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The Night James Brown Saved Boston (2008)

7.4/10
Director: David Leaf
Starring: James Brown

April 5th, 1968. The day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and American cities are imploding. The Mayor of Boston is about to can... Read more

Targets (1967)

7.4/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, James Brown

In his directorial debut, Peter Bogdanovich weaves two disparate story lines into a terrifying moment of confrontation. In seemingly unrelated events,... Read more

Objective, Burma! (1945)

7.4/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Errol Flynn, William Prince, James Brown

A taut, thrilling blockbuster of a war film about a group of tough, tight-lipped paratroopers who are dropped into the Burmese jungle to wipe out a Ja... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

7/10
Director: William Dieterle
Starring: James Cagney, Joe E Brown, Dick Powell

Love is blind, fickle and true. And under the sway of capricious fairies it becomes blinder (a queen romances a donkey), more fickle (best friends swo... Read more

When We Were Kings (1996)

8/10
Director: Leon Gast
Starring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown

Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 heavyweight championship fight that suddenly turned Zaire into the temporary sports a... Read more

Occupation (2009)

7.8/10
Director: Nick Murphy
Starring: James Nesbitt, Lubna Azabal, Monica Dolan, Stephen Graham, Nonso Anozie, Warren...

This powerful, compelling drama traces the fraught interwoven journeys of three British soldiers who take part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, return... Read more

Dr Crippen (1962)

6.3/10
Director: Robert Lynn
Starring: Coral Browne, Donald Pleasence, James Robertson Justice, Samantha Eggar

The true story of American-born Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (Donald Pleasence ), who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife, Belle (Coral B... Read more

The Doris Day Show: Season 1 (1968)

7.5/10
Starring: Doris Day, Denver Pyle, James Hampton, Philip Brown, Tod Starke, Naomi Stevens,...

Doris Day (Pillow Talk) stars in this wholesome family sitcom. Season one features the beloved star as Doris Martin, a widowed mother who has left the... Read more

The Shawshank Redemption ( Blu-ray ) (1994)

9.3/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore, Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbi...

Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of the novella by Stephen King stars Tim Robbins as a man serving two life sentences in New England's Sh... Read more

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

9.3/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Tim Robbins, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bello...

Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of the novella by Stephen King stars Tim Robbins as a man serving two life sentences in New England's Sh... Read more

Primeval: Series 2 (2008)

3.8/10
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Juliet Aubrey, Lucy Brown, Ben Miller, Hannah Spearritt, James...

Following on from the dramatic conclusion to series one, Claudia Brown has now never existed and the others have no idea who she was. Can Nick convinc... Read more

Mojo Working: The Making of Modern Music (2007)

Starring: John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, James Brown, B B King, The Doors

From the guitar blues of BB King to the searing soul of Otis Redding, the R 'n' B flavoured rock 'n' roll of the Rolling Stones, and the psychedelic h... Read more

The Breaker Upperers (2018)

6.7/10
Director: Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Oscar Kightley, Madeleine Sami, Jaquie Brown, James Rolleston,...

Two women cynical in love, set up an agency to break couples up as a way to avoid letting go and moving on with their lives. Read more

Soul Power (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Starring: Muhammad Ali, James Brown, B B King, Don King, Miriam Makeba, Celia Cruz, The Sp...

In 1974, concurrent with Muhammed Ali and George Foreman's 'rumble in the jungle', Kinshasa, capital of then-Zaire, also staged a 3-day music festival... Read more

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006)

7.4/10
Director: Simon Curtis, Declan Lowney, Catherine Morshead
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Steven Mackintosh, Jodhi May, Janet McTeer, Jemma McKenzie-Brown,...

Jane Horrocks is Ros Pritchard; housewife, supermarket manager, and now, through a fortuitous confluence of events, Prime Minister of Britain. She bri... Read more

Primeval: Series 1 (2007)

4.8/10
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Lucy Brown, Andrew Lee Potts, Juliet Aubrey, Hannah Spearritt,...

From the makers of 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and 'Prehistoric Park', this sci-fi/fantasy series features zoologist Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) and h... Read more

The Breaker Upperers (Blu-ray) (2018)

6.7/10
Director: Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Oscar Kightley, Madeleine Sami, Jaquie Brown, James Rolleston,...

Two women cynical in love, set up an agency to break couples up as a way to avoid letting go and moving on with their lives. Read more

The Blues Brothers (1980)

7.9/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, John Belushi, James Brown, Henry Gibson, Dan Aykro...

Engagingly nutty comedy about John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd trying to raise money to save an orphanage by reuniting their old band and nearly destroyin... Read more

Roots - The Next Generation (1979)

Starring: James Earl Jones, Georg Stanford Brown, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Ruby D...

The saga continues in this Emmy-winning sequel that stretches from the Reconstruction era to the 1960s and culminates with writer Alex Haley's visit t... Read more

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

7/10
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Penelope Wilton, Tom Courtenay, Bronagh Gallagher, Matthew Goode, Katherine Park...

In 1946 a London-based writer begins exchanging letters with residents on the island of Guernsey, which was German-occupied during WWII. Feeling compe... Read more

The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)

6.9/10
Director: Roger Graef
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Clive James, Terry Jone...

A full-length, unexpurgated film of the annual Amnesty International comedy fundraiser that captures some of England's finest comedic minds performing... Read more

Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music (2005)

8.1/10
Starring: John Belushi, Joe Cocker, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, James Brown, Billy Joel, Mado...

Over the course of its years on the air, this critically acclaimed variety show has come to be known as much for its music as for its comedy. Stars fr... Read more

Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)

5.8/10
Director: Penny Marshall
Starring: Roscoe Lee Browne, Stephen Collins, Whoopi Goldberg, Carol Kane, Annie Potts, Jo...

Whoopi Goldberg made her comedy feature debut (after a dramatic turn in 'The Color Purple') in this comedy/thriller, as bank computer operator Terry,... Read more

Glastonbury (2006)

6.6/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: Bjork, David Bowie, James Brown, Nick Cave, Joe Strummer, Paul McCartney, Oasi...

Assembled from hundreds of hours of amateur film footage, Julien Temple's documentary traces 35 years of Britain's most famous music festival. Three... Read more

Mrs Warren's Profession / You Never Can Tell (1972)

Director: James Cellan Jones
Starring: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, Robert Powell, Richard Pearson, James Grout, Dere...

Written in 1893, though not performed until 1902 due to government censorship 'Mrs Warren's Profession' scandalized Victorian England. This BBC produ... Read more

Bernard Shaw Collection: Vol. 1 (1989)

Director: David Jones, Desmond Davis, Herbert Wise, James Cellan Jones
Starring: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, James Grout, Derek Godfrey, Robert Powell, Helena...

This collection of BBC adaptations brings to life the memorable characterizations, brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit of Bernard Shaw's c... Read more

Dogville (2003)

8/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany, B...

From director Lars von Trier ("Dancer in the Dark") comes this riveting drama focusing on mysterious fugitive Nicole Kidman as she hides from gangster... Read more

Downton Abbey: The Movie (2019)

8.7/10
Director: Michael Engler
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery,...

Excitement is high at Downton Abbey when the Crawley family learns that King George V and Queen Mary are coming to visit. But trouble soon arises when... Read more

Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

7.6/10
Director: Simon Curtis
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery,...

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Read more

Downton Abbey: A New Era (Blu-ray) (2022)

7.6/10
Director: Simon Curtis
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery,...

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Read more

Downton Abbey: The Movie (Blu-Ray) (2019)

8.7/10
Director: Michael Engler
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery,...

Excitement is high at Downton Abbey when the Crawley family learns that King George V and Queen Mary are coming to visit. But trouble soon arises when... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Volume 2 (1982)

8.4/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Nicholas Meyer, Peter Medak, Robert Iscove, Tim Burton, Mark Cullingham
Starring: Alan Arkin, Alfre Woodard, Barrie Ingham, Ben Vereen, Brian Dennehy, Brock Peter...

With lavish special effects, unique scripting and an outstanding cast of actors and directors, this terrific series, created and executive produced by... Read more