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Released 2000 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story The TV series and possibly the first film Writer/s Script Robert Towne Writer/s Story Ronald D Moore, Brannon Braga Director John Woo Starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, Joln Polson, Brendan Gleeson Elevator Pitch Ethan’s team is hired to recover a deadly … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story Real events in the 1990s and a series of magazine articles by Pete Collins Writer/s Script Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Director Michael Bay Starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris, Rob Corddry, Rebel Wilson, Ken Jeong Elevator Pitch A bunch of mentally challenged … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An origingal screenplay Writer/s script Chad Law, Evan Law Director William Kaufman Starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Cole Hauser, Jonathan LaPaglia, Ginny Weirick Elevator Pitch A man is passed over for promotion, which he was relying on to allow him to pay a major gambling debt and getting … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screen play Writer/s script Joe Ahern, John Hodge Writer/s story Joe Ahern (Who made a TV film of it in 2001) Director Danny Boyle Starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassell, Danny Sapani, Matt Cross Elevator Pitch A young fine art auctioneer with gambling debts … Continue reading
Released 2007 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story Novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane Writer/s script Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard Director Ben Affleck Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, Elevator Pitch A couple of young private detectives in Boston are hired to find a … Continue reading
Released 2016 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script Taylor Sheridan Director David Mackenzie Starring Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham Elevator Pitch When oil is discovered on a ranch effectively owned by a bank because their mother, now dead, has taken out a reverse mortgage, two brothers decide … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story A book by Stieg Larsson (One of the Millenium trilogy) and a Swedish film from 2009. Writer/s script Steven Zaillian Director David Fincher Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Chrsitopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Geraldine James, Donald Sumpter Elevator Pitch A tattooed and … Continue reading
Released 1993 Rating 18 in UK Director Phillip Noyce Writer/s Joe Eszterhas Starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Martin Landau Source of story Novel of the same name by Ira Levin Elevator Pitch A youngish book editor moves into an apartment in the Sliver, which has previously been occupied by a woman … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating 15 in UK Director Atom Egoyan Writer/s Atom Egoyan, David Fraser Starring Kevin Durand, Rosario Dawson, Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch The child of a landscape gardener is abducted while he goes to a diner to buy something and over a further nine years he … Continue reading
Released 2016 Rating 15 in UK Director Tom Ford Writer/s Tom Ford Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor- Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Michael Sheen Source of story A book “Tony and Susan” by Austin Wright (died 2003) Elevator Pitch A rich LA gallery owner, whose husband is cheating on … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating 15 in UK Director Erik Van Looy Writer/s Wesley Strick Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Matthias Schoenaerts, isabel Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rhona Mitra Source of story Based on a 2008 film written by Bart De Pauw Elevator Pitch Five men in raincoats stand round a bed on which … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating 18 in UK Director Eli Roth Writer/s Eli Roth, Nicolas Lopez Starring Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas Source of story A remake of “Death Game” from 1977. Elevator Pitch Two young women turn up at the door of a luxury house, inhabited by an architect whose wife and children are … Continue reading
Released 2006 Rating 15 in UK Director Tom Tykwer Writer/s Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger, Tom Tykwer Starring Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alan Rickman, John Hurt (Narrator) Source of story A book by Patrick Süskind Elevator Pitch A young man, raised in the grimy underbelly of 18th century Paris, is driven by his heightened … Continue reading
Released 1999 Rating 15 in UK Director Clint Eastwood Writer/s Larry Gross, Paul Brickman, Stephen Schiff Starring Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, James Woods, Bernard Hill Source of story A novel by Andrew Klavan Elevator Pitch A veteran reporter who is screwing his immediate boss’s wife, is given the job of covering an execution which is … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating 12A in UK Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Writer/s Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie, Julian Fellows Starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A woman who is under surveilance, selects a man at random on a train to be a decoy, … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating 12A in UK Director Simon West Writer/s David Guggenheim Starring Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Malin Akerman, Danny Huston Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch Eight years after a failed bank robbery a criminal gets out of jail, only to find himself having to pursue his former partner, who had has … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 12A in UK Director Guy Richie Writer/s Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney Starring Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly, Geraldine James, Eddie Marsan Source of story Characters created by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle and a previous outing for this lot in 2009. Elevator Pitch Prof … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating 18 in UK Director David Fincher Writer/s Gillian Flynn Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris Source of story Book of the same name by Gillian Flynn Elevator Pitch When his wife disappears the husband finds himself the subject of media attention, in the end becoming a suspect in the possible … Continue reading
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