Critical Condition (1987)
Comedy
Con man Kevin Lennihan, framed in a jewel smuggling, tries for an insanity plea, and is sent to a hospital for review, where he is confused for a doctor and takes over the hospital when a major storm hits.
Starring: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Sylvia Miles, Joe Mantegna, Bob Saget, Randall Cobb
Director: Michael Apted
Class Action (1991)
Drama | Thriller
An attorney representing a traumatized accident victim finds that his opponent is a very familiar defense attorney – his own daughter.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne, Donald Moffat, Colin Friels
Director: Michael Apted
Amazing Grace (2006)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N'Dour, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Michael Apted
Continental Divide (1981)
Comedy | Romance
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Starring: Blair Brown, John Belushi, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn, Tony Ganios, Val Avery
Director: Michael Apted
Thunderheart (1992)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Trudell
Director: Michael Apted
Unlocked (2017)
Action | Thriller
A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack.
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette, Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, Aymen Hamdouchi
Director: Michael Apted
Agatha (1979)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie is presented. On a cold winter day, her damaged car with her expensive fur coat is found abandoned at the side of a country road. While the authorities initially suspect that she could have committed suicide, her pompous husband, Col. Archibald Christie, who is less than cooperative with the authorities, is adamant that she is still alive. What he doesn't tell them is that he recently asked her for a divorce so that he could marry his secretary, Miss Nancy Neele. Although the divorce request was not a total surprise since she knew of the extramarital affair, Mrs. Christie still did not want to grant him the request since she still loves him. Concurrently, American newspaper columnist Wally Stanton was scheduled to conduct an interview with Mrs. Christie. Since he can no longer do so with her disappearance, Stanton instead tries to find out himself what happened to her. He manages to track her to a resort spa hotel in Harrogate, she who is living openly there but under an assumed name, and he who does not disclose his own identity to her when he meets her. Stanton's goal is not only to find out what she is up to, but to protect her good name which means not allowing the authorities to find her before he uncovers her motives. Stanton's own motives end up being more than just wanting an exclusive story.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse, Celia Gregory, Paul Brooke
Director: Michael Apted
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Gerard Butler stars in this surfing drama. Santa Cruz teenager Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) discovers that the Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists only a few miles from his home. Instantly gripped by the dream of surfing the wave, he begs local surfing legend Frosty Hesson (Butler) to help him achieve his goal. But with tide patterns dictating that the Mavericks is due to reappear in just 12 weeks, has Jay got what it takes to conquer this epic wave?
Starring: Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin, Taylor Handley, Jonny Weston
Director: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson
Enigma (2001)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | War
During the heart of World War II, in March of 1943, cryptoanalysts at Britain's code-breaking center have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their Enigma Code. Authorities enlist the help of a brilliant young man named Tom Jericho to help them break the code again. The possibility of a spy within the British code-breakers' ranks looms and Tom's love, Claire, has disappeared. To solve the mysteries, Tom recruits Claire's best friend, Hester Wallace. In investigating Claire's personal life, the pair discovers personal and international betrayals.
Starring: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tom Hollander
Director: Michael Apted
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
Biography | Drama
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, Iain Cuthbertson, Iain Glen, Maggie O'Neill
Director: Michael Apted
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Biography | Drama | Music
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer who rose from poverty to fame.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, William Sanderson, Pat Patterson
Director: Michael Apted
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia and the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. They join King Caspian and a warrior mouse named Reepicheep for a mission which holds the fate of Narnia itself. The courageous voyagers overcome their own greatest temptations, as they travel to mysterious islands; have fateful confrontations with magical creatures and sinister enemies; and reunite with their friend and protector, the "Great Lion" Aslan.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Gary Sweet, Terry Norris
Director: Michael Apted
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Drama | Sport
When young Jay Moriarty discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin, Taylor Handley
Director: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson
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Nell (1994)
Drama
Nell is a girl who's been brought up in an isolated world. The only people she knew were her mother and twin sister. They lived together in a cottage in the forest. Nobody has ever met Nell. After her mother's death, she's discovered by the local doctor Jerome. He's fascinated by her, since she speaks a mangled language, developed by her sister and herself growing up, "twin speak" if you will. But Paula, a psychology student, wants her observed in a laboratory. The judge decides they get three months to observe her in the forest, after which he'll decide about Nell's future.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, Nick Searcy
Director: Michael Apted
Gorky Park (1983)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.
Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula
Director: Michael Apted
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
