Joss Ackland — Actor (44)
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Jekyll & Hyde (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Jekyll & Hyde
director: David Wickes actor: Michael Caine / Cheryl Ladd …
other title: Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde / Jekyll y Hyde …
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
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The Palermo Connection (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dimenticare Palermo
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Jim Belushi / Mimi Rogers …
other title: Dimenticare Palermo / Palermo vergessen …
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
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Ghost Ship (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ghost Ship
director: Vernon Sewell actor: Dermot Walsh / Hazel Court …
other title: Le vaisseau de l'angoisse / Barco fantasma
Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.
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The Object of Beauty (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Object of Beauty
director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg actor: John Malkovich / Andie MacDowell …
other title: Attenti al ladro! / Object of Beauty - Verliebt, verwöhnt und abgebrannt …
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
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Mother's Boys (1993) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mother's Boys
director: Yves Simoneau actor: Jamie Lee Curtis / Peter Gallagher …
other title: La notte della verità / Tödliche Absichten …
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
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Royal Flash (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Royal Flash
director: 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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No Good Deed (2002) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
No Good Deed
director: Bob Rafelson actor: Samuel L. Jackson / Milla Jovovich …
other title: No Good Deed - Inganni svelati / Refém …
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.
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Katherine of Alexandria (2014) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Katherine of Alexandria
director: Michael Redwood actor: Nicole Keniheart / Jack Goddard …
other title: Katharina von Alexandrien / Katherine de Alejandría …
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of Peter O'Toole, who died before the film was released.
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Seven Days to Noon (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Seven Days to Noon
director: John Boulting / Roy Boulting actor: Barry Jones / André Morell …
other title: Minaccia atomica / Ultimatum …
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.
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The Black Windmill (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Black Windmill
director: Don Siegel actor: Michael Caine / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Il caso Drabble / Die schwarze Windmühle …
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
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Saint Jack (1979) [Movie] IMDb Skybridge TMDB WikiData
Saint Jack
director: Peter Bogdanovich actor: Ben Gazzara / Denholm Elliott …
other title: O Tatuado / Jack le Magnifique …
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
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White Mischief (1987) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
White Mischief
director: Michael Radford actor: Greta Scacchi / Charles Dance …
other title: Misfatto bianco / Die letzten Tage in Kenya …
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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It Couldn't Happen Here (1988) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
It Couldn't Happen Here
director: Jack Bond actor: Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe …
other title: Pet Shop Boys - Der Film / Pet Shop Boys – Der Film …
Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant embark upon a journey across England - but which England? Is it the half-remembered England of their childhoods, or the brutal reality of Mrs Thatcher's late-eighties England? Along the way they come across many familiar (and sinister) faces. The movie also features some of the Pet Shop Boys' most popular records.
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Olympus Force: The Key (1988) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Olympus Force: The Key
director: Robert Garofalo / James Fortune actor: Linda Thorson / John Draikas …
Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette containing a secret that can destroy the world.