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  • The Mission
  • The Mission review by A customer from Stafford England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Moving story with superb attention to detail 27 May 2004
    ...Roland Joffe does an excellent job with a beautifully filmed natural landscape and completely believable South American indian population brought into conflict with the col...   Read customer review

Roland Joffe - filmography


  • There Be Dragons
  • There Be Dragons on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Charlie Cox,  Wes Bentley,  Dougray Scott
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 504 members
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  • Captivity - Blu-ray
  • Captivity - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Elisha Cuthbert,  Michael Harney,  Daniel Gillies
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Psychological thriller about a model who is abducted and held captive. Top fashion model Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) is at the top of her profession, her face known the world over. While on a trip to a charity event she is drugged, taken to an underground cell and subjected to a range of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 869 members
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  • Vatel
  • Vatel (2000)
    Starring: Gerard Depardieu,  Uma Thurman,  Tim Roth
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Set in 1671 France under the decadent reign of Louis XIV, VATEL charts the events of a three-day feast in an impoverished western province. In an effort to impress the gilded king and then ask him for financial support, Prince de Condé (Julian Glover) invites Louis XIV (Julian Sands) to his country ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 190 members
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  • Scarlet Letter
  • Scarlet Letter on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Demi Moore,  Edward Hardwicke,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is convicted of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet A until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 965 members
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  • City of Joy
  • City of Joy (1992)
    Starring: Patrick Swayze,  Om Puri
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Swayze stars as Max Lowe, a disillusioned surgeon who travels to India after a young patient dies on the operating table. But Lowe's determination to quit medicine is challenged when he meets a committed British nurse who runs a free clinic in Calcutta's most dangerous neighborhood. And when her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 81 members
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  • Shadowmakers
  • Shadowmakers (1989)
    Starring: Dwight Schultz,  Natasha Richardson,  Paul Newman
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Roland Joffe's film explores the wartime race between America and Germany to develop the atomic bomb. Under the guidance of General Groves (Paul Newman) the American military continue their efforts to formulate the bomb, despite discovering that the enemy isn't working on a project such as theirs. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 373 members
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  • The Mission
  • The Mission on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Aidan Quinn,  Ray McAnally
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The story of the conflict between slave-traders and Jesuits during the colonisation of South America by Spain and Portugal. In 1750 Jesuit priest Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) arrives in the Amazon to build a mission for the Guarani Indians. He comes into conflict with slave trader Mendoza (Robert De Niro)..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,132 members
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  • The Killing Fields
  • The Killing Fields on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Craig T. Nelson,  Haing S. Ngor,  John Malkovich
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Killing Fields is a romanticized adaptation of an eyewitness magazine story by New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg. Covering the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1975, Schanberg (Sam Waterston) relies on his Cambodian friend and translator Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) for inside information. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 13,117 members
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  • The Killing Fields - Blu-ray
  • The Killing Fields - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: Craig T. Nelson,  Haing S. Ngor,  John Malkovich
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The true story of the friendship between Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) and Sidney Schanberg (Sam Waterson). The film begins in 1973 with Schanberg a New York Times journalist assigned to Cambodia, and assisted in his efforts by local representative Dith Pran. When Pnomh Penh falls to the Khmer Rouge ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 58 members
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Roland Joffe facts

5 most recent films

There Be Dragons - 2.5 stars
There Be Dragons - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Captivity - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Captivity - 2.5 stars
Vatel - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Killing Fields - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Killing Fields - 3.5 stars
Sam - Series 2 - Part 3 - 3.5 stars
The Mission - 3.5 stars
Sam - Series 2 - Part 2 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Goodbye Lover - 2.0 stars
There Be Dragons - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Captivity - 2.5 stars
Captivity - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
There Be Dragons - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Craig T. Nelson - 4 times - show films
Julian Sands - 4 times - show films
Ronald Pickup - 3 times - show films
Daniel Gillies - 3 times - show films
Ray McAnally - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Les Chatfield - 6 times - show films
Alan Glint - 3 times - show films
Roland Joffé - 3 times - show films
Quentin Lawrence - 3 times - show films
Alan Clarke - 2 times - show films

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