Cast: Ian Bannen
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ian Bannen. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Braveheart
1995 · Movie · 177 min. · United States
Direction Mel Gibson
Cast Mel Gibson · Sophie Marceau · Patrick McGoohan · Angus MacFadyen
Plot Based on the life of legendary 13th century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape...
8.0
151K votes
8.0
151K votes
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (TV Miniseries)
1979 · Series · 350 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Irvin
Cast Alec Guinness · Ian Richardson · Michael Jayston · Ian Bannen
Plot George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is...
7.5
378 votes
7.5
378 votes
The Hill
1965 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Sean Connery · Harry Andrews · Ian Bannen · Alfred Lynch
Plot In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, the prisoners are British soldiers convicted of service offences such as insubordination, drunkenness on duty, or profiteering, and...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Gandhi
1982 · Movie · 188 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Attenborough
Cast Ben Kingsley · Roshan Seth · Martin Sheen · Ian Charleson
Plot Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed...
7.4
39K votes
7.4
39K votes
Eye of the Needle
1981 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Marquand
Cast Donald Sutherland · Kate Nelligan · Christopher Cazenove · Ian Bannen
Plot In 1940, II War World. London. A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her...
7.1
4K votes
7.1
4K votes
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast James Stewart · Richard Attenborough · Peter Finch · Ernest Borgnine
Plot After a cargo plane crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara, the surviving crew must fight starvation and their own fears in order to escape from the harsh desert before...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
Waking Ned Devine
1998 · Movie · 89 min. · Ireland
Direction Kirk Jones
Cast Ian Bannen · David Kelly · Fionnula Flanagan · Susan Lynch
Plot When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
6.9
4K votes
6.9
4K votes
Robert Aldrichs's Too Late the Hero
1970 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Michael Caine · Cliff Robertson · Henry Fonda · Ian Bannen
Plot A reluctant hero, American Lt. Sam Lawson, is secunded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Hope and Glory
1987 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Sebastian Rice-Edwards · Sarah Miles · Sammi Davis · David Hayman
Plot Bill Rohan, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II, as seen through the eyes of director John Boorman, who also wrote...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Damage
1992 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Jeremy Irons · Juliette Binoche · Miranda Richardson · Rupert Graves
Plot A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do...
6.6
5K votes
6.6
5K votes
Bite the Bullet
1975 · Movie · 131 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Gene Hackman · Candice Bergen · James Coburn · Ben Johnson
Plot At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
The Mackintosh Man
1973 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Huston
Cast Paul Newman · Dominique Sanda · James Mason · Harry Andrews
Plot Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a...
6.5
4K votes
6.5
4K votes
The Offence
1973 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Sean Connery · Trevor Howard · Vivien Merchant · Ian Bannen
Plot In Sidney Lumet's harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson has been with the British Police Force for 20 years. In that time, the countless murders, rapes and other...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
A Tale of Two Cities
1958 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Dorothy Tutin · Paul Guers · Marie Versini
Plot British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue...
6.3
116 votes
6.3
116 votes
Gorky Park
1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Michael Apted
Cast William Hurt · Lee Marvin · Brian Dennehy · Joanna Pacula
Plot An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to...
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
Night Crossing
1982 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast John Hurt · Jane Alexander · Beau Bridges · Doug McKeon
Plot Berlin, 1979. Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true...
6.0
340 votes
6.0
340 votes
Perry Mason (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 120 min. · United States
Direction Ron Satlof · Richard Lang · Christian I. Nyby II
Cast Raymond Burr · Barbara Hale · William Katt · Holland Taylor
5.9
293 votes
5.9
293 votes
Defence of the Realm
1986 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Drury
Cast Gabriel Byrne · Greta Scacchi · Denholm Elliott · Ian Bannen
Plot After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
5.9
28 votes
5.9
28 votes
Jane Eyre (TV)
1970 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast George C. Scott · Susannah York · Ian Bannen · Jack Hawkins
Plot Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen...
5.9
91 votes
5.9
91 votes
From Beyond the Grave
1974 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kevin Connor
Cast Peter Cushing · Ian Bannen · Ian Carmichael · Diana Dors
Plot Anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes strung together about an antique dealer (Peter Cushing) who owns a shop called Temptations Ltd. and the fate...
5.8
488 votes
5.8
488 votes