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Frank Finlay has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Pianist.
Recurring themes

Black Rain
1989
Drama · Action

The Five Venoms
1978
Action · Drama

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
1984
Action · Drama

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
1974
Action · Drama

Batman Begins
2005
Drama · Crime

The Eiger Sanction
1975
Action · Adventure

Zatoichi
2003
Adventure · Drama

Ned Kelly
2003
Action · Adventure

The Pianist
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

The Wild Geese
1978 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

The Three Musketeers
1973 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Lifeforce
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Prime Video · Included

The Four Musketeers
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 45%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Murder by Decree
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 66%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Roger Moore

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Dir. Tobe Hooper · With Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Dir. Ken Hughes · With Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have their roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.
Dir. Bob Clark · With Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings
In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.
Dir. Tinto Brass · With Stefania Sandrelli, Frank Finlay, Franco Branciaroli
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