Rent Hunger for FREE

Start your 30 day FREE trial » Find out more

+70,000 other titles and counting

NO late fees or long term contracts - cancel anytime
FREE first class post for DVD, Blu-ray & Games rental
1000's of films to stream instantly to your PC, TV or PS3^TM at no extra cost

Hunger News

2008

70
from 14,478 members

Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit. Read more

Starring	Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan
Director	Steve McQueen (i), Steve McQueen
Genres	Drama

Sign up Hunger DVD

Buy from Amazon.co.uk

Hunger
- 27 Oct 2008
This is an extraordinary film – surely the best British film of the year. It’s the first feature directed by (no, not that) Steve McQueen – a very personable Young British Artist who won the Turner Prize in 1999 for his film installations – including, as I remember it, a reproduction of the famously dangerous Buster Keaton stunt in Steamboat Bill Jr where a house falls on top of him. (I met him a year later and he was desperate to make a feature even then – “ Read more
The X Factor: the Stars of Tomorrow?
- 01 Jun 2011
In Matthew Vaughn’s prequel X-Men: First Class, James McAvoy plays the young Charles Xavier (aka Patrick Stewart), and Michael Fassbender plays the future Magneto (or Ian McKellen). Vaughn – who started out as Guy Ritchie’s producer and who can take some credit, I guess, for spotting the star potential in Jason Statham, Tom Hardy and Vinnie Jones – has assembled a mighty hip cast. It includes Winter’s Bone sensation Jennifer Lawrence (as the young Raven/Mystique), Read more
Hail and Farewell, UKFC
- 16 Mar 2011
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the UK Film Council. The best of times, because the Film Council played a significant role in getting Richard Ayoade’s first film Submarine off the ground. The coming of age comedy, which opens this week, has been met with rave reviews and was sold to The Weinstein Company for US distribution. The Film Council also invested in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur and James Marsh’s documentary Project Nim, both of which won... Read more
Westwick & Arterton for Wuthering Heights
- 15 May 2009
Ed Westwick and Gemma Arterton are set to embark on a dark love affair - the pair has been cast in the remake of tragic romance Wuthering Heights. After a series of setbacks, including leading lady Natalie Portman dropping out of the project, studio bosses have finally decided on Bond girl Arterton to play Cathy in the new adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel. And Gossip Girl hunk Westwick will take on the menacing anti-hero Heathcliff, a role that was first linked to Hunger actor... Read more
Great Escapes: Great Prison Movies
- 18 Jan 2010
Read more

Celebrity collection

Keira Knightley (3)

57.2% from 94 members

Showing 1 to 3 of 3

View all [+] [-]

- - Buy
- Hunger
  
  Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost ...