Search results for "Pete Postlethwaite"
Killing Bono (2011)

Killing Bono (2011)

Killing Bono (2011)
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The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Town (2010)

The Town (2010)

The Town (2010)
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Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Age of Stupid (2009)

The Age of Stupid (2009)

The Age of Stupid (2009)
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The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in…

Solomon Kane (2009)

Solomon Kane (2009)

Solomon Kane (2009)
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A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free…

Closing the Ring (2007)

Closing the Ring (2007)

Closing the Ring (2007)
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During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Ghost Son (2007)

Ghost Son (2007)

Ghost Son (2007)
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A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband’s South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.

The Omen (2006)

The Omen (2006)

The Omen (2006)
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A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.

Genre: Horror
Æon Flux (2005)

Æon Flux (2005)

Æon Flux (2005)
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400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world’s population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the…

The Constant Gardener (2005)

The Constant Gardener (2005)

The Constant Gardener (2005)
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Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes…

Dark Water (2005)

Dark Water (2005)

Dark Water (2005)
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Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York’s Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an…

Cowboy Up (2002)

Cowboy Up (2002)

Cowboy Up (2002)
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“Cowboy Up” is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around;…

Between Strangers (2002)

Between Strangers (2002)

Between Strangers (2002)
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Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Genre: Drama
Triggermen (2002)

Triggermen (2002)

Triggermen (2002)
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One of two deadly hired kilers switches places with one of a duo of conmen in order to pursue love.

The Shipping News (2001)

The Shipping News (2001)

The Shipping News (2001)
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An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Rat (2001)

Rat (2001)

Rat (2001)
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After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin’s life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.

Animal Farm (1999)

Animal Farm (1999)

Animal Farm (1999)
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An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Amistad (1997)

Amistad (1997)

Amistad (1997)
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In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in…

Bandyta (1997)

Bandyta (1997)

Bandyta (1997)
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Bastard depicts the distress of needy children and the love of a nurse and a hard boiled criminal. A film from Polish director Maciej Dejczer and actor Til Schweiger’s first…

Genre: Drama
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
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Four years after Jurassic Park’s genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret…

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Romeo + Juliet (1996)
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In director Baz Luhrmann’s contemporary take on William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Brassed Off (1996)

Brassed Off (1996)

Brassed Off (1996)
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A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Crimetime (1996)

Crimetime (1996)

Crimetime (1996)
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The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

Genre: Thriller
DragonHeart (1996)

DragonHeart (1996)

DragonHeart (1996)
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In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco….

Genre: Fantasy
James and the Giant Peach (1996)

James and the Giant Peach (1996)

James and the Giant Peach (1996)
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When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

When Saturday Comes (1996)

When Saturday Comes (1996)

When Saturday Comes (1996)
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Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas – he…

Genre: Drama
The Usual Suspects (1995)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

The Usual Suspects (1995)
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Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sharpe’s Enemy (1994)

Sharpe’s Enemy (1994)

Sharpe’s Enemy (1994)
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Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe’s old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for…

Sharpe’s Company (1994)

Sharpe’s Company (1994)

Sharpe’s Company (1994)
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Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe’s past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of…

In the Name of the Father (1993)

In the Name of the Father (1993)

In the Name of the Father (1993)
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A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his…

Genre: Drama
Anchoress (1993)

Anchoress (1993)

Anchoress (1993)
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Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can “live in the Virgin’s house forever.” Based on…

Genre: Drama
Waterland (1992)

Waterland (1992)

Waterland (1992)
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The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Alien³ (1992)

Alien³ (1992)

Alien³ (1992)
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After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks…

Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Split Second (1992)

Split Second (1992)

Split Second (1992)
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In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature….

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
The Grass Arena (1992)

The Grass Arena (1992)

The Grass Arena (1992)
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The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself….

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Treasure Island (1990)

Treasure Island (1990)

Treasure Island (1990)
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Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew….

Genre: Adventure, Family
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
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The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (along with “Trilogy” and “The Long Day Closes”) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based…

Genre: Drama, Music
To Kill a Priest (1988)

To Kill a Priest (1988)

To Kill a Priest (1988)
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A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

A Private Function (1984)

A Private Function (1984)

A Private Function (1984)
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In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor…

Genre: Comedy