Pete Postlethwaite — Actor (32)
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Rat (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Rat
director: Steve Barron actor: Imelda Staunton / Frank Kelly …
other title: Mi vida como una rata
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.
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Closing the Ring (2007) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Closing the Ring
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Shirley MacLaine / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Um Amor para Toda Vida / War And Destiny …
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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Sharpe's Company (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sharpe's Company
director: Tom Clegg actor: Sean Bean / Daragh O'Malley …
other title: Die Scharfschützen - Kommando ohne Wiederkehr / La compañia de Sharpe
Spain, 1812.
The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman to revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
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Sharpe's Enemy (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sharpe's Enemy
director: Tom Clegg actor: Sean Bean / Daragh O'Malley …
other title: Die Scharfschützen - Armee des Schreckens / Enemigo de Sharpe …
Portugal, 1813.
Action and romance follow Sharpe as his chosen men risk their lives on dangerous and heroic missions. Sharpe has to do battle with a gang of deserters led by an evil renegade, who uses hostages - including Sharpe's old flame - as innocent pawns in his wicked game to win a ransom. This is only the beginning of the problems facing Sharpe. A far greater threat is on the horizon. One where failure would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies.
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When the Sky Falls (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
When the Sky Falls
director: John Mackenzie actor: Joan Allen / Patrick Bergin …
other title: Allein gegen das Verbrechen / El valor de la verdad
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Kevin McNally plays her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.
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Brassed Off (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Brassed Off
director: Mark Herman actor: Ewan McGregor / Tara Fitzgerald …
other title: Grazie, signora Thatcher / Os Virtuosos …
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
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Split Second (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Split Second
director: Tony Maylam actor: Rutger Hauer / Kim Cattrall …
other title: Detective Stone / Um Segundo Para Viver …
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
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Crimetime (1996) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Crimetime
director: George Sluizer actor: Stephen Baldwin / Pete Postlethwaite …
other title: Crime Time / La hora del crimen …
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
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Thwum (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Thwum
director: Pedr James actor: Rosalind Elliot / Pete Postlethwaite …
Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his earliest television appearance. This sci-fi themed play sees UFO fanatic Bernard (Paul Moriarty) trying to convince skeptical reporter Duffy (Pete Postlethwaite) to report on the imminent landing of an alien craft. An almost complete copy – two minutes are missing – was recovered from a domestic video recording kept by director Pedr James. [adapted from wearecult.rocks] Part of the anthology series Second City Firsts.
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Dark Water (2005) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData Skybridge
Dark Water
director: Walter Salles actor: Jennifer Connelly / John C. Reilly …
other title: Águas Passadas / Dark Water - Dunkle Wasser …
Dahlia and her five-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment — dilapidated and worn — suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange happenings send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit — one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.
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Solomon Kane (2009) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Skybridge TMDB
Solomon Kane
director: MJ Bassett actor: James Purefoy / Pete Postlethwaite …
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
Distant Voices, Still Lives
director: Terence Davies actor: Freda Dowie / Pete Postlethwaite …
other title: Voci lontane... sempre presenti / Voces Distantes
Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.
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Treasure Island (1990) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban Skybridge
Treasure Island
director: Fraser Clarke Heston actor: Charlton Heston / Christian Bale …
other title: L'isola del tesoro / Skatteøen …
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
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James and the Giant Peach (1996) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban Skybridge TMDB WikiData
James and the Giant Peach
director: Henry Selick actor: Paul Terry / Miriam Margolyes …
other title: James e la pesca gigante / Jimmy og den store fersken …
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
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Romeo + Juliet (1996) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Romeo + Juliet
6.2 (17 ratings) director: Baz Luhrmann actor: Leonardo DiCaprio / Claire Danes …
other title: Romeo + Giulietta di William Shakespeare / Romeo & Julie …
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
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Animal Farm (1999) [Movie] TMDB
Animal Farm
director: John Stephenson actor: Kelsey Grammer / Ian Holm …
other title: La fattoria degli animali / A Revolução dos Bichos …
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
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Æon Flux (2005) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Æon Flux
director: Karyn Kusama actor: Charlize Theron / Marton Csokas …
other title: Æon Flux - Il futuro ha inizio / Aeon Flux
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.