The Lovers

2015

English

4.6

♡ 26

Roland Joffé Director

Andrea Deck as Allie

Robert Roldan as Clinton

Shane Briant as Governor of Bombay

Josh Hartnett as James Stewart / Jay Fennel

The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.

The Killing Fields

1984

English

7.8

♡ 41

91%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Roland Joffé Director

John Malkovich as Al Rockoff

Julian Sands as Jon Swain

Craig T. Nelson as Military Attaché

Joanna Merlin as Schanberg's Sister

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.

You and I

2011

Russian

4.4

♡ 9

42%

Roland Joffé Director

Eliza Schneider as Female-voice English Instructor

Shantel VanSanten as Janie

Helena Mattsson as Kira

Bronson Pinchot as Torrino

Janie Sawyer, an American teenager, is forced to live in Moscow because of her father's job. Janie is trying to escape her lonely life in Moscow through her deep love of music and the internet. Janie and Lana Starkova meet on a fansite for the pop-band t.A.T.u. Trapped in a small Russian town, Lana wants desperately nothing more than to flee her mundane life causing the two girls to develop an instant connection through their love of t.A.T.u.'s music.

City of Joy

1992

English

6.5

♡ 10

56%

Roland Joffé Director

Art Malik as Ashok Ghatak

Pauline Collins as Joan Bethel

Shabana Azmi as Kamla H. Pal

Sam Wanamaker as (uncredited)

Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.

A Lover Scorned

2019

English

4.6

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Thriller

Roland Joffé Director

Emilie de Ravin as Brooke

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Mr. Wong

Jeffrey Vincent Parise as Stevens

Nicole Marie Johnson as Tara

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Brooke begins an affair with Jake a young, hotshot insurance-agent.

Captivity

2007

English

4.6

♡ 11

9%

Roland Joffé Director

Pruitt Taylor Vince as Ben Dexter

Laz Alonso as Det. Ray Di Santos

Daniel Gillies as Gary Dexter

Elisha Cuthbert as Jennifer

The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a club, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, they commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989

English

6.5

♡ 18

50%

Roland Joffé Director

Jim True-Frost as Donald Hornig

Mary Pat Gleason as Dora Welsh

Paul Newman as General Leslie R. Groves

John Williams as Mack Stoddard

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

The Forgiven

2017

English

6.0

♡ 28

55%

Roland Joffé Director

Forest Whitaker as

Zikhona Bali as Kufiwe

Eric Bana as Piet Blomfeld

Danny Keogh as Rian Blomfeld

After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.

The Scarlet Letter

1995

English

5.3

♡ 19

13%

41%

Action

based on novel or book

boston, massachusetts

Roland Joffé Director

Demi Moore as Hester Prynne

Jodhi May as Pearl

Gary Oldman as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

Robert Duvall as Roger Chillingworth

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.

There Be Dragons

2011

English

5.7

♡ 25

13%

spanish civil war (1936-39)

War

Roland Joffé Director

Olga Kurylenko as Ildiko

Golshifteh Farahani as Leila

Charles Dance as Monsignor Solano

Dougray Scott as Roberto Torres

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.

Vatel

2000

English

6.6

♡ 9

31%

Roland Joffé Director

Uma Thurman as Anne de Montausier

Timothy Spall as Gourville

Jérôme Pradon as Marquis d'Effiat

Tim Roth as Marquis de Lauzun

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?

The Mission

1986

English

7.4

♡ 46

63%

Roland Joffé Director

Robert De Niro as

Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel

Liam Neeson as Fielding

Ronald Pickup as Hontar

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.