Alan Bates — Actor (38)
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The Statement (2003)
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Norman Jewison actor: Michael Caine / Tilda Swinton …
other title: Caccia all'uomo / The Statement - Am Ende einer Flucht …
An ambitious Judge and an exacting Colonel re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard, an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church, Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men, determined to kill him before he's arrested.
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Secret Friends (1991)
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Dennis Potter actor: Alan Bates / Gina Bellman …
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
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John Schlesinger actor: Alan Bates / June Ritchie …
other title: Una maniera d'amare / Nur ein Hauch Glückseligkeit …
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
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Royal Flash (1975)
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Richard Lester actor: Malcolm McDowell / Alan Bates …
other title: Flashman: Den uovervindelige / Le Froussard héroïque …
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
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Mike Hodges actor: Mickey Rourke / Bob Hoskins …
other title: Una preghiera per morire / Auf den Schwingen des Todes …
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
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The Collection (1976)
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Michael Apted actor: Alan Bates / Malcolm McDowell …
Set in the rarefied world of West End boutique owners and fashion designers, The Collection takes as its departure point the moment when four elegant lives are suddenly shaken by the suggestion of infidelity. The sinister anonymous phone call that disturbs Harry Kane at four o'clock in the morning becomes increasingly hard to establish...
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The Wicked Lady (1983)
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Michael Winner actor: Faye Dunaway / Alan Bates …
other title: L'avventuriera perversa / Den onde Lady …
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978)
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Dennis Potter actor: Alan Bates / Janet Maw …
other title: Il sindaco di Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1978 BBC seven-part serial based on the eponymous 1886 book by the British novelist Thomas Hardy. The six-hour drama was written by dramatist Dennis Potter and directed by David Giles, with Alan Bates as the title character. Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and, for five guineas, sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act finally sets in, Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But eighteen years after his fateful oath, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge, and his fortunes steadily decline.
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Discovering Hamlet (2011)
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Philip Saville / Lyndy Saville actor: Gregory Doran / Jonathan Miller …
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
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Nijinsky (1980)
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Herbert Ross actor: Alan Bates / George De La Pena …
other title: Nijinski / Nijinsky, a sua História
A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who seeks to draw him away from his domineering lover.
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
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Peter Medak actor: Alan Bates / Janet Suzman …
other title: Joe Egg
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
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Georgy Girl (1966)
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Silvio Narizzano actor: Lynn Redgrave / James Mason …
other title: Georgy svegliati! / La soltera retozona …
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck-up roommate Meredith.
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The Running Man (1963)
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Carol Reed actor: Laurence Harvey / Lee Remick …
other title: Un buon prezzo per morire / Der zweite Mann …
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
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Butley (1974)
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Harold Pinter actor: Alan Bates / Jessica Tandy …
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
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An Englishman Abroad (1983)
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John Schlesinger actor: Alan Bates / Coral Browne …
other title: Un inglese espatriato / Gentleman in Moskau
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
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The Fixer (1968)
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John Frankenheimer actor: Alan Bates / Dirk Bogarde …
other title: L'uomo di Kiev / Ein Mann wie Hiob …
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kyiv. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.