8 Movies Starring Peter Firth

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.

Equus

Equus

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-10-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

137 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (5458 Reviews)

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Shaffer (play)

Peter Shaffer (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

Letter to Brezhnev

Letter to Brezhnev

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-05-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (828 Reviews)

Director:

Chris Bernard

Fullplot:

Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite.

Lifeforce

Lifeforce

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-06-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (14170 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Cast:

Writer:

Colin Wilson (novel)

Dan O'Bannon (screenplay)

Don Jakoby (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The space shuttle Churchill is assigned to observe the Halley's Comet under the command of Col. Tom Carlsen. They see a strange form attached to the comet and Carlsen goes with a team to investigate. They find three humanoid life forms in caskets and they bring them to the Churchill. However, Earth loses contact with the shuttle and the Space Research Center sends another spacecraft to search the Churchill. They find the crew dead and the shuttle burnt and one rescue pod missing. They bring the humanoids to Earth and soon Dr. Hans Fallada and his team discover that the Space Girl is a sort of vampire and drains the life force from people transforming them into zombies. When the authorities find that Col. Tom Carlsen has survived, they summon him to explain what happened in the Churchill. Carlsen tells an incredible story about the three aliens and he teams up with Col. Colin Caine trying to save mankind from the evil vampires from the space.

The Incident

The Incident

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-03-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (394 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Sargent

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.

Merisairas

Merisairas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-04-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

Sweden, France, Finland

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (44 Reviews)

Director:

Veikko Aaltonen

Cast:

Writer:

Jukka Asikainen (dramaturge)

Iiro Kèttner

Fullplot:

The crew aboard a freight ship are stuck as sea, shunned at all ports because of the toxic waste the ship carriers.

Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-12-25

Languages:

English, Swahili

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (21610 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Cast:

Writer:

Merian C. Cooper (story)

Ruth Rose (earlier screenplay)

Mark Rosenthal (screenplay)

Lawrence Konner (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen by the name of Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the L.A. facility. The transition is not without discomfort, but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands!

The Incident

The Incident

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-03-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (402 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Sargent

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.

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