Direction: Alvin Rakoff
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Alvin Rakoff. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Hoffman
1970 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Peter Sellers · Sinead Cusack · Ruth Dunning · Jeremy Bulloch
Plot A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he's a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character.
6.4
165 votes
6.4
165 votes
Romeo & Juliet (TV)
1978 · Movie · 168 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Patrick Ryecart · Rebecca Saire · Celia Johnson · Michael Hordern
Plot Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth...
5.5
30 votes
5.5
30 votes
City on Fire
1979 · Movie · 106 min. · Canada
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Barry Newman · Susan Clark · Shelley Winters · Leslie Nielsen
Plot William Dudley (Leslie Nielson) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed a chemical refinery to be built right in the center of town, far...
4.7
87 votes
4.7
87 votes
Death Ship
1980 · Movie · 91 min. · Canada
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast George Kennedy · Nick Mancuso · Saul Rubinek · Richard Crenna
Plot Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi...
3.8
424 votes
3.8
424 votes
Say Hello to Yesterday
1971 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Jean Simmons · Leonard Whiting · Evelyn Laye · Derek Francis
Plot An affluent, middle-aged housewife in a failing marriage is romantically pursued by a young man while running errands in London.
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The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (TV Miniseries)
1984 · Movie · 237 min. · United States
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast David Ogden Stiers · Hunt Block · David Caruso · Alex Hyde-White
Plot This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.
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The Comedy Man
1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Kenneth More · Cecil Parker · Dennis Price · Billie Whitelaw
Plot Charles Byrd, known as "Chick", has spent his adult life acting in small repertory companies all over the UK, and he's never had much luck. All too aware that he's...
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Dirty Tricks
1981 · Movie · 95 min. · Canada
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Elliott Gould · Kate Jackson · Rich Little · Arthur Hill
Plot A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered...
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A Voyage Round My Father (TV)
1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Laurence Olivier · Alan Bates · Jane Asher · Elizabeth Sellars
Plot Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch, a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted...
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Shades of Greene (TV Series)
1975 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hammond · Alan Cooke · Alastair Reid · Philip Saville
Cast Denholm Elliott · Shane Briant · Neville Phillips · Ian Hendry
Plot TV Series (1975). 18 episiodes
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The Treasure of San Teresa
1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Eddie Constantine · Dawn Addams · Marius Goring · Christopher Lee
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Passport to Shame
1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Eddie Constantine · Diana Dors · Herbert Lom · Odile Versois
Plot Cabdriver Constantine falls for French girl mixed up with white slave ring, eventually helps to liberate her.
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The Sextet (TV Series)
1972 · Series · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alan Bridges · James Ferman · Michael Hayes · Donald McWhinnie
Cast Denholm Elliott · Billie Whitelaw · Richard Vernon · Dennis Waterman
Plot TV Series (1972). 8 episodes. An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.
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Paradise Postponed (TV Miniseries)
1986 · Movie · 569 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Paul Shelley · David Threlfall · Michael Hordern · Annette Crosbie
Plot The plot focused on inquires into why the leftist Reverend Simeon Simcox left the Simcox brewery millions to Leslie Titmuss, a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister. Simeon's sons Fred,...
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A Dance to the Music of Time (TV Miniseries)
1997 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Morahan · Alvin Rakoff
Cast Gillian Barge · Nicholas Jones · Simon Russell Beale · Robin Bailey
Plot 4 episodes. Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
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King Solomon's Treasure
1979 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast David McCallum · John Colicos · Patrick MacNee · Britt Ekland
Plot Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city...
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A Talent for Murder (TV)
1984 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Angela Lansbury · Laurence Olivier · Hildegarde Neil · Charles Keating
Plot A famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
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The World in My Pocket
1961 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Nadja Tiller · Rod Steiger · Peter van Eyck · Jean Servais
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Crossplot
1969 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Roger Moore · Martha Hyer · Alexis Kanner · Claudie Lange
Plot A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by...
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Court Martial (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff · Harvey Hart · Peter Maxwell · Robert Douglas
Cast Bradford Dillman · Peter Graves · Kenneth J. Warren · Angela Browne
Plot TV Series (1965-). 26 Episodes. During World War II this crack team from the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime all over Europe and then proceeds to the court-martial itself.
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