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I, Claudius
(1975)
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Herbert Wise
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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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V for Vendetta
(2006)
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directed by
James McTeigue
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Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt
Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is rescued by a vigilante named V (Hugo Weaving) -- a ...
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Contact
(1997)
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directed by
Robert Zemeckis
featuring
Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the seemingly unknowable: working with a group that ...
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The Field
(1990)
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directed by
Jim Sheridan
featuring
Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty
Richard Harris was nominated for several awards (including the Oscar and Golden Globe) for his performance in The Field. The time is the mid-1930s; the place, western Ireland. For many years rugged individualist Bull McCabe (Harris) has been cultivating a small plot of rented land, nurturing it from barren rock into a fertile field. Now, however, ...
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
(2001)
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directed by
John Madden
featuring
Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey
Louis de Bernières' best-selling novel of love during wartime is brought to the screen in this story that blends comedy, action, and romance. In 1940, war rages throughout Europe, but the fighting has yet to arrive on the Greek island of Cephallonia, where life continues to follow its own slow, deliberate path until word arrives that Italian ...
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Hellboy
(2004)
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directed by
Guillermo del Toro
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Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, David Hyde Pierce
Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil arrives on the screen in vivid form in this adaptation directed by distinctive horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. During World War II, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden), who has used his occult ...
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Rob Roy
(1995)
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directed by
Michael Caton-Jones
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Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir
The 18th century Scottish legend of Robert Roy MacGregor comes to life in this stylish adaptation of the swashbuckling novel by Sir Walter Scott. Liam Neeson stars as the title character, a cattle drover and proud head of a Highlands clan who takes a one thousand pound loan from the royal Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt) in order to make a profit ...
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Alien
(1979)
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directed by
Ridley Scott
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Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a ...
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The Elephant Man
(1980)
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directed by
David Lynch
featuring
Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller
John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made public when one Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony ...
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Partners
(1982)
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directed by
James Burrows
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Ryan O'Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan, Robyn Douglass, Jay Robinson
TV director James Burrows made his feature debut with this unusual film that's a situation comedy-style twist on both The Odd Couple (1968) and Cruising (1980). The murder of a male model in a gay, beachfront enclave of L.A. warrants an undercover investigation, so police officer Benson (Ryan O'Neal), a straight, macho, law-and-order type, is ...
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The Lord of the Rings
(1978)
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directed by
Ralph Bakshi
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Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Sholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard
Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi's literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, is brought to the screen in a reverent, stilted way, with Bakshi forsaking his sharp-edged animated looniness for a rotoscoped dullness. Although the film's title encompasses the entire Tolkien trilogy, this longish Bakshi ...
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King Ralph
(1991)
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directed by
David S. Ward
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John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Richard Griffiths
Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the "collateral" heirs -- people not in the direct line of decent, like cousins, great-nephews and the like. On rare occasions, these people are not even aware that they are about to be elevated to the House of Lords, and they have been living more-or-less ordinary lives. In this ...
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The Skeleton Key
(2005)
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directed by
Iain Softley
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Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Joy Bryant
A young woman discovers a terrible secret while caring for an elderly man in this supernatural thriller. Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a care provider for the aged who is hired away from the hospice where she works by Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands). Violet needs someone to help take care of her husband, Ben (John Hurt), who is in poor health and ...
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Watership Down
(1978)
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directed by
Martin Rosen
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John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Simon Cadell
Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will find poetic and moving. It doesn't pull any punches. Death -- violent, disturbing death -- is ever present, portrayed in a manner that is astonishingly honest for a cartoon. As a result, it is that rare ...
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Beyond the Gates
(2007)
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directed by
Michael Caton-Jones
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John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Dominique Horwitz
Two outsiders witness an onslaught of bloody Rwandan genocide in this fact-based drama from director Michael Caton-Jones (Scandal). In 1994, Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) is a British schoolteacher who has volunteered to spend a year at the Ecole Technique Officielle, a school in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Connor's arrival in Rwanda occurs after the ...
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The Osterman Weekend
(1983)
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directed by
Sam Peckinpah
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Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon
A man discovers that his best friends are actually spies -- or are they? -- in this thriller based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel. John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) is the host of a television news show who once a year spends a long weekend with three of his best friends from college, Bernard Osterman (Craig T. Nelson), Joseph Cardone (Chris ...
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Night Crossing
(1981)
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directed by
Delbert Mann
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John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Glynnis O'Connor, Doug McKeon, Beau Bridges
Two friends chart a daring path to freedom in this drama from Walt Disney Pictures. Peter Strelzyk (John Hurt) and Guenter Wetzel (Beau Bridges) are two men living in East Germany who can no longer tolerate the petty tyrannies of Communist rule. Together, they formulate a daring plan to escape to democratic West Germany in a hot air balloon, but ...
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Wild Bill
(1995)
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directed by
Walter Hill
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Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane, David Arquette
Maverick writer-director Walter Hill's version of the famous Wild Bill Hickok legend is a dreamscape western that is told entirely in flashback. Hickok's friend Charley Prince (John Hurt) narrates the events of Wild Bill's life while sitting at Bill's graveside. Hickok is played by Jeff Bridges as a mean, high-spirited, but gallant outlaw. He ...
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Heaven's Gate
(1981)
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directed by
Michael Cimino
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Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, John Hurt
A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism, Cimino used the historical Johnson County War incident ...
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From the Hip
(1987)
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directed by
Bob Clark
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Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin, Dan Monahan
Director Bob Clark, whose previous cinematic endeavors ran the gamut from Porky's to A Christmas Story, called the shots on From the Hip. Fresh out of law school, Robin Weathers (Judd Nelson) is hired by a law firm not known for its ethics. Weathers' first client is a man who, up to trial time, was perfectly willing to cop a plea. Instead, the ...
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Lost Souls
(2000)
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directed by
Janusz Kaminski
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Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt
A woman who has survived the touch of ultimate evil must now save one man from the same fate in order to protect the world in this supernatural thriller. Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) is a devout Catholic who is said to have been possessed by a demon as a child; she now works with Father Lareaux (John Hurt) and John Townshend (Elias Koteas), fellow ...
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Midnight Express
(1978)
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directed by
Alan Parker
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Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Irene Miracle, Paul L. Smith
Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he's caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a large amount of hashish out of the country. The crime ...
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The Proposition
(2006)
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directed by
John Hillcoat
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Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, John Hurt
An outlaw is goaded into taking on justice at its most brutal in this hard-edged Western set in rural Australia in the 1880s. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is a criminal living in the outback. He and his two brothers, Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mikey (Richard Wilson), are on the run from the law for rape and murder. Arthur is a violent and dangerous ...
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Owning Mahowny
(2003)
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directed by
Richard Kwietniowski
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin, John Hurt, Sonja Smits, Ian Tracey
A seemingly ordinary bank employee develops an obsession that could destroy his life and that of those around him in this drama. Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a quiet, unassuming employee of a bank in Toronto; he lives modestly, drives a used car, and is dating one of the bank's tellers, a sweet but mousy girl named Belinda (Minnie ...
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Jake Speed
(1986)
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directed by
Andrew Lane
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Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames, Donna Pescow
An adventure tale for movie buffs, Jake Speed deftly lifts scenes from detective films of the '40s through the '70s to bring an added dimension to its spoof of the detective and adventure genres. When a family gets word that their daughter has been kidnapped in Paris, her father comments that they should get "Jake Speed" to find her. However, Jake ...
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