Mike Newell — Director (14)
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mike Newell actor: Javier Bardem / Giovanna Mezzogiorno …
other title: L'amore ai tempi del colera / Kærlighed i koleraens tid …
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
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Dance with a Stranger (1985)
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Mike Newell actor: Miranda Richardson / Rupert Everett …
other title: Ballando con uno sconosciuto / Dançando com um Estranho …
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
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Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
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Mike Newell actor: Joshua Zuehlke / Alex English …
other title: La protesta del silenzio / Schweigende Stimmen …
Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at the fingertips of the military. Knowing that the world could end with the push of a button, he protests against nuclear war by walking out on his Little League team during a game. Chuck's stunt ends up in the local paper, and as the story snowballs, basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith decides to boycott sports, too.
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Soursweet (1988)
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Mike Newell actor: Sylvia Chang / Danny Dun …
other title: La legge delle triadi / Poder amarillo
Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.
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Great Expectations (2012)
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Mike Newell actor: Jeremy Irvine / Helena Bonham Carter …
other title: Grandi speranze / Store forventninger …
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Mona Lisa Smile
Mike Newell actor: Julia Roberts / Kirsten Dunst …
other title: O Sorriso de Mona Lisa / Mona Lisas Lächeln …
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
★ 5.1 8 ratings
Mike Newell actor: Jake Gyllenhaal / Gemma Arterton …
other title: Prince of Persia - Le sabbie del tempo / Príncipe da Pérsia: As Areias do Tempo …
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Mike Newell actor: Lily James / Jessica Brown Findlay …
other title: Il club del libro e della torta di bucce di patata di Guernsey / Guernseys litterære kartoffeltærteklub …
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
★ 7.8 37 ratings
Mike Newell actor: Daniel Radcliffe / Rupert Grint …
other title: Harry Potter e il calice di fuoco / Harry Potter og flammernes pokal …
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.