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6.6

♡ 1

50%

David Hare Director

Ralph Fiennes as Alec Beasley

Saskia Reeves as Anthea Catcheside

Bill Nighy as Johnny Worricker

Helena Bonham Carter as Margot Tyrrell

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.

I.D.

1995

7.3

♡ 9

81%

Philip Davis Director

Phil Davis as Duty Sergeant

Saskia Reeves as Lynda

Sean Pertwee as Martin

Richard Graham as Trevor

Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .

Page Eight

2011

6.8

♡ 26

94%

David Hare Director

Ralph Fiennes as Alec Beasley

Saskia Reeves as Anthea Catcheside

Bill Nighy as Johnny Worricker

Rachel Weisz as Nancy Pierpan

Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

Close My Eyes

1991

6.2

♡ 11

80%

56%

based on play or musical

Stephen Poliakoff Director

Karl Johnson as Colin

Geraldine Somerville as Natalie's Boss

Saskia Reeves as Natalie / Sister

Clive Owen as Richard / Brother

After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.

Anna

♡ 65

Jorge Dorado Director

Taissa Farmiga as Anna Greene

Mark Strong as John Washington

Saskia Reeves as Michelle Greene

Brian Cox as Sebastian

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

The Prime Minister

2016

Dutch

6.2

♡ 4

Thriller

Erik Van Looy Director

Adam Godley as Chief of Security

Norman Baert as Cleaner

Marcel Hensema as Eurocommissioner

Saskia Reeves as US President

The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States.

L.A. Without a Map

1998

6.0

♡ 5

63%

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Mika Kaurismäki Director

Johnny Depp as Johnny Depp / William Blake

Saskia Reeves as Joy

Andre Royo as Music Store Clerk #2

Lisa Edelstein as Sandra

An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.

A Christmas Carol

1999

7.4

♡ 12

72%

David Hugh Jones Director

Patrick Stewart as Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge

Celia Imrie as Mrs. Bennett

Saskia Reeves as Mrs. Cratchit

Roger Hammond as Second Broker

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Me and Orson Welles

2008

6.7

♡ 6

86%

61%

1930s

Richard Linklater Director

Saskia Reeves as Barbara Luddy

Imogen Poots as Lorelei Lathrop

Kelly Reilly as Muriel Brassler

Zac Efron as Richard Samuels

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

Dune

2000

6.9

♡ 6

John Harrison Director

Miroslav Táborský as Count Hasimir Fenring 3 episodes, 2000

Matt Keeslar as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen 3 episodes, 2000

Saskia Reeves as Lady Jessica Atreides 3 episodes, 2000

Giancarlo Giannini as Padishah - Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV 3 episodes, 2000

A boy destined to rule Arrakis (Dune) must unite his people against his sworn enemies; armed with the super-spice Melange and the loyalty of the Fremen, the rival houses of Atreides and Harkonen wage a war that may shape the fate of the galaxy.—Johnny-the-Film-Sentinel-2187

Creation Stories

2021

6.1

♡ 2

59%

Nick Moran Director

Saskia Reeves as Helen

Michael Socha as Joe Foster

Charlie Murphy as Kate Holmes

Jason Isaacs as Ralph

The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.

The Program

2015

6.5

♡ 29

62%

Stephen Frears Director

Lee Pace as Bill Stapleton

Saskia Reeves as Conference Doctor

Jesse Plemons as Floyd Landis

John Schwab as Travis Tygart

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

2009

7.1

♡ 12

Anand Tucker Director

Shaun Dooley as Dick Alderman

Andrew Garfield as Eddie Dunford

Sean Bean as John Dawson

Saskia Reeves as Mandy Wymer

Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.

The Outrun

2024

6.9

♡ 50

82%

based on memoir or autobiography

addiction

Nora Fingscheidt Director

Saskia Reeves as Annie

Paapa Essiedu as Daynin

Izuka Hoyle as Gloria

Saoirse Ronan as Rona

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.

The Child in Time

2017

6.1

♡ 30

79%

50%

british prime minister

Julian Farino Director

Stephen Campbell Moore as Charles

Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Lewis

Richard Durden as Stephen's Father

Saskia Reeves as Thelma

A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.

Our Kind of Traitor

2016

6.3

♡ 56

72%

50%

antigua

Susanna White Director

Paul Biddiss as Close Protection Officer

Ewan McGregor as Perry

Saskia Reeves as Tamara

Jon Wennington as Wealthy Guest

A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

Butterfly Kiss

1995

6.3

♡ 4

75%

Michael Winterbottom Director

Amanda Plummer as Eunice

Paul Bown as Gary

Saskia Reeves as Miriam

Ricky Tomlinson as Robert

Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

2013