Bob Hoskins — Actor (49)
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Cousin Bette (1998) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Cousin Bette
director: Des McAnuff actor: Jessica Lange / Elisabeth Shue …
other title: La cugina Bette / Cousine Bette …
In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate revenge on her handsome and wealthy relatives.
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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
director: Ben Lewin actor: Bob Hoskins / Jeff Goldblum …
other title: Un pesce color rosa / Der Gefallen, die Uhr und der sehr große Fisch …
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
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Passed Away (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Passed Away
director: Charlie Peters actor: Bob Hoskins / Blair Brown …
other title: Saluti dal caro estinto / Ein verrückter Leichenschmaus …
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.
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Rainbow (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rainbow
director: Bob Hoskins actor: Bob Hoskins / Willy Lavendel …
other title: Rainbow - Il mago dell'arcobaleno / Rainbow - Die phantastische Reise auf dem Regenbogen …
Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. With the aid of computers and an irrepressible belief, they achieve the impossible, finding and riding the multicolored arc.
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The Raggedy Rawney (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Raggedy Rawney
director: Bob Hoskins actor: Bob Hoskins / Dexter Fletcher …
other title: El enigma del hechicero / Raggedy – Eine Geschichte von Liebe, Flucht und Tod …
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
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The Secret Agent (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Secret Agent
director: Christopher Hampton actor: Bob Hoskins / Patricia Arquette …
other title: L'agente segreto / O Agente Secreto …
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.
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Last Orders (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Last Orders
director: Fred Schepisi actor: Michael Caine / Tom Courtenay …
other title: L'ultimo bicchiere / Letzte Runde
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
director: Jack Clayton actor: Maggie Smith / Bob Hoskins …
other title: La segreta passione di Judith Hearne / Die große Sehnsucht der Judith Hearne …
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
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Sweet Liberty (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sweet Liberty
director: Alan Alda actor: Alan Alda / Michael Caine …
other title: Sweet Liberty - La dolce indipendenza / Dulce libertad
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
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A Prayer for the Dying (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Prayer for the Dying
director: Mike Hodges actor: Mickey Rourke / Bob Hoskins …
other title: Una preghiera per morire / Auf den Schwingen des Todes …
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
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The Honorary Consul (1983) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Honorary Consul
director: John Mackenzie actor: Michael Caine / Richard Gere …
other title: Il console onorario / Der Honorarkonsul …
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
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The Big Freeze (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Big Freeze
director: Eric Sykes actor: Bob Hoskins / Eric Sykes …
A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.
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Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mrs. Henderson Presents
director: Stephen Frears actor: Judi Dench / Bob Hoskins …
other title: Lady Henderson presenta / Mrs. Henderson præsenterer …
Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add risqué burlesque acts similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
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Outlaw (2007) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Outlaw
director: Nick Love actor: Sean Bean / Danny Dyer …
other title: Os Fora-da-Lei / Fuera de control (Outlaw) …
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
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Schmoedipus (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Schmoedipus
director: Barry Davis actor: Anna Cropper / Tim Curry …
Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.