6.7

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2007, USA

• Actors: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger, Andrew McCarthy, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen, Martin Short, Jordy Benattar, Tod Fennell, Mariah Inger, Jeremy Lavalley, Lise Durocher-Viens, Tyler Patrick Jones, Kyle Switzer
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Mark Waters
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.

  4.1

Knife Edge

2007,

• Actors: Joan Plowright, Tamsin Egerton, Hugh Bonneville, Natalie Press, Jamie Harris, Lorcan O'Toole, Nina Muschallik, Mark Holden, Matthieu Boujenah, Peter Rnic, Jennifer Munby, Karen Ferrari, Lee MacDougall, Tim Wade, Miles Ronayne
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Anthony Hickox
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.

  6.6

Curious George

2006, USA

• Actors: Frank Welker, Will Ferrell, Shane Baumel, Timyra-Joi Beatty, Eugene Levy, Christopher Chen, Jessie Flower, Dick Van Dyke, Alexander Gould, Terrence Hardy Jr., Hailey Noelle Johnson, Kelsey Lansdowne, Ariel Winter, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Billy West, Jeff Bennett, Michael Chinyamurindi, Michael Sorich, Ed O'Ross, Joan Plowright, Kath Soucie, Clint Howard, Kimberly Brooks, Wendy Cutler, Joey D'Auria, Richard Epcar, Treva Etienne, Eddie Frierson, Donald Fullilove
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
• Director(s): Matthew O'Callaghan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The man with the yellow hat named Ted Shackleford works at a natural history museum that's fallen on hard times. The museum director's son wants to turn it into a parking lot, but Ted offers to bring back a mysterious idol from Africa that's guaranteed to pull in crowds. Unfortunately, the idol turns out to be three inches tall. But Ted accidentally brings back a lonely yet irrepressible monkey, soon dubbed George. They set off on a non-stop action, fun-filled journey through the wonders of the big city toward the warmth of true friendship.

  7.1

I Am David

2003, USA

• Actors: Ben Tibber, James Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Hristo Shopov, Silvia De Santis, Paco Reconti, Roberto Attias, Francesco De Vito, Paul Feig, Lucy Russell, Maria Bonnevie, Viola Carinci, Marin Jivkov, Robert Syulev, Alessandro Sperduti, Shaila Rubin, Krasimir Kutzoparov, Elisabetta Bartolomei, Krassimir Radkov, Diyan Machev, Nikola Rudarov, Enrico Vecchi, Dobrin Dosev, Malin Krastev, Matt Patresi, Maxim Gentchev, Ivan Nestorov, Stefan Shterev, Valeri Yordanov, Clem Tibber
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Paul Feig
• Available languages:
  • English English.

David, a 12-year-old, escapes from a Communist concentration camp with little more than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into the free world for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. His spiritual voyage of discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctive mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust and ultimately, love, addresses the cruelties, politics, and suffering of warfare while celebrating the resilience of youth and the unbreakable spirit of a child.

  5.7

George and the Dragon

2003, USA, Germany, UK

• Actors: James Purefoy, Piper Perabo, Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bill Treacher, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Rollo Weeks, Paul Freeman, Stefan Jürgens, Stefan Weinert, Phil McKee, Caroline Carver, Simon Callow, Joan Plowright, Carl Chase, Jamie Treacher, Bill Oddie, Peter McCabe, Dean Gregory, Bernd Pietsch, Chas Warlow, Andreas Meidinger, Jim Probyn, Thoralf Koegst, Leslie Woodhall, Orhan Kümürcü, Lynne Roche, Giles Deu, Margot Due, Jean Alesi
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Tom Reeve
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that has changed forever. George, a handsome English knight, unsettled by the horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in Palestine, desires to hang up his sword and settle down to a quiet, peaceful life. On returning to England, George heads north where he's heard the land is good and the population sparse and of a kindly King named Edgaar. He finds King Edgaar in a terrible state. His beautiful daughter, Lunna has recently disappeared. In return for a small plot of land, George agrees to search for Princess Lunna. With Edgaar's faithful servant, Elmendorf, George sets out. George discovers both the princess and the truth behind her strange disappearance. The quest now set before them ends in a love, a lie and a legend that has lasted a thousand years.

  6.2

Dinosaur

1999, USA

• Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright, Della Reese, Matt Adler, Sandina Bailo-Lape, Edie Lehmann, Zachary Bostrom, Cathy Cavadini, Holly Dorff, Greg Finley, Jeff Fischer, Barbara Harris, David Allen Kramer, Susie Stevens-Logan, David McCharen, Tracy Metro, Daran Norris, Bobbi Page, Noreen Reardon, Chelsea Russo, Evan Sabara, Aaron Spann, Melanie Spore
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Thriller
• Director(s): Eric Leighton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

During an attack on a pack of Iguanodon, an egg is separated and ends up with the possession of a group of lemurs. The lemurs care for this egg and the young creature born from it, which they call Aladar. When a meteor shower hits earth, Aladar and his family must leave their homeland. Away from home and as close to danger as they have ever been, they meet up with a huge group of dinosaurs, led by Kron and Bruton. All together they are trying to reach the nesting grounds, but it's not going to be easy.

  6.6

Jane Eyre

1996, France, Italy, UK, USA

• Actors: Anna Paquin, Nic Knight, Nicola Howard, Sasha Graff, Fiona Shaw, John Wood, Geraldine Chaplin, Amanda Root, Leanne Rowe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Warwick, Judith Parker, Joan Plowright, Joséphine Serre, Billie Whitelaw, William Hurt, Simon Beresford, Chris Larkin, Elle Macpherson, Miranda Forbes, Ann Queensberry, Sheila Burrell, Sara Stevens, Oriane Messina, Marissa Dunlop, Julian Fellowes, Barry Martin, Walter Sparrow, Steffan Boje, Golda Broderick
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Franco Zeffirelli
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.

  5.4

101 Dalmatians

1995, USA

• Actors: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie, Mark Williams, John Shrapnel, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Fraser, Zohren Weiss, Mark Haddigan, Michael Percival, Neville Phillips, John Evans, Hilda Braid, Margery Mason, John Benfield, Andrew Readman, John Peters, Bill Stewart, Gerald Paris, Joe Lacey, Brian Capron, Frank Welker, Harry Fielder, Arthur Mullard, Laurence Richardson
• Genre: Family, Comedy, Adventure
• Director(s): Stephen Herek
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in love and marry along with their dalmatians Perdita and Pongo. But the proud dogs' puppies are kidnapped by Anita's boss Cruella De Vil, who is stealing young dalmatians to make the coat she has set her heart on. Enlisting the help of the British animal kingdom, Pongo and Perdita set out to find and rescue all ninety-nine pups from their fearsome captors, Jasper and Horace.

  5.0

Dennis the Menace

1993, USA

• Actors: Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Joan Plowright, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Robert Stanton, Amy Sakasitz, Kellen Hathaway, Paul Winfield, Natasha Lyonne, Devin Ratray, Hank Johnston, Melinda Mullins, Billie Bird, Bill Erwin, Arnold Stang, Ben Stein, Ethel Gerstein, Rebecca Hogan, Leona Toppel, Peggy Goldberg, Jack McGuigan, Corey Vane, Casey Gamble, Daiana Campeanu, Robert A. Saunders, Beverly J. O'Donnell, Betty, Suzy Brack, Thomas F. Evans
• Genre: Comedy, Family
• Director(s): Nick Castle
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Dennis, everyone's favorite kid from the comics is back. When his parents have to go out of town, he stays with Mr and Mrs Wilson. The little menace is driving Mr Wilson crazy. But Dennis is just trying to be helpful. Even to the thief he bumps into.

  5.9

Last Action Hero

1992, USA

• Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Austin O'Brien, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Frank McRae, Tom Noonan, Robert Prosky, Anthony Quinn, Mercedes Ruehl, Ian McKellen, Professor Toru Tanaka, Joan Plowright, Jason Kelly, Noah Emmerich, Tina Turner, Billy D. Lucas, Ryan Todd, Apollo Dukakis, Patrick Flanagan, Donald C. Llorens, Michael Chieffo, Mike Muscat, John Finnegan, Bobbie Brown, Angie Everhart, Bridgette Wilson, Jeffrey Braer, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Anthony Peck
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
• Director(s): John McTiernan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater's enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.

  6.2

I Love You to Death

1989, USA

• Actors: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, James Gammon, Jack Kehler, Victoria Jackson, Miriam Margolyes, Alisan Porter, Jon Kasdan, Heather Graham, Michelle Joyner, John Kostmayer, Kathleen York, John Billingsley, Samantha Kostmayer, Michael Chieffo, Robert Radonich, Jeff Kline, G. Valmont Thomas, Art Cahn, Audrey Rapoport, Shiri Appleby, Luke Rossi, Henry Beckman, Susan Chin, Tony Romano, Johnny 'Sugarbear' Willis
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Lawrence Kasdan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious to their attempts.

  4.8

Revolution

1984, UK, Norway

• Actors: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Dave King, Steven Berkoff, John Wells, Annie Lennox, Dexter Fletcher, Sid Owen, Richard O'Brien, Paul Brooke, Eric Milota, Felicity Dean, Jo Anna Lee, Cheryl Anne Miller, Harry Ditson, Rebecca Calder, Theresa Boden, Jesse Birdsall, Cameron Johann, Danny Potts, William Marlowe, Stefan Gryff, Frank Windsor, Skeeter Vaughan, Larry Sellers, Graham Greene, Denis Lacroix, Joseph Runningfox
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Hugh Hudson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

  7.4

Moby Dick

1956, USA

• Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Bernard Miles, Noel Purcell, Edric Connor, Mervyn Johns, Joseph Tomelty, Francis De Wolff, Philip Stainton, Royal Dano, Seamus Kelly, Friedrich von Ledebur, Orson Welles, Tamba Allenby, Tom Clegg, Mandy Harper, Ted Howard, A.L. Bert Lloyd, Arthur Mullard, Joan Plowright, Iris Tree, Carol White
• Genre: Adventure, Drama
• Director(s): John Huston
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick.