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The Street: the Complete Series 1-3 (2006)

8.3/10
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Timothy Spall, Lee Ingleby, Christine Bottomley, Neil Dudgeon, Mark...

Series of one-off dramas, each focusing on a different house within the same street. Read more

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

8/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Christine Hargreaves, Bob Hoskins, Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof stars as Pink, the burned-out rock star slowly going out of control. Conceived and written by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, with animation by... Read more

Brazil (1985)

8/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hos...

Terry Gilliam's acclaimed, surrealistic nightmare vision of a 'perfect' future where technology reigns supreme. Spectacular set design, this wildly vi... Read more

Brazil (Special Edition) (1985)

8/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michae...

Pitting the imagination of a common man against the oppressive stormtroopers of the Ministry of Information, this bitter parable for the Information A... Read more

The Forgotten Toys (1995)

7.8/10
Director: Graham Ralph
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Joanna Lumley, Voices Of

Two toys, Teddy and Annie, are life long friends who one morning find themselves in the rubbish bins outside their homes. The children who once loved... Read more

David Copperfield (BBC) (1999)

7.8/10
Director: Simon Curtis
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Zoe Wanamaker, Ciaran...

Like a fine gourmet meal, this adaptation of "David Copperfield" has something to suit every taste: a well-paced screenplay that keeps the tale bowlin... Read more

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Joanna Cassidy

Groundbreaking blend of live-action and animation in which jaded, 1940's detective Bob Hoskins goes searching for a murderer with prime suspect, and c... Read more

The Long Good Friday (1980)

7.7/10
Director: John MacKenzie
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Bryan Marshall, Eddie Constantine, Helen Mirren

Bob Hoskins, in his breakthrough film role, stars as a London racketeer fast losing control of his gangland empire; Helen Mirren shines as his classy... Read more

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1968)

7.6/10
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, Michael Bryant, Geoffrey Bayl...

This release brings together both London Weekend Television productions of Johnny Speight's bleakly comic allegorical play whose overarching theme, as... Read more

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

7.6/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris

Stalingrad, 1942. Against this vivid and sprawling backdrop a personal war is being played out by two opponents. Vassili (Jude Law), an expert Russian... Read more

Midnight Express (1978)

7.6/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Brad Davis, Bo Hopkins

From director Alan Parker ('Birdy', 'Mississippi Burning') and based on a true story, this hyper-violent and grim portrait of American student Billy H... Read more

Midnight Express ( Blu-ray ) (1978)

7.6/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Bo Hopkins, Brad Davis, John Hurt, Randy Quaid

From director Alan Parker ('Birdy', 'Mississippi Burning') and based on a true story, this hyper-violent and grim portrait of American student Billy H... Read more

More American Graffiti (Blu-ray) (1973)

7.6/10
Director: Bill L Norton
Starring: Ron Howard, Bo Hopkins, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Mart...

"American Graffiti" (1973) - Follow the misadventures of a group of friends on one summer night in '62, as they prepare for the uncertainty of life af... Read more

Room on the Broom (2012)

7.5/10
Director: Max Lang, Jan Lachauer
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Martin Clunes, Timothy Spall, David Walliams, Simon Pegg, Sall...

"Room on the Broom" is a magical animated tale about friendship and family from best-selling author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, cr... Read more

Mona Lisa (1986)

7.4/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane

Even before The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan received a first round of critical acclaim for this superb 1986 film, a character study of a m... Read more

Riders in the Storm (1995)

7.4/10
Director: Charles Biggs
Starring: Bo Hopkins, Michael Horse, Kim Dawson, Morgan Brittany

In this made-for-TV sagebrusher, a woman is kidnapped by a treacherous amoral outlaw who hides her in a cave and demands an enormous ransom for her. B... Read more

Paris, Je T'aime (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Oliver Schmitz, Olivier Assayas, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Wes Craven, Sylvain Chomet, etc , Gerard Depardieu
Starring: Leila Bekhti, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellitto, Willem Dafoe,...

A grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance from a stunningly varied array of international directors from the Coen Brothers to Alfonso C... Read more

Made in Dagenham (2010)

7.2/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Geraldine James, Miranda Richardson, Sally Hawkins, Jamie Winstone,...

A dramatisation of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant in London, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.... Read more

Fracture (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz,...

Ryan Gosling plays ambitious young Southern attorney to Anthony Hopkins' cunning loop-hole seeking wife-killer in this courtroom thriller that is elev... Read more

Balto (1995)

7.1/10
Director: Simon Wells
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Bridget Fonda, Bob Hoskins

A thrilling animated adventure, based on the true story of a half-husky, half-wolf dog named Balto who overcame many dangers to deliver vital medicine... Read more

Twentyfourseven (1997)

7.1/10
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, James Hooton

The title is local Midlands English slang for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This poignant, hard-hitting drama focuses on an idealistic 1980s burn... Read more

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)

7.1/10
Director: Jack Clayton
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Ian McNeice, Maggie Smith, Marie Kean, Wendy Hiller

Timid and self-deprecating, Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith in a BAFTA Award winning performance) is a middle-aged piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. A... Read more

Nixon (1995)

7.1/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Bob Hoskins, David Paymer, David Hyd...

A potent portrait of the controversial US politician and president persuasively played by Anthony Hopkins. Director-cowriter Oliver Stone gives a vivi... Read more

Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, William Young, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly, Thelma...

Following the death of her husband, Mrs Henderson (Judi Dench) is encouraged to take up a quiet hobby, however she has quite a different idea. She bu... Read more

Stick Man (2015)

7.1/10
Director: Jeroen Jaspaert, Daniel Snaddon
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Jennifer Saunders, Martin Freeman, Sally Hawkins, Rob Brydon, R...

From the creators of the hugely successful 'The Gruffalo' and 'Room on the Broom' comes 'Stick Man', a beautifully animated film based on the much-lov... Read more

Felicia's Journey (1999)

7/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Peter McDonald, Arsinee Khanjian

Felicia (Elaine Cassidy), a young Irish woman in search of her soldier boyfriend in the British Midlands, is befriended by Joseph Hilditch (Bob Hoskin... Read more

Unleashed ( aka Danny the Dog ) (2005)

7/10
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Jet Li, Kerry Condon, Vincent Regan

Martial arts prodigy Jet Li delivers as Danny, a cold-blooded fighter in the employ of Bart (Bob Hoskins) who makes money off him in brutal illegal fi... Read more

Last Orders (2001)

7/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Win...

When Jack Dodd passes away, his three best friends and son unite to carry out his last wish. It's a request that will send them on a journey of discov... Read more

The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)

7/10
Director: Dick Richards
Starring: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis

This classic of the nouveau western genre tells of a 16-year-old boy who signs on as a cowhand on a cross-country cattle drive. Out in the unforgiving... Read more

Othello (BBC) (1981)

6.9/10
Director: Jonathan Miller
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Wilton, Rosemary Leach

After undertaking to film all Shakespeare's plays, the BBC produced some of the most faithful and gripping renditions of the bard's work ever committe... Read more

Stay (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Janeane Garofalo, B D Wong, Bob Hoskin...

In this mind-bending psychological thriller, college student Henry (Ryan Gosling) plans to kill himself in three days, unless psychologist Sam Foster... Read more

A Christmas Carol (2009)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cary Elwes, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Jim Carrey, Robin Wright

Director Robert Zemeckis uses the techniques developed for 'The Polar Express' and 'Beowulf' for this computer animated retelling of Charles Dickens'... Read more

Royal Flash (1975)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Joss Ackland, Alan Bates, Britt Ekland, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Re...

Based on the second novel in George MacDonald Fraser's Harry Flashman series, this spirited, swashbuckling comedy from director Richard Lester feature... Read more

The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)

6.8/10
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Starring: Bo Hopkins, Carrie Snodgress, David Chung, Ian McKellen, Rene Auberjonois, Suzy...

The gender-bending, true-life sagebrusher about Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis), an outcast from a wealthy Eastern family, who searches for a new life... Read more

Hook (1991)

6.7/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Maggie Smith, Robin Williams

Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman star in this classic tale about a middle-aged lawyer who discovers that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. An ench... Read more

Beyond the Sea (2004)

6.7/10
Director: Kevin Spacey
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Sc...

Kevin Spacey's unusual ode to crooner Bobby Darin is a stylised, though warts-and-all, portrayal of a man who simply wanted to be bigger than Sinatra.... Read more

Mermaids (1990)

6.6/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Cher , Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci

This lovely mix of comedy and drama set in 1960 has Cher, the mother of two, a constant embarrassment to her teenage daughter, who's trying to deal wi... Read more

The Dunera Boys (1985)

6.6/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell, Mary-Anne Fahey, Julia Blake

This specially edited DVD version of the acclaimed television mini-series starring Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell, Mary-Anne Fahey and Julia Blake, and... Read more

The Sleeping Dictionary (2002)

6.6/10
Director: Guy Jenkin
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Bob Hoskins

Exotic drama set in the 1930s in the rainforests of Borneo. Englishman Hugh Dancy takes a job in the British colonial outpost of Sarawak and is given... Read more

Pennies From Heaven (BBC) (1978)

6.5/10
Director: Piers Haggard
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cheryl Campbell, Gemma Craven

The original, groundbreaking BBC mini-series from "The Singing Detective" writer Dennis Potter stars Bob Hoskins as an unhappily married sheet music s... Read more

Shattered (1991)

6.5/10
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Corbin Bernsen, Joanne Whalley

Based on Richard Neely's novel this intricate spy/thriller stars Tom Berenger who begins to think the car accident that caused his memory loss may not... Read more

Hollywoodland (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Allen Coulter
Starring: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Lois Smith, Robin Tunney, Je...

When actor George Reeves, famous for his iconic portrayal of Superman, was found dead in his home from a shotgun wound, it rocked both Hollywood and t... Read more

Neverland (2011)

6.5/10
Director: Nick Willing
Starring: Anna Friel, Bob Hoskins, Charles Dance, Rhys Ifans, Keira Knightley, Charlie Row...

The Peter Pan legend gets a swashbuckling retooling in this television miniseries that turns Peter (Charlie Rowe) into a turn-of-the-century London pi... Read more

The Wind in the Willows (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Rachel Talalay
Starring: Matt Lucas, Mark Gatiss, Bob Hoskins, Imelda Staunton, Lee Ingleby, Jim Carter,...

A new live adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's perennially popular children's books. Matt Lucas stars as the technology-craving Mr Toad who, after being... Read more

Posse (1975)

6.5/10
Director: Kirk Douglas
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins

An unscrupulous politico marshal and his deputies chase a gang of train robbers whose leader proves that every man has his price. Read more

The Cotton Club (Blu-ray) (1984)

6.5/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Allen Garfield, Bob Hoskins, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, James Remar, Lonette McK...

The lives of various characters intersect at Harlem's renowned Cotton Club. Handsome horn player Dix Dwyer (Richard Gere) falls for Vera Cicero (Diane... Read more

A Prayer For The Dying (1987)

6.4/10
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis

Mickey Rourke, Alan Bates, Bob Hoskins and Liam Neeson bring star power to this thriller about a priest who accidentally witnesses an IRA hit, carried... Read more

White Lightning (1973)

6.4/10
Director: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark

Burt Reynolds is Gator McKlusky, a moonshine runner who wages war against corrupt police officials in this two-fisted, four-wheeling action extravagan... Read more

Mussolini And I (1985)

6.3/10
Director: Alberto Negrin
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon

A compelling critically acclaimed drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance wi... Read more

Inserts (1975)

6.3/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins, Veronica Cartwright

In the golden days of silent films, genius director Boy Wonder (Richard Dreyfuss) is king of the silver screen. But when talkies take over Tinseltown,... Read more

Inserts (Blu-ray) (1975)

6.3/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Jessica Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, Veronica Cartwright

In the golden days of silent films, genius director Boy Wonder (Richard Dreyfuss) is king of the silver screen. But when talkies take over Tinseltown,... Read more

Don Quixote (2000)

6.2/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams

In this fanciful version of Cervantes' classic story, John Lithgow is the middle-aged Spaniard who retreats into a world of fantasy while searching fo... Read more

Parting Shots (1998)

6.2/10
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Chris Rea, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley, Diana Rigg, Oliver Reed, Fe...

Harry just found out he only has a short time to live - but for his enemies, their prognosis looks even worse. With nothing to lose, he embarks on a r... Read more

Vanity Fair (2004)

6.2/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Bo...

Reese Witherspoon gives a vibrant, captivating performance as one of the greatest female characters of all time, Becky Sharp, in this sumptuous and se... Read more

Vanity Fair ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

6.2/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Eileen Atkins, Gabriel Byrne, Jim Broadbent, Jonathan Rhys Meyers,...

Reese Witherspoon gives a vibrant, captivating performance as one of the greatest female characters of all time, Becky Sharp, in this sumptuous and se... Read more

Sparkle (2007)

6.1/10
Director: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Starring: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head, Bob Hoskins, Lesley Manville, John...

An appealing British comedy with a fun concept, a witty script and an uplifting ending, from the writers of 'Lawless Heart'. Sam is a Northerner who d... Read more

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

6.1/10
Director: Rupert Sanders
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Charlize Theron, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Kristen Stewart, Nick F...

The timeless fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm is brought to life in this dark and exciting fantasy saga. Beautiful princess Snow White (Kristen Stewar... Read more

The Killer Elite (1975)

6/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins

James Caan is a San Francisco killer-for-hire, working for the CIA, who uses firearms and martial arts for revenge in this tale of espionage, conspira... Read more

Doomsday ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

6/10
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara, Malcolm...

30 years after an entire country was quarantined to stop the spread of a deadly virus, it has resurfaced in a major city, forcing a group of highly-tr... Read more

Doomsday (2008)

6/10
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara, Malcolm...

30 years after an entire country was quarantined to stop the spread of a deadly virus, it has resurfaced in a major city, forcing a group of highly-tr... Read more

Passed Away (1992)

5.9/10
Director: Charlie Peters
Starring: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Jack Warden, Blair Brown, Tim Curry, Frances McDo...

A darkly humorous account of how an offbeat family deals with the death and funeral of the clan patriarch. Bob Hoskins, William Petersen and Blair Bro... Read more

Pinocchio (2008)

5.8/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Robbie Kay, Alessandro Gassman, Violante Placido, Margherita Buy, Thomas Sangste...

A mini-series adaptation of Carlo Collodi's beloved children's story about a little wooden toy who became a real boy. Pinocchio is lovingly crafted by... Read more

Outlaw (2007)

5.7/10
Director: Nick Love
Starring: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Bob Hoskins

A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their Police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they... Read more

Sweet Liberty (1986)

5.7/10
Director: Alan Alda
Starring: Alan Alda, Bob Hoskins, Lillian Gish, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer

A Hollywood film crew invades the small Southern town of the author whose Revolutionary War novel they've turned into a racy teen comedy, much to his... Read more

Heart Condition (1990)

5.6/10
Director: James D Parriott
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb, Roger E Mosley

Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins), is a racist cop who has it in for a black lawyer, Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington). That Stone is dating Moony's ex-girlfr... Read more

A Change of Seasons (1980)

5.2/10
Director: Richard Lang
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek, Mary Beth Hurt, Shirley MacLaine

Karen Evans (Shirley Maclaine) is the long-suffering wife of her college professor husband Adam (Anthony Hopkins). However, when Adam admits he has be... Read more

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

5.1/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Tyler Posey, Stanley Tucci, Natasha...

In this sparkling romantic comedy, Jennifer Lopez is a single mother working as a maid in a luxurious New York City hotel. While trying on a guest's e... Read more

Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

5/10
Director: Tim Hill
Starring: (Voice of) , Billy Connolly, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Breckin Meyer, Bill Murray, V...

As with the original, this sequel features Bill Murray as the big, orange, CGI puss in a real-life world. In spite of the title, the story is swiped... Read more

Uncle Sam (1997)

4.3/10
Director: William Lustig
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Robert Forster, Isaac Hayes, Bo Hopkins

This unique ride for horror fans tells of a Desert Storm chopper pilot, shot down by friendly fire who returns to his hometown, come back to life as a... Read more

Rainbow (1995)

4.2/10
Director: Bob Hoskins
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Dan Aykroyd, Saul Rubinek, Willy Lavendal

When Mike (Willy Lavendal) actually finds the end of a rainbow, his friends don't believe it until he shows it to them. After that, they figure out ho... Read more

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

4/10
Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Starring: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper

The video game is turned into a special effects-filled fantasy about Brooklyn plumber brothers Mario and Luigi, who enter a strange world to save a be... Read more

The Blues Collection: Warming By The Devil's Fire (2003)

Director: Charles Burnett
Starring: Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Dinah Washi...

Charles Burnett explores his own past as a young boy who was shuttled back and forth between Los Angeles and Mississippi, torn between an uncle who lo... Read more

The Eric Sykes Collection: The Plank / Rhubarb Rhubarb! / It's Your Move / Mr H is Late / The Big Freeze (1993)

Director: Eric Sykes
Starring: Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Roy Castle, Jimmy Tarbuck, Hattie Jacques, Jimmy Edwar...

In the tradition of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin comes Eric Sykes and his famous comedy players. These one-off specials are the pinnacle of Sykes... Read more

American Graffiti / More American Graffiti (1973)

Director: Bill L Norton, George Lucas
Starring: Ron Howard, Bo Hopkins, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Mart...

"American Graffiti" (1973) - Follow the misadventures of a group of friends on one summer night in '62, as they prepare for the uncertainty of life af... Read more