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The Coming War on China (2016) #955 Remove Directed by John Pilger. With Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher. The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance. |
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Hamlet 2 (2008) #173 Remove Directed by Andrew Fleming. With Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
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Julie & Julia (2009) #290 Remove Directed by Nora Ephron. With Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci. Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. |
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Page Eight (2011) #808 Remove Directed by David Hare. With Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Tom Hughes, Michael Gambon. Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced ... First in the Worricker Trilogy |
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The Weather Man (2005) #58 Remove Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Caine. A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive. |
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Blade Runner (1982) #1425 Remove Blade Runner: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator |
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The Whistleblower (2010) #339 Remove Directed by Larysa Kondracki. With Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn. A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal. |
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Changeling (2008) #326 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Angelina Jolie Pitt, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith. A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day. |
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Empire of the Sun (1987) #540 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. Thought to be the best copy. |
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Ruby Sparks (2012) #407 Remove Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris. With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas. A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence. |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) #21 Remove Directed by Samuel Bayer. With Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy. The spectre of a dead child rapist haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams. |
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The Train (1964) #4 Remove Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn. With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon. In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. |
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Dark Waters (2019) #1438 Remove Dark Waters: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman. A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution |
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Taken (2008) #167 Remove Directed by Pierre Morel. With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser. A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris. |
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Amazing Grace (2006) #321 Remove Directed by Michael Apted. With Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai. The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. |
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Letters to Juliet (2010) #15 Remove Directed by Gary Winick. With Amanda Seyfried, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Marcia DeBonis. Sophie dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the "Secretaries of Juliet". |
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Labor Day (2013) #241 Remove Directed by Jason Reitman. With Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Clark Gregg. Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited. |
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The Gruffalo (2009) #196 Remove Directed by Max Lang, Jakob Schuh. With Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt. A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators. |
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984) #36 Remove Directed by Sergio Leone. With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci. A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. |
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La musica del silenzio (2017) #1199 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian, Luisa Ranieri. Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues. aka The Music of Silence |
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Jersey Boys (2014) #495 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza. The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. |
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Mic Macs (2009) #291 Remove Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Yolande Moreau. A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers. |
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Toy Story 3 (2010) #333 Remove Directed by Lee Unkrich. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty. The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home. Disney |
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Georgy Girl (1966) #132 Remove Directed by Silvio Narizzano. With James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling. A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate. |
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The Debt (2010) #127 Remove Directed by John Madden. With Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds. In 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them. |
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Hanna (2011) #116 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps. A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. |
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Taken (2008) #167 Remove Directed by Pierre Morel. With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser. A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris. |
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Mamma Mia! (2008) #140 Remove Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA. |
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016) #1435 Remove Despite the Falling Snow: Directed by Shamim Sarif. With Sam Reid, Rebecca Ferguson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance. In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him. |
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) #531 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead. Shakespeare. |
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La linea (2009) #216 Remove Directed by James Cotten. With Ray Liotta, Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Armand Assante. The unstable new kingpin of a Tijuana drug cartel is targeted by an assassin for elimination. aka The Line |
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Selma (2014) #471 Remove Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint. A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. |
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The Debt (2010) #127 Remove Directed by John Madden. With Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds. In 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them. |
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Realive (2016) #1121 Remove Directed by Mateo Gil. With Tom Hughes, Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin, Barry Ward. Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected. |
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We Bought a Zoo (2011) #91 Remove Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning. Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. |
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The Kingdom (2007) #50 Remove Directed by Peter Berg. With Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman. A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East. |
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Solaris (2002) #334 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis. A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet. |
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War Book (2014) #479 Remove Directed by Tom Harper. With Phoebe Fox, Adeel Akhtar, Ben Chaplin, Shaun Evans. Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat. |
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True Grit (2010) #336 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin. A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer. |
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Shine (1996) #151 Remove Directed by Scott Hicks. With Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd. Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. |
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Kick-Ass (2010) #294 Remove Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown. Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. |
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) #48 Remove Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes. Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman." |
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The Coming War on China (2016) #955 Remove Directed by John Pilger. With Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher. The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance. |
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Solaris (2002) #334 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis. A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet. |
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The Guns of Navarone (1961) #1033 Remove Directed by J Lee Thompson. With David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle. A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel. |
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Glorious 39 (2009) #288 Remove Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo. The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II. |
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) #101 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow. A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. |
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Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009) #163 Remove Directed by Harvey Glazer. With Jonathan Bennett, Kristin Cavallari, Kurt Fuller, Steve Talley. Van Wilder starts his freshman year at Coolidge College and embarks on an adventure to land the campus hottie and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction. |
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The Founder (2016) #1365 Remove Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini. The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness. |
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The Office (2001) #283 Remove With Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis. The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager Brent as they continue their daily lives. 6x30mins Episodes 1-6 |
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Doubt (2008) #328 Remove Directed by John Patrick Shanley. With Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis. A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student. |
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Woman in Gold (2015) #472 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes. Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. |
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Django Unchained (2012) #401 Remove Directed by Quentin Tarantino. With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington. With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. |
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Ready Player One (2018) #1157 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. |
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Wagner (1981) #499 Remove TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times. |
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Paddington (2014) #1159 Remove Directed by Paul King. With Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent. A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven. |
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Django Unchained (2012) #401 Remove Directed by Quentin Tarantino. With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington. With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. |
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Irresistible (2006) #148 Remove Directed by Ann Turner. With Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family. |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) #526 Remove Directed by David Lean. With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. |
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Cathy Come Home (1966) #1423 Remove Cathy Come Home: Directed by Ken Loach. With Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis, Wally Patch. A wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms |
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Calvary (2014) #994 Remove Directed by John Michael McDonagh. With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen. After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him. |
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Shutter Island (2010) #297 Remove Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. In 1954, a U.S. marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. |
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Lincoln (2012) #380 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. |
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The Boxtrolls (2014) #480 Remove Directed by Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi. With Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade. A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. |