James Mason — Actor (41)
Lolita (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Fighting with My Family (2019) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fighting with My Family
director: Stephen Merchant actor: Florence Pugh / Lena Headey
other title: Una famiglia al tappeto / Uma Família no Ringue
Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.
Salem's Lot (1979) [TV] TMDB
Salem's Lot
actor: David Soul / James Mason
other title: A Purificação de Salém / Brennen muss Salem
Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.
Heaven Can Wait (1978) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Heaven Can Wait
director: Warren Beatty / Buck Henry actor: Warren Beatty / Julie Christie
other title: Il paradiso può attendere / O Céu Pode Esperar
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Journey to the Center of the Earth
director: Henry Levin actor: James Mason / Arlene Dahl
other title: Viaggio al centro della Terra / Rejsen til jordens indre
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Uncertain Verification (1965) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
La verifica incerta
director: Gianfranco Baruchello / Alberto Grifi actor: Rossano Brazzi / Marcel Duchamp
other title: La verifica incerta / Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase
150.000 meters of film, 15.000 lire [Italian money, less than 145 Euro today], an old, wooden Prevost: "La verifica incerta" was born from Fifties Hollywood cinema reels sent to the “macero” (a place where silver is extracted from the film and everything else is burned). A movie made of cinema's waste products, then.
Grifi and Baruchello save the film reels from the macero and reanimate them. As if to say that nothing gets created nor destroyed, but everything is recycled. Images are meant to be seen, not destroyed.
The Verdict (1982) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
The Verdict
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Paul Newman / Charlotte Rampling
other title: Il verdetto / Dommen
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Cross of Iron (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cross of Iron
director: Sam Peckinpah actor: James Coburn / Maximilian Schell
other title: La croce di ferro / Jernkorset - og Sergent Steiner
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) [Movie] TMDB
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
director: Richard Fleischer actor: Kirk Douglas / James Mason
other title: 20.000 leghe sotto i mari / En verdensomsejling under havet
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Yellowbeard (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Yellowbeard
director: Mel Damski actor: Graham Chapman / Martin Hewitt
other title: Barbagialla, il terrore dei sette mari e mezzo / Kaptajn Guldskæg
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Julius Caesar (1953) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Julius Caesar
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Marlon Brando / James Mason
other title: Giulio Cesare / Julius Cæsar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
director: Albert Lewin actor: James Mason / Ava Gardner
other title: Pandora / Pandora und der Fliegende Holländer
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.
A Star Is Born (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Star Is Born
director: George Cukor actor: Judy Garland / James Mason
other title: È nata una stella / En stjerne fødes
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Bigger Than Life (1956) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
Bigger Than Life
director: Nicholas Ray actor: James Mason / Barbara Rush
other title: Dietro lo specchio / Giften i blodet
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) [Movie] TMDB
The Fall of the Roman Empire
director: Anthony Mann actor: Sophia Loren / Stephen Boyd
other title: La caduta dell'impero romano / Romerrigets fald
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
The Tell-Tale Heart
director: Ted Parmelee / Art Babbitt actor: Stanley Baker / James Mason
other title: 泄密的心
One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his landlord, not for greed, but because he possessed an "evil eye." The killer is never seen but his presence is felt by the use light-and-shadow to give the impression of impending disaster.
Odd Man Out (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Odd Man Out
director: Carol Reed actor: James Mason / Robert Newton
other title: Fuggiasco / Natten uden nåde
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) [TV] TMDB
Jesus of Nazareth
director: Franco Zeffirelli actor: Robert Powell / Olivia Hussey
other title: Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus von Nazareth
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.