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  • Chariots Of Fire
  • Chariots Of Fire review by A customer from Orpington
    Rated - 5.0 stars An epic sports drama! 29 January 2011
    ...oving, powerful drama, set in the 1924 Olympics. A true story. Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) is a Jew who is running to end discrimination against his people (and also to ...   Read customer review
  • Hero Wanted
  • Hero Wanted review by Expotanne from Rowley Regis
    Rated - 4.0 stars Hero Wanted 6 August 2010
    ...wards and forwards as the plotline pans out.. having said that I did enjoy it. Ben Cross and Ray Liotta finally playing 'good guys' rather than twisted psychos was a ni...   Read customer review
  • The Mechanik
  • The Mechanik review by rebelmonk from Bedford
    Rated - 2.0 stars It will be on Channel 5 shortly. 15 August 2008
    ...Lundgren plays his part as the Russian better than the more talented Englishman Ben Cross, who was undoubtably poor throughout. Overall, one can hope for better things i...   Read customer review

Ben Cross - filmography


  • William and Kate on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Nico Evers-Swindell,  Camilla Luddington,  Samantha Whittaker
    Director: Mark Rosman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This glossy drama tells the story of Prince William and Kate Middleton's relationship; from the beginning of the nine year romance to the worldwide excitement over their engagement, and all the ups and downs in betweeen. Nico Evers-Swindell stars as the Prince, with Camilla Luddington as the woman ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 321 members
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  • Battle Tanker on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Velizar Binev,  Callum Blue,  Sarah Brown
    Director: Jeffery Scott Lando
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A secret military experiment from the Cold War is suddenly unleashed after its transport ship is hit by a rogue wave. An elite unit is sent in to neutralise the danger, but they will first have to conquer the dangerous waves threatening them - and the cargo ship.
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 26 members
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  • Star Trek - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Jimmy Bennet,  Chris Pine
    Director: J.J. Abrams
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director J.J. Abrams (Alias) re-teams with his MI: III screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to bring a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time. Featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before, Star Trek depicts Romulan time traveller Nero's bloody ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 18,178 members
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  • Star Trek on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Chris Pine,  Zachary Quinto,  Simon Pegg
    Director: J.J. Abrams
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director J.J. Abrams (Alias) re-teams with his MI: III screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to bring a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time. Featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before, Star Trek depicts Romulan time traveller Nero's bloody ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 69,804 members
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  • Hero Wanted on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr.,  Ray Liotta,  Norman Reedus
    Director: Brian Smrz
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After he awakens in a hospital, a man tracks down and murders the man that left him and a bank teller for dead during a robbery, only to end up having the slain thief's associates come after him in retaliation.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 7,980 members
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  • Species 4 - The Awakening on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Edy Arellano,  Marco Bacuzzi,  Jan Bouda
    Director: Nick Lyon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    She may be beautiful on the outside but inside, she’s carrying a deadly secret! Prepare yourself for the fourth terrifying installment in the legendary Speciesseries, which rachets up the thrill-factor to the highest possible level of action, horror and mayhem! When brilliant college professor ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 1,037 member
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  • Grendel - The Legend Of Beowulf (2007)
    Starring: Marina Sirtis,  Michael J. Minor,  Ben Cross
    Director: Nick Lyon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    King Higlack of the Gauths puts huis trust in Beowulf after his allows him to protect his Prince, Finn and allows him to use a fireball weapon. Beowulf and twelve of his men go on a mission to help King Hrothgar of the Danes whose kingdom is being terrorised by a monster, Grendel. Beowulf soon ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
    Due for release on 23rd July 2012
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  • Zombies on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Lori Heuring,  Scout Taylor-Compton,  Chloe Moretz
    Director: J.S. Cardone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Recently widowed Karen Tunny (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, Sarah and Emma, move to a remote mountain home which Karen has inherited from the family of her late husband. However, she is unaware that the home is situated near an old mine, the site of an early 20th century tragedy in which ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,282 member
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  • Icon on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Annika Peterson,  Ben Cross,  Patrick Swayze
    Director: Charles Martin Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The only man who can stop the "Black Manifesto" of a right wing Russian extremist is ex-CIA Agent, Jason Monk (Swayze). Monk will stop at nothing to accomplish his mission. But first, he has to stay alive in the shadowy world of the lawless Eastern Block... Classic Cold War espionage thriller ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 149 members
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  • The Mechanik - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Dolph Lundgren,  Ben Cross,  Ivan Petrushinov
    Director: Dolph Lundgren
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dolph Lundgren stars as former Russian Special Forces agent Nick Cherenko in this well-made action flick. Abandoning his old life for a peaceful existence with his wife and child, Nick receives a rude awakening when they are killed in gang crossfire. Moving to the U.S. and beginning once again with ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 92 members
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  • The Mechanik on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Dolph Lundgren,  Ben Cross,  Ivan Petrushinov
    Director: Dolph Lundgren
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dolph Lundgren stars as former Russian Special Forces agent Nick Cherenko in this well-made action flick. Abandoning his old life for a peaceful existence with his wife and child, Nick receives a rude awakening when they are killed in gang crossfire. Moving to the U.S. and beginning once again with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,593 member
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  • Exorcist - The Beginning on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Stellan Skarsgard,  Izabella Scorupco,  James D'Arcy
    Director: Renny Harlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to escape the memories of the horrors he witnessed there. His faith in tatters, Merrin drifts through ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 13,816 members
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  • Spartacus on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Goran Visnjic,  Alan Bates,  Angus Macfadyen
    Director: Robert Dornhelm,  Robert Dornhelm
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This television production stars Goran Visnjic (ER) as the titular gladiator in this television adaptation of the same 1951 Howard Fast novel that spawned Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film classic. While living out his life as a slave the deserts of Egypt, Spartacus is bought by a trainer of gladiators ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3,405 members
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  • The Order on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme,  Charlton Heston,  Brian Thompson
    Director: Sheldon Lettich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up once again with DOUBLE IMPACT director Sheldon Lettich for this tale of adventure and intrigue. Reformed artifact smuggler Rudy (Van Damme) is forced to travel to Jerusalem and come to the aid of his museum curator father (Charlton Heston), who has been kidnapped by a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,103 member
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  • Turbulence on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Heidi Kling,  John Finn,  Brendan Gleeson
    Director: Robert Butler
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When a commercial jetliner transporting a death-row rapist/serial killer falls into the seductive psycho's hands, a plucky flight attendant attempts not only to escape the lunatic's plans to torture and kill her, but to personally land the 747 before the nutcase can achieve his kamikaze goal of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 613 members
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  • The Invader (1997)
    Starring: Sean Young,  Ben Cross,  Daniel Baldwin
    Director: Mark Rosman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A school teacher is impregnated and kidnapped by an alien being called Cross who has been chased across the galaxy by another alien whose race is trying to exterminate his. When the infant is born it will be female and will become the "Eve" of her race. as females were the first to be exterminated. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • The Bible - Solomon on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  David Suchet,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Roger Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    SOLOMON is the tale of the king of Israel who rules his land with love, peace, and respect. When he meets the Queen of Sheba, her beauty and charm immediately smite him, and he falls hopelessly in love. Against his wishes and desires, she must return to her homeland, leaving the King in a state of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 427 members
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  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1996)
    Starring: Richard Crenna,  Ben Cross,  Nicholas Hammond
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A marine biologist (Crenna) is commissioned by the U.S. Navy to investigate a mysterious rash of attacks on military sea vessels. He recruits a crew--including his daughter Sophie (Cox)--and soon discovers the evil Captain Nemo (Cross) has been attacking the vessels from his submarine "The Nautilus...read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 17 members
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  • First Knight - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Richard Gere,  Julia Ormond
    Director: Jerry Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Guinevere of Leonesse has agreed to marry King Arthur if his army will protect her country from the evil Malavant. Despite this she is very much in love with him and all bodes well for the future. One day, however, a rogue called Lancelot, the perfect warrior, appears on the scene and steals her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 775 members
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  • First Knight on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Richard Gere,  Julia Ormond
    Director: Jerry Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    1995 had already seen the box-office success of sword-wielding heroes in Rob Roy and Braveheart when along came this glossy revision of the Arthurian legend, in which Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond) is torn between her love for the noble King Arthur (Sean Connery) and the passionate knight Sir ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,311 members
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  • Live Wire (1992)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Ron Silver,  Ben Cross
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An action/thriller in which U.S. Senators are being assassinated by a series of mysterious explosions. FBI bomb expert Danny O'Neill is tasked with finding the villain...
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 56 members
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  • Paperhouse on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Charlotte Burke,  Glenne Headly
    Director: Bernard Rose
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Childhood fantasies transform into terror filled nightmares when a house sketched by a lonely and very imaginative child comes to life in a recurring dream, which changes as the drawing is altered.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 846 members
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  • Flame Trees Of Thika (2 discs) on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Hayley Mills,  David Robb,  Holly Aird
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An excellent t.v. mini-series based on Elspeth Huxley's much-loved memoir of her upbringing in East Africa, where her family hewed a farm from the rugged land in 1913. Growing up amidst the same pastoral loveliness that so inspired Danish novelist Isak Dinesen, the little girl and her family ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 284 members
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  • The Unholy on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Ned Beatty,  William Russ
    Director: Camilo Vila
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Father Michael is appointed pastor of St Agnes church after surviving a fall. Closed for 3 years following the mysterious deaths of his predecessors, he attempts to find out why he has become the 'Chosen One'...
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 174 members
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  • The Far Pavilions (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Amy Irving,  Omar Sharif
    Director: Peter Duffell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This made-for-TV adaptation of M.M. Kaye's novel is a haunting love story set in imperial 19th-century India. Ben Cross plays Ashton Pelham-Martyn, an Indian-reared British officer who is assigned to safeguard a group of Indian princesses en route to meet their new husbands-to-be. During the voyage,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 788 members
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  • Chariots Of Fire - Blu-ray (1981)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Cheryl Campbell,  Ian Charleson
    Director: Hugh Hudson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Director Hugh Hudson's absorbing drama, based on a true story, deals with the personal struggles faced by two very different long-distance runners competing for Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) is a devout Christian who sees victory as a testament to the glory ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3 members
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  • Chariots Of Fire on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Cheryl Campbell,  Ian Charleson
    Director: Hugh Hudson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Hugh Hudson's absorbing drama, based on a true story, deals with the personal struggles faced by two very different long-distance runners competing for Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) is a devout Christian who sees victory as a testament to the glory ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,913 members
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  • Wessex Tales (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Nick Brimble,  Ben Cross,  Jane Asher
    Director: Michael Tuchner,  Gavin Millar
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This six-part collection of adaptations of the works of Thomas Hardy. Originally broadcast in the UK in 1973, was Hardy's THE WITHERED ARM. Subsequent episodes include FELLOW TOWNSMAN, A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS, (with John Hurt), AN IMAGINATIVE WOMAN, THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR, and the series finale ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 47 members
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Ben Cross facts

5 most recent films

William and Kate - 2.5 stars
Battle Tanker - 1.5 stars
Ben Hur - The Mini Series - 3.5 stars
Star Trek - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Star Trek - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Star Trek - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Star Trek - 4.0 stars
Chariots Of Fire - 3.5 stars
Ben Hur - The Mini Series - 3.5 stars
The Bible - Solomon - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Battle Tanker - 1.5 stars
Grendel - The Legend Of Beowulf - Blu-ray - 1.5 stars
Grendel - The Legend Of Beowulf - 2.0 stars
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 2.5 stars
The Invader - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Atanas Srebrev - 4 times - show films
Winona Ryder - 3 times - show films
Ray Liotta - 3 times - show films
Dolph Lundgren - 3 times - show films
Anton Yelchin - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

J.J. Abrams - 4 times - show films
Jerry Zucker - 3 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 3 times - show films
Dolph Lundgren - 3 times - show films
Mark Rosman - 3 times - show films