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The Proposal (2009) #147 Remove Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson. A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada. |
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) #224 Remove Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern. The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. |
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) #1234 Remove Directed by George Lucas. With Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd. Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory. |
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Of Time and the City (2008) #688 Remove Directed by Terence Davies. With Terence Davies. A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England. |
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) #54 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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Nebraska (2013) #256 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. |
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Pearl Harbour (2001) #8 Remove Directed by Michael Bay. With Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott. Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war. |
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Anonymous (2011) #100 Remove Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto. The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her. |
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The Color Purple (1985) #1315 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. |
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The King's Speech (2010) #535 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi. The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. |
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. |
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) #497 Remove Directed by Dean DeBlois. With Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson. When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. |
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Unthinkable (2010) #297 Remove Directed by Gregor Jordan. With Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen, Stephen Root. A psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S. |
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A Late Quartet (2012) #630 Remove Directed by Yaron Zilberman. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir. Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. |
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Mr. Jones (2019) #1283 Remove Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. |
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Four Christmases (2008) #310 Remove Directed by Seth Gordon. With Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall. A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas. |
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The Monuments Men (2014) #574 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. |
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Take the Lead (2006) #64 Remove Directed by Liz Friedlander. With Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard. The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids. |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) #56 Remove Directed by Geoffrey Sax. With Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Sophie Okonedo, Sarah Bolger. After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, for a mission which will save millions of lives. |
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The Ugly Truth (2009) #307 Remove Directed by Robert Luketic. With Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter. A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result. |
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The Last Witness (2018) #1165 Remove Directed by Piotr Szkopiak. With Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon. An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years. |
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Garden State (2004) #1032 Remove Directed by Zach Braff. With Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. |
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Oliver Twist (1948) #1481 Remove Oliver Twist: Directed by David Lean. With Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan. In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. |
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) #130 Remove Directed by Colin Higgins. With Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning. A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV preacher targets it as the Devil's playhouse. |
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) #1130 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Vicki Pepperdine. A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne. |
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National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra (2018) #1264 Remove Directed by Simon Godwin. With Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Tim McMullan, Tunji Kasim. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. |
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500 Days of Summer (2009) #462 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her. |
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In Bruges (2008) #405 Remove Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington. Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be. |
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The Riot Club (2014) #484 Remove Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay. Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening. |
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Schindler's List (1993) #541 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans. |
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Garden State (2004) #1032 Remove Directed by Zach Braff. With Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. |
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) #1367 Remove Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. |
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The Railway Man (2013) #611 Remove Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine. A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. |
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The Jungle Book (2016) #964 Remove Directed by Jon Favreau. With Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo. Disney |
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4.3.2.1. (2010) #28 Remove Directed by Noel Clarke, Mark Davis. With Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, Ophelia Lovibond, Shanika Warren-Markland. 4 girls out on a 3 days trip in to 2 cities, if they survive. While Jo is working in a supermarket, her 3 friends are all out on their adventures. A chance encounter with diamond thieves sends them on a collision course with fate itself. |
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To Walk Invisible (2016) #957 Remove Directed by Sally Wainwright. With James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie. A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language. |
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Avatar (2009) #299 Remove Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. |
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Billy Elliot (2000) #272 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. |
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Get Him to the Greek (2010) #27 Remove Directed by Nicholas Stoller. With Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne. A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater. |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) #299 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman. An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. |
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The Damned United (2009) #1314 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington. The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United. |
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) #326 Remove Directed by Robert B. Weide. With Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Kelan Pannell. A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City. |
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Management (2008) #149 Remove Directed by Stephen Belber. With Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Margo Martindale. A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone. |
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Barbarella (1968) #279 Remove Directed by Roger Vadim. With Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea. In the distant future, a highly sexual woman is assigned with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way, she encounters various unusual people. |
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) #227 Remove Directed by Robert Schwentke. With Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Michelle Nolden. A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage. |
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A Serious Man (2009) #318 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed. Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking. |
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Brothers (2009) #291 Remove Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard. A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. |
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Gran Torino (2008) #165 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her. Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. |
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Four Christmases (2008) #310 Remove Directed by Seth Gordon. With Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall. A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas. |
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Rango (2011) #111 Remove Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin. Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. |
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Children of Men (2006) #464 Remove Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. |
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Lions for Lambs (2007) #200 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Michael Peña. Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. |
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Skyfall (2012) #458 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench. Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. |
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The Book Thief (2013) #502 Remove Directed by Brian Percival. With Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer. While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents. |
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Closed Circuit (2013) #259 Remove Directed by John Crowley. With Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds. A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy. |
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Skyfall (2012) #458 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench. Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. |
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Burke and Hare (2010) #94 Remove Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. |
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Violet & Daisy (2011) #252 Remove Directed by Geoffrey Fletcher. With Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Danny Trejo. Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan. |
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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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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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One Chance (2013) #253 Remove Directed by David Frankel. With James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney. The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britain's Got Talent (2007). |
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The Brass Teapot (2012) #273 Remove Directed by Ramaa Mosley. With Juno Temple, Michael Angarano, Alexis Bledel, Billy Magnussen. When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go. |
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Schindler's List (1993) #541 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) #463 Remove Directed by Garth Jennings. With Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel. Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." |
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Upside Down (2012) #1051 Remove Directed by Juan Solanas. With Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma. Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love. |
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Gifted (2017) #1098 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer. Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother. |
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Les Misérables (2012) #460 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter - the decision changes their lives forever. Sky |
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The Last Station (2009) #701 Remove Directed by Michael Hoffman. With Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti. A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. |
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Red Joan (2018) #1359 Remove Directed by Trevor Nunn. With Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes. The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy. |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) #237 Remove Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. With Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford. As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. |
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Taking Woodstock (2009) #227 Remove Directed by Ang Lee. With Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton. A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969. |
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Forrest Gump (1994) #1113 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
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To Walk Invisible (2016) #957 Remove Directed by Sally Wainwright. With James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie. A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language. |
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The King's Speech (2010) #535 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi. The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. |
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Brothers (2009) #291 Remove Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard. A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. |
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Les Misérables (2012) #460 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter - the decision changes their lives forever. Sky |
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) #1130 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Vicki Pepperdine. A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne. |
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Her (2013) #240 Remove Directed by Spike Jonze. With Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara. A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly-purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need. |
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) #313 Remove Directed by F. Gary Gray. With Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney. A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal. |
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Loaded (2008) #11 Remove Directed by Alan Pao. With Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley. A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #78 Remove Directed by John Landis. With David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher, Griffin Dunne. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. |
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Chocolat (2000) #543 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. |
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Far Cry (2008) #147 Remove Directed by Uwe Boll. With Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier. An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island. |
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A Very British Christmas (2019) #1334 Remove Directed by Steven Nesbit. With Rachel Shenton, Mark Killeen, Isla Cook, Michele Dotrice. Opera singer Jessica's flight to her concert in Vienna gets delayed and she is stuck in a remote area of England. The only place to stay is a bed-and-breakfast in an enchanting village run by a handsome widower named Andrew. Also billed as 'A Very Yorkshire Christmas' this film stars Knaresborough. |
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Taken 2 (2012) #461 Remove Directed by Olivier Megaton. With Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser. In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. |
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Gladiator (2000) #195 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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Mr. Jones (2019) #1283 Remove Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. |
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Frozen Planet (2011) #774 Remove With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. 2x 1 hour episodes. BBC. |
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Joker (2019) #1307 Remove Directed by Todd Phillips. With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy. In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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Boychoir (2014) #1083 Remove Directed by François Girard. With Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Eddie Izzard, Kevin McHale. Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music. aka The Choir |
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Drag Me to Hell (2009) #169 Remove Directed by Sam Raimi. With Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver. A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point. |
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The Guilt Trip (2012) #394 Remove Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Julene Renee, Zabryna Guevara. As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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The Wave (2008) #136 Remove Directed by Dennis Gansel. With Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jürgen Vogel. A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. |
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Coraline (2009) #142 Remove Directed by Henry Selick. With Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders. An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets. |
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Invictus (2009) #402 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng. Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. |
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The Theory of Everything (2014) #470 Remove Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. |
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Billy Elliot (2000) #272 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. |
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National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra (2018) #1264 Remove Directed by Simon Godwin. With Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Tim McMullan, Tunji Kasim. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. |
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Flawless (2007) #222 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker. Set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire caretaker convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation. |
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The Imitation Game (2014) #553 Remove Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. |
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Breathe (2017) #1348 Remove Directed by Andy Serkis. With Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers. The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis. |
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) #285 Remove Directed by Werner Herzog. With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer. Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants. |
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Bottle Shock (2008) #218 Remove Directed by Randall Miller. With Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Hal B. Klein. The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". |
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The Grinch (2018) #1310 Remove Directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones, Pharrell Williams. A grumpy Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville. |
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Oliver Twist (1948) #1481 Remove Oliver Twist: Directed by David Lean. With Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan. In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. |
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Big Eyes (2014) #469 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter. A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. |
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The Color Purple (1985) #1315 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. |
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The Number 23 (2007) #66 Remove Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston. Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him. As his obsession increases, more and more similarities seem to arise. |
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Gamer (2009) #147 Remove Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, Amber Valletta. In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he? |
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Breathe (2017) #1348 Remove Directed by Andy Serkis. With Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers. The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis. |
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Children of Men (2006) #464 Remove Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. |
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Push (2009) #152 Remove Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford. Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does. |
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Catch a Fire (2006) #66 Remove Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu. A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime. |
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111 Remove Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
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Chocolat (2000) #543 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. |
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) #1130 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Vicki Pepperdine. A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne. |
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) #1227 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. Complete at 125mins inc cast but in LP mode |
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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) #1020 Remove Directed by Travis Knight. With Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes. A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. |
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The Wave (2008) #136 Remove Directed by Dennis Gansel. With Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jürgen Vogel. A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. |
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Friends with Money (2006) #53 Remove Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack. After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. |
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The Wrong Box (1966) #1107 Remove Directed by Bryan Forbes. With John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook. In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other... or can be made to have seemed to do so! |
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Dedication (2007) #33 Remove Directed by Justin Theroux. With Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Christine Taylor. The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children's book author who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend. |
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) #546 Remove Directed by Frank Darabont. With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler. Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. |
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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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All About Steve (2009) #33 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church, Ken Jeong. Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together. |
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Taboo (2017) #979 Remove Created by Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy, Steven Knight. With Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin. Adventurer James Keziah Delaney builds his own shipping empire in the early 1800s. 8x1 hour. BBC. 1814: James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa and is encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal. |
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The Walk (2015) #554 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Philippe Petit, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon, Émilie Leclerc. In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. See also #685 |
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) #54 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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Meet Joe Black (1998) #76 Remove Directed by Martin Brest. With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber. Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth and in the process he falls in love with his guide's daughter. |
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Gladiator (2000) #195 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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Bridge of Spies (2015) #687 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. |
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) #420 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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Far Cry (2008) #147 Remove Directed by Uwe Boll. With Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier. An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island. |
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Cherry Tree Lane (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin. A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son. |
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Vera Drake (2004) #25 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham. Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family. |
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Antichrist (2009) #217 Remove Directed by Lars von Trier. With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm. A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. |
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Weirdsville (2007) #310 Remove Directed by Allan Moyle. With Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning, Matt Frewer. A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices. |
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Avatar (2009) #299 Remove Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. |
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Munich (2005) #62 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds. Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. |
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Gamer (2009) #147 Remove Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, Amber Valletta. In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he? |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) #237 Remove Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. With Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford. As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. |
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Arrival (2016) #1336 Remove Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world. |
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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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X-Men: First Class (2011) #340 Remove Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon. In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start World War III. |
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Valkyrie (2008) #328 Remove Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II. |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) #386 Remove Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6. |
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Les Misérables (2012) #460 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter - the decision changes their lives forever. Sky |
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88 Minutes (2007) #191 Remove Directed by Jon Avnet. With Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie, Leelee Sobieski. On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live. |
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) #233 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti. When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. |
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Pan (2015) #551 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan. |
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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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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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Chocolat (2000) #543 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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Valkyrie (2008) #328 Remove Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II. |
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100 Feet (2008) #72 Remove Directed by Eric Red. With Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré. After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband. |
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The Uninvited (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother. |
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) #326 Remove Directed by Robert B. Weide. With Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Kelan Pannell. A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City. |
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Gandhi (1982) #524 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. |
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Dear John (2010) #293 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas. A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave. |
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) #296 Remove Directed by Guy Ritchie. With Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong. Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. |
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Julia (2008) #166 Remove Directed by Erick Zonca. With Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould. A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait. |
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Gandhi (1982) #524 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. |
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All the King's Men (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. |
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Rendition (2007) #154 Remove Directed by Gavin Hood. With Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin. A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US. |
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Terminator Salvation (2009) #220 Remove Directed by McG. With Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood. In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted? |
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The American President (1995) #281 Remove Directed by Rob Reiner. With Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox. Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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The Best of Men (2012) #330 Remove Directed by Tim Whitby. With George MacKay, Bee Bee Sanders, Leigh Quinn, Eddie Marsan. Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and ... |
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Paddington 2 (2017) #1288 Remove Directed by Paul King. With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. |
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The Lucky One (2012) #414 Remove Directed by Scott Hicks. With Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner, Riley Thomas Stewart. A Marine travels to North Carolina after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war. |
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Tolkien (2019) #1276 Remove Directed by Dome Karukoski. With Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi. The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. |
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Peterloo (2018) #1371 Remove Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester |
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The Best Offer (2013) #504 Remove Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland. In the world of high-end art auctions and antiques, Virgil Oldman is an elderly and esteemed but eccentric genius art-expert, known and appreciated by the world. Oldman is hired by a solitary young heiress, Claire Ibbetson, to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. For some reason, Claire always refuses to be seen in person. Robert aids Oldman in ... aka Deception |
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Dumbo (2019) #1225 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green. A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #78 Remove Directed by John Landis. With David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher, Griffin Dunne. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. |
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Circle of Eight (2009) #298 Remove Directed by Stephen Cragg. With John Bishop, Kirk Bovill, Ryan Doom, Austin Highsmith. Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place. |
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Neal Brennan. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, James Brolin. Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event. |
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Life During Wartime (2009) #295 Remove Directed by Todd Solondz. With Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Michael Kenneth Williams. Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. |
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Grace of Monaco (2014) #498 Remove Directed by Olivier Dahan. With Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern, Frank Langella. The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. |
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Fame (2009) #215 Remove Directed by Kevin Tancharoen. With Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally, Kay Panabaker. An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts. |
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Life During Wartime (2009) #295 Remove Directed by Todd Solondz. With Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Michael Kenneth Williams. Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. |
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Pan (2015) #551 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan. |
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) #1143 Remove Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones. A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit. |
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Pan (2015) #551 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan. |
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Alexander (2004) #184 Remove Directed by Oliver Stone. With Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie Pitt. Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world. |
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Black Swan (2010) #404 Remove Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder. A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity. |
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MASH (1970) #37 Remove Directed by Robert Altman. With Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman. The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. |
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) #1448 Remove FairyTale: A True Story: Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey, Peter O'Toole, Lara Morgan. In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies |
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Adulthood (2008) #72 Remove Directed by Noel Clarke. With Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Adam Deacon, Raleigh Ritchie. Six years after KIdULTHOOD, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on, others are stuck with the repercussions of his actions that night, but one thing's for certain - everyone has been forced to grow up. Through his journey Sam struggles ... |
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Les Misérables (2012) #460 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter - the decision changes their lives forever. Sky |
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Far Cry (2008) #147 Remove Directed by Uwe Boll. With Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier. An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island. |
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Bridge of Spies (2015) #687 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. |
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) #520 Remove Directed by Scott Derrickson. With Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith. A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth. |
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Manchester by the Sea (2016) #1164 Remove Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges. A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. |
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The Boat that Rocked (2009) #160 Remove Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio |
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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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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) #420 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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The Special Relationship (2010) #543 Remove Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Michael Sheen, Demetri Goritsas, Adam Godley, Marc Rioufol. A dramatization that traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. |
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Man on Wire (2008) #685 Remove Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century." See also: #554 |
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The Lost City (2005) #165 Remove Directed by Andy Garcia. With Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros. In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent night-club owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the night-club owner to flee to New York. |
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Mass (2021) #1395 Remove Mass: Directed by Fran Kranz. With Breeda Wool, Kagen Albright, Michelle N. Carter, Martha Plimpton. Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways |
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Zombieland (2009) #312 Remove Directed by Ruben Fleischer. With Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. |
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The Uninvited (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother. |
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Ethel & Ernest (2016) #956 Remove Directed by Roger Mainwood. With Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway, Pam Ferris. This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events. |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) #311 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill. A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy. |
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Deliverance (1972) #352 Remove Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. |
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HORIZON: Fermat's Last Theorem (1996) #296 Remove 50mins. Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten- year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind - to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries. | |
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Extract (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. |
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Billy Elliot (2000) #272 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. |
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The Dark Knight (2008) #72 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine. When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the caped crusader must come to terms with one of the greatest psychological tests of his ability to fight injustice. |
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Children of Men (2006) #464 Remove Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. |
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Pawn Sacrifice (2014) #1267 Remove Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. |
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Carriers (2009) #312 Remove Directed by David Pastor, Àlex Pastor. With Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp. Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus. |
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) #546 Remove Directed by Frank Darabont. With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler. Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. |
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The Danish Girl (2015) #797 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. |
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Logan (2017) #1067 Remove Directed by James Mangold. With Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook. In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X, somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world, and his legacy, are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces. |
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The Fourth Kind (2009) #315 Remove Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. With Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim. A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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Black Swan (2010) #404 Remove Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder. A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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Revolutionary Road (2008) #129 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie. A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) #105 Remove Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint. In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. |
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The Theory of Everything (2014) #470 Remove Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. |
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500 Days of Summer (2009) #462 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her. |
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Mass (2021) #1395 Remove Mass: Directed by Fran Kranz. With Breeda Wool, Kagen Albright, Michelle N. Carter, Martha Plimpton. Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways |
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Skyfall (2012) #458 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench. Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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Albert Nobbs (2011) #234 Remove Directed by Rodrigo García. With Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes. Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living. |
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District 13: Ultimatum (2009) #141 Remove Directed by Patrick Alessandrin. With Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Philippe Torreton, Daniel Duval. Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem. |
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Fair Game (2010) #385 Remove Directed by Doug Liman. With Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong. CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration. |
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Antz (1998) #164 Remove Directed by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson. With Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone. A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. |
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Gamer (2009) #147 Remove Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, Amber Valletta. In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he? |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) #299 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman. An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. |
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The Imitation Game (2014) #553 Remove Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. |
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) #1277 Remove Directed by Taika Waititi. With Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House. A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. |
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Fanboys (2009) #14 Remove Directed by Kyle Newman. With Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Sam Huntington. Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release. |
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Les Misérables (2012) #460 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter - the decision changes their lives forever. Sky |
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War and Peace (2016) #1055 Remove With Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson. As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever. BBC. 6 Episodes. |
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Aladdin (1992) #1077 Remove Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. |
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) #1227 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. Complete at 125mins inc cast but in LP mode |
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Flight (2012) #387 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman. An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling. |
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The Prestige (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine. Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. |
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War and Peace (2016) #1055 Remove With Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson. As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever. BBC. 6 Episodes. |
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Alexander (2004) #184 Remove Directed by Oliver Stone. With Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie Pitt. Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world. |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) #1261 Remove Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as the creature sets out to discover the world and the meaning of life. |
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The Informant! (2009) #310 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll. The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. |
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Adulthood (2008) #72 Remove Directed by Noel Clarke. With Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Adam Deacon, Raleigh Ritchie. Six years after KIdULTHOOD, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on, others are stuck with the repercussions of his actions that night, but one thing's for certain - everyone has been forced to grow up. Through his journey Sam struggles ... |
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Two Lovers (2008) #210 Remove Directed by James Gray. With Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce. A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor. |
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Mr. Turner (2014) #945 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey. An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life. |
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The Wrong Box (1966) #1107 Remove Directed by Bryan Forbes. With John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook. In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other... or can be made to have seemed to do so! |
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Solace (2015) #555 Remove Directed by Afonso Poyart. With Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell. A psychic works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer. |
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The Ugly Truth (2009) #307 Remove Directed by Robert Luketic. With Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter. A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result. |
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The Hill (1965) #5 Remove Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch. In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards. |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) #112 Remove Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin. A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view. |
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Jack Reacher (2012) #412 Remove Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. |
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1,000 Times Good Night (2013) #496 Remove Directed by Erik Poppe. With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Eve Macklin. Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work... |
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The Dresser (2015) #473 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Emily Watson, Ian McKellen, Sarah Lancashire, Anthony Hopkins. A drama, based on a successful play, about an ageing actor and his personal assistant. |
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Arrival (2016) #1336 Remove Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world. |
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Crank (2006) #464 Remove Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo. Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops. |
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The Uninvited (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother. |
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The Boat that Rocked (2009) #160 Remove Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio |
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) #546 Remove Directed by Frank Darabont. With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler. Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. |
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The Book of Life (2014) #476 Remove Directed by Jorge R. Gutiérrez. With Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman. Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears. |
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Two Lovers (2008) #210 Remove Directed by James Gray. With Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce. A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor. |
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) #982 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson. The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. |
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) #1227 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. Complete at 125mins inc cast but in LP mode |
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Munich (2005) #62 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds. Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. |
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The Zookeeper's Wife (2017) #1066 Remove Directed by Niki Caro. With Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford. The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion. |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) #511 Remove Directed by Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason. With Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Richard Atwill. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. |
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Taboo (2017) #979 Remove Created by Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy, Steven Knight. With Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin. Adventurer James Keziah Delaney builds his own shipping empire in the early 1800s. 8x1 hour. BBC. 1814: James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa and is encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal. |
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The Book Thief (2013) #502 Remove Directed by Brian Percival. With Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer. While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents. |
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Tamara Drewe (2010) #344 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam. A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. |
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Battle of the Sexes (2017) #1136 Remove Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris. With Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman. The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs. |
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Red Joan (2018) #1359 Remove Directed by Trevor Nunn. With Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes. The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy. |
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Skyfall (2012) #458 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench. Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. |
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Bottle Shock (2008) #218 Remove Directed by Randall Miller. With Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Hal B. Klein. The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". |
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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) #225 Remove Directed by Gabriele Muccino. With Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor. |
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All the King's Men (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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Avatar (2009) #299 Remove Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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Darkest Hour (2017) #1147 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn. In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire. |
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The Tempest (2010) #349 Remove Directed by Julie Taymor. With Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand. Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female. |
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) #233 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti. When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. |
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Shrink (2009) #35 Remove Directed by Jonas Pate. With Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer, Joe Nunez. Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients. |
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The Kid (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Nick Moran. With Rupert Friend, Natascha McElhone, Ioan Gruffudd, Alfie Allen. About Kevin Lewis who grew up in poverty but survived to make a better life for himself and his family. |
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Jack Reacher (2012) #412 Remove Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. |
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Gladiator (2000) #195 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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The Duchess (2008) #182 Remove Directed by Saul Dibb. With Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling. A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. |
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Everlasting Moments (2008) #171 Remove Directed by Jan Troell. With Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall. In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life. |
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Agora (2009) #30 Remove Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. |
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The Grinch (2018) #1310 Remove Directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones, Pharrell Williams. A grumpy Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville. |
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The Number 23 (2007) #66 Remove Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston. Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him. As his obsession increases, more and more similarities seem to arise. |
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Extract (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. |
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Rogue One: A Star Wars story (2016) #1243 Remove Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen. The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans. |
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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016) #578 Remove Directed by Jack Macinnes. With Jeremy Paxman, Bernadette Murphy. Jeremy Paxman joins forces with 'art sleuth' Bernadette Murphy to try and solve one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries of the art world - why did Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear in December 1888? 60mins. Jeremy Paxman. BBC. |
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The Wolfman (2010) #306 Remove Directed by Joe Johnston. With Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Simon Merrells. Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf. |
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Save the Cinema (2022) #1411 Remove Save the Cinema: Directed by Sara Sugarman. With Louisa Cliffe, Krrish Patel, Jonathan Pryce, Beatie Edney. The story of Liz Evans, who lives in Carmarthen South West Wales, who starts a campaign in the 90s to save the Lyric Cinema. |
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The Ground Truth (2006) #43 Remove Directed by Patricia Foulkrod. With Herold Noel, Robert Acosta, Sean Huze, Kelly Dougherty. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home - with personal ... |
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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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Victoria & Abdul (2017) #1112 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard. Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. |
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Hamlet (2009) #199 Remove Directed by Gregory Doran. With David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie, Oliver Ford Davies. The RSC puts a modern spin on Shakespeare's Hamlet in this filmed-for-television version of their stage production. The Prince of Denmark seeks vengeance after his father is murdered and his mother marries the murderer. |
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Forrest Gump (1994) #1113 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
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Extract (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. |
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Burke and Hare (2010) #94 Remove Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) #1094 Remove Directed by Tony Richardson. With Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen. A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers. |
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Brothers (2009) #291 Remove Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard. A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. |
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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) #1255 Remove Directed by Jon Watts. With Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. |
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Robots (2005) #192 Remove Directed by Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha. With Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams. In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspiration's company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management. |
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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Castles in the Sky (2014) #846 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp. 90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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To Rome with Love (2012) #424 Remove Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page. The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into. |
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A Serious Man (2009) #318 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed. Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking. |
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The Tempest (2010) #349 Remove Directed by Julie Taymor. With Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand. Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female. |
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Extract (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) #311 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill. A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy. |
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The Lost King (2022) #1484 Remove The Lost King: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod. An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years. |
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Pan (2015) #551 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan. |