The best Derek Jacobi’s animation movies

Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

22/10/1938 (85 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Derek Jacobi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Derek Jacobi.

The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH
7.5/10
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.

Strings

Strings
6.9/10
Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people - and where he least expects it - he finds true love.

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden
5.9/10
  • Genre: AnimationFamily
  • Release: 05/11/1994
  • Character: Archibald Craven (voice)
Animated TV-film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about a spoiled English orphan who lives in India but is transplanted to her uncle's old, mysterious house in England after her parents' deaths. After making friends with a country boy and several animals, who talk here, she discovers many secrets on the grounds, including a locked-up, neglected garden and a locked-up, sickly boy, who turns out to be her cousin.

Achilles

Achilles
6.7/10
With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

Aladdin

Aladdin
2.7/10
  • Genre: AnimationFamily
  • Release: 16/11/1992
  • Character: The Magician (voice)
A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.

Animated Epics: Beowulf

Animated Epics: Beowulf
7.1/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 01/01/1998
  • Character: Narrator ( voice )
Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuring the voice of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf. found.

The Chimes

The Chimes
A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
7/10
  • Genre: AnimationFamily
  • Release: 30/11/2002
  • Character: Mr. Operatski (voice)
It's Christmas, and Angelina Mouseling (Finty Williams) is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza, Cinderella Mouse and the Ugly Whiskers. She is devastated when Penelope Pinkpaws (Jonell Elliott) is chosen to play Cinderella and she is cast as the Wicked Stepmouse. Taking Miss Lilly's (Dame Judi Dench's) advice to "think horrid" much too literally, Angelina storms off in a fit of a temper. Then a toboggan race goes wrong and it seems that the production will have to be cancelled. Realizing how selfish she has been, Angelina determines to sort things out, because as every aspiring star knows, "The Show Must Go On".

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