The Terminal
Year: 2004
Plot: After arriving at New York's JFK airport, Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) gets unwittingly caught in bureaucratic glitches that make it impossible for him to return to his home country or enter the U.S. Now, caught up in the richly complex and amusing world inside the airport, Viktor makes friends, gets a job and finds romance.
Rating: 7.4 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: Netflix
Inferno
Year: 2016
Plot: An adaptation of the Dan Brown book. It finds Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world’s population.
Rating: 6.2 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: Netflix
Angels and Demons
Year: 2009
Plot: An adaptation of the Dan Brown book. Robert Langdon follows ancient clues on a hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the secret society, the Illuminati.
Rating: 6.7 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: Netflix
The Post
Year: 2017
Plot: Directed by Steven Spielberg also starring Meryl Streep, this a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents.
Rating: 7.2 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: Netflix
The Circle
Year: 2017
Plot: A woman lands a job at a powerful tech company called the Circle, where she becomes involved with a mysterious man.
Rating: 5.3 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: Netflix
The Money Pit
Year: 1986
Plot: After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams - only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare.
Rating: 6.4 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: Netflix
Larry Crowne
Year: 2011
Plot: After losing his job, Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) returns to college with the aim of reinventing himself.
Rating: 6.1 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: Amazon Prime
Splash
Year: 1984
Plot: Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) is reunited with a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who saved him from drowning as a boy. He falls in love with her, not knowing who or what she is.
Rating: 6.2 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Big
Year: 1988
Plot: After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
Rating: 7.3 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
A League Of Their Own
Year: 1992
Plot: Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
Rating: 7.3 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Philadelphia
Year: 1993
Plot: When lawyer Andy Beckett (Tom Hanks) is fired by a law firm after contracting HIV, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer (Denzel Washington) to sue the company for wrongful dismissal.
Rating: 7.7 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Forrest Gump
Year: 1994
Plot: Hanks plays Forrest Gump, a man with an IQ of 75, whose charmed life plays out amid the presidencies of JFK, Lyndon B Johnson, the Vietnam war and more.
Rating: 8.8 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Apollo 13
Year: 1995
Plot: Hanks plays Jim Lovell, a member of the Apollo 13 crew whose craft suffers damage in space. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
Rating: 7.6 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Saving Private Ryan
Year: 1998
Plot: During World War II Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) takes his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat.
Rating: 8.6 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
The Green Mile
Year: 1999
Plot: The lives of guards on death row are affected by a man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
Rating: 8.6 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Cast Away
Year: 2000
Plot: A FedEx worker (Tom Hanks) becomes stranded on a desert island after a plane on which he is a passenger crashes into the ocean.
Rating: 7.8 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Catch Me If You Can
Year: 2002
Plot: Inspired by the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr (Leonardo Di Caprio) a con-artist. Hanks plays Carl Hanratty, the FBI agent tasked with catching him.
Rating: 8.1 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
Captain Phillips
Year: 2013
Plot: Hanks plays the captain of US container ship Maersk Alabama, which is hijacked by Somali pirates.
Rating: 7.8 (IMDB)
Where to watch it: YouTube Movies
