John Sessions — Actor (21)
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Whisky Galore (2016) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Whisky Galore
director: Gillies MacKinnon actor: Gregor Fisher / Suzy Eddie Izzard …
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
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In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
In the Bleak Midwinter
director: Kenneth Branagh actor: Michael Maloney / Richard Briers …
other title: Nel bel mezzo di un gelido inverno / Sonhos de uma noite de inverno …
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
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Castaway (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Castaway
director: Nicolas Roeg actor: Oliver Reed / Amanda Donohoe …
other title: Castaway, la ragazza venerdì / Castaway - Die Insel …
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him, but once on the island, things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies. Gradually, it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.
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The Last Station (2009) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Last Station
director: Michael Hoffman actor: Helen Mirren / Christopher Plummer …
other title: A Última Estação / Ein russischer Sommer …
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
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Victoria (2016) [TV] TMDB
Victoria
director: Daisy Goodwin actor: Jenna Coleman / Tom Hughes …
The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.
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Denial (2016) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Denial
director: Mick Jackson actor: Rachel Weisz / Tom Wilkinson …
other title: La verità negata / Negação …
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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The Bounty (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Bounty
director: Roger Donaldson actor: Mel Gibson / Anthony Hopkins …
other title: Il Bounty / Mytteriet på Bounty …
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
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Made in Dagenham (2010) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Made in Dagenham
director: Nigel Cole actor: Sally Hawkins / Bob Hoskins …
other title: We Want Sex / Det Stærke Køn …
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Belfast (2021) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Belfast
director: Kenneth Branagh actor: Jude Hill / Jamie Dornan …
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
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Filth (2013) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
Filth
director: Jon S. Baird actor: James McAvoy / Jamie Bell …
other title: Il lercio / Lixo …
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
A Midsummer Night's Dream
director: Michael Hoffman actor: Rupert Everett / Calista Flockhart …
other title: Sogno di una notte di mezza estate / En skærsommernats drøm …
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic entanglements abound in the woods, with married fairy rulers Titania and Oberon toying with various lovers and each other.
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The Iron Lady (2011) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Iron Lady
director: Phyllida Lloyd actor: Meryl Streep / Jim Broadbent …
other title: Jernladyen / A Dama de Ferro …
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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The Good Shepherd (2006) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
The Good Shepherd
director: Robert De Niro actor: Matt Damon / Angelina Jolie …
other title: The Good Shepherd - L'ombra del potere / O Bom Pastor …
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Merchant of Venice
director: Michael Radford actor: Al Pacino / Jeremy Irons …
other title: Il mercante di Venezia / Købmanden i Venedig …
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
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Gangs of New York (2002) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Gangs of New York
7.1 (7 ratings) director: Martin Scorsese actor: Leonardo DiCaprio / Daniel Day-Lewis …
other title: Gangs de Nova Iorque
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
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Legend (2015) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Legend
director: Brian Helgeland actor: Tom Hardy / Emily Browning …
other title: Lendas do Crime
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
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Gormenghast (2000) [TV] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Gormenghast
director: Malcolm McKay / Mervyn Peake actor: Jonathan Rhys Meyers / Celia Imrie …
other title: Das Schloss im Nebel - Die Legende von Gormenghast
At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.
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Mr. Holmes (2015) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Mr. Holmes
director: Bill Condon actor: Ian McKellen / Laura Linney …
other title: Mr. Holmes - Il mistero del caso irrisolto / M. Holmes
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.