Ian Holm films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 24 films on Boxlist

Known for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Alien.

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Starring Ian Holm

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam take the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Film
8.4/10 · TMDB
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer...
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Alien
1979 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of...
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Brazil
1985 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an...
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Ratatouille
2007 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he can create and enjoy culinary masterpieces to his heart's delight. The only problem is, Remy is a rat. When he...
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Henry V
1989 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
The Aviator
2004 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe...
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The Madness of King George
1994 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual...
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The Sweet Hereafter
1997 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his...
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Chariots of Fire
1981 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his...
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Time Bandits
1981 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal...
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The Fifth Element
1997 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
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eXistenZ
1999 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Lord of War
2005 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's...
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Garden State
2004 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also...
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Robin and Marian
1976 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Naked Lunch
1991 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he...
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by...
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The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world...
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From Hell
2001 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His...
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A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding...
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Bless the Child
2000 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new...
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