Eileen Atkins — Actor (29)
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She Fell Among Thieves (1978)
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Clive Donner actor: Malcolm McDowell / Eileen Atkins …
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
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Let Him Have It (1991)
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Peter Medak actor: Christopher Eccleston / Paul Reynolds …
other title: Gib's ihm Chris / L'âge de vivre …
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
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Roman Holiday (1987)
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Noel Nosseck actor: Catherine Oxenberg / Tom Conti …
other title: Vacaciones en Roma / Vacanze romane 2
Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away from her normal life. She meets with an American reporter and his photographer, who show her the sites. The reporter is initially more interested in a story than the Princess, but begins to fall for her.
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
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John Schlesinger actor: Eileen Atkins / Kate Beckinsale …
other title: La hija de Robert Poste (Cold Comfort Farm) / La hija de Robert Poste …
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
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A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
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John Hough actor: Diana Rigg / Edward Fox …
other title: Passione sotto la cenere / Wagnis der Liebe …
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
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Fable (1965)
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Christopher Morahan actor: Keith Barron / Eileen Atkins …
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
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Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
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Anthony Page actor: Nicol Williamson / Eleanor Fazan …
other title: Prueba inadmisible
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.
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Ballet Shoes (2008)
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Sandra Goldbacher actor: Emilia Fox / Victoria Wood …
other title: L'École de tous les talents
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
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The Dresser (1983)
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Peter Yates actor: Albert Finney / Tom Courtenay …
other title: Il servo di scena / O Companheiro …
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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What a Girl Wants (2003)
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Dennie Gordon actor: Amanda Bynes / Colin Firth …
other title: Una ragazza e il suo sogno / Tudo Que Uma Garota Quer …
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.
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The Avengers (1998)
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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.
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Wit (2001)
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Mike Nichols actor: Emma Thompson / Audra McDonald …
other title: La forza della mente / Mon combat …
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
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Cranford (2007)
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Sue Birtwistle / Susie Conklin actor: Eileen Atkins / Judi Dench …
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Beautiful Creatures (2013)
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Richard LaGravenese actor: Alden Ehrenreich / Alice Englert …
other title: Beautiful Creatures - La sedicesima luna / Criaturas Maravilhosas …
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.