James Marsh

The filmmaker behind Oscar-winning doco Man on Wire depicts the many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giant's life: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse.

Two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine leads a crew of retired crooks that pulls off a major heist in London's jewelry district.

Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz star in this drama based on Donald Crowhurst's fatal 1968 attempt at yachting victory.

Biopic on renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, nominated for five Academy Awards. Stars Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables) as Hawking and Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) as his long-time partner Jane.

A mother who is also an IRA terrorist becomes an informant for British intelligence in order to protect her son's welfare in this thriller starring Clive Owen. From the director of Man on Wire.

Documentary about a chimp named Nim Chimpsky - put into a Manhattan family home in 1973 by a behavioural psychologist to test Noam Chomsky's thesis that language is peculiar to humans. From the director of Man on Wire.

This, the 2009 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, takes a look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974.