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Film4 is a free
Free-to-air

Free-to-air television and radio broadcasts are sent Encryption and may be received via any suitable receiver:Free-to-view is, generally, available without subscription but is digitally encrypted and may be restricted geographically....
 digital television channel
Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier wave frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz for analog audio , or 55.31 MHz for digi...
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
, owned and operated by Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
, that screens film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s.

Prior to 20 August 2007, in addition to the main channel, Film4 also operated a one-hour-timeshifted variant, Film4+1, on satellite, cable and Freeview. This channel was dropped on Freeview to make way for Channel 4+1 yet continues to be broadcast on Sky, Virgin and Freesat services. Tiscali TV
Tiscali TV

Tiscali TV is a United Kingdom-based consumer Television in the United Kingdom and video on demand service, operated by the European telephony company, Tiscali....
 offers the non time-shifted channel along with a Video on demand
Video on demand

Video on demand or audio video on demand systems allow users to select and watch/listen to video or Sound recording and reproduction content on demand....
 service, Film4 on Demand.

Programming
Film4 broadcasts from 1:00 pm to about 8:45 am.






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Film4 is a free
Free-to-air

Free-to-air television and radio broadcasts are sent Encryption and may be received via any suitable receiver:Free-to-view is, generally, available without subscription but is digitally encrypted and may be restricted geographically....
 digital television channel
Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier wave frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz for analog audio , or 55.31 MHz for digi...
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
, owned and operated by Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
, that screens film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s.

Prior to 20 August 2007, in addition to the main channel, Film4 also operated a one-hour-timeshifted variant, Film4+1, on satellite, cable and Freeview. This channel was dropped on Freeview to make way for Channel 4+1 yet continues to be broadcast on Sky, Virgin and Freesat services. Tiscali TV
Tiscali TV

Tiscali TV is a United Kingdom-based consumer Television in the United Kingdom and video on demand service, operated by the European telephony company, Tiscali....
 offers the non time-shifted channel along with a Video on demand
Video on demand

Video on demand or audio video on demand systems allow users to select and watch/listen to video or Sound recording and reproduction content on demand....
 service, Film4 on Demand.

Programming


Film4 broadcasts from 1:00 pm to about 8:45 am. Unlike its rivals, Film4 does not focus on broadcasting blockbusters
Blockbuster (entertainment)

Blockbuster, as applied to film or theater, denotes a very popular and/or successful production. The term was originally derived from theater slang referring to a particularly successful Play but is now used primarily by the film industry....
. Instead, it aims for a more niche and highbrow market by showing a mixture of old and new independent
Independent film

An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, a series of oligopolistic practices by several major film studios which controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films in the United States from the early 1920s through 1950s....
, arthouse
Art film

An art film is typically a serious, noncommercial, independent film film or a foreign language film that may have these qualities, but may have been made by a major company in its home territory and achieved popular success....
, British
Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a profound impact on modern cinema and has one the most respected film industries in the world. Despite a history of successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity and the influences of Cinema of the United States and European cinema, although it is fair to say a brief 'gol...
, foreign language
World cinema

World cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the films and film industry of non-English speaking countries....
 and specialist cinema, along with some critically-acclaimed Hollywood films. The channel frequently has themed nights or seasons in which a number of films centred around one genre, director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 or actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 are shown. As Channel 4 also owns a film production company, Film4 Productions
Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions is a United Kingdom film production company owned by Channel 4. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom....
, it shows many of its products.Then the channel expanded its hours to 1pm - 3am an extra 2 hours.In 2008 it expanded its hours to 1pm - 8.45am an extra 6 hours 45 mins.

Occasional non-film (but film-related) programmes are also shown.

Wherever possible, films are shown unedited and in widescreen, and many films appear in their correct aspect ratio
Aspect ratio

The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements, such as the length and diameter of a rod....
. No digital on-screen graphic
Digital on-screen graphic

A digital on-screen graphic is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programs to identify the channel....
s are superimposed.

History

Film4 was originally known as FilmFour and became Channel 4's second channel (after Channel 4 itself) when it launched on 1 November 1998. It was a subscription-only service available on satellite television
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
 via the Sky Digital
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)

Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and satellite radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at Astra 28.2?E and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5?E....
 platform, Digital terrestrial via ITV Digital
ITV Digital

ITV Digital was a British digital terrestrial television Broadcasting, which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network as ONdigital in 1998 and briefly re-branded as ITV Digital in July 2001, before the service ceased in May 2002....
 (until the platform went into administration in 2002), and most UK cable services. It cost £5.99 or £6.00 a month (depending on platform), eventually rising to up to £7. The launch night, which was also broadcast on Channel 4, was hosted by Johnny Vaughan
Johnny Vaughan

Johnny Vaughan is an England broadcaster and journalist. Vaughan has become well-known as a television and radio personality and has also built a reputation as a Film criticism....
 and the first film to be shown was What's Eating Gilbert Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 in film drama film directed by Lasse Hallstr?m and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio....
.

Later, additional channels were added, FilmFour World and FilmFour Extreme which operated on a timeshare and the time-shift channel FilmFour +1. FilmFour World and Extreme were discontinued in 2003 and replaced by FilmFour Weekly, which screened four films across the week at the same time each day to make it easier to catch a film at least once . FilmFour Weekly ceased broadcasting on 19 July 2006 when the subscription service ended.

The subscription service ended on 19 July 2006 and the channel re-launched (under the slightly modified name of Film4) as a free-to-air
Free-to-air

Free-to-air television and radio broadcasts are sent Encryption and may be received via any suitable receiver:Free-to-view is, generally, available without subscription but is digitally encrypted and may be restricted geographically....
 service a few days later on 23 July. When the channel became free, it also returned to digital terrestrial as part of the Freeview brand, and became completely free-to-air on satellite television. Due to the change, the channel's availability increased from 300,000 (subscribers) to 18 million households. It also changed its broadcasting hours to 1.00pm-8.45am, and commercial breaks were included during films for the first time. The first film broadcast under the new format was the British non-subscription television premiere of Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation (film)

Lost in Translation is a 2003 in film comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was the second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides ....
. It remains the only free film channel available on digital terrestrial television.

Relaunch advertising campaign

To alert the public to it going free-to-air, Film4 launched a massive campaign directed by Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey is an American character actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television....
 featuring major celebrities advertising Film4 in odd ways. The slogan of the campaign was "FILMS FOR FREE". Examples include:

  • Judi Dench
    Judi Dench

    Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
     in a lobster costume, operatically singing the words "Film Four!"
  • Lucy Liu
    Lucy Liu

    Lucy Alexis Liu is an Taiwanese American actress. She became known for her role in the television program#seasons/series Ally McBeal and has also appeared in several notable film roles, including Chicago , Kill Bill, and Charlie's Angels ....
     in a banner plane, insulting Ray Winstone
    Ray Winstone

    Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning English people film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum , and is also known as a voice over actor....
     and Christian Slater
    Christian Slater

    Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an United States actor who has starred in films such as Heathers, Kuffs, True Romance and He Was a Quiet Man....
     who have incorrectly erected a 'Film4 is free' sign, whilst her own banner is displayed upside-down.
  • Ewan McGregor
    Ewan McGregor

    Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish people actor, singer, and adventurer who has had success in mainstream, independent film and Art film films....
     in a tomato costume, talking to Judi Dench
    Judi Dench

    Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
     about whether he is a fruit or a vegetable.
  • Gael Garcia Bernal
    Gael García Bernal

    Gael Garc?a Bernal is a Mexico actor and film director....
     putting leaflets, advertising Film4, onto cars and setting off their alarms. To which he then throws the remaining leaflets in the air.
  • Willem Dafoe
    Willem Dafoe

    William J. "Willem" Dafoe is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States film and theatre actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group....
     saying to one of the advertising campaigners (played by Mackenzie Crook
    Mackenzie Crook

    Paul Mackenzie Crook is an English actor, comedian, and environmentalist, best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office and Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films films....
    ), "First day? It'll get better."
  • Rhys Ifans
    Rhys Ifans

    Rhys Ifans in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a Wales actor....
     advertising the channel door-to-door, but often having a door slammed in his face.


Film4's rival, Sky Movies
Sky Movies

Sky Movies is the collective name for the United Kingdom premium subscription television film channels operated by Sky Television plc, and later British Sky Broadcasting....
, has countered this with a new advertisement. Sky's advert shows a shot of a tomato and a lobster sitting next to a small sign with the words "FILMS AD FREE" appearing on it, a sly play on the words of Film4's own slogan. The ad then shows clips from films starring the above celebrities, all of which are available on Sky Movies. Unlike Film4, Sky Movies does not broadcast adverts during films (although it does show adverts between films). However, Sky Movies can only be viewed as part of a subscription package with a minimum cost of £34 per month. Sky Movies had also been advertising its World Cinema strand, which competes with Film4's speciality of independent and foreign films.

Film4 seasons


Studio Ghibli

This season showed the best of Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki

is a prominent filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company....
's Japanese anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 studio Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli

is a Japanese animation film studio, and previously was a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten.The company's logo features the character Totoro from the film My Neighbor Totoro....
 . The films were introduced by Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye

Paul Kaye is an England comedian and actor. He achieved notoriety in 1995 portraying the character of Dennis Pennis, a shock interviewer on The Sunday Show....
.

  • Castle of Cagliostro
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
    Kiki's Delivery Service

    is a 1989 anime fantasy film produced, written, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and the fifth Studio Ghibli anime. It was the fourth theatrically released film from the studio, and was also the second feature film that Miyazaki directed but did not originally write himself....
  • Princess Mononoke
    Princess Mononoke

    is a 1997 in film anime historical fantasy feature film Screenwriter and Film director by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. It was first released in Japan on July 12, 1997 and in the United States on October 29, 1999 in select cities and on November 26, 1999 in Canada....
  • Laputa: Castle In The Sky
    Castle in the Sky

    is a film written and film director by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1986. It is the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli, although is considered the second by some since Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind was created by the founding members two years before....
  • My Neighbour Totoro
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    is a 1984 in film Cinema of Japan anime film, written and film director by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind . The movie has environmentalism undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984....
  • Porco Rosso
    Porco Rosso

    Porco Rosso, known in Japan as is the sixth anime film by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1992 in film, about an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" in the Adriatic Sea....
  • Grave of the Fireflies
    Grave of the Fireflies

    is a 1988 animated film written and film director by Isao Takahata . This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work....


Brilliant Korea

This season showed some the best of South Korean thrillers.

  • Lady Vengeance
  • Oldboy
    Oldboy

    Oldboy is a List of South Korean films of 2003 Cinema of South Korea film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on a Japanese manga Old Boy written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya....
  • A Tale of Two Sisters
  • R-Point
    R-Point

    R-Point is a 2004 in film Korean horror film written and directed by Su-chang Kong and starring Gam Wu-seong and Son Byung-ho. It is set in 1972 Vietnam, during the Vietnam War....
  • Brotherhood
    Taegukgi (film)

    Taegukgi Hwinallimyo is a 2004 in film South Korean war film film director by Kang Je-gyu. It tells the story about the effect of the Korean War on two brothers....
  • Tell Me Something
    Tell Me Something

    Tell Me Something is a 1999 South Korean film, promoted as a "hard-core" thriller, about a serial killer. It was an early South Korean film to find success abroad as part of the Korean Wave, and was selected to appear in the 2001 New York Korean Film Festival....

High School Comedy


  • Billy Madison
    Billy Madison

    Billy Madison is a 1995 in film comedy film starring Adam Sandler in the title role about a slacker who must go back to school in order to take over his father's company....
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 in film comedy film written and directed by John Hughes . It stars Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones and Jennifer Grey....
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 in film Cinema of the United States Coming of age teen film-comedy film written by Cameron Crowe and directed by Amy Heckerling....
  • Get Over It
    Get Over It (film)

    Get Over It is a 2001 in film romantic comedy film directed by Tommy O'Haver. The film mixes concepts from A Midsummer Night's Dream and from stereotypical American teen comedies of the time....
  • School of Rock
    School of Rock

    School of Rock is a 2003 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film from Paramount Pictures, starring Jack Black . The film was written specifically for Black by Mike White and directed by Richard Linklater....
  • Clueless


Sci-Fi Season (2007)

  • The Day After Tomorrow
    The Day After Tomorrow

    The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction film that depicts the catastrophic effects of both global warming and global cooling....
  • I, Robot
    I, Robot

    I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies....
  • Cypher
    Cypher

    Cypher is a variant spelling of the word cipher . It may refer to:...
  • Equilibrium
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Fran?ois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey....
  • Independence Day
    Independence Day

    An Independence Day is an annual celebration commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood, usually after ceasing to be a colony or part of another state, more rarely after the end of a military occupation....
  • Vanilla Sky
    Vanilla Sky

    Vanilla Sky is a 2001 United States psychological thriller film, which has been variously characterized by published film critics as "an odd mixture of science fiction, Romance film, and reality warp", "part Beautiful People fantasy, part New Age investigation of the Great Beyond", a "love story, a struggle for the soul, or an Existential...
  • Solaris
    Solaris (2002 film)

    Solaris is a 2002 in film film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney.It is based on Solaris by Poles writer Stanislaw Lem ....
  • The Core
    The Core

    The Core is a science fiction disaster film loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to Travel to the Earth's center and set off a series of nuclear weapon in order to restart the rotation of Earth's core....
  • The Fly
    The Fly

    The Fly may refer to:* The Fly , a 1957 short story by George Langelaan, the basis of The Fly films** The Fly ** Return of the Fly , first sequel to the 1958 film...


Thriller Season

  • Phone Booth
    Phone Booth (film)

    Phone Booth is a 2003 in film morality thriller film about a man who is trapped in a telephone booth by a sniper. It stars Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell and Katie Holmes and was directed by Joel Schumacher....
  • Confidence
    Confidence (film)

    Confidence is a 2003 in film starring Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, directed by James Foley, and written by Doug Jung...
  • The Firm
  • Out Of Time
  • Primal Fear
    Primal Fear (film)

    Primal Fear is a 1996 in film Film which tells a story of a defense attorney who defends an altar boy charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop....
  • Memento
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. This novel first introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who would return in the novels Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water, known collectively as the Ripliad....


New Hollywood

  • Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

    Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is a 2004 in film comedy film from 20th Century Fox, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Jason Bateman, and Rip Torn....
  • Sideways
    Sideways

    Sideways is an United States comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's Sideways , Sideways follows two forty-something men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to the wine country of Santa Barbara....
  • Garden State
    Garden State (film)

    Garden State is a 2004 in film written, directed by and starring Zach Braff, with Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and co-starring Ian Holm....
  • The Good Girl
    The Good Girl

    The Good Girl is a 2002 film from the Chuck & Buck team, with director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White ....
  • Lost in Translation
    Lost in Translation (film)

    Lost in Translation is a 2003 in film comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was the second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides ....
  • Napoleon Dynamite
    Napoleon Dynamite

    Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States indie film comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the eponymous character, Napoleon Dynamite....
  • I ? Huckabees
    I ? Huckabees

    I Heart Huckabees, also known as I Love Huckabees, and written as I ? Huckabees, is a 2004 in film comedy film from Fox Searchlight....
  • Brick
    Brick (film)

    Brick is a 2005 in film United States drama film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It was Johnson's directorial debut and won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival....
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 in film United States drama film film by France director Michel Gondry. The film uses elements of science fiction film and neosurrealism to explore the nature of memory and Romantic love....


Crime Season

  • The Italian Job
    The Italian Job (2003 film)

    The Italian Job is a 2003 in film American heist film directed by F. Gary Gray. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham, Mos Def and Donald Sutherland....
  • Entrapment
    Entrapment (film)

    Entrapment is an United States film directed by Jon Amiel, and starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones....
  • The Transporter
    The Transporter

    The Transporter is a 2002 in film Franco-American Action movie / crime / driving movie directed by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen. Luc Besson was inspired by BMW Films' "The Hire" series to create this movie....
  • Transporter 2
    Transporter 2

    Transporter 2 is a 2005 in film France action / crime / driving film directed by Louis Leterrier and produced by Luc Besson. It is the sequel to 2002 in film The Transporter....
  • Collateral
    Collateral (film)

    ar:?????????Collateral is a 2004 in film :Category:Crime thriller films film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie....
  • Brick
    Brick (film)

    Brick is a 2005 in film United States drama film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It was Johnson's directorial debut and won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival....
  • Road To Perdition
    Road to Perdition

    Road to Perdition is an Academy Award Winning, 2002 period piece drama film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins....
  • Natural Born Killers
    Natural Born Killers

    Natural Born Killers is a 1994 in film satire crime film directed by Oliver Stone about two mass murderers and the Mass media coverage given to them....


Sci-Fi Season (2008)

This season showed triple bills of Sci-Fi films for two weeks, taking up the 7PM, 9PM, and 11PM slot.

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 in film film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax and Peter Lorre as Conseil....
  • The Abyss
    The Abyss

    The Abyss is a science fiction film that was written and directed by James Cameron in 1989 in film. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn....
  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes
    Beneath the Planet of the Apes

    Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a science-fiction film directed by Ted Post, and the first of four sequels to 1968 in film's Planet of the Apes ....
  • Fantastic Voyage
    Fantastic Voyage

    Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 in film science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner. Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it ....
  • The Fifth Element
    The Fifth Element

    The Fifth Element is a 1997 in film science fantasy, Action film-comedy film, techno thriller film directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker....
  • Cypher
    Cypher (film)

    Cypher is a Canada sci-fi thriller released in 2002 in film, directed by Vincenzo Natali and written by Brian King . It stars Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu....
  • Star Trek Nemesis
  • Fantastic Four
    Fantastic Four (film)

    Fantastic Four is a 2005 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics comic Fantastic Four. It was directed by Tim Story , and released by 20th Century Fox....
  • Jason X
    Jason X

    Jason X is a 2002 in film science fiction film / slasher film, and the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series, starring Kane Hodder as the undead mass murderer Jason Voorhees....
  • Memoirs of an Invisible Man
    Memoirs of an Invisible Man

    Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a 1992 in film film directed by John Carpenter and released by Warner Bros. Pictures, with many scenes taking place in and around San Francisco....
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 in film film loosely based on the comic book limited series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I....
  • Big Trouble in Little China
    Big Trouble in Little China

    Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 in film Cinema of the United States comedy/action film, directed by John Carpenter and stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed girlfriend from bandits in Chinatown, San Francisco, California....
  • Explorers
    Explorers (film)

    Explorers is a 1985 science fiction film, fantasy film targeted at a family audience. It was the first feature film for both River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke....
  • Alien vs. Predator
    Alien vs. Predator (film)

    Alien vs. Predator is a science fiction film released in 2004 by 20th Century Fox. It is an adaptation of a fictional crossover Alien vs. Predator series between the titular extraterrestrials from the Alien and Predator series, a concept which originated in a Aliens versus Predator ....
  • Alien
    Alien (film)

    Alien is a 1979 science fiction film/horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto....
  • Predator 2
    Predator 2

    Predator 2 is a 1990 science fiction film action film starring Danny Glover and Gary Busey. Written by Jim Thomas & John Thomas and directed by Stephen Hopkins , the film is a sequel to the successful Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger....
  • The Core
    The Core

    The Core is a science fiction disaster film loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to Travel to the Earth's center and set off a series of nuclear weapon in order to restart the rotation of Earth's core....
  • Underworld
    Underworld (2003 film)

    Underworld is a 2003 in film action film-horror film film about the secret history of Races of Underworld universe#Vampires and a type of werewolf known as Races of Underworld universe#Lycans ....
  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States pulp adventure, science fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut....
  • I, Robot
    I, Robot (film)

    I, Robot is a science fiction film set in a world where humans and humanoid robots interact . It was directed by Alex Proyas, written by Jeff Vintar, and starred Will Smith....
  • Thunderbirds Are Go
    Thunderbirds Are GO

    Thunderbirds Are Go is a United Kingdom science fiction-adventure motion picture released in 1966. It was the first film based on Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson's popular Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds , and followed the first unmanned mission to Mars....
  • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , directed by J. Lee Thompson, is the fourth film of the Planet of the Apes series. It explores mankind's future history, as established in Escape from the Planet of the Apes , and is the most violent sequel in the series....
  • Timeline
    Timeline (film)

    Timeline is a 2003 in film film directed by Richard Donner, director of Lethal Weapon. Cinematography by Caleb Deschanel. Music by Brian Tyler....
  • Resident Evil
    Resident Evil (film)

    Resident Evil or Biohazard: Genesis is a 2002 in film American science fiction horror film based on the Resident Evil series of Survival horror video games video game developer by Capcom....
  • Congo
    Congo (film)

    Congo is a 1995 in film Film, based on the 1980 novel Congo by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park of Jurassic Park . It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov and Joe Don Baker....
  • Evolution
    Evolution (film)

    Evolution is a 2001 in film comedy film science fiction film film directed by Ivan Reitman.It is based on a story by Don Jakoby who converted it into a screenplay along with David Diamond and David Weissman....
  • The Fly
    The Fly (1986 film)

    The Fly is an American science fiction horror film released in . Produced by Mel Brooks and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz, it is a big budget remake of the The Fly of the same name, but with a substantially different Plot ....


Anti-Heroes Season

This season saw an anti-hero film every night after the 9PM film for a fortnight.

  • Fight Club
    Fight Club (film)

    Fight Club is a 1999 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the 1996 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and follows a nameless protagonist , an everyman and an unreliable narrator who feels trapped with his white-collar position in society....
  • Underworld
    Underworld (2003 film)

    Underworld is a 2003 in film action film-horror film film about the secret history of Races of Underworld universe#Vampires and a type of werewolf known as Races of Underworld universe#Lycans ....
  • From Dusk 'til Dawn
  • L.A. Confidential
  • The 51st State
    The 51st State

    The 51st State is a 2001 Cinema of the United Kingdom produced by Focus Films Ltd. directed by Ronny Yu, written by Stel Pavlou, starring Samuel L....
  • Big Trouble in Little China
    Big Trouble in Little China

    Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 in film Cinema of the United States comedy/action film, directed by John Carpenter and stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed girlfriend from bandits in Chinatown, San Francisco, California....
  • Oldboy
    Oldboy

    Oldboy is a List of South Korean films of 2003 Cinema of South Korea film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on a Japanese manga Old Boy written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya....
  • Six Degrees of Separation
    Six Degrees of Separation (film)

    Six Degrees of Separation is a 1990 play written by John Guare that premiered at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on 16 May, 1990, directed by Jerry Zaks and starring Stockard Channing....
  • The Fifth Element
    The Fifth Element

    The Fifth Element is a 1997 in film science fantasy, Action film-comedy film, techno thriller film directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker....
  • Bad Lieutenant
    Bad Lieutenant

    Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 in film crime film-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous "bad lieutenant"....
  • The Crow: Wicked Prayer
    The Crow: Wicked Prayer

    The Crow: Wicked Prayer was the fourth film based on The Crow comic book by James O'Barr. It was directed by Lance Mungia, inspired by the Norman Partridge novel....
  • Bullitt
    Bullitt

    Bullitt is a 1968 in film American thriller film starring Steve McQueen . It was Film director by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros....
  • Batman Returns
    Batman Returns

    Batman Returns is a 1992 superhero film directed by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to 1989's Batman , with Michael Keaton reprising the lead role....
  • The Watcher
    The Watcher (film)

    The Watcher is a 2000 in film United States thriller directed by Joe Charbanic and starring James Spader, Keanu Reeves and Marisa Tomei. Set in modern urban Chicago, the film is about a retired FBI agent who is stalked and taunted by a serial killer ....
  • My Cousin Vinny
    My Cousin Vinny

    My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 in film comedy film written by Dale Launer, and directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio and Marisa Tomei, and featuring Fred Gwynne in his final role....
  • The Deer Hunter
    The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter is a War film drama film about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War....
  • Straightheads
    Straightheads

    Straightheads is a 2007 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom Thriller film which follows couple who are seeking revenge against a group of men who brutally attacked them....
  • The Libertine
    The Libertine (2005 film)

    The Libertine is a 2004 in film Film that was widely released in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2005, and on 10 March 2006 in the United States....


Comedy Season

  • Zoolander
    Zoolander

    Zoolander is a 2001 in film comedy film film director by Ben Stiller. The film is based on a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997....
  • School Of Rock
    School of Rock

    School of Rock is a 2003 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film from Paramount Pictures, starring Jack Black . The film was written specifically for Black by Mike White and directed by Richard Linklater....
  • Clueless
  • Napoleon Dynamite
    Napoleon Dynamite

    Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States indie film comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the eponymous character, Napoleon Dynamite....
  • Team America: World Police
    Team America: World Police

    Team America: World Police is a 2004 comedy film, written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady and film director by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular list of animated television series South Park....

See also

  • 50 Films to See Before You Die
    50 Films to See Before You Die

    50 Films to See Before You Die was a television programme first shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 22 July, 2006, to celebrate the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel available to digital terrestrial homes in the United Kingdom....


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