Alan Bates Movies

List of the best Alan Bates movies: King of Hearts(1966), A Kind of Loving(1962), Women in Love(1969), In Celebration(1974), Nijinsky(1980), The Shout(1978), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg(1972), Secret Friends(1991), Story of a Love Story(1973), Silent Tongue(1994), We Think the World of You(1988), The Fixer(1968) ... ...

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King of Hearts

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

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A Kind of Loving

After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

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Women in Love

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

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In Celebration

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.

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Nijinsky

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant, but headstrong ... See full summary »

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The Shout

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »

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Secret Friends

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John (Sir Alan Bates) into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with ... See full summary »

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Story of a Love Story

Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality ... See full summary »

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Silent Tongue

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.

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We Think the World of You

A middle-aged homosexual (Alan Bates) in postwar Britain forms a bond with his ex-lover's (Gary Oldman) German shepherd dog.

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The Fixer

A government lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) tries to help a poor Jewish handyman (Alan Bates) railroaded for murder in czarist Russia.

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Dr. M

Mass suicides occur when a madman (Alan Bates) uses a model (Jennifer Beals) to broadcast subliminal messages somewhere in future Berlin.

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Whistle Down the Wind

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

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An Unmarried Woman

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.

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Royal Flash

Ne'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.

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Quartet

Marya Zelli finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

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Hollywood North

A Canadian producer buys the film rights of a famous Canadian novel, Lantern Moon and wants it to reflect his home country. But he soon realizes that once Hollywood becomes involved, his Canadian vision has to take a back seat.

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The Wicked Lady

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, ... See full summary »

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The Go-Between

A circa-1900 British boy (Dominic Guard) carries illicit love letters between a farmer (Alan Bates) and an aristocratic woman (Julie Christie).

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Duet for One

A world-class violinist (Julie Andrews) with multiple sclerosis sees her life falling apart at the height of her career.

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Spartacus

Spartacus leads a slave revolt against the powerful forces of ancient Rome. Based on the novel by Howard Fast.

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Gosford Park

Set in the 1930s, this movie brings a group of pretentious rich and famous together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

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Far From the Madding Crowd

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

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Georgy Girl

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.

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The Running Man

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.

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Three Sisters

Olga, Masha and Irina Prozoroff (Louise Purnell) lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who had commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find ... See full summary »

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A Prayer for the Dying

Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

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Bertie & Elizabeth

Prince Albert (James Wilby) courts and marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Juliet Aubrey) and succeeds to the British throne as George VI in 1936.

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The Prince and the Pauper

An adventurer (Aidan Quinn) helps young Prince Edward (Jonathan Timmins) after the boy trades places with a look-alike beggar (Robert Timmins) in Tudor England.

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The Entertainer

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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Evelyn

Desmond's wife leaves him and their 3 kids after Christmas 1953. Unemployed in Dublin, the authorities place the kids in orphanages. Employed again, Desmond tries to get his kids back.

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The Sum of All Fears

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.

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