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Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle (2004) more movies like this

directed by Hayao Miyazaki
featuring Chieko Baisho, Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Lauren Bacall, Billy Crystal, Tatsuya Gasyuin, Josh Hutcherson, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Jean Simmons

Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animation director who wowed audiences worldwide with his award-winning film Spirited Away, brings another visually spectacular tale of imagination to the screen. Sophie is an 18-year-old girl who toils in the hat shop opened years ago by her late father. Often harassed by local boys, one day Sophie is unexpectedly ...

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Spartacus

Spartacus (1960) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov

Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the event, the enslaved trainees are "rewarded" with ...

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The Big Country

The Big Country (1958) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives

In The Big Country Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a ...

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How to Make an American Quilt

How to Make an American Quilt (1995) more movies like this

directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
featuring Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney); she's not sure if she's ready to ...

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The Robe

The Robe (1953) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson

Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone, who spends the whole of his single ...

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Hamlet

Hamlet (1948) more movies like this

directed by Laurence Olivier
featuring Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer

Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Danish prince who's still melancholy over the ...

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1946) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons

Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is considered by many to be one of the finest literary adaptations ever made as well as one of the greatest British ...

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Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls (1955) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith

This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This material was fleshed out into a 2-act libretto by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, then set to music by Frank Loesser and directed by George S. Kaufman. Opening late in 1950, Guys and Dolls was one of Broadway's hottest tickets ...

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Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry (1960) more movies like this

directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones

Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation rises to fame and fortune, enough so that Sharon ...

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The Grass Is Greener

The Grass Is Greener (1961) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson

A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's "Stately Homes of England" is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ends meet. One such tourist is wealthy Texan ...

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Heidi (1968) more movies like this

directed by Delbert Mann
featuring Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons

Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide

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Rough Night in Jericho (1967) more movies like this

directed by Arnold Laven
featuring Dean Martin, George Peppard, Jean Simmons, John McIntire, Slim Pickens

This typical western tale of beleaguered townsfolk mustering up the courage to fight the villain that controls their town with an iron fist features atypically bloody violence. Supposedly the top peacekeeper in the frontier town of Jericho, Sheriff Alex Flood (Dean Martin) is actually a ruthless bully and racketeer who owns or profitably ...

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The Egyptian (1954) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper, is set several centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ. Young Egyptian healer Sinuhe Edmund Purdom (ere accompanied by his servant, Kaptah, played by Peter Ustinov) draws the affection of barmaid Merit (Jean Simmons) who ...

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Black Narcissus (1947) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Esmond Knight, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons

British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered existence is disturbed by the presence of a handsome ...

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Divorce American Style (1967) more movies like this

directed by Bud Yorkin
featuring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jr., Jean Simmons, Van Johnson

An unhappy couple discover breaking up really is hard to do in this satiric comedy. Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), are a typical married couple in American Suburbia -- which is to say they're not very happy with each other. After 15 years together, Richard and Barbara decide they've reached the end of their ...

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The Dawning (1989) more movies like this

directed by Robert Knights
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Tara Mac Gowran

A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) while he hides in a beach hut. He talks the naive Nancy into delivering a message to Dublin. There she ...

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Desiree (1954) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell

Director Henry Koster and writer Daniel Taradash speculate mightily in this historical tableau charting the rise and fall of Napoleon (Marlon Brando), all due to his unrequited love for noblewoman Desiree (Jean Simmons). The film takes a chronological view of Napoleon's reign and posits Napoleon's love of a woman he wanted to marry as a young ...

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Going Undercover (1988) more movies like this

directed by James Kenelm Clarke
featuring Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Nancy Cartwright, Mills Watson

A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a blue-blooded family, but he tries to ignore that to ...

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Laker Girls (1990) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Seth Green
featuring Alexandra Paul, Jean Simmons, Shari Shattuck, Tina Yothers

Laker Girls adheres slavishly to the formula established by those "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders" TV movies of a decade or so ago. We follow the progress of three aspirants (Tina Yothers, Paris Vaughn and Alexandra Paul) for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers. There's the standard "den mother" character (Jean Simmons), and lots of ...

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Angel Face (1953) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Leon Ames

Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled psychotic who'll let nothing stand in the way of her ...

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Androcles and the Lion (1952) more movies like this

directed by Chester Erskine
featuring Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans

With George Bernard Shaw safely in his grave, RKO chief Howard Hughes had no qualms about twisting and bending Shaw's Androcles & the Lion to accommodate his own notions of entertainment. Happier, wiser heads prevailed before the Hughes-commissioned "Vestal Virgins" sequence, complete with near-naked dancing girls, was foisted on the public. ...

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Dominique Is Dead (1979) more movies like this

directed by Michael Anderson
featuring Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Simon Ward, Jenny Agutter, Ron Moody

The wife of a greedy Yankee entrepreneur comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this thriller. He is after her fortune and must try several times before he succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, she commits suicide. The dastardly husband soon begins experiencing her ghostly presence. The ...

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