Movie List for "united kingdom"

Tarzan (1999) Animation Adventure Comedy Movie

A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human. Year 1999.

Generes: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
Writer: Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White
Actors: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed

Goodbye Bafana (2007) Biography Drama History Movie

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela. Year 2007.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Bille August
Writer: Bille August, Bob Graham, James Gregory
Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

Skin (2008) Biography Drama Movie

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era. Year 2008.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Anthony Fabian
Writer: Helen Crawley, Jessie Keyt, Helena Kriel
Actors: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige

The First Grader (2010) Biography Drama Romance Movie

The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. Year 2010.

Generes: Biography, Drama, Romance
Director: Justin Chadwick
Writer: Ann Peacock
Actors: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge

Bab’Aziz (2005) Drama Movie

The story of a blind dervish Bab’Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. Year 2005.

Generes: Drama
Director: Nacer Khemir
Writer: Tonino Guerra, Nacer Khemir
Actors: Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Golshifteh Farahani

Blow-Up (1966) Drama Mystery Thriller Movie

A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. Year 1966.

Generes: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni, Julio Cortázar, Tonino Guerra
Actors: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

Fratello sole, sorella luna (1972) Biography Drama History Movie

Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. Year 1972.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Writer: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Charles Dyer, Kenneth Ross
Actors: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson

The Last King of Scotland (2006) Biography Drama History Movie

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s. Year 2006.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Writer: Peter Morgan, Jeremy Brock, Giles Foden
Actors: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson

The English Patient (1996) Drama Romance War Movie

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. Year 1996.

Generes: Drama, Romance, War
Director: Anthony Minghella
Writer: Michael Ondaatje, Anthony Minghella
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe

Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski (1999) Documentary Biography Movie

In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty-eight-hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the Year 1999.

Generes: Documentary, Biography
Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: N/A
Actors: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale

Country of My Skull (2004) Drama Romance Movie

A journalist and a poetess meet during the hearings of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Year 2004.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: John Boorman
Writer: Antjie Krog, Ann Peacock
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson

28 Weeks Later (2007) Horror Sci-Fi Movie

Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan. Year 2007.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writer: Rowan Joffe, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Enrique López Lavigne
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle

Born Free (1966) Adventure Drama Family Movie

The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt. Year 1966.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Family
Director: James Hill, Tom McGowan
Writer: Joy Adamson, Lester Cole
Actors: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen

Black Hawk Down (2001) Drama History War Movie

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. Year 2001.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Mark Bowden, Ken Nolan
Actors: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore

Stander (2003) Action Biography Crime Movie

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber. Year 2003.

Generes: Action, Biography, Crime
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Writer: Bima Stagg
Actors: Thomas Jane, David O’Hara, Dexter Fletcher

The Sheltering Sky (1990) Adventure Drama Movie

An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile. Year 1990.

Generes: Adventure, Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Paul Bowles, Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott