Movies starring Alan Bates

A Kind of Loving (1962)

112 mins     Drama      

"A Kind of Loving" starts with a wedding and it is a scene which made me smile as it made me think back to when I use to go to weddings and the people who were there and they would behave. There is the wedding photographer bu...

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

168 mins     Drama, Romance      

Far from the Madding Crowd - director John Schlesinger's taken on Thomas Hardy's classic novel about Bathsheba Everdene and the three men who love her...

The Go-Between (1971)

111 mins     Drama, Romance      

The Go-Between (1971) - Julie Christie & Alan Bates star in this period drama about a lady, a farmer and the boy who acts as postman to their love letters...

Hamlet (1990)

135 mins     Drama      

Hamlet: Franco Zeffirelli directes Mel Gibson in this adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet...

Gosford Park (2001)

137 mins     Drama, Mystery      

As a rule I try to avoid these types of movies as I am not a fan of this sort of period drama where you have the well to do sitting around talking posh and acting pretentious. But then "Gosford Park" not only features a ridic...

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

119 mins     Drama, Horror, Mystery      

If I was to draw a line graph to highlight how effective "The Mothman Prophecies" was it would start off a bit wobbly around the middle, shoot up as we have the first moment of intrigue and drama but then slowly drop to the p...

Salem Witch Trials (2002)

191 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Most people have heard of the "Salem Witch Trials" but I am sure just as many are like me who having heard of them don't really know much about them. It is because of that when I stumbled across "Salem Witch Trials" a lengthy...