Michael Gambon — Actor (59)
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Longitude (2000) [TV] WikiData TMDB
Longitude
director: Charles Sturridge actor: Michael Gambon / Jeremy Irons …
other title: Longitud / Longitude – Der Längengrad
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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A Man of No Importance (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Man of No Importance
director: Suri Krishnamma actor: Albert Finney / Brenda Fricker …
other title: Ein Mann ohne Bedeutung / Un hombre sin importancia
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
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Celebration (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Celebration
director: John Crowley actor: James Bolam / Janie Dee …
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
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Being Julia (2004) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Being Julia
director: István Szabó actor: Annette Bening / Jeremy Irons …
other title: La diva Julia / As Paixões de Júlia …
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.
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Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
director: Douglas Jackson actor: Michael Caine / Jason Connery …
other title: Intrigo a San Pietroburgo / Midnat i Skt. Petersborg …
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
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Bullet to Beijing (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Bullet to Beijing
director: George Mihalka actor: Michael Caine / Jason Connery …
other title: All'inseguimento della morte rossa / O Comboio do Leste …
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.
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Plunkett & Macleane (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Plunkett & Macleane
director: Jake Scott actor: Jonny Lee Miller / Robert Carlyle …
other title: Estradas Perigosas / Plunkett & Macleane – Gegen Tod und Teufel …
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
director: Xavier Koller actor: Adam Beach / Sheldon Peters Wolfchild …
other title: Il guerriero del falco / O Último Grande Guerreiro …
It's the 17th century, and Native American Squanto roams free in the New World until he's captured by visiting sailors who take him back to England. Monk Brother Daniel teaches him social customs, but other Englishmen aren't as kind. Squanto becomes the unwilling star of performances that highlight his fighting skills, but he eventually engineers a return trip to America. He finds that his home has changed forever, and he must chart a new path for his people.
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The Baker (2007) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Baker
director: Gareth Lewis actor: Damian Lewis / Kate Ashfield …
other title: Tot oder Torte / Assassin in Love
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.
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Cordelia (2019) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cordelia
director: Adrian Shergold actor: Antonia Campbell-Hughes / Johnny Flynn …
Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practising his cello in the upstairs flat – a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.
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Charlotte Gray (2001) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Charlotte Gray
director: Gillian Armstrong actor: Cate Blanchett / Billy Crudup …
other title: Charlotte Gray - Uma Paixão Sem Fronteiras / Die Liebe der Charlotte Gray
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
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The Browning Version (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Browning Version
director: Mike Figgis actor: Albert Finney / Greta Scacchi …
other title: I ricordi di Abbey / Livets skole …
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire for 'health reasons', and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His unfaithful wife Laura tries to hurt him in any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and at least regain his own self-esteem.
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Clean Slate (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Clean Slate
director: Mick Jackson actor: Dana Carvey / Valeria Golino …
other title: Amnesia investigativa / Blackout - Ein Detektiv sucht sich selbst …
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
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Endgame (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Endgame
director: Conor McPherson actor: Michael Gambon / David Thewlis …
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
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Nothing But the Night (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Nothing But the Night
director: Peter Sasdy actor: Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing …
other title: Il cervello dei morti viventi / Das Dunkel der Nacht …
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
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Restless (2012) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Restless
actor: Hayley Atwell / Rufus Sewell …
other title: Ruhelos / La Vie aux aguets …
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.