Search results for "Pete Postlethwaite"
The Limit

The Limit

The Limit
IMDb: 4.5
83

An undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been “in” too long. the line between her job and her assumed lifestyle as girlfriend to the crime boss (Pete Postelthwaite) has become…

Lost for Words

Lost for Words

Lost for Words
IMDb: 8
75

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Waterland

Waterland

Waterland
IMDb: 6.6
95

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
Anchoress

Anchoress

Anchoress
IMDb: 6.5
108

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
To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest
IMDb: 6.1
117

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Triggermen

Triggermen

Triggermen
IMDb: 5.8
92

Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend they are the…

Among Giants

Among Giants

Among Giants
IMDb: 5.9
93

A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray’s crew of men are friends, especially Ray…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Brassed Off

Brassed Off

Brassed Off
IMDb: 7.2
107

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father
IMDb: 8.1
133

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
Æon Flux

Æon Flux

Æon Flux
IMDb: 5.4
93

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…

Split Second

Split Second

Split Second
IMDb: 6
90

In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is…

The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid
IMDb: 7
92

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…

The Town

The Town

The Town
IMDb: 7.5
125

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 Omen

The Omen

The Omen
IMDb: 5.5
110

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
Dark Water

Dark Water

Dark Water
IMDb: 5.6
105

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…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Amistad

Amistad

Amistad
IMDb: 7.3
155

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…

Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet
IMDb: 6.7
120

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
When Saturday Comes

When Saturday Comes

When Saturday Comes
IMDb: 6
95

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
Alien³

Alien³

Alien³
IMDb: 6.4
114

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…

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
IMDb: 6.3
92

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Distant Voices, Still Lives

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Distant Voices, Still Lives
IMDb: 7.4
84

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
Killing Bono

Killing Bono

Killing Bono
IMDb: 6.3
115

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 Shipping News

The Shipping News

The Shipping News
IMDb: 6.7
111

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane
IMDb: 6.1
104

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…

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

Animal Farm
IMDb: 6
91

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
James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach
IMDb: 6.7
79

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.

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans
IMDb: 5.8
106

Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to…

Inception

Inception

Inception
IMDb: 8.8
148

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered…

The Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardener
IMDb: 7.4
129

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…

Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows
IMDb: 6.2
100

Two ‘very straight’ old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.

Genre: Comedy
The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects
IMDb: 8.5
106

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
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Treasure Island
IMDb: 7.1
131

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….

DragonHeart

DragonHeart

DragonHeart
IMDb: 6.4
103

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….

Sharpe’s Company

Sharpe’s Company

Sharpe’s Company
IMDb: 7.8
100

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…

Sharpe’s Enemy

Sharpe’s Enemy

Sharpe’s Enemy
IMDb: 7.8
90

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…

Crimetime

Crimetime

Crimetime
IMDb: 4.5
118

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

Genre: Thriller
Rat

Rat

Rat
IMDb: 5.9
89

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.

When the Sky Falls

When the Sky Falls

When the Sky Falls
IMDb: 6.4
107

Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is…

Genre: Drama
The Serpent’s Kiss

The Serpent’s Kiss

The Serpent’s Kiss
IMDb: 5.7
104

A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.

Genre: Drama, Romance