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Tag Archives: Alan Bates
Zorba the Greek / Alexis Sorbas (1964) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas

Traveling to inspect an abandoned mine his father owns in Crete, English author Basil (Alan Bates) Read More »
The Go-Between (1971) Joseph Losey, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo turns 13. Read More »
Dr. M (1990) Claude Chabrol, Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas

In the not-too-distant future, Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides. Read More »
Royal Flash (1975) Richard Lester, Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan

Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) of the British Army is a cad, a coward Read More »
The Shout (1978) Jerzy Skolimowski, Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt

Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital Read More »
Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984) Michael Lindsay-Hogg, James Mason, Alan Bates, Greta Scacchi

Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby – to expose human greed. Read More »
The Wicked Lady (1983) Michael Winner, Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Read More »
We Think the World of You (1988) Colin Gregg, Alan Bates, Max Wall, Liz Smith

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. Read More »
The Cherry Orchard (1999) Michael Cacoyannis, Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Tushka Bergen

Abandoned by her lover and penniless, the charming, aristocratic, and vulnerable Madame Lubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya Read More »
A Prayer For The Dying (1987) Mike Hodges, Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates

Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. Read More »
The Caretaker AKA The Guest (1963) Clive Donner, Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw

Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. Read More »
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Bryan Forbes, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird

Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family’s barn. Read More »
Hamlet (1990) Franco Zeffirelli, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates

Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlet’s uncle Claudius, the new King. Read More »
Women in Love (1969) Ken Russell, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson

The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian’s industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Read More »