BACK | PRINT MENU

 Clear Printlist | Print

Zorba the Greek (1964)
#172 Remove
Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. With Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova. An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

The Descendants (2011)
#95 Remove
Directed by Alexander Payne. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause. A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.

Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
#163 Remove
Directed by Harvey Glazer. With Jonathan Bennett, Kristin Cavallari, Kurt Fuller, Steve Talley. Van Wilder starts his freshman year at Coolidge College and embarks on an adventure to land the campus hottie and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction.

Live! (2007)
#204 Remove
Directed by Bill Guttentag. With Eva Mendes, David Krumholtz, Rob Brown, Katie Cassidy. A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette.

Stan and Ollie (2018)
#1350 Remove
Directed by Jon S. Baird. With Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda. Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song - a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.

Empire of the Sun (1987)
#206 Remove
Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Best Possible Taste (2012)
#124 Remove
Directed by James Strong. With Oliver Lansley, Katherine Kelly, Perry Millward, Glenn Wild. Schoolboy Maurice Cole,growing up in 1960s Liverpool,is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes,one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station,changing his name to Kenny Everett.Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and...

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
#101 Remove
Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow. A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Let Me Go (2017)
#1075 Remove
Directed by Polly Steele. With Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May, Lucy Boynton, Karin Bertling. Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga's life of being abandoned by her mother, Traudi in 1941 when she was just four years old. The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.

Brothers (2009)
#291 Remove
Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard. A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.

Seeking Justice (2011)
#335 Remove
Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Harold Perrineau. After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return.

aka Justice

Maudie (2016)
#1092 Remove
Directed by Aisling Walsh. With Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose. An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

For a Good Time, Call... (2012)
#426 Remove
Directed by Jamie Travis. With Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long, James Wolk. Former college frenemies Lauren and Katie move into a fabulous Gramercy Park apartment, and in order to make ends meet, the unlikely pair start a phone sex line together.

The Best Offer (2013)
#504 Remove
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland. In the world of high-end art auctions and antiques, Virgil Oldman is an elderly and esteemed but eccentric genius art-expert, known and appreciated by the world. Oldman is hired by a solitary young heiress, Claire Ibbetson, to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. For some reason, Claire always refuses to be seen in person. Robert aids Oldman in ...

aka Deception

Watchmen (2009)
#11 Remove
Directed by Zack Snyder. With Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman. In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
#34 Remove
Directed by Steve Pink. With John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke. A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.

Glorious 39 (2009)
#288 Remove
Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo. The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II.

Amélie (2001)
#1430 Remove
Amélie: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta. Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love

Avatar (2009)
#302 Remove
Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

On a single disk

Long Weekend (2008)
#307 Remove
Directed by Jamie Blanks. With Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan, John Brumpton. A vacationing couple in the wilderness learns what happens when they disrespect nature.

Perfect Sense (2011)
#118 Remove
Directed by David Mackenzie. With Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen. A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

Awakenings (1990)
#287 Remove
Directed by Penny Marshall. With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Big Fat Important Movie (2008)
#13 Remove
Directed by David Zucker. With Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins. An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

The Great Escape (1963)
#177 Remove
Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Yes Man (2008)
#465 Remove
Directed by Peyton Reed. With Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins. A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year.

The Guilt Trip (2012)
#394 Remove
Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Julene Renee, Zabryna Guevara. As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride.

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
#34 Remove
Directed by Steve Pink. With John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke. A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.

Wag the Dog (1997)
#366 Remove
Directed by Barry Levinson. With Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary. Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

Jellyfish (2018)
#1221 Remove
Directed by James Gardner. With Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri, Angus Barnett. A young carer discovers an unlikely talent for stand-up comedy.

Push (2009)
#152 Remove
Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford. Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.

Wagner (1981)
#499 Remove
TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times.

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
#1342 Remove
Directed by Robert Rodriguez. With Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali. A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.

The Harmony Game (2011)
#1389 Remove
The Harmony Game: Directed by Jennifer Lebeau. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Mort Lewis, Roy Halee. 40 years after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon, Garfunkel and the principles involved with it reflect on the making of the album

Amélie (2001)
#1430 Remove
Amélie: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta. Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love

The Monuments Men (2014)
#574 Remove
Directed by George Clooney. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.

Takers (2010)
#375 Remove
Directed by John Luessenhop. With Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy. A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
#463 Remove
Directed by Garth Jennings. With Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel. Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Black Earth Rising (2018)
#1144 Remove
With Michaela Coel, John Goodman, Noma Dumezweni, Lucian Msamati. Kate Ashby was rescued as a child from the Rwandan genocide by her renowned international lawyer adopted mother Eve. Living in London and working for barrister Michael Ennis, Kate's mother takes on a case involving an African militia leader which will upend both their lives forever.

8x1 hour episodes. BBC.

27 Dresses (2008)
#213 Remove
Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Brian Kerwin. After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.

The Garden of Words (2013)
#1543 Remove
46m On a rainy morning in Tokyo, 15-year-old Takao, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden. This is where he meets Yukari, a beautiful yet mysterious woman. They strike an unlikely friendship.

Colette (2018)
#1358 Remove
Directed by Wash Westmoreland. With Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh. Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Wag the Dog (1997)
#366 Remove
Directed by Barry Levinson. With Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary. Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

Blade Runner (1982)
#1425 Remove
Blade Runner: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
#316 Remove
Directed by Neal Brennan. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, James Brolin. Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
#1024 Remove
Directed by David Yates. With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler. The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Creation (2009)
#1 Remove
Directed by Jon Amiel. With Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly, Guy Henry. Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.

Awakenings (1990)
#287 Remove
Directed by Penny Marshall. With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Testament of Youth (2014)
#978 Remove
Directed by James Kent. With Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West. A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Wag the Dog (1997)
#366 Remove
Directed by Barry Levinson. With Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary. Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

Hail, Caesar! (2016)
#948 Remove
Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes. A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.

My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
#32 Remove
Directed by Julian Kemp. With Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, Kelly Adams, Cécile Cassel. Duncan navigates the unsteady world of romance and relationships, going through five girlfriends in four years. Unfortunately, none of them turn out well.

Syriana (2005)
#57 Remove
Directed by Stephen Gaghan. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak. A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and effected by it.

We Bought a Zoo (2011)
#91 Remove
Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning. Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
#226 Remove
Directed by Declan O'Brien. With Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Gil Kolirin, Christian Contreras. When their transfer bus crashes in a West Virginia forest, a group of convicts and a corrections officer meet a rafter who is on the run from cannibalistic hillbillies who have murdered her friends.

Brave (2012)
#448 Remove
Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell. With Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters. Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.

Disney

The Silent Child (2017)
#1102 Remove
Directed by Chris Overton. With Rachel Fielding, Philip York, Rachel Shenton, Maisie Sly. A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

Short film - 20 mins.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
#264 Remove
Directed by Mira Nair. With Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

Marvellous (2014)
#246 Remove
Directed by Julian Farino. With Toby Jones, Gemma Jones, Tony Curran, Nicholas Gleaves. The life of Neil Baldwin, a man who has shrugged off his perceived limitations to live an incredible life.

The Lost King (2022)
#1484 Remove
The Lost King: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod. An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Quantum of Solace (2008)
#467 Remove
Directed by Marc Forster. With Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench. James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. All the while, he still tries to seek revenge over the death of his love.

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra (2018)
#1264 Remove
Directed by Simon Godwin. With Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Tim McMullan, Tunji Kasim. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.

The Colour Room (2021)
#1384 Remove
The Colour Room: Directed by Claire McCarthy. With Matthew Goode, Phoebe Dynevor, Rachel Shenton, David Morrissey. Clarice Cliff breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionizes the workplace at a pottery factory in 1920s England

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
#175 Remove
Directed by Jee-woon Kim. With Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee, Woo-sung Jung, Je-mun Yun. The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.

Solace (2015)
#555 Remove
Directed by Afonso Poyart. With Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell. A psychic works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer.

Amazing Grace (2006)
#321 Remove
Directed by Michael Apted. With Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai. The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
#1066 Remove
Directed by Niki Caro. With Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford. The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion.

Remember Me (2010)
#35 Remove
Directed by Allen Coulter. With Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Caitlyn Rund, Moisés Acevedo. A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder.

Unrelated (2007)
#19 Remove
Directed by Joanna Hogg. With Kathryn Worth, Harry Kershaw, Emma Hiddleston, Henry Lloyd-Hughes. A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
#170 Remove
Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Bonneville, Georgie Glen. Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960's, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.

A Christmas Carol (2009)
#370 Remove
Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine. An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

In Bruges (2008)
#405 Remove
Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington. Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
#482 Remove
Directed by Jim Sharman. With Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien. A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
#293 Remove
Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Andrew Garfield. A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.

Big Fat Important Movie (2008)
#13 Remove
Directed by David Zucker. With Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins. An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

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.

Just Mercy (2019)
#1320 Remove
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. With Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Charlie Pye Jr.. World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
#1399 Remove
An American Werewolf in London: Directed by John Landis. With Joe Belcher, David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, David Schofield. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists

16:9 Good version.

The Sessions (2012)
#275 Remove
Directed by Ben Lewin. With John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood. A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.

City of Ember (2008)
#167 Remove
Directed by Gil Kenan. With Saoirse Ronan, Toby Jones, Bill Murray, David Ryall. For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.

Citizen Kane (1941)
#29 Remove
Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead. Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

Severance (2006)
#53 Remove
Directed by Christopher Smith. With Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens. During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.

The Artist (2011)
#96 Remove
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius. With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell. A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

A Real Summer (2007)
#38 Remove
Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Ruth Wilson, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More. It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
#1024 Remove
Directed by David Yates. With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler. The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

The Other Man (2008)
#137 Remove
Directed by Richard Eyre. With Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai. The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.

The Pacific (2010)
#160 Remove
With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli. The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

TV miniseries - episodes 1 & 2

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
#212 Remove
Directed by Michael Bay. With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson. Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

Panda Makers (2010)
#309 Remove
Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and...

W. (2008)
#186 Remove
Directed by Oliver Stone. With Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, Colin Hanks. A chronicle of the life and presidency of George W. Bush.

Empire of the Sun (1987)
#206 Remove
Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

The Descendants (2011)
#95 Remove
Directed by Alexander Payne. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause. A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.

Man on Wire (2008)
#685 Remove
Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

See also: #554

First Night (2010)
#413 Remove
Directed by Christopher Menaul. With Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Mía Maestro, Julian Ovenden. Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help ...

Ted (2012)
#84 Remove
Directed by Seth MacFarlane. With Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale. John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.

Ghost Town (2008)
#189 Remove
Directed by David Koepp. With Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Jordan Carlos. Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
#131 Remove
Directed by Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier. With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Eunice Cho. When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.

Mamma Mia! (2008)
#140 Remove
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.

The Great British Year (2013)
#572 Remove
With Joseph Fiennes.

2x1 hour. Winter, Spring. BBC.

Labor Day (2013)
#241 Remove
Directed by Jason Reitman. With Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Clark Gregg. Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

Public Enemies (2009)
#174 Remove
Directed by Michael Mann. With Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke. The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

Four Christmases (2008)
#310 Remove
Directed by Seth Gordon. With Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall. A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas.

Hamlet 2 (2008)
#173 Remove
Directed by Andrew Fleming. With Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Rory's Way (2018)
#1259 Remove
Directed by Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis. With Thora Birch, Brian Cox, Tim Matheson, JJ Feild. Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. He moves in with his estranged son Rory, as he sees his life getting transformed through a newfound bond with his baby grandson.

aka The Etruscan Smile

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
#158 Remove
Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath. With Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith. The animals try to fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African wildlife refuge, where Alex is reunited with his parents.

Chocolat (2000)
#543 Remove
Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Mama (2013)
#508 Remove
Directed by Andrés Muschietti. With Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse. A young couple take in their two nieces only to suspect that a foreboding evil has latched itself to their family.

Push (2009)
#152 Remove
Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford. Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
#175 Remove
Directed by Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon. With Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Seth Rogen. A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth.

Up (2009)
#365 Remove
Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. With Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer. Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

Argo (2012)
#383 Remove
Directed by Ben Affleck. With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin. Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

Burning Man (2011)
#395 Remove
Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Matthew Goode, Rachel Griffiths, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis. An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
#415 Remove
Directed by Nick Moran. With Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, JJ Feild. A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."

Emperor (2012)
#251 Remove
Directed by Peter Webber. With Matthew Fox, Colin Moy, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune. As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
#1432 Remove
Spider-Man: No Way Home: Directed by Jon Watts. With Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon. With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man

The Hangover (2009)
#462 Remove
Directed by Todd Phillips. With Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms. Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.

The Gruffalo (2009)
#196 Remove
Directed by Max Lang, Jakob Schuh. With Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt. A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators.

District 13: Ultimatum (2009)
#141 Remove
Directed by Patrick Alessandrin. With Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Philippe Torreton, Daniel Duval. Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.

Chicago (2002)
#9 Remove
Directed by Rob Marshall. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
#1024 Remove
Directed by David Yates. With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler. The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Case 39 (2009)
#298 Remove
Directed by Christian Alvart. With Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper. A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.

Greed (2019)
#1343 Remove
Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Caroline Flack, Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher. Satire about the world of the super-rich.

Thought (by me at least) to be about Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) - the British businessman who is the chairman of Arcadia Group, a retail company that includes Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit. The defunct BHS chain was also part of the group.

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
#176 Remove
Directed by Seth Grossman. With Chris Carmack, Rachel Miner, Melissa Jones, Kevin Yon. Sam Reide uses his power to time travel to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's death.

Mamma Mia! (2008)
#140 Remove
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.

Wagner (1981)
#499 Remove
TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times.

The Great Escape (1963)
#177 Remove
Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

True Grit (2010)
#336 Remove
Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin. A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer.

The Death of Stalin (2017)
#1341 Remove
Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

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.

Chronicle (2012)
#93 Remove
Directed by Josh Trank. With Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly. Whilst attending a party, three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

Milk (2008)
#129 Remove
Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna. The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.

Argo (2012)
#383 Remove
Directed by Ben Affleck. With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin. Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

Iron Man Three (2013)
#382 Remove
Directed by Shane Black. With Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
#1435 Remove
Despite the Falling Snow: Directed by Shamim Sarif. With Sam Reid, Rebecca Ferguson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance. In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him.

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
#29 Remove
Directed by Orson Welles. Fred Fleck, Robert Wise. With Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter. The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Sunshine on Leith (2013)
#258 Remove
Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Paul Brannigan, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks. Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
#520 Remove
Directed by Scott Derrickson. With Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith. A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
#166 Remove
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. With Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys. Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily ...

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
#170 Remove
Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Bonneville, Georgie Glen. Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960's, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.

First Night (2010)
#413 Remove
Directed by Christopher Menaul. With Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Mía Maestro, Julian Ovenden. Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help ...

The Grinch (2018)
#1310 Remove
Directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones, Pharrell Williams. A grumpy Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville.