Ian McKellen

Gods and Monsters 1998

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave

7.3 IMDB Rating 459 Views
The Keep 1983

Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Stars: Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson

5.7 IMDB Rating 547 Views
Richard III 1995

The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.

Category: Drama, Sci-Fi, War

Stars: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Christopher Bowen

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,172 Views
Hating Peter Tatchell 2021

The profound life story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil disobedience rocked the establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed tyrants in the fight for equality.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry, Peter Tatchell, George Carey

7,4 IMDB Rating 1,707 Views
Infinitum: Subject Unknown 2021

An experimental film shot with just one crew member. Jane is trapped in a parallel universe and is forced to find a way to alter her reality before it is too late.

Category: Sci-Fi

Stars: Tori Butler-Hart, Ian McKellen, Conleth Hill

4.0 IMDB Rating 3,082 Views
Animal Crackers 2017

A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids

Stars: Emily Blunt, Danny DeVito, John Krasinski, Ian McKellen

5.4 IMDB Rating 3,220 Views
The Good Liar 2019

Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey, Jim Carter

6.6 IMDB Rating 4,361 Views
Stardust 2007

The passage from this world to the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold is through a breach in a wall beside an English village. In the 1800s, a boy becomes a man when he ventures through the breach in pursuit of a fallen star, to prove his love for the village beauty. The star is no lump of rock, it's a maiden, Yvaine. Tristan, the youth, is not the only one looking for her: three witches, led by Lamia, want her heart to make them young; and, the sons of the dead king of Stormhold want her because she holds a ruby that will give one of them title to the throne. Assisting Tristan are his mother, the victim of a spell, and a cross-dressing pirate of the skies. Will Tristan win his true love?

Category: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Stars: Ian McKellen, Bimbo Hart, Alastair MacIntosh, David Kelly

7.6 IMDB Rating 8,813 Views
All is True 2019

A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen

6,1 IMDB Rating 4,261 Views
McKellen: Playing the Part 2017

Feature documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Ian McKellen, Scott Chambers, Luke Evans

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,183 Views
X-Men 2000

In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.

Category: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen

7.3 IMDB Rating 17,751 Views
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013

The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.

Category: Adventure, Fantasy

Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage

7.8 IMDB Rating 24,206 Views
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012

A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.

Category: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Stars: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,622 Views
The Dresser 2015

A drama, based on a successful play, about an aging actor (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his personal assistant (Sir Ian McKellen).

Category: Comedy, Drama, Drama, Comedy

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ian McKellen, Emily Watson

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,356 Views
Apt Pupil 1998

A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,821 Views
Mr. Holmes 2015

An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.

Category: Drama, Mystery

Stars: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada

6.8 IMDB Rating 3,902 Views
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014

Bilbo and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.

Category: Adventure, Fantasy

Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage

7.4 IMDB Rating 22,881 Views
Flushed Away 2006

The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen

6.6 IMDB Rating 6,171 Views
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama

Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom

8.8 IMDB Rating 30,129 Views
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002

While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama

Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen

8.8 IMDB Rating 26,067 Views