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  • Kingsley in talks to play Iron Man villain - 9 April 2012
    -Oscar-winning Gandhi star Sir Ben Kingsley is in talks to play the villain in the next Iron Man sequel, according to Hollywood trade reports.-The Hugo actor will follow Mickey Rourke as superhero Tony Stark's nemesis in Iron Man 3, if Variety rumours are true.- No d


  • Law, Winstone & Kingsley team up for Depp and Scorsese's Cabret - 30 June 2010
    am of Britain's actors have teamed up for a new Martin Scorsese film Johnny Depp is producing.- -Jude Law, Christopher Lee, Sir Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone, and beloved thespians Frances de la Tour and Richard Griffiths have started work on the great director's live-ac


  • Kingsley honoured with Hollywood star - 28 May 2010
    -Bruce Willis turned out to congratulate Sir Ben Kingsley on Thursday (27May10) as the actor unveiled his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.- -The Oscar-winner, who was knighted in 2002, received the 2,410th star at the ceremony as hundreds of fans turned out to appl

Ben Kingsley - what members say


  • Silas Marner - The Weaver Of Raveloe
  • Silas Marner - The Weaver Of Raveloe review by A customer from Derbyshire, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Excellent adaptation 8 July 2004
    ...vans)best novels, Silas Marner is here well adapted, in the TV version starring Ben Kingsley. He is wonderful, as ever. TV classics can tend to 'date' rather quickly, but t...   Read customer review
  • Sexy Beast
  • Sexy Beast review by from Herts
    Rated - 4.0 stars Retirement plan gone wrong 21 February 2004
    ...Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley are just great in this film. Ray is contentedly retired in a beautifull Spanish Villa with his adoring wife, happily away from the London...   Read customer review
  • Gandhi
  • Gandhi review by from FALLOWFIELD
    Rated - 4.0 stars 6 May 2004
    ...ma to secure independence for India. A captivating central performance from Sir Ben Kingsley which was close to pulling this film up to five stars by itself - it's a long ...   Read customer review

Ben Kingsley - filmography


  • The Dictator - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Megan Fox,  Ben Kingsley,  Sacha Baron Cohen
    Director: Larry Charles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen following the dedicated attempts of a dictator to stave off the terrible threat of democracy. Like all good dictators, General Admiral Aladeen (Cohen), the self-described 'Supreme Leader, All Triumphant General and Chief Opthalmologist of the People'..read more »
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  • Hugo - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Ray Winstone,  Sacha Baron Cohen
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Martin Scorsese makes his first foray into children's cinema with this semi-fantastical drama based on a book by Brian Selznick. Asa Butterfield stars as Hugo, an orphan who lives in the hidden nooks of a train station in 1920s Paris. With the help of his friend, Isabelle (Chloë Moretz), he sets ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,819 members
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  • Teen Patti (2010)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Madhavan,  Saira Mohan
    Director: Leena Yadav
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sir Ben Kingsley, essays Perci Trachtenberg, regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician. Perci meets Venkat, a reclusive math genius from India, at a casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever but one that has ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 17 members
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  • Shutter Island on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Mark Ruffalo,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 79,943 members
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  • Fifty Dead Men Walking on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Jim Sturgess,  Kevin Zegers
    Director: Kari Skogland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story, Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 13,020 members
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  • Fifty Dead Men Walking - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Tom Collins,  Joe Doyle
    Director: Kari Skogland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Thriller loosely based on the autobiography by Martin McGartland, former undercover informant to the British police on the activities of the IRA. Set in Belfast in the late 1980s, the film shows how McGartland led a double life for four years while still in his early twenties, revealing nothing of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,011 members
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  • Elegy - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Penelope Cruz,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Isabel Coixet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Charismatic professor David Kepesh glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh ..read more »
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  • Transsiberian - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Woody Harrelson,  Emily Mortimer,  Kate Mara
    Director: Brad Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set on the legendary express train as it travels from China to Moscow, follows an American couple who board the train and make the acquaintance of a Russian police inspector on the trail of the killers of a drug dealer. The couple soon find themselves embroiled in a murderous plot with no escape.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,706 members
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  • Elegy on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Penelope Cruz,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Isabel Coixet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Charismatic professor David Kepesh glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,433 members
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  • Transsiberian on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Woody Harrelson,  Emily Mortimer,  Kate Mara
    Director: Brad Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set on the legendary express train as it travels from China to Moscow, follows an American couple who board the train and make the acquaintance of a Russian police inspector on the trail of the killers of a drug dealer. The couple soon find themselves embroiled in a murderous plot with no escape.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 8,191 members
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  • War Inc. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  John Cusack,  Hilary Duff
    Director: Joshua Seftel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Darkly comic political satire co-written by and starring John Cusack. Riots are breaking out in the fictional desert country of Turaqistan after an American corporation owned by the former US Vice President (Dan Aykroyd) assumes power over the entire country. Hoping to take maximum advantage of the ..read more »
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  • The Love Guru - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Mike Myers,  Ben Kingsley,  Romany Malco
    Director: Marco Schnabel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mike 'Austin Powers' Myers returns in this madcap tale of an Indian guru's attempt to help a star hockey player get back on track. When the Toronto Maple Leafs' star player Darren Roanoke (Romany Maloco) encounters marital problems, the news that his wife is seeing rival L.A. Kings star Jacques ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 2,267 members
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  • The Wackness on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Famke Janssen,  Josh Peck
    Director: Jonathan Levine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    "The Wackness", set in 1994, centers on a troubled teenage drug dealer and a drug-addled psychiatrist -- after the former trades pot for therapy sessions, then falls for the doctor's daughter.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,879 members
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  • The Love Guru on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jessica Alba,  Justin Timberlake,  Mike Myers
    Director: Marco Schnabel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 10,422 members
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  • The Wackness - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Josh Peck,  Method Man
    Director: Jonathan Levine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Coming-of-age comedy drama set in New York in the sweltering, hip-hop-infused summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), a lonely teenager who is spending his last summer before college selling marijuana on the streets, forms a friendship with Dr Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley), an unorthodox ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 69 members
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  • You Kill Me (2007)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Ben Kingsley,  Bill Pullman
    Director: John Dahl
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comedy starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni. Frank Falenczyk (Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his Uncle (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,767 members
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  • Bloodrayne on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Billy Zane,  Meat Loaf,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Uwe Boll
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gothic action adventure prequel to the popular video game. In medieval Romania, the evil Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley), vampire supreme, seeks to increase his dominion over the land. On hearing of three magical talismans that can bestow immortality, Kagan scours the country in his quest for ultimate ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 3,447 members
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  • Lucky Number Slevin on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Oliver Davis,  Ben Kingsley,  Sam Jaeger
    Director: Paul McGuigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Thriller in which a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) in the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses, The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 74,266 members
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  • Lucky Number Slevin - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Oliver Davis,  Ben Kingsley,  Sam Jaeger
    Director: Paul McGuigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Thriller in which a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) in the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses, The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 4,907 members
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  • A Sound of Thunder on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Catherine McCormack,  David Oyelowo
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Thriller based on the short story by Ray Bradbury. In 2055, in Chicago, a company specialised in time travel and owned by the powerful and wealthy Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) organises safaris for tycoons in the prehistoric era. The team is leaded by Dr. Travis Ryer (Edward Burns) and the jump is ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3,314 members
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  • Oliver Twist (2005)
    Starring: Ian Mcneice,  Ben Kingsley,  Mark Strong
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boys of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape to the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 18,937 members
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  • Thunderbirds on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Vanessa Anne Hudgens,  Bill Paxton
    Director: Jonathan Frakes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This live-action, big-budget family blockbuster brings Gerry Anderson's cult classic 1960s puppet sci-fi TV series to the big screen. Directed by Jonathan Frakes, the film follows the intergalactic adventures of the Tracy family, headed by former astronaut Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), who lives with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 18,121 members
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  • Suspect Zero on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Aaron Eckhart,  Julian Reyes
    Director: E. Elias Merhige
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller about a Dallas FBI agent (Aaron Eckhart) who is investigating the case of a murdered serial killer when he discovers that a former, renegade FBI agent (Ben Kingsley) has dedicated himself to hunting down serial killers on his own. Mackelway (Eckhart) begins to realize that the avenging ..read more »
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  • House Of Sand And Fog (2003)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Ron Eldard,  Jennifer Connelly
    Director: Vadim Perelman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley), an Iranian immigrant living in California, becomes embroiled in a legal dispute with former drug addict Kathy (Jennifer Connelly). The dispute is over a house which Massoud has bought and which Kathy lost unfairly to the county. Neither Kathy nor Massoud has ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 13,451 members
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  • Rules Of Engagement on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Dale Dye,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is a war hero whose peacekeeping mission to Yemen goes horribly wrong when he orders his men to open fire on a group of demonstrators. The colonel is subsequently charged with murder and asks his comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military ..read more »
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  • What Planet Are You From? on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Judy Greer,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In order to save his emotionless, all-male race from extinction, alien Harold (Gary Shandling) travels to Earth to find and impregnate a mate. Posing as a banker, Harold's attempts to romance members of the opposite sex all fall flat due to his tactless chat up lines. After a colleague advises him ..read more »
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  • Sexy Beast on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Ray Winstone,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gangster Gary Dove (Ray Winstone) has now retired to a villa on the Costa Del Sol, where he lives with ex-porn star wife DeeDee (Amanda Redman) and spends his time lazing by the pool and dining out with friends. All is well until Gary's psychotic former colleague Dan Logan (Ben Kingsley) arrives in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 14,968 members
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  • Sexy Beast - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Ben Kingsley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,738 member
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  • Spooky House on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Mercedes Ruehl,  Matt Weinberg
    Director: William Sachs
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Oscar®-winner Ben Kingsley is the Great Zamboni, a magician with a mysterious secret. He lives alone with his black Jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers. In spite of all the urban legends about the reclusive Zamboni, young orphan Max ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 114 members
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  • Parting Shots (1999)
    Starring: Chris Rea,  Felicity Kendal,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Harry only has a short time to live - but the prognosis is even worse for his enemies. An all-star cast shines in this hilarious black comedy about getting even - and getting away with it.
    2 stars out of 5 33% from 22 members
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  • Alice In Wonderland on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Gene Wilder,  Peter Ustinov
    Director: Nick Willing
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Star-studded adaptation of the Lewis Carroll fantasy. When she slips down a rabbit hole, young Alice (Tina Majorino) finds herself in the bizarre kingdom of Wonderland. After an encounter with the ever-grinning Cheshire Cat (Whoopi Goldberg), Alice accompanies the White Rabbit to the tea party of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 725 members
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  • Crime And Punishment on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Ben Kingsley,  Patrick Dempsey
    Director: Joseph Sargent
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Adaptation of Dostoevsky's classic psychological exploration of guilt. Crispin Glover plays Raskolnikov, the poverty-stricken student who murders a pawnbroker as an existential exercise and then succumbs to the internal torture of his guilt, before being caught by the police.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 313 members
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  • The Assignment on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Liliana Komorowska,  Ben Kingsley,  Aidan Quinn
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    American naval officer Annibal Ramirez (Aidan Quinn) bears an uncanny resemblance to the infamous terrorist Carlos 'The Jackal'. CIA spy Jack Shaw (Donald Sutherland) and his Israeli counterpart Amos (Ben Kingsley) hatch a plan to lure Carlos into a trap, using his doppelganger as bait. However, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 772 members
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  • Photographing Fairies (1997)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Toby Stephens,  Emily Woof
    Director: Nick Willing
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to ..read more »
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  • Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Ben Kingsley,  Mimi Rogers
    Director: Stephen Surjik
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two media moguls vie for ownership of a pro football team, at first they play by their own rules of fair game but then it gets dirty. In an attempt to out do one another each one makes it more personal as their own greed and ambition takes their toll on their families, companies and employees.
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  • Twelfth Night on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Ben Kingsley,  Imelda Staunton
    Director: Trevor Nunn
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The classic Shakespearean comedy about mistaken identity and gender confusion is brought to the screen once again in this British production, courtesy of screenwriter-director Trevor Nunn. Nunn has transferred the time period to the Victorian Era of the late 19th century. Two twins, Viola (Imogen ..read more »
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  • Species - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Ben Kingsley,  Michael Madsen
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1974 scientists used the world's largest radio telescope to send messages into outer space. Twenty years later they receive a message giving instructions on how to mix human and alien DNA to form 'Sil', a new species. The scientists create 'Sil' - in the shape of a beautiful young woman (Natasha ..read more »
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  • Species on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Ben Kingsley,  Michael Madsen
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1974 scientists used the world's largest radio telescope to send messages into outer space. Twenty years later they receive a message giving instructions on how to mix human and alien DNA to form 'Sil', a new species. The scientists create 'Sil' - in the shape of a beautiful young woman (Natasha ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,711 members
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  • Schindler's List on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Ralph Fiennes,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts,..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 83,925 members
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  • Innocent Moves (1993)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Laurence Fishburne,  Laurence Fishburne
    Director: Steve Zaillain
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dramatic directorial debut from Steve Zaillian, scriptwriter of 'Schindler's List' is about Josh, a child chess master whose father is pressurizing him to become a champion. Together with the coach of Bobby Fischer they drive Josh until the point of collapse.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 281 members
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  • Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
    Starring: Max Pomeranc,  Joe Mantegna,  Joan Allen
    Director: Steven Zaillian
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A sportswriter is thrilled to find his son is a chess prodigy. Taking his son into the amazing world of championship chess, he learns that loving his kid is the best way to mold a champion in this intelligent and fascinating film.
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  • Dave on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Ving Rhames,  Sigourney Weaver
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When a cynical US President suffers a near fatal heart attack while in the arms of his mistress, a small town lookalike, the genial Dave (Kevin Kline), is called upon to act as his double. The doppelganger brings an innocent vitality to his new job, and begins to call the shots, much to the ..read more »
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  • Sneakers on DVD (1992)
    Starring: David Strathairn,  James Earl Jones,  Robert Redford
    Director: Phil Alden Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) is the head of 'Sneakers', a computer group who test security systems. However, his political activist past catches up with him when the government use it as a lever to force him into doing some of their hi-tech dirty work. Bishop and his team reluctantly comply, only ..read more »
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  • Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Jenny Agutter,  David Ashton
    Director: Jon Acevski
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Once upon a time in France there lived a prince called Frederick who was turned into a frog by his evil aunt. Escaping her clutches, Freddie uses his magic powers to become the world-renowned Special Agent F.R.O.7 ...
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  • Sneakers - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Dan Aykroyd,  Sidney Poitier
    Director: Phil Alden Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) is the head of 'Sneakers', a computer group who test security systems. However, his political activist past catches up with him when the government use it as a lever to force him into doing some of their hi-tech dirty work. Bishop and his team reluctantly comply, only ..read more »
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  • Bugsy on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Harvey Keitel,  Warren Beatty
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Warren Beatty stars in the life story of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, the Hollywood-obsessed, hot-tempered gangster who dreamt of a desert gambling paradise that would one day become Las Vegas. When Bugsy embarks on an affair with beautiful starlet Virginia 'The Flamingo' Hill (Annette Bening), the ..read more »
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  • Without A Clue on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Pat Keen,  Lysette Anthony
    Director: Thom Eberhardt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Victorian society thrills to the crime-solving adventures of the great Sherlock Holmes, unaware that he is in fact a fictional character created by the real sleuth - Dr Watson (Ben Kingsley) - as a cover for his own detecting abilities. When Scotland Yard request that Holmes help them with their ..read more »
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  • Slipstream on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Eleanor David,  Bill Paxton
    Director: Steven Lisberger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In a future world, the laws of nature are in disarray and the main form of transport is in crafts carried by powerful winds which many people worship. Renegade android Bob Peck is hunted by lawman Mark Hamill to a wind-worshipping commune. Most of the aerial shots were filmed over Turkey.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 555 members
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  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
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  • Turtle Diary (1985)
    Starring: Glenda Jackson,  Ben Kingsley,  Richard Johnson
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3 members
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  • Harem (1985)
    Starring: Nastassja Kinski,  Ben Kingsley,  Dennis Goldson
    Director: Arthur Joffé
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This film's two well-known stars -- Nastassja Kinski as Diane, a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange, and Ben Kingsley as Selim an Arab mogul -- are hard-put to bring life into this beautifully photographed but underscripted romantic drama. Diane is kidnapped and brought to Selim's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5 members
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  • Playing Shakespeare (3 discs) on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Norman Rodway,  Ben Kingsley,  David Suchet
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A series of Shakespeare masterclasses filmed for television in 1982, featuring some of the finest actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Judi Dench, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ben Kingsley and Sinead Cusack.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 23 members
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  • Betrayal (1983)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Ben Kingsley,  Patricia Hodge
    Director: David Hugh Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse ..read more »
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  • Gandhi on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Martin Sheen,  Trevor Howard
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 19,363 members
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  • Gandhi - Blu-ray (1982)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Martin Sheen,  Trevor Howard
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from his beginnings as a young Indian lawyer to his triumph as a revolutionary - whose philosophy of non-violent protest helped gain India its independence. The film won ..read more »
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  • Dickens Of London (4 discs) on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  John Breslin,  Simon Bell
    Director: Marc Miller,  Michael Ferguson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All 13 episodes of the 1976 series chronicling the life and times of London's most famous author. Young Charles Dickens is herded from pillar to post through his irresponsible father's many debts, but his desire to learn is undimmed by the traumas and poverty he endures as a youth. Following ..read more »
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  • Mike Leigh At The BBC (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Brid Brennan,  Stephen Rea
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Six-volume set featuring the acclaimed director's TV plays and dramas for the BBC. Leigh's best-known works during this productive period were the award-winning 'Abigail's Party' (1977), a satirical glimpse at middle-class values in the 1970s, and 'Nuts in May' (1976), the adventures of a self-..read more »
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Ben Kingsley facts

5 most recent films

Iron Man 3 - 4.0 stars
The Dictator - 3.0 stars
The Dictator - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Hugo - 3.5 stars
Hugo - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Schindler's List - 4.0 stars
Iron Man 3 - 4.0 stars
Gandhi - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Mike Leigh At The BBC - Bonus Features - 4.0 stars
Mike Leigh At The BBC - Nuts In May / The Kiss Of Death - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Sneakers - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Weapons of Mass Distraction - 3 stars
Parting Shots - 2.0 stars
Teen Patti - 2.0 stars
Turtle Diary - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alison Steadman - 7 times - show films
Des McAleer - 7 times - show films
Stephen Rea - 7 times - show films
David Threlfall - 7 times - show films
Felicity Dean - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Mike Leigh - 7 times - show films
Richard Attenborough - 6 times - show films
Roger Donaldson - 4 times - show films
Michael Tuchner - 4 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 4 times - show films