The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Read More »
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Evil Angels (1988) Fred Schepisi, Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain. During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia Read More »
Submerged (2001) James Keach, Sam Neill, Shea Whigham, Emily Procter
Based on the best-selling book by Peter Maas, Submerged tells the story of the first submarine rescue in history Read More »
Yes (2004) Sally Potter, Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill
In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. Read More »
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) John Carpenter, Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Possession (1981) Andrzej Zulawski, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Art-house, Horror, Drama
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Read More »
Angel (2007) François Ozon, Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Drama, Romance
Angel Deverell comes of age in Edwardian Cheshire knowing she will be a great writer. Rising above her class (her widowed mother has a grocery shop), Angel finds a publisher and a wide audience for her frothy romances. With royalties, she buys an estate, then she’s smitten by Esme, a rake from local aristocracy and an artist of dark temperament. She hires Esme’s sister Nora, who dotes on her, as a personal assistant, and pursues Esme. Angel is grandly self-centered, coloring her world as if it were one of her novels. When the Great War breaks out and reality begins to trump her will, can Angel hold on to her man and her public?
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The Daughter (2015) Simon Stone, Geoffrey Rush, Anna Torv, Sam Neill, Drama
The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.
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Sirens (1993) John Duigan, Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young reverend and his wife are on the way from England to Australia to minister to their flock. The bishop asks him to visit an eccentric artist prone to sexual depictions and requests that he voluntarily withdraw a controversial work call “Crucified Venus” from his show. The minister, who considers himself a progressive, is shocked at the amoral atmosphere surrounding the painter, his wife, and the three models living at his estate. The minister’s wife is troubled also, and has to deal with latent sexual urges while trying to remain loyal to her husband.
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Event Horizon (1997) Paul W.S. Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Horror, Sci-fi
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship “Event Horizon”. The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the crew of the “Lewis and Clark” discover the real truth behind its disappearance and something even more terrifying.
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