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Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) more movies like this

directed by Richard Donner
featuring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor

Lethal Weapon 2 reteams Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" LA detective Martin Riggs and Riggs' partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going on thanks to characterless character witness Joe ...

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The Mighty Ducks

The Mighty Ducks (1992) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Herek
featuring Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Josef Sommer

This fill-in-the-blanks children's comedy from Disney was such a success that it spawned a number of fill-in-the-blanks sequels -- along with a real-life professional hockey team. The basic story -- outcast coach handles a team of outcast kids and turns them from losers into winners -- has been told in a number of films, including Wildcats, The ...

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The Little Prince

The Little Prince (1974) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder, Joss Ackland

Stanley Donen directed this lugubrious musical fantasy based on the classic Antoine de Saint-Exupery children's parable, featuring a musical score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- their first film score since Gigi. The simple story concerns a French aviator (Richard Kiley) who crashes his airplane in the middle of the Sahara desert and ...

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Swept From The Sea

Swept From The Sea (1997) more movies like this

directed by Beeban Kidron
featuring Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates

Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss Swaffer (Kathy Bates). Dr. Kennedy despises indentured servant Amy Foster (Rachel Weisz). Miss ...

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Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso (1996) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Diane Venora, Peter Eyre

This unusual biography of the renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is a Merchant-Ivory film. The team of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been responsible for many period dramas, including A Room with a View and Howard's End. The story of Picasso's remarkable misanthropy is told as ...

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K-19: The Widowmaker

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) more movies like this

directed by Kathryn Bigelow
featuring Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel

A real-life historical incident becomes the basis for this military thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow that's reminiscent of such submarine dramas as Das Boot (1981), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Crimson Tide (1995), and U-571 (2000). Harrison Ford stars as Captain Alexi Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer who's being given command of the ...

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No Good Deed

No Good Deed (2003) more movies like this

directed by Bob Rafelson
featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård, Doug Hutchison, Joss Ackland, Grace Zabriskie

Based on a story of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, the crime thriller The House on Turk Street was directed by veteran filmmaker Bob Rafelson. Cello-playing cop Jack Friar (Samuel L. Jackson) searches for a teenage runaway on Turk Street and ends up in the home of an elderly couple (Joss Ackland and Grace Zabriskie). The house also turns out ...

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hewitt
featuring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Bill Sadler, Joss Ackland, Pam Grier

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey find the two obtuse pals battling The Grim Reaper, God, robots, great philosophical questions, and girls -- although not necessarily in that order. In this loose parody of the Terminator movies, directed by Peter Hewitt, the ultimate has happened -- at Bill and Ted University of the future, for many years now the ...

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The Sicilian

The Sicilian (1987) more movies like this

directed by Michael Cimino
featuring Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Barbara Sukowa, Richard Bauer

Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule and make it an American state. Giuliano (Christopher Lambert) ...

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The Princess and the Goblin

The Princess and the Goblin (1992) more movies like this

directed by Joszef Gemes, Jozsef Jemes
featuring Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, Peter Murray, Rik Mayall

This animated fantasy is based on a famed fairy tale by late-19th century writer George MacDonald. It is the tale of a brave princess who teams up with the son of a miner to go underground and stop the mischievous goblins from revolting. The film spent many years in production, which explains the vocal presence of Roy Kinnear (who died in ...

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The Apple (1980) more movies like this

directed by Menahem Golan
featuring Catherine Stewart, George Gilmour, Joss Ackland, Vladek Sheybal, Grace Kennedy

Unleashed just as the disco phenomenon had peaked and was slipping out of public favor, this one-of-a-kind pop musical is set in 1994, when a Mephistophelean entrepreneur named Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) controls the international recording industry through the Worldvision Song Contest. Boogalow's wildly theatrical protégés, a decedent dance ...

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A Zed & Two Noughts (1987) more movies like this

directed by Peter Greenaway
featuring Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland

This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky enough to escape with one leg. Eventually her ...

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The Object of Beauty (1991) more movies like this

directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
featuring John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies, Joss Ackland

Michael Lindsay-Hogg wrote and directed this cool and sleek comedy about a seemingly perfect combination -- an American couple staying at a chic London hotel whose pride doesn't permit them to recognize that they are broke, and a hotel staff so brimming with proper British reserve that they can't inform the American freeloaders they need to be ...

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Nowhere to Run (1993) more movies like this

directed by Robert Harmon
featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Joss Ackland, Ted Levine, Kieran Culkin, Tiffany Taubman

An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thief who, despite his criminal past, is an essentially decent man; he ended up behind bars after taking a murder rap for his partner. Sam escapes from prison in a daring jailbreak, and he hides out on a remote farm ...

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Othello (2001) more movies like this

directed by Geoffrey Sax
featuring Del Synnott, Joss Ackland, Keeley Hawes, Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston

This British TV production of Othello is more than a mere updating of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy; with freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, the film qualifies as a "rethinking" of the 17th century Shakespearean play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London of the near ...

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I'll Be There (2003) more movies like this

directed by Craig Ferguson
featuring Craig Ferguson, Jemma Redgrave, Charlotte Church, Joss Ackland, Ralph Brown

A has-been '80s pop star whose phone stopped ringing some time ago, Paul Kerr (Craig Ferguson) is an alcoholic on a downward spiral. After crashing his motorcycle through a window and into a fountain in his estate, Paul is sent to a mental hospital on the assumption that he has become suicidal. When a woman named Rebecca (Jemma Redgrave) shows up ...

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S*P*Y*S (1974) more movies like this

directed by Irvin Kershner
featuring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Shane Rimmer

In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in this lightweight spy spoof, directed by Irvin Kershner. Gould and Sutherland play two CIA agents -- Griff and Bruland -- ...

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Jekyll and Hyde (1990) more movies like this

directed by David Wickes
featuring Joss Ackland, Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Ronald Pickup

In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde, writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his 1988 adaptation of Jack the Ripper--including props, costumes, sets, and star Michael Caine. Caine goes through the standard motions as kindly Henry Jekyll, who dabbles where Men Must Not and unleashes his beastly alter ego ...

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Rough Cut (1980) more movies like this

directed by Don Siegel
featuring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven, Patrick Magee, Joss Ackland

Notorious international jewel thief Jack Rhodes (Burt Reynolds) is out to steal $30 million in uncut diamonds in this visually opulent, uneven comedy. Chief Inspector Cyril Willis (David Niven) is Rhodes' nemesis. He wants to retire from Scotland Yard but would like to capture Rhodes as a final, dramatic cap to his career. In order to achieve his ...

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Deadly Voyage (1996) more movies like this

directed by John MacKenzie
featuring Omar Epps, Joss Ackland, David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Jean-Claude LaMarre

This made-for-cable thriller stars Omar Epps as Ofusu, one of nine asylum-seeking African refugees who sneak aboard a Russian cargo vessel en route to France. When the ship's captain (Joss Ackland) discovers the stowaways, he is reminded by his aggressively ambitious executive officer (Sean Pertwee) of France's current crackdown on illegal ...

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Project: Shadowchaser (1992) more movies like this

directed by John Eyres
featuring Martin Kove, Meg Foster, Frank Zagarino, Paul Koslo, Joss Ackland

In this exciting sci-fi thriller, a newly designed and extremely expensive android with plenty of strength but neither emotions nor a conscience busts out of a secret government lab and ends up in the hands of terrorists who commandeer the top story of a hospital and hold the daughter of the President hostage. Desperate to stop the mercenaries ...

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Dimenticare Palermo (1989) more movies like this

directed by Francesco Rosi
featuring James Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Carolina Rosi, Philippe Noiret

This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches a campaign for the legalization of heretofore illegal narcotics. Alarmed by the support it gets, Mafiosos frame the candidate for a crime he did not commit and force him to choose between joining their ranks or going to jail. ...

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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006) more movies like this

directed by Vadim Jean
featuring David Jason, David Warner, Ian Richardson, Joss Ackland, Marc Warren, Michelle Dockery

From the mind of bestselling author Terry Pratchet comes this off-the-wall holiday film. In the parallel universe of Discworld, they don't celebrate Christmas. Instead, children look forward to December 32nd, also known as Hogswatchnight, when they'll receive gifts, not from Santa Claus, but from The Hogfather. However, this year, The Hogfather ...

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Above and Beyond (2006) more movies like this

directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
featuring Richard E. Grant, Jason Priestley, Liane Balaban, Jonathan Scarfe, Joss Ackland

The World War II set romantic drama Above and Beyond concerns a young man and woman who fall in love, but must consider putting country before self in order to do what is right for the world. Richard E. Grant and Jason Priestley star in this tale of love in the RAF. Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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Great Expectations (1974) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Hardy
featuring James Mason, Joss Ackland, Margaret Leighton, Michael York, Sarah Miles

This third talking-picture version of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations stars Michael York as Pip, the humble British lad whose aspirations to become a gentleman are financed by a mysterious benefactor. We first see young Pip (played by Simon Gipps-Kent) coming to the aid of escaped convict Magwitch (James Mason). Once this episode has ...

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