David Hemmings
David Edward Leslie Hemmings (November 18, 1941 – December 3, 2003) was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer. He is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup (1966),... Read full bio →
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Blowup
1966
Blessed
Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
Gangs of New York
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle.
Equilibrium
In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Spy Game
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
Mean Machine
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners.
Last Orders
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate.
Gladiator
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
The Rainbow
Four kids embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow.
Harlequin
Le jeune sénateur Rick Rast est appelé à remplacer un homme politique influent, mort dans d'étranges conditions. Au même moment, Gregory Wolfe, un mystérieux inconnu, vient bouleverser son existence...
Thirst
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End.
Les liens de sang
A Montreal police inspector (Donald Sutherland) cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
The Squeeze
An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.
The Disappearance
The wife of contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
Squadra antitruffa
A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's of London.
La via della droga
An Italian policeman goes undercover to break up an international heroin smuggling ring, and butts heads with a hot-tempered Interpol agent assigned to the same task.
Islands in the Stream
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Crossed Swords
Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott, Rex Harrison, David Hemmings and Charlton Heston costar in this dazzling adventure film adapted from Mark Twain's classic, The Prince and the Pauper.
Profondo rosso
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
No es nada, mamá, sólo un juego
A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions.
Juggernaut
A bomber has planted 7 bombs on a transatlantic cruise ship. While a crack bomb squad team try to defuse the bombs the police attempt to track down the mad bomber.
Voices
A woman released from a mental hospital questions her sanity after she hears strange voices in the country manor she has moved into with her husband.
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the same fate will befall him.
Fragment of Fear
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
Alfred the Great
In 9th century England, Alfred abandons his path to priesthood to fight Danish invaders, leading English Christians to victory. Though successful, he struggles between religious devotion and warrior bloodlust.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Barbarella
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Camelot
King Arthur establishes the ideals and laws of Camelot but is tragically forced to enforce these laws against his own wife.
Eye of the Devil
Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
Blowup
BLOW-UP is the story of a successful fashion photographer, Thomas (David Hemmings), who, whilst scouting for fresh subjects in a park one afternoon, photographs a mysterious couple in 'flagrante delicto.' Upon returning to his studio loft later that day, he develops the pictures and discovers that he has inadvertently stumbled upon a murder.
The System
In a seaside town, local men pursue summer tourists for casual flings. Their leader, a photographer named Tinker, unexpectedly falls for a wealthy model, realizing the dynamic of exploitation may be reversed.
West 11
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.
Two Left Feet
Every time Alan Crabbe tries a manful stride into the jungle of sex, his two left feet turn the attempt into a stumble. But then he meets Eileen, who signals unmistakable messages at Alan with her large, inviting eyes.
Some People
The story of three teenaged tearaways Johnnie, Bill and Bert who find themselves at odds with society. Following a brush with the law they have a chance meeting with a local choirmaster who offers them a way of making good.
Play It Cool
Stars Billy Fury (Britain's answer to Elvis Presley) and features cameos from some other stars from the sixties, with Bobby Vee, Helen Shapiro and Shane Fenton (better known as Alvin Stardust).
Sink the Bismarck!
A true WW2 story: the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
No Trees in the Street
London detective recalls 1930s poverty. Hetty battles brother's criminality, manipulative mother favoring racketeer Wilkie for gain. Slums contrasted with new high-rises.
The Heart Within
Murder suspect on the run must depend on strangers to help clear his name.