Alexander (2004)
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama • History • Romance • War
DIRECTION: Oliver Stone
CAST: Colin Farrell • Angelina Jolie • Val Kilmer • Jared Leto
Flash Gordon (1980) RT 82% / Audience 69%
DVD release: Oct 2000
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth. (more)
GENRES: Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Mike Hodges
CAST: Sam J. Jones • Melody Anderson • Max von Sydow • Chaim Topol
Hamlet (1996) RT 95% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Aug 2007
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Kenneth Branagh
CAST: Kenneth Branagh • Julie Christie • Judi Dench • Gérard Depardieu
Henry V (1989) RT 100% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Jul 2000
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France. (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • History • Romance • War
DIRECTION: Kenneth Branagh
CAST: Kenneth Branagh • Derek Jacobi • Brian Blessed • James Larkin
Much Ado About Nothing (1993) RT 91% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Jan 1998
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Kenneth Branagh
CAST: Kenneth Branagh • Richard Briers • Michael Keaton • Robert Sean Leonard
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) RT 50% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Sep 1997
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Kevin Reynolds
CAST: Kevin Costner • Morgan Freeman • Christian Slater • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi. (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: George Lucas
CAST: Natalie Portman • Ewan McGregor • Liam Neeson • Ian McDiarmid
Tarzan (1999) RT 88% / Audience 74%
DVD release: Jan 2000
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Drama • Family
DIRECTION: Chris Buck • Kevin Lima
CAST: Tony Goldwyn • Glenn Close • Minnie Driver • Brian Blessed
Country Dance (1970)
In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: J. Lee Thompson
CAST: Peter O'Toole • Susannah York • Michael Craig • Harry Andrews
Kidnapped (1995) RT Audience 76%
DVD release: Sep 2004
When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure
DIRECTION: Ivan Passer
CAST: Armand Assante • Patrick Malahide • Michael Kitchen • Brian Blessed
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) RT Audience 85%
1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Waris Hussein
CAST: Keith Michell • Donald Pleasence • Charlotte Rampling • Jane Asher
Freddie as F.R.O.7 (1992) RT Audience 51%
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve the mysterious ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Jon Acevski
CAST: Ben Kingsley • Brian Blessed • Nigel Hawthorne • Jonathan Pryce
Prisoner of Honor (1991) RT Audience 75%
DVD release: May 2004
Set in turn-of-the-century France about an anti-Semitic army officer who challenges the massive government cover-up in the imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus for espionage. (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • TV movie
DIRECTION: Ken Russell
CAST: Richard Dreyfuss • Oliver Reed • Peter Firth • Jeremy Kemp
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Peter Lord • Jeff Newitt
CAST: Hugh Grant • Brendan Gleeson • Jeremy Piven • Brian Blessed
As You Like It (2006) RT 36% / Audience 49%
DVD release: Sep 2007
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Kenneth Branagh
CAST: Bryce Dallas Howard • Kevin Kline • Romola Garai • Adrian Lester
Mr. Bojagi (2010)
We all know how difficult it can be to choose the perfect gift for someone. But a mysterious man with a mind-reading machine might just have the solution. (more)
GENRES:
DIRECTION: Marco van Belle
CAST: Brian Blessed
The Conclave (2006)
In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Moslems, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal learns to play a very ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History
DIRECTION: Christoph Schrewe
CAST: Brian Blessed • James Faulkner • Rolf Kanies • Manu Fullola
The Bruce (1996)
Robert the Bruce unites the Scots in a rebellion against the hated English, led by Edward I. He is supported by various loyal followers, notably the bishop who agrees to ... (more)