The best Robert Powell’s movies

Robert Powell

Robert Powell

01/06/1944 (79 años)
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The Italian Job

The Italian Job
7.2/10
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one his of friends has attempted a high risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.

Tommy

Tommy
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 19/03/1975
  • Character: Captain Walker
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

Mahler

Mahler
7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 04/04/1974
  • Character: Gustav Mahler
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

Robbery

Robbery
6.9/10
A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.

Asylum

Asylum
6.5/10
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.

The Jigsaw Man

The Jigsaw Man
5.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 24/08/1984
  • Character: Jamie Fraser
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6.3/10
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.

The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps
6.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 04/11/1978
  • Character: Richard Hannay
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...

Harlequin

Harlequin
6.1/10
In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.

What Waits Below

What Waits Below
4.7/10
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens (Bottoms) and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen (Powell) including scientist Leslie Peterson (Blount) are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.

Colour Me Kubrick

Colour Me Kubrick
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/10/2005
  • Character: Robert
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.

The Survivor

The Survivor
5.1/10
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in touch with the supernatural, can help the pilot unravel the mystery surrounding the doomed plane.

The Asphyx

The Asphyx
6.2/10
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
4.6/10
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.

Imperative

Imperative
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1982
  • Character: Augustin
Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically philosophical truth. Thus he philosophizes at great length, allowing director Zanussi plenty of room for didactic but little room for warmth. Leading ladies Brigette Fossey and Leslie Caron occasionally melt through the cold logic of Imperative.

The Wandering Company

The Wandering Company
8.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1984
  • Character: Narrator
Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared in their films.

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/10/1977
  • Character: Paul Rée
The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.

Secrets

Secrets
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/09/1971
  • Character: Allan Wood
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers
6.4/10
They made him a hero by branding him a coward . . . the story of a man who conquered fear.

Chunuk Bair

Chunuk Bair
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/04/1992
  • Character: Sgt. Maj. Frank Smith
The tragedy of Gallipoli is exposed

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