The best Ian Bannen’s drama movies

Ian Bannen

Ian Bannen

29/06/1928- 03/11/1999
Today we present the best Ian Bannen’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ian Bannen’s movies.
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Braveheart

Braveheart
8.3/10
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Gandhi

Gandhi
8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 30/11/1982
  • Character: Senior Police Officer
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

Damage

Damage
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1992
  • Character: Edward Lloyd
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

The Hill

The Hill
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/06/1965
  • Character: Harris
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

Gorky Park

Gorky Park
6.7/10
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.

Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle
7.1/10
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man
6.3/10
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

Identikit

Identikit
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/05/1974
  • Character: Bill
Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in London to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself — a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison.

The Offence

The Offence
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1973
  • Character: Kenneth Baxter
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

Hope and Glory

Hope and Glory
7.3/10
Director John Boorman drew from his own childhood experiences for this coming-of-age tale about a boy growing up in and around London during World War II. For young Billy Rowan, the nightly bombings provide a frightening show, but they include opportunities to rummage through the rubble with friends in the mornings. As Billy plays, his family struggles to remain intact as they suffer through the anguish and losses of wartime.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 01/12/1970
  • Character: St. John Rivers
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.

The Lady and the Highwayman

The Lady and the Highwayman
5.5/10
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat with every swing of Hugh's savage sword.

Too Late the Hero

Too Late the Hero
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 20/05/1970
  • Character: Pvt. Jock Thornton
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.

The Voyage

The Voyage
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/03/1974
  • Character: Antonio Braggi
Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in to rekindle her lust of life. Soon, Adriana begins having dizzy spells. Cesar helps her to a specialist, and the diagnosis is not good. She has an incurable disease. For the rest of their time together, Cesar woos Adriana and eventually proposes to her on a gondola. Yet, for some reason or other, Signora De Mauro, Adriana's mother, is not pleased with the relationship and argues bitterly with Cesar.

Best

Best
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/05/2000
  • Character: Sir Matt Busby

Station Six-Sahara

Station Six-Sahara
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/01/1963
  • Character: Fletcher
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

The Fifteen Streets

The Fifteen Streets
6.9/10
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya
7.5/10
Uncle Vanya is a tragic comedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and wasted lives. Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, ho does not return his ardor.

The Big Man

The Big Man
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/08/1990
  • Character: Matt Mason
An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Lamb

Lamb
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/10/1986
  • Character: Brother Benedict
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.

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