Billie Whitelaw — Actor (20)
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Hot Fuzz (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Hot Fuzz
7.5 (19 ratings) director: Edgar Wright actor: Simon Pegg / Nick Frost …
other title: Hot Fuzz - Esquadrão de Província / Hot Fuzz - Zwei abgewichste Profis …
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
2000s action actioncomedy comedy edgarwright
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Frenzy (1972) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb ReviewDB WikiData
Frenzy
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Jon Finch / Barry Foster …
other title: Vildt Raseri / Frenzy — Perigo na Noite …
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
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The Omen (1976) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Omen
7.0 (8 ratings) director: Richard Donner actor: Gregory Peck / Lee Remick …
other title: Il presagio / Tegnet …
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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Notfilm (2015) [Movie] TMDB
Notfilm
director: Ross Lipman actor: Ross Lipman / Leonard Maltin …
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
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Mr. Arkadin (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Mr. Arkadin
director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Rapporto confidenziale / Herr Satan persönlich! …
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
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Merlin (1998) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Merlin
director: Steve Barron actor: Sam Neill / Paul Curran …
other title: Merlino
A retelling of the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin. Sam Neill stars in the title role in a story that covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot but also the phase in the legendary history of Britain that precedes it.
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Twisted Nerve (1968) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Twisted Nerve
director: Roy Boulting actor: Hayley Mills / Hywel Bennett …
other title: I nervi a pezzi / Teufelskreis Y …
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
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Not I (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Not I
director: Anthony Page / Samuel Beckett actor: Billie Whitelaw
Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January, 1973 Produced for the BBC in 1977 by Tristram Powell Directed by Anthony Page and Samuel Beckett Cast: Billie Whitelaw
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Quills (2000) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Quills
director: Philip Kaufman actor: Geoffrey Rush / Kate Winslet …
other title: Quills - La penna dello scandalo / Quills - As Penas do Desejo …
In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten control, a clash unfolds between the Marquis’ unyielding imagination, the reformist ideals of the Abbé in charge, and the repressive measures of a doctor sent to silence him. Desire, power, and censorship collide in a battle over freedom of expression.
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Hell Is a City (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hell Is a City
director: Val Guest actor: Stanley Baker / John Crawford …
other title: L'assassino è alla porta / Hetzjagd …
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
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The Sleeping Tiger (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Sleeping Tiger
director: Joseph Losey actor: Dirk Bogarde / Alexis Smith …
other title: La tigre nell'ombra / A Fera Adormecida …
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
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The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Flesh and the Fiends
director: John Gilling actor: Peter Cushing / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Le jene di Edimburgo / Der Arzt und die Teufel …
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
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Leo the Last (1970) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Leo the Last
director: John Boorman actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Billie Whitelaw …
other title: Leone l'ultimo / Leo, der Letzte …
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
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Payroll (1961) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Payroll
director: Sidney Hayers actor: Michael Craig / Françoise Prévost …
other title: Scotland yard non perdona / Schmutziges Geld …
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
director: Chris Petit actor: Pippa Guard / Billie Whitelaw …
other title: Un trabajo no apropiado para mujeres / Med døden i hælene
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.
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Shadey (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Shadey
director: Philip Saville actor: Antony Sher / Billie Whitelaw …
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.
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Bobbikins (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bobbikins
director: Robert Day actor: Shirley Jones / Max Bygraves …
This adventure follows the story of a young navy man, his wife and their baby son, Bobby, also known as Bobbikins. To his surprise, Dad discovers his son talks, not baby-talk or gibberish but has adult conversations with his father only. Bobbikins learns stock market tips and passes them to his Dad. After making a killing on the stock market, problems really begin. The dad is presumed mad, the government is after him, and the breakdown of relations between the young couple ensues. But there is hope.