Pete Postlethwaite

All Movies of Pete Postlethwaite

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  Killing Bono
  Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
   2011

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  5.3
  Clash of the Titans
  A remake of the 1981 film version of the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster in order to save the Princess Andromeda. In Clash of the Titans, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against ...
  Character: Spyros

   2010

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  7.9
  The Town
  "Thieves" is the tale of four men -- thieves, rivals and friends -- being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent and a woman who might destroy them all. The book won the 2005 Hammett Prize for exce...
  Character: Fergus “Fergie” Colm

   2010

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  8.3
  Inception
  Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Co...
  Character: Maurice

   2010

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  The Age of Stupid
  A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
   2009

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  Criminal Justice (TV Miniseries)
  One mad night and Ben Coulter's life is changed forever. As he gets ready to go out on the town, the 21-year-old looks in the mirror. It will be the last time he's able to recognise the person who looks back. Little does Ben know ...
   2008

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  6.3
  Closing the Ring
  In Kentucky, 1941, the wild and beautiful Ethel is courted by three friends, Jack, Chuck and Teddy, all of whom, unsurprisingly, are smitten with Ethel. But it is Teddy who becomes her sweetheart, and when the three friends are se...
  Character: Quinlan

   2007

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  4.5
  The Omen
  An American diplomat begins to suspect that something is wrong with his son, Damien, after a series of strange accidents takes place around him. He begins to suspect that Junior is actually the son of the devil, in this remake of ...
  Character: Father Brennan

   2006

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  5.4
  Dark Water
  Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daugh...
  Character: Veeck

   2005

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  5.5
  Red Mercury
   2005

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  4.6
  Æon Flux
  In the year 2011 industrial disease will destroy 99% of the world's population. The survivors will create a walled city and share a perfect life together, but this perfect life needs a revolution.
  Character: Keeper

   2005

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  7.9
  The Constant Gardener
  Ralph Fiennes stars as Kenya-based English diplomat Justin Quayle, whose wife is murdered, along with a man she's suspected of having an affair with, a local human rights activist. When Quayle starts investigating the killings, he...
  Character: Lorbeer

   2005

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  4.0
  The Limit
  Character: Gale

   2004

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  6.0
  Between Strangers
  Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
  Character: John

   2002

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  Cowboy Up
   2001

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  5.8
  The Shipping News
  Based on the 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Prouix, Kevin Spacey plays an emotionally beaten man who moves himself and his two daughters back to his hometown in Newfoundland. His adulterous wife’s (Blanchett) deat...
  Character: Tert Card

   2001

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  The Sins (TV Miniseries)
  A seven-part serio-comic drama set amongst London's criminal fraternity, with each episode taking as its loose theme one of the seven deadly sins. After four years in prison Len Green is released. With the support of his wife and ...
   2000

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  6.0
  Alice In Wonderland (TV)
  A acclaimed British production which originally aired on NBC, Lewis Carroll's classic story comes to life once again in this updated version- with an all-star cast including Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Miranda Richardson, and G
  Character: Carpenter

   1999

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  7.8
  Lost for Words
  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 and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?
  Character: Deric Longden

   1999

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  6.5
  Wayward Son
  A Southern man in the Depression tries to pick up the pieces of his life after being wrongly imprisoned for eleven years. He is befriended by a farmer whose daughter is emotionally and physically frail because of scarlet fever. A ...
  Character: Ben Alexander

   1999

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  5.0
  Among Giants
  Among Giants is a triangular love story played out against a spectacular North of England landscape. Two men's lives are changed forever when a young Australian woman joins their team of painters on a risky and not quite kosher jo...
  Character: Raymond 'Ray'

   1998

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  5.0
  The Serpent's Kiss
  Young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome comes to a remote English estate where Thomas Smithers lives with his wife, Juliana. Smithers is determined to leave as his legacy a fabulous garden, to be carved from a wild patch of ...
   1997

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  The Making of 'Lost World'
  This feature-length documentary is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both the cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage filmed during the making of the film and special looks to the creation of the anim...
  Character: Self

   1997

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  7.1
  Brassed Off
  Economics and music are the twin focal points of this comedy/drama about a community in crisis. The small British town of Grimley has long been dominated by the coal mine where most of the men work, and the town's greatest source ...
  Character: Danny

   1997

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  6.3
  The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  John Hammond summons chaos theorist and onetime colleague Ian Malcolm to his home with some startling information -- while nearly everything at his Jurassic Park had been destroyed, engineers were also operating a second site, whe...
  Character: Roland Tembo

   1997

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  7.1
  Amistad
  Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling from Cuba to the U.S. in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been sold into slavery in Cuba, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is cro...
  Character: Holabird

   1997

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  6.0
  Crimetime
  Crimetime is set in the future where the media is nearly omnipotent. When an unemployed actor named Bobby is hired to play a serial killer on a crime reenactment television series he desires to understand the killer's motivations ...
   1996

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  6.9
  James and the Giant Peach
  An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.
   1996

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  6.0
  DragonHeart
  A boy and his dragon unite to fight evil in this fantasy. Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a Knight of The Old Code in Medieval times, is summoned by Aislinn the Queen (Julie Christie) to the bedside of her son, Einon, who is also Bowen's st...
  Character: Gilbert of Glockenspur

   1996

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  6.8
  Romeo + Juliet
  This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept ap...
  Character: Father Laurence

   1996

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  7.3
  When Saturday Comes
   1995

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  8.5
  The Usual Suspects
  Director Bryan Singer's labyrinthine crime drama centers on five career criminals who meet after being rounded up for a standard police line-up. Upon their release, the men band together to pull off an intricate heist involving 3 ...
  Character: Kobayashi

   1995

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  Suite 16
  The disabled Glover asks gigolo Chris to bring out his erotic fantasies. Chris accepts the offer in exchange for a lot of money, and dives in bed with women in suite 16 while Glover watches. But then something goes horribly wrong.
   1994

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  7.9
  Sharpe's Enemy (TV)
  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 ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles...
  Character: Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill

   1994

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  Martin Chuzzlewit (TV Miniseries)
  6 episodes. "Martin Chuzzlewit" is the story of a reprehensible English clan grasping after their patriarch's money.
   1994

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  8.3
  In the Name of the Father
  Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a London pub. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Conlon, a young...
  Character: Giuseppe Conlon

   1993

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  Waterland
   1992

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  6.3
  Alien³
  Despite the efforts of Ripley and the space marines in the film Aliens, an embryonic alien infiltrates the starship. It accidentally triggers the ship's emergency systems, dropping the escape capsule to the surface of a nearby pla...
  Character: David

   1992

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  8.1
  The Last of the Mohicans
  During wartime in colonial American, two British sisters try to make their way to their father’s side. They encounter three Mohican trappers -- two natives and a white man (Daniel Day-Lewis) who was adopted by the Mohicans. The ...
  Character: Capt. Beams

   1992

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  7.8
  Treasure Island (TV)
  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. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bon...
  Character: George Merry (as Peter Postlethwaite)

   1990

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  6.6
  Hamlet
  When he hears that his father the king has died, Hamlet (Mel Gibson) returns home to Denmark. He finds that mother Gertrude (Glenn Close) has married his uncle Claudius who is now the new king and they are planning that Hamlet sho...
  Character: Player King

   1990

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  Tumbledown (TV)
  This film is based on the true story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence M.C. (Colin Firth), a former British Army officer, who fought and was severely wounded in the Falklands War in the battle for Tumbledown Hill in June 1982. His acc...
  Character: Major (Rehabilitation Centre)

   1988

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  The Dressmaker
  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.
   1988

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  7.0
  Distant Voices, Still Lives
  This is a bleak portrait (or rather, two portraits) of a British family just after World War II. The two segments are titled, appropriately enough, "Distant Voices" and "Still Lives." The first revolves around ...
  Character: Father

   1988

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  Screen Two (TV Series)
  (1985-2002). 10 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The resul...
   1985

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  6.5
  A Private Function
  Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire where strict post-war rationing is putting the squeeze on the townspeople. But when a married working-class couple (Palin and Smith) discovers that the town s wealthy elite has been secretly fatte...
  Character: Nuttal

   1984

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  Minder (TV Series)
  Serie about the London criminal underworld. Arthur Daley, a small-time conman, hires former boxer Terry McCann to be his 'minder', so Terry can protect him (Arthur) from other, small-time, crooks. While Terry is trying his hardest...
   1979