7.4/10

Director: Bennett Miller

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper, Bru...

In 1959 author Truman Capote read an article about the home invasion and slaying of a Kansas family that led to his personal investigation and subsequ... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Paul Greengrass

Starring: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi

"Captain Phillips" is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is -... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Paul Greengrass

Starring: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi

"Captain Phillips" is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is -... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Christopher Hampton

Starring: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington

Set between WWI and the early 1930's and based on the life of British artist Dora Carrington, played by Emma Thompson, whose painting took second plac... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner

Based on R. J. Minney's book about real-life British war heroine Violet Szabo (Virginia McKenna) who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe as a secret... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin

Heath Ledger plays the notorious Venetian playboy who goes too far when he's caught leaving the boudoir of a novice nun. The Inquisition puts him on... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Mark Cullingham

Starring: Frank Finlay, Norman Rossington, Christine Noonan, Zienia Merton

Dramatised by Dennis Potter (his first TV adapatation) and loosely based on the memoirs of the 18th century libertine, this 6-part BBC series contrast... Read more

6.3/10

Starring: Emily Bruni

One of Russia's most brilliant rulers, Catherine the Great, is the subject of this thrilling and extensively researched documentary/drama. Lavishly f... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Richard Attenborough

Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins, M...

This biopic of the silent cinema stars life from chirpy cockney to embalmed snob is played well by Robert Downey Jr. Dan Aykroyd is Mack Sennett, Gera... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted

Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Abigail Spencer

The life and legend of Santa Cruz surfer Jay Moriarty is celebrated in this dramatic biopic. When 15-year-old Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) discovers th... Read more