Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Family • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Chris Columbus
CAST: Daniel Radcliffe • Rupert Grint • Emma Watson • Richard Harris
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Michael Winterbottom
CAST: Steve Coogan • Rob Brydon • Keeley Hawes • Shirley Henderson
Backbeat (1994) RT 74% / Audience 66%
DVD release: Aug 2003
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Music
DIRECTION: Iain Softley
CAST: Stephen Dorff • Ian Hart • Gary Bakewell • Chris O'Neill
Enemy of the State (1998) RT 71% / Audience 78%
DVD release: Jun 1999
Hotshot Washington lawyer, Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Tony Scott
CAST: Will Smith • Gene Hackman • Jon Voight • Lisa Bonet
Finding Neverland (2004) RT 83% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Mar 2005
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Marc Forster
CAST: Johnny Depp • Kate Winslet • Julie Christie • Dustin Hoffman
Killing Me Softly (2002) RT Audience 39%
DVD release: Mar 2003
A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Romance • Thriller
DIRECTION: Chen Kaige
CAST: Heather Graham • Joseph Fiennes • Natascha McElhone • Ulrich Thomsen
Liam (2000) RT 70% / Audience 73%
DVD release: Mar 2002
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Stephen Frears
CAST: Ian Hart • Claire Hackett • Anthony Borrows • David Hart
Michael Collins (1996)
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • Thriller
DIRECTION: Neil Jordan
CAST: Alan Rickman • Liam Neeson • Julia Roberts • Aidan Quinn
Monument Ave. (1998) RT 90% / Audience 66%
DVD release: Jul 2001
Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Ted Demme
CAST: Denis Leary • Ian Hart • Jason Barry • Lenny Clarke
No Surrender (1985) RT Audience 80%
Michael Angelis stars in a comedy about double booking a Catholic and Protestant night in a Liverpool nightclub. (more)
GENRES: Comedy
DIRECTION: Peter Smith
CAST: Michael Angelis • Tom Georgeson • Bernard Hill • Ray McAnally
Daniel Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama
DIRECTION: Rod Hardy • George T. Miller
CAST: Pierce Brosnan • James Frain • Polly Walker • Ian Hart
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995) RT 58% / Audience 54%
DVD release: Apr 2001
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their "mountain" is only a hill, the offended community sets out ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Christopher Monger
CAST: Hugh Grant • Tara Fitzgerald • Colm Meaney • Ian McNeice
Land and Freedom (1995) RT 82% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Oct 1996
The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • Romance • War
DIRECTION: Ken Loach
CAST: Ian Hart • Rosana Pastor • Frédéric Pierrot • Icíar Bollaín
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) RT Audience 60%
DVD release: Oct 2005
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery
DIRECTION: Simon Cellan Jones
CAST: Rupert Everett • Ian Hart • Nicholas Palliser • Neil Dudgeon
Aberdeen (2000) RT 87% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Apr 2002
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Hans Petter Moland
CAST: Stellan Skarsgård • Lena Headey • Charlotte Rampling • Louise Goodall
Gold in the Streets (1997)
An Irish illegal immigrant (Karl Geary) works for a bartender (James Belushi) while struggling to survive and adapt to life in the Bronx. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Elizabeth Gill
CAST: James Belushi • Karl Geary • Ian Hart • Jared Harris
Nothing Personal (1996)
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
CAST: Ian Hart • John Lynch • James Frain • Michael Gambon
Within the Whirlwind (2009) RT Audience 36%
DVD release: Nov 2013
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Marleen Gorris
CAST: Emily Watson • Pam Ferris • Ian Hart • Ben Miller
Hard Boiled Sweets (2012) RT 14% / Audience 24%
Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. ... (more)