313 members
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Elizabeth I
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Patrick Malahide
Director: Tom Hooper
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Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, reunited a nation divided by religious strife, faced down the Spanish Armada and, after an unprecedented 45-year reign, died one of England's best-loved monarchs. During her time as Queen, poets and playwrights wrote about her, artists painted her, composers ..read more »
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from 3,685 members
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Kingdom Of Heaven
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott confronts hundreds of years of religious conflict in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. An epic film set in Europe and the Middle East, the story follows one man's struggle to better himself and the world around him. Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a French blacksmith who is mourning the ..read more »
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from 64,624 members
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Kingdom Of Heaven - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott confronts hundreds of years of religious conflict in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. An epic film set in Europe and the Middle East, the story follows one man's struggle to better himself and the world around him. Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a French blacksmith who is mourning the ..read more »
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from 3,525 members
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Casanova
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova is about to meet his match when the alluring Francesca does the one thing the notorious lover of women never thought possible - refuse him. Through disguises, subterfuges and wit, Casanova manages to get closer and closer to Francesca... but ..read more »
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from 25,251 members
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The Merchant Of Venice
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes
Director: Michael Radford
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16th Century Venice: Young nobleman Bassanio (Fiennes) has asked his friend Antonio (Irons) to lend him money in order that he might sail to Belmont and try for the hand of the fair Portia (Collins). However, Antonio's money is all tied up in his business with his ships all away at various ports. ..read more »
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from 16,049 members
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And Now Ladies And Gentlemen
(2002)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte
Director: Claude Lelouch
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Weaving several intriguing plotlines into one that culminates in an idyllic hotel paradise in Morocco, Claude Lelouch has created a stylish romantic adventure with AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Two strangers leading separate lives in different cities come together in this tale of mystery and fate. ..read more »
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The Time Machine
(2002)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law
Director: Simon Wells
Certificate:
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This adaptation of the classic sci-fi adventure tale by H.G. Wells, directed by Simon Wells (the great-grandson of the author), stars Guy Pearce as Alex Hartdegen, an absent-minded New York professor preoccupied with what passes for technology at the turn of the 20th century. However, the one thing ..read more »
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from 7,396 members
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Callas Forever
(2002)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Fanny Ardant, Joan Plowright
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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This fictionalised biopic chronicles the final years of opera meta-diva Maria Callas (Fanny Ardant), filling in the blank spots with a what if scenario. It's the late 1970s and Callas, once the greatest singer in opera, has lost her voice, been thrown over by Aristotle Onassis in favour of Jackie ..read more »
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from 342 members
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The Fourth Angel
(2001)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestley
Director: John Irvin
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Magazine editor, Jack Elgin, is left distraught after his wife and three children are murdered in a terrorist attack. The perpetrators are caught and to Jack's disbelief they are then released. It is then that he decides to take the law into his own hands and with the help of his friend Kate they ..read more »
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Dungeons And Dragons
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Richard O'Brien, Tom Baker, Bruce Payne
Director: Courtney Solomon
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In the mystical land of Izmer, a class of Mages rule by means of magic and otherworldly powers. One Mage, Profion (Jeremy Irons), wants to rule the land by himself and hopes to topple the young and inexperienced Empress Savina (Thora Birch) by acquiring her mystical scepter--the key to controlling ..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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The Man in the Iron Mask
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons
Director: Randall Wallace
Certificate:
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With a cry of "All for one and one for all!" the Musketeers return to correct the injustices perpetrated by spoiled monarch Louis XIV, whose misdeeds include imprisoning his twin brother on an island and encasing his visage in the titular mask. Teen idol Di Caprio assays the dual title role, while ..read more »
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Lolita
(1997)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella
Director: Adrian Lyne
Certificate: 
Lyne (FATAL ATTRACTION) tries his hand at a more faithful adaptation of Nabokov's novel than Kubrick was allowed to attempt in 1962. In the process, Irons gives an amazing, tortured performance as Humbert Humbert, the professor who can not control his physical desires for 12 year-old Dolores Haze (..read more »
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from 2,411 members
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Chinese Box
(1997)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung
Director: Wayne Wang
Certificate:
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John (Irons) is an English photojournalist who has spent over a decade in Hong Kong; his friend Jim (Blades) often crashes in his cramped apartment. John's unrequited love is Vivian (Gong Li) whom he aches for but has not the nerve to possess. Concurrent with England's transfer of Hong Kong back to ..read more »
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Die Hard With A Vengeance
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: John McTiernan
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Bruce Willis returns as misfit cop John McClane in the third film in the Die Hard series. McClane has fallen on hard times; after moving to New York City and breaking up with his wife, he's developed a drinking problem and has been suspended from the NYPD. However, his past comes back to haunt him ..read more »
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from 36,607 members
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Stealing Beauty
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Sinead Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marais
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier and ..read more »
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The House of the Spirits
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons
Director: Billie August
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Based on Isabel Allende's novel and set in a South American country beset by constant turmoil and bloody power struggles, this film follows three generations of the Truebas family from the 1920s through the 1970s. Just as the nation around them is at odds with itself, the family painfully and ..read more »
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Damage
(1992)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
Director: Louis Malle
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Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of ..read more »
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Waterland
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Grant Warnock
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
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Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) is a withered history teacher whose students don't find his lessons on the French Revolution worthwhile. So instead, Tom spends class time telling his students about 30 year-old family skeletons he's trying, hopelessly, to forget. Though he shares them with his students, ..read more »
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from 1,137 member
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Kafka
(1991)
Starring: Theresa Russell, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Irons
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he ..read more »
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from 68 members
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Reversal Of Fortune
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, based on defence attorney Alan Dershowitz's book, is a hypnotically eerie exploration of a dark, ambiguous event in the life of a wealthy socialite couple. Dershowitz (Ron Silver) is hired by Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) to defend him against charges that he attempted to ..read more »
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The Danny Champion Of The World
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Gavin Millar
Certificate: 
Nine year-old Danny lives in a gypsy caravan with his father William. Lord of the manor Victor Hazell is determined to own the land on which their caravan stands anyway he can. When William is snared by a man-trap Danny devises a plot that will see the obnoxious Victor Hazell off. Based on the ..read more »
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A Chorus Of Disapproval
(1988)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Richard Briers
Director: Michael Winner
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Following the death of his wife, Guy Jones (Jeremy Irons) is moved by his company to a sleepy seaside town, where, faced with knowing no-one and nights of boredom in front of the TV, he decides to join the local amateur dramatics society.
He is enthusiastically welcomed by eccentric Welsh Director,..read more »
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from 248 members
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Dead Ringers
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi Von Palleske
Director: David Cronenberg
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Director David Cronenberg based this controversial and stylish psychological horror on a bizarre true story...
Jeremy Irons delivers a disturbing performance as twin Gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle. Intrigued by the mysteries of sex and anatomy, the brothers grow from inseparable ..read more »
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from 4,110 members
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The Mission
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Director: Roland Joffe
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A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South ..read more »
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Swann in Love
(1984)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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From internationally acclaimed director Volker Schlöndorff comes Swann In Love, a tale of obsessive love set against the colorful backdrop of Paris in the 1890s. Swann (Irons) falls in love with a young courtesan, and soon finds himself tormented by his unrelenting sexual desire. Based on the novel ..read more »
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Betrayal
(1983)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge
Director: David Hugh Jones
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Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse ..read more »
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Meryl Streep
Director: Karel Reisz
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
In this dramatic film, director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Harold Pinter adapt the complex romantic novel by John Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Set in 1867, Sarah Woodrough (Meryl Streep), a beautiful young woman, is condemned by society and driven into a deep melancholy because of her ..read more »
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Faeries - The Movie
Starring: Kate Winslet, Jeremy Irons, Dougray Scott
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Nellie and George are two young children who are sent to the country whilst their parents move house. When George stumbles into Faery Land, an adventure begins where Nellie must complete three tasks in return for her brother's freedom.
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Jeremy Irons facts
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...neasy on occasions. The acting is so realistic that you can't help but warm to Jeremy Irons' character and you'll need to know what happens to the girl. Although a sad end...
