Movies with Leslie Phillips
Movies found: 18, viewing from 1 to 18
Is Anybody There?
Genres: Drama
Starring: Michael Caine, Rosemary Harris, Leslie Phillips, David Morrissey, Peter Vaughan, Ralph Riach, Elizabeth Spriggs
Directors: John Crowley
Country: UK
Year: 2008
Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the onset of mid-life crisis, Edward is busy tape-recording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy. Is There Anybody There? tells the story of this odd couple - a boy and an old man - ...
I Was Monty's Double aka Hell, Heaven or Hoboken
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Michael Hordern, Sid James, Barbara Hicks, Leslie Phillips, Cecil Parker, John Mills, James Hayter
Directors: John Guillermin
Country: UK
Year: 1958
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
The Smallest Show on Earth
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Francis De Wolff, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis
Directors: Basil Dearden
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetant staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.
Les Girls
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Gene Kelly, Patrick Macnee, Henry Daniell, Philip Tonge, Stephen Vercoe, Jacques Bergerac
Directors: George Cukor
Country: USA
Year: 1957
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele (Taina Elg). A Rashômon (1950)-style narrative presents the story from three points of view. Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry (Gene Kelly), while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
The Canterville Ghost
Genres: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Neve Campbell, Joan Sims, Patrick Stewart, Leslie Phillips, Cherie Lunghi, Edward Wiley, Donald Sinden
Directors: Sydney Macartney
Country: USA
Year: 1996
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are Ginny's, is ready to send her back. But then Ginny actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir Simon de Canterville (not to mention the cute teenaged duke next door), and she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse.
Norman Wisdom: His Story
Genres: Biography
Starring: Terence Stamp, Leslie Phillips, Honor Blackman, David Lodge, Ricky Tomlinson, Norman Wisdom, Stephen Frears
Directors: Sally Norris
Country: UK
Year: 2010
The life story of Sir Norman Wisdom, who went from street urchin to become one of the UK's most bankable and loved film stars of the 1950-60s. The documentary pays tribute to his life, featuring family, friends and colleagues.
Saving Grace
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Starring: Bill Bailey, Brenda Blethyn, Leslie Phillips, Jamie Foreman, Phyllida Law, Craig Ferguson, Paul Brooke
Directors: Nigel Cole
Country: UK
Year: 2000
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Imagine a Cheech and Chong pothead comedy, only instead of two scruffy lowlifes, the movie is about an aimless Scottish gardener and a middle-aged British widow with a green thumb. Grace (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies and Little Voice) has just discovered that her recently deceased husband has left her with an enormous debt when her gardener Matthew (Craig Ferguson, The Big Tease) asks her to help him tend to his small, personal-use marijuana crop. Grace soon realizes that they can turn her green house into a hydroponics laboratory and turn out a profitable crop--if only they can keep the local constables at bay and then find a dealer to...
The Gamma People
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Leonard Sachs, Walter Rilla, Philip Leaver, Olaf Pooley, Rosalie Crutchley, Paul Hardtmuth
Directors: John Gilling
Country: UK
Year: 1956
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
Just My Luck (1957)
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Cyril Chamberlain, Joan Sims, Leslie Phillips, Michael Brennan, Marianne Stone, Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman
Directors: John Paddy Carstairs
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?
Father Came Too! aka We Want to Live Alone
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Terry Scott, Leslie Phillips, Fred Emney, James Robertson Justice, Peter Jones, Timothy Bateson, Philip Locke
Directors: Peter Graham Scott
Country: UK
Year: 1964
The newlywed Munroes purchase a rundown, ramshackle cottage and plan to fix it up themselves, primarily to escape their meddling father. However, they haven't appreciated the scope of the work required to get the place up to scratch.. They have no choice but to seek outside help. When Builder, Josh Wicks, arrives on the scene, the bills start going through the roof... Written by Henry Blyth (The Bulldog Breed) and Jack Davies (Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines), Father Came Too! is a classic comedy in the Rank and Ealing mould.
Out of Africa
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Malick Bowens, Michael Kitchen, Shane Rimmer, Leslie Phillips, Graham Crowden
Directors: Sydney Pollack
Country: USA
Year: 1985
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.
Empire of the Sun
Genres: Action, Drama, War
Starring: Joe Pantoliano, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Leslie Phillips, Emily Richard
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Country: USA
Year: 1987
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
Millions
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family
Starring: James Nesbitt, Christopher Fulford, Leslie Phillips, Alun Armstrong, Daisy Donovan, Pearce Quigley, Jane Hogarth
Directors: Danny Boyle
Country: UK
Year: 2004
The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront in this film.
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Genres: Comedy, War
Starring: Romany Malco, Neve Campbell, Christian Slater, Leslie Phillips, Jon Culshaw, Tom Clarke Hill, Hamish McColl
Directors: Peter Richardson
Country: UK
Year: 2004
This is a comedy involving a group of the American filmmakers who decided to make a movie about Winston Churchille's life but missed with the casting. They find out that an actor to play the key role is a robust, unattractive cigar smoker they draw in an American G.I. as he seemed to be a better-looking actor to play the part of Churchill. A new interpretation the makers developed depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.
King Ralph
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: John Hurt, Peter O'Toole, Richard Griffiths, John Goodman, Leslie Phillips, Julian Glover, Joely Richardson
Directors: David S. Ward
Country: USA
Year: 1991
When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham?
The Limping Man
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Raymond Rollett, Leslie Phillips, Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Andre Van Gyseghem, Tom Gill
Directors: Charles De la Tour, Cy Endfield
Country: UK
Year: 1953
American Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges) arrives in London to take up an interrupted romance with Pauline French (Moria Lister), whom he hasn't seen in six years. At the airport a man standing alongside Pryor is slain by an unseen sniper, and he is detained by Scotland Yard for questioning. Released, he goes to Pauline's apartment, and learns that she had an intimate association with the slain man and is not interested in talking about it. Scotland Yard also knows this and Pryor and Pauline are kept under surveillance. After complications involving the dead man's wife, it is found that the man Pauline knows isn't dead at all and isn't who he is s...
The Jackal
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Jack Black, David Hayman, Bruce Willis, J.K. Simmons, Leslie Phillips, Tess Harper, Richard Gere
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Japan, France
Year: 1997
The United States is trying to help the New Russia in the war against organized crime in that country. Presently, they are after Terek Murad, a deadly crime boss. When they raid one of his establishments, Murad's brother is killed. Murad seeks revenge against the ones who killed his brother, FBI agent Carter Preston and Russian Major Valentina Koslova, but most of all, he wants to send a message to the Americans about interfering in matters that don't concern them, so he hires an international assassin to kill the head of the FBI. When the assassin advises Murad to go into hiding until the job is done, he does. Desperate to know what Murad is...
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jon Voight, Leslie Phillips, Daniel Craig
Directors: Simon West
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Japan
Year: 2001
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Based on the popular video game series, Tomb Raider features the adventures of Lara Croft an antiquities hunter-for-hire. She travels to exotic locales in search of treasures and artifacts in the catacombs of ancient tombs and ruins remaining from age-old empires. A female Indiana Jones, Croft's expeditions are always chock full of action, danger, intrigue, suspense and her omnipresent knack for defying death in tight outfits.