Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Comedy | Drama
Three generations of women share the same problem–marriage woes–and want to put an end to it.
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bryan Pringle, Trevor Cooper
Director: Peter Greenaway
Franklyn (2008)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A portrait of the broken lives of four people as they all struggle to cope in their religiously-dystopian city.
Starring: Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill, James Faulkner, Stephen Walters
Director: Gerald McMorrow
Save Angel Hope (2007)
Comedy
The 'Angel Hope' of the title is a fictitious nun – a little like Mother Teresa, only much younger and prettier – who works at a fictitious hospital in the South Pacific. The third fictional element is a hurricane which destroys the hospital, triggering a charity campaign to rebuild it. Needless to say, there are no more plans to build a new hospital than there was a hospital in the first place. And equally needless to say, things begin to go wrong right from the start, with love and religion getting in the way of good honest greed.
Starring: Billy Boyd, Luke Mably, Eva Birthistle, Bernard Hill, Alice Evans, Tim McInnerny
Director: Lukas Erni
Shirley Valentine (1989)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Starring: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley, Bernard Hill
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Golden Years (2016)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, our characters decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.
Starring: Alun Armstrong, Bernard Hill, Simon Callow, Phil Davis, Una Stubbs, Mark Williams
Director: John Miller
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True Crime (1999)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Steve Everett is an Oakland journalist recovering from alcoholism, who is assigned to cover the execution of convicted murderer Frank Beechum. Everett discovers that Beechum might be innocent, but has only a few hours to prove his theory and save Beechum's life.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary, Bernard Hill
Director: Clint Eastwood
Gothika (2003)
Horror | Thriller
A brilliant and respected criminal psychologist, Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is an expert at knowing what is rational. Under the direction of her husband (Charles S. Dutton), Miranda treats dangerously disturbed patients at the Woodward Penitentiary for Women. But Miranda's life is thrust into terrifying jeopardy after a cryptic encounter with a mysterious young girl leads to a nightmare beyond her wildest imagination.
Starring: Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Penélope Cruz
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Wimbledon (2004)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon
Starring: Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Director: Richard Loncraine
The Scorpion King (2002)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
In the notorious city of Gomorrah, an evil ruler is determined to lay waste to all the nomadic peoples of the desert. The few remaining tribes, never natural allies, have to unite or perish. Knowing their enemy relies on the visions of a sorcerer, they hire a skilled assassin, Mathayus to eliminate the visionary. After infiltrating the enemy camp, Mathayus discovers that the sorcerer is in fact a beautiful woman. Rather than eliminate her, he takes her deep into the desert badlands, knowing that the ruler's henchman will stop at nothing to rescue her and bring her back. Seriously wounded in the ensuing battle, Mathayus must find the strength to lead his scrappy band of allies back to Gomorrah for a final confrontation.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill
Director: Chuck Russell
