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Gandhi (1982) #524 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) #125 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush. Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. |
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The Pink Panther 2 (2009) #209 Remove Directed by Harald Zwart. With Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia. Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts. |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) #47 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. |
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Gandhi (1982) #524 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. |
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500 Days of Summer (2009) #462 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her. |
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Zodiac (2007) #23 Remove Directed by David Fincher. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards. A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. |
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Captain Phillips (2013) #266 Remove Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. |
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The Prestige (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine. Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) #359 Remove With Matthew Rhys, Freddie Fox, Tamzin Merchant, Rory Kinnear. An exploration of Charles Dickens' unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined. 2x1 hour BBC |
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The Color Purple (1985) #1315 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. |
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Shrink (2009) #35 Remove Directed by Jonas Pate. With Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer, Joe Nunez. Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients. |
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Republic of Virtue (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Tim Dunn. With Richard Miles, Simon Russell Beale, Vittorio Colombo, Pierfrancesco Vecchio. How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey ... |
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The Boat that Rocked (2009) #160 Remove Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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The Dresser (2015) #473 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Emily Watson, Ian McKellen, Sarah Lancashire, Anthony Hopkins. A drama, based on a successful play, about an ageing actor and his personal assistant. |
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The Imitation Game (2014) #553 Remove Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) #239 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas. A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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Moana (2016) #1021 Remove Directed by Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker. With Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison. In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right. |
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Black Swan (2010) #404 Remove Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder. A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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Zombieland (2009) #312 Remove Directed by Ruben Fleischer. With Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. |
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) #61 Remove Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen. A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity. |
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Agora (2009) #30 Remove Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. |
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The Light Between Oceans (2016) #1349 Remove Directed by Derek Cianfrance. With Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery. A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat. |