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Bob Hoskins
Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (born 26 October 1942) is an English actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), and Mona Lisa (1986), and lighter roles in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991).
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Balto
Balto is a 1995 animated/live action film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1995. Balto is based on a true story about the dog of the same...
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Beyond the Sea
Beyond the Sea is a 2004 biographical film loosely based on the life of singer/actor Bobby Darin. Kevin Spacey, who stars in the lead role and used his own singing voice for the musical numbers, co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, which...
Heart Condition
Heart Condition is a 1990 fantasy-comedy film starring Denzel Washington and Bob Hoskins. Hoskins plays police sergeant Jack Moony, a racist cop and Washington plays Napoleon Stone, an adorable but sleazy ambulance chasing lawyer whom Moony hates....
Hollywoodland
Hollywoodland is a 2006 biopic/docudrama directed by TV alum Allen Coulter (his feature directorial debut) about a down-on-his-luck detective, Louis Simo (Adrien Brody), investigating the suspicious death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), the...
Hook
Hook is a 1991 family fantasy film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott. Hook acts as a sequel to Peter Pan's original adventures, focusing on a grown...
Michael
Michael is the title of an American fantasy motion picture directed by Nora Ephron and released in 1996. The film stars John Travolta as the Archangel Michael, who is sent to Earth to do various tasks, including mending some wounded hearts. The cast...
Nixon
Nixon is a 1995 American biographical film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal life of former US President Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins. The film portrays Nixon as a complex...
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Shattered
Shattered is a 1991 Hitchcockian neo-noir/psychological thriller starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen and Scott Getlin. It was directed and written for the screen by Wolfgang Petersen.
Tom Berenger plays...
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 science fiction adventure film loosely based on the video game of the same name and its entire franchise. The film follows the exploits of Mario (Bob Hoskins) and his brother Luigi (John Leguizamo) in a comical dystopia...
The Inner Circle
The Inner Circle is a 1991 drama film by Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky, telling the story of Joseph Stalin's private projectionist and KGB officer Ivan Sanchin between 1939 and 1953, the dictator's year of death. The film is based on a true...
The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film. It was voted at number 21 in the British Film Institute's list...
The Sleeping Dictionary
The Sleeping Dictionary is a 2003 film by Guy Jenkin. It was filmed in Sarawak and is set during the British colonial rule in the 1930s.
A young and naive Englishman, John Truscott (Hugh Dancy), goes to the British colony of Sarawak, Borneo to try...
Unleashed
Unleashed (also known as Danny the Dog), is a 2005 action/thriller film, directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Luc Besson. It is set in Glasgow.
Unleashed follows Danny, a Chinese man who was raised by a British gangster named Bart, who trained...
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair is a 2004 drama/romance film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The previous subject of numerous television and film adaptations, this version made substantial changes, most...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg and based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. It was produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures, under the Touchstone...
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The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a popular real-life Harlem jazz club in the 1930s, the Cotton Club.
The movie was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred...
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The Lost World
The Lost World is a 2001 adaptation of the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, directed by Stuart Orme and adapted by Adrian Hodges. It was produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC1 in the UK and A&E; in the United States. It consisted of two 75-minute...
Outlaw
Outlaw is a 2007 action-crime-drama film written and directed by British filmmaker Nick Love. Outlaw stars Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Bob Hoskins, Lennie James, Rupert Friend and Sean Harris.
The film is set in the United Kingdom in 2006. Sean Bean...
Son of the Mask
Son of the Mask is the 2005 sequel to the 1994 comedy film, The Mask, directed by Lawrence Guterman. The movie had an $84 million budget and a $17 million domestic box office gross, along with a $40 million foreign box office gross. The film "won"...
Doomsday
Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus. When the virus breaks out in London, political...
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs Henderson Presents is a 2005 Academy Award nominated comedy film directed by Stephen Frears. It stars Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, and Will Young in his acting debut.
The film is based on the true story of the Windmill Theatre in...
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is a 1987 drama film made by Handmade Films Ltd. and United British Artists (UBA). It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by Richard Johnson and Peter Nelson with George Harrison and Denis O'Brien as...
Inserts
Inserts is a 1974 British film directed by John Byrum starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, and Veronica Cartwright. It was originally rated X but later re-rated as NC 17.
The story concerns a pornographic film production and the film took its...
The Raggedy Rawney
The Raggedy Rawney is a 1988 British drama film starring Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoe Nathenson, and Zoe Wanamaker. The story is about a young army deserter (Fletcher) in an unspecified time and country, who disguises himself as a madwoman and...
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish is a 1991 comedy, directed by Ben Lewin, starring Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum and Natasha Richardson. The story, set in Paris, follows the fateful meeting of Louis Aubinar with Sybil, who brings into his...
Passed Away
Passed Away is an American ensemble comedy film from 1992.
Mermaids
Mermaids is a 1990 comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder (who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress for her role), and Christina Ricci in her first film role. The...
Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Felicia (Elaine Cassidy), an Irish...
Last Orders
Last Orders is a 2001 British/German drama film written and directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay is based on the 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel of the same title by Graham Swift.
The title refers to both a pub landlord's last call and the...
A Prayer for the Dying
A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke,Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates. The film is based on the Jack Higgins novel...
Sweet Liberty
Sweet Liberty (1986) is an American comedy film written and directed by Alan Alda, and starring Alda in the lead role, alongside Michael Caine and Michelle Pfeiffer, with support from Bob Hoskins and Lillian Gish.
College history professor Michael...
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 musical film by British director Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The film is highly metaphorical and is rich in...
Stay
Stay is an 2005 United States mystery film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Benioff. It stars Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Bob Hoskins and Naomi Watts, with production by Regency and distribution by 20th Century Fox. The film represents...
Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn (1979) book and war film about the Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu military units in 1879 in South Africa. The book was written by Cy Endfield, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Anthony Story. The film was...
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol (also known as Disney's A Christmas Carol ) is a 2009 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 story of the same name. The film is written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Jim Carrey in a multitude of roles, including...
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American Virgin
American Virgin is a film directed by Jean-Pierre Marois that follows a young woman, Katrina Bartalotti (Mena Suvari), the daughter of an adult film director (Robert Loggia), who agrees to lose her virginity onscreen to spite her father.
The film's...
Rainbow
Rainbow is a 1996 family adventure film directed by Bob Hoskins, written by Ashley Sidaway and Robert Sidaway and starring Bob Hoskins, Terry Finn, Jacob Tierney, Saul Rubinek and Dan Aykroyd. The story concerns four children and a dog whose journey...
Den of Lions
Den of Lions (Hungarian title: Oroszlánbarlang) is a 2003 American-Hungarian film, directed by James Bruce. It is a violent straight-to-video B-movie, starring relatively famous actors.
Mike Varga (Stephen Dorff) is an FBI agent with Hungarian roots...
Where Eskimos Live
Where Eskimos Live (AKA Tam, gdzie żyją Eskimosi) is a feature film released in 2002 under Polish-American-British and Germany co-operation.
Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom...
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
The film's title is taken from William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at...
Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a 2000 three-part television film adaptation of the classic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, made by Hallmark Entertainment and distributed by Turner Network Television (TNT) and Divisa Home Video (2004) (Spain) (DVD...
Go Go Tales
Go Go Tales is an independent 2007 film by Abel Ferrara.
It stars Willem Dafoe as a strip club owner and co-stars Bob Hoskins. As of 2008, it been seen only at selected film festivals, and has not yet received either cinema distribution or DVD...
The Honorary Consul
The Honorary Consul is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo. It is based on the novel The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene. It was also released under the...
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a 2006 live-action television adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel The Wind in the Willows. It was a joint production of the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and starred Matt Lucas (Mr. Toad), Bob...
Ironclad
Ironclad is an upcoming 2010 British/American film, directed by Jonathan English. Written by English and Erick Kastel, based on a screenplay by Stephen McDool, the cast includes Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Mackenzie Crook, Jason...
Lassiter
Lassiter is a 1984 adventure film part-caper and part-espionage, set in 1930s London, starring Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour that was made to cash in on Selleck's popularity as the character Thomas Magnum in the show Magnum, P.I. but failed to ignite...
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is a two part BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, adapted by Adrian Hodges. The first part was shown on Christmas Day (December 25) and the second on Boxing Day (December 26) in 1999.
David...
Rat
Rat is a 2000 Irish/British/American comedy film directed by Steve Barron. The film focuses on the story of young chinese boy "Rat" (Jeff Cheng), raised in England during the early 90's and dealing with everyday life as a child growing up in England...
