Message in a Bottle (1999)
Drama | Romance
A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Luis Mandoki
Effie Gray / Effie (2014)
Drama
Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, the film tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray. At 19, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin, but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake.
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Claudia Cardinale, Robbie Coltrane, Russell Tovey, Julie Walters
Director: Richard Laxton
Stormbreaker / Alex Rider: Stormbreaker (2006)
Action | Adventure | Family | Thriller
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.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Missi Pyle, Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Gooby / A Ted Named Gooby (2009)
Family | Fantasy
Eleven year old Willy's childhood toy, Gooby, comes to life as a real, live, six-foot tall monster who helps Willy through rough times, with hair-raising and hilarious adventures.
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, David James Elliott, Ingrid Kavelaars, Eugene Levy, Matthew Knight, Derek Scott
Director: Wilson Coneybeare
Great Expectations (2012)
Drama
Young orphan Pip (Toby Irvine) finds his life changed forever soon after encountering and lending assistance to escaped convict Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) on the marshlands near his home. Later, after being summoned to attend the stately home of Miss Havisham (Helena Bonham Carter) and finding himself mesmerised by the old lady's beautiful but cold-hearted niece, Estella (Helena Barlow/Holliday Grainger), Pip learns that he has been granted an inheritance by a mysterious benefactor. After moving to London to be educated as a gentleman under the guardianship of lawyer Mr. Jaggers (Robbie Coltrane), a now adult Pip (Jeremy Irvine), believing he now has the necessary social standing, sets about convincing Estella that he is worthy of her love.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irvine, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Flemyng, Holliday Grainger
Director: Mike Newell
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools – the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. In this fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, everything changes as Harry, Ron and Hermione leave childhood forever and take on challenges greater than anything they could have imagined.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Mike Newell
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Harry returns for his second year at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with his best friends Hermione and Ron. He ignores warnings not to go back to Hogwarts by a mysterious house elf named Dobby. Soon into the school year strange things start happening. Students are found in a petrified state, messages written in blood appear on the walls and Harry starts to hear voices in his head. It becomes apparent that someone has opened The Chamber of Secrets… but who is responsible and can the dark forces that lurk there be stopped?
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Chris Columbus
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Harry Potter is a ten-year-old orphan who has been living under the stairs in the house of his cruel and abusive aunt and uncle. But on his eleventh birthday, Harry receives a letter informing him that he has been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he learns not only that his parents were wizards, but also that he is destined to become a powerful wizard himself. Along with his new friends Ron and Hermione, Harry hones his magical powers and uncovers the secret of the Sorcerer's stone, which leads him into a confrontation with the evil wizard who murdered his parents.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Chris Columbus
The Gruffalo's Child (2011)
Animation | Family
A little Gruffalo ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Shirley Henderson, Robbie Coltrane, Rob Brydon, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, James Corden
Director: Uwe Heidschötter, Johannes Weiland
From Hell (2001)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A clairvoyant police detective must stop the most notorious serial killer in history – Jack the Ripper – before it's too late! Johnny Depp and Heather Graham star in this "engrossing, stylish thriller" (People) that "grips tighter than a chokehold and cut as deep as a knife" (Washington Post)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson, Jason Flemyng
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a Princess named Pea and learns to read (rather than eat) books — reveling in stories of knights, dragons and fair maidens. Banished from Mouseworld for being more man than mouse, Despereaux is rescued by another outcast, Roscuro, who also wants to hear the tales. But when the Princess dismisses Roscuro's friendship, he becomes the ultimate rat and plots revenge with fellow outsider Mig. After Pea is kidnapped, Despereaux discovers he is the only one who can rescue her…and that even the tiniest mouse can find the courage of a knight in shining armor.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Ciarán Hinds, Dustin Hoffman
Narrator: Sigourney Weaver
Director: Rob Stevenhagen, Sam Fell
The Gruffalo (2009)
Animation | Family
A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators.
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt, Rob Brydon
Director: Max Lang, Jakob Schuh
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
In the 19th film of the franchise, James Bond is once again pitted against Valentin Zukovsky, the Russian mobster from Goldeneye.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench
Director: Michael Apted
