Cinematography: Joel Ransom

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Joel Ransom. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Band of Brothers (TV Miniseries)

2001 · Series · 705 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Ambrose · David Frankel · Tom Hanks · David Leland

Cast Damian Lewis · Ron Livingston · Rick Gomez · Scott Grimes

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2001). 10 Episodes. This is the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting to the end of World War...

8.5

57K votes

8.5

57K votes

Battlestar Galactica (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Series · 180 min. · United States

Direction Michael Rymer

Cast Edward James Olmos · Mary McDonnell · Katee Sackhoff · Jamie Bamber

Synopsis In a distant galaxy lie The Twelve Colonies of Man, a civilization that has been at peace for some forty years with an empire of machines, the Cylons, who were...

7.7

10K votes

7.7

10K votes

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2008 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Cyrus Nowrasteh

Cast Shohreh Aghdashloo · Mozhan Marnò · Jim Caviezel · Navid Negahban

Synopsis Stranded in a remote Iranian village, a French journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman who has a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Caprica (TV)

2009 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jeffrey Reiner

Cast Eric Stoltz · Esai Morales · Paula Malcomson · Alessandra Torresani

Synopsis Caprica, 58 years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, are bound by a tragedy with unforeseen consequences, including the development of the...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

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Taken (TV Miniseries)

2002 · Series · 877 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Bohem · Breck Eisner · Félix Enríquez Alcalá · John Fawcett

Cast Dakota Fanning · Julie Benz · Eric Close · Joel Gretsch

Synopsis Miniseries (2002). 10 episodes. Steven Spielberg presents Taken, an epic entertainment event spanning three families, four generations and fifty years of unearthly secrets. With cutting-edge special effects and a storyline...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

Caprica (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 42 min. · United States

Direction Ronald D. Moore · Remi Aubuchon · David Eick · John Dahl

Cast Eric Stoltz · Esai Morales · Alessandra Torresani · Paula Malcomson

Synopsis TV Series (2010). 19 Episodes. Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Thorne (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Hopkins

Cast David Morrissey · Aidan Gillen · Eddie Marsan · O.T. Fagbenle

Synopsis In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, DI Tom Thorne investigates a serial killer who after murdering 3 young women leaves his fourth victim alive and aware, but paralyzed and unable to communicate...

6.3

44 votes

6.3

44 votes

The X-Files (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 42 min. · United States

Direction Chris Carter · Darin Morgan · James Wong · Glen Morgan

Cast David Duchovny · Gillian Anderson · Mitch Pileggi · Robbie Amell

Synopsis TV Series (2016-2018). 16 Episodes. Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts....

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

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Continuum (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 45 min. · Canada

Direction Pat Williams · David Frazee · William Waring · Mike Rohl

Cast Rachel Nichols · Victor Webster · Erik Knudsen · Stephen Lobo

Synopsis TV Series (2012-2015). 4 Seasons. 42 Episodes. A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future.

6.1

579 votes

6.1

579 votes

Traffic (TV Miniseries)

2004 · Series · 260 min. · Canada

Direction Stephen Hopkins · Eric Bross

Cast Elias Koteas · Balthazar Getty · Cliff Curtis · Martin Donovan

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2004). 3 Episodes. Offers a look into the world of trafficking, where drugs, weapons, and even people are traded all over the world. Here, the lives of three...

6.1

211 votes

6.1

211 votes

Frontera

2014 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Michael Berry

Cast Ed Harris · Michael Peña · Eva Longoria · Amy Madigan

Synopsis A former Arizona Sheriff's wife is killed while riding on their Ranch property. It would appear a Mexican man crossing in to the US illegally is at fault. As former...

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6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Lost in Space (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Matt Sazama · Burk Sharpless · Irwin Allen · Tim Southam

Cast Mina Sundwall · Max Jenkins · Molly Parker · Parker Posey

Synopsis TV Series (2018-Present Day). A remake of the 1960s sci-fi series about a family struggling for survival in outer space.

5.7

3K votes

5.7

3K votes

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Direction Michael W. Watkins

Cast Timothy Hutton · Randy Quaid · Kari Matchett · Giancarlo Esposito

Synopsis When a physics professor (Timothy Hutton) obtains a police file that seems to chronicle his death in five days, he initially assumes it is a hoax perpetrated by one of...

5.6

777 votes

5.6

777 votes

Out of Order (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

Direction Roger Kumble · Henry Bromell · Tim Hunter · Wayne Powers

Cast Eric Stoltz · Felicity Huffman · Kim Dickens · Justine Bateman

Synopsis Eric Stoltz stars as Mark Colm, a Hollywood screenwriter floundering in his marriage to clinically depressed Lorna (Felicity Huffman), who is also a screenwriter. As Lorna masks her depression with...

5.6

25 votes

5.6

25 votes

Camelot (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 600 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Hirst · Chris Chibnall · Mikael Salomon · Jeremy Podeswa

Cast Jamie Campbell Bower · Tamsin Egerton · Joseph Fiennes · Eva Green

Synopsis TV Series (2011). 10 Episodes. The 10 x one hour series created by Michael Hirst (Tudor) will premiere in the U.S. on Starz in the Spring of 2011, is an...

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

Infidel

2019 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Cyrus Nowrasteh

Cast Jim Caviezel · Claudia Karvan · Hal Ozsan · Stelio Savante

Synopsis An American man, played by Jim Caviezel, is kidnapped after a friend invites him to Cairo to speak out about recent militant uprisings. His wife heads to the city after...

5.1

108 votes

5.1

108 votes

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Freeway II (Trickbaby)

1999 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Bright

Cast Natasha Lyonne · Vincent Gallo · María Celedonio · David Alan Grier

Synopsis A teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on a destructive road trip to Mexico in this twist on the "Hanzel Gretel"...

5.0

80 votes

5.0

80 votes

Revelations (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 240 min. · United States

Direction David Semel · Lili Fini Zanuck · Lesli Linka Glatter

Cast Bill Pullman · Natascha McElhone · Michael Massee · John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis From executive producer Gavin Polone (“Panic Room”) and writer/creator David Seltzer (”The Omen”), comes this six-hour event series starring Bill Pullman (”Independence Day”) as Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey, an...

4.9

463 votes

4.9

463 votes

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast Judy Davis · Sam Waterston · Allison Hossack · Tom Butler

Synopsis A dying Dr. Deanna Evans refuses to believe that her patient, Robert Havelmann, cannot remember the last 25 years of his life. It remains unclear why she has been so...

4.9

98 votes

4.9

98 votes

The Young Messiah

2016 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Cyrus Nowrasteh

Cast Adam Greaves-Neal · Sean Bean · David Bradley · Jonathan Bailey

Synopsis At the age of 7, Jesus Bar-Joseph lives with his family in Alexandria, Egypt, where they have fled to avoid a massacre of children by King Herod of Israel. Jesus...

4.9

91 votes

4.9

91 votes

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