Alec McCowen

Alec McCowen

Total Credits at Criticker: 19 (Actor)

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    The Age of Innocence
    Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer star in a ravishing romance about three wealthy 1870s New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle. (Sony)
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    Frenzy
    A serial killer is murdering London women with a necktie. The police have a suspect... but he's the wrong man. (imdb)
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    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
    A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
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    Never Say Never Again
    A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
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    Travels with My Aunt
    At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings, who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure, as she attempts to rescue an old lover. (imdb)
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    Personal Services
    The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. (imdb)
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    The Doctor\
    Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only so many patients, and must choose who is worth saving, but is convinced that Louis' artistic talents make him worthy. But when he and several colleague meet Louis, they discover that he is in fact a smooth-talking money-grabbing scoundrel. They also learn that he has another wife, whom he has abandoned. (imdb)
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    Time Without Pity
    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec's father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. Alec repudiates his father's attempts for a final reconciliation. (imdb)
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    Hanover Street
    Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot. (imdb)
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    The One That Got Away
    This is the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain during the Second World War who escaped from numerous British POW camps and got back to Germany. (imdb)
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    The Witches
    After being threatened by witchcraft in Africa, Gwen Mayfield has a nervous breakdown and returns to England. She is invited to teach in a private school, owned by the wealthy Alan Bax and his sister Stephanie Bax, in the village of Heddaby. After a period in the place, she witnesses weird events with locals, and she realizes that the place is indeed a coven and her student Linda Rigg is being prepared for a sacrifice. (imdb)
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    Sen noci svatojanske
    A Stop-Motion animation based on the famous Shakespeare play.
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    The Hawaiians
    A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties. (TCM.com)
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    Stevie
    Stevie is not a he but a she--famed British poet Stevie Smith. As portrayed by Glenda Jackson, Stevie escapes her dull middle-class existence through her poetry. Though she takes many a spiritual flight of fancy, she never truly leaves the small apartment wherein all the action of the film takes place. (imdb)
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    Twelfth Night
    Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino... (imdb)
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    Town on Trial
    When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's. (imdb)
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    Longitude
    Longitude (2000) - TV Movie
    An 18th century clock maker named Jon Harrison begins what is to become a forty-year task to invent a system for determining longitude at sea with a nautical timepiece. Meanwhile, 200 years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould discovers Harrison's neglected chronometers and sets out to restore them. A high seas saga of passion, determination, and discovery. (cduniverse.com)
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    Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
    Animated truncated adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare. Commissioned by BBC Wales for the Welsh language, they were animated in Moscow by Soyuzmultfilm, using a variety of animation techniques.
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    The Assam Garden
    An Englishwoman and her Indian neighbour bond while fixing up her Imperial-style garden. (imdb)
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