Movies starring Ian Holm
In 2001, only a few months after the fall of the World Trade Center, Peter Jackson swept us away to Middle Earth with The Fellowship of the Ring. It was a wondrous three-hour achievement: the first major attempt at serious, big budget epic fantasy....
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Martin Freeman, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lee, ...
In the pantheon of fantasy writers, no diety is treated with greater reverence than J.R.R. Tolkien, who is regarded by most readers as the Father of Modern Fantasy. During the past three decades, the fantasy area in bookstores has expanded from a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan, ...
If the score of Immortal Beloved is remarkable, that of The Madness of King George is no less so. With the clear strains of Handel's "Water Music" and "Zadok the Priest" in the background, The Madness of King George ascends to a level that it migh...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-01-13
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, ...
"In the last 20, 30 years, [Frankenstein has] been claimed by a whole generation of academics and scholars as a seminal piece of literature of that time. [It's] something which now, post-Freud, they feel reveals so many observations about family l...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-11-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/HORROR
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, ...
Into the calm before the box-office storm of The Lost World rises Night Falls on Manhattan, Sidney Lumet's triumphant return to worthwhile movie-making. The director of such memorable films as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network has been in a ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-05-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Andy Garcia, Ian Holm, Richard Dreyfuss, ...
Brad Bird may be one of the few animated filmmakers working today who understands what the concept of a "family film" means. It's something that offers material to viewers of all ages and doesn't lose one group by catering too strongly to another....
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-29
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: (voices) Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, ...
Renaissance is the latest in a growing range of screen titles with a graphic novel sensibility. Coming in the wake of Sin City, Renaissance treads through similar territory, but with a striking difference: director Christian Volckman uses rotoscop...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-09-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ANIMATED/SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Christian Volckman
Cast: (voices) Daniel Craig, Catherine McCormack, Romola Garai, ...
The Sweet Hereafter is film maker Atom Egoyan's most compelling movie to date. Amplifying many of the themes explored in his previous outing, Exotica, the Canadian director/writer/producer shows the powerful effects of grief and anger on a com...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, ...
Ever wondered what Dorothy's trip along the Yellow Brick Road might have been like if, instead of traveling with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, she had been accompanied by H.G. Welles, Roald Dahl, and Monty Python? Or how C.S. ...
U.S. Release Date: 1981-11-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/COMEDY
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Craig Warnock, David Rappaport, Kenny Baker, ...