 The 13th Warrior 1999   R, 103 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Omar Sharif, Vladimir Kulich, Dennis Storhoi, Maria Bonnevie, Mischa Hausserman, Sven Wollter, John DeSantis, Asbjorn "Bear" Riis, Daniel Southern, Neil Maffin, Clive Russell, Oliver Sveinall, Richard Bremmer
While wandering abroad during the 10th century after banishment from civilized Baghdad, poet Ibn Fadlan (Antonio Banderas) and his mentor, Melchisidek (Omar Sharif), are taken under the wing of a Viking warrior, Herger (Dennis Storhoi). He leads them into King Hrothgar's (Sven Wollter) forest realm where they are soon confronted in battle by the marauding band of warriors known as the Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton's original title of this story). 2 User Reviews
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| | Wonderful movie | DeiGoddess 04/11/2009 | | I thought this movie was great. You had to really pay attention in order to actually follow the story, such as how he learn to understand what the people were saying. For me, the movie helped me to understand some things in the spiritual although it is not a spiritual movie. I lost my original copy of this movie, but when I start my collection back up, it is definitely going to be there. |
| | Anonymous 03/04/2007 | | Perhaps not historical correct - but great fun to watch. |
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The Emperor's New Clothes 2001 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Tom Watson, Nigel Terry, Hugh Bonneville, Murray Melvin, Eddie Marsan, Clive Russell, Bob Mason, Trevor Cooper, Chris Langham
If Napoleon did not die in exile and, instead, plotted to regain the throne by trading places with a commoner in Paris is the premise for this enjoyable comedy.
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 Great Expectations 1999  TV, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Bernard Hill, Ian McDiarmid, Selina Cadell, Emma Cunniffe, Tony Curran, Gemma Gregory, David Horovitch, Clive Russell, Ifan Meredith, Lesley Sharp, Gabriel Thomson
In this BBC version of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," Ioan Gruffudd takes on the role of working-class Pip who dreams of rising to "gentleman" status in order to win the love of the elusive Estella (Gemma Gregory as young Estella and Justine Waddell as older Estella) who has been taught by the bitter Miss Haversham (Charlotte Rampling) to have higher expectations than those of Pip. Orphaned Pip (Gabriel Thomson as young Pip) has been raised by blacksmith Joe Gargery (Clive Russell) and his wife (Lesley Sharp). As a child, Pip saves the life of convict Matwitch (Bernard Hill), and now Pip finds that a mysterious benefactor has given him wealth. It turns out that the benefactor is Matwitch, and Pip is on his way to gaining his "gentleman" status in the Victorian world of the social elite.
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The Hawk 1993  R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: David Hayman
Cast: Helen Mirren, George Costigan, Owen Teale, Melanie Till, Rosemary Leach, Pooky Quesnel, Clive Russell, David Harewood, Marie Hamer, Christipher Madin, Helen Ryan, John Duttine
Annie Marsh (Helen Mirren) suspects that her husband Stephen (George Costigan) is the serial killer known as "The Hawk." After confiding in her friend Norma (Melanie Till), Annie goes to the police, but she fears that they will not believe her because she has spent time in a mental hospital.
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Ladies in Lavender 2004 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Dance
Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, Daniel Bruhl, Miriam Margolyes, Freddie Jones, David Warner, Clive Russell, Richard Pears, Toby Jones, Geoffrey Bayldon, Timothy Bateson
Spinster sisters Ursula and Janet (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) live in a cottage in a Cornish seaside village in 1936. One day, a foreigner, Andrea (Daniel Bruhl), washes ashore, and the sisters rescue and nurse him back to health. They dote on Andrea; but, while Janet's attentions are motherly, Ursula becomes romantically stimulated. Problems lie ahead for Andrea who, after all, is an illegal alien during an era when World War II looms.
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Margaret's Museum 1995  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mort Ransen
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Craig Olejnik, Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Welsh, Andrea Morris, Peter Boretski, Barry Dunn, Norma Dell'Agnese, Glenn Wadman
In the mining community of Cape Beton, Nova Scotia, after World War II people eke out hard livings from the local coal mine. Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) and Neil (Clive Russell) are the story's central characters; their lives revolve around Margaret's "museum" with its meaningful sign: "The Cost of Coal."
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Middlemarch 1994 TV, 375 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Page
Cast: Juliet Aubrey, Douglas Hodge, Trevyn McDowell, Robert Hardy, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Hordern, Caroline Harker, Clive Russell, Jonathan Firth, Judi Dench
The BBC TV presented this miniseries based on George Eliot's classic novel, which is set in the English festival town of Middlemarch just before the Industrial Revolution during the 1830s. The lives of Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey), the Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), and Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell) interweave in the midst of social and political reform.
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Oscar and Lucinda 1997 R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Barry Otto, Clive Russell, Bille Brown, Josephine Byrnes, Barnaby Kay
In England during the middle of the 19th century, Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) are outcasts–Oscar is a defrocked Anglican priest, and Lucinda is a liberated heiress who dreams of building a church made almost entirely of glass from her factory. Both are gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot successfully transport the glass church to the Australian outback.
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The Railway Children 2000 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Catherine Morshead
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen, Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Jemima Rooper, Valerie Minifie, Melanie Clark Pullen, Gregor Fisher, Clive Russell, Richard Attenborough
This made-for-TV remake of the popular 1970 version is every bit as good as the former film, with Jenny Agutter–the "leader" of the three children in the first film–as the mother. After the father is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, the family, now poor, must move to cheaper surroundings in the country. The children become enamored with trains and with the characters of the area and, with the help of their new-found friends, set out to prove their father's innocence.
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| 1. The 13th Warrior (1999)
2. The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
3. Great Expectations (1999)
4. The Hawk (1993)
5. Ladies in Lavender (2004)
6. Margaret's Museum (1995)
7. Middlemarch (1994)
8. Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
9. The Railway Children (2000)
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