A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director:
David Fincher
Stars:
Jesse Eisenberg,
Andrew Garfield,
Justin Timberlake
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Director:
Tom Hooper
Stars:
Colin Firth,
Geoffrey Rush,
Helena Bonham Carter
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director:
James Cameron
Stars:
Sam Worthington,
Zoe Saldana,
Sigourney Weaver
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
Director:
David O. Russell
Stars:
Bradley Cooper,
Jennifer Lawrence,
Robert De Niro
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.Written by
Studio Canal
This movie was first released in cinemas predominantly in both 2014 and 2015, with the latter year featuring a number of other spy, espionage, intelligence, and secret agent movies, a couple of them also comedies. The movies include: Spy (2015), a Bond spoof, Spectre (2015), Sicario (2015), an FBI film, which has a title that is almost an anagram of Ian Fleming's "Risico" (1960), a James Bond short-story barring the letter "A", Survivor (2015), Black Mass (2015), another FBI film, Mortdecai (2015), which has an MI5 agent lead character, Queen of the Desert (2015), whose central character was a WWI attaché to the British Secret Service, the Bondian Furious 7 (2015), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), a Cold War espionage thriller, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), in which Ian Fleming was an original co-creator of, MI-5 (2015), and even Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), a Bondesque homage which was a 2014 film but was mostly widely theatrically released in 2015 and also featured Mark Strong. Also in theaters in 2015 from 2014 was The November Man (2014) and this film. First released in 2014 were 3 Days to Kill (2014) and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), which also starred Keira Knightley. See more »
Goofs
While the group is trying to decipher the daily Enigma code, the wall clock strikes midnight setting off an alarm. In frustration, Hugh throws all of the days work to the floor because the German military change the Enigma code daily at midnight rendering the work useless. Although Berlin is 1 hour ahead of London, in Secrets of Britain: Secrets of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bletchley Park historian Dr Joel Greenberg states that midnight for the code change was Greenwich Mean Time. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Alan Turing:
Are you paying attention? Good. If you're not listening carefully you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. If you think that because you're sitting where you are and I am sitting where I am that you are in control of what is about to happen, you 're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know.
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A movie which oozes Britishness from every frame, The Imitation Game is an instant classic. Wartime Britain is depicted vividly, if a little caricatured, with an autumnal palette and a jaunty air.
A true story, sympathetically told, with good performances all round and a stand-out Turing from the indefatigable Mr Cumberbatch. The young Turing is also extremely well realised by Alex Lawther.
Meandering through Alan Turing's life since school until shortly before his death, the script demands your attention and regularly makes you smile.
Highly recommended.
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A movie which oozes Britishness from every frame, The Imitation Game is an instant classic. Wartime Britain is depicted vividly, if a little caricatured, with an autumnal palette and a jaunty air.
A true story, sympathetically told, with good performances all round and a stand-out Turing from the indefatigable Mr Cumberbatch. The young Turing is also extremely well realised by Alex Lawther.
Meandering through Alan Turing's life since school until shortly before his death, the script demands your attention and regularly makes you smile.
Highly recommended.