Movies with Ian McNeice
Movies found: 22, viewing from 1 to 20
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Year: 1995
Country: UK
Director: Christopher Monger
Starring: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Garfield Morgan, Robert Pugh
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Two English cartographers visit the small South Wales village of Ffynnon Garw, to measure what is claimed to be the "first mountain inside of Wales". It's 1917, and the war in Europe continues. The villagers are very proud of their "mountain", and are understandably dissapointed and furious to find that it is in fact a "hill". Not to be outwitted by a rule (and the Englishmen who enforce it), the villagers set out to make their hill into a mountain, but to do so they must keep the English from leaving, before the job is done.
Valmont
Year: 1989
Country: USA, France
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Jeffrey Jones, Fairuza Balk, Ian McNeice, Henry Thomas, T.P. McKenna
Available Quality: Hi Def
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love. Based on the same novel as "Dangerous Liaisons."
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Genres: Musical
Year: 1999
Country: UK
Director: David Mallet
Starring: Robert Torti, Ian McNeice, Donny Osmond, Alex Jennings, Richard Attenborough, Joan Collins, Christopher Biggins
Available Quality: Hi Def
In this filmed adaption of the long-running musical, we see the story of Joseph, son of Jacob. The favoured son, he is betrayed by his jealous brothers and sold into slavery and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph perseveres through wit and faith and becomes the governor of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh. This all the sets the scene for when he meets his brothers who have come to Egypt to purchase food.
Voice Over
Genres: Drama
Year: 1983
Country: UK
Director: Christopher Monger
Starring: Ian McNeice, John Cassady, Bish Nethercote, Sarah Martin, David Pearce, Stuart Hutton, Eira Moore
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Does the fact that a film is about a misogynist make it a misogynistic film? Thats the question that plagued Voice Over director, Christopher Monger, on the films initial release and which helped hasten its relegation to relative obscurity.Ian McNeice stars as Fats Bannerman, the writer of a radio drama for women set in the 19th Century which has attracted a loyal following, much to everyones amusement.When hes faced with some home truths about his show by a local journalist, before being taunted by two women whom he meets in a bar, Fats career starts to take a new direction. Then he stumbles upon one of the women in an alley, b...
Funny Bones
Year: 1995
Country: USA, UK
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Terence Rigby, Richard Griffiths, William Hootkins, Lee Evans, Oliver Platt, Ian McNeice, Leslie Caron
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic relief, with whom he can be famous.
Oliver Twist
Year: 2005
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Italy, France
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jeremy Swift, Andy Linden, Ian McNeice, Timothy Bateson, Barney Clark, Richard Durden, Andy de la Tour
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
In the Nineteenth Century, the orphan Oliver Twist is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is welcomed by a gang of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow's fancy house. Oliver is wounded, while Mr. Brownlow tries to save Oliver.
Doc Martin - Season One
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Dominic Minghella, Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson
Starring: Ian McNeice, Martin Clunes, Caroline Catz
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson and Dominic Minghella. The show is filmed on location in the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom, with filming of most interior scenes and production in a converted local barn. Four seasons of episodes were aired between 2004 and 2009, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. A fifth season is being filmed in 2011.
Children of Dune
Genres: Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Year: 2003
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Starring: Alice Krige, James McAvoy, Julie Cox, P.H. Moriarty, Ian McNeice, Alec Newman, Steven Berkoff
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The twins of Paul "Muad'dib" Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis ("Dune") and the rest of the universe.
The Russia House
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: James Fox, J.T. Walsh, Sean Connery, Michael Kitchen, John Mahoney, Roy Scheider, Ian McNeice
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Three notebooks supposedly containing Russian military secrets are handed to a British publisher during a Russian book conference. The British secret service are naturally keen to learn if these notebooks are the genuine article. To this end, they enlist the help of the scruffy British publisher Barley Blair, who has plenty of experience with Russian and Russians. Barley, an unconventionaly character who doesn't respond well to authority, finds himself in a game more complex than he first thought when he digs into the origin of the notebooks.
Sharpe's Battle
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 1995
Country: UK
Director: Tom Clegg
Starring: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Ian McNeice, Oliver Cotton, Jason Salkey, Hugh Ross, Hugh Fraser
Available Quality: iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.
Spartacus
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Starring: James Frain, Ben Cross, Rhona Mitra, Goran Visnjic, Angus Macfadyen, Ian McNeice, Hristo Shopov
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.
Year of the Comet
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1992
Country: USA
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Arturo Venegas, Art Malik, Louis Jourdan, Shane Rimmer, Ian Richardson, Ian McNeice, Nick Brimble
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
An extremely rare bottle of wine (bottled during the appearance of the Great Comet of 1811) is discovered. Margaret Harwood is sent to retrieve it so it can be sold at auction. Oliver Plexico is assigned as her travel guide/bodyguard for the trip. However, other people desperately want the bottle and will stop at nothing to get it. A simple little trip becomes an international chase.
No Escape
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Ernie Hudson, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ray Liotta, Stuart Wilson, Michael Lerner, Lance Henriksen, Ian McNeice
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Robbins is sent to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you only get out of when you die. Since nobody ever gets out of the prison, nobody knows how the prison is like. The prison manager has realized this and bought himself an island (playground) called "Absolom" where the worst prisoners are let lose to create an isolated barbaric society where the strongest men rule - a living hell. This is where Robbins is dropped off after he almost kills the prison manager.
The Body
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Year: 2001
Country: Germany, USA, Israel
Director: Jonas McCord
Starring: John Shrapnel, Jason Flemyng, Antonio Banderas, Vernon Dobtcheff, Ian McNeice, Derek Jacobi, Olivia Williams
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities test while risking their lives to unearth the truth
White Noise
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Year: 2005
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Keegan Connor Tracy, Michael Keaton, Ian McNeice, Mike Dopud, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, Sarah Strange
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
When the unexpected happens, architect Jonathan Rivers has become a grieving widower, wallowing in deep confusion over the death of his wife. But a paranormal expert approaches Jonathan with the unlikely: the ability to hear his wife from beyond the grave. Through a form of unusual communication known as EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), Jonathan will finally be able to see his wife. But in doing so, Jonathan has drawn himself into a much more complex situation when his curiosity becomes an obsession. Only that obsession will have him confront those not of this world, and some of them don't approve of Jonathan's interference with their destr...
Around the World in 80 Days
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 2004
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Ireland
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Steve Coogan, Jackie Chan, Robert Fyfe, Ian McNeice, David Ryall
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Set in 1872, the story focuses on Passepartout, a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg, who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemen's club that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains, balloons, elephants, etc. Along the way, Passepartout uses his amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many dangers they face.. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that's following them. Why? Just as Fogg and Passeportout left ...
The Beautician and the Beast
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Michael Lerner, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Malahide, Ian McNeice, Fran Drescher, Lisa Jakub, Phyllis Newman
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A beautician in America is mistakenly thought to be an academic teacher by a representative of an Eastern European dictator. She is invited to their country on that mistaken belief and is asked to be the tutor of the dictator's children. While there, she tries to Westernize the whole country.
The Fourth Angel
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2001
Country: UK, Canada
Director: John Irvin
Starring: Lois Maxwell, Forest Whitaker, William Armstrong, Timothy West, Ian McNeice, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because o...
Day of the Dead
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Ving Rhames, Michael Welch, Ian McNeice, Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon, Christa Campbell, Stark Sands
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In Leadville, Colorado, Captain Rhodes and his army seals off the town to contain an influenza-type epidemic. The locals are not allowed to leave the town and the Pine Valley Medical Center is crowded with sick people. Corporal Sarah Bowman was born and raised in Leadville and goes to her home with Private Bud Crain to visit her mother. Sarah finds that her mother is ill and takes her to the local hospital. However, the sick people suddenly transform in flesh eating, fast moving zombies which attack the non-infected humans. Sarah, Bud and Private Salazar get a jeep and head to the town exit to escape from the dead. But Sarah hears the voice o...
A Christmas Carol
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Director: David Hugh Jones
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Laura Fraser, Ian McNeice, Celia Imrie, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Dominic West
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas? One DivX Quality PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE