Alan Bates

All Movies of Alan Bates

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  6.0
  Spartacus (TV) (TV)
  The epic story of a slave who fights for freedom. Set in the time of the Roman Empire in 72 BC, a young boy witnesses his father's murder before becoming a slave to the Rome. Years later he leads a rebellion.
   2004

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  4.6
  The Statement
  Set in modern-day France, The Statement is the story of Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who, as a young man during World War II, committed a heinous crime. Brossard has never been brought to trial and has lived a peaceful and anon...
  Character: Armand Bertier

       2003

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  6.4
  The Mothman Prophecies
  A reporter (Richard Gere) investigates strange phenomena in a small West Virginia town, including unexplained lights in the sky, psychic visions, and sightings of bizarre winged creatures.. all of which are connected to the myster...
  Character: Alexander Leek

   2002

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  6.9
  Evelyn
  Based on true events, this is the inspiring story of real-life hero Desmond Doyle and his young children, Evelyn, Maurice and Dermot. Struggling to raise his kids alone in Ireland in 1953, Doyle is devastated when the power of the...
  Character: Tom Connolly

   2002

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  6.5
  Salem Witch Trials (TV)
  The drama is set within a backdrop of a strict religious community struggling to survive the rugged conditions in their New World colony. While contending with various health, safety, comfort and financial hardships, they are sudd...
   2002

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  5.6
  The Sum of All Fears
  When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst...
  Character: Dressler

   2002

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  Love in a Cold Climate (TV Miniseries)
  This 2001 version attempted to crystallize Mitford's long and labyrinthine narrative into a mere 150 minutes, and for the most part it succeeded. Set during the period from 1929 to 1940, the story (which also incorporates elements...
  Character:  Uncle Matthew unknown episodes

   2001

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  7.8
  Gosford Park
  GOSFORD PARK explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend s...
  Character: Jennings

   2001

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  6.8
  Arabian Nights (TV Miniseries)
  To cure a prince's murderous madness, Scheherezade tells him a series of wonderous stories.
   2000

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  St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (TV)
  A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a slave. Enduring many hardships, he finds comfort and eventually salvation in his faith...
   2000

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  6.0
  In the Beginning (TV)
  Set around the year 2000 B.C., the narrative opens with "Genesis 12," wherein the Lord has kicked Abraham and company out of their country to a land of milk and honey to be named later. In order to keep up the morale of ...
   2000

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  5.0
  The Cherry Orchard
  Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the ...
   1999

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  Nicholas' Gift (TV)
  Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead.
  Character: Reg Green

   1998

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  5.7
  Silent Tongue
  River Phoenix becomes mentally unhinged when his Native American bride dies in childbirth. This sends his father, Richard Harris, on a journey to try and find another woman for his son. The plainsman will do anything to help his s...
  Character: Eamon McCree

   1993

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  6.0
  Unnatural Pursuits (TV Miniseries)
  "Unnatural Pursuits" is such a delicious send-up of theater life, you'll recognize its rightness even if all you know about theater life comes from "Pursuits." Based on a Simon Gray play, this joint A&E/BBC...
   1992

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  6.0
  Mister Frost
  Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to...
   1990

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  4.0
  Dr. M (Club Extinction)
  A sort of strange accidents in both sides of Berlin (in The Wall times). Lt. Klaus Hartmann investigates them and finds they are really strange suicides. Going deeper he discovers a relation between them and the Club Thanatos, a p
   1990

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  6.6
  Hamlet
  When he hears that his father the king has died, Hamlet (Mel Gibson) returns home to Denmark. He finds that mother Gertrude (Glenn Close) has married his uncle Claudius who is now the new king and they are planning that Hamlet sho...
  Character: Claudius

   1990

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  6.2
  Uncontrollable Circumstances
  For whatever reason, Philippe and Daniel choose to vacation in Southeast Asia, where they meet Hans, a resident of the area who acts as their patron and guide. Before they leave to return to Paris, the two present Hans with a gift...
  Character: Malcolm Forrest

   1989

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  Pack of Lies (TV)
  How well do you know your neighbors, your close friends? What if the FBI asked you if they could use your home to spy on them...
   1987

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  6.6
  A Prayer for the Dying
  Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the U.K. and start a new life. The IRA wan...
  Character: Jack Meehan

   1987

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  7.0
  Duet for One
  Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with another woman and her favourite pupil decides t...
   1986

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  7.3
  The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)
  TV series (1985-1992). 6 seasons. 65 episodes. A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
  Character:  John Fabian 1 episode, 1988

   1985

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  9.0
  A Voyage Round My Father (TV)
  Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch, a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted son, who follows his ...
  Character: John Mortimer

   1984

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  Dr. Fischer of Geneva (TV)
   1984

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  An Englishman Abroad (TV)
  Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
  Character: Guy Burgess

   1983

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  5.0
  The Wicked Lady
  Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbe...
   1983

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  The Return of the Soldier
  Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Alan Bates), returns from the front during the First World War shell-shoc...
   1982

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  5.0
  Britannia Hospital
  Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital t...
   1982

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  7.0
  Hands Up!
  Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. It begins with a sci-fi motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of Lebanon to the set of Voelker Schloendorf "Th...
   1981

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  6.4
  Quartet
  Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a ma...
  Character: H.J. Heidler

   1981

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  6.0
  Nijinsky
  Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of th...
   1980

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  7.0
  The Rose
  Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures of performing by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Dyer (...
   1979

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  The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV Miniseries)
  In a drunken and disheartened state, Michael Henchard sells his wife at a fair. When he becomes sober again he realises what he has done, and though unable to find his wife and child, changes his ways. He becomes the Mayor of the ...
   1978

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  6.3
  The Shout
  An enigmatic wanderer (Alan Bates), who claims to have the ability to kill people by shouting, shatters the domestic life of a young couple (John Hurt and Susannah York)...
  Character: Charles

   1978

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  6.8
  An Unmarried Woman
  Erica seemingly has the perfect life until her husband informs her he's leaving her for another woman. With help from a therapist and a supportive group of friends, she recovers and begins to build a life for herself. She even ent...
   1978

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  6.0
  Story of a Love Story
  Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is ...
   1973

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  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humor that hide
   1972

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  7.5
  Three Sisters
  In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meanin...
  Character: Col. Vershinin

   1970

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  7.7
  The Go-Between
  Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be e...
  Character: Ted Burgess

   1970

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  7.0
  Women in Love
  The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian's industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters Gudrun, a sculptress and Ursula Brang...
  Character: Rupert Birkin

   1969

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  6.9
  The Fixer
  Alan Bates stars as Yakov Bok, an impecunious but astute Jewish farmer, living in Czarist Russia during the turn of the 19th Century, the era of pogroms. After being deserted by his unfaithful wife, he decides to leave the farm an...
  Character: Yakov Bok

   1968

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  7.3
  Far From the Madding Crowd
  Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. And she captures the lives and l...
  Character: Gabriel Oak

   1967

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  6.5
  Georgy Girl
  Georgy has resigned herself to being one of life's accidents. She disapproves somewhat of her father's butlering James Leamington. She's tall, plump, sloppy and wistfully envious of what she conceives to be the life led by her bea...
  Character: Jos Jones

   1966

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  7.5
  King of Hearts
  During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans and finds himself ...
  Character: Le soldat Charles Plumpick alias le roi de coeur

   1966

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  Nothing But the Best
  Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most s...
   1964

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  7.6
  Zorba the Greek
  Basil, a young English writer of Greek ancestry, meets an older, free-spirited Greek peasant named Zorba (Anthony Quinn) on the island of Crete. While Zorba pursues a relationship with Madame Hortense, an aging French courtesan, t...
  Character: Basil

   1964

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  The Guest
  Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies (Donald Pleasence), an old derelict who has been fire...
   1963

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  7.0
  The Ballad of the Running Man
  Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. But when the insurance investigator from the claim als...
   1963

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  8.0
  A Kind of Loving
  A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-...
   1962

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  Whistle down the wind
  In England's north country, three children find an escaped and wounded murderer in a barn and convince themselves, through something he mutters, that he is the re-incarnation of Jesus Christ. Accepting the role, the man is safely ...
   1961

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  6.8
  The Entertainer
  Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical jokes about sex and politics and hu...
  Character: Frank Rice

   1960