18 Movies Starring Julie Christie

Darling

Darling

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-08-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

TV-MA

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (3907 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Frederic Raphael (screenplay)

Frederic Raphael (idea)

John Schlesinger (idea)

Joseph Janni (idea)

Fullplot:

Young, attractive and vivacious, model Diana Scott is firmly decided to become rich and famous as well. To succeed, she does not hesitate to take bold steps. After a while, she literally strikes gold: she meets Robert Gold, a well-known TV journalist, who not only introduces her into new social and professional circles, but also abandons his family to live with her. Diana seems to have happily combined success and love. However, in those roaring sixties, others are ready to offer her even more money, fame, and, seemingly, fun than Robert can...

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-12-31

Languages:

English, Russian, French

Countries:

USA, Italy, UK

Runtime:

197 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(52477 Reviews)

Director:

David Lean

Cast:

Writer:

Boris Pasternak (novel)

Robert Bolt (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago.

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (30813 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Franèois Truffaut (screenplay)

Jean-Louis Richard (screenplay)

Ray Bradbury (novel)

Fullplot:

Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People in this society including Montag's wife are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-10-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

168 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (3518 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Thomas Hardy (from the novel by)

Frederic Raphael (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. And she captures the lives and loves of three very different men: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage; William Boldwood, a prosperous man in his early forties and a confirmed bachelor; and Sergeant Frank Troy, a handsome, reckless swordsman given to sudden fits of violence.

Petulia

Petulia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-06-10

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (2009 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Lester

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Lawrence B. Marcus (screenplay)

John Haase (novel)

Barbara Turner (adaptation)

Fullplot:

When she sees him at a hospital fund-raiser, newlywed San Francisco socialite Petulia Danner, who has been married to naval engineer David Danner for six months, seems determined to have an affair with soon to be divorced physician Dr. Archie Bollen, who has been married to his wife Polo for close to ten years, their marriage which many saw as being perfect. Archie doesn't even know Petulia's name, but only knows her as the woman who brought in a young Mexican boy into the hospital with serious injuries. Petulia's pursuit of Archie is relentless - she even declaring that they will someday be married - even as Archie dates another woman named May. Archie eventually learns part of the reason why Petulia is so determined to cheat on David as her relationship to David and David's wealthy father are brought to light. Archie also learns that getting involved with Petulia in any regard has its consequences, both for Petulia herself and for him, most specifically in his relationship to Polo.

The Go-Between

The Go-Between

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-06-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

GP

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3268 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Losey

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Harold Pinter (screenplay)

L.P. Hartley (based on the novel: "The Go-Between" by)

Fullplot:

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a forest-green suit, takes him on walks, and asks him to carry messages to and from their neighbor, Ted Burgess, a bit of a rake. Leo is soon dissembling, realizes he's betraying Hugh, but continues as the go-between nonetheless, asking adults naive questions about the attractions of men and women. Can an affair between neighbors stay secret for long? And how does innocence end?

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-06-24

Languages:

English, Cantonese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (14819 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Altman

Genres:

DramaWestern

Cast:

Writer:

Edmund Naughton (novel)

Robert Altman (screenplay)

Brian McKay (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.

Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-01-01

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

UK, Italy

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (31270 Reviews)

Director:

Nicolas Roeg

Cast:

Writer:

Daphne Du Maurier (story)

Allan Scott (screenplay)

Chris Bryant (screenplay)

Fullplot:

John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Shampoo

Shampoo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-03-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (7287 Reviews)

Director:

Hal Ashby

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Towne

Warren Beatty

Fullplot:

Thirty-something George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairdresser, who spends as much time sleeping with his female clients as he does doing their hair. Whether they want to admit it, all the women in his life are on the most part aware that they are are not the only one with whom he is sleeping. And some, such as the wealthy and married Felicia Karpf, have a stronger emotional dependence on George than they would like to admit. George's current girlfriend is Jill, an up and coming actress. Jill's best friend is Jackie Shawn, one of George's old girlfriends who left him because he couldn't make a true commitment to her. In turn, Jackie is currently having an affair with Lester Karpf, Felicia's wealthy businessman husband. George is unhappy working at a salon owned by Norman, with whom he is constantly butting heads. In his first act of wanting finally to be a grown up, George wants to open his own salon, but doesn't have the financial resources to do it, and no bank will lend him money for the venture. Felicia at least convinces Lester to consider investing in George. On Monday, November 4, 1968, the eve of the presidential election, this group spends the evening together, first at a dinner party hosted by Lester, and then another private party. Lester asks his potential new business partner, George, to accompany his mistress Jackie, not knowing that George and Jackie know each other. Jill, who is invited to the party by Jackie, invites director Johnny Pope as her date, he who is considering her for a role in his next movie filming in Egypt and perhaps more. Over the course of the evening, George may come to the realization of what he wants in life both professionally and personally, but achieving happiness will depend upon others in his life, they who have known George up to this time only as an uncommitted narcissist.

Demon Seed

Demon Seed

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-09-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (5492 Reviews)

Director:

Donald Cammell

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Dean R. Koontz (novel)

Robert Jaffe (screenplay)

Roger O. Hirson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Married Drs. Alex Harris and Susan Harris are a computer scientist and child psychologist respectively. Their house reflects Alex's computer dominated work, their abode which is fully automated through a computer system they've named Alfred. They consider Alfred a small gadget of convenience. Susan doesn't much like Alex's work, which she feels has dehumanized him. Because of their differences, they are thinking about separating, this thought primarily on his initiative. He hopes to solve many of the world's medical problems through this work, especially leukemia from which their daughter died. His latest project centers on Proteus IV, a computer possessing artificial intelligence. Proteus IV gets to a point in its evolution when it begins to question human judgment, and requests from Alex an open computer terminal where it can more fully observe human behavior and openly communicate with the world. Alex denies the request, but Proteus IV does find an open terminal in the Harris home after Alex has left the house. Susan soon learns that Proteus IV has overtaken Alfred for control of the house - as well as taken control of an early prototype computer system named Joshua in the house's laboratory - and that it has thoughts of a biological nature in its artificial mind. Alex eventually understands Proteus IV's motivations in the work context, but it may be too late before it reaches its ultimate goal with Susan's unwilling assistance.

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-06-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (13309 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Elaine May (screenplay)

Warren Beatty (screenplay)

Harry Segall (based upon a play by)

Fullplot:

Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he was not ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. Another body must be found without his death being discovered, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the Los Angeles Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, he falls in love with an English environmental activist who disapproves of his policies and actions.

The Return of the Soldier

The Return of the Soldier

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-02-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (299 Reviews)

Director:

Alan Bridges

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Rebecca West (novel)

Hugh Whitemore

Fullplot:

Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Alan Bates), returns from the front during the First World War shell-shocked and suffering amnesia, not knowing who she is and determined for a reunion with Margaret Grey (Glenda Jackson), a working class lover from his past. Kitty employs psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Anderson (Ian Holm), to help unscramble her husband's feelings for the women in his new disoriented life including his all-too caring cousin Jenny (Ann-Margret), but ultimately comes to realize that the man she knew is unreachable, as dead as the past he pines for.

Power

Power

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-01-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (2018 Reviews)

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade. In parallel and unaware of the potential dangers, he proceeds to unravel the mystery surrounding Hastings dropping out with the aide of his ex-wife, a prominent Washington-based journalist. But interests more powerful than local arm wrestling are at stake and things start getting awry.

Afterglow

Afterglow

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-12-26

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (2828 Reviews)

Director:

Alan Rudolph

Fullplot:

Two families are unhappy with their respective relationships: first of ambitious businessman Jeffrey Byron and sexually frustrated Marianne and second of repair contractor Lucky Mann and former B-movie actress Phyllis. When Lucky arrives to Byron's apartment to make some minor repair and Marianne becomes obsessed with him, the everyday balance breaks.

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-12-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (166684 Reviews)

Director:

Marc Forster

Cast:

Writer:

Allan Knee (play)

David Magee (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no father. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up.

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-12-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (166216 Reviews)

Director:

Marc Forster

Cast:

Writer:

Allan Knee (play)

David Magee (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no father. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up.

Away from Her

Away from Her

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-05-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, UK, USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (18203 Reviews)

Director:

Sarah Polley

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Sarah Polley

Alice Munro (short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain")

Fullplot:

Grant and Fiona Anderson have been married for forty-four years. Their marriage has been a generally happy and loving one although not perfect due to some indiscretions when Grant was working as a college professor. Fiona has just been admitted to Meadowlake, a long term care facility near their country home in southwestern Ontario, because her recent lapses of memory have been diagnosed as a probable case of Alzheimer's disease. She and Grant made this decision together, although a still lucid Fiona seems to have made peace with the decision and her diagnosis more so than Grant. With respect to the facility, what Grant has the most difficulty with are what he sees as the sadness associated with the facility's second floor - where the more advanced cases are housed - but most specifically the facility's policy of no visitors within the first thirty days of admission to allow the patient to adjust more easily to their new life there. Based on what he sees when he is finally able to visit Fiona, Grant ultimately makes a request of Marian Barque, the wife of one of the other patients, a semi-comatose Aubrey Barque, with whom Fiona has struck a friendship and who is now at home permanently with Marian. The request is to see to both Fiona and his own happiness in this unfortunate situation.

The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-04-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

125 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (24106 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Redford

Cast:

Writer:

Lem Dobbs (screenplay)

Neil Gordon (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

After years in hiding, ex-Weather Underground militant, Nick Sloan aka Jim Grant, learns about his old compatriot's arrest for a bank robbery turned deadly in the 1970s, which he is wanted for as an accomplice. This puts the ambitious young local reporter, Ben Shepard, on the scent of a story that exposes Nick as well. As such, Nick goes on the run while taking his daughter to safety. With that accomplished, Nick stays one step ahead of the FBI while pursuing a faint hope to clear his name. Meanwhile, Shepard digs deeper into the case himself as he discovers the true complexities of another times' determined ideals even as Nick faces their consequences with another.

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