Mike Figgis
Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1948
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 20 (Director), 12 (Writer)
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Escaping from the hustle-and-bustle of city life, the Tilsons (Quaid, Stone) pack up their kids and all of their possessions and move into a recently repossessed mansion in the sticks of New York State. All's well until a series of terrifying incidents at the house lead the Tilsons to wonder who used to live in their new home -- and to discover what dark secrets are hidden inside. (Touchstone Pictures)
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While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess Of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleasy documentary primadonna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the call girl and the Hollywood producer all managing to become part of the madness... (imdb)
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Because his wife left him and took his son with her, screenwriter Ben Anderson has started drinking, a lot. He's getting more and more isolated and he troubles women in bars because he wants to have sex with them. When he gets fired, he decides to leave everything behind and move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. In Las Vegas he meets Sera, a prostitute with some problems as well who he moves in with. (imdb)
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Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex strictures of class bind a man and a woman. Miss Julie, the inexperienced but imperious daughter of the manor, deigns to dance at the servant's party. She's also drawn to Jean, a footman who has traveled, speaks well, and doesn't kowtow. He is engaged to Christine, a servant, and while she sleeps, Jean and Miss Julie talk through the night in the kitchen... (imdb)
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L.A., real time. From her limo, the wealthy Lauren eavesdrops on her lover Rose's tryst with movie producer Alex Green. The assignation takes place in his company's screening room between meetings. Alex's wife walks from therapy to his office, tells him she's leaving him, weeps in a bookstore restroom, and walks home with a cocaine-sniffing actress friend for what may lead to sex... (imdb)
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Confused, non-linear film tells the sexual story of a film director from his life at age 5, age 12, age 16... (imdb)
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Brendan takes a job as janitor for Finney, who runs a jazz nightclub in the Northern English city of Newcastle... (imdb)
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Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. (imdb)
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Los-Angeles commercials director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with AIDS in New York... (imdb)
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Two affairs, a generation apart. Nick, a professor of architecture in upstate New York, comes to an Illinois town to be with his birth mother in the final days of her illness; he was adopted and has never known her. (imdb)
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Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect. (imdb)
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19 filmmakers from ten european countries selected by Mike Figgis for a Masterclass by the European Film Academy come to Slovenia in a challenging mission: to conceive, shoot, complete a 90m feature film in seven days and screen it on the day after in a cinema for the public. (imdb)
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A man gets himself in trouble, then a doctor discovers he suffers from manic-depressive illness and tries to help him. But the man, Mr. Jones, refuses to give up on his freedom and lifestyle.
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A British car racer meets a suicidal woman while in Istanbul for the Gumball Rally. (imdb)
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A world renowned academic becomes deeply implicated in the death of Angelique, a mysterious and beautiful young French woman, as the lines between reality and fiction blur... Martin is a talented screenwriter and novelist going through a difficult patch in his career. Yet after the death of Angelique and the arrival of her twin sister, Martin finds himself torn between the similarities in this mystery to the disappearance of his wife 15 years ago. (IKSV)
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In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike. The dispute lasted for over a year and was the most bitterly fought since the general strike of 1926, marking a turning point in the struggle between the government and the trade union movement.
On 18 June of that year, the Orgreave coking plant was the site of one of the strike's most violent confrontations. It began in a field near the plant and culminated in a cavalry charge through the village of Orgreave. (artangel.org.uk)
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The House (1984) - TV Movie
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Years Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
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Mike Figgis's enthralling documentary about the turbulent life and career of Ronnie Wood, legendary rock guitarist and long-time member of The Rolling Stones. (imdb)
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