Nicholas Renton — Director (12)

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Bait (2002)
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other title: 誘餌 / 诱饵
When Jack Blake picks up a woman and her daughter stranded when their car breaks down, he is struck by the daughter's resemblance to his own murdered child. Jack sees an opportunity to unwittingly involve both women in a scheme which he hopes will unmask his daughter's killer. Written

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刘易斯探案:黑暗降临 (2010)
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other title: Lewis: Falling Darkness
One Halloween, Ligiea Willard, stem-cell researcher and ex-roommate of Laura Hobson, is killed on her way to a reunion with Laura and another old friend named Ellen Jacoby. Her work attracted protests, and she was about to go public on shady practices at her institute. Psychic Ursula Van Tressell senses the killing and exorcises a house where the three women once lived at its owners' request. The next day, a resident is found slain, and a message on the fridge urges to find Mary Gwilliam, who was also murdered after trying to phone Laura. Mary was a nurse at a mental hospital where another of Laura's roommates--and boyfriend--died. After an unsuccessful attempt to kill Ellen, Lewis, her boyfriend, realizes that Laura has not been honest with him.

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Lewis: Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things (2011)
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other title: 刘易斯探案:遥远的不聿
At a reunion at all female college Lady Matilda's,Poppy Toynton,bossy housemate of principal Diana Ellerby,is murdered.Years earlier Lewis had visited the same college when fifteen-year old Chloe Brooks,visiting her student sister Ruth,had been attacked,supposably by Ruth's American boyfriend Jud Havelock,who disappeared. Chloe went into a coma from which she has only recently recovered but has little recall of that night's events. Lewis visits Ali McLennan,a retired colleague who worked on the Havelock case but she has no leads for him. Then she too is murdered and Lewis discovers that she was blackmailing Poppy for killing Jud. Poppy was also responsible for a hate campaign against several of her former student contemporaries,whose lives suffered as a result.

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Lewis: Fearful Symmetry (2012)
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other title: 刘易斯探案:恐怖的对称
Nick and Honey Addams return home to find their baby-sitter, Jess Lake, murdered. She was tied to a bed and indeed often posed for bondage and fetish shots for photographer Marion Hammond. She also worked in a university lab with her boyfriend Gideon's father Dr. Massey, who is divorced from his unfeeling wife Stanza. Honey admits that Nick does not have an alibi but he seems to have no link to the next victim, Jess's house mate Silas, whose corpse is also arranged in the style of one of Marion's photos. Lewis finds himself tracking a killer who is a seemingly respectable citizen but who has a split personality rendering them an obsessive.

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Lewis: Entry Wounds (2014)
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尼古拉斯·雷顿 actor: 凯文·沃特利 / 劳伦斯·福克斯 …
other title: 刘易斯探案:入口伤
Faced with a crime that bridges the worlds of neurosurgery, blood sports and animal rights, Hathaway works his first case as DI with the help of his new partner, DS Lizzie Maddox. Lewis, struggling to adapt to retired life, jumps at the chance to rejoin the force when Chief Superintendent Innocent seeks his help.

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The Entertainer (1993)
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Nicholas Renton actor: 迈克尔·刚本 / George Beach …
other title: 艺人
Osborne's portrait of a family on the brink of total breakdown. Set in English coastal resort during the 1950s. Archie Fry, a music-hall comedian, tries to escape life's misery through petty schemes and drinking, while his wife whiles away hours at the cinema.

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Far From The Madding Crowd (1998)
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尼古拉斯·雷顿 actor: 帕洛玛·巴尔扎 / 尼吉尔·特瑞 …
other title: 远离尘嚣 / 疯狂佳人(台) …
This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her impulsive nature pushes her into a web of deceit and destruction.

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When Harvey Met Bob (2010)
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Nicholas Renton actor: Antonia Campbell-Hughes / 莱斯莉·安·华伦 …
other title: 當哈維遇見鮑勃 / 하비와 밥이 만났을 때
In October 1984 rock musician Bob Geldof is appalled by the misery of starving Ethiopians as seen on television and persuades his pop musician friends to record the million selling charity single 'Do They Know it's Christmas?' Bob goes to Ethiopia and,horrified at the scale of the famine,plans a global rock concert to be staged simultaneously in England and America the next summer. He brings in hard-headed rock promoter Harvey Goldstein,who provides a realistic anchor to Bob's idealistic wish list of performers and preparations are fraught with arguments,Bob especially disappointed not to secure Bruce Springsteen,in anticipation of whose services he postponed the event. After addressing his old school,where he was less than academically bright but hopes to inspire the students,and with five days before the big event Bob gets involved with the complicated matter of financial logistics and organizing international broadcasts but gets Prince Charles and Princess Diana to attend simply by asking them. Finally the day of the concerts arrives and,as Paul McCartney sings 'Let it Be',Harvey and Bob know that they have triumphed. The show over,the two men sit alone to reflect on matters.

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Marple: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2009)
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★ 6.3 9 ratings
尼古拉斯·雷顿 actor: 朱莉亚·麦肯齐 / 肖恩·比格斯代夫 …
other title: 悬崖上的谋杀 / 他们为什么不问埃文斯
While visiting her friend Marjorie Attfield, Miss Marple learns that her son Bobby had recently found a body, identified as a Mr. Pritchard, on the cliff side. He's received a letter asking him to appear at the enquiry but it seems to be a wild goose chase meant to keep him away from the real enquiry taking place elsewhere. Now accompanied by a friend, Frankie Derwent, they trace the dead man to nearby Castle Savage, home to a dysfunctional family with great deal of money. The family patriarch, Jack Savage, had died not long ago and the dead man had some connection to the Savages. But what is the key to solving the mystery of Pritchard's last words to Bobby as he lay dying: "Why didn't they ask Evans?".

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A Room with a View (2007)
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★ 5.2 5 ratings
other title: 景观房 / 看得见风景的房间
一位出身英国书香之家的大家闺秀在佛罗伦斯旅行时,遇到英国青年乔治,乔治对她的倾慕令她禁不住心动,当露西和乔治在英国重逢后,露西的真情一发不可收拾,最后她冲破传统束缚,选择了跟她相爱的乔治作大丈夫 。

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Little White Lie (2008)
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★ 9.3 6 ratings
other title: 小小的善意谎言
电影讲述了一个失意沮丧的演员寻求爱情的故事。这个不得志的演员Barry被志向高远的前女友抛弃,影片从他结识了新女友Annie开始。然而,Barry却无意中隐瞒了自己的真实职业,撒谎说自己是一个精神科医师。

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Uncle Adolf (2005)
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★ 6.0 5 ratings
other title: 阿道夫舅舅 / Die Nichte – Hitlers verbotene Liebe …
A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive relationship with his niece Geli Raubal, which eventually led to the girl's suicide, then goes on to tell the story of how Eva Braun became his wife.