Movies with Ben Kingsley
Without a Clue
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeffrey Jones, Nigel Davenport, Paul Freeman, George Sweeney, Peter Cook
Directors: Thom Eberhardt
Country: UK
Year: 1988
This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here Dr Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. When Watson tries to go it alone, he doesn't have much success, so he is forced to let Holmes take all the credit once more.
The Assignment
Genres: Action, Thriller
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Donald Sutherland, Vlasta Vrana, Aidan Quinn, Mitchell David Rothpan, Liliana Komorowska, Von Flores
Directors: Christian Duguay
Country: Canada
Year: 1997
An American naval officer is recruited by the government to impersonate the most vicious and cold-blooded terrorist there is in order to catch him. But are things really what they seem to be?
Bugsy
Genres: Crime, Drama, Biography
Starring: Richard C. Sarafian, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Annette Bening, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Romano, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi
Directors: Barry Levinson
Country: USA
Year: 1991
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.
Shutter Island
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, John Carroll Lynch, Elias Koteas, Ted Levine, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
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 dang...
Dave
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, Laura Linney, Frank Langella, Anna Deavere Smith, Bonnie Hunt, Ving Rhames
Directors: Ivan Reitman
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Just who runs this country anyway? For comedy fans, the answer is - Dave. Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda, In & Out) and Sigourney Weaver (Working Girl, Ghostbusters) star in this box-office winner about an uncanny Presidential lookalike named Dave, who's recruited by the Secret Service to become a momentary stand-in for the President of the United States. However, things don't turn out exactly as planned and Dave finds himself continuing his masquerade as Chief Executive indefinitely. Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters and 6 Days, 7 Nights) directs and supporting players Frank Langella, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley and Charles Grodin supply more reaso...
The Love Guru
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Romany Malco, Jessica Alba, Meagan Good, Justin Timberlake, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Myers
Directors: Marco Schnabel
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Year: 2008
Born in America, but raised in Havemahkeeta in India, with a population of 76, Maurice had always to better Deepak Chopra, and be sexually active, ever since he was 12. His Guru, Tugginmypudha, while approving of Deepak, cautions Maurice and has a chastity belt put around his waist. Years later, Maurice has established himself as Guru Pitka in America, but would like to appear in the Oprah Show and be better than Deepak Chopra. When Jane Bullard from the the Toronto Maple Leafs hires him to counsel their star hockey player, Darren Roanoke, to win back his wife, Prudence, from Kings' star player, Jacques Grande, and also stand up to his domina...
Sexy Beast
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Ben Kingsley, James Fox, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Cavan Kendall, Ãlvaro Monje, Robert Atiko
Directors: Jonathan Glazer
Country: UK, Spain
Year: 2000
Gal, Deedee, Aitch and Jackie, having left behind respective lives of ill-repute, bask in the sun of Spain and in the most essential brand of leisure. A hazy yarn of barbecues, beer and botched hunting expeditions make up their retirements, until a sudden and unforeseen disruption emerges from their past. Enter the childishly violent and hilariously edgy Don Logan. Through a series of side-splitting negotiations and irrevocable acts, retired crook Gal is forced to shake off the rust and accept one last mission, put forth by the menacing Logan, his ex-mentor. A heist of legendary proportion and personal implications, this job should make for o...
Species
Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger, David Jensen, Natasha Henstridge
Directors: Roger Donaldson
Country: USA
Year: 1995
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In 1974, an organization known as the Search of ExtraTerrestrial Instituion (SETI) has possessed some kind of alien being, thus beginning some kind of top secret experiment to mix human and alien DNA. This is when the scientists created Sil, a female human-alien hybrid. However, approximately 20 years later, she has escaped. Sil is also determined to reproduce, but needs human male sperm to do so. Now, a team of scientists and federal agents must find Sil and stop her from mating with a human male and reproduce.
House of Sand and Fog
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Kim Dickens, Frances Fisher, Jennifer Connelly, Ron Eldard, Navi Rawat, Namrata Singh Gujral
Directors: Vadim Perelman
Country: USA
Year: 2003
An emotionally broken woman, Kathy, suddenly finds herself homeless after her house is wrongly repossessed and auctioned. Seeking respite from his marriage, Lester, a lustful but sympathetic sheriff's deputy comes to the aid of Kathy and becomes intimately involved in her situation. Soon, Behrani, a proud emigrant Iranian and his family move into the house only to find their new lives burdened by harassment from Lester and Kathy as they attempt to reclaim her former home. The once prosperous colonel denies Kathy's pleas for he knows his recent purchase promises a profitable return and a better future for his adolescent son and extravagant wif...
War, Inc.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, George Zlatarev, John Cusack, Hilary Duff
Directors: Joshua Seftel
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man, 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 an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter in check.
Mrs. Harris
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Bill Smitrovich, Frances Fisher, Ellen Burstyn, Annette Bening, Ronald Guttman, Cloris Leachman
Directors: Phyllis Nagy
Country: USA
Year: 2005
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 gu...
A Sound of Thunder
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Corey Johnson, Edward Burns, Armin Rohde, Catherine McCormack, Jemima Rooper, David Oyelowo
Directors: Peter Hyams
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Czech Republic
Year: 2005
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.