James Becket Filmography

Occupation:
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
  • Tell Them Who You Are

    Actors: Haskell Wexler, Mark S. Wexler, Peter Bart, James Becket, Verna Bloom

    Synopsis: Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways he has spent much of his life in the shadow of his more famous father, Haskell Wexler. One of Hollywood's greatest cinematographers, Haskell is also known as a director (he Read More

    5/13/05
  • Final Approach

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jordan Garrett, Larry Miller, Angela Watson, Eric Roberts, Mark Dacascos

    Synopsis: A ten-year-old computer flight simulator enthusiast is forced to put his skills to the ultimate test when his cross-country flight is hijacked in screenwriter/director James Becket's high-flying adventure. As young Ricky and his classmates board a commercial airliner to embark on a cross-country Read More

    2004
  • Southern Cross

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Michael Ironside, Esai Morales

    Synopsis: A young man becomes the reluctant heir of the family business, only to discover how dangerous and corrupt it can be in this drama. Philip is an aspiring musician whose father runs a Chilean mining concern. When his dad dies, Philip returns to Chile from the United States and soon finds himself Read More

    1999
  • Plato's Run

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jeff Speakman, Tiani Warden, Gary Busey, Roy Scheider, Steven Bauer

    Synopsis: When a vicious arms smuggler (Roy Scheider) abducts his daughter, an ex-Navy Seal (Gary Busey) rounds up a cadre of skilled mercenaries to find and rescue her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1997
  • The Best Revenge

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Robert Pine, Pat Destro, Bruna Lombardi

    Synopsis: In this tense, politically-charged drama, Carlos (Carlos Riccelli), a widower from El Salvador, comes to the U.S. after his wife was horribly tortured and eventually murdered by CIA forces during that nation's long-simmering civil war. Carlos has decided to find the mysterious Mr. Smith (Robert Pine Read More

    1996
  • Natural Causes

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Linda Purl, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Will Patton, Tim Thomerson, Janis Paige

    Synopsis: In this political thriller set in Bangkok, a young woman finds herself drawn into a scheme designed to assassinate Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State. The film offers wonderful views of the Thai city. The film opens with the death of American Rachel McCarthy, who is murdered in her Read More

    1994
  • Ulterior Motives

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This taut suspenser juggles perspectives of patriotism, media roles and the relationship between government officials and their economic interests. After a journalist covers a story about a secret military transaction between an American aerospace engineer and a Japanese agent, she continues her Read More

    1992
  • Time Troopers

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This Austrian sci-fi film set in post-nuclear Earth is about a pair of policemen whose jobs consist (among other things) of executing people who have prematurely used up all their "energy clip" credits in an Orwellian society. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989

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