Connection
Victory is a french film of genre Drama directed by Mark Peploe with Willem Dafoe
Victory (1996)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listVictory is a 1996 film written and directed by Mark Peploe based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad.
The novel previously has been adapted films multiple times including a 1919 silent version directed by Maurice Tourneur featuring Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Lon Chaney, Sr., and Wallace Beery; the 1930 William Wellman directed Dangerous Paradise, starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen and Warner Oland; and the 1940 version, featuring Fredric March, Betty Field, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
Synopsis
Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst (Willem Dafoe) ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia with a Chinese assistant Wang (Ho Li). Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma (Irene Jacob). Alma is about to be sold to Schomberg by the corrupt leader/director of the band who has enslaved the women for prostitution. She begs Heyst to help her. Having sworn-off close relationships because of his past, he is challenged by her request, but accedes to help her. He escapes from the island with Alma, and they go back to his island and eventually become lovers. Schomberg seeks revenge by attempting to frame Heyst for the "murder" of a man who had died of natural causes and later by sending three desperadoes Pedro, Martin Ricardo (Rufus Sewell), and Mr. Jones (Sam Neill) to Heyst's island with a lie about treasure hidden on the island. Upon their arrival at the island, much intrigue ensues. Jones kills Pedro and then Martin in a climactic scene in which Alma is also shot and soon dies in the arms of Axel. After burning his compound and burying Alma, Axel disappears from the island but is rumored to have later been seen as a drifter in San Francisco and other ports of call. Alma's victory, in death, is having saved Axel's life in that he has again made connections with others.Actors
Willem Dafoe
(Axel Heyst)
Sam Neill
(Mr. Jones)
Rufus Sewell
(Martin Ricardo)
Irène Jacob
(Alma)
Jean Yanne
(Mr. Schomberg)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Victory
There are 293 films with the same actors, 1 films with the same director, 67049 with the same cinematographic genres (including 13169 with exactly the same 2 genres than Victory), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Victory, you will probably like those similar films :
Afraid of the Dark (1991)
, 1h31Directed by Mark Peploe
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors James Fox, Fanny Ardant, David Thewlis, Paul McGann, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens
Rating57%
A Londres, le petit Lucas craint de perdre la vue comme sa mère, et de devenir ainsi la proie d'un sadique qui s'attaque, armé d'un rasoir, aux personnes aveugles.
Daybreakers (2010)
, 1h38Directed by Michael et Peter Spierig
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Vampires in film, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Sam Neill, Vince Colosimo
Rating63%
In 2009, a plague caused by an infected vampire bat has transformed most of the world's population into vampires and due to this event, control of the world no longer belongs to humans. The vampires are incapable of aging or dying, but are unprotected against sunlight or any ultraviolet light. The entire vampire world is active at night, and various technological and architecture advances are made to adjust the populated areas to vampires' night cycle (such as UV protective cars, underground railways and paths across the cities, and UV warnings).
The Dust of Time (2008)
, 2h5Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Actors Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob, Christiane Paul
Rating64%
In 1999, an American film director of Greek descent named A (Willem Dafoe) receives a phone call from his melancholic daughter at the Cinecittà studio. He rushes back to his apartment in Rome, where he finds a letter his mother, Eleni (Irène Jacob), wrote to his father, Spyros (Michel Piccoli), in 1956.
The Hunter (2011)
, 1h40Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor, Jacek Koman, Morgana Davies, Callan Mulvey
Rating66%
Mercenary Martin David (Willem Dafoe) is hired by military biotech company Red Leaf to go to Tasmania and gather samples of the Tasmanian tiger, with further instructions to kill all remaining tigers to ensure no competing organization will get their DNA.
Restoration (1995)
, 1h57Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, Ian McKellen, Hugh Grant, David Thewlis, Polly Walker
Rating65%
A young doctor, Robert Merivel (Robert Downey, Jr.), enters the service of King Charles II of England (Sam Neill) after having saved the King's favorite spaniel. Merivel finds himself enjoying a life of pleasure and popularity at court, until the King informs him that he has arranged for Merivel to wed Celia (Polly Walker), the King's favorite mistress. The purpose of the arranged marriage is to fool another of the King's mistresses. Merivel is given an estate named Bidnold in Suffolk, and Celia is installed in a house in Kew where the king can visit her secretly. Merivel lives a life of debauchery there, but also finds pleasure in restoring the house to its former beauty with the support of Will Gates (Ian McKellen), the man who runs the estate. However, things become complicated when Merivel breaks the King's cardinal rule by falling in love with Celia. Elias Finn (Hugh Grant), a painter commissioned by the King to paint a portrait of Celia, tricks Merivel into revealing his romantic feelings for Celia, who does not return Merivel's affections. After finding out about Merivel's romantic feelings toward Celia, the King banishes him from court back to his life as a physician.
The English Patient (1996)
, 2h42Directed by Anthony Minghella
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Le désert
Actors Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Naveen Andrews
Rating73%
In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working and living in a bombed Italian monastery, looks after a critically burned man who speaks English but cannot remember his name. They are joined by Kip, a Sikh sapper in the British Army who defuses bombs and has a love affair with Hana before leaving, and David Caravaggio, a Canadian Intelligence Corps operative who was questioned by Germans and has had his thumbs cut off during a German interrogation. He questions the patient, who gradually reveals his past.
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
, 2h24Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Heinz Rühmann, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe
Rating71%
Cassiel and Raphaella, two angels, observe the busy life of reunited Berlin. Due to their divine origin, they can hear the thoughts of the people around them, and try to console a dying man. Cassiel has been following his friend Damiel (a former angel), who senses his presence and talks about his experiences as a human. He owns a pizza parlor named Casa dell'angelo (Angel's House) and has married Marion, a trapeze artist whom he met when an angel. She works in a local bar in West Berlin, and the two have a young daughter, Doria.
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
, 1h51Directed by Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Arnon Milchan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Fred Ward, Naomi Watts, Jake Weber
Rating70%
Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) is an adventurous, curious, slightly tomboyish young woman in Venice. Her lover Marco (Rufus Sewell) cannot marry her because her family is not wealthy enough to provide a good dowry. Marco, a future Senator, marries a foreign noblewoman instead. Veronica's mother (Jacqueline Bisset) must think of the future and her family's financial security, as she still requires dowries for her younger daughters and money for her son's commission. Rather than go to a convent, Veronica's mother suggests she become a courtesan, a highly paid, cultured prostitute like her mother and grandmother before her. At first Veronica is repelled by the idea, but once she discovers that courtesans are allowed access to libraries and education, she tentatively embraces the idea.
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
, 2h50Directed by Robert Redford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Chris Cooper
Rating67%
Teenager Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) and her best friend Judith (Kate Bosworth) go out early one winter's morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver. As they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim. Both horses fall, dragging the girls onto a road and colliding with a truck. Judith and Gulliver are killed, while Grace and Pilgrim are both severely injured. Grace, left with a partially amputated right leg, is bitter and withdrawn after the accident. Meanwhile, Pilgrim is traumatized and uncontrollable to the extent that it is suggested he be put down. Grace's mother, Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas), a strong-minded and workaholic magazine editor, refuses to allow Pilgrim to be put down, sensing that somehow Grace's recovery is linked with Pilgrim's.
, 1h34Directed by Paul Auster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli, Paul Auster
Rating50%
Après la parution de son dernier livre, Martin Frost, un écrivain à succès, décide de se retirer – pour quelque temps pense-t-il – dans une maison à la campagne. Au premier matin de son séjour, il découvre dans son lit une ravissante jeune femme allongée à ses côtés. Qui est cette mystérieuse inconnue qui semble si bien connaître sa vie et son œuvre ? Fasciné par sa beauté et son intelligence, Martin pense avoir rencontré sa muse.