Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.

Queen & Country

2014

English

6.2

♡ 3

John Boorman Director

Callum Turner as Bill Rohan

Vanessa Kirby as Dawn Rohan

Caleb Landry Jones as Percy Hapgood

David Thewlis as Sargeant Major Bradley

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

Point Blank

1967

English

7.3

♡ 28

93%

83%

Action

alcatraz prison

based on novel or book

John Boorman Director

Michael Bell as 2nd Penthouse Lobby Guard

Ethelreda Leopold as Conventioneer

Chuck Hicks as Guard

Keenan Wynn as Yost

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977

English

3.8

♡ 42

10%

religion and supernatural

Thriller

John Boorman Director

Richard Burton as Father Philip Lamont

Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil

Kitty Winn as Sharon Spencer

Paul Henreid as The Cardinal

Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a research specialist free her from its grasp?

Having a Wild Weekend

1965

English

5.6

♡ 1

80%

John Boorman Director

Alan Lake as Cameraman

Clive Swift as Duffie

Peter Nichols as Photographer

David de Keyser as Zissell

Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.

Where the Heart Is

1990

English

5.9

♡ 5

9%

John Boorman Director

Uma Thurman as Daphne McBain

David Hewlett as Jimmy

Crispin Glover as Lionel

Frances Flanagan as T.V. Reporter

A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.

The Tailor of Panama

2001

English

6.1

♡ 49

75%

John Boorman Director

Pierce Brosnan as Andrew 'Andy' Osnard

Jamie Lee Curtis as Louisa Pendel

Daniel Radcliffe as Mark Pendel

Brendan Gleeson as Michelangelo 'Mickie' Abraxas

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.

Hell in the Pacific

1968

English

7.2

♡ 15

John Boorman Director

Lee Marvin as American Pilot

Toshirô Mifune as Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

The Emerald Forest

1985

English

6.9

♡ 19

84%

based on a true story

based on true story

Drama

jaguar

parent child relationship

John Boorman Director

Powers Boothe as Bill Markham

Tetchie Agbayani as Caya

Estee Chandler as Heather

Meg Foster as Jean Markham

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

The General

1998

English

7.2

♡ 6

83%

ira (irish republican army)

John Boorman Director

Jon Voight as Inspector Ned Kenny

Brendan Gleeson as Martin Cahill

Adrian Dunbar as Noel Curley

Brendan Coyle as UVF Leader

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

Deliverance

1972

English

7.6

♡ 56

90%

based on novel or book

John Boorman Director

Jon Voight as Ed

Burt Reynolds as Lewis

Billy Redden as Lonnie

Bill McKinney as Mountain Man

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Zardoz

1974

English

5.8

♡ 27

49%

John Boorman Director

Charlotte Rampling as Consuella

John Alderton as Friend

David de Keyser as Tabernacle

Sean Connery as Zed

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

Excalibur

1981

English

7.3

♡ 67

73%

John Boorman Director

Corin Redgrave as Cornwall

Liam Neeson as Gawain

Ciarán Hinds as Lot

Helen Mirren as Morgana

A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately, his death.

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The Tiger's Tail

In My Country

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Queen & Country

Point Blank

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Having a Wild Weekend

Where the Heart Is

The Tailor of Panama

Hell in the Pacific

The Emerald Forest

The General

Deliverance

Zardoz

Excalibur