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Amadeus

Amadeus (1984) more movies like this

directed by Milos Forman
featuring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice

For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Viennese "urban legend" concerning the death of 18th ...

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Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) more movies like this

directed by Mike Newell
featuring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet, John Hannah

This acclaimed British comedy centers on the intermittent romance between a charming (if slightly bumbling) Englishman and a beautiful American woman, who seem to always run into each other at weddings. Indeed, it is at the first of the title's four weddings that Charles (Hugh Grant) and Carrie (Andie McDowell) meet, enjoying a brief but fleeting ...

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) more movies like this

directed by Steve Oedekerk
featuring Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton

Overnight sensation Jim Carrey reprises his role as the eccentric detective in this follow-up to the runaway blockbuster Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The sequel finds Ace on assignment in Africa to prevent a tribal war by saving a white bat sacred to both sides. Along the way, he nearly sleeps with a seductive African princess before her wedding, ...

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James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach (1996) more movies like this

directed by Henry Selick
featuring Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Pete Postlethwaite, Miriam Margolyes, Paul Terry, Susan Sarandon

A young boy's discovery of a gigantic peach triggers an eventful journey across the sea in this strikingly designed and surprisingly twisted animated adventure. A live-action framing device establishes the dark yet fanciful mood one might expect from an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story, as young British lad James (Paul Terry) is orphaned by the ...

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Maurice

Maurice (1987) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow

Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual love. Maurice is based on E.M. Forster's suppressed 1914 novel that was held back from publication until after his death. The film takes place at Cambridge, before World War I, when homosexuality was outlawed in Great Britain. Clive (Hugh ...

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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006) more movies like this

directed by Russell Mulcahy
featuring Casper Van Dien, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Hyde, Simon Callow, Leonor Varela, David Schofield

Discover the centuries-old secrets of King Tutankhamen as two archaeologists race to recover the sacred object with the power to save the world, or destroy it, in this globe-trotting adventure starring Casper Van Dien, Jonathan Hyde, and Leonor Varela, and directed by action veteran Russell Mulcahy (Highlander). The year is 1922, and Danny ...

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Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris (1995) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam

Best known for their historical epics that examine class and social issues in British life through a thick lens of tasteful production design and good manners, director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant set their sights on an American protagonist for a change with Jefferson in Paris. As the title suggests, Jefferson in Paris deals with the ...

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Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Kyra Sedgwick, Blythe Danner, Margaret Welsh, Simon Callow, Robert Sean Leonard

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (played by real-life "Mr. and Mrs." Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward) are well-to-do residents of Kansas City in the 1940s. So far as the Bridges are concerned, however, it's the 1920s, with Mr. Bridge treating his wife like property, regarding his grown children as if they're still adolescents, and habitually voting against ...

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White (1997) more movies like this

directed by Tim Fywell
featuring Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby, Simon Callow, Ian Richardson, Andrew Lincoln

Along a dark country road in Cumberland, England, a ghoulish woman in white steps from the shadows to confront a foot traveler, Walter Hartright (Andrew Lincoln), bound for Limmeridge House three miles off. She asks senseless questions: "You don't suspect me of wrong, do you, Sir? Why do you suspect me of wrong?" Hartright assures her he suspects ...

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Bedrooms & Hallways

Bedrooms & Hallways (1999) more movies like this

directed by Rose Troche
featuring Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving, Jennifer Ehle, Simon Callow, Harriet Walter

Rose Troche (Go Fish) directed this British romantic comedy with various gay characters in London. Impish Darren (Tom Hollander) urges lonely Leo (Kevin McKidd of Trainspotting) to get a more active social life, as does neighbor Angie (Julie Graham). When friend Adam (Christopher Fulford) gets Leo to join the therapy group run by New Age-styled ...

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Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) more movies like this

directed by Jimmy T. Murakami
featuring Simon Callow, Kate Winslet, Nicolas Cage, Michael Gambon, Jane Horrocks

This animated version of Charles Dickens classic story Christmas Carol adds some new touches, but primarily follows the traditional tale of the miserly and cruel Ebenezer Scrooge being confronted by a series of ghosts who show him the true meaning of Christmas. His experience leads to his redemption allowing him to act kindly toward his employee, ...

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Victory (1995) more movies like this

directed by Mark Peploe
featuring Ho Yi, Jean Yanne, Sam Neill, Simon Callow, Willem Dafoe

This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation) is the one that stick's closest to the original story of a reclusive, hard-hearted fellow living on a private island in the Dutch East Indies who must protect his home, and the woman he comes to love, from two ...

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The Good Father (1987) more movies like this

directed by Mike Newell
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow

Anthony Hopkins stars in The Good Father as a publishing executive whose wife Julie Walters has left him, taking their son with her. Walking around like a zombie after this blow, Hopkins is brought back to life by involving himself in the profound problems of his friend Jim Broadbent. Feeling that his misguided pro-feminist stance has caused him ...

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Thunderpants (2002) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hewitt
featuring Bruce Cook, Rupert Grint, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie

The family-oriented comedy Thunderpants, directed by Peter Hewitt, concerns an unfortunate ten-year-old who suffers from nearly incessant intestinal gas issues. Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook) is shunned by much of his family and his classmates because of the unpleasant odors that are forever emanating from him. Only his nerdy friend Alan A. Allen ...

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Bob the Butler (2004) more movies like this

directed by Gary Sinyor
featuring Tom Green, Brooke Shields, Simon Callow, Benjamin B. Smith, Genevieve Buechner

The romantic comedy Bob the Butler stars Tom Green as the title character. Unable to maintain any gainful employment, Bob decides to go through the phone book in order to get a job. This leads to him enrolling in a course that teaches the students how to be a house servant. In this capacity, single mother Anne (Brooke Shields) hires him. He ...

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Surveillance (2007) more movies like this

directed by Paul Oremland
featuring Dawn Steele, Tom Harper, Sean Brennen Brosnan, Nicholas Jones, Simon Callow

A one night stand with a handsome stranger plunges a respected teacher into a dizzying plot of intrigue and espionage in this inventive paranoid thriller set in London and shot from the perspective of surveillance cameras placed throughout the city. The morning after meeting a man in a bar and taking him back home for a passionate night of ...

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Manifesto (1989) more movies like this

directed by Dusan Makavejev
featuring Camilla Soeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon Callow, Eric Stoltz, Lindsay Duncan

This film deftly combines black comedy with sharp political satire. Set in a fictional Eastern European town called Waldheim, a place "where nothing is what it seems," the action is centered around a visiting king, in whom many people are very interested for a variety of reasons. Assassination and lust figure prominently on their minds. Sandra ...

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