With Illuminations Films (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy
Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Natthakarn Aphaiwonk
Votes: 12,259 | Gross: $0.18M
2. Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Toby Jones, Antonio Mancino, Guido Adorni, Susanna Cappellaro
Votes: 13,425
3. Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy
A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Petcharat Chaiburi
Votes: 3,803 | Gross: $0.05M
4. Memoria (II) (2020)
Drama | Post-production
The main character of the film is a woman from Scotland, who, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego
5. Syndromes and a Century (2006)
105 min | Drama
Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents who were both doctors, and director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Nantarat Sawaddikul, Jaruchai Iamaram, Sophon Pukanok, Jenjira Pongpas
Votes: 3,524 | Gross: $0.02M
6. Arena (1975– )
Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Paul McCartney
Votes: 157
7. Identicals (2015)
R | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
None Of Us Are As Unique As We Think. Brand New-U is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare.
Director: Simon Pummell | Stars: Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood, Tony Way, Robert Wilfort
Votes: 2,585
8. Mekong Hotel (2012)
61 min | Drama
Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a film-maker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampiric mother and daughter.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Votes: 552 | Gross: $0.00M
9. Innocence of Memories (2015)
97 min | Documentary, Drama
Base on a novel of the Nobel Prize writer Orhan Pamuk 'The Museum of Innocence'. Set in Istanbul during 1975 to 1984, a story of a man who collects various objects of a woman as memory during their love period.
Director: Grant Gee | Stars: Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen, Ara Güler, Süleyman Fidaye
Votes: 280
10. A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
17 min | Short
A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Kumgieng Jittamaat, Miti Jittamaat, Phetmongkol Chantawong, Nuttapon Kemthong
Votes: 421
11. Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Using the late WG Sebald's book "The Rings of Saturn" as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author's account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.
Director: Grant Gee | Star: Jonathan Pryce
Votes: 259
12. Dance of the Wind (1997)
85 min | Drama, Music
The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi (Kitu Gidwani) is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able ... See full summary »
Director: Rajan Khosa | Stars: Ami Arora, Roshan Bano, Kitu Gidwani, Bhaveen Gosain
Votes: 118
13. Content (2010 TV Movie)
76 min | Documentary
Between a deceased father and a young boy, Chris Petit wonders and wanders through concepts of the past and self-identity.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Hanns Zischler, Matthew Evans, Lun-Xue Mai, Laurin Berresheim
Votes: 47
14. London Orbital (2002)
77 min | Documentary
A filmmaker sets out to make a voyage of discovery on London's orbital motorway, the M25. He enlists the help of several others to film the motorway from several points, drive endlessly ... See full summary »
Directors: Christopher Petit, Iain Sinclair | Star: J.G. Ballard
Votes: 55
15. Unrequited Love (2006)
77 min | Documentary
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Gregory Dart, Rebecca E Marshall, Vibeche Standal
Votes: 29
16. Shock Head Soul (2011)
86 min | Documentary, Biography
In 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber published the most celebrated autobiography of madness 'from the inside' ever written. Shock Head Soul interleaves documentary interviews, fictional ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Pummell | Stars: Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pheifer, Thom Hoffman, Jochum ten Haaf
Votes: 72
17. Signal to Noise (2002)
15 min | Short, Fantasy
Director: Dave McKean | Stars: Thusitha Jayasundera, Heathcote Williams
18. The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000)
80 min | Documentary
A woman is recalled to Britain from the Arctic, where she has spent twenty years working with people who build their houses from snow, and given the task of investigating 'the predicament ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Tilda Swinton
Votes: 19
22.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Burroughs
(1983)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary
Documentary on the life of William S. Burroughs.
Director: Howard Brookner | Stars: William S. Burroughs Jr., Mortimer Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Jackie Curtis
Votes: 128
23.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Robert Mapplethorpe
(1988)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Nigel Finch | Star: Robert Mapplethorpe
Votes: 15
24.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
From an Immigrant's Notebook
(1985)
70 min | Documentary
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Colin Firth
25.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow - Part 1
(1998)
140 min | Documentary
Director: Anthony Wall | Stars: Bryan Barrett, Lionel Bart, Peter H. Brown, Brian Epstein
Votes: 40
26.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Salvador Dali
(1986)
75 min | Documentary
Documentary showcasing the life and works of surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Director: Adam Low
Votes: 59
27.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano
(1983)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and mostly before the camera.
Stars: Bette Davis, Ian Holm, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Anne Baxter
Votes: 436
28.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Confessions of Robert Crumb
(1987)
55 min | Documentary
In 1987, Robert Crumb presents himself: raised by a Marine father, educated in Catholic schools, married at 21 in Cleveland where he worked for a greeting card company, dropping acid in ... See full summary »
Stars: Robert Armstrong, Robert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, Carol Engberg
Votes: 187
29.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Buddy Holly
(1985)
Documentary
Director: Richard Spence | Stars: Sonny Curtis, Paul McCartney, Larry Holley, Travis Holley
Votes: 74
30.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Drake's Progress
(2001)
60 min | Documentary
Veteran entertainer Charlie Drake looks back over his life and career.
Director: Mary Dickinson | Stars: Charlie Drake, Christopher Drake, Ted Drake, Henry McGee
31.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Harold Pinter Part 1: The Room
(2002)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Keith Allen, Alan Bates, Michael Billington, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 11
32.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Oooh Er, Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story, or Please Yourselves
(1990)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Helen Gallacher | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Max Bygraves, Vera Roper, Ned Sherrin
Votes: 6
33.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Alec Guinness: A Secret Man
(2003)
90 min | Documentary
Arena documentary chronicles the life and work of one of Britain's greatest actors.
Director: David Thompson | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Frith Banbury, Sam Beazley, Simon Callow
Votes: 16
34.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Pavarotti: The Last Tenor
(2004)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Ian McKellen, Roberto Alagna, Andrea Bocelli, Bono
Votes: 30
35.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part One
(2001)
55 min | Documentary
The first part of a televisual life of the film actor who died in 1999, drawing on new video footage from the archive of Bogarde's long-term partner and manager Anthony Forwood.
Director: Adam Low | Stars: Nicholas Shakespeare, Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, John Coldstream
Votes: 25
36.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Chelsea Hotel
(1981)
56 min | Documentary
BBC documentary that catches scenes in the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
Director: Nigel Finch | Stars: Stanley Bard, Joe Bidewell, Jobriath Boone, William S. Burroughs
Votes: 27
37.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
A Pretty British Affair
(1981)
Documentary
Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual partnership. Includes clips from many of their films.
Directors: Charles Chabot, Gavin Millar | Stars: Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Gavin Millar
Votes: 26
39.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Arena Animal Night: Sacred Elephant
(1990)
Documentary
Star: Heathcote Williams
40.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows - Part 2
(1998)
Documentary
Stars: Brian Epstein, Marianne Faithfull, Jude Law, George Martin
Votes: 12
41.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Francis Bacon's Arena
(2005)
96 min | Documentary
Director: Adam Low | Stars: Francis Bacon, Peter Beard, Paul Danquah, Daniel Farson
Votes: 18
42.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Numbers
(1990)
Documentary
Director: Fisher Dilke | Star: Gregory Chaitin
43.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Painting the Clouds: A Portrait of Dennis Potter
(2004)
Documentary
Stars: Jonathan Cecil, Judy Daish, Kika Markham, Alasdair Milne
44.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Roberto Rossellini
(1990)
Documentary
Stars: Lindsay Anderson, Carlo Lizzani, Gil Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini
45.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Animal Night Debate
(1990)
Documentary
Stars: Germaine Greer, Donald MacCormick, Tom Regan, Mary Warnock
46.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
(2000)
Documentary
Stars: David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Spike Lee, Alan Parker
47.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Stand by Your Dream: The Tammy Wynette Story
(1987)
Documentary
Stars: Tammy Wynette, George Richey, Charlotte Savitz, Jill Evans
48.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Radio Night
(1993)
Documentary
Directors: Steve Bendelack, Christopher Bruce, Gerry Pomeroy, John Silver | Stars: Peter Cook, Josie Lawrence, Frank Muir, Denis Norden
49.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
(2003)
120 min | Documentary
Director: Adam Low | Stars: David Attenborough, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Ben Kingsley
50.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti
(2003)
Documentary
Director: Adam Low | Stars: Helmut Berger, Dirk Bogarde, Maria Callas, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 6