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Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude (1971) more movies like this

directed by Hal Ashby
featuring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner

A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks ...

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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) more movies like this

directed by François Truffaut
featuring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spencer

In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as "firemen" to perform the necessary book burnings. This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the source material for French director François ...

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True Confessions

True Confessions (1981) more movies like this

directed by Ulu Grosbard
featuring Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Burgess Meredith, Cyril Cusack

Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators wear clerical collars. In, 1948 Los Angeles detective Tom Spellacy (Robert Duvall) is assigned to ...

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Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) more movies like this

directed by Gavin Millar
featuring Cyril Cusack, Jean Marsh, Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane

Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land, covets the other half. His principal opponents are a father-and-son team of farmers. The warm relationship between the two "good guys" hardly needs to be forced, since the roles are played by Jeremy Irons and his real-life son ...

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David Copperfield

David Copperfield (1970) more movies like this

directed by Delbert Mann
featuring Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire

This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David ...

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1984

1984 (1984) more movies like this

directed by Michael Radford
featuring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher

Directed by British filmmaker Michael Radford, Nineteen Eighty-Four is the second film adaptation of the George Orwell novel. The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of Oceania. Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a government bureaucrat whose job is rewriting history and ...

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The Homecoming

The Homecoming (1973) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hall
featuring Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston, Paul Rogers, Terence Rigby, Vivien Merchant

In The Homecoming, adapted from the play by Harold Pinter, Michael Jayston brings his wife Vivien Merchant home to visit his long-estranged family. Jayston's father Paul Rogers is a washout, his uncle Cyril Cusack is on the edge of senility, and his brothers Ian Holm and Terence Rigby are, respectively, a slimy pimp and a brutish boxer. The ...

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Waltz of the Toreadors

Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) more movies like this

directed by John Guillermin
featuring Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack

Fitzjohn (Peter Sellers) is a retired general who is miserable at home with his shrewish wife Emily (Margaret Leighton). He dreams of younger days when he enjoyed the platonic company of the beautiful Ghislaine (Dany Robin). After many years, she shows up at his door and expresses her desire to take their relationship beyond the platonic level. ...

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The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room (1949) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack, Michael Gough, Leslie Banks

Few British films were run on American TV in 1950s with such frequency as The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory). A typically multilayered effort from the Powell-Pressburger team, the film stars David Farrar as crippled munitions genius Sammy Rice. During WW II, Rice is constantly frustrated by the limits of his handicap and by the never ...

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Floods of Fear (1958) more movies like this

directed by Charles Crichton
featuring Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack, Harry H. Corbett, John Crawford

After years of suffering through lookalike MGM musicals (at least, that was his complaint), Howard Keel was able to sink his teeth into a dramatic role in the British Floods of Fear. Serving a life term for murder, Donavan (Howard Keel) breaks out of jail with sadistic convict Peebles (Cyril Cusack), taking along a wounded guard (Harry H. Corbett) ...

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Maniacs on Wheels (1951) more movies like this

directed by Jack Lee, R.Q. McNaughton
featuring Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Renée Ashershon, Bill Owen, Cyril Cusack

In this actioner, a young British factory worker living in the 1930s chucks his job in favor of motorcycle racing. He is quite successful, becomes an egomaniac, loses his wife, and learns his lesson. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Esther Waters (1948) more movies like this

directed by Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud
featuring Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton

In this costume melodrama, a virginal maid is impregnated by the footman in the household where they work. He offers to marry her, but then suddenly disappears with another woman. The next few years of the woman's life are spent trying to eke out a living for her and her son. Once again she meets the footman, who has now become a successful bookie ...

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The Spanish Gardener (1957) more movies like this

directed by Philip Leacock
featuring Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Maureen Swanson

A story of family interaction, this is an adaptation of an A.J. Cronin novel, with Dirk Bogarde in the title role. More a character study, the movie depicts an insecure man who sees his son's close relationship with their Spanish gardener and is jealous of it. Torn by the jealousy, he contrives to frame the man and have him sent off to jail, but ...

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