Jeremy Irons
2) Lolita
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Adapted from the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov. In 1947, Humbert Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to the United States to take a teaching position in New Hampshire. He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze, but Humbert Humbert carries the wound of lost love from his youth, and quickly becomes infatuated with her adolescent daughter Dolores.
3) Dead Ringers
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The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?
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The first cinematic journey through the rooms, stories and emotions of one of the most visited museums in the world. Its wealth of over 8000 art treasures is a spell-binding experience drawing almost 3 million visitors to Madrid every year. Jeremy Irons will be guiding spectators on a discovery of a heritage of beauty and art.
6) Betrayal
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Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering.
7) Moonlighting
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A group of Polish workers travel to London to provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak manages the project and the men as they encounter temptations of the West, and cope with the separation from their families.
9) Last Call
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The true story of an aspiring young writer who becomes the friend, caretaker, and confidante of literary genius F. Scott Fitzgerald when she accepts a job as his private assistant. What she discovers is a troubled man, struggling to escape private demons and emerge with one last great novel.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.
11) Dead ringers
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Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1988.
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Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It's uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle (both played by Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons) are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women - including unsuspecting Claire.
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Harper Audio
Pub. Date
cp2001
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Santiago is an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of traveling the world in search of a worldly treasure as fabulous as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers, and from there into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him.
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Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
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Takes a critical look at the history of Western thought by examining the remains of Adolf Hitler’s private library. The dictator and mass murderer owned 16,000 books at the end of his life, 1,200 of which are kept in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C today. The documentary follows American historian Timothy Ryback, who studied these books for almost a decade. While many still confine racism and antisemitism to the ideological extremes in...
14) Lolita
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Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1997.
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An iconic adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov Classic, starring Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith and Dominique Swain, LOLITA tells a disturbing tale of tortured and forbidden love. Humber Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to a small New England Town to take a teaching position, searching for lodging he visits the home of a single mother Charlotte and her 14 year old daughter Dolores (Lolita). Upon seeing Dolores, Humbert...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
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Eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt met on the bloody battlefields of the Crusades. Based on new research and scholarship about that fateful meeting, THE SULTAN AND THE SAINT tells one of the great, lost stories from history as two men of faith fought against a century of war and distrust in a search for mutual respect and common ground.
16) Birds Like Us
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
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In this family adventure starring Jeremy Irons and Alicia Vikander, a female bird and a stubborn king join a wise, blind bat on a dazzling odyssey to find the tree they call home.
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
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Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
19) Margin Call
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
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Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, MARGIN CALL is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster....
20) Lolita
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Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation....