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6.6

♡ 14

64%

Mike Newell Director

Denis Lawson as Claude

Ian Holm as Duval

Jenny Agutter as Louise

Richard Chamberlain as Phillipe / Louis

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

The Advocate

1993

6.6

♡ 11

82%

Leslie Megahey Director

Ian Holm as Albertus

Vernon Dobtcheff as Apothecary

Jim Carter as Mathieu

Colin Firth as Richard Courtois

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000

7.1

♡ 4

77%

Gillies MacKinnon Director

Joan Sims as Betty

Olympia Dukakis as Dinah

Felicity Dean as Patricia

Ian Holm as Patrick

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

Singleton's Pluck

1984

6.0

♡ 1

96%

Comedy

geese

Richard Eyre Director

Bill Owen as Amos

Ian Holm as Ben Singleton

Stephen Moore as Howard

Richard Hope as Hubert

A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

Dance with a Stranger

1985

6.6

♡ 7

91%

Mike Newell Director

Ian Holm as Desmond Cussen

Lesley Manville as Maryanne

Stratford Johns as Morrie Conley

Harry Fielder as Partygoer

Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.

A Severed Head

1971

5.4

♡ 5

Comedy

dysfunctional marriage

Dick Clement Director

Aileen Lewis as Lady at Private Members Club

Ian Holm as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

Rosamund Greenwood as Miss Seelhaft

John Savident as Wine Taster

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979

7.1

♡ 26

100%

Delbert Mann Director

Ewan Stewart as Detering

Ian Holm as Himmelstoss

Kevin Stoney as Hollerstein

Richard Thomas as Paul Baumer

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.

Naked Lunch

1991

6.9

♡ 35

73%

77%

David Cronenberg Director

Peter Weller as Bill Lee

Nicholas Campbell as Hank

Ian Holm as Tom Frost

Julian Sands as Yves Cloquet

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Les Miserables

1978

7.3

♡ 3

18th century

Glenn Jordan Director

Dexter Fletcher as Gavroche

Richard Jordan as Jean Valjean

Kenneth Colley as Police Prefect

Ian Holm as Thenardier

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Kafka

1991

6.8

♡ 12

55%

72%

co-workers relationship

Steven Soderbergh Director

Simon McBurney as Assistant Oscar

Ian Holm as Dr. Murnau

Josef Sebek as Inspector's Assistant

Jeremy Irons as Kafka

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.

The Homecoming

1973

6.8

♡ 2

86%

76%

abusive father

based on play or musical

Peter Hall Director

Terence Rigby as Joey

Ian Holm as Lenny

Cyril Cusack as Sam

Michael Jayston as Teddy

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.

O Jerusalem

2006

French

6.0

♡ 1

38%

Élie Chouraqui Director

Ian Holm as Ben Gurion

JJ Feild as Bobby Goldman

Matthew Marsh as Sir Gordon

Liron Levo as Yoel

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Loch Ness

1996

5.6

♡ 22

30%

John Henderson Director

Ted Danson as Dempsey

John Stahl as First Fisherman

Joely Richardson as Laura

Ian Holm as Water Bailiff

Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, introduces him to a small family of Nessie-dinosaurs.

Chariots of Fire

1981

7.1

♡ 35

84%

80%

based on a true story

Hugh Hudson Director

Kenneth Branagh as Cambridge Student - Society Day crowd

Nigel Havers as Lord Andrew Lindsay

Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini

Alice Krige as Sybil Gordon

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

Incognito

1997

6.4

♡ 15

33%

John Badham Director

Michael Cochrane as Deeks

Ian Holm as John

Jonathan Newth as Judge

Harry Fielder as Policeman

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.

Animal Farm

1999

6.0

♡ 5

38%

John Stephenson Director

Julia Ormond as Jessie

Patrick Stewart as Napoleon

Kelsey Grammer as Snowball

Ian Holm as Squealer

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001

6.8

♡ 2

73%

65%

19th century

Alan Taylor Director

Bob Mason as Captain Nicholls

Trevor Cooper as Leaud

Ian Holm as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

George Harris as Papa Nicholas

Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.

Robin and Marian

1976

6.5

♡ 17

73%

Richard Lester Director

Ian Holm as King John

Richard Harris as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

Sean Connery as Robin Hood

Denholm Elliott as Will Scarlett

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

Brazil

1985

7.8

♡ 84

98%

90%