Richard Griffiths — Actor (26)
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Pie in the Sky (1994) [TV] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pie in the Sky
director: Andrew Payne actor: Richard Griffiths / Nicholas Lamont …
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
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Funny Bones (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Funny Bones
director: Peter Chelsom actor: Oliver Platt / Jerry Lewis …
other title: Il commediante / Funny Bones - Tödliche Scherze …
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
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Britannia Hospital (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Britannia Hospital
director: Lindsay Anderson actor: Graham Crowden / Leonard Rossiter …
other title: Hospital Britannia
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
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Ballet Shoes (2008) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ballet Shoes
director: 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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Gorky Park (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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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Superman II (1980) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
Superman II
director: Richard Lester actor: Christopher Reeve / Terence Stamp …
other title: Superman på nye eventyr / Superman II - Allein gegen alle …
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who made himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.
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Chariots of Fire (1981) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
Chariots of Fire
director: Hugh Hudson actor: Ben Cross / Ian Charleson …
other title: Momenti di gloria / Viljen til sejr …
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
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Breaking Glass (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Breaking Glass
director: Brian Gibson actor: Hazel O'Connor / Phil Daniels …
other title: La rockera
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
1980s music uk
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King Ralph (1991) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
King Ralph
director: David S. Ward actor: John Goodman / Peter O'Toole …
other title: Sua maestà viene da Las Vegas / King Ralph - O Primeiro Rei Americano …
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
director: Hugh Hudson actor: Ralph Richardson / Ian Holm …
other title: Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie / Greystoke: Beretningen om Tarzan, abernes konge …
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
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Sleepy Hollow (1999) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB
Sleepy Hollow
7.3 (12 ratings) director: Tim Burton actor: Johnny Depp / Christina Ricci …
other title: Il mistero di Sleepy Hollow / A Lenda do Cavaleiro Sem Cabeça …
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
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Withnail & I (1987) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
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.
1980s comedy paulmcgann richardegrant uk
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Hugo (2011) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Hugo
director: Martin Scorsese actor: Asa Butterfield / Ben Kingsley …
other title: Hugo Cabret / A Invenção de Hugo …
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
2010s 2011 剧情 奇幻 奥斯卡
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
7.4 (10 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 2½ - L'odore della paura / Høj pistolføring 2½: Lovens lange næse …
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
1990s 1991 comedon comedy leslienielsen
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Gandhi (1982) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
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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Bedtime Stories (2008) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
Bedtime Stories
director: Adam Shankman actor: Adam Sandler / Keri Russell …
other title: Racconti incantati / Histórias para Adormecer …
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a bewildered Skeeter manage his own unruly fantasies now that the outrageous characters and situations from his mind have morphed into actual people and events?
2008 喜剧 奇幻 电影 美国
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The History Boys (2006) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The History Boys
6.4 (5 ratings) director: Nicholas Hytner actor: Richard Griffiths / Stephen Campbell Moore …
other title: Fazendo História / Die History Boys - Fürs Leben lernen
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
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About Time (2013) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
About Time
7.9 (22 ratings) director: Richard Curtis actor: Domhnall Gleeson / Rachel McAdams …
other title: Questione di tempo / Dá Tempo ao Tempo …
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
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Gormenghast (2000) [TV] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Gormenghast
director: Malcolm McKay / Mervyn Peake actor: Jonathan Rhys Meyers / Celia Imrie …
other title: Das Schloss im Nebel - Die Legende von Gormenghast
At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.