Final Portrait (2017)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Starring: Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Shalhoub, Clémence Poésy, James Faulkner, Philippe Spall
Director: Stanley Tucci
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales / Pirates of the Caribbean 5 (2017)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon while being pursued by an undead sea captain and his crew.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
The Daughter (2015)
Drama
The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Nicholas Hope, Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Anna Torv, Odessa Young, Miranda Otto
Director: Simon Stone
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Drama | Thriller
In this seductive spy thriller based on the best-selling novel by John Le Carre, Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush (Quills, Shine) delivers a dazzling performance as Harry Pendel, an ex- con turned tailor to the rich and infamous and married to smart and sexy Louisa (Jamie Lee Curtis – 'Halloween H20', 'True Lies'). Directed by Academy Award -nominee John Boorman ('Hope and Glory', 'Deliverance') and set in steamy Panama, where nothing is what it seems, Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan – 'The World is Not Enough', 'The Thomas Crown Affair'), a suave and ruthless British spy, entices Harry to eavesdropping on the powerful politicians he clothes. But Harry's talent for storytelling compels him to weave an elaborate tale that's not only taken as truth, but sets off a chain of events that threatens to destroy everything he treasures most in life.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack, Leonor Varela
Director: John Boorman
Holding the Man (2015)
Biography | Drama | Romance
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 part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve, tried to destroy them.
Starring: Ryan Corr, Sarah Snook, Guy Pearce, Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Fox, Geoffrey Rush
Director: Neil Armfield
Gods of Egypt (2016)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
In order to bring his true love back to life, a clever mortal thief teams up with a powerful and vengeful god in order to stop the merciless god of darkness who hopes to destroy both this life and the Afterlife.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Chadwick Boseman, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Rufus Sewell
Director: Alex Proyas
Gods of Egypt (2016)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
In order to bring his true love back to life, a clever mortal thief teams up with a powerful and vengeful god in order to stop the merciless god of darkness who hopes to destroy both this life and the Afterlife.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Chadwick Boseman, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Rufus Sewell
Director: Alex Proyas
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theatre scene, Will Shakespeare, faces a scourge like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block. While the great Elizabethan age of entertainment unfolds around him, Will is without inspiration on material. What Will needs is a muse–and in an extraordinary moment in which life imitates art, he finds and falls for a woman who draws him into his own dramatic adventure of star-crossed love. It all begins when Lady Viola, desperate to become an actor at a time when women were forbidden from such depravity, disguises herself as a man to audition for Will's play. But the guise slips away as their passion ignites. Now Will's quill again begins to flow, this time turning love into words, as Viola becomes his real-life Juliet and Romeo finds his reason to exist. Yet all is not well in Will's world. For even as the parchment begins to pile up, he's plagued by the fact that Lady Viola must marry the insufferable Lord Wessex.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Colin Firth
Director: John Madden
Lantana (2001)
Drama | Mystery
Trust. A dead body in bracken. A cop cheats on his unhappy wife who, in secret, sees a psychiatrist whose own marriage is corroded by grief: she thinks her husband is having an affair with a gay patient of hers. The cop's lover, Jane, is recently separated, and her neighbors – a couple with children – include a muscular unemployed man. Late one night, the doctor skids off a back road, finds a call box, and tries in vain to reach her husband. She sees headlights and flags down the driver. Later that night, Jane sees her neighbor park his truck and throw something into the lantana in a vacant lot. It's a woman's shoe. Unraveling the mystery lays bare five couples.
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Barbara Hershey, Rachael Blake
Director: Ray Lawrence
Shine (1996)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud, Googie Withers
Director: Scott Hicks
The Book Thief (2013)
Drama | War
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie Nélisse
Director: Brian Percival
The Book Thief (2013)
Drama | War
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie Nélisse
Director: Brian Percival
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The Eye of the Storm (2011)
Drama
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life – society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Colin Friels
Director: Fred Schepisi
The Best Offer / La migliore offerta (2013)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A story centered on an eccentric art auctioneer and his obsession with an heiress/collector.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland, Philip Jackson
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Quills (2000)
Biography | Drama
The infamous writer, The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France, is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed for his torturous punishments. It could mean the end of Charanton and possibly the Marquis himself.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Philip Kaufman
Candy (2006)
Drama | Romance
Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who has fallen in love with Candy, a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy, whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shooting up. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes a love triangle — a boy, a girl, and a drug.
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza Mont
Director: Neil Armfield
Les Misérables (1998)
Crime | Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes
Director: Bille August
Mystery Men (1999)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
When Captain Amazing, chief superhero of Champion City, is kidnapped by insane supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, who will save the city and ensure that justice is served? Enter the Mystery Men: Mr. Furious, The Bowler, The Blue Raja, The Shoveler, The Spleen, The Sphinx, and the Invisible Boy- a group of misfits in possession of superpowers…sort of. Watch the mayhem ensue, as this wacky team goes up against Frankenstein and his mad henchmen.
Starring: Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Wes Studi, Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush, Lena Olin, Eddie Izzard, Artie Lange, Pras, Claire Forlani, Tom Waits
Director: Kinka Usher
The King's Speech (2010)
Biography | Drama | History
Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
Starring: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Robert Portal, Richard Dixon, Geoffrey Rush
Director: Tom Hooper
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Biography | Drama | History
Growing keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late 16th century Europe, Queen Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the Spanish King Philip II — with his powerful army and sea-dominating armada — determined to restore England to Catholicism. Preparing to go to war to defend her empire, Elizabeth struggles to balance ancient royal duties with an unexpected vulnerability in her love for Sir Walter Raleigh. But he remains forbidden for a queen who has sworn body and soul to her country. Unable and unwilling to pursue her love, Elizabeth encourages her favorite lady-in-waiting, Bess, to befriend Raleigh to keep him near. But this strategy forces Elizabeth to observe their growing intimacy. As she charts her course abroad, her trusted advisor, Sir Francis Walsingham, continues his masterful puppetry of Elizabeth's court at home — and her campaign to solidify absolute power. Through an intricate spy network, Walsingham uncovers an assassination plot that could topple the throne. But as he unmasks traitors that may include Elizabeth's own cousin Mary Stuart, he unknowingly sets England up for destruction.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Jordi Mollà, Aimee King
Director: Shekhar Kapur
