List of the best Roland Joffé movies: The Killing Fields(1984), The Mission(1986), Vatel(2000), Fat Man and Little Boy(1989), The Forgiven(2017), There Be Dragons(2011), The Scarlet Letter(1995), Captivity(2007), The Lovers(2014), You and I(2011) ... ...
Drama
UK
1984
141 Minutes
Director
Sam Waterston Haing S. Ngor John Malkovich Julian Sands Craig T. Nelson Spalding Gray Bill Paterson Athol Fugard Graham Kennedy Katherine Krapum Chey
journalist interpreter photojournalist wife reporter chilling emotional inspiring cambodia new york city phnom penh journalism war torture friendship genocide khmer rouge escape sacrifice rescue
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Drama, History
UK|France
1986
128 Minutes
Director
Robert De Niro Jeremy Irons Ray McAnally Liam Neeson Aidan Quinn Ronald Pickup Chuck Low Cherie Lunghi Bercelio Moya
priest native criminal cardinal moving passionate spirited inspiring south america jungle portugal religion redemption exploitation slavery battle sacrifice rescue transformation 1750s
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Drama, Romance, History
France|UK|Belgium
2000
117 Minutes
Director
Gérard Depardieu Uma Thurman Tim Roth Julian Glover Julian Sands Timothy Spall Arielle Dombasle Hywel Bennett Richard Griffiths Murry Lachlan Young Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
steward prince courtesan king louis xiv brother costume designer emotional sultry amusing spirited france countryside chateau dinner party royalty financial crisis political intrigue sexual advances class distinctions war
Vatel is the cook of Prince Condé. When the prince invites Louis XIV to hunt, he has to give lavish banquets in order to fall in his favor. But when Vatel falls in love with the king's mistress, love and duty come into conflict.
Drama, History
USA|Mexico
1989
126 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Dwight Schultz Bonnie Bedelia John Cusack Laura Dern Ron Frazier John C. McGinley Natasha Richardson
general scientist wife mistress emotional tense new mexico laboratory military base nuclear weapons testing science military adultery daunting task personality clash quest discovery 1940s
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
2017
115 Minutes
Director
Forest Whitaker Eric Bana Jeff Gum Morné Visser Terry Norton Rob Gough Debbie Sherman Warrick Grier
archbishop murderer mother white person tense sultry somber rousing gripping disturbing prison south africa cape town redemption home apartheid racism justice faith crime
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Drama
Spain|USA|Argentina
2011
120 Minutes
Director
Charlie Cox Wes Bentley Dougray Scott Unax Ugalde Olga Kurylenko Pablo Lapadula Golshifteh Farahani Rodrigo Santoro Derek Jacobi
journalist father priest emotional past faith secrets men rivalry 1930s
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.
Drama
USA
1995
135 Minutes
Director
Demi Moore Gary Oldman Robert Duvall Robert Prosky Edward Hardwicke Joan Plowright Roy Dotrice Dana Ivey George Aguilar Sheldon Peters Wolfchild Lisa Jolliff-Andoh
An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Russia
2007
85 Minutes
Director
Elisha Cuthbert Pruitt Taylor Vince Laz Alonso Michael J. Harney Rebekah Ryan Carl Paoli Trent Broin Daniel Gillies
model kidnapper prisoner brother detective victim disturbing suspenseful gory brutal charity event cellar locker room new york city bedroom kidnapping torture mind games captivity murder
A man and a woman awaken to find themselves trapped in a cellar. As their kidnapper drives them mad, the truth about their horrific abduction is revealed.
Sci-Fi, Romance, Action, Adventure
Belgium|India|Australia
2014
105 Minutes
Director
Josh Hartnett Alice Englert Tamsin Egerton Om Puri Claire van der Boom Bipasha Basu Tehmina Sunny Andrea Deck
An epic, sweeping and riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
2011
100 Minutes
Director
Mischa Barton Anton Yelchin Shantel VanSanten Alex Kaluzhsky Charlie Creed-Miles Helena Mattsson Igor Desyatnikov Bronson Pinchot