Cast: James Ellis

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Ellis. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Priest

1994 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Antonia Bird

Cast Linus Roache · Tom Wilkinson · Cathy Tyson · Robert Carlyle

Synopsis Father Greg Pilkington arrives in Liverpool parish where hypocrisy reigns among the other priests and the congregation as a whole. In a misguided attempt to improve matters, Father Pilkington visits his parishioners at their homes, only to have them repeatedly...

6.5

693 votes

6.5

693 votes

Re-Animator

1985 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Gordon

Cast Jeffrey Combs · Bruce Abbott · Barbara Crampton · David Gale

Synopsis A medical student and his girlfriend become involved in a bizarre experiment into reanimating the dead conducted by the student's incorrigible housemate in this campy sendup of an H.P. Lovecraft story. The emphasis is on humour but once the dead...

6.1

6K votes

6.1

6K votes

Doctor Who: Battlefield (TV)

1989 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Kerrigan

Cast Sylvester McCoy · Sophie Aldred · Nicholas Courtney · Jean Marsh

Synopsis The TARDIS picks up a distress call from modern-day Earth. The Doctor and Ace discover that a UNIT platoon has come under assault whilst transporting a nuclear warhead. The attackers turn out to be Arthurian knights from another dimension, led...

5.5

21 votes

5.5

21 votes

Best

2000 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mary McGuckian

Cast John Lynch · Ian Bannen · Jerome Flynn · Ian Hart

Synopsis The life story of former Manchester United football legend, George Best (1946-2005).

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The Near Room

1995 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Hayman

Cast Adrian Dunbar · David O'Hara · David Hayman · Julie Graham

Synopsis Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career is floundering. As a teenager, he fathered a daughter, Tommy, who was committed to foster care as an infant. Seventeen years later, Charlie, Tommy and Charlie's old schoolmate Harris Hill, now a squeaky-clean...

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Elizabeth I (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Holt

Cast Lily Cole · Vincent Kerschbaum · Suzannah Lipscomb · Dan Jones

Synopsis Docu-drama starring Lily Cole as a young Elizabeth I, featuring dramatic reconstructions of key moments in her life. Presented by historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones.

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The Precious Blood (TV)

1996 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Woods

Cast Amanda Burton · Kevin McNally · Michael Legge · Michelle Fairley

Synopsis Belfast, the mid-1990’s. A former UVF killer has become a preacher but has yet to atone for his crimes. Rosie, a Catholic mother whose Protestant husband was murdered by the UVF, finds it impossible to forgive in a post-ceasefire atmosphere...

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Direction Richard Boden · Roger Race

Cast Warren Mitchell · Carmel McSharry · Arthur English · Ken Campbell

Synopsis Alf and Elsie are getting old, Rita's left home, Elsie's confined to a wheelchair. Alf must now do battle with the Social Security system.

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Playing the Field (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dermot Boyd · Nicholas Laughland · Alrick Riley · Catherine Morshead

Cast Melanie Hill · Emma Rydal · Jo McInnes · Lorraine Ashbourne

Synopsis (1998-2002). 5 Seasons. The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves and infidelities of 'The Castlefield Blues', an under funded, badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire in the north of England whose loyalty to the team,...

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Mark of the Devil (TV)

1984 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Dirk Benedict · Jenny Seagrove · George Sewell · John Paul

Synopsis A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on his chest and begins to spread and turn into a condemning tattoo.

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No Surrender

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Smith

Cast Michael Angelis · Avis Bunnage · James Ellis · Tom Georgeson

Synopsis A scheduling mixup means two groups of old-timers have reserved the same bar for a party on the same night. The situation is trickier than expected since the bar is in Liverpool, and one group are Protestant die-hards while the...

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Para Max (S)

2015 · Documentary · 11 min. · Spain

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Direction Ted Nicolaou

Cast Gregory Smith · John Bluthal · Madeleine Potter · Godfrey James

Synopsis Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an American Kid like Mike Dennehy, it's a world of wonderous adventure. Vacationing in Fairyhill for the summer, Mike makes friends with a fascinating group of...

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The Detectives (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ed Bye · Graeme Harper · Steven Knight

Cast Jasper Carrott · Robert Powell · George Sewell · Frank Windsor

Synopsis TV Series (1993-1997). 31 episodes. In the never ending, high tech war against crime, Detective Constables Bob Louis and David Briggs are the Scud missiles of the police arsenal of intuition, hunches and inspired guesses... all of them hopelessly wrong.

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Leapin' Leprechauns!

1995 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Ted Nicolaou

Cast Gregory Smith · John Bluthal · Andrew Smith · Madeleine Potter

Synopsis A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.

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