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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


  • The Assignment
  • The Assignment review by A customer from LONDON
    Rated - 5 stars 4 March 2004
    ...signment- is a gripping thriller, with great acting from Donald Sutherland, and Ben Kingsley. ...  
  • Silas Marner - The Weaver Of Raveloe
  • Silas Marner - The Weaver Of Raveloe review by A customer from Derbyshire, UK
    Rated - 4 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...  
  • Sexy Beast
  • Sexy Beast review by LD from Herts
    Rated - 4 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...  

Ben Kingsley - filmography


  • Elegy (2008)
    Starring: Penelope Cruz,  Ben Kingsley,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Isabel Coixet
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (59%)
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  • The Love Guru (2008)
    Starring: Jessica Alba,  Justin Timberlake,  Mike Myers
    Director: Marco Schnabel
    Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 2.0 (43%)
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  • War Inc. (2008)
    Starring: Marisa Tomei,  Hilary Duff,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Joshua Seftel
    Certificate: TBC
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (48%)
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  • The Last Legion on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Ben Kingsley,  Aishwarya Rai
    Director: Doug Lefler
    Certificate: 12
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (58%)
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  • You Kill Me on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Dennis Farina,  Ben Kingsley,  Tea Leoni
    Director: John Dahl
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (53%)
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  • Bloodrayne on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Kristanna Loker,  Michelle Rodriguez,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Uwe Boll
    Certificate: 18
    Meet Rayne. She's every man's dream. She's every vampire's living nightmare. And she's out avenge her Mother's brutal death at the hands of Kagan, Kind of the Vampire's, before he lays eighteenth century Romania to ruin. Driven by her own vampire bloodlust, but refusing to take innocent lives, ...
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  • Lucky Number Slevin on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Josh Hartnett,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Paul McGuigan
    Certificate: 18
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (72%)
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  • Oliver Twist on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Jamie Foreman,  Barney Clark
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (63%)
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  • Thunderbirds on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Bill Paxton,  Anthony Edwards,  Sophia Myles
    Director: Jonathan Frakes
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (52%)
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  • Sexy Beast on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Ben Kingsley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (74%)
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  • What Planet Are You From? on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  John Goodman,  Garry Shandling
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
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  • Parting Shots (1999)
    Starring: Chris Rea,  Felicity Kendal,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Michael Winner
    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.
    Rate this: 1.5 (26%)
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  • Alice In Wonderland on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robbie Coltrane,  Whoopi Goldberg,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Nick Willing
    Certificate: U
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 (58%)
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  • The Assignment on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Donald Sutherland,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: 18
    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 ...
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  • Twelfth Night on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter,  Nigel Hawthorne,  Imogen Stubbs
    Director: Trevor Nunn
    Certificate: U
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (72%)
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  • Bible, The - Moses on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Christopher Lee,  David Suchet
    Certificate: 12
    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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  • Species (2 discs) on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Michael Madsen,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: 18
    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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  • Schindler's List on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Ralph Fiennes,  Caroline Goodall
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 4.0 (83%)
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  • Innocent Moves on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Joe Mantegna,  Joan Allen,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Steve Zaillain
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (68%)
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