Alan Bates
17 titles
Filmography
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A Kind of Loving
(1962)After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

The Shout
(1978)A traveler named Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in Devon and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Nijinsky
(1980)Celebrated Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky begins to lose his mind when he has a scandalous affair with impresario Sergei Diaghilev.

Hard Times
(1994)In an industrial Victorian town, the market's philosophy predominates over human sensitivity and represses true passions in this Dickens' adaptation.

We Think the World of You
(1988)In post-war London, a tug-of-war over a German shepherd exposes the secret relationship between a wealthy man and his young jailbird boyfriend.

The Go-Between
(1971)A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside in the summer of 1900.

Bertie and Elizabeth
(2002)The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.

The Wicked Lady
(1983)A woman who becomes a titled Lady after stealing her sister’s fiancé turns to highway robbery after she falls for a bandit she can’t ever truly have.

Far from the Madding Crowd
(1967)Based on the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd has been fully restored, overseen by Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now, The Man who Fell to Earth) originally the director of photography on this stunning classic. Featuring a star cast of Julie Christie (Doctor Zhivago, Don’t Look Now) Terence Stamp (The Collector, Superman) Alan Bates (Women in Love, The Fixer) and Peter Finch (Network, Sunday, Bloody Sunday).Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, (Alan Bates) a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch) and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.

Hamlet
(1990)The Prince of Denmark plots his revenge when he unearths a duplicitous conspiracy behind his father’s death in this adaptation from Franco Zeffirelli.

A Prayer for the Dying
(1987)A tormented IRA revolutionary looking to escape the endless cycle of violence finds his price for freedom in one final high-profile assassination.

The Return of the Soldier
(1983)Kitty Baldry is a high-society queen with a tunneled view of life. Her life is rocked when her husband returns from war suffering amnesia.

The Statement
(2003)Michael Caine headlines this shocking thriller about an escaped Nazi collaborator who gets hunted down in his elder years for atrocious war crimes.

The Entertainer
(1960)A third-rate vaudevillian uses liquor and young women to escape the pressures of changing times.

Hollywood North
(2004)The acquisition of the rights of a famous Canadian novel becomes a double-edged sword for a producer forced by Hollywood to compromise his vision.

The Sum of All Fears
(2002)When the Russian president dies, world tension escalates. Coupled with missing nuclear scientists and the threat of a nuclear detonation on United States soil, young CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) must uncover who is behind the conspiracy.

Evelyn
(2002)Set in 1950's Irelend, when working class Desmond Doyle's wife abandons him, he fights the legal system as he tries to regain custody of his children.