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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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Attack the Block (2011) #346 Remove Directed by Joe Cornish. With John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones. A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. |
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Colombiana (2011) #331 Remove Directed by Olivier Megaton. With Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Callum Blue, Jordi Mollà. A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. |
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The Shining (1980) #542 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. |
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Strength and Honour (2007) #228 Remove Directed by Mark Mahon. With Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death. |
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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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A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) #782 Remove 90mins. BBC. Directed by David Kerr. With Nonso Anozie, John Hannah, Matt Lucas, Maxine Peake. A modern re-telling of the classic fantasy drama by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream holds a star-studded cast with euphoric effects and melodramatic storytelling. |
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Hereafter (2010) #341 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic. A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways. |
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) #214 Remove Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria. Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake. |
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La musica del silenzio (2017) #1199 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian, Luisa Ranieri. Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues. aka The Music of Silence |
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In the Loop (2009) #153 Remove Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Harry Hadden-Paton. A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries. |
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Land of Mine (2015) #1355 Remove Directed by Martin Zandvliet. With Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight. |
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Saw VI (2009) #22 Remove Directed by Kevin Greutert. With Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell. Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by jigsaw. |
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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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How Wars Begin 1 (1977) #10 Remove The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire. | |
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Zorba the Greek (1964) #172 Remove Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. With Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova. An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba. |
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MacGruber (2010) #31 Remove Directed by Jorma Taccone. With Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe. Former special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his arch-enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C. |
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Being Shakespeare (2011) #416 Remove Directed by John Wyver. With Simon Callow. | |
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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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Downfall (2004) #249 Remove Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler. Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. |
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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010) #309 Remove 60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design. | |
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Billy Liar (1963) #1193 Remove Directed by John Schlesinger. With Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family. |
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Rory's Way (2018) #1259 Remove Directed by Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis. With Thora Birch, Brian Cox, Tim Matheson, JJ Feild. Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. He moves in with his estranged son Rory, as he sees his life getting transformed through a newfound bond with his baby grandson. aka The Etruscan Smile |
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) #457 Remove Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. With Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge. In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. |
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Frozen Planet 2 (2011) #593 Remove With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. 2x1 hour. The Last Frontier, On Thin Ice. |
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Snakes on a Plane (2006) #56 Remove Directed by David R. Ellis. With Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. |
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012) #384 Remove Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. |
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Surrogates (2009) #135 Remove Directed by Jonathan Mostow. With Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike. Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates. |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) #377 Remove Directed by Edgar Wright. With Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill. Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart. |
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The Pillars of the Earth (2010) #689 Remove With Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell. Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart. Episodes 1 and 2 of 9 |
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008) #166 Remove Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. With Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys. Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily ... |
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Snakes on a Plane (2006) #56 Remove Directed by David R. Ellis. With Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. |
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25 Years in Space (1982) #525 Remove A history of space exploration starting from the dawn of the space age in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik to the Space Shuttle Columbia. Mainly using excerpts from newsreels and television programs the story covers Laika, Jupiter-C, Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Alexey Leonov, Edward White, Apollo 1, Vladimir Komarov, Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Apollo 17, Skylab, Salyut and Voyager 1. It includes interviews and broadcasts from Sir Bernard Lovell, James Burke, Frank Borman, Brian Aldiss, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Barbara Ward, Carl Sagan and Patrick Moore. Horizon |
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009) #176 Remove Directed by Seth Grossman. With Chris Carmack, Rachel Miner, Melissa Jones, Kevin Yon. Sam Reide uses his power to time travel to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's death. |
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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 Garden of Words (2013) #1543 Remove 46m On a rainy morning in Tokyo, 15-year-old Takao, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden. This is where he meets Yukari, a beautiful yet mysterious woman. They strike an unlikely friendship. |
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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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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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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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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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Salt (2010) #21 Remove Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Angelina Jolie Pitt, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski. A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. |
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Strength and Honour (2007) #228 Remove Directed by Mark Mahon. With Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death. |
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La linea (2009) #216 Remove Directed by James Cotten. With Ray Liotta, Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Armand Assante. The unstable new kingpin of a Tijuana drug cartel is targeted by an assassin for elimination. aka The Line |
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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. |