Roland Emmerich
Director, Actor
- Moon 44 (1990)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Michael Pare, Lisa Eichhorn, Malcolm McDowell
- Low–rent, but tolerable sci–fi action set on a remote corporate mining colony which is under siege from rival interests.
Pare plays an…
- Universal Soldier (1992)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren
- Van Damme and Lundgren team for this big–budget futuristic romp with an extravagance of punch–ups, explosions and wisecracks.
- Stargate (1994)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson
- Kurt Russell and James Spader headline this big–budget spectacle. Promising start evokes the epic adventure intrigue of a LAWRENCE OF ARABIA,…
- Independence Day (ID4) (1996)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith
- Absurdly mega–hyped sci–fi blockbuster revels in its own trashiness, but to its credit revives an old high–concept with (then)…
- Godzilla (1998)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno
- This box–office behemoth from the INDEPENDENCE DAY–makers is not nearly as terrible as the backlash would have you believe – in…
- Patriot, The (2000)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson…
- Mel Gibson transplants the patriotic, anti–English fervour of BRAVEHEART into an American Revolutionary setting, playing real–life…
- Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dash Mihok…
- Another disaster–spectacle revival from the makers of "Independence Day" that sees scientist Dennis Quaid trying in vain to warn the world of…
- 10,000 B.C. (2008)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis
- Beasts, behemoths and flesh–eating emus prowl the prehistoric landscape in another of Roland (INDEPENDENCE DAY) Emmerich's effects–heavy…
- 2012 (2009)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandiwe Newton…
- Oh the humanity! Doomsday specialist Roland Emmerich renders the disaster movie redundant with this senseless, all–or–nothing…
- Anonymous (2011)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis…
- Enjoyable hokum posits that the true writer of Shakespeare's plays was in fact the Earl of Oxford. Some of Britain's finest thesps – including…
- White House Down (2013)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- Conveniently on a tour of the White House, action hero beefcake Channing Tatum scrambles to save the President (Jamie Foxx) from an invading…
- Stonewall (2015)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Jeremy Irvine
- Hollywood "disaster" specialist Roland Emmerich directs this account of a young gay man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and…
- Independence Day 2: Resurgence (2016)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie Usher…
- Routine effects–heavy sequel is set decades after the first Independence Day invasion, and finds Earth once again faced with an alien threat.
- Midway (2019)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson…
- Thrilling war film set during the Battle of Midway, fought during WWII between the American and Japanese armies in the Pacific. Features a strong…