Joss Ackland
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Filmography
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Shadowlands
(1985)The love story between author C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy ends tragically with her death from cancer, leaving his spiritual beliefs in dire crisis.

To the Ends of Time
(1996)A young boy in a mythical land must fight to stop a time machine in an evil witch’s possession that is rapidly aging the princess he loves.

The Mighty Ducks
(1992)Emilio Estevez portrays a hotshot trial attorney who gets a unique community service assignment: coaching a hapless group of pee wee hockey players. Can he turn the worst team in the league into champs and face his personal demons along the way?

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
(1988)Amidst war-torn Europe, an American art student staying at the fabulous Ritz Paris opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life.

Daisies in December
(1995)The life of an antisocial and widowed grandfather takes on new meaning when he falls in love after being dumped by his family at a hotel for seniors.

A Kid in King Arthur's Court
(1995)As an earthquake rumbles, a 14-year-old boy falls back into time.

Operation: Daybreak
(1975)Czechoslovakia, 1942. During the cruelest period of the Nazi's World War II occupation--with the allies suffering defeat after defeat--three brave Czech patriots risk everything to go behind enemy lines and rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, a mission known as Operation Daybreak.

White Mischief
(1987)The true story of an affluent husband's response to the local stud of British Nairobi stealing his beautiful wife in the early days of World War II.

Hidden in Silence
(1996)In 1941 montans, a Catholic teen hides 13 Jews in her loft, risking her life as German nurses move into her apartment during the Nazi occupation.

Jekyll & Hyde
(1990)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 tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
(1990)The story of James Bond spans more than 30 years, spawning 14 books and even more movies. But even more fascinating is the man behind the phenomenon, who drew on his own true-life adventures to create James Bond: spy-turned-author Ian Fleming. Loosely based on the adventures of the creator of secret agent 007, The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming follows Fleming (Jason Connery) from his privileged upbringing with an aristocratic mother, Lady Evelyn (Patricia Hodge), through his humble beginnings at Reuter's News Service, to his meteoric rise to the highest ranks of the British Secret Service. Although he flirted wildly with both danger and beautiful women, Fleming's relationship with his mother was strained and his romance with the one great love of his life was fiery. Starring the son of the cinema's first James Bond, The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming probes the private life of a very public spy.

The Mind Snatchers
(1972)A German scientist working on quelling aggressive behavior in soldiers develops implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.

Crescendo
(1970)Stefanie Powers stars as an American girl who goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen
(1995)A corrupt narcotics agent gets riled up and on the offensive when a high-class London heroin addict starts a relationship with an American student.

Lethal Weapon 2
(1989)Riggs and Murtaugh battle drug-smuggling diplomats.

Saint Jack
(1979)An American pimp living in 1970s Singapore decides to start up his own brothel, but runs into trouble with some dangerous local gangsters.

K-19: The Widowmaker
(2002)As a Russian submarine heads toward America, the crew discovers the vessel's nuclear reactor system leaks, and time is quickly running out.
It Couldn't Happen Here
(1988)...Happen Here. The Pet Shop Boys star in a Jack Bond musical adventure about a boy's holiday at the seaside where he encounters a visually impaired priest and nuns in suspenders. (1987)

Surviving Picasso
(1996)Anthony Hopkins gives a full-throttle performance as acclaimed artist in this movie told from viewpoint of Picasso’s longtime mistress and mother of his children Claude & Paloma.
Above and Beyond
As WWII rages, Allied forces enact a daring plan to deliver North American-built aircraft across the frigid waters of the North Atlantic to the beleaguered Royal Air Force. Inspired by the true story of the Atlantic Ferry Organization.