Kate Nelligan — Actor (20)
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Boy Meets Girl (1998) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Boy Meets Girl
director: Jerry Ciccoritti actor: Sean Astin / Kevin McDonald …
other title: Boy Meets Girl – Liebe wirkt Wunder
Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a family vow by marrying a man she's not in love with. Angelina settles into a neighborhood in Toronto's Little Italy longing for true love. Mike is a jaded and cynical copywriter for romance novels but has lost his faith in romantic love. In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, an enigmatic and amorous couple named Il Magnifico and Mrs. Jones set the whole neighborhood ablaze with romantic passion. While everyone seems to be falling under the spell of Cupid's arrows, Angelina and Mike meet and just might find the true love that they've been searching for.
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
How to Make an American Quilt
director: Jocelyn Moorhouse actor: Winona Ryder / Anne Bancroft …
other title: Gli anni dei ricordi / Onde Reside o Amor …
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
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Without a Trace (1983) IMDb TMDB
Without a Trace
director: Stanley R. Jaffe actor: Kate Nelligan / Judd Hirsch …
other title: Senza traccia / Sequestro Sem Pistas …
English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Alex fails to return home from school one afternoon, a frantic Selky contacts the police. Detective Al Menetti, a father himself, takes an interest in the case that quickly turns into an obsession. As a devastated Selky struggles to come to terms with Alex's disappearance, Menetti steps out from behind the badge to continue investigating.
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Control (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Il giorno prima
director: Giuliano Montaldo actor: Ben Gazzara / Kate Nelligan …
other title: Il giorno prima / O Pesadelo do Século …
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
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The Diamond Fleece (1992) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Diamond Fleece
director: Al Waxman actor: Ben Cross / Kate Nelligan …
other title: La piel del diamante / Diamantenfeuer
Jeweller Phillippe Golden purchases one of the largest diamonds ever from an auction. Diamond thief Rick Dunne is released from prison to consult in constructing safety precautions. However, Inspector Outlaw suspects that Rick may be up to his old wiles.
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Fatal Instinct (1993) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fatal Instinct
director: Carl Reiner actor: Armand Assante / Sherilyn Fenn …
other title: Fatal Instinct - Prossima apertura / Crazy Instinct …
Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.
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Eye of the Needle (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Eye of the Needle
director: Richard Marquand actor: Donald Sutherland / Kate Nelligan …
other title: La cruna dell'ago / Nålens øje …
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
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Eleni (1985) IMDb TMDB
Eleni
director: Peter Yates actor: Kate Nelligan / John Malkovich …
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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Margaret's Museum (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Margaret's Museum
director: Mort Ransen actor: Helena Bonham Carter / Clive Russell …
other title: Il museo di Margaret / Das Ende aller Träume …
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can't avoid the spectre of the pit forever.
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Up Close & Personal (1996) IMDb TMDB
Up Close & Personal
director: Jon Avnet actor: Robert Redford / Michelle Pfeiffer …
other title: Qualcosa di personale / Tid til kærlighed …
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
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The Cider House Rules (1999)
The Cider House Rules
director: 拉斯·霍尔斯道姆 actor: Tobias Vincent Maguire / Charlize Theron …
other title: Le regole della casa del sidro / Æblemostreglementet …
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?
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Dracula (1979)
Dracula
director: John Badham actor: Frank Langella / Laurence Olivier …
other title: Drácula
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
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U.S. Marshals (1998)
U.S. Marshals
director: Stuart Baird actor: Tommy Lee Jones / Wesley Snipes …
other title: U.S. Marshals - Caccia senza tregua / U.S. Marshals - A Perseguição …
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Frankie and Johnny
director: Garry Marshall actor: Al Pacino / Michelle Pfeiffer …
other title: Paura d'amare / Frankie e Johnny …
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, he develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.