The Beautician and the Beast 1997  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeice, Patrick Malahide, Michael Lerner, Phyllis Newman, Todd Graff, Lisa Jakub, Heather DeLoach, Adam LaVorgna
An ex-beauty schoolteacher, Joy Miller (Fran Drescher), heads for the less-than-advanced country of Slovetzia where she becomes (surprise!) a nanny to the children of the nation's despot Boris Pochenko (Timothy Dalton) in this sometimes amusing comedy.
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The Blackheath Poisonings 1992  TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Orme
Cast: Christine Kavanagh, Ian McNeice, Zoe Wanamaker, Judy Parfitt, Patrick Malahide, James Faulkner, Christien Anholt, Julia St. John, Ian Bartholomew, George Anton, Nicholas Woodeson, Donald Sumpter
Set in 19th century Britain, this made-for-TV miniseries chronicles the events surrounding a series of mysterious deaths following a poisoning in an upper-class family. Many suspects exist in this adequate tale.
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Brideshead Revisited 2008 PG-13, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, Thomas Morrison, Anna Madeley, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Ed Stoppard, Felicity Jones, Patrick Malahide, Joseph Beattie, Rita Davies, Richard Teverson, Niall Buggy
Middle-class, Oxford student Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is invited to visit the aristocratic, grand estate, Brideshead. The invitation comes from his aristocratic friend Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) who has fallen love with Charles and wants him to visit his home. But, the visit is called short when Sebastian learns that his domineering, Catholic mother, Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson), is returning, and he is sure that she will disapprove of Charles' atheism. Later, Charles receives a cable from Sebastian who has hurt his foot and needs care. He invites Charles back to revisit Brideshead. This time, Charles meets and falls in love with Sebastian's sister Julia (Hayley Atwell), an emotional triangle develops, and Charles cannot resist his infatuation with Brideshead.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin 2001  R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: John Madden
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey, Irene Papas, Patrick Malahide, Aspasia Kralli, Michael Yannatos, Gerasimos Skiadaressis, Dimitris Kaberidis, Pietro Sarubbi
Based on Louis de Bernieres' best-selling novel, this story begins when Mandras (Christian Bale) leaves his fiancee, Pelagia (Penelope Cruz), behind and goes off to fight the Greeks during World War II. Before long, Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicolas Cage) arrives on the scene and is quartered in the home of Pelagia's father, Dr. Iannis (John Hurt). The result: love at first sight between Pelagia and Captain Corelli–despite more than a few problems.
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Captain Jack 1999 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert(2) Young
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Peter McDonald, Gemma Jones, Maureen Lipman, Sadie Frost, Anna Massey, David Troughton, Michele Dotrice, Patrick Malahide, Kathryn Pogson
Sea Captain Jack Armistead (Bob Hoskins) doesn't think that his hero, Captain Scoresby, has been adequately honored for his trip from northern England to the Arctic waters in 1791. So he decides to retrace the route in his un-seaworthy (and condemned) ship. He gathers a motley crew consisting of two elderly sisters and an Australian hitchhiker–as well as a stowaway–and sets out on the voyage. Meanwhile, authorities and journalists are hot on his tail.
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Comfort and Joy 1984  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bill Forsyth
Cast: Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Alex Norton, Patrick Malahide, Rikki Fulton, Roberto Bernardi, George Rossi, Peter Rossi, Billy McElhaney
Leave it to writer/director Bill Forsyth to come up with unusual films, and this is no exception. Bill Paterson is a popular disc jockey in Glasgow, Scotland, who gets involved in a war between rival ice cream businesses by trying to act as an on-air mediator. Good premise with some funny situations.
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Cutthroat Island 1995 PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Action / Romance
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Stan Shaw, Harris Yulin, Patrick Malahide, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Paul Dillon, Rex Linn, Christopher Masterson, Carl Chase, Peter Geeves, Angus Wright, Ken Bones
The thrill of piracy on the high seas is brought to the screen in this film about beautiful Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) who is the daughter of a pirate. When her father dies, Morgan inherits her father's ship and sets out–as the ship's captain–to find pieces of a missing treasure map and to avenge her father's murder. Because the map is printed in Latin, Morgan joins forces with a well-educated slave, William Shaw (Matthew Modine), who can interpret the map. It isn't long before Morgan discovers that her nasty uncle, Dawg Brown (Frank Langella), is also searching for pieces of the map, and a battle ensues with lots of sword-fighting action.
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The Killing Fields 1984 R, 142 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Spalding Gray, Bill Paterson, Ira Wheeler, Graham Kennedy, Patrick Malahide
The tragedies of Cambodia are artfully depicted in this film, which provides a look at man's inhumanity to man. This excellent presentation was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and Ngor won for Best Supporting Actor.
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 The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 R, 120 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Brian Cox, Tom Amandes, David Morse, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko, Patrick Malahide, Joseph McKenna, Melina Kanakaredes, Dan Warry-Smith, Kristen Bone, Rex Linn, Alan North
Following a car crash, Charly/Samantha (Geena Davis) suffers amnesia, and detective Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson), who is also trying to find himself, comes to her aid when her life is threatened by cohorts from her past.
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A Man of No Importance 1994 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Suri Krishnamma
Cast: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, David Kelly, Mick Lally, Anna Manahan, Joe Pilkington
Repressed homosexual Alfie Byrne (Albert Finney), a Dublin bus conductor fixates on Oscar Wilde plays, puts on local productions, and is on a collision course with his moment of self-acceptance of what his life is really about.
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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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Miracle at Midnight 1998 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Cameron
Cast: Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow, Justin Whalin, Patrick Malahide, Benedick Blythe, Barry McGovern, Daisy Beaumont, Nicola Mycroft, Alan Devine, Maria Rosenstock, Eva Birthistle, Halina Froudist
In 1945, when Nazis began arresting Danish Jews, Dr. Karl Kosler (Sam Waterston) and his wife, Doris (Mia Farrow), hid Rabbi Ben Abrams (Barry McGovern) and his family–an act that would spread, enabling 7,000 Jews to escape to neutral Sweden.
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 Ordinary Decent Criminal 2000  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale, David Hayman, Patrick Malahide, Gerard McSorley, David Kelly, Gary Lydon
Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey) is Dublin's most notorious criminal, much to the delight of the people in his working-class neighborhood who are the recipients of the proceeds from much of his heists. He also has two wives–who are sisters (Linda Fiorentino and Helen Baxendale). As his popularity grows, he becomes bolder when the police set a trap for Michael and his gang.
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Quills 2000 R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Malahide, Amelia Warner, Jane Mehelaus, Michael Jenn, Tony Pritchard
While the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) is confined to an asylum under the care of Dr. Royer-Collard (Michael Caine), he is encouraged to purge his evil thoughts. But the Marquis has other plans and utilizes the services of Madeline (Kate Winslet), a laundress in the asylum, to smuggle his erotic novels to the public. Rush was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor and Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for Supporting Actor.
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 Sahara 2005 PG-13, 127 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Breck Eisner
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn, Lambert Wilson, Glynn Turman, Delroy Lindo, William H. Macy, Rakie Ayola, Patrick Malahide, Rainn Wilson, Lennie James
Treasure hunters (Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn) board a yacht in search of a lost, Civil War ironclad ship loaded with gold that they believe may have made its way across the Atlantic to West Africa. Along for the ride are two World Health Organization physicians (Penelope Cruz and Glynn Turman) who are tracking down the source of a plague. But, there are bad guys between them and the gold–including a warlord (Lennie James) who has peen poisoning the local water supply.
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 The Singing Detective 1986  TV, 415 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Janet Suzman, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, Jim Carter, David Ryall, Gerard Horan, Leslie French, Lyndon Davies, Ron Cook, Imelda Staunton, George Rossi, Janet Henfrey
This near-classic tale by Dennis Potter combines music, film noir, mystery, fantasy, and autobiographical material in a successful British TV miniseries, originally airing in six episodes. Detective novelist Philip E. Marlow (Michael Gambon) suffers from a crippling skin/nerve disease (psoriatic arthropathy–a disease that Potter died of). In his hospital bed, he relives his latest novel, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title role, often drifting into a surrealistic fantasy world as he relives his life.
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U.S. Marshals 1998 PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Stuart Baird
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Kate Nelligan, Joe Pantoliano, Irene Jacob, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood, LaTanya Richardson, Michael Paul Chan, Patrick Malahide, Rick Snyder, Johnny Lee Davenport, Donald Li, Marc Vann
In this sequel to 1993's "The Fugitive," Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) leads a team of law-enforcement officers on the trail of the fugitive, Mark Sheridan (Wesley Snipes). Sheridan just happens to be an ex-CIA agent accused of espionage and the murder of fellow officers. Acting as well as special effects score high, but the film is too long for the material covered.
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| 1. The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
2. The Blackheath Poisonings (1992)
3. Brideshead Revisited (2008)
4. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
5. Captain Jack (1999)
6. Comfort and Joy (1984)
7. Cutthroat Island (1995)
8. Kidnapped (1995)
9. The Killing Fields (1984)
10. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
11. A Man of No Importance (1994)
12. Middlemarch (1994)
13. Miracle at Midnight (1998)
14. Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
15. Quills (2000)
16. Sahara (2005)
17. The Singing Detective (1986)
18. Two Deaths (1996)
19. U.S. Marshals (1998)
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