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![]() | Gandhi – Best Picture winning biopic of India’s greatest statesman, a little schoolboy history but earnestly endearing | Director: Richard Attenborough Cast: Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattaggadi, Roshan Seth |
![]() | Gaslight – Hamilton play adaptation of a manipulated wife – improves the original play | Director: George Cukor Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton |
![]() | The General’s Daughter – dreadful army drama about an investigation into a raped and murdered soldier | Director: Simon West Cast: John Travolta, Madeline Stowe, James Cromwell |
![]() | Gentleman’s Agreement – Best Picture winning anti-semitism drama, heavy-handed and self-satisfied | Director: Elia Kazan Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield |
![]() | Georgy Girl – a plain-looking young woman searches for happiness in another 1966 expose of the Swinging Sixties | Director: Silvio Narizzano Cast: Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason |
![]() | Get Carter – grim, brutal and brilliant British gangster film, as a gangster returns to Newcastle to find out who killed his brother | Director: Mike Hodges Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne |
![]() | Get Out – brilliant, terrifying, horror as a black man is unsettled by a weekend at his white girlfriend’s parents | Director: Jordan Peele Cast: Daniel Kaluyya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener |
![]() | The Ghost Writer – the Ghost writer for a Blairish ex-PM gets wrapped up in espionage in this superb thriller | Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams |
![]() | GI Joe: Retaliation – all-action sequel : the Joes fight against a man who has replaced the President | Director: Jon M Chu Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Jonathan Pryce |
![]() | Gigi – dated Best Picture winning musical about a 19th century French girl training to become a courtesan. | Director: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdain, Maurice Chevalier |
![]() | The Girl on the Train – a lonely alcoholic thinks she may have witnessed a murder from her commuter train | Director: Tate Taylor Cast: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett |
![]() | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Hollywood adaptation of the Swedish hit thriller, an heir to Silence of the Lambs | Director: David Fincher Cast: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer |
![]() | Gladiator – Best Picture winning epic: a Roman General turned gladiator, wants revenge for the death of his family | Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen |
![]() | Glory – during the civil war an all-Black company – and its white officers – have to struggle for respect | Director: Edward Zwick Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman |
![]() | The Go-Between – an old man remembers the lovers he accidentally betrayed as a boy in this moving memory piece | Director: Joseph Losey Cast: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard |
![]() | The Godfather Part II – Best Picture winning sequel that explores the history of Vito Corleone and the corruption of Michael Corleone | Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, John Cazale |
![]() | Gods of Egypt – dreadfully silly fantasy epic set in Ancient Egypt where Gods and men live side-by-side | Director: Alex Proyas Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush |
![]() | Godzilla – decent-enough reimagining that struggles from becoming just a CGI effect hitting things | Director: Gareth Edwards Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston |
![]() | Going My Way – sickly sweet Best Picture winner about a noble, singing priest | Director: George Cukor Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton |
![]() | Goldfinger – possibly the greatest Bond film, as a mad man launches a plot against Fort Know to increase the value of his gold | Director: Guy Hamilton Cast: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe |
![]() | Gone Girl – a wife disappears and her husband is suspected of her murder as their perfect marriage unravels | Director: David Fincher Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris |
![]() | Gone with the Wind – the classic Hollywood Romance to end all Hollywood Romances. A legend despite everything | Director: Victor Fleming Cast: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland |
![]() | Good – an intellectual joins the Nazi party because he feels he must – and becomes more and more corrupted | Director: Vincente Amorim Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker |
![]() | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – the most iconic Spaghetti Western of them all, a trio of men search for Gold in the West | Directer: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef |
![]() | The Good Liar – a conmen zeroes in on a widow’s money, but is all as it seems? | Director: Bill Condon Cast: Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Jim Carter |
![]() | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – a widowed woman hires an escort; theatrical but not enlightening enough | Director: Sophie Hyde Cast: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack |
![]() | Good Night, and Good Luck – earnest and liberal film as Edward R Murrow reports against McCarthyism | Director: George Clooney Cast: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jnr |
![]() | The Good Shepherd – strange mix of fact and fiction, in this clumsy history of the CIA | Director: Robert De Niro Cast: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro |
![]() | Good Will Hunting – a young genius is also a troubled soul in this well-written and acted tearjerker | Director: Gus van Sant Cast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck |
![]() | Goodbye, Mr Chips – heartbreak and romance in an English boarding school | Director: Sam Wood Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Lyn Harding |
![]() | Goodfellas – Scorsese (and the 90’s?) high-point, as jobbing gangsters make scores an betray each other | Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci |
![]() | Gorky Park – excellent crime drama as a Soviet cop investigates murders that tie into an international smuggling ring | Director: Michael Apted Cast: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy |
![]() | Gosford Park – a murder takes place at a country house – but the real story is the vicious class differences | Director: Robert Altman Cast: Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Clive Owen, Alan Bates |
![]() | The Graduate – a bored housewife seduces her daughter’s boyfriend; a dated coming-of-age comedy I’m not sure I like | Director: Mike Nichols Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Katharine Ross |
![]() | The Grand Budapest Hotel – murder, mayhem and malice at a grand hotel, in Anderson’s hilarious and bittersweet masterpiece | Director: Wes Anderson Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan |
![]() | Grand Hotel – Best picture all-star melodrama about comings and goings in a posh Berlin hotel | Director: Edmund Goulding Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford |
![]() | La Grande Illusion – Jean Renoir’s masterpiece, French POWs struggle with class, friendship and war | Director: Jean Renoir Cast: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresney, Erich von Stroheim |
![]() | Gravity – an astronaut is stranded in space, facing a desperate struggle to get home | Director: Alfonso CuarĂłn Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney |
![]() | The Great Dictator – Chaplin takes on Hitler in this daring satire on the vileness of the Nazi regime | Director: Charlie Chaplin Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie |
![]() | The Great Escape – classic prison break from a POW camp, a staple of Bank Holiday Mondays | Director: John Sturges Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough |
![]() | Great Expectations – the all-time classic Dickens adaptation | Director: David Lean Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles |
![]() | Great Expectations – solid adaptation that doesn’t really do anything new | Director: Mike Newell Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Holliday Grainger, Ralph Fiennes |
![]() | The Great Gatsby – epic, glitzy and brash adaptation of the famous Fitzgerald novel | Director: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire |
![]() | The Great Ziegfeld – Best Picture winning biopic of a legendary Broadway showman | Director: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer |
![]() | The Greatest Show on Earth – the film whose reputation the Best Picture Oscar destroyed, silly love triangles in a Circus | Director: Cecil B DeMille Cast: Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, Betty Hutton |
![]() | The Greatest Showman – megahit old-fashioned musical, based on the life of PT Barnum | Director: Michael Gracey Cast: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron |
![]() | The Greatest Story Ever Told – epic, tedious story of the life of Christ, that turns the most interesting life ever into a drag | Director: George Stevens Cast: Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston |
![]() | Green Book – cosy and (depressingly) Best Picture winning road trip as a white driver bonds with a black musician | Director: Peter Farrelly Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali |
![]() | The Green Mile – Stephen King adaptation: a gentle black man on death row has amazing powers to heal. Can his life be saved? | Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse |
![]() | Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – revisionist version, takes itself very, very seriously | Director: Hugh Hudson Cast: Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm |
![]() | Groundhog Day – a misanthropic weatherman lives the same day over and over again, trapped in a small town. Great comedy | Director: Harold Ramis Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott |
![]() | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – witty sequel that deals with Star Lord’s issues with his long lost father | Director: James Gunn Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista |
![]() | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – cosy Sunday afternoon drama that is exactly like it sounds | Director: Mike Newell Cast: Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Tom Courtenay |
![]() | Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – a middle class couple’s daughter wants to marry a black man in this earnest drama | Director: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier |
![]() | Gumshoe – a would-be PI in Liverpool investigates murder while apeing Chandler in this off-the-wall spoof | Director: Stephen Frears Cast: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay |
![]() | The Guns of Navarone – classic men-on-a-mission film as a WW2 team goes to blow up the eponymous guns | Director: J Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn |
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![]() | Hacksaw Ridge – a pacifist signs up as a stretcher bearer. Only Gibson could a make a film this violent about peace | Director: Mel Gibson Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving |
![]() | Hail Caesar! – a Hollywood fixer has to find a solution when a superstar actor is kidnapped | Director: The Coen Brothers Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson |
![]() | Hamlet – one of the most influential Shakespeare films, the Best Picture winning Hamlet noir | Director: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie |
![]() | Hancock – misfiring satire, about a drunken superhero who is coached to change into a hero we can respect | Director: Peter Berg Cast: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman |
![]() | Hangmen Also Die! – Brecht and Lang write a gangster noir themed version of the assassination of Heydrich | Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee |
![]() | Hannah and Her Sisters – family dramas abound as three sisters face romantic entanglements | Director: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest |
![]() | Hannibal – belated sequel, a big stupid pantomime, based on a brash and dumb book | Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman |
![]() | The Happy Prince – passion project by its director and star, about the final days of Wilde in exile | Director: Rupert Everett Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – first, and most consciously kid-friendly, of the mighty franchise | Director: Chris Colombus Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – second, slightly darker, entry in the franchise | Director: Chris Colombus Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – CuarĂłn completely changes the franchise, in its best entry | Director: Alfonso CuarĂłn Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Harry and friends face the return of Lord Voldemort | Director: Mike Newell Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – very well adapted from a sprawling novel, Yates’ first film in the series | Director: David Yates Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – Harry faces terrible dangers as Voldemort’s plans are slowly revealed | Director: David Yates Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – our heroes on the run; expert adaptation of the drier part of the book | Director: David Yates Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
![]() | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – misfiring final entry that completely misses the point of the book | Director: David Yates Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
![]() | Heat – a samurai robber and a high-octane cop go toe-to-toe in this dramatic action thriller | Director: Michael Mann Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer |
![]() | Heat and Dust – a woman travels to India to find out more about the scandalous love life of her Grandmother under the British Raj | Director: James Ivory Cast: Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor |
![]() | The Heiress – a young man woos a plain girl – is it just for her money? Superb Henry James adaptation | Director: William Wyler Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson |
![]() | Hell and High Water – for-the-money below-the-waves men-on-a-mission film that is short on passion or inspiraton | Director: Samuel Fuller Cast: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen |
![]() | Hell or High Water – a pair of bank robbers in West Texas have deeper motives than at first appears | Director: David Mackenzie Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges |
![]() | Hellboy – colourful, fun and gently dark comic-book about a demon who fights on our side | Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt |
![]() | Hellboy II: The Golden Army – fantasy tinged sequel, even more personal, as Hellboy tries to stop an army | Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones |
![]() | Henry V – hugely influential Shakespeare adaptation, a technicolour triumph | Director: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks |
![]() | Her – a man falls in love with the voice of his operating system, which is become ever more self-aware. Smug and awful film | Director: Spike Jonze Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams |
![]() | The Heroes of Telemark – SOE plans to blow up a Norwegian factory during WWII – not as good as other similar films | Director: Anthony Mann Cast: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson |
![]() | Here Comes Mr Jordan – after a mix-up in heaven, a boxer returns to life as an aged millionaire | Director: Alexander Hall Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains |
![]() | Hidden Figures – well-meaning but trying-too-hard story of black women struggling against prejudice in NASA | Director: Theodore Melfi Cast: Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe |
![]() | High Noon – brilliant against-the-clock western, as a sheriff does the best to get ready for the gang riding into town to kill him | Director: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell |
![]() | Highlander – cult adventure as immortals compete for a mystical prize. Spawned a whole franchise | Director: Russell Mulcahy Cast: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown |
![]() | His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass – disastrous attempt to turn Philip Pullman into cheap Potter/Tolkien hybrid | Director: Chris Weitz Cast: Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig |
![]() | His Girl Friday – one of the most popular fast-talking comedies of all time. Secret confession: I’m not a huge fan | Director: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy |
![]() | A History of Violence – superb, complex thriller: a man’s defence of his diner leads to secrets about his past emerging | Director: David Cronenberg Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ed Harris |
![]() | The Hitman’s Bodyguard – lazy buddy-movie as a bodyguard must protect a hitman who is a vital witness of war crimes | Director: Patrick Hughes Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman |
![]() | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – first (and best) entry in Jackson’s misguided, enforced LOTR follow-up | Director: Peter Jackson Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage |
![]() | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – second Hobbit film as five chapters are turned into three hours | Director: Peter Jackson Cast: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen |
![]() | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – final, and worst, of the Hobbit trilogy, a bloated battle of little interest | Director: Peter Jackson Cast: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen |
![]() | The Hound of the Baskervilles – Hammer Horror version of the most famous Sherlock Holmes story of all time | Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, AndrĂ© Morell |
![]() | The Hours – high-brow, rather self-important, Woolf biopic, and musing on her Mrs Dalloway in multiple time periods | Director: Stephen Daldry Cast: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore |
![]() | House of Gucci – broad true-life crime drama which doesn’t quite become the cult classic it could be | Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto |
![]() | How Green Was My Valley – Best Picture winning coming-of-age tale in a ‘Welsh’ mining village | Director: John Ford Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp |
![]() | How the West Was Won – packed with stars and filmed in super-duper widescreen, basically a short story anthology | Director: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall Cast: Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, James Stewart |
![]() | Howards End – masterful Merchant-Ivory Forster adaptation, as ownership of a house causes problems between two families | Director: James Ivory Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter |
![]() | Hugo – family film about a boy living in a train station who finds a mysterious automaton. Really for film buffs | Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Asa Butterfield, ChloĂ« Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley |
![]() | The Hunchback of Notre Dame – marvellous, gothic adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel | Director: William Dieterle Cast: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell |
![]() | The Hunger Games – in a dystopian future, teenagers fight to the death in gladiatorial games. First in a YA popular series. | Director: Gary Ross Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherston, Liam Hemsworth |
![]() | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – our heroes are recalled to the games. But is there another plan they don’t know? | Director: Francis Lawrence Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth |
![]() | The Hunt for Red October – Connery makes for a Scots Soviet in this superb Clancy adaptation, a personal fav | Director: John McTiernan Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill |
![]() | The Hurt Locker – Best Picture winning Iraq war drama, about a bomb disposal expert addicted to the rush from combat | Director: Kathryn Bigelow Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty |
![]() | Husbands and Wives – uncomfortably close-to-home divorce story from Allen, surely inspired by his own impending one | Director: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack |
![]() | Hustlers – strippers exploit and steal from their Wall Street clients in this Scorsese-inspired caper | Director: Lorene Scarfaria Cast: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles |
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![]() | I Am Legend – after a deadly plague, only Will Smith survives in a world full of monsters | Director: Francis Lawrence Cast: Will Smith |
![]() | I Know Where I’m Going – opposite attracts romance in the North of Scotland | Director: Powell & Pressburger Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown |
![]() | I, Tonya – imaginatively filmed Tonya Harding biopic, filled with black comedy | Director: Craig Gillespie Cast: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney |
![]() | Ice Station Zebra – American and Soviet teams rush to uncover a secret in the Arctic | Director: John Sturges Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan |
![]() | Ida – beautiful, profound and wonderful Polish film about a nun questioning her calling in Cold War Poland | Director: PaweĹ‚ Pawlikowski Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska |
![]() | An Ideal Husband – semi-decent Wilde adaptation | Director: Oliver Parker Cast: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett |
![]() | The Ides of March – a political spin doctor is surprised to find he might still be an idealist | Director: George Clooney Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood |
![]() | If… – dark rebellious fantasy, as boys in a British public school boys push back against the oppressive system | Director: Lindsay Anderson Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, David Wood |
![]() | The Illusionist – an Austro-Hungarian mystic unearths political tensions in the Empire | Director: Neil Berger Cast: Ed Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel |
![]() | The Imitation Game – dreadful Turing biopic, cliched, self-important, timid and obvious | Director: Morten Tyldum Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode |
![]() | The Impossible – true-life story of a family caught up in the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 in Thailand | Director: JA Bayona Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland |
![]() | In a Lonely Place – Hollywood murder mystery, as a screenwriter is suspected of killing a waitress | Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy |
![]() | In Bruges – superb black comedy as two hitmen hide out in Bruges after a job gone wrong | Director: Martin McDonagh Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes |
![]() | In the Heart of the Sea – whalers are lost at sea when their ship sinks and turn to desperate measures | Director: Ron Howard Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy |
![]() | In the Heat of the Night – a black cop investigates a murder in the Deep South in this Best Picture winner about racism | Director: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates |
![]() | In Which We Serve – British stiff-upper lip war film about the loss at sea of a destroyer | Director: Noel Coward, David Lean Cast: Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles |
![]() | Inception – a team specialises in stealing memories for people as they sleep – but how can you tell what’s real? | Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
![]() | The Incredibles – a family of superheroes have to hide their powers, after superheroes are banned. Superb action comedy | Director: Brad Bird Cast: Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L Jackson |
![]() | The Incredibles 2 – Elastigirl is wanted as the new face of superheroes – but is there a darker plan at work? | Director: Brad Bird Cast: Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell |
![]() | Independence Day: Resurgence – failed attempt to relaunch a trilogy of sequels as the Aliens attack again | Director: Roland Emmerich Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman |
![]() | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – fatally flawed Indy film that I’m not sure its makers wanted to make | Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett |
![]() | Inherit the Wind – faith vs science in this reimagining of the Scopes Monkey Trial | Director: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly |
![]() | The International – an Interpol agent investigates corrupt business practices. 70s style thriller, a guilty pleasure of mine | Director: Tom Twyker Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl |
![]() | Interview with the Vampire – an ancient vampire talks to a journalist about his life. | Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst |
![]() | Into the Woods – misfiring and a little dull Sondheim adaptation | Director: Rob Marshall Cast: Emily Blunt, James Corden, Meryl Streep |
![]() | Intolerance – DW Griffith’s impossibly grand masterpiece covers the history of intolerance from 30AD all the way to the 1920s. | Director: DW Griffith Cast: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Constance Talmadge |
![]() | Invasion of the Body Snatchers – people’s behaviour changes overnight – could it be they are being replaced by aliens? | Director: Philip Kaufman Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy |
![]() | Invictus – Mandela brings South Africa together by uniting the country behind the Rugby team at the 1995 World Cup | Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon |
![]() | The Invisible Woman – intelligent Dickens biopic, focusing on his secret relationship with Nelly Ternan | Director: Ralph Fiennes Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott-Thomas |
![]() | The Ipcress File – a working class spy uncovers a conspiracy but struggles to get his posh bosses to listen | Director: Sidney J Furie Cast: Michael Caine, Guy Doleman, Nigel Green |
![]() | The Irishman – a mafia hitman loses all trace of conscience or family over a long life of violence. Elegiac brilliance | Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Stephen Graham |
![]() | The Iron Lady – very average biopic that manages to turn Thatcher into someone very uninteresting | Director: Phyllida Lloyd Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman |
![]() | Ironclad – medieval Dirty Dozen, as a gang of rogueish warriors protect a castle from siege by King John | Director: Jonathan English Cast: James Purefoy, Paul Giamatti, Brian Cox |
![]() | It Happened One Night – legendary Oscar-winning road-trip romantic comedy, still one of the best there is | Director: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly |
![]() | It’s a Wonderful Life – the most beloved Christmas film of all time and rightly so | Director: Frank Capra Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore |
![]() | Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2 – Eisenstein turns Stalin’s dream project into a criticism. Arty but brave. | Director: Sergei Eisenstein Cast: Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov |
![]() | Ivanhoe – big, silly swashbuckler based on Walter Scott | Director: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine |