Movies: Ian Holm

  • 1990
    A Season of Giants

    A Season of Giants (1990)

    A Season of Giants

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    At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America....

    A Season of Giants
  • 1999
    The Match

    The Match (1999)

    The Match

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    Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire....

    The Match
  • 1965
    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses (1965)

    The Wars of the Roses

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    A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict ...

    The Wars of the Roses
  • 1971
    A Severed Head

    A Severed Head (1971)

    A Severed Head

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    Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — name...

    A Severed Head
  • 1981
    Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

    Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981)

    Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

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    British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union...

    Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
  • 2011
    Discovering Hamlet

    Discovering Hamlet (2011)

    Discovering Hamlet

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    Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Ze...

    Discovering Hamlet
  • 1982
    Soft Targets

    Soft Targets (1982)

    Soft Targets

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    Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot....

    Soft Targets
  • 1991
    Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya (1991)

    Uncle Vanya

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    Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in lov...

    Uncle Vanya
  • 2003
    Prisoner of Paradise

    Prisoner of Paradise (2003)

    Prisoner of Paradise

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    The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film....

    Prisoner of Paradise
  • 2005
    The Queen of Trees

    The Queen of Trees (2005)

    The Queen of Trees

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    In Africa, the giant fig tree and the tiny fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship is a marvel of co-evolution, a marriage which has lasted for millennia. It forms the ...

    The Queen of Trees
  • 1992
    Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

    Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen (1992)

    Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

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    Join the BBC cameras as they go behind the glitter of Buckingham Palace and the pomp of Windsor Castle for a close-up look at the minutia of the monarchy. Culled from a year of unprecedented access to Queen Elizabeth II, the documentary trails the qu...

    Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
  • 1985
    Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

    Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)

    Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

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    Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?...

    Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
  • 1968
    The Bofors Gun

    The Bofors Gun (1968)

    The Bofors Gun

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    A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him....

    The Bofors Gun
  • 1989
    The Kingdom of Fun

    The Kingdom of Fun (1989)

    The Kingdom of Fun

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    The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall....

    The Kingdom of Fun
  • 1998
    Tale of the Tides

    Tale of the Tides (1998)

    Tale of the Tides

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    In Africa there is a fable that explains the creation of the tides. When a hyaena challenged a mudskipper to a drinking contest to decide who should own the shore, the god Mungu tilted the earth so the sea flowed inland, and neither could win....

    Tale of the Tides
  • 1974
    The Wood Demon

    The Wood Demon (1974)

    The Wood Demon

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    A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khr...

    The Wood Demon
  • 1998
    King Lear

    King Lear (1998)

    King Lear

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    Adaptation of Shakespeare's play....

    King Lear
  • 1969
    Moonlight on the Highway

    Moonlight on the Highway (1969)

    Moonlight on the Highway

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    Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, ...

    Moonlight on the Highway
  • 2007
    The Real Middle Earth

    The Real Middle Earth (2007)

    The Real Middle Earth

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    This fascinating documentary takes us in Tolkien's footsteps and investigates the landscapes and buildings, the places and names that helped shape Middle Earth. Sir Ian Holm narrates this fascinating exploration into an imaginary world....

    The Real Middle Earth
  • 1962
    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard (1962)

    The Cherry Orchard

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    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the ho...

    The Cherry Orchard