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Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life ...and Other Strange Tales (1995)
Director: Don Scardino, Peter Capaldi, Richard D'Alessio, John D Allen
Starring: Richard E Grant, Phyllis Logan, Eileen McCallum, David Huband, Richard Waugh, Jo...
Leading off this collection of acclaimed short films is the 1995 Academy Award-winning "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life". Richard E Grant stars as... Read more
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
6.7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, M...
Unique director Tim Burton re-teams with muse Johnny Depp bringing Roald Dahl's classic morality tale to the big screen once more. Reinvented and reim... Read more
Little Britain: Series 2 (2004)
6.5/10
Director: Steve Bendelack, Matt Lipsey
Starring: Anthony Head, Geraldine James, Matt Lucas, Ruth Madoc, David Walliams, Tom Baker
Series Two of this cult favourite that began life on Radio 4. The bizarre musings on England's extraordinary folk continue - Emily Howard, the rubbish... Read more
Hex: Season 1 (2005)
4.7/10
Director: Brian Grant
Starring: Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender, Colin Salmon, Geraldine James...
At a remote English school, Cassie, a shy socially awkward student, is about to discover some chilling links to her past and supernatural powers she n... Read more
Raise Your Voice (2004)
5.9/10
Director: Sean McNamara
Starring: Hilary Duff, Rita Wilson, David Keith, Jason Ritter, Oliver James, Rebecca De Mo...
Hilary Duff stars in this coming-of-age tale as Terri Fletcher, a small town girl with the voice of a big-time singer. Following her dreams, she heads... Read more
The Letter (1940)
7.7/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaa...
"With all my heart I still love the man I killed..." Six years after exploding to stardom in "Of Human Bondage", Bette Davis equalled that excitement... Read more
Fear X (2002)
6/10
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen McIntyre, William Allen Young, Eugene...
Contemporary psychological thriller with John Turturro as security guard Harry Cain whose wife is mysteriously murdered in the shopping mall where he... Read more
Bright Young Things (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Stephen Fry
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Stockard Cha...
British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature directorial debut with this witty, sophisticated comedy adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bod... Read more
American Splendor (2003)
7.5/10
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, James Urbaniak, Judah Friedlander, Harvey Pekar
"From off the streets of Cleveland" comes the acclaimed filming of Ohio file clerk/jazz buff/crank Harvey Pekar's underground comic book chronicle of... Read more
The Majestic (2001)
6.9/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Jim Carrey, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Amanda Detmer, Hal Holbro...
In the tradition of the films of Frank Capra comes this 1950s fable featuring Jim Carrey as a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter who, left with amnesi... Read more
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
6.8/10
Director: Gary Trousdale
Starring: Voices Of, Michael J Fox, James Garner, Leonard Nimoy, David Ogden Stiers
This exciting Disney animated fantasy is set in 1914, where an eccentric billionaire backs an undersea expedition to locate the lost city of Atlantis.... Read more
Return To Me (2000)
6.9/10
Director: Bonnie Hunt
Starring: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Loggia, James Belushi, B...
It's love at first sight when Chicago architect David Duchovny, whose wife died in an auto accident, meets waitress Minnie Driver in her family's Iris... Read more
The Thin Blue Line: The Complete Series (1995)
8/10
Director: John Birkin
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Mark Addy, Kevin Allen, Mina Anwar, James Dreyfus, Serena Evans,...
Written by Ben Elton and starring Rowan Atkinson, 'The Thin Blue Line' is one of the BBC's classic comedy shows. The complete chronicles of the boys (... Read more
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
8/10
Director: Errol Morris
Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris, Edith James
An extraordinary film that expands all notions of film documentaries as director Errol Morris ('A Brief History of Time') personally investigates the... Read more
Bad Influence (1990)
6.2/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, David Duchovny
A moody and erotic modern 'film noir' starring Rob Lowe as a creepy drifter who befriends repressed Los Angeles yuppie James Spader, then leads him in... Read more
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
7.3/10
Director: Monte Hellman
Starring: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird, David Drake
Monte Hellman's acclaimed cult film concerns a race around the back-roads of America between a pair of drag-racing drifters (musicians James Taylor an... Read more
Payback (1999)
7.1/10
Director: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, David Paymer, Kris Kristofferson, James Co...
Based on the same Richard Stark novel ("The Hunter") that inspired 1967s "Point Blank", this stylish mob actioner stars Mel Gibson as a career crimina... Read more
Salem's Lot (1979)
6.8/10
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Lew Ayres, Lance Kerwin, James Mason, David Soul, Bonnie Bedelia, George Dzundza
This story of vampires in modern-day New England is one of the better adaptations of Stephen King's novels on film. Some real chills go along with an... Read more
Hudson Hawk (1991)
5.8/10
Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, David Caruso, James Coburn, Richard...
Eddie "The Hawk" Hawkins (Willis), the world's most famous cat burglar, who, after 10 years in prison, is ready to go straight. But it's not going to... 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
That'll Be The Day (1973) / Stardust (1974)
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Keith Moon, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr,...
'That'll Be The Day' tells the story of a young man (David Essex) growing up in the dreary working-class world of Britain who comes of age and finds h... Read more
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
7.6/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene P...
Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn star as a team of Allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infilt... Read more
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
7.4/10
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: James Frain, Rachel Griffiths, Emily Watson, David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Cel...
Dramatises the true story of the brilliant cellist Jacqueline du Pre and her close but turbulent relationship with her sister, from childhood through... Read more
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
6.2/10
Director: John Harrison
Starring: Christian Slater, David Johansen, Deborah Harry, James Remar, Julianne Moore, Ra...
Solid stories (by Michael McDowell, Arthur Conan Doyle and Stephen King), a fine cast, and stories that would be unsuitable for T.V. make this horror... Read more
The Long Riders (1980)
7.1/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, James Keach, Stacy Keach, De...
Called 'the best directed American movie of the year' by David Denby (New York), 'The Long Riders' uses four theatrical families to tell the James Bro... Read more
The Way Ahead (1944)
7.1/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: David Niven, James Donald, John Laurie, Peter Ustinov, Stanley Holloway, Trevor...
A.k.a. "The Immortal Battalion". Having seen a 44 minute training film called 'The New Lot', Winston Churchill approached actor David Niven about maki... Read more
12 Angry Men (1997)
7.9/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jack Lemmon, George C Scott, Courtney B Vance, Ossie Davis, Armin M...
A fine new version of the memorable tale of jury haggling on a stuffy afternoon in N.Y.C., with a bunch of cranky men. New to this version are the def... Read more
The Green Mile (1999)
8.5/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Bonnie Hunt, David Morse, Graham Greene, Harry Dean Stanton, James Cromwell, Pat...
This superlative adaptation of Stephen King's novel is from the writer and director of 'The Shawshank Redemption', Frank Darabont. Tom Hanks is the he... Read more
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
7.2/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid
A tense science-fiction thriller, this film focuses on a team of scientists attempting to isolate a deadly virus while racing against time and the pos... Read more
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
6.7/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: David Carradine, Gert Frobe, James Whitmore, Liv Ullmann
Set in Berlin in 1923, the film is about a Jewish-American trapeze artist (David Carradine) and his sister-in-law (Liv Ullman), who are entrapped by a... Read more