Frank Finlay
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1926-08-06
Locus Natus: Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
Et ut: 프랭크 핀레이, Francis "Frank" Finlay, Francis Finlay
The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves...
release : 2002.09.17popularis : 35.961
Shaft in Africa
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
release : 1973.06.14popularis : 6.327
Ring of Darkness
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage...
release : 1979.10.29popularis : 2.886
The Three Musketeers
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,...
release : 1973.12.11popularis : 13.667
Enigma
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent...
release : 1982.10.15popularis : 6.718
Inspector Clouseau
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the...
release : 1968.07.19popularis : 17.765
The Wild Geese
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and...
release : 1978.06.28popularis : 14.326
Lifeforce
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into...
release : 1985.06.21popularis : 18.24
Cromwell
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell...
release : 1970.07.16popularis : 10.452
The Waiting Room
Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their...
release : 2007.08.18popularis : 3.737
Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using...
release : 1979.02.01popularis : 8.724
Gumshoe
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
release : 1971.12.01popularis : 3.601
Cthulhu Mansion
After a drug deal gone wrong, a group of punks flee to a secluded mansion where the house itself begins to terrorize and kill the trespassers.
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 1.852
The Key
Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé,...
release : 1983.10.19popularis : 47.983
The Statement
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which...
release : 2003.12.12popularis : 6.279
The Molly Maguires
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company...
release : 1970.02.08popularis : 13.898
The Return of the Musketeers
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt,...
release : 1989.04.12popularis : 6.617
Dear Brutus
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting...
release : 1981.01.27popularis : 1.337
The Wild Affair
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male...
release : 1965.12.05popularis : 1.627
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a lighthouse-keeper...
release : 1972.11.01popularis : 2.331
Othello
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
release : 1965.12.15popularis : 5.753
Sparrow
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to...
release : 1994.02.04popularis : 1.893
Blood of the Lamb
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic...
release : 1969.12.03popularis : 1.876
In the Secret State
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his...
release : 1985.03.10popularis : 2.219
Mona
A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the First World War.
release : 1982.08.08popularis : 0.619
The Deadly Bees
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
release : 1966.12.23popularis : 6.311
Sitting Target
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his...
release : 1972.05.01popularis : 3.803
Robbery
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying...
release : 1967.08.01popularis : 6.842
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell...
release : 1999.10.29popularis : 5.094
Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he...
release : 1968.12.20popularis : 6.522
The Jokers
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves...
release : 1967.05.15popularis : 7.238
Assault
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the...
release : 1971.02.11popularis : 5.767
Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties....
release : 1998.06.12popularis : 2.827
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commercials -- all the while pining over ex-girlfriend...
release : 1997.11.01popularis : 1.898
Arch of Triumph
Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted...
release : 1985.05.29popularis : 2.721
Limited Edition
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an...
release : 1997.01.22popularis : 2.307
A Mind to Murder
Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 3.668
The Thief of Baghdad
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
release : 1978.01.10popularis : 4.875
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing...
release : 1967.12.18popularis : 5.43
King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is...
release : 1990.05.25popularis : 2.692
The Ploughman's Lunch
As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost,...
release : 1983.05.30popularis : 7.392
For My Baby
A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.
release : 2000.10.19popularis : 1.872
84 Charing Cross Road
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
release : 1975.11.04popularis : 1.268
Count Dracula
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in...
release : 1977.12.22popularis : 4.75
Lighthouse Hill
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than...
release : 2004.05.04popularis : 2.017
Sakharov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
release : 1984.06.20popularis : 4.009
The Other Side
Drama documentary about the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
release : 1992.08.29popularis : 0.671
The Return of the Soldier
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife,...
release : 1983.01.06popularis : 8.312
Much Ado About Nothing
A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 2.645
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...
release : 1962.09.25popularis : 22.393
The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
release : 1966.07.01popularis : 3.062
Mountain of Diamonds
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot...
release : 1991.10.09popularis : 4.973
The Lie
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones)....
release : 1970.10.29popularis : 2.945
Van der Valk and the Rich
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager....
release : 1973.12.26popularis : 1.487
Casanova
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and...
release : 1987.03.01popularis : 1.472
The Hard Knock
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
release : 1962.07.08popularis : 2.313
The Shoes of the Fisherman
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at...
release : 1968.11.14popularis : 13.013
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...
release : 1984.10.09popularis : 20.065
The Death of Adolf Hitler
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
release : 1973.01.07popularis : 8.923
Doctor in Distress
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and...
release : 1963.07.30popularis : 3.514
The Piano Tuner
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.
release : 1969.03.08popularis : 3.627
Eroica
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film...
release : 2003.10.04popularis : 0.641
Danny Jones
In the quiet calm of the Welsh foothills, Danny Jones reaches the age of seventeen with a strong desire to break away from the strict influence of...
release : 1972.05.01popularis : 2.439
The Merchant of Venice
Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. The Venice Titian and the Belmont of...
release : 1972.04.16popularis : 1.543
The Voyeur
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo...
release : 1994.01.27popularis : 53.991
Betzi
A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
release : 1978.09.23popularis : 1.439
The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
release : 1974.10.31popularis : 13.191
Station Jim
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon...
release : 2001.12.30popularis : 2.292
The Spanish Civil War
Documentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War...
release : 1983.01.07popularis : 1.602
The Spare Tyres
Dennis is told by his wife to remove two old tyres from the garden of their new home. He tries various ways to dispose of them.
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 1.404
The Body
A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby. The film's narrators,...
release : 1970.10.09popularis : 4.769
Nineteen Nineteen
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
release : 1985.11.14popularis : 0.961
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win...
release : 1973.04.23popularis : 3.43
Stalin
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
release : 1992.11.21popularis : 5.309
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage...
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 1.841
The Martins
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a...
release : 2001.09.14popularis : 3.172
Virgin Mary
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word....
release : 1995.10.12popularis : 1.508
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance...
release : 1962.09.20popularis : 18.323
Hot Enough for June
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 2.73
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fifty Shades of Erotica. Now, in the privacy of...
release : 2015.04.13popularis : 12.671
The Comedy Man
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and...
release : 1964.09.03popularis : 2.951
Life for Ruth
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for...
release : 1962.09.06popularis : 2.481
Private Potter
A military mission is interrupted when a soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
release : 1962.01.01popularis : 2.481
A Study in Terror
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is...
release : 1965.10.01popularis : 4.819
An Exchange of Fire
Pavel Rhele is the ruthless head of a terrorist cell in a story of two fathers and two daughters whose relationships are suddenly subjected to public...
release : 1993.07.06popularis : 2.012
Olivier Talks About Othello
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
release : 1965.01.01popularis : 0.929
Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...
release : 2018.05.02popularis : 4.542
The Informers
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to...
release : 1963.11.29popularis : 9.713