28 Movies Starring Malcolm McDowell

If....

If....

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-08-02

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

X

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (15832 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

David Sherwin (screenplay)

David Sherwin (original script: "Crusaders")

John Howlett (original script: "Crusaders")

Fullplot:

In an indictment of the British public school system, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these schools are destroyed. When Mick and his friends rebel, violently, the catch phrase, "which side would you be on" becomes quite stark.

Figures in a Landscape

Figures in a Landscape

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-11-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (615 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Losey

Cast:

Writer:

Barry England (novel)

Robert Shaw

Fullplot:

Two escapees (Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell) are on the run in an unspecified but seemingly Latin-American country. Everywhere they go they are observed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-02-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

136 min

Rated:

X

IMDB Ratings:

8.4 (495745 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Cast:

Writer:

Stanley Kubrick (screenplay)

Anthony Burgess (novel)

Fullplot:

Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.

O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-06-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

178 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (5838 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

David Sherwin (screenplay)

Malcolm McDowell (based on an original idea by)

Fullplot:

Follows the literal and associated life journey of middle class Brit, Mick Travis, representing the "everyman", as he tries to make his mark in his so far young life. He is able to make great strides in his traditional view of success by being what those in authority want him to be. As such, he achieves in a few weeks what it usually take years for others, namely having his own sales territory - the northeast and ultimately Scotland - for Imperial Coffee. He is also able to garner a plethora of fringe benefits from this job, including women throwing themselves at his feet. But he will ultimately face a struggle in class and authority warfare, which culminates with his encounter with the Burgess family - wealthy Industrialist Sir James Burgess and his daughter Patricia, who Mick wants to marry - the former who is contemplating investing in the shady dealings in Zingara. Mick will also find that the class struggle not only applies in his case in an upward direction, but also in a downward direction with the working class and the truly down and out. Through it all, Alan Price and his small combo act as a Greek chorus of sorts providing commentary of Mick's travails through song.

Aces High

Aces High

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-12-01

Languages:

English, French, German

Countries:

UK, France

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (1677 Reviews)

Director:

Jack Gold

Cast:

Writer:

Howard Barker (screenplay)

R.C. Sherriff (play)

Cecil Lewis (additional material from "Saggitarius Rising")

Fullplot:

A naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans. However, the life expectancy of green pilots is not very good.

Time After Time

Time After Time

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-08-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (10627 Reviews)

Director:

Nicholas Meyer

Cast:

Writer:

Karl Alexander (story)

Steve Hayes (story)

Nicholas Meyer (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Cat People

Cat People

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-04-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (13316 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Schrader

Cast:

Writer:

DeWitt Bodeen (story)

Alan Ormsby (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People before they transform into panthers. Irene Gallier was raised by adoptive parents and meets her older brother Paul for the first time since childhood. We follow brother and sister - who seem to be the only ones of their kind left.

Sunset

Sunset

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-04-29

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA, Italy

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (2984 Reviews)

Director:

Blake Edwards

Cast:

Writer:

Rod Amateau (story)

Blake Edwards (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Whilst making a silent film about the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, veteran actor 'Tom Mix' (Bruce Willis) discovers that the real Earp ('James Garner') is on the film set as a technical advisor. The two become friends, but when a murder takes place, the two become partners and set about tracking down the killer.

Class of 1999

Class of 1999

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-05-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (4238 Reviews)

Director:

Mark L. Lester

Cast:

Writer:

Mark L. Lester (story)

C. Courtney Joyner (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a good job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far and some students get suspicious.

Assassin of the Tsar

Assassin of the Tsar

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-10-01

Languages:

Russian, English

Countries:

Soviet Union, UK

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (459 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksandr Borodyanskiy

Karen Shakhnazarov

Fullplot:

A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and are forced to relive the events of 1918 in order to break the spell.

Bopha!

Bopha!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-09-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (684 Reviews)

Director:

Morgan Freeman

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Percy Mtwa (play)

Brian Bird (screenplay)

John Wierick (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family (including long-suffering wife Alfre Woodard) and what he believes is his duty.

Milk Money

Milk Money

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-08-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (8688 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Young Frank and his pals get an idea for the ultimate in excitement. They decide to pool their savings, bicycle to the nearby Big City, and hire some woman of the streets to strip for them. Things do not work out that simply, but they do meet V, a Hooker With A Heart Of Gold, who ends up giving them a ride home. Soon she is living in Frank's treehouse, unbeknownst to Frank's widowed father Tom, who thinks she is one of Frank's teachers. Soon, however, the evil Waltzer comes looking for V.

2103: The Deadly Wake

2103: The Deadly Wake

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-08-26

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

Canada, UK

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

3.3 (309 Reviews)

Director:

Philip Jackson

Cast:

Writer:

Doug Bagot

Andrew Dowler

Philip Jackson (additional dialogue)

Timothy Lee

Fullplot:

Proxate Corporation recruits a boozy former ship captain and offers him a new identity: Sean Murdoch. His job: to take charge of large ship on one voyage. Once aboard, Murdoch realizes that the ship is a prison ship, and the cargo are criminally insane inmates. Murdoch's other problem: someone has planted bombs aboard the vessel. Murdoch's acrimonious relationship with the prison warden lends extra drama to the story.

2103: The Deadly Wake

2103: The Deadly Wake

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-08-26

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

Canada, UK

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

3.3 (310 Reviews)

Director:

Philip Jackson

Cast:

Writer:

Doug Bagot

Andrew Dowler

Philip Jackson (additional dialogue)

Timothy Lee

Fullplot:

Proxate Corporation recruits a boozy former ship captain and offers him a new identity: Sean Murdoch. His job: to take charge of large ship on one voyage. Once aboard, Murdoch realizes that the ship is a prison ship, and the cargo are criminally insane inmates. Murdoch's other problem: someone has planted bombs aboard the vessel. Murdoch's acrimonious relationship with the prison warden lends extra drama to the story.

Gangster No. 1

Gangster No. 1

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-06-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Germany, Ireland

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (10576 Reviews)

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Cast:

Writer:

Johnny Ferguson (screenplay)

Louis Mellis (original screenplay)

David Scinto (original screenplay)

Fullplot:

A middle-aged crime boss smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood in Swinging 60's London, he aped his mod boss Freddie Mays, and seemed to do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie's supremacy, and especially his tall bird. The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1.

Princess of Thieves

Princess of Thieves

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-03-11

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (3604 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Hewitt

Fullplot:

Story of Robin Hood's daughter Gwyn who takes up his role after he is captured by Prince John. King Richard is dead and his son Philip is the rightful heir, but he is in France and too afraid to face John. Can Gwyn find Philip and convince him to fight John and free her father?

The Barber

The Barber

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-12-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, UK

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (1101 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Bafaro

Fullplot:

A weary town faces a long, dark winter.

Firestarter 2: Rekindled

Firestarter 2: Rekindled

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-03-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

168 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(2231 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Iscove

Cast:

Writer:

Stephen King (novel)

Philip Eisner

Fullplot:

Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of pyrokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. Charlie has been in hiding for nearly all her life from a top-secret government fringe group headed by the maniacal John Rainbird, who wants to find and use Charlie as the ultimate weapon of war. Vincent is a young private investigator unwittingly sent to look for Charlie, and evenutally tries to help her escape from Rainbird, who has formed a group of young boys from other research projects -- each with different special abilities -- in a plot to take over the world.

I Spy

I Spy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-11-01

Languages:

English, Hungarian, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (39737 Reviews)

Director:

Betty Thomas

Cast:

Writer:

Morton S. Fine (characters)

David Friedkin (characters)

Marianne Wibberley (story)

Cormac Wibberley (story)

Marianne Wibberley (screenplay)

Cormac Wibberley (screenplay)

Jay Scherick (screenplay)

David Ronn (screenplay)

Fullplot:

When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful illegal arms dealers, and foil his treacherous plans for the plane.

Firestarter 2: Rekindled

Firestarter 2: Rekindled

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-03-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

168 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(2229 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Iscove

Cast:

Writer:

Stephen King (novel)

Philip Eisner

Fullplot:

Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of pyrokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. Charlie has been in hiding for nearly all her life from a top-secret government fringe group headed by the maniacal John Rainbird, who wants to find and use Charlie as the ultimate weapon of war. Vincent is a young private investigator unwittingly sent to look for Charlie, and evenutally tries to help her escape from Rainbird, who has formed a group of young boys from other research projects -- each with different special abilities -- in a plot to take over the world.

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-04-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (7324 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Hodges

Fullplot:

Will Graham is a gangster who has left the life of crime and is living in the countryside. He comes out of hiding to investigate the death of his brother when he learns that he committed suicide. Charlotte Rampling is his old girlfriend who owns a restaurant. Boad is the villain responsible for the bad things that happened to Will's brother.

The Company

The Company

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-05-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (5306 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Altman

Cast:

Writer:

Neve Campbell (story)

Barbara Turner (story)

Barbara Turner (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An inside look at the world of ballet. With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Altman follows the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close, as they cope with the demands of a life in the ballet. Campbell plays a gifted but conflicted company member on the verge of becoming a principal dancer at a fictional Chicago troupe, with McDowell the company's co-founder and artistic director, considered one of America's most exciting choreographers. Franco plays Campbell's boyfriend and one of the few characters not involved in the world of dance.

Halloween

Halloween

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-08-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (82893 Reviews)

Director:

Rob Zombie

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Rob Zombie (screenplay)

John Carpenter

Debra Hill

Fullplot:

The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-04-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (3106 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Rowdy Herrington (story)

Kim Dawson (story)

Rowdy Herrington (screenplay)

Bill Pryor (screenplay)

Tony De Paul (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., aka "Bobby Jones" rises from complete obscurity to become a golfing legend. Jones overcomes his own fierce temper, intense passion, and perfectionist tendencies to master the game and win the Grand Slam, the U.S., British, and Amateur Opens in golf, a feat unequaled even today. But it is Jones's style, personality, and character that separate him from the other professionals in his field. When Jones realizes that his unparalleled success may be destroying those he loves he's presented with an astounding proposition, one that shocks the world.

Evilenko

Evilenko

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-04-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

111 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (2420 Reviews)

Director:

David Grieco

Fullplot:

In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed.

War and Peace

War and Peace

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-10-21

Languages:

Russian, English

Countries:

Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Poland

Runtime:

394 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1286 Reviews)

Fullplot:

The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the the Napoleonic Era.

Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes

Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-08-24

Languages:

English, Spanish, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

50 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (758 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Earl Kress

William Hanna (creator)

Joseph Barbera (creator)

Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes created by)

Fullplot:

Takes place in London, as various jewel heists baffle Scotland Yard, and a beautiful singer named Red gets framed as the culprit. A situation of this magnitude calls for drastic action, and soon the legendary Sherlock Homes hits the beat, with Dr. Watson and Tom and Jerry in tow. But the case grows even more challenging when Tom and Jerry resort to their old crazy tricks and games with one another. Favorite supporting characters from the original Tom and Jerry series also turn up, including Droopy, Butch and Tuffy.

The Employer

The Employer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-06-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

IMDB Ratings:

4.3 (839 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Merle

Genres:

Thriller

Fullplot:

Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.

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