Lauren Bacall

Date of Birth: 16 Sep 1924
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 71 (Actor)
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A metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Like many fairy tales, Birth is part romance, part mystery, and part family drama - woven into a magical whole about love, mortality and the unknown.
As three generations of the Agensky family attempt to track down a set of long-lost diamonds, they must navigate through a maze of intrigue and indiscretion that ultimately leads them to find one another's love. (Miramax Films)
The beautiful fugitive Grace arrives in the isolated Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them.
An amazing new animated adventure that celebrates the power of love to transform and the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of adversity. (Disney)
Manderlay is a plantation where a group of people are living as if slavery hadn't been abolished 70 years earlier. Upon leaving Dogville in 1933, Grace and her father head far south to the state of Alabama where they arrive upon the bizarre place.
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love (imdb)
Rose and Gregory, both Columbia University professors meet when Rose's sister answers Gregory's "personals" ad... (imdb)
Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, become reluctant allies when they become the target of a conspirator in President Haney's administration (imdb)
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors... (imdb)
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire... (imdb)
A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other. (imdb)
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. (imdb)
Mitch Wayne and Kyle Hadley, the playboy son of an oil tycoon, have been best friends since childhood... (imdb)
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence... (imdb)
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. (imdb)
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity. (imdb)
A young woman is hired to serve as governess for two children in a stately mansion, and begins to suspect that the house holds a dark, ghostly secret.
Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments. The rumors are magnified by his tendency to collect negative charges and give shocks to anyone he touches. In his adventures he befriends an old man who is a shut-in and helps him rediscover the world. (imdb)
This is a comprehensive portrait that covers Huston's entire life, features anecdotes from himself, his family, and his friends, and gives insight into his personality. (IMDB Comments)
In northwestern India soon after the turn of the 20th Century, Moslem rebels seek to kill a six-year-old Hindu prince to end his family line. Captain Scott of the British Army is ordered to get the prince out of the region safely. Adventure ensues as Scott sneaks the child away, through Moslem-held territory, by train. Also on board are the boy's American governess, an arms merchant, a cynical reporter, and two upper class Britons. (imdb)
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot. (imdb)
Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence... (imdb)
Paul Newman IS Harper, a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby (Lauren Bacall) hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring. (imdb)
An escort (Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case. (imdb)
On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other and exes and angry mobsters get in the way of their happily ever after though. Written by Tom Zoerner {Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de}
At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head, Dr. Stewart McIver, thinks that it would be good therapy for his patients to design and make new drapes for the library. Mrs. Karen McIver, who is neglected by her hardworking husband (and a bit unbalanced herself), wants to make her mark on the clinic, so she orders new drapes... (imdb)
Documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's Dogville. Combines interviews with footage shot on location in winter-covered Sweden. From 'boxes of truth' (specially made like Catholic confessionals), all actors and Von Trier talked, cried, laughed, sung and confessed directly to the camera during shooting. Also contains deleted scenes from the feature film. The footage covers everything from idea to premiere. (imdb)
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, is "shanghaied" into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. (imdb)
Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King (2008) - Direct-to-Video
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by the Goblin King in order to stop a mortal named The Amazing Krudsky who wants power and is a threat to their pals, Fred, Velma and Daphne. (imbd)
Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. To the exclusion of anything else in life, Rick becomes a star trumpeter, but his volatile personality and desire to play jazz rather than the restricted tunes of the bands he works for lands him in trouble. (imdb)
A record salesman is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her. (imdb)
Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of course, a romantic entanglement ensues. (imdb)
In 1894, Brant Royle shocks the aristocratic tobacco growers of Kingsmont by planning to mass-produce cigarettes. (imdb)
The chairman of a large automobile maker is left to find a new second in command and narrows it to three equally qualified candidates. To make his decision, he decides to examine each of the men's wives and learn something about the candidate through their relationships. (variety.com)
During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side. Support comes from an unlikely if attractive quarter. (imdb)
Generally considered to be one of Altman's more underrated movies, HealtH takes a satirical look behind the scenes at a health-food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president. The election is rife with backroom deals and scandal. (Wikipedia.org)
Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts. (imdb)
The film follows a French author who fled to Mexico for a quiet life and an actress who is willing to seduce him to get a part in a film adapted from one of his books.
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus.
Two New York City children launch a scheme to get what they most want for Christmas... their parents back together!
Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997) - TV Movie
This British-produced documentary offers an insightful portrait of American filmmaker Howard Hawks, whose remarkable five decade long career encompassed some of Hollywood's best loved movies. Hawks' personal and professional life is recalled by such friends and co-workers as Todd McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Peter Bogdanovich, Angie Dickinson, William Friedkin and Walter Hill. It is also chronicled via archival interviews and clips from his best known films. (Sandra Brennan, Rovi)
New York at the Movies (2002) - TV Movie
This documentary is essentially a paean to New York City rather than an attempt at a comprehensive overview of films based there, and is restricted to a rather limited grouping of movies and performers who appear repeatedly, thereby neglecting a raft of major works from both the silent era and modern cinema, resulting in a curiously inbred feeling amid the Gothamite encomia.
Eve (2008) - Short Film
Funny short movie from director Natalie Portman. Story about granddaughter and her grandma. Funy short movie from director Natalie Portman. Story about
This is the story of the friendship between Ernest, a big bear who wants to become an artist and Celestine, a little mouse who doesn't want to become a dentist. (quinzaine-realisateurs.com)
A teenager wanders into Carmel, California, where he is soon introduced to the art-forgery community. (imdb)
Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangelo, known as "The Angel". Will they solve the mystery in time? (imdb)
Amália Traïda (2004) - Short Film
Ironic take on soap opera presenting, in word and song, the life of Portuguese fado singer, Amália Rodrigues. (imdb)
The Empire State Building Murders (2008) - TV Movie
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre. (imdb)
Doris Duke, the famous real-life billionairess, is seen going over her life as she prepares to die. Her life includes the early death of her loving father, being raised by a cold mother, two marriages and numerous affairs that still leave her hungry for love, a fascination with mystics and reincarnation, and a disastrous adoption late in life. At the end her butler is suspected of arranging her death so he can get all her money.
Dinner at Eight (1989) - TV Movie
Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband. (imdb)
A documentary of director Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995. (imdb)
Mia and Roman (1968) - Short Film
Mia and Roman is a 1968 23-minute documentary film which was shot during the making of Rosemary's Baby. The title refers to Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski. (en.wikipedia.org)
Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993) - TV Movie
Katharine Hepburn talks about her life from the start, through all her film years, her relationship with Spencer Tracy, and what she does with her time currently. (imdb)
Perfect Gentlemen (1978) - TV Movie
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a bank, posing as male bank-robbers. (imdb)
Embracing Chaos: Making the African Queen (2010) - Direct-to-Video
The story of how a number of improbable circumstances combined with some exceptionally creative people to bring about the unlikely critical and commercial success of The African Queen.
Using the tapes, animation, and new on-camera interviews with people who knew him, the film explores the impact of Capote's explosive unfinished novel "Answered Prayers."
A black comedy about an old rogue named Wally, who breaks all the rules to fulfill an old friends dying wish to be buried at sea. (imdb)
Explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.
Breakdowns of 1949 (1949) - Short Film
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.
Explores the iconic actor's journey to stardom through his relationships with his mother and four wives, including Lauren Bacall, using rare footage and his own narration to offer an intimate portrait of a deserving star.