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Hilary and Jackie

Hilary and Jackie (1998) more movies like this

directed by Anand Tucker
featuring Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance

Perhaps inspired by the success of biopics like Shine and Amadeus, this film based on a true story -- and a book (entitled A Genius in the Family) -- also focuses on the destructive forces of being a musical genius. Hilary and Jacqueline du Pré are gifted sisters who grow up in England in the 1950s and compete for musical accolades and love. ...

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Dark Blue World

Dark Blue World (2001) more movies like this

directed by Jan Sverák
featuring Krystof Hádek, Ondrej Vetchý, Tara Fitzgerald, Oldrich Kaiser, Charles Dance

The friendship of two men is tested by war, political upheaval, and romantic rivalry in this drama from Czech filmmaker Jan Sverak, whose Kolya became an international success. Lt. Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy) is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek (Krystof Hadek). Franta and Karel ...

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Alien ³

Alien ³ (1992) more movies like this

directed by David Fincher
featuring Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover

Acclaimed director David Fincher's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor of a crash-landing on a hellish, God-forsaken prison planet. ...

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Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero (1993) more movies like this

directed by John McTiernan
featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Anthony Quinn, Art Carney, Frank McRae, Charles Dance, Mercedes Ruehl

Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a lonely eleven-year-old boy who escapes from his ...

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Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool (2003) more movies like this

directed by François Ozon
featuring Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour

François Ozon's psychological thriller Swimming Pool stars Charlotte Rampling as a mystery writer. When Sarah (Rampling) is offered the use of her publisher's vacation home, she accepts the offer. The conservative, repressed Sarah clashes with the house's other inhabitant, Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), the uninhibited daughter of the publisher. Julie ...

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China Moon

China Moon (1994) more movies like this

directed by John Bailey
featuring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio Del Toro, Charles Dance, Patricia Healy

China Moon is a slick noir thriller, nice to look at, well-acted and directed, but ultimately predictable, even to its "surprise" ending. Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) falls in love with Rachel Munro (Madeleine Stowe), the unhappily married wife of a drunken Southern aristocrat Rupert (Charles Dance). One night, tired of his beatings and abuse, Rachel ...

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Plenty

Plenty (1985) more movies like this

directed by Fred Schepisi
featuring Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting

Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the aftermath of World War II. After World War II has ended, along with her work in the French Resistance movement and an idealized love affair with a soldier, Susan ...

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The Golden Child

The Golden Child (1986) more movies like this

directed by Michael Ritchie
featuring Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong, J.L. Reate

Eddie Murphy followed up his Beverly Hills Cop success with this fantasy adventure that plops him right into the land of Ray Harryhausen and Indiana Jones. The plot revolves around a God-like youngster (J.L. Reate) known as a "golden child," who has been sent to Tibet to bring the gift of compassion to humanity. But the devil isn't idle, sending ...

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Scoop

Scoop (2006) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, Charles Dance

Both laughs and thrills are on the masthead in this comedy drama about a would-be reporter written and directed by Woody Allen. Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is an American journalism student who travels to England to visit friends. While in London, she attends a magic show where magician Sid "Splendini" Waterman (Woody Allen) brings her on ...

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In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997) more movies like this

directed by Joan Micklin Silver
featuring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elina Löwensohn, Don McKellar, Charles Dance, Chad Lowe

Rod Serling's sobering drama, originally shown on Playhouse 90, is re-made in this made-for-cable movie. The setting is the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, where Jews are either carted off to Nazi death camps or left to die in the disease-ridden squalor of the streets. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Rabbi Heller, a father who is struggling to retain his ...

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Pascali's Island (1988) more movies like this

directed by James Dearden
featuring Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren, George Murcell, Sheila Allen

The year is 1908; after centuries of unchecked power, the Ottoman empire is rapidly crumbling. As a result, Turkey's secret agents--those that haven't already been eliminated by downsizing or death--operate in a vacuum, their superiors knowing little and caring less about their activities. One such spy is Ben Kingsley, a minor bureaucrat of no ...

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The Surgeon (1995) more movies like this

directed by Carl Schenkel
featuring Isabel Glasser, James Remar, Sean Haberle, Charles Dance, Malcolm McDowell

Needles figure prominently in this blood-soaked entry in the slasher genre. It begins as psycho scientist Dr. Stein begins implanting things in baboons. Dr. Theresa McCann, a colleague at the hospital where they both work is suspicious as to the nature of the perverse professors experiments. Those suspicions increase when one of the apes suddenly ...

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The Contractor (2007) more movies like this

directed by Josef Rusnak
featuring Wesley Snipes, Elizabeth Bennett, Charles Dance, Velizar Binev, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown

Wesley Snipes plays an ex-assassin set up by his old bosses and pursued through London in this action thriller. Former sniper James Dial (Snipes) has carried around the ghosts of his last botched job ever since he failed to kill the leader of a worldwide terrorist group. After leaving the business and enduring a long exile in Montana, word gets ...

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Space Truckers (1997) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Gordon
featuring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar, Charles Dance, George Wendt

Former National Lampoon editor Ted Mann, who scripted this $27 million science-fiction comedy, calls it "the first outer-space road movie." According to Mann, the film has "no scientists, no techies, none of the usual polished, sanitary environments we're used to in our space films. Space is like anywhere else -- the people who are there are ...

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Nicholas Nickleby (2000) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Whittaker
featuring Charles Dance, James D'Arcy, Sophia Myles

This 2000 TV miniseries is based on an 1839 Charles Dickens novel, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The film begins with the burial of Mr. Nickleby beneath snow-covered earth. Attending are Nickleby's wife and teenage children, Nicholas (James D'Arcy) and Kate (Sophia Myles). Because Mr. Nickleby died broke after speculating on stocks ...

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The Blood Oranges (1997) more movies like this

directed by Philip Haas
featuring Charles Dance, Colin Lane, Sheryl Lee, Laila Robins, Rachael Bella

In this erotic drama, a couple who have devoted themselves to sexual freedom discover that their open relationship may have led them into dangerous waters. Fiona (Sheryl Lee) and Cyril (Charles Dance) are a married couple with an open relationship; they allow each other to pursue erotic pleasures with other partners at will, and they're eager to ...

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Black and White (2002) more movies like this

directed by Craig Lahiff
featuring Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn

Directed by Craig Lahiff, Black and White is a story about bigotry, social injustice, and a real-life murder trial that made Australian headlines in the late '50s. On a December afternoon in 1958, the body of a nine-year-old white girl is discovered in a cave off the coast of Southern Australia. Detective Paul Turner (Roy Billing) quickly arrests ...

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The McGuffin (1985) more movies like this

directed by Colin Bucksey
featuring Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ritza Brown, Francis Matthews, Phyllis Logan

In this standard suspense thriller, Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some ...

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Out on a Limb (1987) more movies like this

directed by Robert Butler
featuring Shirley MacLaine, Charles Dance, John Heard, Anne Jackson, Jerry Orbach

Actress/author Shirley MacLaine described her 1983 book Out on a Limb as the tale of her "personal spiritual quest." In this two-part TV-movie adaptation of the book, MacLaine plays herself, meeting the emotional challenge of passing 40 by entering into an affair with a Socialist member of the House of Commons (fictionalized as "Gerry Stamford" ...

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Century (1993) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Poliakoff
featuring Charles Dance, Miranda Richardson, Clive Owen, Robert Stephens, Lena Headey, Joan Hickson

Set near the end of 1899, as a new century is due to arrive and many people struggle to keep up with an era in flux, this drama follows the goings-on at a medical clinic operated by Professor Mandry (Charles Dance). Mandry appears somewhat progressive to his top student and right-hand man, Paul Reisner (Clive Owen), given his willingness to hire ...

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999) more movies like this

directed by Willi Patterson
featuring Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove, Charles Dance, Frank, Jane Leeves

Several American stars add marquee value to this British comedy about a single mom who's back in the dating game, whether she likes it or not. Jenny Seagrove plays Suzanne, a recently widowed woman in her 30's with two children, teenage son Ben (Ben Reynolds) and younger daughter Natalie (Ace Ryan). Suzanne is still dealing with her husband's ...

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