Sam Mendes

Empire of Light (2022)

A love story set in and around an old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.

1917 (2019)

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a...

Spectre (2015)

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the...

Skyfall (2012)

This is a screening presented on behalf of the SUSU pre-sessional project – if you're still in Southampton, come on down! Daniel...

Away We Go (2009)

When slacker thirtysomething couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) discover that his parents are moving overseas, the...

The Kite Runner (2007)

Based on the international bestseller by Khaled Hosseini, THE KITE RUNNER is a fascinating historical epic set in 20th-century...

Starter for Ten (2006)

Set in the mid-Eighties, 'Starter For Ten' is a romantic comedy about a working-class kid, struggling to make his way in the rarified...

Jarhead (2005)

Road to Perdition (2002)

This is the second film from Sam Mendes, the man who brought us American Beauty (which I will say I am not a huge fan of). This though...

American Beauty (1999)

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation...