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  • The Day After Tomorrow
  • The Day After Tomorrow review by from Plymouth, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Back To The Nature! 28 May 2004
    ...In the latest Roland Emmerich blockbuster, the story centres around a climatologist (Quaid) and his family who become divided over the course of a week where the earth undergo...   Read customer review
  • 2012
  • 2012 review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb............................ 9 September 2009
    ...d the 2012 northern hemisphere winter solstice. The director of this movie is Roland Emmerich who directed the films Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. ...   Read customer review
  • 10,000 BC
  • 10,000 BC review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
    Rated - 4.0 stars A time when ideas and beliefs were born that forever shaped mankind... 16 February 2008
    ...s (Camilla Belle) from an evil warlord determined to possess her. from director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spiri...   Read customer review

Roland Emmerich - filmography


  • Anonymous - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Xavier Samuel,  Rhys Ifans,  Jamie Campbell Bower
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Roland Emmerich explores the mystery surrounding William Shakespeare in this period drama set in Elizabethan England, when tightly-guarded political secrets were often exposed on the stages of London's most prominent theatres. For centuries, historians have searched for clues as to who ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 777 members
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  • Hell - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Hannah Herzsprung,  Stipe Erceg,  Angela Winkler
    Director: Tim Fehlbaum
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set during a post-apocalypitc era in Germany, a few survivors struggle to get by in a world left scorched by the sun and too bright to inhabit. Three survivors, Maria, Leonie and Phillip decide to head for a mountain where it is rumoured that water can still be found. On their journey they meet a ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 20% from 1 member
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • Hell (2011)
    Starring: Hannah Herzsprung,  Stipe Erceg,  Angela Winkler
    Director: Tim Fehlbaum
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hell is a Roland Emmerich produced post-apocalyptic film. It focuses on a few survivors in Germany, struggling to get on in a world where the sun has scorched the Earth and left it too bright to inhabit. It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • Anonymous on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Xavier Samuel,  Rhys Ifans,  Jamie Campbell Bower
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare-- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford-- set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,960 member
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  • 2012 on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Amanda Peet,  John Cusack,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    From Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 52,902 members
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  • 2012 - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Amanda Peet,  John Cusack,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    From Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 22,327 members
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  • 10,000 BC - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Nathanael Baring,  Marco Khan,  Cliff Curtis
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Director Roland Emmerich might have set this action epic in prehistoric times, but audiences can expect plenty of high tech special effects in this film from the man that brought INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW to the screen.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 8,450 members
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  • 10,000 BC on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Nathanael Baring,  Marco Khan,  Cliff Curtis
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    This is a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh, has found his heart's passion-the beautiful Evolet. When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 27,730 members
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  • The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Jake Gyllenhaal,  Emmy Rossum
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Scientists talk about the planet being threatened by a possible climatological disaster. In this big budget feature the threat becomes a reality in quick time. The planet's oceans become cooler sparking deadly storms. A new ice age begins.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 71,667 members
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  • The Patriot - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Joely Richardson,  Heath Ledger
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mel Gibson stars in this action-packed historical drama from the director of INDEPENDENCE DAY and GODZILLA. Gibson portrays Benjamin Martin, an unassuming man who is forced to join the American Revolution when the British threaten to take his farm away from him. Together with his patriotic son, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,673 member
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  • The Patriot on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Joely Richardson,  Heath Ledger
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Benjamin Martin is a reluctant hero who is swept into the American Revolution when the war reaches his home and threatens his family. A hero of the fierce French and Indian conflict, Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. But when the British arrive at his South ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 11,288 members
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  • Godzilla - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Jean Reno,  Maria Pittillo
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nuclear testing once again awakens a green behemoth. However, this large iguana-like creature seems to be unrelated to its Japanese counterpart. The lizard proceeds to demolish large portions of New York as the US military attempts to destroy it.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,876 member
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  • Godzilla on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Jean Reno,  Maria Pittillo
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nuclear testing once again awakens a green behemoth. However, this large iguana-like creature seems to be unrelated to its Japanese counterpart. The lizard proceeds to demolish large portions of New York as the US military attempts to destroy it. Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno star.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 11,634 members
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  • Independence Day on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Bill Pullman,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's most ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 39,265 members
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  • Independence Day - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Bill Pullman,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With a 71 million dollar budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,979 members
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  • Stargate on DVD (1994)
    Starring: ,  ,  
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In this visually creative space adventure from the team that would go on to give the world INDEPENDENCE DAY and GODZILLA, a timid, glasses-wearing Egyptologist (Spader) uncovers an ancient portal to another planet and is dispatched there forthwith--along with blundering, clodfooted government ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 19,140 members
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  • Stargate - Blu-ray (1994)
    Starring: ,  ,  
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In this visually creative space adventure from the team that would go on to give the world INDEPENDENCE DAY and GODZILLA, a timid, glasses-wearing Egyptologist (Spader) uncovers an ancient portal to another planet and is dispatched there forthwith--along with blundering, clodfooted government ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 75% from 1,810 member
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  • Universal Soldier on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme,  Dolph Lundgren,  Ally Walker
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Luc is a genetically enhanced supersoldier pitted against his former comrades in arms as he tries to remember his past. Andrew is also a universal soldier who, driven by a hatred born decades before in Vietnam, wages a deadly pursuit against traitorous Luc. But something goes wrong and these war ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8,796 members
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  • Moon 44 (1990)
    Starring: Michael Pare,  Lisa Eichhorn,  Brian Thompson
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in the year 2038. Giant inter-galactic corporations have taken control of the universe and are locked in a battle for the owner-ship of distant planets where men and robots mine the chemicals that are now Earth's own supply of fuel. Undercover investigator Felix Stone is given the task of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 240 members
    Not available for rental
  • Ghost Chase on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Jason Lively,  Jill Whitlow,  Tim McDaniel
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A young horror film-maker inherits some relics from his grandfather, the owner of a Hollywood film studio. The relics include a mysterious old clock. When it strikes midnight, strange things begin to happen. A special effects figure is taken over by the ghost of the grandfather's butler, who helps ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 192 members
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Roland Emmerich facts

5 most recent films

Anonymous - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Hell - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Hell - 3 stars
Anonymous - 3.0 stars
2012 - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Independence Day - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stargate - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Day After Tomorrow - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Stargate - 3.5 stars
Independence Day - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Hell - 3 stars
Hell - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Moon 44 - 2.5 stars
10,000 BC - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
10,000 BC - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Leon Rippy - 5 times - show films
Joely Richardson - 5 times - show films
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 3 times - show films
Mel Gibson - 3 times - show films
John Diehl - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tim Fehlbaum - 2 times - show films