Frank Langella

Frank Langella

Date of Birth: 01 Jan 1938

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 65 (Actor)

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    Lolita
    Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, who will prove to be too mature for her age... (imdb)
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    The Ninth Gate
    Dean Corso, known for locating rare books for wealthy collectors, is hired by a scholar of demonology to find the last two volumes of a legendary manual of satanic invocation.
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    Good Night, and Good Luck
    The real-life conflict between esteemed television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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    The Twelve Chairs
    A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia... (imdb)
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    1492: Conquest of Paradise
    Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people. (imdb)
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    Junior
    As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body. (imdb)
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    Cutthroat Island
    A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure. (imdb)
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    Dave
    To avoid a potentially explosive scandal when the U.S. President goes into a coma, an affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance, is put in his place.
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    Small Soldiers
    When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously. (imdb)
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    Brainscan
    A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real. (imdb)
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    Masters of the Universe
    A life-action feature film based on the popular cartoon kids show about a prince turned warrior named He-Man. (imdb)
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    Superman Returns
    After a long visit to the lost remains of the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane. (imdb)
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    True Identity
    True Identity is a comedy about a black actor named Miles Pope (Lenny Henry) who wants to play a part in Othello. After a plane ride home from a failed acting job Miles meets a producer named Leland Carver (Frank Langella) who slips out his mob identity when the plane is about to crash... (imdb)
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    Eddie
    Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins... (imdb)
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    Dracula
    When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He makes friends with Dr Seward who runs the local asylum and with his daughter Lucy, her friend Mina, and with Jonathan Harker, Lucy's solicitor fiance. But almost immediately, Mina dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence. (imdb)
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    Body of Evidence
    A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer. (imdb)
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    Starting Out in the Evening
    An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career. (imdb)
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    Jason and the Argonauts
    One of the most legendary adventures in all mythology is brought to life in Jason and the Argonauts, an epic saga of good and evil. As a mere boy Jason, the heir to the kingdom of Ancient Greece, witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of his ruthless uncle, Pelias. After narrowly escaping death, Jason flees his home and returns twenty years later to reclaim the throne... (imdb)
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    Moses
    Moses (1995) - TV Mini-Series
    A retelling of the bible story. Pharaoh Ramses decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket in the Nile by his mother, is taken by a royal princess and raised as the brother of the heir to the throne of Egypt, Memefta... (imdb)
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    Diary of a Mad Housewife
    Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgress) is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan (Richard Benjamin), a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager (Frank Langella), a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer... (www.imdb.com)
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    Frost/Nixon
    A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
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    The Tale of Despereaux
    The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
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    The Caller
    An energy business exec is assisted by a private investigator in his effort to expose his corporation's corrupt practices.
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    And God Created Woman
    In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, who runs for state governor. (imdb)
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    The Wrath of God
    A bootlegger and a defrocked priest join forces during a bloody Central American revolution. (TCM.com)
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    Doomsday Gun
    Doomsday Gun (1994) - TV Movie
    Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns. (Very large long range guns capable of shooting more than 100 Miles.) When a plan by the CIA to export restricted material using him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail. He was later released to help Saddam Hussein build a new supergun capable of firing over 500 miles. Israel, upon learning of the supergun, fears it would be used against themselves.
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    The Box
    An unhappily married couple receive a small box on their doorstep. At the push of a button, the box brings its bearer instant wealth but also instantly kills someone the bearer doesn't know.
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    Now You See It...
    Teen sorcerer Danny Sinclair (Johnny Pacar) is among the contestants chosen for the reality-TV program "Search for the World's Greatest Kid Magician." While Danny is concerned with learning to harness his powers, his go-getter producer (Alyson Michalka) has creating enchanting television on her mind. (allmovie)
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    The Men\
    A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. Thrown out, the men are not yet willing to call it a night... (imdb)
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    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
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    Stephen Hawking\
    6-part documentary series from arguably the greatest scientific mind in the world, the wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking, which describes all current thinking on the Big Bang, origins of the universe, dark matter, black holes, etc. Includes interviews with leading astronomers and scientists, some commentary from the great man himself, and computer models of the theories. (imdb)
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    All Good Things
    When the heir (Ryan Gosling) to a New York real estate fortune becomes entangled in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his lover (Kirsten Dunst), he might lose everything in this drama set in the 1980s and inspired by the true story of real estate scion Robert Durst. While the detective on the case discovers unexpected evidence -- which turns up the political heat -- people with ties to the case begin to die.
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    Bad Company
    Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours... (imdb)
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    Unknown
    When Martin (Liam Neeson) emerges from a coma following an auto accident in Berlin, nothing is as it should be: Not only does his wife (January Jones) no longer recognize him, but a stranger (Aidan Quinn) has apparently taken over his identity. With assassins chasing him and the police unsympathetic to his story, Harris must reassemble his world piece by piece, helped only by the one person (Diane Kruger) who seems able to grasp his plight.
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    Great Performances
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    The Mark of Zorro
    The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California. (imdb)
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    The Deadly Trap
    Jill is surprised and angry when her computer-genius boyfriend decides to quit his job in a big company for unclear reasons. But when her children disappear mysteriously and seem to have been kidnapped, she wants to know more, and discovers that she may be caught in a DEADLY TRAP. (imdb)
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    Sphinx
    Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse! (imdb)
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    Cry Baby Lane
    Andrew (Jase Blankfort) and his older brother Carl (Trey Rogers) enjoy listening to ghost stories that the local undertaker (Frank Langella) tells them. One night he tells the tale of a local farmer whose wife gave birth to Siamese twins, one being good natured while the other was clearly evil. Carl and his friends decide to hold a séance in the cemetery where the good twin is buried, but they unintentionally awaken the bad twin instead. (imdb)
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    Robot and Frank
    Set in the near future, 'Robot and Frank' is an offbeat buddy movie about an elderly ex-jewel thief and his new caretaker robot. (imdb)
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    Those Lips, Those Eyes
    On stage, Harry Crystal is sheer magic. In the wings, Artie Shoemaker is learning his tricks! (imdb)
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    The Time Being
    In this suspenseful drama from first-time writer-director Nenad Cicin-Sain, a struggling young artist (Wes Bentley) accepts a series of bizarre commissions from an eccentric, dying millionaire (Frank Langella) who may be trying to either help further his career or destroy his life. (tiff.net)
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    Genius on Hold
    The story of Walter L. Shaw, a telecommunications genius, and his son Walter T. Shaw, a ruthless jewel thief, is a metaphor and a symbol for its time - for the twentieth century and for today. (imdb)
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    Muhammad Ali\
    Ali's biggest match, his fight with the US government. A film about the politics and hubris surrounding the Vietnam War and the revenge exacted on America's greatest sportsman of the 20th century because he refused to fight in that war. (imdb)
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    Draft Day
    The General Manager of the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team. (imdb)
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    Grace of Monaco
    The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. (imdb)
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    Parts Per Billion
    The story of three couples dealing with a reality-shaking event that threatens to tear them apart. (imdb)
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    Kahlil Gibran\
    Inspired by the classic book by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet is an animated feature film, with "chapters" from animation directors from around the world. (imdb)
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    Crossroads
    The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen. (imdb)
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    Alegria
    Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers gives him a new lease on life, Giulietta's father, the leader of the troupe, opposes the relationship and is determined to keep them apart. (imdb)
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    Objects and Memory
    The documentary film Objects and Memory depicts experiences in the aftermath of 9/11 and other major historic events to reveal how, in times of stress, we join together in community and see otherwise ordinary things as symbols of identity, memory and aspiration. In its exploration of people preserving the past and speaking to the future, Objects and Memory invites us to think about the fundamental nature of human interaction. (objectsandmemory.org)
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    5 to 7
    An aspiring novelist enters into a relationship with a woman, though there's just one catch: She's married, and the couple can only meet between the hours of 5 and 7 each evening.
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    The Americans
    The Americans (2013) - TV Series
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    The Driftless Area
    A bartender comes back to his hometown after his parents die, and finds himself in a dangerous situation involving a mysterious woman and a violent criminal. (imdb)
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    All the Way
    All the Way (2016) - TV Movie
    Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of JFK's assassination and spends his first year in office to quickly pass the Civil Rights Act. (imdb)
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    Youth in Oregon
    A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping him rediscover a reason for living. (imdb)
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    Kidding
    Kidding (2018) - TV Series
    Jeff, a famous children's television icon, struggles to retain his sanity as his family falls apart.
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    Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
    The history of Mattel's definitive action figure toy line.
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    The Trial of the Chicago 7
    The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. (imdb)
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    The Revamping of Dracula
    "Making Of" about Universal's 1979 "Dracula."
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    Standing Room Only
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    Unscripted
    Unscripted (2005) - TV Series
    Three young actors try to make it big in Hollywood. (imdb)
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    I\
    A 60-year old successful Hollywood producer learns he has terminal cancer. Meanwhile, his two children deal with their own personal demons.
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    Inside \
    Documentary exploring the making of the film, High Noon. Details how it developed, from initial idea to script, casting -- especially in casting the lead role, which so many major Hollywood actors had turned down before Gary Cooper eagerly took it on -- and production. Goes into detail on its complicated HUAC controversy, with so many both behind and before the camera blacklisted. Covers its critical reception and it's place in American culture.
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    Angry Neighbors
    A grumpy novelist vows revenge when his wealthy neighbor builds a hideous mega-mansion next door. (imdb)
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