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Hellboy

Hellboy (2004) more movies like this

directed by Guillermo del Toro
featuring Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, David Hyde Pierce

Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil arrives on the screen in vivid form in this adaptation directed by distinctive horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. During World War II, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden), who has used his occult ...

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V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta (2006) more movies like this

directed by James McTeigue
featuring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt

Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is rescued by a vigilante named V (Hugo Weaving) -- a ...

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I, Claudius

I, Claudius (1975) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Wise
featuring Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, Brian Blessed, Margaret Tyzack, John Hurt

This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech impediment through prophecy becomes the Roman Empire. An aging Claudius looks back at the bizarre and treacherous times through which he's lived and sets them down ...

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Contact

Contact (1997) more movies like this

directed by Robert Zemeckis
featuring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the seemingly unknowable: working with a group that ...

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Rob Roy

Rob Roy (1995) more movies like this

directed by Michael Caton-Jones
featuring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir

The 18th century Scottish legend of Robert Roy MacGregor comes to life in this stylish adaptation of the swashbuckling novel by Sir Walter Scott. Liam Neeson stars as the title character, a cattle drover and proud head of a Highlands clan who takes a one thousand pound loan from the royal Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt) in order to make a profit ...

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The Skeleton Key

The Skeleton Key (2005) more movies like this

directed by Iain Softley
featuring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Joy Bryant

A young woman discovers a terrible secret while caring for an elderly man in this supernatural thriller. Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a care provider for the aged who is hired away from the hospice where she works by Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands). Violet needs someone to help take care of her husband, Ben (John Hurt), who is in poor health and ...

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The Field

The Field (1990) more movies like this

directed by Jim Sheridan
featuring Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty

Richard Harris was nominated for several awards (including the Oscar and Golden Globe) for his performance in The Field. The time is the mid-1930s; the place, western Ireland. For many years rugged individualist Bull McCabe (Harris) has been cultivating a small plot of rented land, nurturing it from barren rock into a fertile field. Now, however, ...

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The Proposition

The Proposition (2006) more movies like this

directed by John Hillcoat
featuring Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, John Hurt

An outlaw is goaded into taking on justice at its most brutal in this hard-edged Western set in rural Australia in the 1880s. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is a criminal living in the outback. He and his two brothers, Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mikey (Richard Wilson), are on the run from the law for rape and murder. Arthur is a violent and dangerous ...

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Alien

Alien (1979) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm

"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a ...

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) more movies like this

directed by John Madden
featuring Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey

Louis de Bernières' best-selling novel of love during wartime is brought to the screen in this story that blends comedy, action, and romance. In 1940, war rages throughout Europe, but the fighting has yet to arrive on the Greek island of Cephallonia, where life continues to follow its own slow, deliberate path until word arrives that Italian ...

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Heaven's Gate (1981) more movies like this

directed by Michael Cimino
featuring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, John Hurt

A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism, Cimino used the historical Johnson County War incident ...

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Midnight Express (1978) more movies like this

directed by Alan Parker
featuring Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Irene Miracle, Paul L. Smith

Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he's caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a large amount of hashish out of the country. The crime ...

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1984 (1984) more movies like this

directed by Michael Radford
featuring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher

Directed by British filmmaker Michael Radford, Nineteen Eighty-Four is the second film adaptation of the George Orwell novel. The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of Oceania. Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a government bureaucrat whose job is rewriting history and ...

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Night Crossing (1981) more movies like this

directed by Delbert Mann
featuring John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Glynnis O'Connor, Doug McKeon, Beau Bridges

Two friends chart a daring path to freedom in this drama from Walt Disney Pictures. Peter Strelzyk (John Hurt) and Guenter Wetzel (Beau Bridges) are two men living in East Germany who can no longer tolerate the petty tyrannies of Communist rule. Together, they formulate a daring plan to escape to democratic West Germany in a hot air balloon, but ...

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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994) more movies like this

directed by Gus Van Sant
featuring Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Lorraine Bracco

Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until Good Will Hunting -- is based on Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller. Uma Thurman plays Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with very large thumbs. After her parents (Grace Zabriskie and Ken Kesey) take her to a doctor (Buck Henry), ...

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Watership Down (1978) more movies like this

directed by Martin Rosen
featuring John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Simon Cadell

Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will find poetic and moving. It doesn't pull any punches. Death -- violent, disturbing death -- is ever present, portrayed in a manner that is astonishingly honest for a cartoon. As a result, it is that rare ...

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Partners (1982) more movies like this

directed by James Burrows
featuring Ryan O'Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan, Robyn Douglass, Jay Robinson

TV director James Burrows made his feature debut with this unusual film that's a situation comedy-style twist on both The Odd Couple (1968) and Cruising (1980). The murder of a male model in a gay, beachfront enclave of L.A. warrants an undercover investigation, so police officer Benson (Ryan O'Neal), a straight, macho, law-and-order type, is ...

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Hellboy: Blood and Iron (2007) more movies like this

directed by Victor A. Cook
featuring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Hurt, Peri Gilpin

Mike Mignola and Guillermo Del Toro team up once again to bring everyone's favorite wise-cracking, crime fighting demon to the screen in an animated adventure that finds Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien pitted against a powerful horde of supernatural baddies. When a sprawling mansion becomes overrun with ghosts and werewolves, Hellboy is ...

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Beyond the Gates (2007) more movies like this

directed by Michael Caton-Jones
featuring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Dominique Horwitz

Two outsiders witness an onslaught of bloody Rwandan genocide in this fact-based drama from director Michael Caton-Jones (Scandal). In 1994, Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) is a British schoolteacher who has volunteered to spend a year at the Ecole Technique Officielle, a school in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Connor's arrival in Rwanda occurs after the ...

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The Elephant Man (1980) more movies like this

directed by David Lynch
featuring Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made public when one Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony ...

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The Lord of the Rings (1978) more movies like this

directed by Ralph Bakshi
featuring Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Sholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard

Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi's literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, is brought to the screen in a reverent, stilted way, with Bakshi forsaking his sharp-edged animated looniness for a rotoscoped dullness. Although the film's title encompasses the entire Tolkien trilogy, this longish Bakshi ...

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King Ralph (1991) more movies like this

directed by David S. Ward
featuring John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Richard Griffiths

Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the "collateral" heirs -- people not in the direct line of decent, like cousins, great-nephews and the like. On rare occasions, these people are not even aware that they are about to be elevated to the House of Lords, and they have been living more-or-less ordinary lives. In this ...

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Shia LaBeouf, Igor Jijikine

Everyone's favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Harrison Ford reprises his role as the iconic, snake-loathing screen hero in a ...

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Dogville (2004) more movies like this

directed by Lars von Trier
featuring Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany, Philip Baker Hall, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Davies, Chloë Sevigny

Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small mining town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) takes her in and strikes a deal ...

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Lost Souls (2000) more movies like this

directed by Janusz Kaminski
featuring Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt

A woman who has survived the touch of ultimate evil must now save one man from the same fate in order to protect the world in this supernatural thriller. Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) is a devout Catholic who is said to have been possessed by a demon as a child; she now works with Father Lareaux (John Hurt) and John Townshend (Elias Koteas), fellow ...

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