Movies starring Ben Kingsley
The Boxtrolls represents the best animated movie to reach theater screens since The Lego Movie exploded on the scene in February. A British-flavored, 3-D stop motion affair, The Boxtrolls channels more than a little Monty Python in telling its Tarz...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-09-26
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi
Cast: (voices) Ben Kingsley, Dee Bradley Baker, Simon Pegg, ...
One of the cleverest moments in Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator comes during the first five seconds: a memorial dedication to Kim Jong Il. It's all downhill from there. To be fair, the movie's relentlessly un-PC humor results in some hilarious seq...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas, ...
Elegy, based on Philip Roth's The Dying Animal, provides an incisive perspective of how a person's inability to believe in love destroys a single, fragile chance at happiness. The movie tells the poignant tale of how one man - intelligent, urbane,...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-08-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Isabel Coixet
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, ...
Ender's Game, long a staple of science fiction readers, has had a strange, winding trip to the silver screen. For many years, Orson Scott Card refused to sell the rights to the book, wanting to maintain control over the final product. This iteratio...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-11-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, ...
Exodus represents Ridley Scott's attempt to emulate Cecil B. DeMille. Comparisons with The Ten Commandments are both unavoidable and appropriate. Considering the mixed critical reaction to the 1956 spectacle, it is perhaps surprising that Exodus co...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-12-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disaster Sequences)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Christian Bale, Tara Fitzgerald, John Turturro, ...
To a younger generation, Richard Attenborough may be best known for his portrayal of John Hammond in Jurassic Park and its firsts equel. And, although a majority of Attenborough’s career was as an actor, he caught the directing bug in the 196...
U.S. Release Date: 1982-12-08
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangady, Roshan Seth, ...
What happens when the so-called American Dream - a life of financial independence and home ownership - turns into the American Nightmare? For some, a house is just a place to stop and rest at night. For others, it's an investment - a means to bui...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Vadim Perelman
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Ron Eldard, ...
With Hugo, Martin Scorsese has accomplished what few in Hollywood are willing to try: make a movie for adults that arrives without sex, violence, or profanity and earns a PG-rating. It's a fairy tale for mature viewers, but the airy exterior hides ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-23
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, ...
In the wake of the massive and massively successful The Avengers, Iron Man 3 wisely doesn't attempt to outdo its immediate superhero predecessor when it comes to big-time action, pyrotechnics, and special effects. Instead, it opts for something a l...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Shane Black
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, ...
The process of transforming beloved animated classics into live-action versions has become a modern cottage industry. This self-cannibalization has included titles like Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and now The Jungle Book (with Beauty and...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-04-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Neel Sethi, Ben Kingsley, Baloo, ...