Alan Bates
18 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 Caretaker
(1964)While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a manipulative homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the new lodger.

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.

An Englishman Abroad
(1983)Alan Bates stars in a splendid story by Alan Bennett, based on a true incident which took place in Moscow in 1958. British spy Guy Burgess encounters actress Coral Browne on tour from the 'old country'. Invited to lunch at Burgess's shabby apartment, he presents her with a strange request.

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

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.

Silent Tongue
(1993)
Dr. M
(1990)In Berlin, in the near future, a police detective (Jan Niklas) connects a sudden rash of suicides to advertisements for a holiday club which feature an American model (Jennifer Beals). The club is owned by the sinister Dr M (Alan Bates) and it soon becomes clear that the doctor is experimenting with subliminal mind control. An update of the classic Fritz Lang thriller.

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

Royal Flash
(1975)Captain Harry Flashman is a cowardly rogue in 19th century Europe. His attempts at climbing the social ladder draw him into the devious plans of others and the arms of a duchess. But things don't go as planned and Flashman escapes through Europe.

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.

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.

Quartet
(1981)Cohen Film Collection is proud to present a new restoration of James Ivory's QUARTET. A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works.

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 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.

Salem Witch Trials
(2002)A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch-trials.