Christopher Plummer — Actor (84)
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The Boy in Blue (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Boy in Blue
director: Charles Jarrott actor: Nicolas Cage / Cynthia Dale …
other title: Nato per vincere / Finish - Endspurt bis zum Sieg …
Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.
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The Boss' Wife (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Boss' Wife
director: Ziggy Steinberg actor: Daniel Stern / Arielle Dombasle …
other title: La moglie del capo / A Mulher do Chefe …
Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.
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The Amateur (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Amateur
director: Charles Jarrott actor: John Savage / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Computer per un omicidio / Der zweite Mann …
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Scarlet and the Black
director: Jerry London actor: Gregory Peck / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Scarlatto e nero / Vatikanet …
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
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Red Blooded American Girl (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Red Blooded American Girl
director: David Blyth actor: Andrew Stevens / Heather Thomas …
other title: Dreamliners / Virus vampire …
A young woman is transformed into a vampire by a virus. The vampire doctor who's treating her hires a young scientist to find a cure. He and the girl fall for each other hard, but she, mad from hunger, escapes to wreak havoc on the city
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Aces High (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Aces High
director: Jack Gold actor: Malcolm McDowell / Christopher Plummer …
other title: La battaglia delle aquile / Luftens helte …
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
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Lucky Break (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lucky Break
director: Peter Cattaneo actor: James Nesbitt / Olivia Williams …
other title: Lucky break
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
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Nobody Runs Forever (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Nobody Runs Forever
director: Ralph Thomas actor: Rod Taylor / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Arrest! / Døden kommer kl. 3 …
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
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Mindfield (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mindfield
director: Jean-Claude Lord actor: Michael Ironside / Lisa Langlois …
other title: Vuoto mentale / La Mémoire assassinée …
In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his “treatments” at the hands of the sinister Dr. Satorius. When the body count on his latest case inexplicably begins pointing toward his own fragmented past, a romance with Satorius’ criminal prosecutor raises the stakes. O'Reilly must forge a path forward through a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy stretching from the Mafia to the highest levels of the CIA, culminating in a shocking, stadium-sized confrontation.
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Triple Cross (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Triple Cross
director: Terence Young actor: Christopher Plummer / Romy Schneider …
other title: Agli ordini del Fuhrer e al servizio di Sua Maestà / Triple cross, verdenskrigens mesterspion …
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the would-be traitor arrives home, he convinces the English to use him as a double agent -- in exchange for a full pardon.
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Liar's Edge (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Liar's Edge
director: Ron Oliver actor: Nicholas Shields / Shannon Tweed …
An introspective teenager, who's been plagued with terrifying visions since the untimely death of his daredevil father, conspires with his brother to make his mother's volatile trucker boyfriend the fall guy in a game of illusion and murder.
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Closing the Ring (2007) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Closing the Ring
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Shirley MacLaine / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Um Amor para Toda Vida / War And Destiny …
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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Prototype (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Prototype
director: David Greene actor: Christopher Plummer / David Morse …
other title: Prototype humain / Sein Freund, der Roboter
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
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Stage Struck (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Stage Struck
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Henry Fonda / Susan Strasberg …
other title: Fascino del palcoscenico / Les Feux du théâtre …
A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped.
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Wind Across the Everglades (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wind Across the Everglades
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Burl Ives / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Il paradiso dei barbari / Sumpf unter den Füßen …
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers.
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Winchell (1998) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Winchell
director: Paul Mazursky actor: Stanley Tucci / Glenne Headly …
The true story of the influential and controversial columnist Walter Winchell, who ruled the newspaper and radio waves with his groundbreaking brand of gossip and news for more than thirty years.