Richard Johnson — Actor (22)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
7.5 (16 ratings) director: Mark Herman actor: Asa Butterfield / Vera Farmiga
other title: Il bambino con il pigiama a righe / Drengen i den stribede pyjamas
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (2012) [TV] TMDB IMDb
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
director: Mark Evans actor: Robert Webb / Katherine Parkinson
A Victorian comedy adventure in the style of Charles Dickens following shop owner Jedrington Secret-Past. Jedrington teams up with a seemingly charming new business partner, Harmswell Grimstone. As the Secret-Past family's fortunes rise, it looks like they are built on crumbling foundations indeed, especially when it is revealed that Conceptiva too has a secret that turns out to be even darker than Jedrington's own.
The Monster Club (1981) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Monster Club
director: Roy Ward Baker actor: Vincent Price / John Carradine
other title: Il club dei mostri / Monster Club
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.
The Haunting (1963) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
The Haunting
director: Robert Wise actor: Julie Harris / Claire Bloom
other title: Gli invasati / Spøgeriet på Hill House
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Zombi 2
director: Lucio Fulci actor: Tisa Farrow / Ian McCulloch
other title: Zombi 2 / Woodoo - Rædslernes Grønne Ø
After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing owner to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
4.3 (6 ratings) director: Simon West actor: Angelina Jolie / Iain Glen
other title: Lara Croft - Tomb Raider / Lara Croft : Tomb Raider
Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artifact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the first time in 5,000 years, the fearless tomb raider will have to team up with rival adventurers and sworn enemies to collect the pieces, while time is running out. But, in the end, who can harness the archaic talisman's unlimited power?
Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
Dick Johnson Is Dead
director: Kirsten Johnson actor: Richard Johnson / Kirsten Johnson
other title: Dick Johnson è morto / Descansa En Paz Dick Johnson
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
Treasure Island (1990) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
Treasure Island
director: Fraser Clarke Heston actor: Charlton Heston / Christian Bale
other title: L'isola del tesoro / Skatteøen
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
Cameraperson (2016) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cameraperson
director: Kirsten Johnson actor: Kirsten Johnson / Jacques Derrida
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
BASEketball (1998) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
BASEketball
director: David Zucker actor: Trey Parker / Matt Stone
other title: Sem Trapaça Não Tem Graça / Die Sportskanonen
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. When a rival owner wants to institute major rule changes, Coop and Remer's team is the only one standing in the way.
The Aerodrome (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Aerodrome
director: Giles Foster actor: Peter Firth / Dominic Jephcott
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative England is taken over wholesale by 'The Air Force.' Living in the village is young Roy, who has just learned he is not who he thought he was. Attempting to forge a new sense of identity, he joins the dashing Air Force, seduced by its dynamism and direct and brutal ways.
The Witch (1966) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
La strega in amore
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Richard Johnson / Rosanna Schiaffino
other title: La strega in amore / Hexe der Liebe
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
The Night Child (1975) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Il medaglione insanguinato (Perche?!)
director: Massimo Dallamano actor: Richard Johnson / Joanna Cassidy
other title: Il medaglione insanguinato (Perche?!) / Émilie, l'enfant des ténébres
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
Beyond the Door (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Chi sei?
director: Ovidio G. Assonitis / Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli actor: Juliet Mills / Gabriele Lavia
other title: Chi sei? / Wer bist Du?
Jessica Barrett, wife and mother of two young children, begins to show signs of demonic possession while pregnant with her third child. As she seeks help from her husband and doctor, a mysterious man approaches her and seems to have some answers.
80,000 Suspects (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
80,000 Suspects
director: Val Guest actor: Claire Bloom / Richard Johnson
other title: Incubo sulla città / 80.000 sospechosos
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Happy Days (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Happy Days
director: Patricia Rozema actor: Rosaleen Linehan / Richard Johnson
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's absurdist drama. An ordinary woman lives her humdrum life half-buried in a pile of dirt; her husband is partially visible behind her. She goes through her daily routines, ever hopeful that this is going to be a happy day.
Sin (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sin
director: George P. Cosmatos actor: Raquel Welch / Richard Johnson
other title: Femmina violenta / Heisskaltes Blut
When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and tragedy.
Oedipus the King (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Oedipus the King
director: Philip Saville actor: Christopher Plummer / Lilli Palmer
other title: König Oedipus / Edipo rey
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Breaking the Code (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Breaking the Code
director: Herbert Wise actor: Derek Jacobi / Alun Armstrong
other title: Der codierte Mann / Descifrando el código
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.