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Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor. Rickman is best known for his performances in film as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, as well as extensive stage work. He is also known for his prominent roles as the Sheriff of...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming 2010 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. It is an extention to the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The film will use a technique combining live action and...
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- Caterpillar
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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 British drama film directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by Emma Thompson is based on the 1811 novel of the same name by Jane Austen.
When Mr. Dashwood dies, his wife and three daughters - Elinor, Marianne and Margaret ...
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- Colonel Christopher Brandon
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award–winning 1979 musical thriller. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd,...
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- Judge Turpin
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Bottle Shock
Bottle Shock is a 2008 film that tells the story of the events that led up to the Judgment of Paris in 1976, when California wine beat French wine in a blind taste test. It stars Alan Rickman, Chris Pine and Bill Pullman and is directed by Randall...
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- Steven Spurrier
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Galaxy Quest
Galaxy Quest is a 1999 science fiction / comedy film written by David Howard and Robert Gordon; directed by Dean Parisot; and starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Missi Pyle and Justin Long...
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- Sir Alexander Dane
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a 1991 adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds. The film was marketed with the tagline "For the good of all men, and the love of one woman, he fought to uphold justice by breaking the law."
Kevin Costner heads the...
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- Sheriff of Nottingham
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. Shooting was completed in August 2004 and the movie was released on April 28, 2005 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and...
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- Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy-adventure film based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth film in the Harry Potter film series. It is directed by David Yates, the director of the fifth film, Harry...
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- Severus Snape
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Directed by David Yates, produced by David Heyman's company Heyday Films, and written by Michael Goldenberg, it is the...
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- Severus Snape
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy adventure film, and the second film in the popular Harry Potter series, based on the novel by J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The film was released on 15 November 2002...
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- Severus Snape
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States and India as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy/adventure film based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Directed by Chris Columbus, it is the...
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- Severus Snape
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy adventure film, based on J. K. Rowling's novel of the same name. The film is the fourth installment in the Harry Potter film series, although 1492 Pictures decided to leave the series. The film...
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- Severus Snape
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Directed by Mexican film maker Alfonso Cuarón, it is the third film in the popular Harry Potter series. It stars Daniel...
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- Severus Snape
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an upcoming two-part fantasy film adapted from the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling and scheduled to be released on November 19, 2010 (Part I) and July 15, 2011 (Part II).
The two movies, Part I and II,...
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- Severus Snape
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Beckett on Film
Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed Eleutheria. This endeavour was successfully completed, with the first films being shown in 2001....
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Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a...
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- Hans Gruber
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Dogma
Dogma is a 1999 American adventure-comedy-fantasy film, written and directed by Kevin Smith; he also co-stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris...
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Bob Roberts
Bob Roberts is a 1992 film written and directed by Tim Robbins. It is a satirical mockumentary, chronicling the rise of Bob Roberts, a conservative politician who is a candidate for an upcoming United States Senate election. Roberts is well financed...
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- Lukas Hart III
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Truly, Madly, Deeply
Truly, Madly, Deeply is a 1990 film made for the BBC's Screen Two series.
The film was written and directed by Anthony Minghella and stars Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman. Minghella has said he wrote the script specifically as “a vehicle for ...
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Closet Land
Closet Land is a 1991 independent film directed by Radha Bharadwaj. It stars Madeleine Stowe as a young author of children's books and Alan Rickman as a ruthless interrogator.
Set in an unspecified country, Stowe's character is taken from her home...
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- Interrogator
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Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are linked as their...
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Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny is a biographical 1996 TV film about Rasputin. It was distributed on VHS but remains unavailable in DVD format.
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for TV...
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- Grigori Rasputin
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The January Man
The January Man is a 1989 comedy/thriller film. It was directed by Pat O'Connor from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley. The film stars Kevin Kline as Nick Starkey, a smart ex-New York City police detective who is lured back into service by his...
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Michael Collins
Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic about General Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
In 1916, the Easter Rising ends tragically and...
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- Eamon de Valera
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Something the Lord Made
Something The Lord Made is a biopic about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock, the world famous "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery. Based on the...
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- Dr. Alfred Blalock
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Judas Kiss
Judas Kiss is a 1998 American crime thriller. It was directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, produced by Elaine Dysinger and Carla Gugino (who also co-starred in the film) and the screenplay was by Deanna Fuller and Sebastian Gutierrez.
Coco Chavez (Carla...
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- Detective David Friedman
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Snow Cake
Snow Cake is a 2006 independent drama film directed by Marc Evans and starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire, and Callum Keith Rennie. It was released on September 8, 2006 in the UK.
Filmed in Wawa, Ontario, Snow...
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- Alex Hughes
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Help! I'm a Fish
Help! I'm a Fish (Danish: ''Hjælp, jeg er en fisk'') (a.k.a. A Fish Tale) is a 2001 Danish animated feature film , and produced by Denmark's well-renowned A. Film studios. It was directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Michael Hegner.
An English-language...
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The Search for John Gissing
The Search for John Gissing is a comedy written and directed by Mike Binder and produced by Jack Binder. Set in London, it stars Mike Binder, Alan Rickman and Janeane Garofalo, amongst others.
Tagline: An American businessman (Mike Binder) and his...
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Blow Dry
Blow Dry is a 2001 comedy film directed by Paddy Breathnach, written by Simon Beaufoy and starring Natasha Richardson.
Shelley Allen (Natasha Richardson) operates a small hairdressing shop in Keighley named "The Cut Above" with her domestic partner...
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (German: Das Parfüm – Die Geschichte eines Mörders) is a 2006 film directed by Tom Tykwer, based on the novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind.
Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of an olfactory genius,...
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Quigley Down Under
Quigley Down Under is a 1990 western film set in Australia's outback. Starring Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman and Laura San Giacomo, it was directed by Simon Wincer. The film runs 119 minutes, and is rated PG-13 in the United States.
Tom Selleck plays...
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Close My Eyes
Close My Eyes is a 1991 film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and starring Alan Rickman, Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves as well as Lesley Sharp and Karl Johnson. Music was by Michael Gibbs (who also did the music for Poliakoff's next film...
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Nobel Son
Nobel Son is a 2007 black comedy about a dysfunctional family dealing with the kidnapping of their son for ransom following the father's winning of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The film features Alan Rickman as the prize-winning professor and Mary...
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Dark Harbor
Dark Harbor is a 1998 film directed by Adam Coleman Howard starring Alan Rickman, Norman Reedus and Polly Walker.
David Weinberg (Alan Rickman), a lawyer in his 50s, and his much younger wife Alexis (Polly Walker), drive through a torrential...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 drama film about a theatre company in Liverpool, set in 1947 and based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Beryl Bainbridge.
In a post WWII theatre in Liverpool, England, director Meredith Potter (Hugh Grant)...
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Harry Potter
The Harry Potter fantasy film series is based on the seven Harry Potter novels by British writer J. K. Rowling, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.
The Harry Potter film franchise is the highest grossing film series of all time...
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