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Iain Softley
Director 69 years old

Iain Softley

London, England, UK

Iain Declan Softley (born November 30, 1956) is an English film director. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, where he played the part of Thomas Becket in its 1975 production of T. S. Eliot's play, Murder in the Cathedral, and Queens' College, Cambridge. His... Read full bio →

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7 titles
Curve

Curve

Iain Softley 2015 1h 26m 5.0

A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.

Inkheart

Inkheart

Iain Softley 2008 1h 46m 5.9

An adventure of a father and his young daughter, searching for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative, this fantasy takes a darker side whenever we hear Mo 'Silvertongue' Folchart reading out aloud from books.

The Skeleton Key

The Skeleton Key

Iain Softley 2005 1h 44m 6.4

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

K-PAX

K-PAX

Iain Softley 2001 2h 7.7

K-Pax is based on a novel and stars Jeff Bridges as a psychiatrist trying to figure out if his patient Kevin Spacey is an alien from another planet or just faking it.

The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove

Iain Softley 1997 1h 42m 5.0

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

Hackers

Hackers

Iain Softley 1995 1h 45m 7.3

Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

Backbeat

Backbeat

Iain Softley 1994 1h 40m 4.0

Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (played by Sheryl Lee).

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