
November 17, 1945 · 80 years old
Roland Joffé (/ˈdʒɒfeɪ/; born 17 November 1945) is an English film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically acclaimed films The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986), earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Director. The latter won th…

Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.

A man and a woman awaken to find themselves trapped in a cellar. As their kidnapper drives them mad, the truth about their horrific abduction is revealed.

An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.

Vatel is the cook of Prince Condé. When the prince invites Louis XIV to hunt, he has to give lavish banquets in order to fall in his favor. But when Vatel falls in love with the king's mistress, love and duty come into conflict.

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.

Sandra is married to Jake, an alcoholic executive, but has a secret relationship with her brother-in-law Ben, who is attracted to Peggy, a woman who hides a dark side known to few. When Sandra finds out, Ben mysteriously disappears.

An epic, sweeping and riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents.

After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.

Two teenage girls, Janie who is American and Lana who is Russian, fall in love after meeting at a t.A.T.u concert and are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder.

An inside look at the life of Patrick Swayze as told by the people who knew him best.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Brooke begins an affair with Jake a young, hotshot insurance-agent.