Cinematography: Chris Menges

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Robert De Niro · Jeremy Irons · Ray McAnally · Aidan Quinn

Synopsis A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal...

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Sam Waterston · Haing S. Ngor · John Malkovich · Julian Sands

Synopsis An American journalist from The New York Times, Sidney, is engulfed in the horror of Cambodia, and his native adviser disappears and is thought to be dead.

Direction Ken Loach

Cast David Bradley · Lynne Perrie · Freddie Fletcher · Colin Welland

Synopsis Ken Loach's "Kes" follows the tough life of Billy Casper (David Bradley), a young boy in living on the poor end of Barnsley, in the mining areas of Yorkshire County. However, when Billy finds an injured kestrel and attempts to...

Direction Stephen Daldry

Cast Kate Winslet · David Kross · Ralph Fiennes · Bruno Ganz

Synopsis The Reader opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her....

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Emily Watson · Brian Cox · Ken Stott

Synopsis Danny Flynn is released from prison in Belfast after fourteen years for his part in IRA activities. He determines to avoid the bloodshed that was inherent in his political past and to build a new life in his old home....

Direction Tommy Lee Jones

Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Barry Pepper · Julio Cedillo · January Jones

Synopsis A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Graham Green · Carolyn Nicholson · Tony Pitts · Roy Haywood

Synopsis Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole....

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · Cate Blanchett · Bill Nighy · Andrew Simpson

Synopsis Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench) is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care...

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Burt Lancaster · Peter Riegert · Denis Lawson · Peter Capaldi

Synopsis An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Direction Franco Rosso

Cast Brinsley Forde · Karl Howman · Trevor Laird · Brian Bovell

Synopsis The movie centers around Brindsley Forde's character blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in west London. The movie captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.

Direction Neil Jordan

Cast Liam Neeson · Aidan Quinn · Stephen Rea · Alan Rickman

Synopsis Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this epic film tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative guerrilla tactics succeeded in bringing freedom from British rule, Collins...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Ken Loach · Ermanno Olmi

Cast Carlo Delle Piane · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Silvana De Santis · Filippo Trojano

Synopsis This film charts the emotional odyssey of six characters over the course of a railway journey from Austria to Rome.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Audrey Tautou · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Sergi López · Sophie Okonedo

Synopsis Okwe, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, is trying hard to make ends meet, using caffeine and potentially harmful stimulants to keep himself from going under. In the evening, he's a minicab driver and sometime clap doctor to the fleet. Overnight,...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Jean Franval · Stephen Hirst · Louise Cooper · Packie Byrne

Synopsis In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and escapes from the grim jaws of "justice." He takes to the countryside...

Direction Alan Clarke

Cast Tim Roth · Eric Richard · Terry Richards · Bill Stewart

Synopsis Trevor is a 16 year old, sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Gerulf Pannach · Fabienne Babe · Cristine Rose · Sigfrit Steiner

Synopsis A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

Direction Niki Caro

Cast Charlize Theron · Frances McDormand · Sissy Spacek · Woody Harrelson

Synopsis When Josey Aimes (CHARLIZE THERON) returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to support, she turns to the predominant source of employment in the region...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Albert Finney · Billie Whitelaw · Frank Finlay · Janice Rule

Synopsis Ginley (Albert Finney) is a nightclub bingo caller eager for a career change. On his thirty-first birthday, he advertises himself as a private eye in the newspaper. He dons a trench coat, and begins engaging others in rapid-fire dialogue as...

Direction Tony Scott

Cast David Pugh · Roy Evans · Rosamund Greenwood

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Barbara Hershey · Martha Plimpton · Merritt Butrick

Synopsis Diana Sullivan (Jill Clayburgh) is a successful Manhattan writer and photojournalist, seemingly oblivious to the serious cocaine addicition that her wild child daughter Grace (Martha Plimpton) has developed. A commission by Cosmopolitan magazine to write an article about a lost...