John Irvin — Director (22)
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Carousella (1966)
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John Irvin actor: Katy Jordan / Tina Samuels …
25min short documentary about Soho strippers which was banned on its first release by the British Board of Censors as head scissor man at the time John Trevelyan believed it was far too positive in its portrayal of the exotic dancers and feared it would serve as a recruitment film for the stripping scene
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Widows' Peak (1994)
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约翰·欧文 actor: 米娅·法罗 / 琼·普莱怀特 …
other title: 아일랜드의 연풍 / Die Witwen von Widows Peak …
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
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Freefall (1994)
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John Irvin actor: Eric Roberts / Jeff Fahey …
other title: Freefall - Spiel mit dem Feuer / Caída libre …
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.
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Freefall (1994)
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John Irvin actor: Eric Roberts / Jeff Fahey …
other title: Freefall - Spiel mit dem Feuer / Caída libre …
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
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★ 9.0 56 ratings
约翰·欧文 / 约翰·勒卡雷 actor: 亚历克·吉尼斯 / Michael Jayston …
other title: Dame, König, As, Spion / La Taupe …
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
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Turtle Diary (1985)
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约翰·伊文 actor: 格兰达·杰克逊 / Ben Kingsley …
other title: 浪荡同心 / 海龟日记 …
Two lonely Londoners - Neaera Duncan, a children's author (Glenda Jackson), and William Snow, a bookstore assistant (Ben Kingsley) - find common ground when visiting the sea turtles at London Zoo; independently of each other, both perceive that the turtles are unnaturally confined, and they hatch a plan with the assistance of zookeeper George Fairbairn (Michael Gambon) to smuggle them out and release them into the sea, which they ultimately succeed in accomplishing. Their release of the turtles represents metaphorically their release of themselves from their own inhibitions.
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Hamburger Hill (1987)
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约翰·伊文 actor: Michael Boatman / 唐·钱德尔 …
other title: 汉堡高地 / ハンバーガー・ヒル …
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
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The Garden of Eden (2008)
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约翰·伊文 actor: Jack Huston / Mena Suvari …
other title: 伊甸园
《伊甸园》是海明威去世25年后，于1986年根据其书稿几经删改编辑而成。 大卫和凯瑟琳在地中海某旅游城镇度蜜月。大卫是个作家，出版过作品，他迫切希望再现他父亲早年在非洲原野猎象的惊险生活。但妻子凯瑟琳百般阻饶，并烧毁了大卫的全部书稿。这对年轻夫妇间突然插进了另一个年轻美貌的第三者玛丽塔。她欣赏大卫对待写作的态度，大卫对她也倾心。而凯瑟琳促成了他俩的偷情，以补偿自己的孤独和报复心理。故事结尾时，大卫终于在强烈的写作欲望，和在妻子的嫉妒之间找到了新生活，完成了他的心愿。
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A Month by the Lake (1995)
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约翰·伊文 actor: 瓦妮莎·雷德格雷夫 / 乌玛·瑟曼
other title: 科莫湖之恋 / 湖畔迷情 …
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.
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The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
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约翰·伊文 actor: Hannah Taylor-Gordon / 杰奎琳·比塞特 …
other title: 爱的艺术 / ミネハハ 秘密の森の少女たち …
A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie...