Ian Murray McKellen, better known as Ian McKellen, is an British. He has won an Golden Globes Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) and an Independent Spirit Awards . He's known for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
Sauron's forces have laid siege to Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, in their efforts to eliminate the race of men. The once-great kingdom, watched over by a fading steward, has never been in more desperate need of its king. Bu...
Macbeth is a daring member of the Scottish military who receives a revelation from three menacing sorceresses that he will someday become the King of Scotland.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers begins in the hills of Emyn Muil, where lost Hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Astin) discover they are being followed by the mysterious Gollum (Serkis). A mercurial creature who has himsel...
"One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them. One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." In this part of the trilogy, the young Hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits a ring; but this ring is no mere trinket....
Based on Christopher Bram's novel FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN, Bill Condon's semi-fictional 1998 sleeper stars Sir Ian McKellen in a fantastic performance as director James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, SHOW BOAT). It is ...
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: ...
Sean Mathias directed this screen adaptation of Martin Sherman's award-winning play about the persecution of homosexuals by Nazis during World War II. In Germany, the Nazi party's program of genocide against any and all perceived ...
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce.
The profound life story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil disobedience rocked the establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed tyrants in the fight for equality.
At the White House, a would-be assassin menaces the president. Meanwhile, Wolverine searches for answers to his mysterious past. Back at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Professor Xavier pays a visit to the imprisoned Magnet...
In 1930s England, Flora, a sophisticated young woman suddenly left penniless, seeks refuge with her eccentric relatives at the extremely shabby Cold Comfort Farm. Her presence disturbs and ultimately reinvigorates the torpid house...
This is the story of the first years of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and focuses on three key elements. Dr. Don Francis, an immunologist with experience in eradicating smallpox and containing the Ebola virus, joins the C...
Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Manhattan's upper crust. The Kittredges are entertaining friends one eveni...
After encountering dangers and obstacles in Mirkwood Forest, Thorin and Company have reached Lake-town and it is time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the dwarves. The party must complete the journey to Lo...
A year before he played his first Quidditch match as Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe cast his spell on audiences as young David Copperfield in this stellar British miniseries based on Charles Dickens's classic novel. Vastly superio...
Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is sure to cause trouble in their mundane lives.
Jack (Richard E. Grant) and Sarah (Imogen Stubbs) are expecting a baby together, but a complication during the birth leads to the death of Sarah. Jack, grief stricken, goes on an alcoholic bender, leaving his daughter to be taken ...
Based on the long-running Marvel comic book series, X-MEN takes place in the near future, as certain humans are evolving into mutants with special powers. In the Canadian wilderness, a young runaway mutant named Rogue (Anna Paquin...
This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part indu...
Belle (Emma Watson) lives in a small town in France with her loving father, Maurice (Kevin Kline). He leaves on a trip to the market and when his horse comes back without him, Belle goes looking for him. The horse leads her to an ...
Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug. Bilbo is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, w...
In X-Men: The Last Stand, the final chapter in the X-Men motion picture trilogy, a "cure" for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates...
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitim...
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart), a well-educated psychiatrist, leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father (Nick Nolte), a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position,...
The story picks up with the detective at age 93, long-ago retired to the rural area of Sussex, where he is haunted by an unresolved case from a half-century ago. His partner, Dr. Watson, is no longer with him. And his mental acuit...
In a touring Shakespearean theatre company, backstage hand Norman is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company, Sir. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company works to carry on during the Lond...
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in ...
When we last left Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and Thorin's (Richard Armitage) company, they had just retaken Erebor from the dragon Smaug, but at a terrible cost as the dragon headed towards Laketown to take his revenge. While Bard (Lu...
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his positio...
The year is 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, and devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a trou...
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conserv...
Based upon the Stephen King novella of the same name, it's the story of a high school boy's fascination with the Nazi occupation of Europe and the atrocities they committed during World War II. He begins to believe his quiet neigh...
Based on Patrick McGrath's celebrated novel of erotic obsession, "Asylum" was adapted for the screen by award-winning writer Patrick Marber (Closer) and Chrysanthy Balis.
Pip is a street kid who's meeting life head-on in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday receives a tape cassette of his grandfather (voiced by Ian McKellen) retelling his experiences as an Allied soldier in Germany during World...
Given the opportunity to travel to Canada to collect an honorary degree, Emile (McKellen) makes contact with the remaining members of his estranged family. A tragic past and guilty secrets are exposed as he attempts to build a fut...
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.
Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no matter who is hurt, or how.
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a c...
TV Series (6 episodes). An update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s about a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "the Village". The Prisoner miniseries is a reinterpretation of ...
Young Danny spends all his time watching action movies in a rundown theatre. His aging projectionist friend Nick invites Danny to a special preview screening of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new action movie ‘Jack Slater IV’ and g...
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive productio...
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud ...
Based on author Philip Pullman's bestselling and award-winning novel, The Golden Compass tells the first story in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure, set in an alternative wor...
Nazis are sent to guard an old, mysterious fortress in a Romanian pass. One of them mistakenly releases an unknown force trapped within the walls. A mysterious stranger senses this from his home in Greece and travels to the keep t...
A murder in the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Ron Howard and Akiv...
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles who must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life... The London stage production ran for 21 years, while the Broadway stage production ran...
Great West End Theatres is a documentary series of its kind to document all 40 of London's theatres, such as Her Majesty’s, Noël Coward, Palace, Piccadilly, St. Martin’s, The Ambassadors, The Prince Of Wales, Theatre Royal Dr...
King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Including in the "Great Performances" Series, this television production includes the same cast and director as the 2007/8 Royal Shakespea...
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in German...
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short t...
TV Series (1972-1973). 2 Seasons, 13 Episodes. Country Matters portrays several romance stories, set in rural England just after the first World War. Each episode provides accurate and fascinating costume and set design to illustr...
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading ...
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