Movies with Polly Walker
Movies found: 13, viewing from 1 to 13
Patriot Games
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Anne Archer, Harrison Ford, James Fox, Sean Bean, Polly Walker, Thora Birch
Directors: Phillip Noyce
Country: USA
Year: 1992
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy's techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family.
John Carter
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Thomas Haden Church, Willem Dafoe, Polly Walker, Lynn Collins, Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton
Directors: Andrew Stanton
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.
John Carter 3D
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Thomas Haden Church, Willem Dafoe, Polly Walker, Lynn Collins, Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton, James Purefoy
Directors: Andrew Stanton
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Available Quality: Hi Def
John Carter, a Civil War veteran who in 1868 was trying to live a normal life, is "asked" by the Army to join. But he refuses so he is locked up. He escapes and is pursued. Eventually they run into some Indians and there's a gunfight. Carter seeks refuge in a cave. While there he encounters someone who is holding some kind of medallion. When Carter touches it, he finds himself in a place where he can leap incredible heights, among other things. He later encounters beings he has never seen before. Later he meets a woman who helps him to discover that he is on Mars. And he learns there's some kind of unrest going on.
Rome - Season One
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Starring: Polly Walker, Lindsay Duncan, James Purefoy, Ciarán Hinds, Indira Varm
Directors: John Milius, Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald
Country: USA
Year: 2005
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Enchanted April
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina, Polly Walker, Michael Kitchen, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Neville Phillips
Directors: Mike Newell
Country: UK
Year: 1992
This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has it's own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously filmed enchantment.
D-Tox
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Stephen Lang, Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Fulford, Tom Berenger, Sylvester Stallone, Charles S. Dutton, Jeffrey Wright
Directors: Jim Gillespie
Country: Germany, USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Stallone plays a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job. He checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials. Soon, he finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one.
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Liam Neeson, Polly Walker, Pete Postlethwaite, Danny Huston, Jason Flemyng, Alexa Davalos, Tamer Hassan
Directors: Louis Leterrier
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2010
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
"Release the Kraken!" Ah, it could only be Clash of the Titans, the 2010 remake that retains the instruction to unleash the great beastie from the sea. The 1981 original boasted Ray Harryhausen's legendary stop-motion technique of animating various mythological creatures--it was his final feature project--and given the cornball approach of the movie in general, that was the main draw. The remake supplies new state-of-the-art special effects (released in 3-D) and a nicely muscular sense of momentum. Sam Worthington (the Avatar guy) plays Perseus, a demigod who doesn't know that Zeus (Liam Neeson) is his father. Perseus is selected to lead an e...
Rome - Season Two
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Starring: Polly Walker, Lindsay Duncan, James Purefoy, Ciarán Hinds, Indira Varm
Directors: John Milius, Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald
Country: USA
Year: 2006
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Genres: Drama
Starring: Polly Walker, Tony Haygarth, James Purefoy, Clive Russell, David Bradley, Jodhi May, Jean Marsh
Directors: David Thacker
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2003
The third of producer Martin Lisemore's television adaptations of Hardy's novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge was specifically commissioned to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Hardy's death. The serial reunited two veterans of John Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd: Alan Bates, who played Gabriel Oak in that film, takes on the role of the tragic Henchard; while Freddie Jones, the drunken Cainy Ball from Crowd, becomes the eccentric Conjuror Fall in Mayor. Dennis Potter, probably the most acclaimed television writer in Britain then and now, had previously written "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" for Wessex Tales. This handsome, well-acted ...
Robinson Crusoe
Genres: Adventure, Drama
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, James Frain, Polly Walker, Damian Lewis, Ian Hart, Martin Grace, William Takaku
Directors: George Miller, Rod Hardy
Country: USA
Year: 1997
Robinson Crusoe flies Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
Sliver
Genres: Thriller, Romance
Starring: Colleen Camp, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, William Baldwin, Sharon Stone, Nina Foch, Amanda Foreman
Directors: Phillip Noyce
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Carly Norris is a book editor living in New York City who moves into the Sliver apartment building. In the apartment building, Carly meets two of her new neighbors, author Jack Lansford who writes thriller novels and Zeke Hawkins, the handsome owner of the apartment building. Carly finds that some of the women living in the apartment building have been murdered and the police suspect that there is a serial killer in the apartment building. Carly has a passionate and seductive love affair with Zeke, unaware Zeke has secretly wired the apartment building with hidden cameras and he has been watching the lives of each tenant living in the apartme...
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy, Polly Walker, Holly Aird, Eileen Atkins, Benjamin Whitrow, Andrew Lincoln
Directors: Ed Blum
Country: UK
Year: 2006
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Caprica
Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Starring: Polly Walker, Eric Stoltz, Brian Markinson, Paula Malcomson, Esai Morales, Sasha Roiz, Magda Apanowicz
Directors: Jeffrey Reiner
Country: USA, Canada
Year: 2009
Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences. A spin-off of the Sci Fi Channel series "Battlestar Galactica" set 50 years prior to the events of that show.