Dennis Quaid is a nonchalant, acerbic, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kinda pilot, and when he picks up a disgruntled oil rig crew in the middle of a desert no one is keen to make friends. A couple of hours later, having barely survived a vicious storm, everyone is stranded deep in the Gobi thousands of miles from civilisation and with only the remnants of a plane. Rather than accept their fate the survivors’ band together and decide to build a new craft from the bits that are left, a pointless a find out more...

When a group of disparate characters crash in the merciless desert of the Sahara, it would seem their fate is sealed, but not all of them are so willing to offer up their life to the sands, and so begins a race against time to create from the wreckage a means of escape. Flight of The Phoenix is a classic example of the "they don't make them like that anymore", part boys own adventure, part astute study of human nature in the face of adversity, a gripping story intelligently adapted from Elleston find out more...

Adapted from the classic, poetic allegory by the French pilot and explorer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, this tale of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara Desert and meets an enchanting young boy who comes from an asteroid somewhere in outer-space is ultimately a sad and touching observation on life. Featuring some beautiful desert landscapes, intergalactic flashbacks and great cameos from Gene Wilder and Bob Fosse. find out more...