Simon McBurney

All Movies of Simon McBurney

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  8.0
  Nosferatu
  New version of the iconic silent film by F.W. Murnau, 1922, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
   2024

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  5.8
  The Pale Blue Eye
  Follows a veteran detective who investigates the murders, helped by a detail-oriented young cadet who will later become a world famous author, Edgar Allan Poe.
   2022

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  4.8
  Siberia
  A man flees from one world to another that is strange and cold. Furs and fires keep him warm; a cave serves as his shelter. He is a broken man who wants to be alone. But even isolation does not bring him inner peace. Once again, h...
  Character: Magician

   2020

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  7.0
  Carnival Row (TV Series)
  8 episodes. The series is a fantasy-noir set in a neo-Victorian city in which mythical creatures, fleeing their war-torn homeland, have gathered. Tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population. Bloom ...
  Character:  Runyan Millworthy 9 episodes, 2019

   2019

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  6.3
  The Loudest Voice (TV Miniseries)
  7 episodes. This seven-part limited series from the bestselling book is about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. To understand the events that led to the rise of the modern Republican party, one must understand Ailes. Focusing ...
   2019

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  7.2
  The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
  Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
  Character: Maurice Grosse

   2016

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  6.3
  Allied
  Year 1942 during WWII. After falling in love with a French agent during a dangerous North African mission, an Allied counter-intelligence agent is quietly notified that the woman he has married and had a baby with is likely a Nazi
   2016

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  7.9
  Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
  Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is going up against a new group of adversaries: “a network of highly skilled special agents” called the Syndicate that use terrorist attacks as their calling card. In addition to working with longtime c...
  Character: Atlee

   2015

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  6.1
  Magic in the Moonlight
  Set in the south of France in the 1920s during the glamorous Jazz Age, it’s a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium (Emma Stone) as a fake.. What follows is a series of events th...
  Character: Howard Burkan

   2014

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  7.3
  The Theory of Everything
  Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Jane (Felicity Jones) struggle with Stephen’s debilitating illness as he embarks on his groundbreaking study of the nature of time, in this moving adaptation ...
  Character: Frank Hawking

   2014

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  6.3
  For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
  An Australian tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.
   2013

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  7.8
  The Borgias (TV Series)
  TV Series (2011). The Borgias is a forthcoming historical fiction television series created by Neil Jordan. The series is based on the Spanish Borgia dynasty, and stars Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia and François Arnaud, David Oa...
  Character:  Johannes Burchart (6 episodes, 2011-2013)

   2011

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  7.5
  Jane Eyre
  After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her e...
  Character: Mr. Brocklehurst

   2011

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  7.8
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons. In the 1970s, recently retired MI6 agent George Smiley is trying to adjust to civil...
     2011

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  6.0
  Rev. (TV Series)
  Rev is a contemporary sitcom about the enormous daily frustrations and moral conflicts of Reverend Adam Smallbone - a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour's
   2010

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  5.9
  Robin Hood
  Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard I’s army against the French. Upon Richard’s death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffe...
   2010

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  5.5
  Boogie Woogie
  A sideswipe at the players jostling for position on the London art scene.
   2009

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  6.7
  Body of Lies
  A former journalist injured in the Iraq war is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader in Jordan. Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius’ 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), w...
  Character: Garland

   2008

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  6.4
  The Duchess
  A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who reviled for her extravagant political and personal lives. Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keir...
  Character: Charles Fox

   2008

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  5.4
  The Golden Compass
  Based on author Philip Pullman's bestselling and award-winning novel, The Golden Compass tells the first story in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure, set in an alternative wor...
  Character: Fra Pavel

   2007

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  6.0
  Friends with Money
  Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack and Catherine Keener star as a quartet of west coast, life-long friends who have achieved a level of comfort in their lives and have now settled into a life of designer clothes, cha...
  Character: Aaron

   2006

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  7.9
  The Last King of Scotland
  In an incredible twist of fate, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by D...
  Character: Stone

   2006

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  Human Touch
  The wealthy Edward (Haywood) sparks to Anna (Mckenzie), the lead voice in a choir that's raising money for an upcoming trip to China. He donates money to her choir, and she agrees to sit for him for a series of still-life drawings...
   2004

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  6.2
  Sweet Dreams
  Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drun...
   2003

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  6.0
  Onegin
   1998

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  6.1
  Cousin Bette
  Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, sh...
  Character: Vauvinet

   1998

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  5.5
  Mesmer
  The 18th-century Viennese medical establishment is threatened by the radical yet successful healing methods of Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer. Blind pianist Maria Theresa Paradies, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, beco...
  Character: Franz

   1994

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  6.1
  Kafka
  Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major e...
  Character: Assistant Oscar

   1991