John Wood — Actor (21)
Orlando (1992) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Orlando
7.8 (5 ratings) director: Sally Potter actor: Tilda Swinton / Billy Zane
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
WarGames (1983) [Movie] Min reol IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
WarGames
7.7 (7 ratings) director: John Badham actor: Matthew Broderick / Dabney Coleman
other title: WarGames - Giochi di guerra / Jogos de Guerra
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Citizen X (1995) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Citizen X
director: Chris Gerolmo actor: Stephen Rea / Donald Sutherland
other title: Cittadino X / Cidadão X
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
The Purple Rose of Cairo
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Woody Allen actor: Mia Farrow / Jeff Daniels
other title: La rosa purpurea del Cairo / Den røde rose fra Cairo
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.
WarGames (1983) [Movie] Sukkertoppen
WarGames
director: John Badham actor: Matthew Broderick / Dabney Coleman
other title: Jeux de guerre / WarGames - Kriegsspiele
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Heartburn (1986) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Heartburn
director: Mike Nichols actor: Meryl Streep / Jack Nicholson
other title: Heartburn - Affari di cuore / Til ægteskabet os skiller
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.
The Avengers (1998) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Avengers
director: Jeremiah S. Chechik actor: Ralph Fiennes / Uma Thurman
other title: The Avengers - Agenti speciali / Hævnere i kjole og hvidt
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
Love in a Cold Climate (2001) [TV] TMDB
Love in a Cold Climate
actor: Megan Dodds / Anna Popplewell
Dramatization of Nancy Mitford's novel about three aristocratic young girls' adventures in love.
Ladyhawke (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Ladyhawke
other title: Ladyhawke og lommetyven / A Mulher Falcão
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
The Body (2001) [Movie] TMDB
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.....
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB Douban
Slaughterhouse-Five
director: George Roy Hill actor: Michael Sacks / Ron Leibman
other title: Mattatoio 5 / Slagtehus 5
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Lady Jane (1986) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Lady Jane
director: 特雷弗·纳恩 actor: Helena Bonham Carter / 加利·艾尔维斯
other title: 九日女王 / 九日皇后(台)
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love, but they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
Uncovered (1995) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Uncovered
director: Jim McBride actor: Kate Beckinsale / John Wood
other title: La tavola fiamminga / Geheimnisse
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
Sabrina (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB
Sabrina
director: Sydney Pollack actor: Harrison Ford / Julia Ormond
other title: Sabrina (y sus amores)
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger son David, a charming playboy. After the once plain Sabrina returns from a sojourn in Paris transformed into a glamorous young woman, she at long last catches David's eye. In a calculated effort to manipulate David away from her and into a more financially advantageous marriage, formidable older brother Linus devises a plan to keep them apart.
Richard III (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Richard III
director: Richard Loncraine actor: Ian McKellen / Annette Bening
other title: Riccardo III / Richard den Tredje
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
Two-Way Stretch (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Two-Way Stretch
director: Robert Day actor: Peter Sellers / Wilfrid Hyde-White
other title: Un alibi (troppo) perfetto / Spjældet tur-retur
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
That Kind of Girl (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
That Kind of Girl
director: Gerry O'Hara actor: Margaret Rose Keil / Linda Marlowe
other title: Adam und Eva
That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it was released in 1963. The film's subject is premarital sexual relationships and sexually transmitted diseases in an English 1960s millieu.
The Office Picnic (1972) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Office Picnic
director: Tom Cowan actor: John Wood / Kate Fitzpatrick
Clyde is a typical junior clerk in a public service office. He watches the budding friendship between two co-workers and he turns it into the permanent office joke. At the same time he plays out his own neurotic relationship with a bored and frustrated secretary. The cruel mass victimisation of the young lovers is carried to the annual office picnic. Office tensions are changed by the unfamiliar surroundings where the disappearance of the two lovers forces Clyde to re-examine his own shallow emotional development.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Computers... But Were Afraid to Ask (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Computers... But Were Afraid to Ask
director: Stephen Mantell actor: John Wood / Lewis Grenville
Do home computers scare you. confuse you—make you want to curl up in a ball and hide? As the computer revolution explodes into our lives, it's comforting to know there's palace to look for the answers to the practical questions you didn't want to admit you had. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Computers...but were afraid to ask is that place and host John Wood is the per- son who answers the most frequently asked questions about everything from how to choose a computer to software and peripherals. Interwoven with Wood’s explanations and advice is the story of a family buying its first computer. As the family arrives at typical stumbling blocks, Wood shows us how to avoid common problems and how to solve them if they pop up any-way. Wood's wry humor makes it easy and fun to learn what computers can and can't do and how to find the one that fits your own special needs.