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  • Get Carter
  • Get Carter review by from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 3.0 stars Bold, Brutal and British 20 October 2005
    ...In Mike Hodges’ 1971 crime thriller, gangland enforcer Carter (Michael Caine) returns home to Newcastle to avenge his brother’s death. Carter is a dangerous and relentles...   Read customer review
  • Croupier
  • Croupier review by Alfod from West Midlands
    Rated - 5.0 stars NOT a roulette of a choice 30 July 2004
    ...•• NB. A Director's Commentary from Mike Hodges can be found under audio features •• Famously prevented from having a theatrical release in the UK due to lack of intere...   Read customer review
  • Pulp
  • Pulp review by A customer from Sheffield, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Going Through The Motions 28 March 2005
    ...Director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine reunite after working together on Get Carter. But this is no Get Carter! I remember enjoying Pulp when it was first released, ...   Read customer review

Mike Hodges - filmography


  • Croupier on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Kate Hardie,  Nicholas Ball,  Gina McKee
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is a would-be novelist who takes a job as croupier in a London casino. His girlfriend Marion (Gina McKee) doesn't much like his new life, but Jack is excited by the change, forms close bonds with some of his colleagues, and begins to make advances with his writing. He then ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,111 members
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  • Dandelion Dead (2 discs) on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Michael Kitchen,  Sarah Miles,  Sarah Miles
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    "Dandelion Dead" is the a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Armstrong, a solicitor equally proud of his work in the justice system as he was of his beloved garden. Life seemed good for Herbert, a respected solicitor with a country estate, the love of his three children and a devout ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 257 members
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  • Black Rainbow on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Mark Joy,  Rosanna Arquette,  John Bennes
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rosanna Arquette stars in this Mike Hodges thriller. Martha Travis (Arquette) travels around the American South conning the locals into thinking she is clairvoyant. However, one night she really does receive a message from beyond; from the husband of a woman sitting in the audience who then ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 396 members
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  • A Prayer For The Dying on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Sammi Davis,  Liam Neeson,  Camille Coduri
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An IRA hitman (Mickey Rourke), sick of killing innocent people, escapes to England and contacts a big time criminal (Alan Bates), who says he will help him on the condition that he commits one more murder. He carries out the execution, but is seen by an ex-SAS priest (Bob Hoskins). Rourke falls in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 574 members
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  • Morons From Outer Space on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Mel Smith,  Griff Rhys Jones,  James B. Sikking
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    British sci-fi comedy spoof written by and starring comic duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. When an extraterrestrial space captain is refuelling his spaceship at an intergalactic station, his woefully dim companions play with the controls, starting the ship and causing it to crash into the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 341 members
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  • Flash Gordon on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Topol,  Melody Anderson,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,312 members
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  • The Terminal Man (1974)
    Starring: George Segal,  Joan Hackett,  Richard A. Dysart
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A computer scientist suffers from violent blackouts. He remembers none of his outbursts, even though he has tried to kill at least two people. To cure him an operation is performed to implant electrodes into his head. Unfortunately, on recovery, he is compelled to kill viciously...
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 16 members
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  • Pulp on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Robert Sacchi,  Luciano Pigozzi,  Joe Zammit Cordina
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Offbeat 1970s comedy thriller starring Michael Caine as Mickey King, a successful writer of 'pulp' - cheap paperback detective novels. When an agent offers him an extraordinarily generous sum of money to ghost-write the autobiography of a mystery celebrity, King is intrigued, and agrees to the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 196 members
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  • Get Carter on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Ian Hendry,  Michael Caine,  John Osborne
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Acclaimed 1970s British thriller starring Michael Caine as a hardened gangster returning to his hometown in search of the truth behind his brother's death. Though originally from Newcastle, Jack Carter (Caine) has made his name in London as a tough enforcer for the crime boss, Gerald Fletcher (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 16,473 members
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Mike Hodges facts

5 most recent films

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - 2.5 stars
Croupier - 3.0 stars
Dandelion Dead - 3.5 stars
Black Rainbow - 2.5 stars
A Prayer For The Dying - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Flash Gordon - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Get Carter - 3.5 stars
Flash Gordon - 3.5 stars
Dandelion Dead - 3.5 stars
Croupier - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Tyrant King - 3 stars
The Terminal Man - 2.5 stars
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - 2.5 stars
Black Rainbow - 2.5 stars
Pulp - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michael Caine - 5 times - show films
Michael Kitchen - 3 times - show films
Sarah Miles - 3 times - show films
John Osborne - 3 times - show films
David Thewlis - 3 times - show films