Ridley Scott Movies Bucket List

Patrizia Reggiani marries into the family, is pushed out, and has her ex-husband shot.

Mogadishu, October 1993: a raid meant to take an hour runs all night.

Matt Damon grows potatoes on Mars; Ridley Scott's most cheerful film.

Los Angeles, 2019: a detective hunts four replicants who want more life.

Seven crew, one ship, one creature; the haunted house in space that started it all.

Ridley Scott returns to the universe with the Engineers and the origin of the black goo.

Maximus's quest for revenge in ancient Rome (2000).

Getty refuses to pay his grandson’s ransom; Plummer replaced Spacey in nine days of reshoots.

Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.

A CIA operative in Jordan invents a terrorist group to flush out a real one.

Lucius comes back to the arena twenty years on, with rhinos and a sea battle in the Colosseum.

Demi Moore shaves her head to get through SEAL selection as a senator’s test case.

A Queens detective is put on a Manhattan murder witness and falls for her.

Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.

A lawyer takes one drug deal and cannot take it back; the only screenplay Cormac McCarthy wrote for the screen.

A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.

Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.

One accusation told three ways, ending in the last judicial duel France allowed.

Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.

Tim Curry as Darkness under six hours of makeup a day, in a forest built on the 007 stage.

Frank Lucas imports heroin in the coffins of dead servicemen; Washington against Crowe.

A London trader inherits a Provence vineyard and is talked out of selling it.

The archer before the legend: Crowe comes back from the Crusades to a bankrupt England.

Two New York cops escort a yakuza home to Osaka and lose him on the tarmac.

A school ship goes down in a squall in 1961 and the captain is put on trial for it.

An obsessive-compulsive con man meets the teenage daughter he did not know about.

Lecter in Florence ten years on, and a dinner scene that lost the film half its audience.