
Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor and musician. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a nomination for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award.
He started his career portraying Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours (1986–1989). Pearce received international attention for his breakout role in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). Subsequently, he starred as Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson's crime noir L.A. Confidential (1997) and a man suffering short-term memory loss in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Memento (2000).
He also acted in The Time Machine (2002), Bedtime Stories (2008), The Road (2009), The Hurt Locker (2009), The King's Speech (2010), and Lawless (2012). He portrayed Peter Weyland in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), Aldrich Killian in the Marvel action film Iron Man 3 (2013) and William Cecil in the biopic Mary Queen of Scots (2018). In Australian cinema, Pearce has acted in The Proposition (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014). For his performance in The Brutalist(2024), he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Since 2012, he has played the title role in the TV adaptations of the Jack Irish stories by Australian crime writer Peter Temple. Pearce starred in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown. The former won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.351 |
Birthday | 1967-10-05 |
Place of Birth | Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Guy Edward Pearce, 盖·爱德华·皮尔斯, Гай Едвард Пірс, گای پیرس, |

2000

Memento
8.177/15128
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the f...
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Memento

1997

L.A. Confidential
7.793/5053
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of...
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L.A. Confidential

2002

The Time Machine
6.254/2301
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two...
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The Time Machine

2008

Bedtime Stories
6.145/2843
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa...
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Bedtime Stories

1999

Ravenous
6.841/627
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving...
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Ravenous

2004

Two Brothers
7.113/831
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces...
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Two Brothers

1994

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
7.3/815
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they...
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

2000

Rules of Engagement
6.2/719
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.
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Rules of Engagement

2009

The Road
7.013/3916
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough t...
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The Road

2002

The Count of Monte Cristo
7.7/1840
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable...
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The Count of Monte Cristo

2008

The Hurt Locker
7.255/5698
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his wo...
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The Hurt Locker

2006

Factory Girl
6.014/250
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems...
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2008

Traitor
6.644/647
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former...
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Traitor

2007

Death Defying Acts
6/259
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
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2002

Till Human Voices Wake Us
5.3/24
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side...
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Till Human Voices Wake Us

2024

The Brutalist
7.095/794
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life. On his own in a strange new country, a wealthy indus...
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2025

The Shrouds
7/1
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living...
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The Shrouds

2010

Animal Kingdom
6.8/830
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved i...
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Animal Kingdom

2009

Winged Creatures
5.9/142
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horre...
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Winged Creatures

2006

First Snow
6.1/163
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
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First Snow

2022

The Infernal Machine
6.3/259
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought h...
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The Infernal Machine

1996

Dating the Enemy
6.5/29
Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their firs...
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Dating the Enemy

2002

The Hard Word
5.4/46
Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you...
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The Hard Word

2005

The Proposition
7/643
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...
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The Proposition

2010

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
5.773/1048
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

2010

In Her Skin
6/120
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
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In Her Skin

2024

The Convert
6.1/124
Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maian...
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1999

A Slipping Down Life
4.3/17
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
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A Slipping Down Life

2013

Iron Man 3
6.928/22400
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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Iron Man 3

2012

Lockout
5.936/1854
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission...
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Lockout

2018

The Catcher Was a Spy
6.2/291
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
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The Catcher Was a Spy

2012

Prometheus
6.572/12444
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they...
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Prometheus

2012

Lawless
7.06/3101
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging....
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Lawless

2011

Seeking Justice
5.9/1008
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
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Seeking Justice

2012

Jack Irish: Bad Debts
6.3/51
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investi...
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts

2012

Jack Irish: Black Tide
6.7/36
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading ph...
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Jack Irish: Black Tide

2014

The Rover
6.3/952
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback,...
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The Rover

2012

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
7/14
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," featuring cast and crew interviews, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. Rele...
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2011

33 Postcards
6.1/16
Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are cha...
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2013

Breathe In
5.9/315
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters th...
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Breathe In

2014

Hateship Loveship
5.8/146
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's pran...
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1998

Woundings
3.1/7
A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.
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Woundings


Easter Rising
10/1
A film by Irish Director Jason Barry (Bog Bodies, Titanic). Set in Ireland, and starring Guy Pearce (Memento, LA Confidential) as Padraig Pearse, East...
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2010

The King's Speech
7.734/8797
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie...
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2014

Jack Irish: Dead Point
6.8/31
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
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1990

Heaven Tonight
5/1
The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but...
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1991

Hunting
2/2
An American tycoon goes to Melbourne where he meets a married secretary.
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Hunting

1993

Flynn
4/3
A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.
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Flynn

2017

Alien: Covenant
6.155/8797
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but...
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Killing Faith
0/0
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journ...
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Killing Faith

2022

Neighbours Made Me a Star
7/1
Following the soap's final episodes, a tribute to the residents of Ramsay Street and the stars that Neighbours shot to fame. Aside from a look at Kyli...
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1997

The Devil Game
0/0
Detectives are trying to cracking down on a drug smuggling ring in a local fishing village.
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The Devil Game

2015

Results
5.055/200
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
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Results

2024

Sunrise
6.1/38
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a v...
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Sunrise

2015

Equals
6.1/1377
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
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Equals

2025

Inside
0/0
Mel is transferred from a juvenile to an adult jail and is taken under the wing of Mark, Australia's most hated criminal, and Warren, a soon-to-be-par...
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Scott Matthews - Wait in the Car.
0/0
Adrift while burdened by the weight of grief, Robert seeks a way through the obscurity of a life he never planned. Carrying only mementos of former ha...
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Scott Matthews - Wait in the Car.

2016

Genius
6.5/684
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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Genius

2016

Brimstone
7.2/1151
In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
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Brimstone

2015

Holding the Man
7.7/449
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor...
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Holding the Man

2015

Between a Frock and a Hard Place
7.8/3
This is the story behind one of the world’s most loved films; about three unlikely Australian hero-(ine)s daring to step up from the shadows in their...
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Between a Frock and a Hard Place


Untitled Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel
0/0
Plot details are still under wraps, but it will feature a grown-up version of Tick’s 7-year-old son from the original film.
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1994

Ladies Please!
1/1
"Ladies Please" is a rare and stimulating insight into the bohemian world that is drag and into the professional and personal lives of three of its mo...
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Ladies Please!

2015

Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite
0.5/1
The stars of Neighbours, past and present, reminisce about their time on the show, plus a countdown of the top five most memorable moments chosen by v...
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Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite

2018

Swinging Safari
5.3/60
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed...
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Swinging Safari

2018

Spinning Man
5.578/449
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reaso...
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Spinning Man

2018

Mary Queen of Scots
6.56/1803
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ru...
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Mary Queen of Scots

2019

Domino
4.6/278
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitou...
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Domino

2017

Donny The Drone
4.5/4
Donny the Drone --the world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person of the Year” award as an auditorium of humans are c...
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Donny The Drone

2016

Lorne
4.7/3
Lorne, a wasteland traveler dealing with the oppressing boundaries of isolation, is confronted by a mysterious stranger, who helps him realize his exi...
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Lorne


Poor Boy
0/0
A little boy announces on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny, a grown man who died seven years earlier.
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Poor Boy

2019

The Last Vermeer
6.5/124
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a f...
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The Last Vermeer

2020

Disturbing the Peace
4.6/124
A small-town marshal who hasn't carried a gun since he left the Texas Rangers after a tragic shooting must pick up his gun again to do battle with a g...
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Disturbing the Peace

2020

Bloodshot
6.708/5006
After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman,...
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Bloodshot

2021

The Seventh Day
5.3/267
A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and...
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The Seventh Day

2019

FX's A Christmas Carol
7.19/189
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts...
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FX's A Christmas Carol

2021

Zone 414
5.3/265
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
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Zone 414

2020

Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff
6/1
Behind the scenes of Disturbing the Peace
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2021

Back to the Outback
7.706/732
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an e...
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Back to the Outback

2021

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
7/2478
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

2022

Memory
6.8/1527
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime s...
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Memory

2008

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
7/2
Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a modern classic.
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Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

2008

Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
5/4
Curtis Hanson and his behind-the-scenes collaborators reveal the secrets of bringing 1950s Los Angeles to life in unforgettable style.
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Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'

2014

Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'
5/1
Behind the scenes look at David Michôd's 2014 film 'The Rover'.
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Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'


The Woman in Cabin 10
0/0
A journalist witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard a luxury yacht at night—only to be told that it didn’t happen as all the passengers and crew...
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The Woman in Cabin 10


Mr. Sunny Sky
0/0
Leonard Moore is a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he meets Shirley, another lost soul wi...
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Mr. Sunny Sky

2015

Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life
5.3/3
The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emig...
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Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life


Blurred
0/0
After a brutal mugging leaves him with double vision, a fashion photographer turns to a grieving woman for inspiration—until obsession warps reality,...
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Blurred


The Dog Stars
0/0
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gu...
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The Dog Stars

2012

The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023
8/1
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