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Leon Lissek (born 1927), is an actor originated from Australia who primarily does work in England. He has appeared in over 80 films in his career, which started with Marat/Sade. He is well known for his television roles in The Sullivans and EastEnders, and his film roles in Time Bandits, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Horsemen.
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Leon Lissek (born 1927), is an actor originated from Australia who primarily does work in England. He has appeared in over 80 films in his career, which started with Marat/Sade. He is well known for his television roles in The Sullivans and EastEnders, and his film roles in Time Bandits, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Horsemen.
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Song of Songs (2005)
, 1h21Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Natalie Press, Leon Lissek, Amber Agha, Amanda Boxer, Félicité du Jeu, Elliot Levey
Rating46%
Esther Kahn (2000)
, 2h22Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, László Szabó, Frances Barber, Akbar Kurtha, Anton Lesser
Roles Theatre manager
Rating67%
Esther Kahn vit dans le East End, à Londres, à la fin du XIX siècle. Elle travaille dans la couture avec sa famille juive, mais ça ne lui plait pas. Retranchée du monde, sujet des moqueries de ses frères et sœurs, elle demeure indécise sur son avenir. Après avoir assisté à une pièce de théâtre, elle décide de devenir actrice. Figuration, rôle secondaire, doublure l'amènent, au fur et à mesure, à pouvoir vivre de ses propres moyens. Sous la houlette de Nathan Quellen, un vieil acteur raté, elle améliore son jeu mais il lui manque encore d'avoir vécu.
Nostradamus (1994)
, 1h59Directed by Roger Christian
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about writers
Actors Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond, Assumpta Serna
Rating58%
Physicien et astrologue, Nostradamus a de nombreuses visions de l'avenir. Il doit faire face à l'Inquisition et va à l'encontre des théories scientifiques de son époque. Mais il parvient à enrayer une épidémie de peste et parvient à entrer à la cour du roi Charles IX.
The Trial (1993)
, 2hDirected by David Hugh Jones
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Juliet Stevenson, Alfred Molina, David Thewlis
Roles Stairman
Rating59%
Bloodmoon (1990)
, 1h40Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Actors Christine Amor, Brian Moll, Leon Lissek
Rating46%
A serial killer is at large in a catholic school, stalking the students and killing them.
Young Toscanini (1988)
, 1h49Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward, Philippe Noiret, Franco Nero, John Rhys-Davies
Rating60%
1886. Le jeune Arturo Toscanini, violoncelliste de Parme, auditionne à la Scala de Milan. Mais le jury ne s'intéresse guère à son talent et le renvoie. Furieux, Toscanini est approché par un impresario témoin de l'altercation, Claudio Rossi, qui lui propose de venir au Brésil afin de participer à la première locale de l'opéra Aïda. Egalement pianiste de formation, Toscanini connaît déjà un immense répertoire et accompagne les chanteurs de la troupe au piano. Sur le bateau, après avoir pris froid lors d'une tempête, il fait la connaissance de Sœur Margherita, qui fait partie d'une mission de religieuses en partance pour l'Amérique latine.
, 2h51Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Political films
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Donald Moffat
Roles Bold Man in Bar
Rating72%
Charismatic Czech brain surgeon Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis), a successful lothario in Communist Czechoslovakia is pursuing a love/hate affair with Sabina (Lena Olin), an equally care-free artist in Prague. One day, Dr Tomas makes a long distance call to a spa town for a specialized surgery. There, he meets dissatisfied waitress Tereza (Juliette Binoche), who desires intellectual stimulation. She tracks him down in Prague and cohabits with him, complicating Tomas's extra-domestic sexual affairs.
Personal Services (1987)
, 1h45Directed by Terry Jones
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Julie Walters, Shirley Stelfox, Alec McCowen, Tim Woodward, Dave Aktins, Ewan Hooper
Roles Mr. Popozogolou
Rating62%
Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a sexually naive waitress and single-mother who pays for her teenage son's tuition by renting flats to local tarts. She later becomes a call girl herself - joining her friend Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and their "maid" Dolly (Danny Schiller) - and specializes in fetish/kink roleplay with older gentlemen. With her new family of friends and admirers, she becomes a huge sensation leading to wealth and infamy in the tabloids. The brothel business also brings out Christine's self-confidence, and leads to repairing a previously strained relationship with her father.
God's Outlaw (1986)
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Alan Bennion, Arthur Cox, Willoughby Wittenham Rees Goddard, Terrence Hardiman
Rating67%
Time Bandits (1981)
, 1h56Directed by Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, David Warner, Sean Connery, Katherine Helmond, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Transport films, Time travel films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Craig Warnock, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond
Rating68%
Eleven-year-old Kevin has a vivid imagination and is fascinated by history, particularly Ancient Greece; his parents ignore his activities, having become more obsessed with buying the latest household gadgets to keep up with their neighbours. One night, as Kevin is sleeping, an armoured knight on a horse bursts out of his wardrobe. Kevin is scared and hides as the knight rides off into a forest setting where once his bedroom wall was; when Kevin looks back out, the room is back to normal and he finds one of his photos on the wall similar to the forest he saw. The next night he prepares a satchel with supplies and a Polaroid camera, but is surprised when six dwarves spill out of the wardrobe. Kevin quickly learns the group has stolen a large, worn map, and are looking for an exit from Kevin's room before they are discovered. They find that Kevin's bedroom wall can be pushed, revealing a long hallway. Kevin is hesitant to join until the visage of a menacing head – the Supreme Being – appears behind them, demanding the return of the map. Kevin and the dwarves fall into an empty void at the end of the hallway.
Shōgun (miniseries) (1980)
, 9h7Directed by Jerry London
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yōko Shimada, Damien Thomas, John Rhys-Davies, Michael Hordern
Roles Father Sebastio
Rating80%
After his Dutch trading ship Erasmus and its surviving crew is blown ashore by a violent storm at Injiro on the east coast of Japan, Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, the ship's English navigator, is taken prisoner by samurai warriors. When he is later temporarily released, he must juggle his self-identity as an Englishman associated with other Europeans in Japan, namely Portuguese traders and Jesuit priests, with the alien Japanese culture into which he has been thrust and now must adapt to in order to survive. Being an Englishman, Blackthorne is at both religious and political odds with his enemy, the Portuguese, and the Catholic Church's Jesuit order. The Catholic foothold in Japan puts Blackthorne, a Protestant and therefore a heretic, at a political disadvantage. But this same situation also brings him to the attention of the influential Lord Toranaga, who mistrusts this foreign religion now spreading in Japan. He is competing with other samurai warlords of similar high-born rank, among them Catholic converts, for the very powerful position of Shōgun, the military governor of Japan.
The Blockhouse (1973)
, 1h33Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughan, Per Oscarsson, Nicholas Jones
Roles Kozhek
Rating58%
On D-Day, a mixed group of forced labourers held by German forces take shelter from the bombardment inside a German bunker, but are then entombed when the entrances are blocked by shelling damage. By coincidence, the bunker is a store house and they have enough food and wine to last them for years. And they are trapped for years. The film analyzes how they deal with their underground prison, with their relationships, and with death.
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
, 3h9Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about royalty
Actors Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning
Rating71%
The story begins with the birth of Tsarevich Alexei on 12 August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by the Prime Minister Count Witte (Laurence Olivier) and his uncle Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They tell him the Russian people want representative government, health care, voting and workers' rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine) and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed.
Countess Dracula (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Peter Sasdy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Serial killer films, Vampires in film
Actors Ingrid Pitt, Lesley-Anne Down, Maurice Denham, Nigel Green, Peter Jeffrey, Leon Lissek
Roles Sergeant of Bailiffs
Rating58%
In 17th-century Hungary, recently widowed Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy discovers that her youthful appearance and libido can be temporarily restored if she bathes in the blood of young women. She enlists her steward and lover, Captain Dobi, to help with the kidnap and murder of several local girls, whilst having another sexual affair with young Lt. Imre Toth. As a cover for her crimes while in her rejuvenated state, she takes the identity of her own daughter; but castle historian Fabio grows suspicious. Eventually she kills a prostitute called Ziza and it doesn't help, Dobi finds Fabio who has a chapter about blood sacrifices and tells Elisabeth the truth in return for being allowed to live, he says only a virgin sacrifice will work. She then kills more virgins. Fabio tries to tell Toth the truth about his lover, but Dobi kills him before he can. He then shows Toth Elisabeth to jade him away from her. Elisabeth forces Toth into marrying her but her daughter Ilona arrives home, Elisabeth grows old again and tries to kill her daughter but kills Toth instead. Elisabeth, Dobi, and her maid are sentenced to death for their crimes and are last seen awaiting the hangman in their cell. In the last scene a peasant curses her as "devil woman" and "Countess Dracula".
The Horsemen (1971)
, 1h49Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, Saeed Jaffrey, Peter Jeffrey, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Chikana Proprietor
Rating62%
Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the stable master and retired buzkashi player for a feudal lord, is a master horseman who lives by a primitive code of honor. Uruz's family honor is damaged when he breaks his leg playing the game which is the Afghani equivalent of polo. His father, who lost a lot of money betting on his son, will barely speak to him. To regain the family honor (and wealth) he must somehow re-learn how to ride -- after his injuries cost him his leg below the knee. In the face of great obstacles, and despite the derision and treachery of others, he gains the chance to play in the games given by the king of Afghanistan.