List of the best Terry George movies: Hotel Rwanda(2004), The Shore(2011), Some Mother's Son(1996), Reservation Road(2007), The Promise(2016), Stand Off(2011) ... ...
Drama
UK|South Africa|Italy|USA
2004
121 Minutes
Director
Don Cheadle Sophie Okonedo Joaquin Phoenix Nick Nolte Desmond Dube David O'Hara Fana Mokoena Mothusi Magano Leleti Khumalo Cara Seymour Hakeem Kae-Kazim
hotel manager wife child journalist general rebel brutal moving suspenseful hôtel des mille collines kigali, rwanda swimming pool family home genocide marriage bribery corruption refugees ethnic cleansing sacrifice
Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
Drama
UK
2011
30 Minutes
Director
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
Drama
Ireland|USA
1996
112 Minutes
Director
Helen Mirren Fionnula Flanagan Aidan Gillen David O'Hara John Lynch Tim Woodward Tom Hollander Ciarán Hinds Gerard McSorley Geraldine O'Rawe Dan Gordon
teacher irishman woman prisoner friend mother emotional gritty gory belfast, northern ireland prison irish republican army pacifism mother/son relationship unusual friendship hunger strike political unrest sacrifice discovery 1980s
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Drama
USA|Germany
2007
102 Minutes
Director
Joaquin Phoenix Mark Ruffalo Jennifer Connelly Mira Sorvino Elle Fanning Eddie Alderson Sean Curley Gary Kohn Cordell Clyde Lochin
attorney wife son young boy father daughter emotional chilling gripping baseball field car household law office police station family car accident hit and run fight for justice death of child investigation
The lives of two families change forever after a fatal tragedy takes place on Reservation Road.
Romance, Drama, History
Spain|USA
2016
134 Minutes
Director
Oscar Isaac Charlotte Le Bon Christian Bale Shohreh Aghdashloo Marwan Kenzari Angela Sarafyan Rade Serbedzija Igal Naor Numan Acar Milene Mayer Tamer Hassan
medical student dance instructor boyfriend photojournalist dreamy intense rousing shocking constantinople church house ottoman empire war civil unrest refugees escape fall forbidden love rescue sacrifice
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
2011
89 Minutes
Director
Brendan Fraser Colm Meaney Martin McCann Yaya DaCosta Michael Legge David O'Hara Conor MacNeill Frankie McCafferty
shopkeeper thief dark tense brutal market refuge gambling gangsters revenge
The botched robbery of a Belfast fish market puts an innocent American shopkeeper (Brendan Fraser) in the crosshairs of Irish police officers.