Vernon Dobtcheff — Actor (52)
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Sredni Vashtar (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sredni Vashtar
director: Andrew Birkin actor: Sacha Puttnam / Judy Campbell …
Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on the short story of the same name written by Hector Hugh Munro. The story concerns a slowly dying ten-year-old boy named Conradin, who lives with his strict cousin and guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. Conradin rebels against her and invents a new religion for himself, which centres on idolising a polecat-ferret he calls Sredni Vashtar; a vengeful, merciless god. The film won the BAFTA award for Best Short Film, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Far from Dallas (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Far from Dallas
director: Philippe Toledano actor: Daniel Gélin / Alexandra Stewart …
Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Baby Love (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Baby Love
director: Alastair Reid actor: Diana Dors / Linda Hayden …
other title: La pelle giovane / Piel joven
When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.
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The World of George Orwell: 1984 (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The World of George Orwell: 1984
director: Christopher Morahan actor: David Buck / Joseph O'Conor …
Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
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An Englishman Abroad (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
An Englishman Abroad
director: John Schlesinger actor: Alan Bates / Coral Browne …
other title: Un inglese espatriato / Gentleman in Moskau
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
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The Garden (1990) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Garden
director: Derek Jarman actor: Tilda Swinton / Johnny Mills …
other title: O Jardim
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
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An American Haunting (2005) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
An American Haunting
director: Courtney Solomon actor: Donald Sutherland / Sissy Spacek …
other title: Der Fluch der Betsy Bell / Assombrados - Uma História Americana …
An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface. Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
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Darling (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Darling
director: John Schlesinger actor: Julie Christie / Dirk Bogarde …
other title: Darling chérie / Darling: A Que Amou Demais
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
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Last In, First Out (1978) [Movie] TMDB
L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde
director: Claude d'Anna actor: Bruno Cremer / Donald Pleasence …
other title: L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
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Empire of the Wolves (2005) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
L'Empire des loups
director: Chris Nahon actor: Jean Reno / Arly Jover …
other title: L'impero dei lupi / Das Imperium der Wölfe …
When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them.
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Spy Who Loved Me
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Lewis Gilbert actor: Roger Moore / Barbara Bach …
other title: La spia che mi amava / James Bond: Spionen der elskede mig …
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Scent of a Woman (1974) [Movie] TMDB
Profumo di donna
director: Dino Risi actor: Vittorio Gassman / Alessandro Momo …
other title: Profumo di donna / Der Duft der Frauen …
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
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The Body (2001) [Movie] TMDB Skybridge IMDb
The Body
director: Jonas McCord actor: Antonio Banderas / Olivia Williams …
other title: O Corpo / Le Tombeau …
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....
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The Borgias (2011) [TV] TMDB
The Borgias
director: Neil Jordan actor: Jeremy Irons / François Arnaud …
other title: I Borgia - La serie / Os Bórgias …
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
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The Night of Varennes (1982) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
La Nuit de Varennes
director: Ettore Scola actor: Jean-Louis Barrault / Marcello Mastroianni …
other title: Il mondo nuovo / La Nuit de Varennes …
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
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The Invisible Boy (2014) [Movie] TMDB
Il ragazzo invisibile
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Ludovico Girardello / Valeria Golino …
other title: Il ragazzo invisibile / Der unsichtbare Junge …
Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible.
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Another Woman's Life (2012) [Movie] TMDB
La Vie d'une autre
director: Sylvie Testud actor: Juliette Binoche / Mathieu Kassovitz …
other title: La Vie d'une autre / En anden kvindes liv …
When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.
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The Day of the Jackal (1973) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Day of the Jackal
7.4 (8 ratings) director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Edward Fox / Terence Alexander …
other title: Il giorno dello sciacallo / Sjakalen …
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Merlin (1998) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Merlin
director: Steve Barron actor: Sam Neill / Paul Curran …
other title: Merlino
A retelling of the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin. Sam Neill stars in the title role in a story that covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot but also the phase in the legendary history of Britain that precedes it.
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Fiddler on the Roof
director: Norman Jewison actor: Topol / Norma Crane …
other title: Il violinista sul tetto / Spillemand på en tagryg …
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.