The 51st State 2001  R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Formula 51
Director: Ronny Yu
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Meat Loaf, Rhys Ifans, Sean Pertwee, Anna Keaveney, Ricky Tomlinson, Jake Abraham, Paul Barber, Ade, Angus MacInnes
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" is a lesson about to be learned by kilt-clad chemist Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) who heads for England to market his own illegal drug called POS-51.
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Blue Juice 1995   R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Carl Prechezer
Cast: Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Ewan McGregor, Peter Gunn, Heathcote Williams, Colette Brown, Jenny Agutter, Keith Allen, Michelle Chadwick, Robin Soans, Guy Leverton, Mark Frost, Paul Reynolds
Surfer JC (Sean Pertwee) lives in a Cornish coastal town and is nearing 30. His girlfriend (Catherine Zeta-Jones) pressures him to grow up and commit, while his other friends (Steven Mackintosh, Ewan McGregor, and Peter Gunn) have their own growing-up pains.
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 Cleopatra 1999 TV, 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franc Roddam
Cast: Leonor Varela, Timothy Dalton, Billy Zane, Rupert Graves, John Bowe, Art Malik, Nadim Sawalha, Owen Teale, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee, Philip Quast, Daragh O'Malley, David Schofield, Kassandra Voyagis, Indra Ove
In this made-for-HBO miniseries, this is the story of the out-of-wedlock child produced by Julius Caesar and Cleopatra (Timothy Dalton and Leonor Varela), as well as their son's possible selection to be Caesar's successor. This sets off Caesar's assassination with Marc Antony (Billy Zane) and Octavian (Rupert Graves) left to divide the Roman Empire while Cleopatra casts her spell on Marc Antony.
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Dog Soldiers 2002  R, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Horror
Director: Neil Marshall
Cast: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer, Darren Morfitt, Chris Robson, Leslie Simpson, Tina Landini, Craig Conway, Bryn Walters, Ben Wright, Brian Claxton Payne
While on a routine training mission in the Scottish Highlands, a squad of British soldiers, led by Sergeant Harry Wells (Sean Pertwee), encounters the bodies of the Special Ops Squad they have been sent to find. Soon, they are attacked by giant werewolves and, while escaping, run into a zoologist, Megan (Emma Cleasby). She explains what is happening, and they take refuge in a farmhouse while hungry werewolves hover nearby.
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Doomsday 2008  R, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Neil Marshall
Cast: Rhona Mitri, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Sean Pertwee, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara, Craig Conway, Malcolm McDowell, Lee-Anne Liebenberg, Darren Morfitt, Emma Cleasby, Christine Tomlinson
In 2008, the Reaper virus hit Scotland and killed thousands. The British built a wall across Britain to quarantine the infected country. Now, 30 years later, the virus reappears. The Government sends Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitri) and her medical-forces team of Dr. Talbot (Sean Pertwee) and Dr. Ben Stirling (Darren Morfitt) into the infected area to search for a cure. Accompanied by Sergeant Norton (Adrian Lester) and his military squad of tanks and grenades, Major Sinclair and her group enter the area that has been quarantined for thirty years. They find hungry and angry survivors–and the nightmare begins.
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 Equilibrium 2002  R, 106 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Cast: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Angus Macfadyen, Sean Bean, William Fichtner, Matthew Harbour, Dominic Purcell, Maria Pia Calzone, Emily Siewert, Kurt Wimmer, Christian Kahrmann, John Keogh, Sean Pertwee, Dirk Martens
In a futuristic world where citizens are forced to take a drug that eliminates emotions, a top government official, Clerick John Preston (Christian Bale), skips his dose of Prozium. He has been enforcing laws that forbid books, music, and art but now begins to experience feelings. This leads to Preston joining an underground force and becoming emotionally involved with Mary (Emily Watson). Now, Preston works to overthrow the government that is led by the repressive Dupont (Angus Macfadyen).
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Event Horizon 1997 R, 96 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard T. Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs, Sean Pertwee, Peter Marinker, Holley Chant, Noah Huntley, Barclay Wright, Robert Jezek, Teresa May, Emily Booth
The year is 2047, and Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) leads a crew of astronauts on a mission to investigate the disappearance of the starship "Event Horizon," which disappeared seven years earlier but is now sending out a garbled transmission. The crew reaches the starship and discovers that it is now a haunted house where dangers await.
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Goal II: Living the Dream 2007 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Goal 2
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, Rutger Hauer, Frances Barber, Miriam Colon, Leonor Varela, Nick Cannon, Elizabeth Pena, Sean Pertwee, David Beckham, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane
The story of football (soccer) player Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) continues. This time around, he is traded from England's Newcastle United team to the Real Madrid's Galacticos where he plays with real-life stars David Beckham, Ronaldo, and Zinedine Zidane. Meanwhile his fiancee Roz (Anna Friel) plans their wedding. But, Santiago basks in his new-found fame and takes on the "good life" risking not only his career but his relationships with his friends and Roz as well.
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Goal! The Dream Begins 2005  TV, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Goal!
Director: Danny Cannon
Cast: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Tony Plana, Marcel Iures, Leonardo Guerra, Miriam Colon, Jorge Cervera, Sean Pertwee, Cassandra Bell, Donald Li
Hard-working Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) dreams of becoming a professional football (soccer) player but sees little hope of succeeding in that quest. One day, a scout, Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane), watches Santiago play and sets up a tryout with the British football club, Newcastle United. But, first Santiago must find funding for the trip to England–and that's just one of the many obstacles he encounters and overcomes on his way to, as well as during play on and off, the football fields of northern England.
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The Last Drop 2005 R, 110 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Colin Teague
Cast: Billy Zane, Karel Roden, Michael Madsen, Alexander Skarsgard, Tommy Flanagan, Sean Pertwee, Laurence Fox, Rafe Spall, Neil Newbon, Coral Beed, Lucy Gaskell, Nick Moran, Andrew Howard
As part of a plan known as Operation Market Garden to end World War II before Christmas, 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in Holland with the top-secret mission of finding a cache of priceless art stolen by the Nazis. Plans go awry, and seven British soldiers are separated from the others–destined to collide with three German soldiers who also want the artifacts.
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Love, Honour and Obey 2000 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Cast: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee, Denise Van Outen, Rhys Ifans, Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) talks his boyhood pal, Jude (Jude Law), into getting him a job working for Jude's gangster-boss uncle, Ray (Ray Burdis), only to find that he is quickly bored with the new lifestyle. To liven things up, Jonny rips off a rival gang, and the ensuing gang war shifts into high gear.
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Renaissance 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Animation / Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller
Director: Christian Volckman
Cast: Daniel Craig, Catherine McCormack, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm, Rick Warden, Pax Baldwin, Breffni McKenna, Sean Pertwee, Wayne Forrester, Patrick Floersheim, Kevork Malikyan
Set in Paris during the year 2054, this film uses motion-capture animation to tell the story of a policeman's (voice of Daniel Craig) efforts to solve the case of a kidnapped scientist (voice of Catherine McCormack).
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Shopping 1994 R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Fraser James, Sean Bean, Marianne Faithfull, Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Newman, Lee Whitlock, Eamonn Walker, Ralph Ineson, Jason Isaacs
Ex-con Billy (Jude Law), with girlfriend Jo (Sadie Frost) along for the ride, gets his kicks out of stealing cars then ramming them into store windows, stealing until the police arrive, then riding off at high speed with the police in pursuit. But the town's drug lord, Tommy (Sean Pertwee), isn't happy with the infringement of his territory, and a deadly car race begins.
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Soldier 1998 R, 96 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Gary Busey, Sean Pertwee, Michael Chiklis, Paul Dillon, Mark Bringleson, K.K. Dodds
After being left for dead on a waste planet, Sgt. Todd (Kurt Russell) befriends a peaceful colony of people but finds he must still fight one last battle to defend his new home.
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Stiff Upper Lips 1998 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gary Sinyor
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales, Georgina Cates, Samuel West, Sean Pertwee, Brian Glover, Frank Finlay, Robert Portal, David Artus, Kevin Furlong
Set in class-conscious British society at the beginning of the 19th century, this is the story of how Emily's (Georgina Cates) family tries to coerce her into marrying the boring, but oh so proper, Cedrick (Robert Portal) who meets the Ivory family's standards and to forget the handsome George who does not.
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 Swing Kids 1993  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thomas Carter
Cast: Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey, Kenneth Branagh, Tushka Bergen, David Tom, Noah Wyle, Jayce Bartok, Julia Stemberger, Sean Pertwee
To be or not to be–that is Nazi Youth Corps or swing music fan. Set in World War II Germany, this is the story of three young men (Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, and Frank Whaley) who are forced into major decisions–ho hum.
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Tale of the Mummy 1998  R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee, Lysette Anthony, Michael Lerner, Jack Davenport, Honor Blackman, Christopher Lee, Shelley Duvall, Jon Polito
Professor Richard Turkel (Christopher Lee) once led a team of archeologists into Egypt where they discovered the Tomb of Talos. To prevent evil forces from escaping, he sealed the tomb. Now, years later, his granddaughter, Samantha (Louise Lombard), leads her own expedition to the tomb and sets into motion a series of murders in far-away London.
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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story 1990  TV, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leslie Woodhead
Cast: Vincent Gardenia, Ned Beatty, Peter Boyle, Michael Wincott, Timothy West, Harry Ditson, Aharon Ipale, Sean Pertwee, Sasson Gabai
Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. This is the story of the events that led up to the bombing by terrorists. A good made-for-Cable TV effort.
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| 1. The 51st State (2001)
aka: Formula 51
2. Blue Juice (1995)
3. Cleopatra (1999)
4. Dog Soldiers (2002)
5. Doomsday (2008)
6. Equilibrium (2002)
7. Event Horizon (1997)
8. Goal II: Living the Dream (2007)
aka: Goal 2
9. Goal! The Dream Begins (2005)
aka: Goal!
10. The Last Drop (2005)
11. Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
12. Renaissance (2006)
13. Shopping (1994)
14. Soldier (1998)
15. Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
16. Swing Kids (1993)
17. Tale of the Mummy (1998)
aka: Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy
18. The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990)
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