Tom Hanks
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Bosom Buddies (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari
- Box office everyman Tom Hanks dons womenswear as a yuppie advertising executive resigned to living in an all–female tenement.…
- Splash (1984)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah
- Winning comic fantasy with Tom Hanks falling for mermaid Daryl Hannah.
- Bachelor Party (1984)
- Dir. Neal Israel
Feat. Tom Hanks
- 'Classic', if that's the word, 80s sex comedy has an impish Tom Hanks undergoing various hair–raising rites of passage before he is wed.
- Volunteers (1985)
- Feat. Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson…
- Broad eighties comedy stars a fresh–faced Hanks as a upper class snob who joins the peace corps in Thailand in order to escape his gambling…
- Money Pit, The (1986)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Tom Hanks, Shelley Long
- An often very funny 80s comedy about couple Tom Hanks’ and Shelley Long’s disastrous purchase of a home in Long Island that conceals a host of…
- Nothing in Common (1986)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint…
- Tom Hanks stars as a precocious ad exec who's forced to deal with his aging, unloving father (Jackie Gleason) after his parents separate.
The…
- Dragnet (1987)
- Dir. Tom Mankiewicz
Feat. Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Plummer…
- Amiably silly buddy–cop comedy that both parodies and pays homage to television crime drama of the 1950s and 60s. Dan Aykroyd plays the "old…
- Big (1988)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia…
- Tom Hanks is perfect as a 12–year–old trapped in an adults body, having to cope with big business and romance without the benefit of…
- Punchline (1988)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman
- Ambitious comedy–drama focused on the career–efforts of two, very different aspiring standup comics – a personable Sally Field and…
- Turner and Hooch (1989)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson
- Tom Hanks injects lots of fun into this story of a neatness–obsessed detective who takes on a slobbering junkyard dog.
- Burbs, The (1989)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher…
- A worthwhile comic spin on that age–old comic scenario – what if those strange new neighbours were members of a cannibalistic cult?…
- Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith…
- Hanks, Willis and Griffith stumble through Tom Wolfe's novel about a hot–shot stockbroker who is scandalised through misdemeanor. A famous…
- Joe Versus The Volcano (1990)
- Dir. John Patrick Shanley
Feat. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges…
- Finding he has only six months to live, Tom Hanks is strangely offered megabucks to jump into a vat of hot lava for the sake of ancient gods.
- League of Their Own, A (1992)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Geena Davis, Madonna, Tom Hanks…
- Good–natured comedy centres around the female baseball league that formed while the men were off fighting in WW2.
- Saturday Night Live - 15th Anniversary Special (1992)
- Feat. Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks…
- Compilation of some of the best sketches from the first fifteen years of the US TV–show 'Saturday Night Live'. This programme was a training…
- Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
- Dir. Nora Ephron
Feat. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman
- Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan consummate a romance over 3000 miles via a soapy talk–back show. The two leads and a witty, old–fashioned script…
- Philadelphia (1993)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington
- First major Hollywood AIDS movie is more concerned with prejudice than the disease itself, and is effective in its aim to educate as much as…
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Mykeltin Williamson
- Oscar–winning box–office monster has suffered heavily from over–exposure, but one cannot dispute its effectiveness as a nutshell of…
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon…
- An All–American true story in which Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon are astronauts aboard the ill–fated mission to the moon, while…
- That Thing You Do! (1996)
- Dir. Tom Hanks
Feat. Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech
- Tom Hanks makes a solid if squeaky–clean writing/directing debut in charting the one–hit success of fictitious pop band, The Wonders.…
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns…
- Tom Hanks commands a squad assigned to retrieving a single man from behind German lines in WWII France.
With 'sacrifice' the key theme,…
- You've Got Mail (1998)
- Dir. Nora Ephron
Feat. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
- The lovable personnel of SLEEPLESS IN SEATLE: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and director Nora Ephron, regroup for this 'emotional sequel', with the medium of…
- From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) (1998)
- Feat. Dylan Baker, Adam Baldwin, Gary Cole…
- Truly epic dramatisation of the Apollo space programme – produced by Tom Hanks after the success of APOLLO 13 – which looks at the entire…
- Green Mile, The (1999)
- Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Michael Clarke Duncan, Tom Hanks, David Morse…
- Following THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, the director adapts another Stephen King prison–set story as a melancholic epic of injustice and…
- Toy Story 2 (2000)
- Dir. John Lasseter, Ash Brannon
Feat. Tim Allen, Tom Hanks
- Returning to the ultimate CGI toy–box pulls out the old gang and adds a few fresh novelties to join in Buzz Lightyear's attempt to rescue…
- Cast Away (2000)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks
- Tom Hanks commits to his craft once again, here as a cocky, time–obsessed Fed–Ex courier who suffers the irony of having to subsist…
- Band of Brothers (TV Series) (2001)
- Dir. Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon
Feat. David Schwimmer, Ron Livingston
- The brainchild of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, this excellently–produced WWII mini–series follows the fortunes of ‘Easy Company’,…
- Road To Perdition (2002)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law…
- Handsomely–mounted Chicago gangland flick that casts Tom Hanks against type as a mob hitman who becomes an ‘angel of vengeance’ after he is…
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken…
- A widely enjoyed but minor caper comedy “inspired by” the career of a teenage con man, who passed himself off as an airline pilot, doctor, and…
- Ladykillers, The (2004)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall
- The ever–talented Coen Brothers (O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?) take on the challenging task of updating the classic Ealing black comedy, importing…