Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

October 22, 1938 · 87 years old

Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. Jacobi is known for his work at the Royal National Theatre and for his film and television roles. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild…

Known For

42 titles
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Gladiator

Gladiator

2000 · 2h 35m · Movie

A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

8.5
2
Gladiator II

Gladiator II

2024 · 2h 28m · Movie

After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.

6.5
3
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

2017 · 1h 54m · Movie

When a murder occurs aboard the train on which he's travelling, celebrated Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

6.4
4
Cinderella

Cinderella

2015 · 1h 45m · Movie

When her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her scheming stepsisters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.

6.8
5
The King's Speech

The King's Speech

2010 · 1h 58m · Movie

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

8.0
6
Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider

2018 · 1h 59m · Movie

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft disappeared.

5.9
7
Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution

2006 · 1h 46m · Movie

Picking up directly from the previous movie, vampire warrior Selene and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them.

6.7
8
Tolkien

Tolkien

2019 · 1h 52m · Movie

Tolkien's novels were inspired by his mom's storytelling, falling in love with another orphan, Edith, forming a brotherhood with 3 other misfits at school, the trench war of WWI and later telling stories to his own kids.

6.6
9
My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

2011 · 1h 39m · Movie

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

6.9
10
The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH

1982 · 1h 22m · Movie

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.

7.5
11
Ironclad

Ironclad

2011 · 2h 1m · Movie

In thirteenth-century England, a Knights Templar and a few of the Barons men fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.

6.1
12
Hamlet

Hamlet

1996 · 4h 2m · Movie

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

7.7
13
Henry V

Henry V

1989 · 2h 17m · Movie

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

7.5
14
Dead Again

Dead Again

1991 · 1h 47m · Movie

A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.

6.8
15
Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco

2014 · 1h 43m · Movie

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early ...

5.7
16
The Odessa File

The Odessa File

1974 · 2h 10m · Movie

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.

7.0
17
The Body

The Body

2001 · 1h 49m · Movie

A crucified body dated back to the first century A.D is uncovered at an ancient cave in Jerusalem. Trouble ensues as word spreads.

5.3
18
Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard

1996 · 1h 51m · Movie

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."

7.3
19
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

1978 · 1h 49m · Movie

A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.

6.9
20
The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm

2002 · 1h 36m · Movie

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

7.4
21
Effie Gray

Effie Gray

2014 · 1h 44m · Movie

A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning), and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).

6.0
22
Come Away

Come Away

2020 · 1h 34m · Movie

When their eldest brother dies, Peter and Alice seek to save their parents from despair until they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.

5.3
23
Stratton

Stratton

2017 · 1h 35m · Movie

John Stratton, a British SBS operative, goes on a mission to hunt down a former Soviet associate who has gone rogue and is planning to deploy dangerous biochemical weapons.

4.8
24
There Be Dragons

There Be Dragons

2011 · 2h 2m · Movie

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.

5.7
25
Strings

Strings

2004 · 1h 31m · Movie

A Prince leaves his city and sets off to avenge his father, not aware his father wasn't murdered, and in reality, committed suicide, and soon learns the truth about his people from a warrior woman.

6.9
26
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998 · 1h 27m · Movie

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

6.5
27
Endgame

Endgame

2009 · 1h 49m · Movie

A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

6.2
28
Basil

Basil

1998 · 1h 53m · Movie

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England stuggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.

5.9
29
The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man

1988 · 1h 40m · Movie

Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this is a story of a French advocate Chavel (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who, while imprisoned by the Germans during the occupation, trades his material possessions to another prisoner in exchange fo...

6.9
30
Allelujah

Allelujah

2023 · 1h 39m · Movie

The story of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure.

6.0
31
Enigma

Enigma

1982 · 1h 41m · Movie

A C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.

5.9
32
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

1979 · 1h 55m · Movie

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

6.1
33
The History of Love

The History of Love

2016 · 2h 14m · Movie

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

6.3
34
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982 · 1h 42m · Movie

Disfigured man Quasimodo (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is feared and tormented by the townspeople of Notre Dame, but he has a sensitive nature of which few are aware.

6.3
35
A Bunch of Amateurs

A Bunch of Amateurs

2008 · 1h 36m · Movie

A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.

6.0
36
The Host

The Host

2020 · 1h 42m · Movie

Robert and Vera try to do what's best for the people they love and those they protect. But as the characters struggle to suppress their inner demons, a course of destruction emanates from hidden secrets that can never be escaped.

4.9