Ronald Pickup

All Movies of Ronald Pickup

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  6.1
  The Happy Prince
  It centers around the final three years of Oscar Wilde (1897–1900). Wilde (Rupert Everett), sequestered at a remote seaside hotel in France by faithful friends (Edwin Thomas and Colin Firth), is soon restlessly traversing Europe...
   2018

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  7.8
  Darkest Hour
  Within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for...
   2017

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  5.7
  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it's making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina (Tina Desai). ...
  Character: Norman Cousins

   2015

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  5.5
  Atlantis (TV Series)
  The city of Atlantis is a strange, ancient dwelling; a world of bull leaping, of reptile haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants. Young Jason arrives in the city and a magical adventure begins
   2013

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  6.8
  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  A story set in Bangalore and centered around the workers and residents at Dunroamin, a home for the elderly.
  Character: Norman

   2011

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  5.4
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  Based on the video game, which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world. A rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly joins fo...
  Character: rey Sharaman

   2010

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  4.0
  Secret Passage
  Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased...
   2004

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  7.0
  Evilenko
  Who’s behind the terrifying “Monster”, one of the most ruthless criminals in history? How can one man alone rape, murder and devour more than 50 children and adolescents with no trace anywhere in the boundless territory of t...
   2004

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  The Worst Week of My Life (TV Series)
  A sitcom about how getting married turns into the week from hell for Howard Steel. He manages to do a very good job of making his parents-in-law hate him but not such a good job of shaking off his barking mad stalker Cassie. In s...
   2004

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  7.3
  The Tulse Luper Suitcases. Part 1: The Moab Story
  Iconoclastic director Peter Greenaway begins his most ambitious project to date with this feature, the first in a proposed series of films, television programs, and multimedia projects that examine the contents of 92 suitcases, ea...
   2003

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  7.0
  The White Knight Stratagem (Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes) (TV)
  When Sir John Starr complains that the investigation into his son's murder is not producing results, the Chief Constable asks Dr. Joseph Bell to assist. Bell agrees but there is some animosity with the officer in charge of the cas...
   2001

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  8.0
  Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV Miniseries)
  5 Episodes. Certain events which had an impact on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, while he was still a medical student under the supervision of Dr. Bell, his teacher and mentor, on whom the character of Sherlock Holmes is partly drawn fro
  Character:  Sir John Starr 1 episode, 2001

   2000

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  Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (TV Miniseries)
  Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
   1999

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  6.6
  Testimony
  The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
   1998

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  The Rector's Wife (TV Series)
  Anna Bouverie (Lindsay Duncan, Rome) chafes at her limited life as a vicar's wife in a small English town. When her husband Peter (Jonathan Coy, from the Horatio Hornblower series) is passed over for a promotion and her daughter i...
   1994

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  The Riff Raff Element (TV Series)
  TV Series (1993-1994). 2 seasons. Down-on-their luck, upper-class family rent out a wing of their stately home to a lower-class family.
   1993

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  A Murder of Quality (TV)
  At the request of an old war time colleague, George Smiley agrees to investigate the murder Stella Rode, a junion master's wife at Carne School - a boy's school. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody wh...
   1991

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  Performance (TV Series)
  TV Series (1991-1998). 5 seasons.
  Character:  King Henry IV / ... 3 episodes, 1991-1995

   1991

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  Bethune: The Making of a Hero
  Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune, 1890-1939, (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbac...
   1990

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  7.2
  The Silver Chair - Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (TV Miniseries)
  Eustace is sent to a horrible school, and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from the bullies and looking for a place to hide. The two of them are magically transported from the garden shed into the magical world of N...
  Character:  Aslan 4 episodes, 1990

   1990

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  6.2
  Jekyll & Hyde (TV)
  Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has test...
  Character: Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire

   1990

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  Behaving Badly (TV Miniseries)
  Bridget (Judi Dench) is jilted by her husband. He goes off to marry a younger woman. His mother, however still keeps pestering the old wife,who, fed-up with the state of affairs, becomes decidedly misbehaved.
  Character:  Mark 4 episodes, 1989

   1989

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  6.4
  Danny, the Champion of the World
  Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for a...
  Character: Captain Lancaster

   1989

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  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (TV Miniseries)
  4 kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the Lion, Aslan.
   1988

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  The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (TV)
  During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp.
  Character: Koophuis

   1988

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  6.3
  The Fourth Protocol
  Caine plays a senior British administrator who is part of the intelligence establishment. When his findings offend his superiors he is reassigned to a customs post. While there he finds odd things showing up, which might well be p...
  Character: Wynne-Evans

   1987

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  8.0
  Fortunes of War (TV Miniseries)
  Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II. The film catalogs and chronicles, after the war begins, the characters [diplomats, literary types, spies...
  Character:  Prince Yakimov 4 episodes, 1987

   1987

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  7.3
  The Mission
  A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portu...
  Character: Hontar

   1986

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  7.0
  Eleni
  Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy...
  Character: Spiro

   1985

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  6.0
  Camille (TV)
  Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lov...
   1984

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  Wagner (TV Miniseries)
  A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and poli...
   1983

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  Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (TV)
   1983

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  Waters of the Moon (TV)
   1983

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  6.5
  Never Say Never Again
  A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
   1983

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  Ivanhoe (TV)
   1982

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  The Life of Verdi (TV Series)
  The complete series which cost over 10 million dollars to create, and several years to film. It provides a meticulously accurate portrayal of the life of one of the greatest composers of opera the world has ever known, Giuseppe Ve...
  Character:  Giuseppe Verdi 9 episodes, 1982

   1982

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  The Letter (TV)
   1982

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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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  The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight (TV)
  Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the Church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine. As Cardinal Wolsey attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverberates with political intrigue and accusations of t
   1979

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  BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series)
  TV Series (1977- ). 38 episodies.
  Character:  Ian / ... 2 episodes, 1978-1979

   1977

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  Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (TV)
  Step into the gilded world of beautiful and intelligent American heiress Jennie Jerome, from her fairytale wedding to Lord Randolph Churchill, through extramarital affairs and fashionable salons that helped advance his career and ...
   1974

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  6.7
  Mahler
  Mahler is a series of memories and impressions taken from the composer's momentous life, set to his superb and evocative music. Jealously over his attractive wife, the insanity of a fellow music student, his conversion from the Je...
   1974

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  7.8
  The Day of the Jackal
  Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group and ...
  Character: The Forger

   1973

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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: Baron Tusenbach

   1970