Greta Scacchi — Actor (27)
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Good Morning, Babylon (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Good Morning, Babilonia
director: Paolo Taviani / Vittorio Taviani actor: Vincent Spano / Joaquim de Almeida …
other title: Good Morning, Babilonia / Good morning Babilonia
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood, designing sets for D.W. Griffith, and marry beautiful actresses. However, tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides...
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Jefferson in Paris (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Jefferson in Paris
director: James Ivory actor: Nick Nolte / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Jefferson à Paris / Jefferson en París (Los amores de un presidente) …
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
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Country Life (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Country Life
director: Michael Blakemore actor: Greta Scacchi / Kerry Fox …
other title: Vita di campagna / Country Life (film) …
Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.
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Festival in Cannes (2001) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Festival in Cannes
director: Henry Jaglom actor: Anouk Aimée / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Festival de Cannes
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?
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Rasputin (1996) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rasputin
director: Uli Edel actor: Alan Rickman / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Rasputin - Il demone nero / Raspoutine …
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.
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A Man in Love (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Un homme amoureux
director: Diane Kurys actor: Peter Coyote / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Un uomo innamorato / Leidenschaftliche Begegnung …
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
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Heat and Dust (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Heat and Dust
director: James Ivory actor: Julie Christie / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Calore e polvere / Hitze und Staub …
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.
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The Odyssey (1997) [TV] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Odyssey
director: Andrei Konchalovsky actor: Armand Assante / Greta Scacchi …
other title: L'Odissea / A Odisseia …
Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of nature, seductive enchantresses, and even journey into the bowels of the Underworld.
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The Falling (2015) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Falling
director: Carol Morley actor: Maisie Williams / Maxine Peake …
England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they attend, a mysterious epidemic of fainting breaks out that threatens the mental sanity and beliefs of the tormented people involved, both teachers and students.
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The Browning Version (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Browning Version
director: Mike Figgis actor: Albert Finney / Greta Scacchi …
other title: I ricordi di Abbey / Livets skole …
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire for 'health reasons', and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His unfaithful wife Laura tries to hurt him in any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and at least regain his own self-esteem.
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White Mischief (1987) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
White Mischief
director: Michael Radford actor: Greta Scacchi / Charles Dance …
other title: Misfatto bianco / Die letzten Tage in Kenya …
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Coca-Cola Kid
director: Dušan Makavejev actor: Eric Roberts / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Coca Cola Kid / Coca-cola Kid …
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
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Second Sight (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Das zweite Gesicht
director: Dominik Graf actor: Greta Scacchi / Thomas Schücke …
other title: Das zweite Gesicht / The Second Face …
A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.
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The Red Violin (1998) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Violon rouge
director: François Girard actor: Carlo Cecchi / Irene Grazioli …
other title: Il violino rosso / O Violino Vermelho …
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
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Defence of the Realm (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Defence of the Realm
director: David Drury actor: Gabriel Byrne / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Dossier confidenziale / Em Defesa da Verdade …
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
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Operation Finale (2018) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Operation Finale
director: Chris Weitz actor: Oscar Isaac / Ben Kingsley …
other title: Operação Final / Opération Finale …
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Bodies (2023) [TV] Skybridge IMDb TMDB
Bodies
director: Paul Tomalin actor: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd / Shira Haas …
other title: Corpos / Cadáveres
One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
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Presumed Innocent (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Presumed Innocent
director: Alan J. Pakula actor: Harrison Ford / Brian Manion Dennehy …
other title: Presunto innocente / Måske Uskyldig …
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
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Run Rabbit Run (2024) [Movie] TMDB
Run Rabbit Run
director: Daina Reid actor: Sarah Snook / Lily LaTorre …
other title: Il morso del coniglio / Huye, conejo, huye
Sarah is a fertility doctor with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter Mia, she must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.