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...

Max

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

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