Peter Medak

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Peter Medak - what members say

The Ruling Class review by zorilla from Kew, Richmond

A Class Act 27 August 2008
...Though his name rarely appears on lists of great film makers, Peter Medak is one of England's greatest directors. Born in Hungary, his family were forced to leave during t... Read customer review

Agatha Christie's Marple - By The Pricki... on DVD (2006)
Starring: Geraldine McEwan, Anthony Andrews, Greta Scacchi
Director: Peter Medak
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Bafta award winning actress Geraldine McEwan stars as Miss Marple in this new feature length adaptation. Miss Marple joins Tommy and Tuppence for the first time in murder mystery history! GERALDINE McEWAN joins GRETA SCACCHI and ANTHONY ANDREWS as the married couple who share her thirst for crime-..read more »

68% from 650 members

David Copperfield on DVD (2000)
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Sally Field, Michael Richards
Director: Peter Medak
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An exceptional star-studded cast of actors brings to life Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield. Although the youngster is treated miserably by his brutish stepfather, he is able to rise above his environment and become a successful author. Along the way, he meets a gallery of ..read more »

64% from 617 members

Species 2 on DVD (1998)
Starring: Marg Helgenberger, Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge
Director: Peter Medak
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Sil, the sex-crazed alien life form from the predecessor "Species" is now a clone named Eve (Henstridge). Eve is the acting subject of governmental experiments until a trio of astronauts returns from a trip to Mars and one starts behaving rather strangely. Astronaut Patrick Ross (Lazard) begins to ..read more »

49% from 5,394 members

Romeo is Bleeding on DVD (1993)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Anabella Sciorra
Director: Peter Medak
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A dirty cop (played by Gary Oldman) finds his greed and desire awakened when he is assigned by the Mob to murder a sexy Mafia hitwoman whilst at the same time being assigned to protect her by the FBI.

60% from 1,035 member

Let Him Have It on DVD (1991)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell
Director: Peter Medak
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Two teenagers are surprised by police during a break-in. One, epileptic with the mental age of 11 and IQ of 66 is arrested, the other, a gun-toting hood refuses to give up his weapon. Shouting Let Him Have It! to his friend, he fires, wounding one officer and killing another. Both boys face the ..read more »

69% from 1,475 member

The Krays on DVD (1989)
Starring: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Susan Fleetwood
Director: Peter Medak
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During the 1960's twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray dominated London's underworld. They emerged from their violent schooldays into leaders of their own criminal mob. Soon their personal lives crumbled, they were tried for two brutal murders and are now serving a 30 year prison sentence. Based on ..read more »

68% from 5,322 members

The Men's Club (1986)
Starring: David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Harvey Keitel
Director: Peter Medak
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A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. Thrown out, the men are not yet willing to call it a night...

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The Zorro Gay Blade (1981)
Starring: George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro
Director: Peter Medak
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When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, Don Diego Vega becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs.

43% from 19 members
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The Changeling on DVD (1980)
Starring: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Peter Medak
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This horror story stars George C. Scott as a music teacher who loses his family in a car accident and moves to Seattle in hopes of starting a new life in a grand old mansion. Unfortunately, his new home turns out to be haunted by the troublesome ghost of a murdered child bent on revenge after 70 ..read more »

65% from 2,402 members

The Odd Job (1978)
Starring: Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick
Director: Peter Medak
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Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather ..read more »

70% from 3 members
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Space 1999 - S02 E18 - Seance Spectre (1977)
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell
Director: Peter Medak
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Some subterranean miner start chanting for a planet that will cause the Moon to pass through a nebula deadly to those living at Moonbase Alpha.

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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg on DVD (1972)
Starring: Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles
Director: Peter Medak
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Alan Bates and Janet Suzman are Bri and Sheila, a teacher and his wife who have created a comic character for their mute, severely disabled daughter (the eponymous ‘Joe Egg’). The cracks in their marriage become apparent when uptight acquaintances (Peter Bowles and Sheila Gish) come to visit and ..read more »

62% from 35 members

The Ruling Class on DVD (1972)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
Director: Peter Medak
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A sprawling, bursting-at-the-seams send-up of the in-grown eccentricities of the British upper class with Peter O'Toole as one of the least crazy of the English blue-bloods -- he thinks he's Jesus Christ. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Peter O'Toole.

57% from 532 members

Let Him Have It - 3.5 stars
The Krays - 3.5 stars
Agatha Christie's Marple - By The Pricking Of My Thumbs - 3.5 stars
The Changeling - 3.5 stars
David Copperfield - 3.0 stars

The Men's Club - 3 stars
The Zorro Gay Blade - 2.0 stars
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - 3.0 stars
The Odd Job - 3.5 stars
Species 2 - 2.5 stars

Tom Bell - 5 times - show films
Gary Kemp - 3 times - show films
Alfred Lynch - 3 times - show films
Clare Holman - 3 times - show films
Jimmy Jewell - 3 times - show films