John Hurt — Actor (63)
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Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
director: Stuart Cooper actor: John Hurt / John McEnery …
An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance and which attracts a couple of other unsavoury confused characters.
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The Black Cauldron (1985) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban 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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Outlander (2008) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Outlander
director: Howard McCain actor: Jim Caviezel / Sophia Myles …
other title: Outlander - L'ultimo vichingo / Outlander - A Vingança …
During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.
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The Hit (1984) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
The Hit
director: Stephen Frears actor: John Hurt / Terence Stamp …
other title: Vendetta / O Traidor …
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
terence stamp thriller
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The Plague Dogs (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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 Osterman Weekend (1983) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
The Osterman Weekend
director: Sam Peckinpah actor: Rutger Hauer / John Hurt …
other title: Osterman Weekend / Den blodige weekend …
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
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The Alchemist's Letter (2015) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb
The Alchemist's Letter
director: Carlos Stevens actor: John Hurt / Eloise Webb
Pixel Veil presents “The Alchemist’s Letter,” a richly inventive and visually stunning dark fairly tale. When Veridian, an estranged young man, receives his late alchemist father Nicolas’ inheritance (voice of Academy Award nominated John Hurt), he is exposed to the ill-fated reality that his father built a tumultuous gold making machine powered by his own memories. The film takes us on an enchanted journey through the vessels of the machine where we explore the contents of the alchemist’s most precious memories, all in an attempt to give his son one last life lesson and save his relationship with his daughter (voice of Eloise Webb) from following down the same fateful path.
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The Pied Piper (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Pied Piper
director: Jacques Demy actor: Donovan / Diana Dors …
other title: Il pifferaio di Hamelin / O Tocador de Flauta …
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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The Disappearance (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Disappearance
director: Stuart Cooper actor: Donald Sutherland / Francine Racette …
other title: Unico indizio un anello di fumo / Sein letzter Mord …
The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
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10 Rillington Place (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
10 Rillington Place
director: Richard Fleischer actor: Richard Attenborough / John Hurt …
other title: L'assassino di Rillington Place n. 10 / John Christie - Der Frauenwürger von London …
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
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The Gruffalo (2009) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Gruffalo
director: Max Lang / Jakob Schuh actor: Helena Bonham Carter / Rob Brydon …
other title: Il Gruffalò / Grøffeldyret …
The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?
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Love and Death on Long Island (1998) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Love and Death on Long Island
director: Richard Kwietniowski actor: John Hurt / Jason Priestley …
other title: Amore e morte a Long Island / Amor e Morte em Long Island …
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
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The Proposition (2005) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Proposition
director: John Hillcoat actor: Guy Pearce / Ray Winstone …
other title: La proposta / Escolha Mortal …
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.
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Krapp's Last Tape (2000) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Krapp's Last Tape
director: Atom Egoyan actor: John Hurt
other title: Krapp’s Last Tape / La última cinta
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the 'awful occasion' of his birthday, Krapp was then and is now in the habit of reviewing the past year and 'separating the grain from the husks'. He isolates memories of value, fertility and nourishment to set against creeping death 'when all my dust has settled'.
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Aria (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Aria
director: Nicolas Roeg / Charles Sturridge … actor: John Hurt / Theresa Russell …
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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.
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Success Is the Best Revenge (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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 Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Sailor from Gibraltar
director: Tony Richardson actor: Jeanne Moreau / Ian Bannen …
other title: Il marinaio del Gibilterra / Nur eine Frau an Bord …
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, 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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Frankenstein Unbound (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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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Pride (2004) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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.