Stephen Frears — Director (36)
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Black Christmas (1977)
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Stephen Frears actor: Norman Beaton / Carmen Munroe …
A bittersweet drama on a familiar theme - the frictions forced to the surface during a Christmas family get-together - Michael Abbensetts' Black Christmas is an understated and affecting study of relationships, unexpressed pain and a tormented nostalgia for a distant home.
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Walter (1982)
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Stephen Frears actor: Ian McKellen / Barbara Jefford …
other title: 華特
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".
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Wilder & Me (2030)
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斯蒂芬·弗雷斯 actor: 克里斯托弗·瓦尔兹 / 玛雅·霍克 …
other title: Mr. Wilder & Me / 怀尔德先生与我
Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young woman begins working for the famed director and his screenwriter Iz Diamond on a Greek island during the filming of Fedora.
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The Van (1996)
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斯蒂芬·弗雷尔斯 actor: 科尔姆·米尼科曼 / Donal O'Kelly …
other title: Fisch & Chips / La camioneta …
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
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Sammy and Rosie (1987)
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斯蒂芬·弗雷斯 actor: 弗兰西斯·巴贝 / Ayub Khan-Din
other title: 睡遍伦敦 / Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Raffi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Raffi try to find meaning through their lives and loves. Written by Martin Lewison {milst1@cislabs.pitt.edu}
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
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斯蒂芬·弗雷斯 actor: 本杰明·沃克 / 克里斯托弗·普卢默 …
other title: 拳王阿里的伟大一役 / 穆罕默德·阿里的圣战 …
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
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Hero (1992)
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★ 7.7 18 ratings
斯蒂芬·弗雷斯 actor: 达斯汀·霍夫曼 / 吉娜·戴维斯 …
other title: 无名英雄 / 小人物，大英雄 …
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.