The best Simon Callow’s movies

Simon Callow

Simon Callow

13/06/1949 (74 años)
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, writer, theatre and opera director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon Callow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Notting Hill

Notting Hill
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 13/05/1999
  • Character: Himself in Film within Film (uncredited)
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.

Street Fighter

Street Fighter
4/10
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

Amadeus

Amadeus
8.4/10
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
6.4/10
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera
7.2/10
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral
7.1/10
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Howards End

Howards End
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/03/1992
  • Character: Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach
6.7/10
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love
7.1/10
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.

Arn: The Knight Templar

Arn: The Knight Templar
6.6/10
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

A Room with a View

A Room with a View
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/12/1985
  • Character: The Reverend Mr. Beebe
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

No Man's Land

No Man's Land
7.9/10
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?

The Man Who Invented Christmas

The Man Who Invented Christmas
7/10
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Mindhorn

Mindhorn
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/10/2016
  • Character: Himself
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.

Thunderpants

Thunderpants
3.8/10
An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.

Maurice

Maurice
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/08/1987
  • Character: Mr. Ducie
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

The Best Man

The Best Man
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/07/2005
  • Character: Big-Time Publisher
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior to the nuptials, Olly is drawn to a woman whom he thinks is the bride's sister -- only she turns out to be the bride, Sarah. Can Murray, who dislikes James, help get Sarah and Olly together?

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 14/09/2017
  • Character: Mr. Puccini
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Viceroy's House

Viceroy's House
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 03/03/2017
  • Character: Cyril Radcliffe
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.

Postcards From the Edge

Postcards From the Edge
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/09/1990
  • Character: Simon Asquith
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

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