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John Neville
Actor 1925 - 2011

John Neville

Willesden, London, England, UK

John Neville, OBE, CM was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada with his family in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". He was appointed to the Order... Read full bio →

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20 titles
The Statement

The Statement

Norman Jewison 2003 2h 5.0

An ambitious Judge and an exacting Colonel re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard, an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church, Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men, determined to kill him before he's arrested.

Spider

Spider

David Cronenberg 2002 1h 38m 7.3

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

Harvard Man

Harvard Man

James Toback 2001 1h 39m 3.3

A basketball player strikes a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game.

The Duke

The Duke

Philip Spink 1999 1h 28m

When his nephew tries to wrest control of his estate from him, the Duke of Dingwall removes the boy from his will and leaves everything to his dog.

Sunshine

Sunshine

István Szabó 1999 3h 1m 8.0

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Urban Legend

Urban Legend

Jamie Blanks 1998 1h 40m 5.3

There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality.

The X Files

The X Files

Rob Bowman 1998 2h 1m 7.1

Dr. Kurtzweil, a man full of secrets, gives FBI agent Mulder clues about a conspirator group that has a secret pact with aliens to invade the world. Mulder together with his partner agent Scully go on the case. This is the film adapted from the popular cult TV series.

Goodbye Lover

Goodbye Lover

Roland Joffé 1998 1h 42m

Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

Stephen Williams 1997 1h 32m

Years after graduation, Takagi returns to her middle school as a trainer. She reunites with Nishikata, her old classmate and now a PE teacher. Their familiar teasing dynamic reignites, sparking new encounters between them.

Regeneration

Regeneration

Gillies MacKinnon 1997 1h 54m

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.

Le cinquième élément

Le cinquième élément

Luc Besson 1997 2h 6m 7.9

It’s the year 2257 and a taxi driver has been unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity. The Fifth Element is filmed in a futuristic metropolitan city and in a French comic book asthetic by a controversial British, French and American lineup.

High School High

High School High

Hart Bochner 1996 1h 26m 5.0

Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.

Dangerous Minds

Dangerous Minds

John N. Smith 1995 1h 39m 7.2

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind.

The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville

Alan Parker 1994 1h 58m 5.0

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.

Little Women

Little Women

Gillian Armstrong 1994 1h 55m 7.5

With their father away fighting in the Civil War, Joe, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.

Baby's Day Out

Baby's Day Out

Patrick Read Johnson 1994 1h 39m 4.5

Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Terry Gilliam 1988 2h 6m 7.8

An aristocrat, his henchmen and a little girl try to save a town sieged by the Turks.

A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror

James Hill 1965 1h 35m 7.7

When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail.

Unearthly Stranger

Unearthly Stranger

John Krish 1963 1h 18m 6.0

An English space scientist discovers his wife is an alien sent to set up an invasion.

Billy Budd

Billy Budd

Peter Ustinov 1962 1h 59m 8.0

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

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