Defence of the Realm / Defense of the Realm (1985)
Thriller
After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Danny Webb, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay
Director: David Drury
Trading Places (1983)
Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: John Landis
Percy's Progress / It's Not the Size That Counts (1974)
Comedy
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the city's water that makes men impotent.
Starring: Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Judy Geeson, Harry H. Corbett, Vincent Price
Director: Ralph Thomas
Robin and Marian (1976)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Starring: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Nicol Williamson, Denholm Elliott
Director: Richard Lester
Noises Off… (1992)
Comedy
A travelling theater group find so much action going on behind-the-scenes, they almost ruin the performances.
Starring: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mark Linn-Baker
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
The Vault of Horror / Further Tales from the Crypt / Tales from the Crypt, Part II (1973)
Fantasy | Horror
Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
Starring: Dawn Addams, Tom Baker, Michael Craig, Denholm Elliott, Glynis Johns, Curd Jürgens
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Watership Down (1978)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Roy Kinnear, Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Martin Rosen
A Room with a View (1985)
Drama | Romance
Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, Lucy Honeychurch must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil. A brilliant adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel.
Starring: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench
Director: James Ivory
The Wicked Lady (1983)
Adventure | Drama
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Glynis Barber, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales
Director: Michael Winner
The Razor's Edge (1984)
Drama | Romance | War
Bill Murray makes an unforgettable dramatic debut as Larry Darrell, the free-spirited seeker, in this gripping adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel. When Larry returns from World War I disillusioned with Jazz Age values, he undertakes a quest which leads him to reject his rich fiancée (Catherine Hicks) and his superficial lifestyle to go search for truth in the Himalayas. But Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as difficult as treading "the sharp edge of a razor" and returns to civilization, where he tastes life's dark side when he tries to save a hometown girl turned prostitute (Theresa Russell). The provocative story and Murray's brilliant acting make The Razor's Edge an extraordinary film that cuts a clear path to the heart.
Starring: Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach, Peter Vaughan
Director: John Byrum
The Whoopee Boys (1986)
Comedy | Romance
Two dim-witted street peddlers, Jack and Barney, arrive in Palm Beach, Florida, looking for a better, wealthier lifestyle. In Palm Beach, Jack falls for Olivia, a young heiress running an orphaned children's shelter being threatened with foreclosure. Jack, at Barney's insistence, enrolls them both at a finishing school so they can learn the etiquette of the upper class in order to fit in with the hope that Olivia's uncle will approve of Jack wanting to marry her and help her obtain an inheritance to save the orphanage.
Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, Denholm Elliott, Carole Shelley, Andy Bumatai, Eddie Deezen, Marsha Warfield
Director: John Byrum
King Rat (1965)
Drama | War
Set in a WWII Japanese POW camp, this adaptation of the James Clavell novel is about an American corporal who operates a number of lucrative rackets within the camp's confines. Chief among these is the sale of rats to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meager food rations.
Starring: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, James Donald, Todd Armstrong, John Mills
Director: Bryan Forbes
Bad Timing (1980)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.
Starring: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie, William Hootkins
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Camille (1984)
Drama | Romance
Camille, a popular Parisian courtesan, is wooed by innocent young Armand. She is willing to give up her libertine lifestyle for Armand, but is gently convinced by the boy's father that such a union would be impossible.
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Colin Firth, John Gielgud, Billie Whitelaw, Denholm Elliott, Ben Kingsley, Patrick Ryecart
Director: Desmond Davis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade / Indiana Jones 3 (1989)
Action | Adventure
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery) suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix
Director: Steven Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones (1981)
Action | Adventure
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, agents of Hitler are also after the Ark. Indy and his ex-flame Marion escape from various close scrapes in a quest that takes them from Nepal to Cairo.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina
Director: Steven Spielberg
