Movies Starring Ben Kingsley
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Defy the Future
Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Steve Toussaint, Toby Kebbell, Richard Coyle, Ronald Pickup, Reece Ritchie, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Claudio Pacifico, Thomas DuPont, Dave Pope, Domonkos Pardanyi, Massimilano Ubaldi
DIRECTOR:Set in the mystical lands of Persia, a rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a mysterious princess (Gemma Arterton) race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time — a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
Shutter Island
Someone is missing.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley, Drew Beasley, Leigh Belair, Steve Bocsi, Daniel Burress, Patrick Canty, Ken Cheeseman, Curtiss Cook
DIRECTOR:It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
The Wackness
Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things.
Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jane Adams, Method Man, Aaron Yoo, Talia Balsam, David Wohl, Bob Dishy, Joanna Merlin, Shannon Briggs, Roy Milton Davis, Alexander Flores
DIRECTOR:It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
Elegy
Michelle Harrison, Antonio Cupo, Dennis Hopper, Alessandro Juliani, Ben Kingsley, Ryan McDonell, Shaker Paleja, Kris Pope, Peter Sarsgaard, Sonja Bennett, Patricia Clarkson, Penélope Cruz, Deborah Harry, Chelah Horsdal, Marci T. House
DIRECTOR:Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life — which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" — thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
War, Inc.
When it comes to war...America means business
John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Ned Bellamy, Velizar Binev, Marc Casabani, Ben Cross, Doug Dearth, Itai Diakov, Georgi Gatzov, Nick Harvey, Lyubomir Neikov
DIRECTOR:Joshua Seftel
A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Tomei) in check.
The Love Guru
His Karma is Huge
Boyd Banks, Sachin Bhatt, Omid Djalili, Trevor Heins, Rob Huebel, Dani Jazzar, Suresh John, Ben Kingsley, Romany Malco, Mike Myers, Manu Narayan, John Oliver, Jaan Padda, Ravi Patel, Justin Timberlake
DIRECTOR:Marco Schnabel
Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
The Last Legion
The Roman world is in the throes of death, but a new myth, destined to span the centuries, is waiting to be born.
Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd, John Hannah, Iain Glen, Thomas Sangster, Rupert Friend, Nonso Anozie, Owen Teale, Alexander Siddig, Robert Pugh, James Cosmo, Harry Van Gorkum
DIRECTOR:Doug Lefler
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
You Kill Me
Love is always worth another shot
Mario Ballantyne, Cory Cassidy, Dennis Farina, Philip Baker Hall, Scott Heindl, Aaron Hughes, Brian Kawakami, Ben Kingsley, Devin McCracken, Sean O'Brian, Bill Pullman, Marcus Thomas, Darren Wall, Luke Wilson, Warren Louis Wiltshire
DIRECTOR:A hit-man has made some terrible mistakes and his mob needs to get him back on track.
Lucky Number Slevin
Wrong Time. Wrong Place. Wrong Number.
Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Mykelti Williamson
DIRECTOR:After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi's (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can't go to the police and he can't leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene's Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.
Mrs. Harris
Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley, Cloris Leachman, Lawrence O'Donnell, Frank Whaley, Bill Smitrovich, Frances Fisher, Michael Gross, Ronald Guttman, John Patrick Amedori, Brad McCoy, John Rubinstein, Brett Butler, Lee Garlington, Ellen Burstyn
DIRECTOR:Phyllis Nagy
Fact-based story about Jean Harris (Annette Bening), a woman who was accused of murdering famed Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman (Hi) Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) after being in a relationship with him for 14 years. Depicted as a womanizer, Dr. Tarnower had earlier asked Mrs. Harris, a divorced school teacher, to marry him. But when faced with upcoming nuptials, he backed out. The story depicts Mrs. Harris as a distraught and obsessive woman who may have been suffering from some mental illness and based on a note sent to the doctor, may have been suicidal at the time of the murder. She contended that Dr. Tarnower was shot while the two wrestled with a gun she was going to use to kill herself. Contains profanity and sexual situations, including implied masturbation.
BloodRayne
Revenge never tasted so sweet.
Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Will Sanderson, Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier, Meat Loaf, Michael Paré, Billy Zane, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Darren Shahlavi, Esteban Cueto, Madalina Constantin, Daniela Nane
DIRECTOR:In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a dhampir (half-human, half-vampire), prone to fits of blind blood rage but saddled with a compunction for humans, strives to avenge her mother's rape by her father, Kagan, King of Vampires. Two vampire hunters, Sebastian and Vladimir, from the Brimstone Society persuade her to join their cause.
A Sound of Thunder
Evolve or die.
Edward Burns, Armin Rohde, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper, David Oyelowo, Wilfried Hochholdinger, August Zirner, Corey Johnson, Alvin Van Der Kuech, William Armstrong, Nikita Lespinasse, Stuart Ong, Antonin Hausknecht, Anezka Novak
DIRECTOR:"A Sound of Thunder" is about a game hunter (Burns) who goes on a time-traveling safari owned and operated by Kingsley's character to hunt dinosaurs in the prehistoric era. When he kills a butterfly, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that will erase humanity from existence. A team of experts must return back in time and replace the butterfly. McCormack is the inventor of the time-traveling computer.
House of Sand and Fog
Some dreams can't be shared.
Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher, Kim Dickens, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jonathan Ahdout, Navi Rawat, Carlos Gómez, Kia Jam, Jaleh Modjallal, Samira Damavandi, Matthew Simonian, Al Faris
DIRECTOR:Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter's chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house's former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.
Rules of Engagement
A hero should never have to stand alone.
Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer, Blair Underwood, Philip Baker Hall, Dale Dye, Amidou, Mark Feuerstein, Richard McGonagle, Baoan Coleman, Nicky Katt, Ryan Hurst
DIRECTOR:Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. When he is ordered to go the American Embassy in Yemen, when it's learned that things there are starting to unravel. After evacuating the Ambassador and his family, Childers orders his men to fire at the crowd cause he believes that they are armed. Back in the U.S., certain officials fear that there'll be a backlash against other embassies and Americans, if Childers claim is proven to be true. So they have decided to make Childers a scapegoat. Childers asks Colonel Hayes Hodges, a man whom he knew and saved in Vietnam to defend him. And while there is no evidence or witness that can back Childers' claim, Hodges feels that he owes it to Childers to do what he can.
Sexy Beast
Sometimes It's Hard To Say No
Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, James Fox, Cavan Kendall, Álvaro Monje, Robert Atiko, Enrique Alemán Fabrega, Gérard Barray, José Maria Cano Ramos, Santiago Frias Munoz, José Hernández, Andy Lucas, José Lirola Ramos, José López Carrillo
Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that's exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy?
Species
For three million years, the human race has been at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Nothing lasts forever
Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Natasha Henstridge, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger, Whip Hubley, Michelle Williams
DIRECTOR:In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye. Government agent Xavier Fitch assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries to locate and destroy Sil before she manages to find a mate and breed.
Dave
In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did
Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin, Faith Prince, Laura Linney, Bonnie Hunt, Parley Baer, Stefan Gierasch, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Hallahan
DIRECTOR:President Bill Mitchell is not exactly an ideal President. He looks after those who helped get him into office than the people, and he is a philanderer. One of the ways that he keeps his little dalliances a secret is to hire a lookalike to impersonate him and when he is at a function at a hotel, his double is the one the press and media see leaving the hotel, while he stays behind for his little rendezvous. Now the man whom they have hired is Dave Kovic, a goodhearted man who likes to help people find jobs. Normally after making his little exit that would be that but Mitchell suffers a stroke. Now he is completely incapacitated, and by law the Vice President will assume his duties but Bob Alexander, Mitchell's Chief of Staff who is just as corrupt and ammoral as Mitchell maybe even more, fears that the Vice President who is boy scout, will probably not play ball with him or not keep him around, tells Dave that it's in the country's best interest that the Vice President not take over. So he agrees to continue pretending to be the President. But in reality Alexander is planning to smear the Vice President into resigning thus paving the way for him to be President. But when Dave becomes infatuated with the First Lady, and when Bob acting in Mitchell's place, cuts off funding to one of her projects, she assumes that it was Dave as Mitchell, who did it. And so to make it up to her, he restores the funding, which infuriates Alexander. Which means that Dave and Alexander are headed for a clash.
Schindler's List
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Malgoscha Gebel, Shmuel Levy, Mark Ivanir, Béatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Harry Nehring, Norbert Weisser
DIRECTOR:"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.
Bugsy
Glamour Was The Disguise.
Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Richard C. Sarafian, Bebe Neuwirth, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Wendy Phillips, Stefanie Mason, Kimberly McCullough, Andy Romano, Robert Beltran, Bill Graham
DIRECTOR:New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Lenin: The Train
Ben Kingsley, Leslie Caron, Dominique Sanda, Timothy West, Peter Whitman, Xabier Elorriaga, Jason Connery, Paolo Bonacelli, Mattia Sbragia, Robin Lermitte, Günther Maria Halmer, Dagmar Schwarz, Jeannine Mestre, Hans Kraemer, Michael Aichhorn
DIRECTOR:March/April 1917. the first world war is already a couple year old. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zurich through Germany and Sweden to Saint-Petersburg. The bolsheviks on the train are lead by Vladimir J. Lenin (Kingsley). There are some unpleasant collisions taking place between enthusiastic Socialists and workers concerned about the war. During the train travel time Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa comes to an end, and his Nadja is prepared to take him back. The triumphant arrival in Saint-Petersburg exceeds all expectations.
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