Cinematography: Peter Biziou

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Emma Thompson · Pete Postlethwaite · John Lynch

Plot Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a...

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Plot The setting is Judea 33 A.D, a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some...

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Bob Geldof · Jenny Wright · Christine Hargreaves · James Laurenson

Plot Loosely based on the life story of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's original front man (who was kicked out of the band for his bizarre and disturbing behavior only to go...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Jim Carrey · Laura Linney · Noah Emmerich · Ed Harris

Plot He's the star of the show - but he doesn't know it! Jim Carey plays unwitting Truman Burbank, an ordinary man in a not-so-ordinary life. From the time he was...

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Gene Hackman · Willem Dafoe · Frances McDormand · Brad Dourif

Plot In 1964, when three civil-rights workers, two white and one black, mysteriously disappear while driving through Mississippi, two FBI agents, Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Anderson (Gene Hackman), are sent in...

Direction Tom Stoppard

Cast Gary Oldman · Tim Roth · Richard Dreyfuss · Joanna Roth

Plot Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Jeremy Irons · Juliette Binoche · Miranda Richardson · Rupert Graves

Plot A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do...

Direction Marek Kanievska

Cast Rupert Everett · Colin Firth · Michael Jenn · Robert Addie

Plot Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

Direction Richard Loncraine

Cast Ian McKellen · Annette Bening · Kristin Scott Thomas · Jim Broadbent

Plot This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part...

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Patrick Swayze · Pauline Collins · Om Puri · Shabana Azmi

Plot Disillusioned American heart surgeon Swayze flees to India after losing a patient. In Calcutta he is beaten by a street gang and loses his money and passport, but finds help...

Direction Chris Menges

Cast Barbara Hershey · Jodhi May · Jeroen Krabbé · Nadine Chalmers

Plot Apartheid threatens to tear her from her 13-year-old daughter when the first white woman - a journalist - is arrested and put in solitary in 1963 for defying the South...

Direction Charles Dance

Cast Judi Dench · Maggie Smith · Natascha McElhone · Miriam Margolyes

Plot Set in 1936, Ladies in Lavender is the charming and sweetly melancholic story about two ageing spinster sisters (Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench) whose peaceable Cornwall existence is disrupted...

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Craig Warnock · David Rappaport · David Warner · Jack Purvis

Plot A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin...

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Scott Baio · Jodie Foster · Florrie Dugger · John Cassisi

Plot A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of...

Direction Mikael Håfström

Cast Clive Owen · Jennifer Aniston · Vincent Cassel · RZA

Plot Charles Schine (Clive Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) have noticed each other on the commuter train before. One morning their conversation leads to a flirtation which turns into an...

Direction Adrian Lyne

Cast Richard Gere · Diane Lane · Olivier Martínez · Erik Per Sullivan

Plot Edward (Richard Gere) and Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) are a wonderfully-maintained middle-aged couple living the American dream. Together with their eight-year-old son, a dog and a housekeeper, they share an...

Direction Adrian Lyne

Cast Kim Basinger · Mickey Rourke · Margaret Whitton · Christine Baranski

Plot Set against the dazzling backdrop of Manhattan, 9 1/2 Weeks spans the length of the affair between Elizabeth, a beautiful art dealer, and John, the wealthy Wall Street executive who...

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Bridget Fonda · Matthew Broderick · John Cusack

Plot A madcap portrayal of William Lightbody's (Matthew Broderick's) stay at the health farm run by cereal King Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Sir Anthony Hopkins). William's wife, Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), has...

Direction Paul Feyder · Robert Freeman

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Jean-François Maurin · Giselle Pascal · Pierre Zimmer

Plot After a terrible car wreck in which he lay helpless under the body of his mother for hours, 11-year-old François is living with his grandparents. When his grandfather's mistress (Jacqueline...