Roger Christian

Roger Christian

Roger Christian (born 25 February 1944) is an English set decorator, production designer and feature film director. He won an Academy Award for his work on the original Star Wars and was Oscar-nominated for his work on Alien. Christian directed the second unit on both Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as well as feature films including The Sender and Nostradamus. He also directed the 2000 film Battlefield Earth which is regarded as one of the worst films ever made.

  • Title: Roger Christian
  • Popularity: 0.3971
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1944-02-25
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
  • Homepage: https://www.rogerjchristian.com/
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Roger Christian Movies

  • 2019
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    Memory: The Origins of Alien

    Memory: The Origins of Alien

    6.343 2019 HD

    The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.

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  • 2017
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    The Galaxy Britain Built: The British Force Behind Star Wars

    The Galaxy Britain Built: The British Force Behind Star Wars

    9.3 2017 HD

    Superfan David Whiteley celebrates the unsung British heroes behind the first film in the Star Wars’ franchise, 1977’s eponymously titled Star Wars. The Star Wars saga ends with the release of The Rise of Skywalker in December 2019. This documentary celebrates where it all began. It includes previously unheard stories from the people who made one of the most successful movies of all time, with additional interviews and previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage. The presenter, Star Wars superfan David Whiteley, who has his own connection to the original film (he was born on May the 4th), tracks down the often modest British talent who brought the galaxy to life. David explores the contribution of the London Symphony Orchestra and meets Ann Skinner, who was in charge of continuity. As well as seeing her original stills from the set, Ann reveals how she helped Sir Alec Guinness with one of the most famous speeches in Star Wars.

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  • 2003
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    The Beast Within: Making Alien

    The Beast Within: Making Alien

    8.2 2003 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one.

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  • 2025
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    Alien: Terror in Space

    Alien: Terror in Space

    6.8 2025 HD

    A retrospective look at the global impact of Alien, the science fiction and horror masterpiece directed by British filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1979, exploring the origins of its unique aesthetic and the audacity of its screenplay.

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  • 1979
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    Alien

    Alien

    8.166 1979 HD

    During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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  • 1979
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    Life of Brian

    Life of Brian

    7.759 1979 HD

    Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

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  • 1995
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    The Final Cut

    The Final Cut

    5.7 1995 HD

    A former bomb squad leader comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bombings plaguing Seattle.

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  • 2000
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    Battlefield Earth

    Battlefield Earth

    3.313 2000 HD

    In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.

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  • 1997
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    Masterminds

    Masterminds

    5.3 1997 HD

    A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.

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  • 1994
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    Nostradamus

    Nostradamus

    5.66 1994 HD

    A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.

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  • 1982
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    The Sender

    The Sender

    5.563 1982 HD

    A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.

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  • 1996
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    Underworld

    Underworld

    5 1996 HD

    A crook sets out to get revenge on the thugs who hurt his father in this bloody noir-style crime drama. After being released from prison, Johnny Crown goes after Frank, one of the mobsters involved in a series of Father's Day killings. But Johnny isn't certain Frank is responsible for his father's injuries and seeks help from a sex therapist to make sure he's got the right man.

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  • 1984
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    Lorca and the Outlaws

    Lorca and the Outlaws

    3.6 1984 HD

    Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...

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  • 2013
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    Stranded

    Stranded

    3.647 2013 HD

    The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. Ava brings a sample of the meteor for analysis and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. However, neither Col. Brauchman nor Dr. Kraus believes in her words and they believe that Ava is delusional. He offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns and the crew discovers that Bruce has been cloned by the alien. Soon they find how dangerous the clone is.

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  • 2013
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    Prisoners of the Sun

    Prisoners of the Sun

    3.899 2013 HD

    A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse

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  • 2013
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    Stranded

    Stranded

    3.647 2013 HD

    The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. Ava brings a sample of the meteor for analysis and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. However, neither Col. Brauchman nor Dr. Kraus believes in her words and they believe that Ava is delusional. He offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns and the crew discovers that Bruce has been cloned by the alien. Soon they find how dangerous the clone is.

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  • 2013
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    Dangerous Intuition

    Dangerous Intuition

    6.75 2013 HD

    Kate Aldrich, a successful career woman is devastated when her husband leaves her for stay at home mom, Laura, with whom she is forced to share custody of her beloved daughter, Izzy. But Kate's despair soon turns to terror as she begins to have intense visions that Izzy is in mortal danger -- and becomes convinced that Laura is the threat

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  • 1980
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    Black Angel

    Black Angel

    6.417 1980 HD

    A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.

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  • 1980
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    Black Angel

    Black Angel

    6.417 1980 HD

    A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.

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  • 1977
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    Star Wars

    Star Wars

    8.2 1977 HD

    Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

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  • 1970
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    The Sword of Thyrus

    The Sword of Thyrus

    1 1970 HD

    An intense journey of a knight guided by a sorcerer to follow his destiny and save the lands from a power hungry King and defeat the evil Black Angel released from the underworld.

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  • 1970
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    The Sword of Thyrus

    The Sword of Thyrus

    1 1970 HD

    An intense journey of a knight guided by a sorcerer to follow his destiny and save the lands from a power hungry King and defeat the evil Black Angel released from the underworld.

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  • 1970
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    The Sword of Thyrus

    The Sword of Thyrus

    1 1970 HD

    An intense journey of a knight guided by a sorcerer to follow his destiny and save the lands from a power hungry King and defeat the evil Black Angel released from the underworld.

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  • 1970
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    The Sword of Thyrus

    The Sword of Thyrus

    1 1970 HD

    An intense journey of a knight guided by a sorcerer to follow his destiny and save the lands from a power hungry King and defeat the evil Black Angel released from the underworld.

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  • 1994
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    Nostradamus

    Nostradamus

    5.66 1994 HD

    A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.

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  • 2016
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    Joseph and Mary

    Joseph and Mary

    4.6 2016 HD

    When loved ones are murdered, Elijah’s beliefs are compromised as he considers revenge. But a visit with Joseph and Mary may offer a new perspective.

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  • 1981
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    The Dollar Bottom

    The Dollar Bottom

    6.7 1981 HD

    Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting caned, which quickly earns him a small fortune

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  • 1974
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    Akenfield

    Akenfield

    7.2 1974 HD

    As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

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  • 2006
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    American Daylight

    American Daylight

    3 2006 HD

    A young Indian woman works as an operator for a US bank that outsourced its call center to India. The bank's young local manager becomes interested in her and offers her to help him game the system and make some real money.

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  • 2004
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    Bandido

    Bandido

    3.571 2004 HD

    When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.

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  • 2004
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    Bandido

    Bandido

    3.571 2004 HD

    When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.

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  • 2004
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    Bandido

    Bandido

    3.571 2004 HD

    When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.

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  • 2013
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    13 Eerie

    13 Eerie

    4.697 2013 HD

    Forensics students arriving an isolated, island "body farm" get to try out their CSI skills on a bunch of corpses under the watchful eye of their grumpy professor. The island used to house a state penitentiary where the authorities were experimenting on death row inmates and now the bodies won't stay still.

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  • 1983
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    Return of the Jedi

    Return of the Jedi

    7.9 1983 HD

    Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.

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  • 1984
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    Lorca and the Outlaws

    Lorca and the Outlaws

    3.6 1984 HD

    Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...

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  • 1999
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    Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

    Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

    6.6 1999 HD

    Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

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  • 2000
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

    5.71 2000 HD

    While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeological dig in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings. After solving the mystery, with help from Lawrence of Arabia, Indy is kidnapped by slave traders and taken across the Sahara to the slave market at Marrakech, where all his newly-honed wits are needed to escape.

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  • 1977
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    The Last Remake of Beau Geste

    The Last Remake of Beau Geste

    5.533 1977 HD

    Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

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  • 2012
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    Riddle of the Black Cat

    Riddle of the Black Cat

    1 2012 HD

    The horrifying 150-year-old mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's perverse masterpiece--solved at last! Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin matches wits with mastermind Prisoner X. After several brutal crimes have been committed, Dupin must reveal whether the perpetrator is an insane victim of the supernatural--or a psychotic genius. Elegant visuals and haunting melodies intertwine to breathe new life into an eerie tale of rotting flesh.

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  • 1970
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    And Soon the Darkness

    And Soon the Darkness

    6.5 1970 HD

    Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?

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