Movies by Ben Kingsley
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The Dictator (2012)
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Megan Fox, Anna Faris …
Directed by: Larry Charles
This outlandish comedy chronicles the glorious efforts of despotic General Aladeen, dictator of the Republic of Wadiya, to oppress his people and fight democracy. Helping the tyrant maintain…
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Hugo (2011)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
When his father dies, 12-year-old orphan Hugo takes up residence behind the walls of a Parisian train station. There, he meets Isabelle, the daughter of filmmaker Georges Méliès, who holds…
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Shutter Island (2010)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
When Teddy Daniels -- a World War II veteran turned U.S. marshal -- probes the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, his efforts are compromised by his…
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Mike Newell
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Prince Dastan, who pairs with spunky Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) to keep the Sands of Time -- a mystical dagger that gives its holder control over the flow of…
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Teen Patti (2010)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Amitabh Bachchan, R. Madhavan …
Directed by: Leena Yadav
Luck brings together math expert Perci Trachtenberg (Ben Kingsley) and obscure genius Venkat Subramaniam (Amitabh Bachchan) in a casino, but the foundations of probability may be utterly…
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The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
Cast: Igor Savitsky, Ben Kingsley, Sally Field …
Directed by: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope
Trace the incredible story of defiant visionary Igor Savitsky, an artist and museum curator who cunningly acquired more than 40,000 banned Soviet Union paintings and hid the illegal…
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Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2010)
Cast: Ben Kingsley
Directed by: Richard Trank
Ben Kingsley narrates this biographical portrait of former British Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Winston Churchill that explores his impact on the course of world events and his…
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Elegy (2008)
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper …
Directed by: Isabel Coixet
Cultural critic David Kepesh sits in his ivory tower, divorced from any romantic or familial entanglements -- until the sultry 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles reawakens his sense of…
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The Wackness (2008)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen …
Directed by: Jonathan Levine
In the midst of a midlife crisis, a psychiatrist forms a relationship with a teenage pot dealer, who trades his product for therapy sessions. Drugs, depression and relationships drive the…
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Transsiberian (2008)
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Brad Anderson
An American couple seeking to smooth out their rough marriage buys a ticket on the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway. But a chance meeting with two other passengers ends in accidental murder…
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The Love Guru (2008)
Cast: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake …
Directed by: Marco Schnabel
Pitka (Mike Myers), an American raised by gurus on an Indian ashram, returns to his native soil to make a name for himself as a spiritual guide, where he's promptly challenged to settle…
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War, Inc. (2008)
Cast: John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff …
Directed by: Joshua Seftel
In this outrageous satire, a hit man is paid by a private corporation to masquerade as a trade-show director and take out a Middle East oil minister. But not all goes according to plan when a…
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50 Dead Men Walking (2008)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Rose McGowan …
Directed by: Kari Skogland
Belfast hood Martin (Jim Sturgess) is recruited by a British agent (Ben Kingsley) to infiltrate the IRA during the height of the Northern Irish conflict and quickly becomes embroiled in a…
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The Last Legion (2007)
Cast: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai …
Directed by: Doug Lefler
With his empire crumbling and his parents dead, 12-year-old Roman Emperor Romulus is exiled to Capri with his mystical tutor. While there, he discovers a magical sword once owned by Caesar…
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You Kill Me (2007)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Dennis Farina …
Directed by: John Dahl
After alcoholic hit man Frank (Ben Kingsley) botches an assignment, he leaves the Polish mob family he works for to clean up the mess and relocates to San Francisco, where he dries out, gets…
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The Ten Commandments (2007)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Christian Slater, Alfred Molina …
Directed by: Bill Boyce, John Stronach
Featuring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Alfred Molina and Christian Slater, this vibrantly animated feature recounts the biblical epic of the Hebrew prophet Moses and the Ten…
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BloodRayne (2006)
Cast: Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Matt Davis …
Directed by: Uwe Boll
Bloodthirsty Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley) wants his half-human, half vampire daughter to become a full-fledged vampiress, but fanged femme fatale Rayne (Kristanna Loken) denounces her…
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu …
Directed by: Paul McGuigan
While checking out his missing friend Nick's apartment, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) is mistaken for Nick by thugs and forced to participate in a high-profile murder for a powerful crime boss…
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I Have Never Forgotten You (2006)
Cast: Simon Wiesenthal, Nicole Kidman, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Richard Trank
Richard Trank's documentary relays the remarkable story of architect turned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. After losing nearly 90 family members in the Holocaust and surviving a death…
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Barney Clark …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
A doe-eyed runaway orphan named Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) flees the confines of the factory walls to live among pickpockets and thieves. And, for the most part, what he finds is a surrogate…
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Mrs. Harris (2005)
Cast: Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley, Frances Fisher …
Directed by: Phyllis Nagy
Dr. Herman Tarnower became famous after creating the popular Scarsdale diet in the early 1980s. But his constant infidelity caused an enormous rift in his long-term relationship with…
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Thunderbirds (2004)
Cast: Brady Corbet, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Based on the '60s British TV series, the Thunderbirds are led by…
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A Sound of Thunder (2004)
Cast: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack …
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Dr. Travis Ryer (Edward Burns) chases the ultimate thrill -- hunting dinosaurs -- by turning back the clock with the help of a time-travel outfitter run by Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley). But…
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Suspect Zero (2004)
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss …
Directed by: E. Elias Merhige
A killer is on the loose, and FBI agent Thomas Mackelway is on the case, sifting through clues to uncover the criminal's identity. But there's one unusual twist: The bloodthirsty…
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet …
Directed by: Daniel Anker
Filmmaker Daniel Anker examines Hollywood's depiction of the Holocaust and its incomprehensible atrocities in this award-winning documentary narrated by Gene Hackman and featuring…
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House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard …
Directed by: Vadim Perelman
When her husband dumps her, the emotionally unstable Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly) finds her house in the California hills seized in foreclosure and put up for public auction by local…
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Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land (2003)
Cast: Ben Kingsley
Relive the first pilgrimage ever made to the Holy Land by Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome. Helena made this difficult journey to atone for the Emperor's great…
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Great People of the Bible: The Apostle Paul (2003)
Cast: Ben Kingsley
Narrated by Ben Kingsley, this program explores the life and influence of the Apostle Paul. After a meeting with Jesus changed his life, Paul began making missionary journeys across the Roman…
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Unlikely Heroes (2003)
Cast: Ben Kingsley
Directed by: Richard Trank
The Holocaust of World War II engendered untold tales of horror and heartbreak as Europe's Jewish communities were systematically decimated by the Nazis. This riveting film concentrates…
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Triumph of Love (2002)
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Ben Kingsley, Fiona Shaw …
Directed by: Clare Peploe
It's cross-dressing farce at its finest when a princess (Mira Sorvino) attempts to restore her land to its rightful heir, Agis (Jay Rodan), but must resort to disguising herself when it…
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Tuck Everlasting (2002)
Cast: Alexis Bledel, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek …
Directed by: Jay Russell
When a teenage girl named Winnie gets lost in the woods and meets Jesse Tuck near a magic spring, she befriends his family and learns why they need to keep their lives a secret from the rest…
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The Magic Never Ends: The Life and Work of C.S. Lewis (2002)
Cast: C.S. Lewis, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Mitchell …
Considered by many to be the greatest Christian wordsmith of the 20th century, Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis remains among the most popular and commercially successful writers today,…
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The Life and Faith of C.S. Lewis: The Magic Never Ends (2002)
Cast: C.S. Lewis, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Mitchell …
Directed by: Chip Duncan
Ben Kingsley narrates this in-depth documentary on the life of C.S. Lewis, the world-renowned author (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Christian writer of the 20th century. Interviews include…
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Tatjana Blacher …
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
This filmed version of Anne Frank's famous diary -- which she kept while in hiding in Amsterdam during World War II -- fills in gaps omitted when her father (Ben Kingsley, who won a SAG…
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Sexy Beast (2001)
Cast: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane …
Directed by: Jonathan Glazer
Ben Kingsley is unforgettably menacing in this intense crime drama as sociopathic gangster Don Logan, who tries to recruit an ex-partner (Ray Winstone) for a high-stakes heist and won't…
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What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Cast: Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Camryn Manheim …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Sent by his home planet to impregnate an earthling and thus save his race from extinction, a clueless alien cruises a few Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, where he meets a woman who seems like…
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Rules of Engagement (2000)
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce …
Directed by: William Friedkin
Sensing a crisis in Yemen, the U.S. government sends Col. Terry Childers to remove the U.S. ambassador and his family from the country. Childers succeeds, but in the process ends up killing…
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Spooky House (2000)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Matt Weinberg, Mercedes Ruehl …
Directed by: William Sachs
Mysterious magician Great Zamboni (Ben Kingsley) lives with his pet jaguar, Shadow, in an expansive mansion filled with secret passages and hidden chambers. Young orphan Max (Matt Weinberg)…
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Alice in Wonderland (1999)
Cast: Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane …
Directed by: Nick Willing
Lewis Carroll's remarkable children's tale comes to life in an exciting live-action feature. After Alice (Tina Majorino) follows a talking white rabbit into a strange world where…
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The Confession (1999)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Amy Irving, Ryan Marsini …
Directed by: David Jones, David Hugh Jones
A New York lawyer with his eyes on the district attorney's office has a crisis of conscience when he must defend a man who killed three hospital workers who ignored his dying son. The…
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Parting Shots (1999)
Cast: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, Bob Hoskins …
Directed by: Michael Winner
Informed by his doctor that he has less than two months to live, wedding photographer Harry Sterndale (Chris Rea) decides to get back at all the people who've ruined his life, including…
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Peace Is Every Step (1998)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Thich Nhat Hanh, Peter Matthiessen …
Directed by: Gaetano Kazuo Maida
The influential life and powerful messages of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh are explored in this meditative documentary. For more than 50 years, this amazing social activist has…
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The Assignment (1997)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland …
Directed by: Christian Duguay
A dead ringer for international terrorist Carlos Sanchez (Aidan Quinn), U.S. Naval officer Annibal Ramirez (also Aidan Quinn) is mistakenly arrested in Israel in this fact-based thriller.…
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Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers …
Directed by: Stephen Surjik
As two warring media moguls (Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsley) grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations they own…
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Photographing Fairies (1997)
Cast: Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Nick Willing
Crushed by his young wife's death, a photographer spends World War I in the trenches taking pictures of men killed in action to deaden his own pain. After the war, an apparition in a…
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Twelfth Night (1996)
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Imogen Stubbs, Nigel Hawthorne …
Directed by: Trevor Nunn
Twins Viola (Imogen Stubbs) and Sebastian (Steven Mackintosh) each presume the other is dead after their ship sinks off the shores of Illyria. Disguised as her brother to protect herself…
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The Bible Collection: Moses (1996)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Frank Langella, David Suchet …
Directed by: Roger Young
An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lovingly told production of the Old Testament story. When the Pharaoh of Egypt begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish…
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Species (1995)
Cast: Natasha Henstridge, Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker …
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
When government scientists (led by Ben Kingsley) receive a transmission from space containing alien DNA, they create the ultimate femme fatale: a hybrid woman named Sil (Natasha Henstridge)…
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The Bible Collection: Joseph (1995)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Paul Mercurio, Martin Landau …
Directed by: Roger Young
As the Bible says, Joseph (Paul Mercurio) was cast into a pit by his jealous brothers and pled for mercy, but they turned a deaf ear and sold young Joseph into slavery in Egypt. There, Joseph…
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Death and the Maiden (1994)
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Paulina Escobar (Sigourney Weaver) is a former political activist and torture victim. Her husband, Gerardo (Stuart Wilson), has just been appointed to head a commission on human rights…
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Liberation (1994)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Miriam Margolyes …
Directed by: Arnold Schwartzman
Using rare archival footage, contemporary media reports and first-person accounts, this in-depth documentary chronicles the Allies' efforts as they plot to invade Germany and overthrow…
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Dave (1993)
Cast: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella …
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) looks so much like President Bill Mitchell that he's asked to stand in for him after the chief executive suffers an unexpected stroke -- and he's stuck in…
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Cast: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
After 7-year-old Josh Waitzken gets hooked on speed chess and becomes a whiz at it, his dad hires an implacable chess master to coach the boy but reassesses his decision when Josh's…
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Schindler's List (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson stars as Oskar Schindler, a greedy German factory owner made rich by exploiting cheap Jewish labor. But as World War II unfolds, he becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his…
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Sneakers (1992)
Cast: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his offbeat team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking "black box" from a Soviet-funded genius, they…
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Bugsy (1991)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Andy Romano, Annette Bening …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Warren Beatty stars as gangster Bugsy Siegel, who worked hard to realize his dream of building a gambling mecca in the middle of the Nevada desert. But his affair with screen siren Virginia…
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Slipstream (1989)
Cast: Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge …
Directed by: Steven Lisberger
A cop and his sidekick capture a wanted bounty hunter. Unfortunately for the duo, the fugitive is kidnapped from them by a maverick explorer out to collect the reward. The officers are…
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Without a Clue (1988)
Cast: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones …
Directed by: Thom Eberhardt
Part mystery and part comedy, this film tackles the origins of the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Here, Holmes is depicted as an invention of Dr. John Watson (Ben…
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Testimony: Tony Palmer's Story of Shostakovich (1988)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, John Shrapnel, Vernon Dobtcheff …
Directed by: Tony Palmer
Oscar winner Ben Kingsley stars as Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in this fascinating biopic from director Tony Palmer. Based loosely on Shostakovich's memoirs that were dictated…
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Maurice (1987)
Cast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves …
Directed by: James Ivory
Set in pre-war I England, this Merchant-Ivory drama (based on the controversial E.M. Forster novel written in 1914 but not published until 1971) is about the coming of age of two young…
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Silas Marner (1985)
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Ben Kingsley, Patrick Ryecart …
Directed by: Giles Foster
Reclusive and misanthropic after being falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit, Silas Marner (Ben Kingsley) holes up in the village of Raveloe to live the rest of his life in miserly…
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Betrayal (1983)
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge …
Directed by: David Hugh Jones
With scenes arranged in reverse chronological order, playwright Harold Pinter's semi-autobiographical filmed play dissects the nature of an adulterous affair between Emma (Patricia…
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Gandhi (1982)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox …
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
This awe-inspiring biopic about Mahatma Gandhi -- the diminutive lawyer who stood up against British rule in India and became an international symbol of nonviolence and understanding --…
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Richard Griffiths, Alan Bennett …
Directed by: David Hugh Jones
Richard Griffiths and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley star in this BBC production of Shakespeare's comedy about Sir John Falstaff, one of Queen Elizabeth I's favorite…
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Antony & Cleopatra (1974)
Cast: Richard Johnson, Janet Suzman, Patrick Stewart …
Directed by: Jon Scoffield
The Royal Shakespeare Company reinterprets the famous scribe's epic love story set against a backdrop of national politics. Heartbreakingly tragic, this classic tale is filled with…
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Hard Labour (1973)
Cast: Liz Smith, Clifford Kershaw, Polly Hemingway …
Directed by: Mike Leigh
A grindingly poor, elderly woman (Liz Smith) puts up with daily abuse from her husband, her children and her employer. Oscar winner Ben Kingsley makes a strong appearance as a friendly taxi…
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Fear Is the Key (1972)
Cast: Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon …
Directed by: Michael Tuchner
In this well-crafted adaptation of Alistair MacLean's best-selling novel, undersea salvage expert John Talbot (Barry Newman) seeks revenge for the death of his wife and child after their…