6.6

Alice in Wonderland

2010, USA

• Actors: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, Paul Whitehouse, Timothy Spall, Marton Csokas, Tim Pigott-Smith, John Surman, Peter Mattinson, Lindsay Duncan, Geraldine James, Leo Bill, Frances de la Tour, Jemma Powell, John Hopkins, Eleanor Gecks, Eleanor Tomlinson, Rebecca Crookshank, Michael Gough, Imelda Staunton, Christopher Lee, Mairi Ella Challen, Holly Hawkins
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Tim Burton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called "Underland," she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights, and frumious bandersnatches. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason--to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.

  4.6

Konferenz der Tiere

2010, Germany

• Actors: Billy Beach, Jim Broadbent, James Corden, Nicola Devico Mamone, Marc Diraison, Omid Djalili, Jason Donovan, Dawn French, Thomas Fritsch, Stephen Fry, Michael Glover, Mischa Goodman, Oliver Green, Jason Griffith, Peter Groeger, Christoph Maria Herbst, Kim Holland, Ben Howard, Bella Hudson, Oliver Kalkofe, Bianca Krahl, Uli Krohm, Ruben Lloyd, Joanna Lumley, Gary McHenley, Jessica Owen, Bastian Pastewka, Billie Piper, Vanessa Redgrave, Margot Rothweiler
• Genre: Animation, Family
• Director(s): Reinhard Klooss
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavor to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature.

  5.6

St. Trinian's

2006, UK

• Actors: Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Arterton, Kathryn Drysdale, Juno Temple, Antonia Bernath, Amara Karan, Tamsin Egerton, Lily Cole, Paloma Faith, Holly Mackie, Cloe Mackie, Esme Thompson, Bel Parker, Celia Imrie, Fenella Woolgar, Theo Cross, Russell Brand, Tereza Srbova, Lena Headey, Toby Jones, Caterina Murino, Colin Firth, James Rawlings, Ben Willbond, Emily Bevan, John Thompson, Lucy Punch, Anna Chancellor
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Oliver Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

St Trinians proudly continues to represent the unacceptable face of British education. When the new Minister of Education announces he will personally sort the place out he doesn't realise either the enormity of the task or that the headmistress is an old flame. The school is anyway threatened with closure by their bank; with the staff clearly a waste of space the girls realise the responsibility to save the day falls on them. Perhaps a painting popularised by Scarlett Johansson might be the way out?

  5.1

Stormbreaker

2005, Germany, USA, UK

• Actors: Sarah Bolger, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Alex Pettyfer, Missi Pyle, Mickey Rourke, Andy Serkis, Alicia Silverstone, Ashley Walters, Alex Barrett, Richard Huw, Richard James, Jimmy Carr, Julian Bucknall, Martin Herdman, Morgan Walters, David Royle, Jamie Kenna, Kolade Agboke, Dave Legeno, Bohdan Poraj, Del Synnott, William Tapley, Vivien Creegor, Simon McCoy, Michael Webber
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
• Director(s): Geoffrey Sax
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.

  6.8

A Cock and Bull Story

2005, UK

• Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Conal Murphy, Joe Williams, Paul Kynman, Mark Tandy, Mary Healey, Dylan Moran, Jack Shepherd, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Wong, Naomie Harris, Claire Keelan, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Hadfield, Elizabeth Berrington, Mark Williams, Jenny Ogilvie, Tony Wilson, Justine Mitchell, Kieran O'Brien, Roger Allam, Ashley Jensen, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Ronni Ancona
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.

  8.2

V for Vendetta

2004, USA, UK, Germany

• Actors: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles, Sinéad Cusack, Natasha Wightman, John Standing, Eddie Marsan, Clive Ashborn, Emma Field-Rayner, Ian Burfield, Mark Phoenix, Alister Mazzotti, Billie Cook, Guy Henry, Cosima Shaw, Megan Gay, Roderic Culver, Tara Hacking, Andy Rashleigh, Chad Stahelski, Antje Rau, Amelda Brown, Richard Campbell, Patricia Gannon
• Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): James McTeigue
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

  6.9

MirrorMask

2004, UK, USA

• Actors: Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Gina McKee, Dora Bryan, Stephen Fry, Andy Hamilton, Simon Harvey, Lenny Henry, Robert Llewellyn, Eryl Maynard, Eve Pearce, Nik Robson, Victoria Williams, Rick Allen, Gina D'Angelo, Simon Schofield, Silvia Fratelli, Lina Johansson, Emma Noris, Peachi Pangea, Mark Tate, Richard Thompson, Robin Thompson, Iain Ballamy, Chris Batchelor, Stian Carstensen, Martin France, Stuart Hall, Dave Powell
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Dave McKean
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother, who wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away from the circus and join 'real life'. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. She must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get back home.

  6.6

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2004, USA, UK

• Actors: Bill Bailey, Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Warwick Davis, Anna Chancellor, Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, Stephen Fry, Simon Jones, John Malkovich, Thomas Lennon, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Longhurst, Richard Griffiths, Dominique Jackson, Su Elliot, Ian McNeice, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Jack Stanley, Mak Wilson, Albie Woodington, Mason Ball, Sarah Bennett, Danny Blackner, Hayley Burroughs
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Garth Jennings
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast...but for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth.

  6.5

Bright Young Things

2003, UK

• Actors: Simon McBurney, Michael Sheen, Emily Mortimer, James McAvoy, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stockard Channing, Adrian Scarborough, Jim Carter, Fenella Woolgar, Dan Aykroyd, Julia McKenzie, Bruno Lastra, David Tennant, Jim Broadbent, John Franklyn-Robbins, Simon Callow, Guy Henry, Alex Barclay, Lisa Dillon, Lisa Jackson, Neville Phillips, Imelda Staunton, Bill Paterson, Nigel Planer, Peter O'Toole, Stephen Fry, James Jackson Ritchie, Arturo Venegas, Harriet Walter, Angela Thorne
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
• Director(s): Stephen Fry
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount. He's a novelist with a hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several years trying to get money and to set a wedding date: he trades in gossip, wins money on wagers then gives it to a drunken major who's suggested he bet on a horse in an upcoming race. Adam tries to get the money back, but can't find the major. Meanwhile, Nina needs security, friends drink too much, and general unhappiness spoils the party. Then war breaks out. Is Adam's bright youth dimming with the fall of an empire?

  7.3

Gosford Park

2000, UK, USA, Italy

• Actors: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville, Tom Hollander, Natasha Wightman, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, James Wilby, Claudie Blakley, Laurence Fox, Trent Ford, Ryan Phillippe, Stephen Fry, Ron Webster, Kelly Macdonald, Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson, Alan Bates, Derek Jacobi, Richard E. Grant, Jeremy Swift, Sophie Thompson, Meg Wynn Owen, Adrian Scarborough, Frances Low
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): Robert Altman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it?

  6.4

A Civil Action

1997, USA

• Actors: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek, Bruce Norris, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan, Peter Jacobson, Mary Mara, James Gandolfini, Stephen Fry, Dan Hedaya, David Thornton, Sydney Pollack, Ned Eisenberg, Margot Rose, Daniel von Bargen, Caroline Carrigan, Paul Desmond, Michael P. Byrne, Tracy Miller, Paul Hewitt, Clayton Landey, Paul Ben-Victor, Elizabeth Burnette, Alan Wilder, Gregg Joseph Monk, Harout Beshlian, Josh Pais
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Steven Zaillian
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious lawyer, is addressed by a group of families. When investigating the seemingly non-profiting case, he finds it to be a major environmental issue that has a lot of impact potential. A leather production company could be responsible for several deadly cases of leukemia, but also is the main employer for the area. Schlichtmann and his three colleagues set out to have the company forced to decontaminate the affected areas, and of course to sue for a major sum of compensation. But the lawyers of the leather company's mother company are not easy to get to, and soon Schlichtmann and his friends find themselves in a battle of mere survival.

  7.7

A Fish Called Wanda

1987, USA, UK

• Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken, Tom Georgeson, Patricia Hayes, Geoffrey Palmer, Cynthia Cleese, Mark Elwes, Neville Phillips, Peter Jonfield, Ken Campbell, Al Ashton, Roger Hume, Roger Brierley, Llewellyn Rees, Michael Percival, Kate Lansbury, Robert Ian Mackenzie, Andrew MacLachlan, Roland MacLeod, Jeremy Child, Pamela Miles, Tom Pigott Smith, Katherine John, Sophie Johnstone, Kim Barclay, Sharon Twomey, Patrick Newman
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Charles Crichton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer - Archie Leach.

  7.2

Chariots of Fire

1981, UK

• Actors: Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Daniel Gerroll, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson, Nigel Davenport, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Dennis Christopher, Brad Davis, Patrick Magee, Peter Egan, Struan Rodger, David Yelland, Yves Beneyton, Jeremy Sinden, Gordon Hammersley, Andrew Hawkins, Richard Griffiths, John Young, Benny Young, Yvonne Gilan, Jack Smethurst, Gerry Slevin, Peter Cellier, Stephen Mallatratt, Colin Bruce
• Genre: Drama, History, Sport
• Director(s): Hugh Hudson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice.