The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Trailer

Upcoming film with a stellar cast that includes:
Judi Dench,
Maggie Smith,
Tom Wilkinson,
Bill Nighy,
Penelope Wilton,
Celia Imrie
& Dev Patel

and directed by John Madden!

More information here

"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.

Release: March 2012

Molokai: The Story of Fr. Damien (1999)

A biopic of St. Damien, a Belgian priest who sought to ease the suffering and raise the dignity of leprosy patients living at the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement on the Hawaiian island of Molokai in 1873. The film features David Wenham as Damien as well as other familiar faces such as Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi, Alice Krige, Peter O'Toole, Kris Kristofferson and Tom Wilkinson.

Synopsis from IMDb:
Exile to Molokai was the means with which leprosy was dealt with in the Hawaiian Islands during the late 1800s. Molokai was an untamed isle located between the islands of Oahu and Maui. Abandoned for all extents and purposes, the lepers attempted to scrape out a living in their squalor without outside aid or care. Enter the courageous Father Damien. He was the first priest to go to Molokai. And even though his bishop strictly warned him that "he must not touch anyone," Father Damien risked his life and health to reach out to the suffering.

Gradually, Father Damien was able to gain the trust of the lepers. Additionally, and more importantly, his cries for additional help were heard and heeded by others. The success of his appeals was unbelievably dismaying to superiors who were more interested respect and riches than reaching out to the suffering.

Eventually, as expected Father Damien was also afflicted. This, however, only seemed to provide him with an even greater drive to ameliorate the conditions of his now "fellow" lepers. After collapsing during Mass, he was carried to the very hospital that he himself had established where he died.

Cast:
David Wenham as Father Damien
Kate Ceberano as Princess Liliuokalani
Jan Decleir as Bishop Köckerman
Chris Haywood as Clayton Strawn
Derek Jacobi as Father Leonor Fouesnel
Keanu Kapuni-Szasz as Malulani
Alice Krige as Mother Marianne Cope
Kris Kristofferson as Rudolph Meyer
Leo McKern as Bishop Maigret
Sam Neill as Prime Minister Walter Murray Gibson
Peter O'Toole as William Williamson
Dirk Roofthooft as Father Louis Lambert Conrardy
Tom Wilkinson as Brother Joseph Dutton
Aden Young as Dr. Kalewis

Trailer

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Additional Inspirational Films

Video: Behind the scenes of 'The Kennedys'

The Kennedys are a family not without controversy but this series has been surrounded by it, with outcrys of lack of historical accuracy. The producer and writer of The Kennedys discuss the controversy in an interview in The New York Times.

Beginning dates of series
USA: ReelzChannel - April 3
UK: UK History Channel - April 7

Canada: History Television - April 10

The Debt (2010)

[Sept 2011- Just saw film and thoroughly enjoyed it. Loved seeing the familiar faces of the 6 lead characters - some of my favourite actors!]

In John Madden's spy thriller The Debt, British actress Helen Mirren stars as a former Israeli secret agent who, 30 years earlier, participated in a famed mission to track down and assassinate a Nazi war criminal in East Berlin. This remake of an Israeli film goes back and forth from the 1990's to 1965.

Synopsis:
Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren) is a former Mossad agent who endeavored to capture and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal - the Surgeon of Birkenau - in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must go back to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.

Cast:
[younger/older roles of characters]
Sam Worthington /Ciarán Hinds
Jessica Chastain/ Helen Mirren
Marton Csokas/Tom Wilkinson

Director: John Madden

Video: Helen Mirren talks about the film at Toronto film festival
Video: movie clip with Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson
Wikipedia
IMDb

Release date: Aug 31, 2011

Thanks to Sabrinalde for mentioning!