
David Thewlis
David Wheeler (born March 20, 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television. He has received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and acted in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993), winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the latter. He then appeared in films such as Black Beauty (1994), Restoration (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He became more widely known to film audiences for his roles as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011) and Ares / Sir Patrick Morgan in Wonder Woman (2017). Other film roles include Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Anomalisa (2015), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022).
Thewlis' most notable television roles include V. M. Varga in the third season of FX's Fargo (2017), the voice of the Shame Wizard in the Netflix animated sitcoms Big Mouth (2017–present) and Human Resources (2022–present), Christopher Edwards in the HBO miniseries Landscapers (2021), and John Dee in the Netflix drama series The Sandman (2022). His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.697 |
Birthday | 1963-03-20 |
Place of Birth | Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK |
Also Known As | 데이빗 듈리스, David Wheeler, 大卫·休里斯, دیوید تیولیس, |

1997

Seven Years in Tibet
7.157/2880
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the...
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2005

Kingdom of Heaven
6.976/4399
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Kingdom of Heaven

2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8/21954
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts...
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2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7.7/19752
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...
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2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7.7/19740
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie wi...
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2006

The Omen
5.619/1084
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.
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1996

James and the Giant Peach
6.6/1335
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 strang...
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2006

Basic Instinct 2
5.005/774
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, l...
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2000

Gangster No. 1
6.4/210
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk a...
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2022

Enola Holmes 2
7.356/1494
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous...
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1992

Damage
6.6/609
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
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2000

The Miracle Maker
6/44
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...
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1993

Naked
7.3/581
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
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2001

Goodbye Charlie Bright
6.2/22
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1996

DragonHeart
6.539/1995
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2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.7/19352
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2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
8.1/20872
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2003

Timeline
5.7/1078
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1996

The Island of Dr. Moreau
4.9/517
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to...
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2009

Veronika Decides to Die
5.9/254
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1995

Restoration
5.987/119
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel j...
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1994

Black Beauty
6.746/338
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
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2008

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
7.829/7274
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of t...
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1995

Total Eclipse
6.4/530
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1990

Life Is Sweet
7/160
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1991

Afraid of the Dark
5.3/30
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
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Afraid of the Dark

2011

Anonymous
6.4/727
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fac...
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1998

Divorcing Jack
6/24
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as a...
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1998

Besieged
6.7/61
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do...
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2005

All the Invisible Children
7.1/66
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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2010

Mr. Nice
6.119/155
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...
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2000

Endgame
6.8/6
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins....
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2010

London Boulevard
5.868/753
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
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2007

The Inner Life of Martin Frost
4.3/14
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but...
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2000

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
6.143/21
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
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1993

The Trial
5.8/27
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and d...
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1997

The Making of 'DragonHeart'
6.5/2
This documentary was first released on the laserdisc for DragonHeart, and was then re-released on both the Collector's Edition and Franchise Collectio...
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2011

War Horse
7.3/3439
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...
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1989

Resurrected
5.6/15
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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2011

The Lady
6.8/255
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
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2003

Cheeky
6.4/8
Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a...
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2013

RED 2
6.523/4067
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
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2013

The Zero Theorem
6.107/1225
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they s...
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1991

Filipina Dreamgirls
8/2
Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for romance and possible marriage. None of the women are t...
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Littlemouth
0/0
It tells the story of a computer scientist who is recruited by a tech billionaire to work on a project that could change humanity's place in the unive...
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2013

The Fifth Estate
6/1011
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the...
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2002

D.I.Y. Hard
8.7/3
A hostage situation takes an unusual turn.
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1987

Road
7.3/15
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world....
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2004

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
7.4/18
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
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1988

Vroom
6.3/5
Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubblegum pink chevrolet.
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Vroom

2005

The New World
6.5/1172
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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The New World

2014

Queen & Country
6/65
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle the...
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Queen & Country

2014

The Theory of Everything
7.846/10631
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who fall...
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The Theory of Everything

2015

Macbeth
6.5/1456
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power...
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Macbeth

2015

Regression
5.6/1799
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John u...
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Regression

2011

The Organ Grinder's Monkey
4/2
A cockroach with artistic aspirations follows an angst-ridden and talentless artist from pub to studio in pursuit of his dream, and comes to a sticky...
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2014

Stonehearst Asylum
6.9/1445
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea...
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2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.542/72
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2015

Legend
7.056/3936
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using...
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Legend

1998

The Big Lebowski
7.84/11372
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelc...
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1987

The Short & Curlies
6.321/28
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...
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The Short & Curlies

1992

Swords at Teatime
0/0
Michael climbs on to the roof of the block of flats where he lives with his mother, and finds a world of make-believe, duels, and chickens existing ov...
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Swords at Teatime

2015

An Inspector Calls
7.4/229
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide....
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An Inspector Calls

1999

Love Story
0/0
Dave, a homeless man, shares a public toilet with narcotic users and alcoholics. Struggling to survive, he resorts to theft to provide for his pregnan...
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Love Story

2003

Little Wolf's Book of Badness
7.5/4
He washes his paws, brushes his teeth and goes to bed early. He is packed off to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College, where he will learn the Nine Rules of...
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Little Wolf's Book of Badness

2014

Sunday Roast
0/0
When a nervous young actor is sent to a mortuary to explore his fear of death, he is given the tour by a foul mouthed and bitter mortician who does ev...
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Sunday Roast

2017

Wonder Woman
7.2/20108
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Wonder Woman

1991

Journey to Knock
0/0
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
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Journey to Knock

1997

American Perfekt
6.1/18
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be m...
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American Perfekt

2018

The Mercy
5.9/280
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in t...
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The Mercy

1987

Little Dorrit
6.5/11
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young sea...
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Little Dorrit

2002

Hamilton Mattress
6.3/6
Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.
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Hamilton Mattress

2002

Dinotopia
6.5/1
After a plane crash strands two brothers on a lost continent where dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony, they disagree over escape plans. (C...
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Dinotopia

2013

Separate We Come, Separate We Go
6.5/1
Separate We Come, Separate We Go is the story of a 10-year-old girl, Thea who escapes her bleak domestic life to find sanctuary in the surreal desert...
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Separate We Come, Separate We Go

2011

How to Get a Head in Sculpture
8/1
From the heads of Roman Emperors to the 'blood head' of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the greatest figures in world sculpture have continual...
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How to Get a Head in Sculpture

2017

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
7.3/89
A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story...
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

2017

Justice League
6.076/13078
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisti...
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Justice League

2020

Eternal Beauty
6.1/69
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
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Eternal Beauty

2018

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
5.7/15
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew...
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2020

Guest of Honour
5.5/21
Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting ou...
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Guest of Honour

2021

Rare Beasts
5.5/28
Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of he...
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Rare Beasts

1991

Skulduggery
0/0
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The...
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Skulduggery

1992

Black and Blue
0/0
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the w...
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Black and Blue

2025

Avatar: Fire and Ash
0/0
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop...
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Avatar: Fire and Ash

2010

Athena
0/0
Chuck, a loner who had better days, runs a Halliday store in the middle of Californian desert. Customers are rare and he has only one regular, old Bil...
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Athena

2015

Anomalisa
7.117/1714
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
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Anomalisa

2022

The Amazing Maurice
6.8/156
Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rode...
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2016

None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
0/0
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa.
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2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.1/10144
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...
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Zack Snyder's Justice League

2021

Val
7.118/178
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film a...
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2020

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
6.576/1978
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
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1988

Deep Red Instant Love
0/0
Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Lander’s colourful satire on capitalism.
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Deep Red Instant Love

2002

Discovering Dinotopia
6.489/45
The citizens of Waterfall City flee for the tenuous safety of Earthfarm, abandoning their city to the dangerous Outsiders - who discover the key to Di...
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2025

The Thing with Feathers
0/0
A young father hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartmen...
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1994

Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
0/0
A revealing and often ribald look at the seaside resort where people can let their hair down, whether in the sedate atmosphere of the Tower Ballroom o...
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