97 Joss Ackland Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

The Three Musketeers is an action adventure film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.  The film tells the story of a young man from the countryside, who comes to Paris, after learning swordsmanship from his father. He soon faces several adventures along with his Musketeer friends.

At the height of the Cold War, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius, commanding the latest nearly undetectable nuclear missile submarine Red October, defies orders and sets course for America's east coast. After its presence is briefly detected, Jack Ryan, CIA analyst and former Marine, is given three days to confirm his theory that Ramius plans to defect.

Richard Forbush, a young London biologist, is more interested in girls than science. When assigned to study penguins’ colony in Antarctica, he reluctantly agrees only impress his latest fascination, Tara St. John Luke, a biology student. However, while studying the penguins, he truly becomes interested and tries for their betterment. When it is time to return, Forbush is a completely changed person. 

Landfall is a war drama film which tells the story of a British barmaid Mona who decides to help her fiance who is a pilot. Her fiance is accused of sinking a British submarine, which he had mistaken for a German one. Mona decides to investigate and find out what really happened. It is eventually revealed that it was a German submarine that had torpedoed the British submarine, and had taken its place, and it was the same submarine that Rick had sunk.

Soon after LAPD officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh find one million dollars’ worth of South African Krugerrands, they are taken off the case and reassigned to protect a witness Leo Getz. However, the two cases have a connection with a gang of South African drug dealers including a high profile personality who enjoys diplomatic immunity.

In the 1970s London, gangster Vic Daikin is violent, brutal and mother-obsessed. He moves from his usual protection/extortion rackets and plans an ambitious robbery of a factory payroll. He goes ahead to blackmail a Member of Parliament. However, Scotland Yard Police Inspector Bob Matthews is after him and may eventually bring about Daikin’s downfall.

The kingdom is thrown into chaos after King Henry VIII of England passes away, since his successor Edward VI is not only under-age but also in poor health. In order to keep order maintained in the Kingdom, a cunning minister named John Dudley marries off his son Guilford to Lady Jane Grey, and places her on the throne, after Edward’s death. Although initially hostile towards one another, Guilford and Jane eventually begin to fall in love.

A descendant of Sherlock Holmes’s arch-nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, sets a plan in motion to take control of the world in five days. The present-day Arthur Sherlock Holmes and the severely bumbling fool, Dr. Watson, decide to take Moriarty down. As they struggle to make sense of things Moriarty keeps killing everyone around them. 

Flawless is a heist crime drama film which tells the story of an elderly janitor in the 1960s, who tries to convince a frustrated executive to help him steal a handful of precious diamonds from the London Diamond Corporation, the company they work for.

England Made Me is a drama film which tells the story of Anthony Farrant, a naïve businessman, who pays a visit to Germany while on his way from a business trip. He meets a financier Erich Krogh, who, unlike him, is greedy, opportunistic and corrupt.

Captain Vostrikov is commander of K-19, Soviet Union’s first ballistic missile nuclear submarine. Out in its maiden voyage, K-19 surfaces in the Arctic as per schedule and successfully launches a test missile. Then a disaster takes place, which may lead to the death of all abroad and cause a nuclear explosion. Will Vostrikov still abide by the order? 

David Webb is a mild-mannered British planning engineer, who is being sent across the Atlantic by his firm to negotiate a deal. But due to his lack of confidence, he feels that the task is out of his depth. However, with the help of a friendly barman, things change over a short period of time.

Financial genius, Doc Fletcher, is sent to Lugano to obtain a bank so that his mobster boss can easily launder black money. But the bank turns out to have only a few hundred dollars in assets. When a chance to invest in an Iranian silver mine opens up, Fletcher sees an opportunity to turn bad luck into fortune. 

After being pulled over for drunk driving, attorney Gordon Bombay, is sentenced to community service, which involves being a coach for a very weak hockey team. 

Dorey Walker, who is Cole’s Department Store’s special events director, decides to fire Tony Falacchi from being their Santa Claus after he gets drunk before taking part in the Thanksgiving Parade. He soon spots an elderly man whom he thinks will be a perfect Santa.

Surviving Picasso is a biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Francoise Gilot, who was the only lover in the life of reputed artist Pablo Picasso. The film revolves around their abusive relationship, and how she used to withstand his cruel nature.

This sci-fi comedy film is about a tyrant from the future who creates android doubles of Bill and Ted, and sends them back in time to eliminate the originals. 

After being released from prison, an American is hired in a London bank as an electrician. However, his former acquaintances show up and force him to take part in their well-planned heist, being their inside-man.

Stella is the wife of psychiatrist Max Raphael who is the superintendent of an asylum located on the outskirts of London. Stella is ignored by Max, and therefore, she feels bored of her life and her marriage. Her life takes a turn when she gets acquainted with a psychotic patient of her husband named Edgar, who had killed his wife out of jealousy. Over some time, she starts having an affair with Edgar, and this eventually destroys her marriage as well as her mental well-being.      

The plot of the movie, based on Derek Lambert’s 1975 novel Touch the Lion's Paw, revolves around two jewel thieves – Jack and Gillian – who meet each other at a party and fall in love. Jack has planned a theft of $30 million in uncut diamonds but is unaware that Gillian has been blackmailed and planted by a Scotland Yard's chief inspector Cyril Willis who wants to apprehend him before retiring.

James Booth investigates a murder mystery where he comes across a rare-stamp fraud that involves the twin sister of the victim.

Caligula is a historical drama film, which revolves around the tragic story of Gaius Germanicus Caligula, Rome’s most infamous Caesar. The film depicts how he rises to power and how he eventually meets his downfall.

Loosely based on the real-life romance between Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy, the movie tells the story of Greek mogul Theo Tomasis and his relationship with Liz Cassidy, the widow of an assassinated US President. Political twists and personal tragedies further complicate their lives. 

The film revolves around an escaped convict named Sam, who finds himself in a farmland owned by a widow. He soon comes to know that a ruthless contractor is attempting to take over her land, Sam decides to help her fight.

Terri Granger was living a happy life with her two children. Her world came crashing down when an unstable escaped psychopathic killer enters her house, and terrorizes her of dire consequences if she tries to raise an alarm!

An unruly team of hockey misfits manage to earn a scholarship to a prestigious school named Eden Hall Academy. With the help of their coach, they soon take on the arrogant varsity team of the school.    

When two KGB agents are accidentally killed by the CIA during a mission, the head of CIA in Paris forms a pact with his Russian counterpart to have two CIA agents killed, to avoid further escalation. When agents Bruland and Griff are chosen as the sacrificial lambs they form an alliance to escape. 

My Giant is a comedy film which revolves around Sammy, a struggling Hollywood talent agent who loses his job just after going through a divorce. However, his life takes a turn when he meets a huge Romanian man named Max who is nearly 8 feet tall. He soon begins to see potential stardom in Max, and decides to introduce him to the world of movies in order to turn him into an actor.  

A Kid in King Arthur’s Court is a fantasy comedy adventure film which tells the story of a teenager named Calvin Fuller, living in Southern California, who finds himself transported to the Middle Ages, after a violent earthquake. He meets the legendary wizard Merlin who recruits him for a mission to defeat the despicable Lord Belasco, a nobleman who is determined to seize the throne from King Arthur.

With a hope to escape destruction by human developers and in order to save their community, a colony of rabbits, which are led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to establish a new warren.

Sen noci svatojánské is a Czechoslovak animated puppet film, which is based on Midsummer’s Night Dream, a play by the famous author William Shakespeare.