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Snowpiercer (2014)
Snowpiercer is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction action film based on the French climate fiction graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho and written by Bong and Kelly Masterson. A South Korean-Czech co-production, the film marks Bong's English-language deb...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Harrison Ford•Bill Paxton•Lauren Bacall•Burt Lancaster•Anne Bancroft•Richard Burton•Angie Dickinson
Hercules (2014)
Hercules is a 2014 American action-adventure fantasy film starring Dwayne Johnson as the titular character. It is directed by Brett Ratner from a screenplay written by Ryan J. Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos. The film also stars Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Mullan, and John Hurt. It is based on Steve Moore's graphic novel Hercule...
Starring: Chris Sarandon•Aksel Hennie•Ben Gazzara•Gena Rowlands•Peter O'Toole•Veronica Cartwright•Maggie Smith•James Caan•Yaphet Kotto•Julie Christie
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is a 2011 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. The film is the second of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and the eighth and final...
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton•Aksel Hennie•Diane Lane•Denis Leary•Randy Quaid•Anthony Hopkins•Bill Murray•Mickey Rourke•Ryan O'Neal•David Morse
Melancholia (2011)
Melancholia is a 2011 apocalyptic drama art film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland, with Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Rampling, Jesper Christensen, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, and Udo Kier in supporting roles. The film's story revolves arou...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Bob Balaban•Jeff Bridges•Tom Skerritt•Jodie Foster•Christopher Walken
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name. The film stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciar...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Randy Quaid•Keith Carradine•Sam Waterston•Kris Kristofferson•Ed Begley Jr.•Meg Foster•James Woods
44 Inch Chest (2010)
44 Inch Chest is a 2009 British crime comedy-drama film directed by Malcolm Venville in his directorial debut. The film stars Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane and Joanne Whalley. The film was released on 19 October 2009.
Starring: Chris Sarandon•Aksel Hennie•Philip Baker Hall•Billy Barty•Brad Davis•Bruce McGill•Karen Allen•Sigourney Weaver•Ian Holm•Jeffrey Tambor
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is a 2010 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. The film is the first of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and the seventh instalment in th...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Diane Lane•Blair Brown•Denis Leary•Bill Murray•Isabelle Huppert•Mickey Rourke•David Morse•Tim Curry•Laura Dern
Outlander (2009)
Outlander is a 2008 science fiction fantasy action horror film written and directed by Howard McCain, and starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman. The plot is loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, adapted to a science-fiction backstory involving a spaceship crashing in Iron Age Norway. The film gro...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Doug Jones•Rutger Hauer•John Cleese•Cyril Cusack
The Limits of Control (2009)
The Limits of Control is a 2009 American film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Isaach de Bankolé as a solitary assassin, carrying out a job in Spain. Filming began in February 2008, and took place on location in Madrid, Seville and Almería, Spain. The film was distributed by Focus Features. It received mixed reviews, and as of May 17,...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Raúl Juliá•Mitch Pileggi•Bill Paxton•Christopher Starr•Suzanna Hamilton•Pam Gems•Gregor Fisher•Janet Key•Steven Berkoff
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp, from a story by Jeff Nathanson and franchise creator George Lucas. The fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series, it was released and takes place 19 years after the previous film. Set in 1957, it ...
Starring: Warwick Davis•Stephen Rea•Aksel Hennie•Željko Ivanek•Philip Baker Hall•Eric Stoltz•Stellan Skarsgård•Stephen Dillane•Elizabeth Perkins•Keanu Reeves
Recount (2008)
Recount is a 2008 political drama television film about Florida's vote recount during the 2000 United States presidential election. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Jay Roach, the television film stars Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, and Tom Wilkinson. It premiered on HBO on May 25,...
Starring: Liam Neeson•Aksel Hennie•Kiefer Sutherland•Miranda Richardson•Lorraine Bracco•Patricia Clarkson•Jean-Marc Barr•Christina Applegate•Uma Thurman•Alan Rickman
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy created by Mike Mignola. A sequel to Hellboy (2004), it is the second installment in the franchise's live-action film series. Directed and written by Guillermo del Toro from a story he co-wrote with Mignola, the film stars Ron Perlman as H...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Karel Roden•Doug Jones•Brian Steele•Sophia Myles•Sian Thomas•Bill Nighy•Bridget Fonda•Roseanne Barr•Colin Firth
V for Vendetta (2006)
V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political action film directed by James McTeigue from a screenplay by the Wachowskis. It is based on the 1988 DC Vertigo Comics limited series of the same title by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, and Tony Weare. The film, set in a future where a fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the UK, centres on V, an anarchis...
Starring: Julie Walters•Aksel Hennie•Angela Bassett•Emma Thompson•Rik Mayall•Ed Begley, Jr.•Michael Gambon•Richard Griffiths
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 period psychological thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Dustin Hoffman. Tykwer, with Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil, also composed the music. The screenplay, by Tykwer, Andrew Birkin and Bernd Eichinger, is based on Patrick Süskind's 1985 nov...
Starring: Jason Priestley•Aksel Hennie•Denis Leary•Lindsay Frost•Ralph Fiennes•Ernie Reyes Jr.•Jim Broadbent•Rain Phoenix•Kirsten Dunst•Natalie Portman
The Skeleton Key (2005)
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American Southern Gothic supernatural horror film directed by Iain Softley, written by Ehren Kruger, and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The narrative follows a New Orleans hospice nurse who begins a job at a Terrebonne Parish plantation home, and becomes entangled in a sup...
Starring: Hugo Weaving•Aksel Hennie•David Hyde Pierce•Ciarán Hinds•Udo Kier•Ewan McGregor•Charlotte Gainsbourg•Joseph Fiennes
Valiant (2005)
Valiant is a 2005 computer-animated comedy film produced by Vanguard Animation, Ealing Studios and Odyssey Entertainment, and released by Entertainment Film Distributors in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2005, and by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on August 19, 2005. Set in May of the year 1944, it tells the story of a group of war pige...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Cate Blanchett•Tom Wilkinson•Olivia Williams•Stephen Dillane•Rufus Sewell•Peter Sarsgaard•Selma Blair•Hugh Laurie•Kate Hudson
Dogville (2004)
Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell...
Starring: Peter Mullan•Tilda Swinton•James Caviezel•Aksel Hennie•Dwayne Johnson•Chris Evans•Joy Bryant•Jamie Bell•Shia LaBeouf•Rachel Hurd-Wood
Hellboy (2004)
Hellboy is a 2004 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse Comics character of the same name, created by Mike Mignola. Directed and written by Guillermo del Toro, it is the first installment in the franchise’s live-action film series; the film stars Ron Perlman in the title role, alongside Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Eva...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Karel Roden•Rupert Evans•Doug Jones•Brian Steele•Ladislav Beran•Alex Descas•Sophia Myles•Sian Thomas•Gael García Bernal
Contact (1997)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. It also ...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Tim Pigott-Smith•Stephen Fry•Annette Badland•Jeryl Prescott•Forrest Landis•Ronald McCall
Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
Love and Death on Long Island is a 1997 British-Canadian film directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock and Anne Reid. The storyline of obsession somewhat resembles that of Death in Venice.
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Luke Goss
Rob Roy (1995)
Rob Roy is a 1995 American historical biographical drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It stars Liam Neeson as Rob Roy MacGregor, an 18th-century Scottish clan chief who battles a sadistic nobleman in the Scottish Highlands. Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox, and Jason Flemyng also star. Roth won the BAFTA Award for...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•John Alexander•Mark Strong•Rupert Graves•Hiam Abbass
Wild Bill (1995)
Wild Bill is a 1995 American acid Western film about the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok. The film was written and directed by Walter Hill, and based on the 1978 stage play Fathers and Sons by Thomas Babe and the 1986 novel Deadwood by Pete Dexter. It stars Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, and Diane Lane, and was released by Un...
Starring: Ben Whishaw•Aksel Hennie•Corinna Harfouch•Birgit Minichmayr•David Calder•Benedict Cumberbatch•Paz de la Huerta•Reece Ritchie
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film based on Tom Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred an ensemble cast led by Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, and Rain Phoenix. Robbins himself was the narrator. The ...
Starring: Melvil Poupaud•Anna Walton•Aksel Hennie•Jack Huston•Jean-François Stévenin•Song Kang-ho•Edna Doré•Andy de la Tour•Alexander Skarsgård
King Ralph (1991)
King Ralph is a 1991 American comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward and starring John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, and John Hurt. The film is about an American who becomes the unlikely King of the United Kingdom after an electrical accident wipes out the British Royal Family.
Starring: Tobias Santelmann•Aksel Hennie•Voices of
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 science fiction horror film based on Brian Aldiss' 1973 novel of the same name, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, and Nick Brimble. The film is co-written and directed by Roger Corman, returning to the director's chair after a hiatus of almost twenty years. This is his final directorial effo...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Burt Lancaster•Anne Bancroft
Romeo.Juliet (1990)
Romeo.Juliet is a 1990 film-in-concert adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The motion picture is an original creation by American director, producer, writer and cinematographer Armando Acosta. With a cast of feral cats from Venice, New York City, Verona and Ghent, the dialogue is vocalized by award-winning British film and...
Starring: Richard Burton•Aksel Hennie
From the Hip (1987)
From the Hip, is a 1987 American courtroom comedy-drama film directed by Bob Clark from a screenplay by Clark and David E. Kelley. The film stars Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Ray Walston, and Darren McGavin.
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Dennis Hopper•Veronica Cartwright
1984 (1984)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, also known as 1984, is a 1984 British dystopian drama film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled b...
Starring: Yaphet Kotto•Aksel Hennie•Julie Christie•Harry Dean Stanton•Vanessa Redgrave•Michael Sarrazin•Anthony Hopkins
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 American suspense thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The film stars Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Chris Sarandon and Craig T. Nelson. It was Peckinpah's final film before his death in 1984.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal•Christopher Walken•Aksel Hennie•Randy Quaid•Sam Waterston•Kris Kristofferson•Meg Foster•Chris Sarandon•Helen Shaver•Billy Barty
Partners (1982)
Partners is a 1982 American gay-themed buddy comedy film directed by James Burrows and starring Ryan O'Neal and John Hurt as a mismatched pair of cops.
Starring: Brad Davis•Aksel Hennie
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Elephant Man is a 1980 British-American biographical drama film about Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in late 19th-century London. The film was directed by David Lynch, produced by Mel Brooks and Jonathan Sanger, and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie J...
Starring: Sigourney Weaver•Ian Holm•Aksel Hennie
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten. Loosely based on the Johnson County War, it revolves around a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyo...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Corinna Harfouch•Sandy McPeak•Isabelle Huppert•Mickey Rourke•Craig T. Nelson•Rutger Hauer
Alien (1979)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who, after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an uncharted planetoid, find themselves up against an aggressive and deadly extraterr...
Starring: Cyril Cusack•Raúl Juliá•Christopher Starr•Aksel Hennie•Tim Pigott-Smith•Suzanna Hamilton•Pam Gems
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
The Lord of the Rings is a 1978 American-British animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi. It is an adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy epic novel of the same name, comprising The Fellowship of the Ring and some material from both books of The Two Towers. Set in Middle-earth, the film follows a group of fantasy races—Hobbits, Men, a...
Starring: Gregor Fisher•Aksel Hennie•Janet Key
Midnight Express (1978)
Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film directed by Alan Parker and adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes's 1977 memoir of the same name. The film centers on Hayes, a young American student, who is sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of the country. The film's title is prison slang for his escape attempt. The cast als...
Starring: Aksel Hennie•Judd Nelson•John Goodman
In Search of Gregory (1969)
In Search of Gregory is a 1969 British-Italian drama film directed by Peter Wood and starring Julie Christie.
Starring: Elizabeth Perkins•Bridget Fonda•Aksel Hennie