Ian Richardson — Actor (17)
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.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
director: Tom Stoppard actor: Gary Oldman / Tim Roth
other title: Rosencrantz e Guildenstern sono morti / Rosenkrans og Gyldenstjerne er døde
Rosencrantz and Guildensterm, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
director: John Irvin / John le Carré actor: Alec Guinness / Michael Jayston
other title: Dame, König, As, Spion / La Taupe
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
Brazil (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB WikiData
Brazil
8.6 (25 ratings) director: Terry Gilliam actor: Jonathan Pryce / Robert De Niro
other title: Brazil: O Outro Lado do Sonho
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Joyeux Noel (2005) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Joyeux Noël
director: Christian Carion actor: Diane Kruger / Benno Fürmann
other title: Joyeux Noël: una verità dimenticata dalla storia / En dag uden krig
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
From Hell (2001) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb
From Hell
director: Allen Hughes / Albert Hughes actor: Johnny Depp / Heather Graham
other title: La vera storia di Jack lo squartatore / A Verdadeira História de Jack, o Estripador
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Marat/Sade (1967) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Marat/Sade
director: Peter Brook actor: Patrick Magee / Ian Richardson
other title: Marat-Sade / Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean-Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter der Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
House of Cards (1990) [TV] TMDB IMDb
House of Cards
director: Andrew Davies actor: Ian Richardson / Susannah Harker
other title: House of cards I (Castillo de naipes)
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
Hogfather (2007) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Hogfather
director: Vadim Jean actor: David Jason / Marc Warren
other title: Hogfather - Schaurige Weihnachten / Les Contes du disque monde
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke).
Hogfather (2006) [TV] TMDB
Hogfather
actor: David Jason / Michelle Dockery
other title: Hogfather - Schaurige Weihnachten / Les Contes du Disque-monde
On the night before Hogswatch, the holiday where kids anticipate presents from the beloved Hogfather, Death notices that the Hogfather's life-timer is lying broken on the floor of his castle. Could it be that Hogswatch will not happen this year?
B.A.P.S (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
B.A.P.S
director: Robert Townsend actor: Halle Berry / Natalie Desselle-Reid
other title: Beverly Hills Beauties / Granujas de Beverly Hills
Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world's first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Midsummer Night's Dream
director: Peter Hall actor: Derek Godfrey / Barbara Jefford
other title: Le Songe d'une nuit d'été / A Midsummer Night's Dream (film 1968)
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Charlie Muffin (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Charlie Muffin
director: Jack Gold actor: David Hemmings / Jennie Linden
other title: L'abbraccio dell'orso / A Deadly Game
Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?
102 Dalmatians (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
102 Dalmatians
director: Kevin Lima actor: Glenn Close / Gérard Depardieu
other title: La carica dei 102 - Un nuovo colpo di coda / 102 Dalmatinere
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots! Together they embark on a laugh-packed quest to outwit the ever-scheming Cruella De Vil.