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Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella (1987)

8.4/10
Director: Mark Cullingham
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Eve Arden, Matthew Broderick, Jean Stapleton

Cinderella (Jennifer Beals) leads a life of drudgery and unhappiness at the hands of her wicked stepmother (Eve Arden) and her stepsisters Arlene and... Read more

The Haunted Strangler (1957)

6.3/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson

Aka 'Grip of the Strangler'. Set against the backdrop of Victorian society in London, this atmospheric horror features Boris Karloff as a novelist inv... Read more

The Texas Rangers (1936)

6.7/10
Director: King Vidor
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan

When three outlaws barely escape after committing a stagecoach robbery, they saddle up their horses and head south to Texas, where two of them go unde... Read more

Riverdance: The Best Of (2005)

7.7/10
Starring: Michael Flatley, Jean Butler, Joanne Doyle, Colin Dunne

Beginning with the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest performance that led to the full-length stage show, 'The Best Of Riverdance' compiles a number of hig... Read more

Universal Soldier (1992)

6/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Ally Walker, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme

Two titans of movie muscledom, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, team up in this sci-fi actioner. Killed while serving in Vietnam, they're bro... Read more

Marriages! (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Valerie Guignabodet
Starring: Didier Bezace, Miou-Miou, Mathilde Seigner, Jean Dujardin

This fun, frothy comedy explores relationships as only the French can! On the morning of Johanna and Benjamin's wedding, tensions are high. While the... Read more

Belle et Sebastien: Series 1 ( Belle and Sebastian ) (1967)

7.6/10
Director: Jean Guillaume
Starring: Edmond Beauchamp, Jean-Michel Audin, Medhi , Dominique Blondeau

The French Alps provides the setting for this enduring and beloved thirteen part serial in which the friendship between Sebastien, an eight year old b... Read more

Short Night of Glass Dolls (Blu-ray) (1971)

6.7/10
Director: Aldo Lado
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach

An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared. Read more

Goldfinger (1964)

7.7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Honor Blackman, Sean Connery, Shirley Eaton, Gert Frobe, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwe...

In one of the most popular Bond adventures, 007 must foil Goldfinger - the man with the plan to irradiate Fort Knox and corner the world's gold market... Read more

Thunderball (1965)

7/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois M...

Bond (Sean Connery) must thwart SPECTRE's most audacious plot to date, when its agents hijack a British bomber, armed with two nuclear warheads, and h... Read more

Borderland (2007)

5.6/10
Director: Zev Berman
Starring: Brian Presley, Martha Higareda, Jake Muxworthy, Rider Strong, Damian Alcazar, Se...

Inspired by true events that took place in 1989, in the bordertown of Matamoros, Mexico, this unnerving, ruthless thriller features three college stud... Read more

Lucky Miles (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Michael James Rowland
Starring: Rodney Afif, Kenneth Moraleda, Sri Sacdpraseuth, Glenn Shea, Don Hany, Sean Munu...

It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australian coastline. While most are qu... Read more

Murder on the Orient Express (Blu-ray) (1974)

7.3/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Sean Connery, Jacqu...

Having concluded a case, detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) settles into what he expects will be a relaxing journey home aboard the Orient Expre... Read more

21 Grams (2003)

7.7/10
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo

Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's ("Amores Perros") intricate, non-linear drama centers on three ostensibly disparate individuals whose lives con... Read more

House M.D.: Season 1 (2004)

8.6/10
Director: Daniel Attias, Gloria Muzio
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison

Pill-popping maverick Doctor House (Hugh Laurie) specializes in infectious diseases, sarcasm and solving puzzling medical cases that come his way in t... Read more

The Burrowers (2008)

5.8/10
Director: JT Petty
Starring: Karl Geary, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Clancy Brown, Galen Hutchison

A creepy horror/western, set in 1879, as an intrepid community of pioneers find themselves the target of unknown assailants. When a family is mysterio... Read more

House M.D.: Season 5 (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Various
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison, Lisa Edelstein

Hugh Laurie returns to his Golden Globe-winning role as the brilliant curmudgeon, Dr. Gregory House. He pushes new boundaries in medicine while dealin... Read more

Highlander II: Renegade Version (Special Edition) (Blu-ray) (1991)

4.3/10
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Christopher Lambert, John C McGinley, Michael Ironside, Sean Connery, Virginia M...

It's 2024 and MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Ramirez (Sean Connery) are back to save planet Earth. Ozone depletion, time travel and corporate greed... Read more

A Separate Peace (2004)

5.4/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: J Barton, Jacob Pitts, Aaron Ashmore, Sean McCann, Alison Pill, Hume Cronyn

Strong friendship between students slowly turns into bitter rivalry with fatal consequences. Read more

The Hobbit (1977)

6.8/10
Director: Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass
Starring: Orson Bean, Richard Boone, John Huston, Hans Conried, Otto Preminger, Cyril Ritc...

An animated interpretation of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel of the same name. The story follows Bilbo Baggins and his journeys in Middle Earth and encounte... Read more

Milk (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Victor Garber, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna

Sean Penn garnered a Best Actor Academy Award as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office, in dir... Read more

Trespass Against Us (2016)

5.8/10
Director: Adam Smith
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Michael Fassbender, Killian Scott, Lyndsey Marshal...

Three generations of the Cutler family live as notorious outlaws among some of the wealthiest lands in Britain. They spend their time hunting, raiding... Read more

C'est La Vie (Le sens de la fête) (2017)

6.9/10
Director: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, Suzanne Clement, Gilles Lellouche, Judith Ch...

When a luxury wedding celebration in a 17th-century French castle gets terribly out of control, waiters and photographers witness a monstrosity. Read more

Out of Time (2003)

6.5/10
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain

An atmospheric modern "film noir" with Denzel Washington as a police chief in a small Florida town who is romantically involved with Sanaa Lathan, a w... Read more

Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955)

Director: Rene Clair
Starring: Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Brigitte Bardot

AKA "Summer Manoeuvres" A rakish army lieutenant takes a bet from his comrades that he can make love to any woman in the town. The bet of course backf... Read more

Thunder Rock (1942)

6.8/10
Director: Roy Boulting
Starring: Barry Morse, James Mason, Michael Redgrave, Jean Sheppard

An adaptation of Robert Ardrey's stage play. Michael Redgrave plays a writer who tries to reveal what is happening in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy,... Read more

The Color Honeymooners (1966)

Starring: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Sheila MacRae, Jane Kean

Reprising their famous characters from 'The Honeymooners', the cast was led by Jackie Gleason and Art Carney with newcomers Sheila MacRae and Jane Kea... Read more

OSS 117 - Lost in Rio (2009)

6.9/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Rudiger Vogler, Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Alex Lutz

The year is 1967 and Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (Jean Dujardin) - or, OSS 117 - is a dashing French intelligence officer whose handsome looks and deb... Read more

The Plainsman (1936)

6.9/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford

Gary Cooper is Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur is his Calamity Jane in Cecil B. Demille's grand western about profiteering white men running guns to... Read more

Life at the Top (1965)

6.7/10
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Honor Blackman, Jean Simmons, Laurence Harvey, Michael Craig

Laurence Harvey turns in an excellent performance in this sequel to the highly successful "Room at the Top" which follows the life of a social climber... Read more

Eternity (2012)

7.4/10
Director: Alex Galvin
Starring: Elliot Travers, Amy Tsang, Liz Kirkman, Dean Knowsley

New Zealand/Hong Kong sci-fi mystery feature, written and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Alex Galvin. Set in the near future. Police detective, Ric... Read more

Sense and Sensibility (1971)

6.7/10
Director: David Giles
Starring: Ciaran Madden, Patricia Routledge, Robin Ellis, Isabel Dean

Mrs. Dashwood and her two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, are faced with the prospect of Mrs. Dashwood's stepson and his wife moving into their home a... Read more

Alpha Dog (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Bruce Willis, Emile Hirsch, Vincent Kartheiser, Justin Timberlake, Shawn Hatosy,...

Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch), barely out of his teens, already has a lucrative drug-dealing business and his life is one big party. There's just on... Read more

My Little Eye (2001)

5.6/10
Director: Marc Evans
Starring: Sean C W Johnson, Kris Lemche, Stephen O'Reilly, Jennifer Sky, Laura Regan

Five twentysomethings are assembled to live together for a period of six months in a house specially outfitted with a bevy of webcams in order to coll... Read more

The Thin Red Line (1998)

7.6/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, Elias Koteas, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack

Returning to the screen after a 20-year absence, writer/director Terence Malick adapts James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel about the pivotal WWII... Read more

The Untouchables (1987)

7.9/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro

Federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) vows to bring down Prohibition-era mob warlord Al Capone (Robert De Niro) with the help of a Chicago cop (Sea... Read more

The Untouchables ( Blu-ray ) (1987)

7.9/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro

Federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) vows to bring down Prohibition-era mob warlord Al Capone (Robert De Niro) with the help of a Chicago cop (Sea... Read more

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

7/10
Director: Niels Mueller
Starring: Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Mykelti Wil...

In 1974 Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is an office supply salesman whose life is falling apart. His wife (Naomi Watts) has left and his job is going nowhere.... Read more

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

6.7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Charles Gray, Jill St John, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Ma...

This seventh instalment of the Bond series sees the British Government become suspicious when large shipments of uncut diamonds begin disappearing dur... Read more

Before Night Falls (2000)

7.3/10
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Michael Wincott, Olivier Martinez, Sean Penn, Andrea...

"Basquiat" director Julian Schnabel brings to the screen another doomed creative genius on the fringes of his society - gay Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

7.4/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompso...

Shakespeare's comedy of the wooing of Benedick (played by actor-director-screenwriter Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (his real life wife Emma Thompson)... Read more

House M.D.: Season 4 (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison,...

Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team can... Read more

And God Created Woman (1956)

6.3/10
Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Curt Jurgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand

Brigitte Bardot's best known film. She plays a man teasing 18-year-old whose lustful encounters with the irresistible opposite sex are enacted out ami... Read more

Queen Margot ( La Reine Margot ) (1994)

7.5/10
Director: Patrice Chereau
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Jean-Hugues Anglade

An intelligent and moving epic based on a Dumas' novel of the events surrounding the notorious St Bartholemew's Day massacre in 16th Century France. T... Read more

The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)

2.1/10
Director: James L Wolcott
Starring: Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb, Cande Gerrard, Johnny Walsh

A prehistoric beach blanket classic with leopard skin-clad women and brutish men engaged in the battle of the sexes on the idyllic island of Wongo. A... Read more

How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)

5.7/10
Director: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Bernard Campan

The voluptuous Monica Bellucci stars as a prostitute hired to play wife to a lonely lotto winner in a role specifically written for her. Bumbling Fran... Read more

Army in the Shadows ( aka Army of Shadows ) (1969)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

A.k.a. 'Army of Shadows'. Based on Joseph Kessel's novel, this war drama follows several months in the life of French Resistance fighter Philippe Gerb... Read more

The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

7.6/10
Director: Robert Bresson
Starring: Florence Carrez, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Marc Jacquier

A masterful retelling of the trial of one of history's most famous martyrs, this beautiful film focuses on the psychological and physical torture Joan... Read more

Monsieur Batignole (2002)

7/10
Director: Gerard Jugnot
Starring: Jules Sitruk, Gerard Jugnot, Jean-Paul Rouve, Michele Garcia

Summer 1942, Paris is under German occupation. Edmond, a butcher whose future son-in-law is an active collaborator, inadvertently takes part in the de... Read more

Le Beau Serge (1958)

7.2/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz, Bernadette Lafont

The first film from French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol sees ailing city-dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) make a therapeutic trip back t... Read more

Rude (1995)

6/10
Director: Clement Virgo
Starring: Rachael Crawford, Sharon Lewis, Maurice Dean Wint, Clark Johnson

This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window... Read more

The Cool School: How LA Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Morgan Neville
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, etc ..., Narrated by, Jeff Bridges

A fascinating look at the birth of Modern Art in Los Angeles in the 1950s; when most of the population thought it was either a joke or a communist plo... Read more

Heat Wave (2015)

6.1/10
Director: Raphael Jacoulot
Starring: Karim Leklou, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Franck, Gregory Gadebois

Aka 'Coup de chaud'.Heat kills. Just ask Camuss Meursault. Its not great for crops either. An unseasonable warm spell will set in motion a chain of... Read more

Harry Brown (2009)

7.2/10
Director: Daniel Barber
Starring: Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Iain Glen, Liam Cunningham, Michael Caine, E...

Michael Caine stars as Harry Brown, an ordinary, law-abiding citizen who just wants to quietly live out his retirement. But in this desolate urban was... Read more

Ride In The Whirlwind (1965)

6.6/10
Director: Monte Hellman
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, Harry Dean Stanton

Star Jack Nicholson co-produced and wrote the screenplay for this highly charged western in which three innocent cowboys are wrongly mistaken for stag... Read more

One From the Heart (1982)

6.8/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton

An extraordinarily visual film examining the bittersweet romance between Teri Garr and Frederic Forrest, with support from Nastassia Kinski and Harry... Read more

The Straight Story (1999)

8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Everett McGill, Harry Dean Stanton

In a gentle, G-rated change of pace that still features his trademark fascination with rural American quirkiness, director David Lynch recounts the tr... Read more

The Cell (2000)

6.3/10
Director: Tarsem Singh
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Psychotherapist Jennifer Lopez, who uses experimental virtual reality technology to enter the minds of her patients, is recruited by the FBI to delve... Read more

Love on the Run ( L'amour En Fuite ) (1979)

7.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Dani

Antoine Doninel, separated from his family, is still having girl trouble. The further amorous adventures of the character first glimpsed in 'The 400 B... Read more

Wise Blood (1979)

7.2/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Brad Dourif, Harry Dean Stanton, Ned Beatty, Dan Shor

An unlikely religious leader (Brad Dourif) recruits a ragtag band of followers for his Church of Christ Without Christ in order to expose the hypocris... Read more

Trio (1950)

7.3/10
Director: Harold French, Ken Annakin
Starring: James Hayter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie

This trio of short plays based on the work of W. Somerset Maugham comprises: 'The Verger', the tale of a church verger who is forced to find a new car... Read more

The Horde (2009)

5.9/10
Director: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
Starring: Jean-Pierre Martins, Eriq Ebouaney, Aurelien Recoing, Claude Perron

When a group of vengeful cops descend on the hideout of a criminal gang, they get more than they expected when the building comes under siege from an... Read more

Kandahar Break (2009)

5.3/10
Director: David Whitney
Starring: Rasheed Naz, Dean Andrews, Shaun Dooley, Tatmain Ul Qulb

Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1999. British mine clearance experts are working for the Taliban Government, who distrust the foreigners completely. Matters on... Read more

The Unholy (Blu-ray) (2021)

5.2/10
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, William Sadler, Cary Elwes, Diogo Morgado

A hearing-impaired girl is visited by the Virgin Mary and can suddenly hear, speak, and heal the sick. As people flock to witness her miracles, terrif... Read more

Best French Crime Flicks ( The Professional / The Gypsy / Choice of Arms ) (1981)

Director: Alain Corneau, Georges Lautner, Jose Giovanni
Starring: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Desailly,...

A collection of three rough and tough French crime dramas. "The Professional" ("Le Professionel") (1981) - French secret agent Joss Beaumont (Jean-Pau... Read more

French Kiss (1995)

6.6/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton, Jean Reno

Meg Ryan kicks off in top Meg Ryan form as the cute-as-a-button neurotic Kate, who while travelling to the city of the banquette to meet up with her i... Read more

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

7/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr

The story plays out in Climax, Nevada, a name not lost on the sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dino (played to a tee by sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dean Martin... Read more

Toy Love (2002)

6.2/10
Director: Harry Sinclair
Starring: Dean O'Gorman, Kate Elliott, Marissa Stott, Michael Lawrence

Ben has sex with anybody as long as it's not his girlfriend. Emily wants to be faithful but can't say no to her mechanic. Chio only sleeps with unavai... Read more

Wasabi (2001)

6.7/10
Director: Gerard Krawczyk
Starring: Jean Reno, Michel Muller, Ryoko Hirosue, Carole Bouquet

Hubert (Jean Reno) is a tough French cop who isn't afraid of letting his fists do the talking... or of letting little things like correct procedure ge... Read more

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

7.8/10
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood, James Dean, Dennis Hopper

In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town. Stark's loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those... Read more

Return to Oz (1985)

6.8/10
Director: Walter Murch
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie

A very dark sequel to the classic "The Wizard of Oz", with Dorothy returning to Oz (after a bout in a sanitarium) but finding its famed inhabitants un... Read more

My Name Is Nobody (1974)

7.5/10
Director: Tonino Valerii
Starring: Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, Jean Martin, Leo Gordon

An enjoyable western spoof with Terence Hill as an easygoing gunfighter who worships an aging Henry Fonda, a gunfighter who wants to retire. Produced... Read more

Leon: The Professional (1994)

8.6/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello

Jean Reno is Leon, a deadly and elusive killer. He lives a routine life, alone in New York with just his pot-plant for company - until the day his twe... Read more

Sudden Death (1995)

5.7/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Ross Malinger

The US Vice President is held hostage in a private box during an ice hockey playoff in Pittsburgh, with the captor demanding a few billion or he'll bl... Read more

Timecop (1994)

5.8/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver

In the year 2004, a new law enforcement agency polices time-tripping criminals; top agent Jean-Claude Van Damme is determined to nail the ringleader o... Read more

The Comedy Hour with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis: Vol 1 (1950)

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Rosemary Clooney

'The Colgate Comedy Hour' (1950-1955) was a favourite with audiences for six years, providing viewers with classic sketches by hosts Dean Martin and J... Read more

Catherine Cookson: The Black Velvet Gown (1991)

Director: Norman Stone
Starring: Bob Peck, Janet McTeer, Geraldine Somerville, Jean Anderson

"The Black Velvet Gown" is a story of great power and diversity that is one of Catherine Cookson's major achievements. When her miner husband dies, Ri... Read more

Death Warrant (1990)

5.7/10
Director: Deran Sarafian
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Officer Louis Burke, a roguish detective sent undercover in a violent penitentiary to seek out those responsible for a... Read more

Aberdeen (2000)

7.1/10
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson, Charlotte Rampling

A mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aber... Read more

Mare Of Easttown (2021)

8.5/10
Starring: Kate Winslet, Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice

A young woman is murdered in a small Pennsylvania town. On the case is Detective Sergeant Mare Sheehan, a highly skilled crime investigator. She has s... Read more

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

4.1/10
Director: Mic Rodgers
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Bill Goldberg

This theatrical sequel to the 1992 actioner features Jean-Claude Van Damme as the former "unisol" who must take on a rogue government supercomputer na... Read more

Nocturne Indien (1989)

6.9/10
Director: Alain Corneau
Starring: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Clementine Celarie, Otto Tausig, TP Jain

A young Frenchman goes in search of his friend after he goes missing in India in this reflective and sensually photographed drama from French director... Read more

Le Havre (2011)

7.2/10
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Starring: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel

In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismaki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (Andre... Read more

The Unholy (2021)

5.2/10
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, William Sadler, Cary Elwes, Diogo Morgado

A hearing-impaired girl is visited by the Virgin Mary and can suddenly hear, speak, and heal the sick. As people flock to witness her miracles, terrif... Read more

Mystic River (2003)

8/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laur...

Director Clint Eastwood's emotionally-charged drama centers on Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins, three Boston friends reunited 30 years after R... Read more

Barbershop (2002)

6.3/10
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve , Keith David, Cedric The E...

Calvin (Ice Cube) is a would-be entrepreneur with big plans... and running his family's Chicago barbershop isn't one of them. But when he impulsively... Read more

Finding Forrester (2000)

7.3/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Anna Paquin, F Murray Abraham, Matt Damon, Sean Connery, Busta Rhymes, Rob Brown

Sean Connery is William Forrester, an author unseen in public since penning an acclaimed first novel, who discovers his Bronx apartment has been broke... Read more

Diamonds Are Forever ( Blu-ray ) (1971)

6.7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Bernard Lee, Charles Gray, Jill St John, Sean Connery, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Ma...

This seventh instalment of the Bond series sees the British Government become suspicious when large shipments of uncut diamonds begin disappearing dur... Read more

Just Cause (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Arne Glimcher
Starring: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ruby...

This high-powered, stylishly directed adaptation of John Katzenbach's novel has Harvard Law professor Sean Connery squaring off with southern detectiv... Read more

Meteor (1979)

5/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Henry Fonda, Martin Landau

A five mile wide meteor races towards Earth, as the world's governments race against time and each other's suspicions to find a way to avert planetary... Read more

Thunderball ( Blu-ray ) (1965)

7/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois M...

Bond (Sean Connery) must thwart SPECTRE's most audacious plot to date, when its agents hijack a British bomber, armed with two nuclear warheads, and h... Read more

Dr No ( Blu-ray ) (1962)

7.3/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman, Lois Maxwe...

The first of the phenomenally successful Bond movies. 007's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where another agent has been murdered,... Read more

Whisky Galore! (2016)

5.6/10
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Eddie Izzard, Gregor Fisher, Naomi Battrick, Sean Biggerstaff, Kevin Guthrie, El...

During World War II, the tiny Scottish island of Todday runs out of whisky. When the freighter S.S. Cabinet Minister runs aground nearby during a heav... Read more

Milk ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Victor Garber, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna

Sean Penn garnered a Best Actor Academy Award as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office, in dir... Read more

Get Him to the Greek (2010)

6.4/10
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Colm Meaney, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs, Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, Elisabeth Moss

Outrageous spinoff of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (from the same director) finds rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) at an all-time career low, his... Read more

Being John Malkovich (1999)

7.8/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Charlie Sheen, Orso...

What would you do if you found a doorway in your workplace that led, via a mysterious portal, into the head of actor John Malkovich, giving you the ch... Read more

A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987)

Director: John Woo
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Dean Shek

This dynamite sequel focuses on the original's leading characters' exploits and pays homage to Sam Peckinpah and the American gangsters in intoxicatin... Read more

Fool for Love (1985)

6.1/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid, Sam Shepard

The minimalist, barren landscapes energize the smothering, claustrophobic interiors of Sam Shepard's play in this Robert Altman adaptation. Starring S... Read more

La Grande Illusion (1937)

8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay

One of the very first prison escape movies, 'Grand Illusion' is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars... Read more

Europa ( aka Zentropa ) (1992)

7.7/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst Hugo

This penetrating and mesmeric trip into the dark soul of Europe follows a young American pacifist of German descent who sojourns to post-WWII Deutschl... Read more

Scarlet Diva (2000)

5.2/10
Director: Asia Argento
Starring: Asia Argento, Jean Sheppard, Herbert Fritsch, Gian Luca Arcopinto

A semi-autobiographical tale from Asia Argento, daughter of the famous cult director, Dario. Asia not only directs, but stars, as Anna Battista, a ri... Read more

Le Beau Serge (Blu-ray) (1958)

7.2/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz, Bernadette Lafont

The first film from French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol sees ailing city-dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) make a therapeutic trip back t... Read more

The Resident (2010)

5.3/10
Director: Antti Jokinen
Starring: Christopher Lee, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace

Resuscitated shock studio Hammer Film Productions offers up this fright-packed feature about a doctor (Hilary Swank) who leaves her husband and moves... Read more

My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)

7.2/10
Director: Jean Becker
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Gisele Casadesus

In a small French town, Germain, a nearly illiterate man in his 50's, considered by many to be the village idiot, takes a walk to the park where he me... Read more

Secret Agent X-9 (1937)

6.5/10
Director: Ford Beebe
Starring: Jean Rogers, Monte Blue, Henry Brandon, Lon Chaney Jr

In Chapter One (Modern Pirates), the G-Men learn that "Brenda", notorious jewel thief, is heading for the United States, to steal the Belgravian crown... Read more

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

8.3/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Harrison Ford, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Ju...

This time the man in the hat joins his father's lifelong quest for the Holy Grail, battling the Nazi's who also want the sacred relic. Harrison Ford,... Read more

We're No Angels (1989)

6.1/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Bruno Kirby, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, James Russo, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn

The screenplay by David Mamet ('House of Games') is a send-up of the old Warner Bros. gangster melodrama. With Robert De Niro and Sean Penn mugging it... Read more

Killer: A Journal Of Murder (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Tim Metcalfe
Starring: Cara Buono, Robert Sean Leonard, James Woods, Ellen Greene, Robert John Burke, S...

Set in the 1920s, this powerful true story centers on a Jewish Leavenworth prison guard, Henry Lewis, who attempts to befriend convicted killer Carl P... Read more

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

7.3/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Gretchen Mol, Samantha Morton, Sean Penn, Uma Thurman, Woody A...

Woody Allen's affectionate, pseudo-documentary centres on Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), "the second best jazz guitarist in the world", a '30s music virtuoso... Read more

Time Bandits (1980)

7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...

An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006)

8.1/10
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Geraldine James, James Wilby, Peter Firth, Sean Pertwee, Ja...

The definitive history of the world's first superpower, this compelling dramatised documentary series combines CGI with spectacular live action battle... Read more

Bonjour Timothy (1995)

6.1/10
Director: Wayne Tourell
Starring: Sabine Karsenti, Sylvia Rands, Dean O'Gorman, Sydney Jackson, Angela Bloomfield

A college student, Timothy (Dean O'Gorman), and his family are awaiting the arrival of Michele, a French-Canadian male exchange student. Turns out, Mi... Read more

Psych-Out (1968)

6/10
Director: Richard Rush
Starring: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke

Tune in. Turn on. Psych out! Take the ultimate in psychedelic trips with Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern! When a deaf r... Read more

Willow (1988)

7.3/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Billy Barty, Jean Marsh

From a story by George Lucas comes this epic fantasy-adventure in which Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a little person, is entrusted with delivering a... Read more

A Man Called Horse (1970)

6.9/10
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Starring: Jean Gascon, Judith Anderson, Richard Harris, Manu Tupou, Corinna Tsopei

Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th centur... Read more

Texas Across the River (1966)

6.6/10
Director: Michael Gordon
Starring: Alain Delon, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Rosemary Forsyth, Tina Aumont

Dean Martin stars as an amiable gunrunner in this tongue-in-cheek western. Martin teams up with fugitive from justice Alain Delon, a Spanish nobleman... Read more

The Goonies (1985)

7.8/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, Josh Brolin, Kerri Green, Martha Plim...

From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, 'The Goonies' plunges a band of small heroes into a swashbuckling, surprise-around-every-corner quest beyond... Read more

Hurlyburly (1998)

5.8/10
Director: Anthony Drazan
Starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Chazz Palminteri, Garry Shandling, Anna P...

David Rabe's blistering play about addiction, sexual confrontation and moral bankruptcy is bought to the screen with a stellar cast, including Sean Pe... Read more

Wall Street (1987)

7.4/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Terence Stamp, Sean Young, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook, Daryl Ha...

Oliver Stone invades the stone canyons of the stock market battlezone with the story of a young broker who is willing to do almost anything to land th... Read more

Headspace (2005)

4.7/10
Director: Andrew van den Houten
Starring: William Atherton, Olivia Hussey, Udo Kier, Mark Margolis, Dee Wallace, Sean Youn...

When Alex has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger his intellect begins to rapidly expand, but as the power of his mind grows, so does the my... Read more

The Bucket List (2007)

7.4/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Rob Morrow, Alfonso Fr...

Rob Reiner's seriocomic road movie stars Jack Nicholson as a terminally ill corporate billionaire sharing a hospital room with cancer-stricken mechani... Read more

The Selfish Giant (2013)

7.3/10
Director: Clio Barnard
Starring: Siobhan Finneran, Steve Evets, Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder, Lorrai...

Set on the outskirts of Bradford, "The Selfish Giant" follows two rebellious young lads - Arbor & Swifty - and their involvement with a local scrap de... Read more

Two Brothers (2004)

7.1/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Freddie Highmore

Two mischievous twin tiger cubs live a carefree life in an exotic jungle amidst beautiful ancient ruins. But one day, an act of fate forces them apart... Read more

Blue Velvet (1986)

7.8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dean Stockwell

The most talked about film of the '80s, David Lynch's controversial, surreal mystery is set amid the manicured lawns of small town America where a wor... Read more

Touchez Pas au Grisbi ( Hands Off the Loot ) (1954)

7.9/10
Director: Jacques Becker
Starring: Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Rene Dary

Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in this gem from director Jacques Becker ('Le trou'). Having pulled off th... Read more

Perversion Story (1969)

Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Elsa Martinelli, Faith Domergue, Jean Sorel, John Ireland, Marisa Mell

Jean Sorel stars as an arrogant San Francisco doctor trapped between his sultry mistress (Elsa Martinelli) and an amoral stripper (Marisa Mell) who be... Read more

Angel Face (1952)

7.3/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Barbara O'Neil, Herbert Marshall, Jean Simmons, Leon Ames, Robert Mitchum

This noir gem stars Robert Mitchum as an ambulance driver who catches the eye of a wealthy femme fatale (Jean Simmons). Hired as a chauffeur for Simmo... Read more

Crime Wave / Decoy (1954)

Director: Andre De Toth, Jack Bernhard
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Edward Norris, Jean Gillie, Charles Bronson

Film noir double feature features the underrated noir thriller 'Crime Wave' (1954), about a hardboiled LA cop out to get a 'reformed' ex-con who was l... Read more

Nights in the Gardens of Spain (2010)

6.2/10
Director: Katie Wolfe
Starring: Dean O'Gorman, Vicky Haughton, Nathalie Boltt, George Henare, Calvin Tuteao

"One's real life is often the life one does not lead". Adapted from Witi Ihimaera's novel of the same name and starring a bevy of great Kiwi talent (C... Read more

Looking for Hortense (2012)

6.2/10
Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Claude Rich, Isabelle Carre

A.k.a. "Cherchez Hortense". "Looking for Hortense" is a bittersweet comedy of manners that is French in spirit but universal in appeal. It tells the s... Read more

The Connection ( aka La French ) (2015)

7.1/10
Director: Cedric Jimenez
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Celine Sallette, Melanie Doutey, Benoit Magimel

Marseille. 1975. A young magistrate with a wife and children, is transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He takes on French Connecti... Read more

Death Wish (2018)

6.4/10
Director: Eli Roth
Starring: Bruce Willis, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mike Epps, Dean Norris

Dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who often sees the consequences of the city's violence in the emergency room. When home intruders brutally attack his wif... Read more

Stolen Kisses ( Baisers Voles ) (1968)

7.8/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Jade

This alternately touching and hilarious film about an inept but likeable jerk-of-all-trades, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Legud) which began with 'The... Read more

Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo (1977)

5.6/10
Director: Vincent McEveety
Starring: Dean Jones, Roy Kinnear, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Herbie

Herbie the Volkswagon falls in love with a sports car as they compete in a race from Paris to Monte Carlo in this grand outing. Dean Jones and Don Kno... Read more

The Red Siren (2002)

5.2/10
Director: Olivier Megaton
Starring: Jean-Marc Barr, Asia Argento, Frances Barber, Andrew Tiernan

Aka "La Sirene Rouge". In the tradition of "The Professional" comes a stylish French thriller detailing the unlikely alliance between a 12-year-old gi... Read more

The Conformist (1970)

8.1/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi

Derived from the novel by Alberto Moravia, acclaimed director Bernardo Bertolucci's visually electrifying masterpiece about sex, politics, repression... Read more

La Chinoise (1967)

7.3/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako

Born in a decade of political turmoil, Godard's caustic farce has become a cinematic marker for the significant historical events sorrounding its crea... Read more

Oh, Woe Is Me ( aka Helas Pour Moi ) (1993)

6.4/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley, Jean Louis Loca

Director Jean-Luc Godard's story of journalist Abraham Klimt's investigation into a case of divine possession. Godard takes his cue from the Greek myt... Read more

Supernatural: Season 1 (2005)

8.5/10
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Nicki Aycox

Brothers Sam and Dean have some bad voodoo in their past that has made them go their separate ways, but a visit from some old demons sees them getting... Read more

Made in USA (1966)

6.8/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Laszlo Szabo

Set in the alternate-universe fictional location of Atlantic-Cite, with comic book-bright colours and playful sound effects, Jean-Luc Godard pays trib... Read more

Five Miles to Midnight (1963)

6.4/10
Director: Anatole Litvak
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Sophia Loren

Lisa (Sophia Loren) marries Robert (Anthony Perkins), a domineering, jealous American and becomes trapped in a violent marriage. Much to her relief, R... Read more

The Thief of Paris (1967)

6.9/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Genevieve Bujold, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Dubois, Francoise Fabian

Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is shocked to learn that the uncle who raised him has not only squandered the yo... Read more

Bringing Down the House (2003)

5.6/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Jean Smart, Joan Plowright

Steve Martin and Queen Latifah star with Eugene Levy in the hit comedy "Bringing Down the House". Peter Sanderson (Martin), a divorced, straight-laced... Read more

Pardners (1956)

6.3/10
Director: Norman Taurog
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, Agnes Moorehead

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis re-unite for another raucous comedy, this time poking fun at the Western genre. Wade Kingsley Jr (Lewis), brought up by hi... Read more

Ridicule (1996)

7.5/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Judith Godreche, Bernard Giraudea...

A delightful tale of a young landowner who tries to obtain an audience with King Louis XVI in order to get grant money to drain a swamp. He soon disco... Read more

Pickpocket (1959)

7.8/10
Director: Robert Bresson
Starring: Marika Green, Martin Lasalle, Pierre Etaix, Pierre Leymarie, Jean Pelegri

Robert Bresson's incomparable tale of crime and redemption follows Michel (Martin LaSalle), a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets... Read more

When the Boat Comes In: Series 1 (1976)

8.6/10
Starring: James Bolam, James Garbutt, Susan Jameson, Jean Heywood, John Nightingale

James Bolam stars in this fondly remembered series as ex-sergeant Jack Ford returning home to Gallowshields on Tyneside after the end of World War 1.... Read more

When the Boat Comes In: Series 2 (1976)

8.6/10
Starring: James Bolam, James Garbutt, Susan Jameson, Jean Heywood, John Nightingale

After the end of the First World War, Jack Ford (James Bolam) returns to his home town of Gallowshields on Tyneside. It is a time of economic depressi... Read more

Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice (2005)

Director: Martyn Friend
Starring: Sinead Cusack, Jan Niklas, Jean Simmons, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter Ustinov

Rosamunde Pilcher ('Coming Home') has another best-selling novel adapted into an absorbing miniseries. The recently bereaved Elfrida Phipps moves to a... Read more