John Hurt — Actor (79)
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Romeo.Juliet (1990) IMDb TMDB
Romeo.Juliet
director: Armondo Linus Acosta actor: John Hurt / Robert Powell …
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been re-released for the home video market. This lack of availability, which has been described as making it "more rare than the dinosaur" has made it a sought-after item in some circles.
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Jake Speed (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jake Speed
director: Andrew Lane actor: Wayne Crawford / Karen Kopins …
other title: Jake Speed: La aventura de África
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
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Wild Bill (1995) IMDb TMDB
Wild Bill
director: Walter Hill actor: Jeff Bridges / Ellen Barkin …
Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
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Night Crossing (1982) IMDb TMDB
Night Crossing
director: Delbert Mann actor: John Hurt / Jane Alexander …
other title: Fuga nella notte / Vi skal over i nat …
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
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Rob Roy (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Rob Roy
director: Michael Caton-Jones actor: Liam Neeson / Jessica Lange …
other title: Rob Roy, la pasión de un rebelde
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
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The Ghoul (1975) IMDb TMDB
The Ghoul
director: Freddie Francis actor: Peter Cushing / John Hurt …
other title: Der Ghul / El necrófago
In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is exposed to savage practices in India. When an auto race is held at the estate, Lawrence worries that his son may escape and terrorise the youth.
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Owning Mahowny (2003) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Owning Mahowny
director: Richard Kwietniowski actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman / Minnie Driver …
other title: La doppia vita di Mahowny / A Queda de um Jogador …
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
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Scandal (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Scandal
director: Michael Caton-Jones actor: John Hurt / Joanne Whalley …
other title: Scandal - Il caso Profumo / Escándalo …
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.
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White Mischief (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
White Mischief
director: Michael Radford actor: Greta Scacchi / Charles Dance …
other title: Misfatto bianco / Die letzten Tage in Kenya …
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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Resident Alien (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Resident Alien
director: Jonathan Nossiter actor: Quentin Crisp / Peter Walker …
other title: Wohnsitz: Heimatlos
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.
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Pride (2004) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pride
director: John Downer actor: Kate Winslet / Helen Mirren …
other title: Due cuccioli nella savana / Suki - Aventura na Savana …
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
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Frankenstein Unbound (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Frankenstein Unbound
director: Roger Corman actor: John Hurt / Raúl Juliá …
other title: Frankenstein oltre le frontiere del tempo / Frankenstein - O Monstro das Trevas …
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.
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The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sailor from Gibraltar
director: Tony Richardson actor: Jeanne Moreau / Ian Bannen …
other title: Il marinaio del Gibilterra / Nur eine Frau an Bord …
After quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, Alan becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
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Success Is the Best Revenge (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Success Is the Best Revenge
director: Jerzy Skolimowski actor: Michael York / John Hurt …
other title: Il successo è la miglior vendetta / Le Succès à tout prix …
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985) IMDb TMDB
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
director: Michael McIntyre actor: John Hurt / Yukio Mishima …
A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.