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Kingsley honoured at European Film Festival -
10 November 2009
-Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley has been feted for his long-running career at the 2009 European Film Festival in Seville, Spain.-
-The actor, 65, was presented with the prestigious Giraldillo de Oro, a golden replica of the city's Seville tower, on Monday (09Nov09).-
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Cruz baffled by Kingsley's title -
9 April 2009
-Penelope Cruz had trouble talking to her Elegy co-star Sir Ben Kingsley - because she had no idea how to address him.-
-The Spanish actress admits she was confused when she first began filming the 2008 movie - because she was told to call the star by his full title.-
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Kingsley and Glover team up for buddy movie -
23 May 2006
The news that Sir Ben Kingsley and Danny Glover are teaming up to star in a buddy movie might have cinema-goers intrigued at the prospect of a Lethal Weapon Sexy Beast hybrid. - -However, the project that Glover and Kingsley have signed on for does not require the pre
Ben Kingsley - what members say
Ben Kingsley - filmography
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Shutter Island
(2010)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Director: Martin Scorsese
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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.
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
(2010)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley
Director: Mike Newell
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Set in 9th century medieval Persia, a young adventurous prince uncovers a dangerous artifact in a remote mountain kingdom and with the help of an enemy princess, must stop a despot from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy all mankind. Based on the videogame, "Prince Of Persia".
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77%
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers
Director: Kari Skogland
Certificate: 
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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 »
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70%
from 1,884 member
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The Wackness
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Josh Peck
Director: Jonathan Levine
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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.
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59%
from 5,592 members
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The Love Guru
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Mike Myers
Director: Marco Schnabel
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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.
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51%
from 8,362 members
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Transsiberian - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara
Director: Brad Anderson
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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.
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61%
from 1,373 member
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Elegy - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley
Director: Isabel Coixet
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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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from 16 members
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Transsiberian
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara
Director: Brad Anderson
Certificate: 
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.
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62%
from 5,388 members
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Elegy
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley
Director: Isabel Coixet
Certificate: 
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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59%
from 4,210 members
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Love Guru, The - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Meagan Good, Mike Myers, Verne Troyer
Director: Marco Schnabel
Certificate: 
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.
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47%
from 1,638 member
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War Inc.
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Ben Kingsley
Director: Joshua Seftel
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Joshua Seftel's fierce political satire features an all-star cast headed by John Cusack. Set in a fictionalized Middle East, the film takes United States foreign affairs to comic extremes in a world where corporations rule and wars are completely outsourced. At the start of the film, Turaqistan is ..read more »
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48%
from 2,346 members
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You Kill Me
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Dennis Farina, Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni
Director: John Dahl
Certificate: 
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Cinematic hit men are dual-edged characters who can easily slip into the role of hero or villain, making them an attractive proposition for directors looking to pack an emotional punch. YOU KILL ME stars Ben Kingsley (SEXY BEAST) as Frank Falenczyk, a hit man whose work for the Buffalo-based Mafia ..read more »
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55%
from 4,047 members
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The Last Legion
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai
Director: Doug Lefler
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The Empire is being held to ransom by the Barbarians. On the eve of the coronation of the 12-year-old Romulus Augustus, his mentor, the shaman Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley), predicts disaster. His worst fears are realised as the Goths sack the once-great city of Rome and capture the last Emperor and ..read more »
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58%
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The Ten Commandments
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Christian Slater, Alfred Molina
Director: Bill Boyce, John Stronach
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The Ten Commandments showcases Moses, the reluctant prophet, who was the only man to see the face of God and call him "friend". Condemned to die by the Pharoah while just a baby, Hebrew Moses is set adrift on the river Nile by his mother and his sister. Rescued by the daughter of the Pharoah, he ..read more »
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59%
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Wackness, The - BLU-RAY Version
(2007)
Starring: Mary-Kate Olsen, Olivia Thirlby, Ben Kingsley
Director: Jonathan Levine
Certificate: 
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Set in New York during the summer of 1994, THE WACKNESS tells the story of Luke (Josh Peck), a pot-peddling teen with a self confidence problem and a list of clients that include his therapist, Dr Squires (Ben Kingsley), who in turn, is struggling with something of a mid-life crisis and a younger ..read more »
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63%
from 36 members
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Bloodrayne
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Kristanna Loker, Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley
Director: Uwe Boll
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Meet Rayne. She's every man's dream. She's every vampire's living nightmare. And she's out to avenge her Mother's brutal death at the hands of Kagan, King of the Vampires, before he lays eighteenth century Romania to ruin. Driven by her own vampire bloodlust, but refusing to take innocent lives, ..read more »
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46%
from 2,470 members
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Lucky Number Slevin
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman
Director: Paul McGuigan
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A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) in the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most infamous crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as ..read more »
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72%
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A Sound Of Thunder
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack
Director: Peter Hyams
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In A SOUND OF THUNDER, based on a short story by Ray Bradbury, director Peter Hyams (END OF DAYS, TIMECOP) creates a world where time travel is possible and life as we know it is threatened. In the year 2055, Charles Hatton's (Ben Kingsley) company, Time Safari, will take anyone with a big enough ..read more »
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50%
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Oliver Twist
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Barney Clark
Director: Roman Polanski
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Acclaimed director Roman Polanski turns a dark eye toward the classic Charles Dickens novel OLIVER TWIST, about a charming orphan boy (Barney Clark) whose life seems to depend solely on the whims of fate. Abandoned early in life, Oliver first seems doomed to life in a workhouse, where he is farmed ..read more »
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59%
from 18,165 members
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Thunderbirds
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles
Director: Jonathan Frakes
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Based on the cult British television show from the 1960s, THUNDERBIRDS explodes into the 21st Century with this thrilling live-action version of the franchise. Drawing on similar themes and familiar characters, director Jonathan Frakes (STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT) sticks closely to the spirit of the ..read more »
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49%
from 17,333 members
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House Of Sand And Fog
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard
Director: Vadim Perelman
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Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly star in the powerful drama HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG as two people fighting over the same house. Connelly is Kathy, a troubled young woman struggling with addiction and her husband's departure. Lost in druggy daze, she fails to check her mail, which includes letters ..read more »
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66%
from 12,177 members
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What Planet Are You From?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Annette Bening, John Goodman, Garry Shandling
Director: Mike Nichols
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The comic story of an alien, H-1449-6 (Shandling - THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW), sent to Earth to impregnate a human woman as part of a fiendish plot to conquer the Universe. Assuming the identity of Harold Anderson, he attempts to blend into human society (Phoenix, AZ to be exact) and begin his search ..read more »
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53%
from 215 members
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Sexy Beast - HD DVD Version
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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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 »
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75%
from 203 members
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Spooky House
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Mercedes Ruehl, Matt Weinberg
Director: William Sachs
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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 »
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52%
from 12 members
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Sexy Beast - BLU-RAY Version
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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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 »
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72%
from 557 members
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Sexy Beast
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Certificate: 
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 »
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69%
from 11,839 members
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Alice In Wonderland
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley
Director: Nick Willing
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A acclaimed British production which originally aired on NBC, Lewis Carroll's classic story comes to life once again in this updated version- with an all-star cast including Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Miranda Richardson, and Gene Wilder.
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58%
from 519 members
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Parting Shots
(1999)
Starring: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, Bob Hoskins
Director: Michael Winner
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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.
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19%
from 10 members
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The Assignment
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
Director: Christian Duguay
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A CIA agent obsessed with apprehending infamous international terrorist Carlos "The Jackal" deploys a U.S. Navy man--who resembles Carlos exactly--in his scheme to discredit the legendary mercenary in the eyes of his employers. A complex psychological suspenser elevated above the bulging ranks of ..read more »
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63%
from 670 members
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Twelfth Night
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Imogen Stubbs
Director: Trevor Nunn
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Trevor Nunn's version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy revolves around Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But ..read more »
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67%
from 1,349 member
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Bible, The - Moses
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee, David Suchet
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An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lavish production of the Old Testament story. When the Pharaoh of Egypt begins to tighten the noose on his people, Moses finds himself leading them to freedom--and lands unknown.
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61%
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Species
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina
Director: Roger Donaldson
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A genetically engineered, shape-shifting creature with extraterrestrial intelligence adopts the form of a beautiful woman to mate with humans and unleash a brood of offspring that will destroy mankind. A team of experts must band together to stop her--it--from accomplishing its diabolical mission.
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59%
from 6,263 members
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Species - BLU-RAY Version
(1995)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina
Director: Roger Donaldson
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A genetically engineered, shape-shifting creature with extraterrestrial intelligence adopts the form of a beautiful woman to mate with humans and unleash a brood of offspring that will destroy mankind. A team of experts must band together to stop her--it--from accomplishing its diabolical mission.
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61%
from 610 members
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Innocent Moves
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley
Director: Steve Zaillain
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Though he's only seven, Josh looks at a chessboard and anticipates moves that mature chess players don't even see. He's a malleable young boy with an incredible talent for the game of masterminds. When Josh begins honing his talent, playing a speedy version of the game called "blitz" with hustlers ..read more »
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68%
from 239 members
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
(1993)
Starring: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen
Director: Steven Zaillian
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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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75%
from 13 members
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Schindler's List
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their saviour. Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But ..read more »
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81%
from 69,416 members
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Dave
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella
Director: Ivan Reitman
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A presidential look-alike finds himself in the oval office "filling in" for the president who has fallen ill. Lacking the political savvy of the real president, "Dave" proceeds to govern the country with a refreshingly straight-forward approach. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay.
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67%
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Sneakers
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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A computer expert (Robert Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers who test security systems. His past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "Sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: track down an elusive black box filled with national security secrets.
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68%
from 4,268 members
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Bugsy
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel
Director: Barry Levinson
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Directed by Barry Levinson, BUGSY tells the true story of legendary New York mobster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel. Visiting Hollywood 'on business', the reckless and volatile Bugsy is drawn to Tinseltown and the glamour of the movies. Leaving his wife and kids in Scarsdale indefinitely, the womanizing ..read more »
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61%
from 857 members
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Slipstream
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton
Director: Steven Lisberger
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`Slipstream' is set in a world where nature has gone mad and flying, fuelled by the wind, is the principal means of travel. A runaway fugitive, being taken to prison by two law officers, is kidnapped by a young adventurer intent on collecting a reward. They head off down the `Slipstream' - a river ..read more »
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45%
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Without A Clue
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones
Director: Thom Eberhardt
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Without A Clue presents an original twist on the famous Sherlock Holmes/Dr. John Watson stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This time, however, Dr. Watson is the one with a talent for solving mysteries, while Holmes is nothing but his fictional creation. After inventing the sleuth in a series of ..read more »
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69%
from 934 members
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Testimony - The Story Of Shostakovich
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Ben Kingsley
Director: Tony Palmer
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A dramatisation of the turbulent life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (here excellently essayed by Ben Kingsley), based on the book by Solomon Volkov.
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55%
from 109 members
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Maurice
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: James Wilby, Patrick Godfrey, Ben Kingsley
Director: James Ivory
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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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69%
from 2,376 members
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Gandhi
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Gandhi is a great subject, but is Gandhi a great film? Undoubtedly it is, not least because it is one of the last old-school epics ever made, a glorious visual treat featuring tens of thousands of extras (real people, not digital effects) and sumptuous Panavision cinematography. But a true epic is ..read more »
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74%
from 16,409 members
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Gandhi - BLU-RAY Version
(1982)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox
Director: Richard Attenborough
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The acclaimed dramatisation of the life of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi, from his beginnings as a South African-educated lawyer through his historic, galvanizing struggle to free India from British Colonial rule. With a large, distinguished cast, headlined by Ben Kingsley in a nuanced performance, Sir ..read more »
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79%
from 464 members
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Dickens Of London
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Roy Dotrice, Simon Bell, Gene Foad
Director: Michael Ferguson, Marc Miller
Certificate: 
Dickens Of London is the compelling story of the life, loves and works of Charles Dickens. A moving account filled with great happiness and triumph as well as extreme hardship and tragedy, it explores his early penniless childhood in Chatham and London, and the unprecendented success he later ..read more »
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51%
from 48 members
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Mike Leigh At The BBC
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Brid Brennan
Director: Mike Leigh
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Hard Labour: Mike Leigh's first TV drama for the BBC in 1973. Shot entirely on location in Leigh's native Salford, Hard Labour depicts the grinding daily routine of stoical domestic cleaner Mrs Thornley and her cantankerous family.
The Permissive Society: The title is ironic - a popular ..read more »
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Ben Kingsley - watch online
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
to Watch Now
(2009)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers
Director: Kari Skogland
Certificate: 
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Run time: 117 minutes
Inspired by Martin McGartland's incredible autobiography, Fifty Dead Men Walking is the stunning new action thriller by Kari Skogland about a secret agent working undercover for British security services in Northern Ireland in the late eighties. Over the course of four years, until his betrayal and ..read more »
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80%
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The Wackness
to Watch Now
(2008)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Josh Peck
Director: Jonathan Levine
Certificate: 
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Run time: 99 minutes
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-..read more »
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65%
from 36 members
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You Kill Me
to Watch Now
(2007)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Luke Wilson, Bill Pullman
Director: John Dahl
Certificate: 
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Run time: 89 minutes
Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be the 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 (Philip Baker Hall) sends him to San ..read more »
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