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Gladiator

Gladiator (2000) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Richard Harris, Tomas Arana, Spencer Treat Clark, David Hemmings

A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his people, in this epic historical drama from director Ridley Scott. In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus (Russell Crowe) is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted ...

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Henry V

Henry V (1989) more movies like this

directed by Kenneth Branagh
featuring Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane

Kenneth Branagh makes his feature film directorial debut with this adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. After the Chorus (Derek Jacobi) introduces the play, young king of England Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) begins an angry dialogue with King Charles of France (Paul Scofield). The king's son, Dauphin (Michael Maloney), insults Henry and the ...

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Hamlet

Hamlet (1996) more movies like this

directed by Kenneth Branagh
featuring Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough, Brian Blessed, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers

At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the first to preserve Shakespeare's entire text, uncut and unabridged. Moving the action into the 19th century, Branagh cast himself in the title role and, as in his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, ...

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Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution (2006) more movies like this

directed by Len Wiseman
featuring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy

Tribes of vampires and werewolves battle for supremacy among the undead in this follow-up to the horror hit Underworld. Tracing the bloody history of the ongoing war between the Death Dealers, a gang of upper-crust vampires, and the Lycans, a pack of scruffy werewolves, Underworld: Evolution finds beautiful Death Dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) ...

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I, Claudius

I, Claudius (1975) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Wise
featuring Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, Brian Blessed, Margaret Tyzack, John Hurt

This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech impediment through prophecy becomes the Roman Empire. An aging Claudius looks back at the bizarre and treacherous times through which he's lived and sets them down ...

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Dead Again

Dead Again (1991) more movies like this

directed by Kenneth Branagh
featuring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams

Set in contemporary Los Angeles as well as the Los Angeles of the 1940s, Dead Again explores a romance between two star-crossed lovers -- and the doomed passion they shared in their last lifetime. Los Angeles detective Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) comes to the aid of mute, amnesia-victim Grace (Emma Thompson) and falls in love with her. He sets ...

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The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH (1982) more movies like this

directed by Don Bluth
featuring Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Hermione Baddeley, Arthur Malet, Peter Strauss, Derek Jacobi

Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of animators left the studio in the early '80s with the intent of creating movies in the style of Disney's classics. The Secret of NIMH is the first film Bluth produced after leaving the studio. Adapted from Robert C. O'Brien's ...

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The Odessa File

The Odessa File (1974) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi

The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon Voight plays Peter Miller, a German reporter who is investigating the whereabouts of missing Nazi war criminals. After reading the diary of a Holocaust survivor who has recently committed suicide, Miller goes on the trail of in-hiding SS officer Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell). The ...

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Othello

Othello (1965) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Burge
featuring Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi

The 1965 Othello is literally a photographed stage play: a filmed record of the National Theatre Production of 1964, as staged by John Dexter and starring Laurence Olivier. As the easily led, fatally jealous Moor of Venice, Olivier wears thick black-faced makeup and speaks in an uncharacteristically deep, bellow-like voice. Some considered his ...

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden (1987) more movies like this

directed by Alan Grint
featuring Alison Doody, Derek Jacobi, Gennie James, Lucy Gutteridge

This made-for-TV adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden stars Gennie James as spoiled-rotten Mary Lennox. When her parents die of cholera, Mary is whisked from her home in India to live in the forbidding Victorian mansion of her flint-hearted uncle (Derek Jacobi). Thanks to the friendship--and vivid imagination--of gardener's ...

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Enigma (1982) more movies like this

directed by Jeannot Szwarc
featuring Martin Sheen, Brigitte Fossey, Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi, Michel Lonsdale

Directed by TV-anthology veteran Jeannot Szwarc, Enigma has a certain small-screen "feel" to it. Adopting a musical-comedy foreign accent, Martin Sheen plays Alex Holbeck, an Iron Curtain defector who returns to East Germany at the behest of the CIA. His mission is to save five political "undesirables" from the communists. Holbeck runs up against ...

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Cadfael: St. Peter's Fair (1997) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Wise
featuring Derek Jacobi

Brother Cadfael and his fellow 12th Century holy men at Shrewsbury Abbey return in this mystery based on the novel by Ellis Peters. The festivities of the annual Shrewsbury Fair are spoiled when a travelling merchant is murdered; his harsh personality earned him few friends among the local salespeople, but Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) believes ...

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Basil (1998) more movies like this

directed by Radha Bharadwaj
featuring Jared Leto, Christian Slater, Claire Forlani, Derek Jacobi

Based on a Victorian novel by Wilkie Collins, Basil is a British-made costume drama that ended up on cable and home video. Jared Leto plays Basil, a well-to-do young aristocrat with an uptight Victorian father (Derek Jacobi). He befriends the mysterious gentleman John Mannion (Christian Slater) and falls in love with the lower-class girl Julia ...

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Cadfael: One Corpse Too Many (1994) more movies like this

directed by Graham Theakston
featuring Derek Jacobi

Based on the novel by Ellis Peters, "One Corpse Too Many" was the first of thirteen 90-minute Cadfael mysteries, focusing on the exploits of a murder-solving monk in 12th century Shrewsbury. While sifting through the bodies of rebels recently executed on the orders of King Stephan (Michael Grandage), Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi stumbles across a ...

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The Human Factor (1979) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, Joop Doderer, Derek Jacobi, Robert Morley, Ann Todd

This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a trap. Castle (Nicol Williamson) has a desk job in British intelligence. Around him are heavyweights like Col. Daintry (Richard Attenborough), Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Vernon), and Percival (Robert Morley) who will cold ...

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Cadfael: Monk's Hood (1994) more movies like this

directed by Graham Theakston
featuring Derek Jacobi

Adapted for television by Russell Lewis from the novel by Ellis Peters, "Monk's Hood" was the fourth in a series of 90-minute Cadfael mysteries. In 12th century Shrewsbury, a young man is murdered, apparently so that the killer can get his or her hands on the victim's inheritance. Investigating the case, warrior-turned-monk Brother Cadfael (Derek ...

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The Body (2001) more movies like this

directed by Jonas McCord
featuring Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, John Shrapnel, Derek Jacobi, Jason Flemyng

In this religious drama concerning the struggle between science and faith, Olivia Williams plays Sharon Golban, an Israeli archeologist who discovers a skeleton within a tomb in Jerusalem. After an intensive study and the accumulation of more information, the bones begin to resemble the remains of Jesus Christ. At this news, the Vatican decides to ...

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Breaking the Code (1996) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Wise
featuring Derek Jacobi

Originally produced for the BBC and Masterpiece Theatre, Breaking the Code tells the life story of the famed mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, the primary designer of the Turing Machine, an early computer used to solve the German Enigma code during World War II, a solution many believe was instrumental in the Allied victory. ...

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Cadfael: The Virgin in the Ice (1995) more movies like this

directed by Malcolm Mowbray
featuring Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi stars in this 12th century drama as Brother Cadfael, a former soldier in the Crusades who has become a monk but occasionally pauses in doing the Lord's work to solve the occasional mystery. In this story, Oswin, a novice under Cadfael, confesses to the rape and murder of a young nun whose body is found in a nearby stream. Convinced ...

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Strings (2004) more movies like this

directed by Anders Ronnow-Klarlund
featuring James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart

Anders Ronnow Klarlund's fantasy-action film Strings tells the tale of Hal Tara, the son of a slain ruler who sets out to settle the score with those who dispatched his father. Interestingly, all of the characters in the film are marionettes, explaining the title of the film to some degree. Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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The Wyvern Mystery (2000) more movies like this

directed by Alex Pillai
featuring Naomi Watts, Derek Jacobi, Iain Glen, Jack Davenport, Aisling O'Sullivan

This two-part British miniseries was based on a classic gothic novel by Sheridan J. LeFanu. Having inadvertently caused the death of one of his tenants, wicked Squire Fairfield (Derek Jacobi) adopted the dead man's daughter Alice (Naomi Watts). No sooner had Alice grown to womanhood that the satyr-like squire attempted to "have his way" with her. ...

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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) more movies like this

directed by Paul Cox
featuring David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Thom Hoffman, Derek Jacobi

Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to spend three months working in a colony for victims of ...

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Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) more movies like this

directed by John Maybury
featuring Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarborough

This British biographical drama probes the life of painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), critically acclaimed as the outstanding British painter of the latter half of the 20th Century. This unsympathetic portrait of Bacon (Derek Jacobi) begins when George Dyer (Daniel Craig), a small-time criminal from working-class East End environs, drops through a ...

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Three Sisters (1970) more movies like this

directed by John Sichel, Laurence Olivier
featuring Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Pumell, Derek Jacobi

Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their dream of returning to Moscow in director Laurence Olivier's 1970 film version of Three Sisters than they did in Chekhov's original 1900 play. This melancholy classic about shattered dreams, self-delusion, and compromise was ...

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The Tenth Man (1988) more movies like this

directed by Jack Gold, Richard T. Heffron
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas

Anthony Hopkins stars in this glossy TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Tenth Man. The scene is Paris, during the Nazi occupation. Hopkins plays a French lawyer who is sentenced to be executed as a reprisal for the activities of the Resistance. To escape the firing squad, Hopkins arranges for another man to take his place. That man, played by ...

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