Nigel Hawthorne — Actor (19)
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Madeline (1998) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Madeline
director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer actor: Hatty Jones / Frances McDormand …
other title: Madeline - il diavoletto della scuola / Madeline - Il diavoletto della scuola
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
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Sweeney 2 (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sweeney 2
director: Tom Clegg actor: John Thaw / Dennis Waterman …
other title: Sbirri bastardi
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
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Spiderweb (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Spiderweb
director: Paul Miller actor: Nigel Hawthorne / Gabor Vernon
A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed and deliberate clues left in chosen locations. Llonrot, convinced he is on the trail of a 'mystical intrigue' is lured to the 'crime scene' when the tables are turned by his nemesis, the master criminal Red Scharlach.
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The House (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The House
director: Mike Figgis actor: Stephen Rea / Jonathan Cecil …
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
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Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Memoirs of a Survivor
director: David Gladwell actor: Julie Christie / Christopher Guard …
other title: Mémoires d’une survivante / Memorias de una Superviviente …
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
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Richard III (1995) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban
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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Firefox (1982) [Movie] WikiData Skybridge IMDb TMDB
Firefox
director: Clint Eastwood actor: Clint Eastwood / Freddie Jones …
other title: Firefox - Volpe di fuoco / Firefox, l'arme absolue …
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
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The Plague Dogs (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Skybridge
The Plague Dogs
director: Martin Rosen actor: John Hurt / Christopher Benjamin …
other title: Hundeflugten / Die Hunde sind los …
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
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The Black Cauldron (1985) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban Skybridge WikiData
The Black Cauldron
director: Ted Berman / Richard Rich actor: Grant Bardsley / Susan Sheridan …
other title: Taron e la pentola magica / Taran og den magiske gryde …
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
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The Object of My Affection (1998) [Movie] Douban IMDb
The Object of My Affection
director: Nicholas Hytner actor: Jennifer Aniston / Paul Rudd …
other title: L'oggetto del mio desiderio / Manden I Mit Liv …
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
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Demolition Man (1993) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Demolition Man
6.7 (7 ratings) director: Marco Brambilla actor: Sylvester Stallone / Wesley Snipes …
other title: Homem Demolidor
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
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Watership Down (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData Skybridge
Watership Down
director: Martin Rosen actor: John Hurt / Richard Briers …
other title: La collina dei conigli / Kaninbjerget …
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
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Tarzan (1999) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB Skybridge TMDB WikiData
Tarzan
7.3 (6 ratings) director: Chris Buck / Kevin Lima actor: Tony Goldwyn / Minnie Driver …
other title: Tarzán
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
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Gandhi (1982) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Skybridge
Gandhi
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Ben Kingsley / Candice Bergen …
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Amistad (1997) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Amistad
director: Steven Spielberg actor: Morgan Freeman / Nigel Hawthorne …
other title: Amistad - Das Sklavenschiff
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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Yes Minister (1980) [TV] IMDb NeoDB TMDB
Yes Minister
9.7 (45 ratings) director: Jonathan Lynn / Antony Jay actor: Paul Eddington / Nigel Hawthorne …
other title: Sim, Senhor Ministro / Sí, ministro …
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
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Yes, Prime Minister (1986) [TV] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Yes, Prime Minister
9.7 (22 ratings) director: Jonathan Lynn / Antony Jay actor: Paul Eddington / Nigel Hawthorne …
other title: Yes, Premierminister / Sí, Primer Ministro …
Yes, Prime Minister is the sequel to the popular British series Yes Minister. It aired from 1986 to 1988 and is the story of the continuing battles between Jim Hacker, who is now Prime Minister, and Sir Humphrey, who has been promoted to Cabinet Secretary.