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Bernard Rose

Bernard Rose

Bernard Rose (born 4 August 1960) is an English actor and film director most famous for his direction of the 1992 urban horror film Candyman and the 1994 historical romance film Immortal Beloved.

Rose was born in London, England. He began making super 8 films when he was 9. By 1975, he won an amateur movie competition hosted by BBC which led to the broadcasting of his works. He worked for Jim Henson on the last season of The Muppet Show and then again on The Dark Crystal in 1981. He attended National Film and Television School and graduated in 1982 with a Master's in Filmmaking. After this, he moved on to directing music videos for MTV, one of which was the uncensored version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's hit "Relax."

Shortly after his production of music videos, he moved on to direct British TV films such as Prospects and then finally in 1988 directed his first major full length film, Paperhouse.

Rose got his big break into American cinema with 1992's Candyman, which has since been seen as a cult classic. Subsequently Rose both wrote and directed Immortal Beloved, about the life and loves of Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as a remake of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

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Movies Made By Bernard Rose (33)

Traveling Light (2021)

On May 30th, 2020, Uber and delivery driver Caddy searches for his missing son who has been living on the Los Angeles streets during the early days of the pandemic. Along the way, his path crosses that of Harry, a cult leader who is holding a bizarre cerem ...

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Candyman (2021)

A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman. ...

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Danse Profane (2019)

A short film by Bernard Rose celebrating the music of Claude DeBussy and the Egyptian Theatre in the style of Busby Berkeley. Premiered at Beyond Fest at the Egyptian Theatre. ...

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Samurai Marathon (2019)

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race. ...

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The Hurdy Gurdy Man (2018)

Faced with an early death sentence and struggling to pay the bills, Franz Schubert is inspired to write one of his most famous songs as he is haunted by a Hurdy Gurdy Man in the Vienna of the 1820s. ...

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Frankenstein (2015)

After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to gri ...

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Sx_Tape (2013)

From the director of CANDYMAN and the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY comes a found-footage nightmare of lust, possession, and destruction. Jill's an artist. Ian's a filmmaker. And their love life is off the chain. There's no experience too wild, no dare ...

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The Devil's Violinist (2013)

The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century. ...

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Boxing Day (2012)

A struggling, indebted business man leaves his family immediately after Christmas to pursue a lucrative property deal that could solve all of his problems: buying foreclosed properties from banks at a fraction of their value, refitting them for a minimum c ...

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2 Jacks (2012)

Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy? ...

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Mr. Nice (2010)

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same titl ...

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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)

A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion. ...

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Derek (2008)

Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker and actress, Isaac Julien and Tilda Swinton respectively, have produced and narrated a film on his life w ...

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Snuff-Movie (2005)

Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes a virtual recluse - until years later he directs his own snuff inspired movies. He invites actors to take ...

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Hard On (2000)

A collection of every music video by British new wave band Frankie Goes To Hollywood. ...

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ivans xtc. (2000)

Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a n ...

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Anna Karenina (1997)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

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Immortal Beloved (1994)

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters ...

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Inside Out 4 (1992)

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Natalie Would"; "Modivation"; "Put Asunder"; "Save The Wetlands"; "The Thief"; "Jilted Lover"; "Three On A Match"; "What Anna Wants..."; "Video Mate"; and "My Cyberian Rhapsody". ...

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Candyman (1992)

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth. ...

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Inside Out 3 (1992)

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Dogs Playing Poker"; "The Branding"; "The Portal"; "The Perfect Woman"; "Within Ten Minutes"; "Tango"; "The Houseguest"; "Cafe L'Amour"; and "The Wet Dream". ...

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Inside Out 2 (1992)

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Mis-apprehended"; "I've Got A Crush On You"; "The Freak"; "There's This Travelling Salesman, See"; "Double Vision"; "Busty Gusty and her Twin 50's"; "Some Guys Have All The Luck"; "The Hitchhiker"; and "The Righ ...

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Wedding Anniversary (1991)

A husband decides to give an original gift to his wife. ...

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Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards) (1990)

Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards. ...

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Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)

During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly. ...

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Paperhouse (1988)

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book. ...

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Body Contact (1987)

In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend. ...

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Smart Money (1986)

Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the death of his father, to take revenge on the man who really did it. ...

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Looking at Alice (1977)

A lonely young man obsesses over the flirty young model who lives in the building opposite, but fails to realise that she is dealing with anxieties of her own. ...

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The Wreckers (1976)

A short film by Bernard Rose. ...

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A Bomb with No Name On It (1975)

An early short film by Bernard Rose. ...

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Movies Starring Bernard Rose (9)

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 (2024)

Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s. ...

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Danse Profane (2019)

A short film by Bernard Rose celebrating the music of Claude DeBussy and the Egyptian Theatre in the style of Busby Berkeley. Premiered at Beyond Fest at the Egyptian Theatre. ...

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Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... (2015)

The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look Now, Performance, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Roeg reflects on his career, which began as a le ...

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The Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist? (2006)

BBC look at whether or not Snuff films really exist. Snuff as defined by the FBI and the film is a film that shows some one being killed which was produced for gratification of the viewer who pays to see the film. The film takes a look at the start of the ...

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Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos (2004)

Retrospective documentary featuring director Bernard Rose, writer Clive Barker, producer Alan Poul and stars Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen and Kasi Lemmons. ...

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Immortal Beloved (1994)

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters ...

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Inside Out 4 (1992)

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Natalie Would"; "Modivation"; "Put Asunder"; "Save The Wetlands"; "The Thief"; "Jilted Lover"; "Three On A Match"; "What Anna Wants..."; "Video Mate"; and "My Cyberian Rhapsody". ...

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Army of Darkness (1992)

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead. ...

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Candyman (1992)

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth. ...

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