James Fox — Actor (38)
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High Season (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
High Season
director: Clare Peploe actor: Jacqueline Bisset / James Fox …
other title: Alta stagione / Temporada Alta
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
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The Golden Bowl (2000) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Golden Bowl
director: James Ivory actor: Kate Beckinsale / Uma Thurman …
other title: Die goldene Schale / La Coupe d'or …
Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art. Maggie marries impoverished Italian Prince Amerigo, while Adam marries Maggie's friend Charlotte Stant. The Prince and Charlotte are having an affair, which Maggie discovers and navigates through a silent, psychological battle of wills, ultimately using her cunning to preserve her marriage and protect her father.
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The Mighty Quinn (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Mighty Quinn
director: Carl Schenkel actor: Denzel Washington / James Fox …
other title: Jamaica Cop / Big Bad Man …
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.
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Duffy (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Duffy
director: Robert Parrish actor: James Coburn / James Mason …
other title: Duffy il re del doppio gioco / Der Fuchs von Tanger …
Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.
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Celebration (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Celebration
director: John Crowley actor: James Bolam / Janie Dee …
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
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The Whistle Blower (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Whistle Blower
director: Simon Langton actor: Michael Caine / James Fox …
other title: Investigazione letale / Kreuzfeuer der Agenten …
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
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King Rat (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
King Rat
director: Bryan Forbes actor: George Segal / James Fox …
other title: Qualcuno da odiare / Man kaldte ham King …
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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The Chase (1966) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Chase
director: Arthur Penn actor: Marlon Brando / Jane Fonda …
other title: La caccia / Den djævelske jagt …
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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A Question of Attribution (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Question of Attribution
director: John Schlesinger actor: James Fox / Prunella Scales …
other title: Una questione di attribuzione
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
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Afraid of the Dark (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Afraid of the Dark
director: Mark Peploe actor: Ben Keyworth / James Fox …
other title: Occhi nel buio / Angst vor der Dunkelheit …
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
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Isadora (1968) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Isadora
director: Karel Reisz actor: Vanessa Redgrave / John Fraser …
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
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Runners (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Runners
director: Charles Sturridge actor: James Fox / Jane Asher …
other title: Runners – Ausgerissen
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
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Sympathy for the Devil (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Sympathy for the Devil
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards …
other title: One + One / Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One) …
While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
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Absolute Beginners (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Absolute Beginners
director: Julien Temple actor: Eddie O'Connell / Patsy Kensit …
other title: Principiantes / Absolute Beginners – Junge Helden …
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
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United 93 (2006) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
United 93
director: Paul Greengrass actor: J.J. Johnson / Gary Commock …
other title: Voo 93 / Flug 93 …
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Surviving Christmas with the Relatives (2018) [Movie] TMDB
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
director: James Dearden actor: Julian Ovenden / Gemma Whelan …
other title: Weihnachten mit der Familie
Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will.
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A Passage to India (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Passage to India
director: David Lean actor: Judy Davis / Victor Banerjee …
other title: Passaggio in India / Vejen til Indien …
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.