Screenplay: Tom Stoppard

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Christian Bale · John Malkovich · Joe Pantoliano · Miranda Richardson

Plot An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on...

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Kim Greist · Michael Palin · Katherine Helmond

Plot The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a...

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 Susanna White

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Rebecca Hall · Adelaide Clemens · Stephen Graham

Plot TV Miniseries (2012). 5 Episodies. Story is set against the backdrop of WWI and follows Christopher Tietjens, a top civil servant from a background of wealth and privilege, whose marriage...

Direction John Madden

Cast Gwyneth Paltrow · Joseph Fiennes · Judi Dench · Geoffrey Rush

Plot In 1590s London, amid the great heyday of Elizabethan entertainment, two rival theaters — The Curtain, owned by Richard Burbage and The Rose owned by Philip Henslowe — competed passionately...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Andrea Ferréol · Klaus Löwitsch · Volker Spengler

Plot Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in...

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Uma Thurman · Tim Roth · Timothy Spall

Plot In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Glenda Jackson · Michael Caine · Helmut Berger · Michael Lonsdale

Plot Caine and Jackson star as a novelist and his wife who invite Berger into their home with the hopes that he will both share their bed and help Caine with...

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · Aaron Taylor-Johnson · Jude Law · Domhnall Gleeson

Plot Late 19th century, Russian high society. At the age of 18, demure and elegant socialite Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) has been promised to marry senior statesman Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Sean Connery · James Fox · John Mahoney

Plot "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show...

Direction Michael Apted

Cast Dougray Scott · Kate Winslet · Saffron Burrows · Jeremy Northam

Plot In this twisty thriller about Britain's secret code breakers during World War II, Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott, best known as the villain of Mission Impossible 2) devised the means to...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Nicol Williamson · Richard Attenborough · John Gielgud · Iman

Plot This tense drama was the final film from director Otto Preminger (Laura, Anatomy of a Murder), with a star-studded cast and a screenplay by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) adapted...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Loren Dean · Nicole Kidman · Steven Hill

Direction Bob Rafelson

Cast James Caan · Dina Meyer · David Keith · Joe Don Baker

Plot A cynical detective of the 60s town of Poodle Springs and newly married to the daughter of a multi millionaire, finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue. When he...

Direction Justin Chadwick

Cast Alicia Vikander · Christoph Waltz · Dane DeHaan · Jack O'Connell

Plot A 17th century romance in which an artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in...

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Jonathan Adams · John Antrobus · Peter Bayliss · John Bluthal

Plot An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

Direction Paul Joyce

Cast David Warner · George Innes · Michael Bates · Juliet Harmer

Plot A young executive spends a devastating afternoon trying to borrow money to pay for an engagement ring that cost more than he expected.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Tim Curry · Michael Palin · Stephen Moore · Bill Stewart

Plot One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air...

Direction Jim Henson · Lynwood King · Lewis Freedman · Ernest Pintoff

Cast Richard Schaal · Hugh Webster · Edward Binns · David Warner

Direction Tim Van Someren

Cast Joshua McGuire · Daniel Radcliffe · David Haig · Louisa Beadel

Plot Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of...