Michael Elphick — Actor (20)
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The Odd Job (1978) IMDb TMDB
The Odd Job
director: Peter Medak actor: Graham Chapman / David Jason …
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him...
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Treasure Island (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Treasure Island
director: Ken Russell actor: Hetty Baynes / Gregory Hall …
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey and young Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including the deviously vivacious Long Jane Silver.
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Cry of the Banshee (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cry of the Banshee
director: Gordon Hessler actor: Vincent Price / Essy Persson …
other title: Satana in corpo / Hævnens ånd …
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
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The Fix (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Fix
director: Paul Greengrass actor: Steve Coogan / Jason Isaacs …
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
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I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
director: Dirk Campbell actor: Neil Morrissey / Amanda Noar …
other title: Iron Thunder / Yo compré una moto vampiro
When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.
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See No Evil (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB
See No Evil
director: Richard Fleischer actor: Mia Farrow / Dorothy Alison …
other title: Terrore cieco / Stiefel, die den Tod bedeuten …
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
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The Betrayal (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fräulein Doktor
director: Alberto Lattuada actor: Suzy Kendall / Kenneth More …
other title: Fräulein Doktor
A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
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Blue Remembered Hills (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blue Remembered Hills
director: Brian Gibson actor: Colin Welland / Michael Elphick …
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.
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Red Shift (1978) IMDb TMDB
Red Shift
director: John Mackenzie actor: Stephen Petcher / Lesley Dunlop …
Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Top hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles. A Roman soldier, a medieval rebel and a 1970s young man. Somehow they seem linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?
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Richard III (1995)
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.
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Gorky Park (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gorky Park
director: Michael Apted actor: William Hurt / Lee Marvin …
other title: Mord i Gorky Park / O Mistério de Gorky Park
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
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Krull (1983)
Krull
director: Peter Yates actor: Ken Marshall / Lysette Anthony …
other title: Krull - Além da Imaginação / 혹성의 위기 …
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
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Three Men in a Boat (1975) WikiData IMDb Douban NeoDB
Three Men in a Boat
director: Stephen Frears actor: Tim Curry / Michael Palin …
other title: Drei Mann in einem Boot
One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
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Withnail & I (1987)
Withnail & I
director: Bruce Robinson actor: Richard E. Grant / Paul McGann …
other title: Shakespeare a colazione / Withnail e Eu …
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
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The Elephant Man (1980)
The Elephant Man
★ 8.7 (15 ratings) director: David Lynch actor: Anthony Hopkins / John Hurt …
other title: Elefantmanden / O Homem Elefante …
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
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The Element of Crime (1984)
Forbrydelsens element
director: Lars von Trier actor: Michael Elphick / Esmond Knight …
other title: L'elemento del crimine / Forbrydelsens element …
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.