Derek Jacobi — Actor (34)
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I, Claudius (1976) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I, Claudius
director: Martin Lisemore / Herbert Wise … actor: Derek Jacobi
other title: Jeg, Claudius / Eu, Cláudio …
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Cadfael (1994) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cadfael
director: Edith Pargeter actor: Derek Jacobi / Terrence Hardiman …
other title: Cadfael – I misteri dell’abbazia / Bruder Cadfael …
Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, and now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrewsbury Abbey, Brother Cadfael is often called on to solve murders and other crimes in and around Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in the border country where England meets Wales.
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The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
director: Paul Cox actor: Derek Jacobi / Delia Silvan …
other title: Nijinsky
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife.
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Breaking the Code (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Breaking the Code
director: Herbert Wise actor: Derek Jacobi / Alun Armstrong …
other title: Der codierte Mann / Descifrando el código
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste
director: Péter Bacsó actor: Derek Jacobi / Judy Winter …
other title: Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste
The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce him. He is knocked down on the street and is later carried home by a friend. The next day he is to fly to Budapest in order to make a report for the Stockholm television. Mattson disappears in Budapest.
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Blue Blood (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Blue Blood
director: Andrew Sinclair actor: Oliver Reed / Fiona Lewis …
other title: I diavoli n. 2 / Der Lord, der ein Diener sein wollte …
A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to the alarm of the newly hired German nanny who senses sinister, demonic intent in Tom's control of the house.
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The Medusa Touch (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Medusa Touch
director: Jack Gold actor: Richard Burton / Lino Ventura …
other title: Il tocco della medusa / Der Schrecken der Medusa …
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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Revengers Tragedy (2002) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Revengers Tragedy
director: Alex Cox actor: Christopher Eccleston / Eddie Izzard …
A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the revenge-obsessed Vindice, who has sworn to kill the evil Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered his one true love.
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Aladdin (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Aladdin
director: Timothy Forder actor: Nicky Stoter / Derek Jacobi …
other title: Aladin
A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.
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The Body (2001) [Movie] TMDB
The Body
director: Jonas McCord actor: Antonio Banderas / Olivia Williams …
other title: O Corpo / Le Tombeau …
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....
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Tolkien (2019) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Tolkien
director: Dome Karukoski actor: Nicholas Hoult / Lily Collins …
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.
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The Gathering Storm (2002) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Gathering Storm
director: Richard Loncraine actor: Albert Finney / Vanessa Redgrave …
other title: Guerra imminente / O Encontro …
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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Gladiator II (2024) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban ReviewDB
Gladiator II
5.8 (20 ratings) director: Ridley Scott actor: Paul Mescal / Denzel Washington …
other title: Il gladiatore II / Gladiador 2 …
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.
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Allelujah (2023) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Allelujah
director: Richard Eyre actor: Jennifer Saunders / Bally Gill …
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse. But there might be something more threatening to the hospital itself, more deadly than the politicians ready to shut down the place at a moment's notice.
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The Day of the Jackal (1973) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Day of the Jackal
7.3 (6 ratings) director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Edward Fox / Terence Alexander …
other title: Il giorno dello sciacallo / Sjakalen …
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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The Secret of NIMH (1982) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
The Secret of NIMH
director: Don Bluth actor: Elizabeth Hartman / Derek Jacobi …
other title: Brisby e il segreto di NIMH / Nihm: Fru Brisbys hemmelige verden …
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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Nanny McPhee (2005) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Nanny McPhee
director: Kirk Jones actor: Emma Thompson / Colin Firth …
other title: Nanny McPhee - Tata Matilda / Nanny McPhee - den fortryllende barnepige …
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.