Michael Caine
Children of Men
(2006)
Alfonso Cuarón (screenplay), Timothy J. Sexton (screenplay), David Arata (screenplay), Mark Fergus (screenplay), Hawk Ostby (screenplay), P.D. James (novel)
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 37 wins & 59 nominations.
The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.
Get Carter
(1971)
Mike Hodges (screenplay), Ted Lewis (novel)
N/A
A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the android in Terminator, or Walker in Point Blank, and he and the other characters in the film are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.
Harry Brown
(2009)
Gary Young (screenplay)
1 win & 3 nominations.
In England, retired Royal Marine Harry Brown spends his lonely life between the hospital, where his beloved wife Kath is terminally ill, and playing chess with his only friend Leonard Attwell in the Barge pub owned by Sid Rourke. After the death of Kath, Len tells his grieving friend that the local gang is harassing him and he is carrying an old bayonet for self-defense; the widower suggests him to go to the police. When Len is beaten, then stabbed to death in an underground passage, Inspector Alice Frampton and her partner Sergeant Terry Hicock are sent to investigate. They pay Harry a visit but don't have good news; the police have not found any other evidence, other than the bayonet, in order to arrest the hoodlums. This mean that should the case go to trial the gang would claim self-defense. Harry Brown sees that justice will not be granted and decides to take matters into his own hands.
Interstellar
(2014)
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Won 1 Oscar. Another 39 wins & 132 nominations.
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
(2014)
Jane Goldman (screenplay), Matthew Vaughn (screenplay), Mark Millar (comic book "The Secret Service"), Dave Gibbons (comic book "The Secret Service")
6 wins & 19 nominations.
A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Now You See Me
(2013)
Ed Solomon (screenplay), Boaz Yakin (screenplay), Edward Ricourt (screenplay)
1 win & 3 nominations.
Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horsemen, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts agents Dylan Rhodes of the FBI and Alma Dray of Interpol on the case to find out how they did it. However, this mystery proves difficult to solve even with the insights of the professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley. What follows is a bizarre investigation where nothing is what it seems with illusions, dark secrets and hidden agendas galore as all involved are reminded of a great truth in this puzzle: the closer you look, the less you see.
The Italian Job
(1969)
Troy Kennedy-Martin
N/A
Charlie's got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison, he finds one of his friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal the Gold and escape.
The Man Who Would Be King
(1975)
John Huston (screenplay), Gladys Hill (screenplay), Rudyard Kipling (based on the story by)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 nominations.
This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.
The Prestige
(2006)
Jonathan Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Priest (novel)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 28 nominations.
Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion.
Without a Clue
(1988)
Gary Murphy, Larry Strawther
1 win & 1 nomination.
This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here Dr Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. When Watson tries to go it alone, he doesn't have much success, so he is forced to let Holmes take all the credit once more.
Zulu
(1964)
John Prebble (original screenplay), Cy Endfield (original screenplay), John Prebble (suggested by an article written by)
N/A
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.