Movies starring Bob Hoskins

Biography: 
Bob Hoskins was born on October 26th, 1942 in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was living after being evacuated as a result of the heavy bombings. Growing up Hoskins received only limited education and he left school at 15, but with a passion for language and literature instilled by his former English teacher. A regular theatre-visitor, Hoskins dreamt of starring on stage, but before h ...  show all 

The Long Good Friday (1980)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Paul Freeman | Leo Dolan | Kevin McNally | Patti Love | P.H. Moriarty | Derek Thompson | Bryan Marshall | Bob Hoskins | Helen Mirren | Ruby Head | Charles Cork | Olivier Pierre | Pierce Brosnan | Daragh O'Malley | Dave King
Directors: John Mackenzie
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Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about the closure of a lucrative new deal when bombs begin ads in the very uncomfortable seats. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in his plea, and Harold wants to know who they are. He notes that soon enough, bloody chaos and done.

Harold, ein wohlhabender Englisch Gangster, geht es um die Schließung ein lukratives "New Deal", wenn Bomben beginnen Anzeigen in sehr unbequem Plätze. Eine geheimnisvolle Syndikat versucht, auf Muskel in seiner Klage, und Harold will wissen, wer sie sind. Er stellt fest, die früh genug, und blutige Chaos erfolgt.

Balto (1995)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Bob Hoskins | Bridget Fonda | Jim Cummings | Phil Collins | Jack Angel | Danny Mann | Robbie Rist | Juliette Brewer | Sandra Dickinson | Miriam Margolyes | Lola Bates-Campbell | Donald Sinden
Directors: Simon Wells
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The half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of the name, in Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team in a 600-miles journey through the Alaskan wild for medical supplies. The film is based on a true story that inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.

A meia-lobo, meio-husky chamado Balto recebe uma chance de se tornar um herói quando um surto de difteria ameaça as crianças de Nome, no Alasca, no inverno de 1925. Ele leva um cachorro em uma equipe 600-milha viagem através do Alasca selvagem para obter suprimentos médicos. O filme é baseado em uma história verídica, que inspirou o trenó Iditarod cão raça.

Beyond the Sea (2004)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Musical
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Kate Bosworth | John Goodman | Bob Hoskins | Brenda Blethyn | Greta Scacchi | Caroline Aaron | Peter Cincotti | William Ullrich | Michael Byrne | Matt Rippy | Gary Whelan | Jake Broder | Tayfun Bademsoy | Tomas Spencer
Directors: Kevin Spacey
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Perfect entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973), the film about his life. He is unstable, thanks to the love of power, ambition, perfectionism, and the belief that he lives on borrowed time. He starts in the Bronx: a fatherless boy learning music and dance from his mother. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and "stage". He wants to be cut, but the pop star, so that aims to Copacabana, it is in the movie, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After it is balancing career, health, marriage and family life, he balances may not always sustain. For as long as conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.

Dokonalý bavič Bobby Darin (1936-1973) činí film o jeho životě. On je nestabilní, díky lásce k výkonu, ambicí, perfekcionismus, a přesvědčení, že on žije na vypůjčený čas. Ten začíná v Bronxu: jeden chlapec sirotka učení hudby a tance z jeho máma. Jeho kariéra začíná pomalu, pak "Splish Splash" staví ho na vrcholu žebříčků a na "pódium". On chce být bavič, ale popová hvězda, takže si klade za cíl Copacabana, pak je to na film, kde se setká se ožení a Sandra Dee. Poté, co je to vyrovnávací kariéry, zdraví, manželství a rodinný život, zůstatky ten nemusí vždy udržet. Po celou dobu, konverzace s jeho chlapectví samostatně mu dát perspektivu.

Michael (1996)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Andie MacDowell | William Hurt | Bob Hoskins | Robert Pastorelli | Jean Stapleton | Teri Garr | Wallace Langham | Joey Lauren Adams | Carla Gugino | Tom Hodges | Catherine Lloyd Burns | Richard Schiff | Calvin Trillin | Donald J. Lee Jr.
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters of a tabloid situated in Chicago, together with Dorothy Winters, ‘angel’s expert’, ask for to travel to the rural Iowa to investigate a claim of an old woman that she shares his house with a truthful archangel, lively called Michael. To the arrival, they see that his claims are true - but Michael is not what they waited: he smokes, drinks beer, have a libido very actively and it has a quite colorful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe that it was he not for two feathered wings that stand out of his back. Michael accepts the Chicago travels with the triad, but what they do not carry out is that the travel that they are on the point undertakes that it will modify his lives forever.

Frank Quinlan e Huey Driscoll, a dois repórteres de um tablóide situado em Chicago, junto com Dorothy Winters, ‘perito de anjo’, pedem viajar à Iowa rural para investigar uma reclamação de uma velha mulher que ela compartilha a sua casa com um arcanjo verdadeiro, vivo denominado Michael. À chegada, eles vêem que as suas reclamações são verdade - mas Michael não é o que eles esperaram: ele fuma, cerveja de bebidas, tem um libido muito ativo e tem um vocabulário bastante colorido. De fato, eles nunca acreditariam que foi ele não para duas asas emplumadas que sobressaem das suas costas. Michael aceita viajar a Chicago com a tríade, mas o que eles não realizam é que a viagem que eles estão a ponto empreende modificará as suas vidas para sempre.

Doomsday (2008)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Vernon Willemse | Paul Hyett | Daniel Read | Karl Thaning | Stephen Hughes | Jason Cope | Ryan Kruger | Nathan Wheatley | Cecil Carter | Jeremy Crutchley | Tom Fairfoot | Az Abrahams | Bob Hoskins | Alexander Siddig | David O'Hara
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Great Britain, 2007. A mortal plague, known like “the Harvester’s Virus,” has exploded, killing hundreds of thousands in his stela. In the desperation, the British Government evacuates so many survivors since this can of the infected area, and then he constructs a wall, preventing to the rest from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still and the victims all except forgotten, the virus explodes again. The Government decides to send a team of the first of workers led by Commander Eden Sinclair, in the warm area to investigate the possibility of a remedy.

Gran Bretaña, 2007. Una plaga mortal, conocida como “el Virus de Segador,” ha estallado, matando cientos de miles en su estela. En la desesperación, el Gobierno británico evacua a tantos sobrevivientes como esto puede del área infectada, y luego construye una pared, impidiendo al resto escaparse. Treinta años más tarde, con la pared todavía y las víctimas todos excepto olvidado, el virus estalla otra vez. El Gobierno decide enviar un equipo de primera de obreros, conducidos por el Comandante Eden Sinclair, en la zona caliente para investigar la posibilidad de una cura.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Jonathan Pryce | Robert De Niro | Katherine Helmond | Ian Holm | Bob Hoskins | Michael Palin | Ian Richardson | Peter Vaughan | Kim Greist | Jim Broadbent | Barbara Hicks | Charles McKeown | Derrick O'Connor | Kathryn Pogson | Bryan Pringle
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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Sam Lowry is a technocrat harassed in a futuristic society which is convoluted unnecessarily and badly organised. He dreams about a life where he can fly off of technology and bureaucracy of suppression and cross the eternity with the wife of his dreams. By trying to rectify the unjustified arrest of Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman whom he always hunts in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, bureaucracy touched him responsible for redness of bombings of the terrorists and both Sam and Jill’s lives are endangered.

Sam Lowry est un technocrate harcelé dans une société futuriste qui est alambiquée inutilement et mal organisée. Il rêve d’une vie où il peut s’envoler de la technologie et de la bureaucratie de répression et passer l’éternité avec la femme de ses rêves. En essayant de rectifier l’arrestation injustifiée d’un Harry Buttle, Lowry rencontre la femme qu’il pourchasse toujours dans ses rêves, Jill Layton. Pendant ce temps, la bureaucratie l’a touché responsable de rougeurs de bombardements des terroristes et tant Sam que les vies de Jill sont mis en danger.

The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Alba | Brenda Blethyn | Hugh Dancy | Bob Hoskins | Christopher Ling Lee Ian | Junix Inocian | Michael Jessing Langgi | Mano Maniam | K.K. Moggie | Emily Mortimer | Cicilia Anak Richard | Malcolm Rogers | Eugene Salleh | Noah Taylor | Kate Helen White
Directors: Guy Jenkin
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In 1936, young and naive British expatriated (Hugh Dancy) John Truscott just awarded a diploma arrives at Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the society Iban. They indicate that nice Selima (Jessica Alba) is its “still dictionary”, lives and sleeps with him and teaches him the language and the habits of people of the country. Reticent John and Selima fall in love to the one for other one in a defended novel.

En 1936, John Truscott britannique juste diplômé jeune et naïf expatriated (Hugh Dancy) arrive au Sarawak, une colonie britannique, pour travailler dans la société Iban. On désigne que le beau Selima (Jessica Alba) soit son “dictionnaire dormant”, vive et dorme avec lui et lui enseigne la langue et les habitudes des gens du pays. John réticent et Selima tombent amoureux l’un pour l’autre dans un roman défendu.