Filmography Highlights
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Eastern Promises
2007- Rated:
- 18
A brutal tale of Russian gangsters, murder and sexual slavery in East London. Directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts
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Shopgirl
2006- Rated:
- 15
A rich isolated executive rescues a beautiful young woman from her lonely Los Angeles life, only to break her heart. Steve Martin and Clare Danes star in this adaptation of Martin's novella
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A History Of Violence
2005- Rated:
- 18
The true identity of a small-town family man is questioned after he effortlessly dispatches two crooks. Drama directed by David Cronenberg, starring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello and Ed Harris
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Spider
2002- Rated:
- 15
Defiantly arthouse London-set psychodrama from Canadian veteran David Cronenberg. Ralph Fiennes is an introverted former asylum patient who returns to his birthplace to re-experience his traumatic past
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eXistenZ
1999- Rated:
- 15
Virtual reality, David Cronenberg-style. Video games consoles that plug into your spine, sexualised organic machinery and elaborate mind games. Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh star
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Man in the Iron Mask, The
1998- Rated:
- 12
Dumas won't have stopped spinning in his grave since this big-budget atrocity hit the screen. Despite a cast to die for - Malkovich, Depardieu and Irons as the Three Musketeers, and a double dose of
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Mars Attacks!
1996- Rated:
- 12
Playful homage to 1950s alien invasion B-movies from the ever-imaginative Tim Burton. Something of a flop, but it boasts all sorts of inventive elements
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Crash
1996- Rated:
- 18
Fame, sex, death and car-crashes are cinema staples, but this disturbing thriller ties them together in a knot of erotic fetishism. David Cronenberg adapts JG Ballard's novel
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Immortal Beloved
1994- Rated:
- 15
Candyman director Bernard Rose presents the life and times of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Gary Oldman essays the great composer
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The Vanishing
1993- Rated:
- 15
Sluizer's Hollywood remake of his own brilliant Spooloos is a lobotomised version of the of its chillier, more cerebral precursor
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M Butterfly
1993- Rated:
- 15
Unconvincing adaptation of the stage play (which was based on a true-life story) about a French diplomat who falls in love with a Chinese opera singer, only to find out she is really a he. Obviously
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Public Eye, The
1992- Rated:
- 15
Pesci's magnificent performance as the legendary photographer Weegee makes this uneven film well worth watching. The protagonist's struggle as an artist is interesting to watch, but his involvement w
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Naked Lunch
1991- Rated:
- 18
Insectoids, talking typewriters and mugwump sex; Super-bizarro art-horror based on William Burroughs' seminal fantasy about getting high on an alien's supply. Just go with it
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Where the Heart Is
1990- Rated:
- 15
A comedy about a demolition tycoon (Coleman) who forces his three pampered children (Amis, Thurman, Hewlett) out of the house to fend for themselves, written by the director and his daughter Telsche.
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Dead Ringers
1988- Rated:
- 18
Jeremy Irons plays a pair of gynaecologist twins whose three-way affair with Genevieve Bujold plunges them into madness. Nightmarish psychodrama by David Cronenberg presented with clinical precision
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Falling in Love
1984- Rated:
- PG
In a dull reworking of Brief Encounter, transplanted to Manhattan, two commuters meet and fall adulterously in love. Following on from their work together in The Deer Hunter, De Niro and Streep shoul
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Krull
1983- Rated:
- PG
A sub standard space opera with pretensions to being a British Star Wars. There's more sword and sorcery than storm and troopers - with a quest to reclaim some kind of medieval boomerang-type-thingy
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Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1980- Rated:
- U
The second and darkest instalment in the Star Wars saga. Luke learns about the force from Yoda, Leia and Han get it on and Darth Vader reveals a shattering secret
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Valentino
1977- Rated:
- X
Russell's biopic of Rudolph Valentino, one of the silent era's greats, is not a patch on the numerous biographies with which he made his name in the 1970s. Told in flashback at Valentino's funeral, t
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Lisztomania
1975- Rated:
- 18
Another of Russell's gloriously indulgent follies, but they are such a hoot, aren't they? Made in the same year as Tommy, it casts Daltrey as Liszt, which suggests a biopic. It is nothing of the sort
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That'll Be the Day
1974- Rated:
- TBC
Essex takes an obvious cue from Buddy Holly in this 1950s-set Britflick, in which he stars as Jim Maclaine, the rebellious working-class lad eager to swap his fairground job for the glamour of a rock
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Melody
1971- Rated:
- A
Parker was only in his twenties when he wrote this story of two children (Lester and Hyde) who fall in love and tell their elders they plan to get married. A project that could easily have become a s
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Leo the Last
1970- Rated:
- X
Mastroianni plays Leo, a dethroned European monarch whose townhouse sits in the middle of an unrealistic slum area of London. From his window, the ex-king observes the behaviour of birds and the (mos
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Charlie Bubbles
1968- Rated:
- TBC
A curious film for a number of reasons: Delaney's script about a writer's search for inspiration; Finney's sole attempt at directing to date; Minnelli's film debut ... it is a pity that, apart from W
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