Speed 2: Cruise Control / Speed II (1997)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.
Starring: Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Colleen Camp, Mike Hagerty
Director: Jan de Bont
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II / Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013)
Drama | Mystery
The continuation of the erotic adventure and life story of Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac whose personal and professional lives are shaped by her out-of-control sexual compulsions.
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Christian Slater
Director: Lars von Trier
Bad Country / Whiskey Bay (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Inspired by real events, 'Bad Country' (a.k.a. 'Whiskey Bay') is a Louisiana set crime drama. In 1983, veteran Baton Rouge detective Bud Carter infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organisation, including its architect, Lutin.
Starring: Amy Smart, Neal McDonough, Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Bill Duke, Tom Berenger
Director: Chris Brinker
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-con attempts to blend into his new surroundings in an Indiana town, but is haunted by a figure from his past.
Starring: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Sam Shepard
Director: Scott Cooper
The Clearing (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wayne Hayes is a well-off business executive with his own personal slice of the American dream: a beautiful wife, Eileen, two grown-up children, a lovely home in Pittsburg and a successful business built up from scratch. The Hayes' perfect world is turned upside down when Wayne is kidnapped by one of his employees and held ransom in remote woodlands. Eileen must deal with a houseful of FBI agents, and Wayne must draw on his powers of negotiation as never before…
Starring: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
Odd Thomas (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
The peculiarly named, Odd Thomas is a young man who spends his days as an unassuming short-order cook in a local dinner. The thing that makes Odd's name so fitting is that he possesses a clairvoyance that allows him to spot demons and communicate with spirits wandering in our dimension.
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe, Ashley Sommers, Nico Tortorella
Director: Stephen Sommers
Affliction (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wade Whitehouse is a sheriff of a small New Hampshire town who achieved nothing in life in the opinion of his ex-wife Lillian and daughter Jill and is a heavy drinker. His girlfriend Margie accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy businessman to hunt – and only Jack returns alive. Wade decides to play detective and starts investigating the case despite the fact Jack insists it was an accidental self-inflicted shot.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Brigid Tierney, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe
Director: Paul Schrader
Auto Focus (2002)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
Animal Factory (2000)
Crime | Drama
Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing. The film explores the nature of that relationship, Ron's part in Earl's gang, and the way Ron deals with aggressive cons intent on assault and rape. There's casual racism, too, in the prisoners and the guards, a strike called by Black prisoners, and the nearly omnipresence of hard drugs. Ron's lawyer is working on getting Ron out quickly, Earl has a shot at parole, and death seems to be waiting in the next cell. Will prison turn Ron into an animal?
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, John Heard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Arnold, Seymour Cassel, Mark Boone Junior
Director: Steve Buscemi
Finding Nemo (2003)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
In the colorful and warm tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef, a Clownfish named Marlin lives safe and secluded in a quiet cul-de-sac with his only son, Nemo. Fearful of the ocean and its unpredictable risks, he struggles to protect his son. Nemo, like all young fish, is eager to explore the mysterious reef. When Nemo is unexpectedly taken far from home and thrust into a dentist's office fish tank, Marlin finds himself the unlikely hero on an epic journey to rescue his son. In his quest, Marlin is joined by a good Samaritan named Dory, a Regal Blue Tang fish with the worst short-term memory and biggest heart in the entire ocean. As the two fish continue on their journey, encountering numerous dangers, Dory's optimism continually forces Marlin to find the courage to take risks and overcome his fears. In doing so, Marlin gains the ability to trust and believe, like Dory, that things will work out in the end. Confronting seabirds, sewer systems, and even man himself, father and son's fateful separation ends in triumph. And the once-fearful Marlin becomes a true hero in the eyes of his son, and the entire ocean.
Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney
Director: Lee Unkrich, Andrew Stanton
4:44 Last Days on Earth (2011)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Natasha Lyonne, Paz de la Huerta
Director: Abel Ferrara
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Patriotic American Jack Ryan's (Harrison Ford) just been promoted to Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA. But before he can adjust to the demands of his position as advisor to the President, Jack's got to investigate a massacre that took the lives of several dignitaries. Probing relentlessly, Jack uncovers the disturbing truth about criminal activities involving an international drug cartel and a close friend of the United States President. Based on Tom Clancy's bestselling novel.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny, Harris Yulin
Director: Phillip Noyce
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Comedy | Family
In his latest misadventure, Mr. Bean–the nearly wordless misfit who seems to be followed by a trail of pratfalls and hijinks–goes on holiday to the French Riviera and becomes ensnared in a European adventure of cinematic proportions. Tired of the dreary, wet London weather, Bean packs up his suitcase and camcorder to head to Cannes for some sun on the beach. But his trip doesn't go as smoothly as…
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Steve Pemberton, Lily Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Pemberton
Director: Steve Bendelack
The Hunter (2011)
Drama
Willem Dafoe is Martin, a mercenary employed by a faceless biotech company to hunt the believed-extinct Tiger deep in the Tasmanian wilderness. Under the wing of Jack Mindy, Martin lodges at the home of Lucy, who is still grief-stricken by the disappearance of her environmentalist husband, Jarrah. Against his better judgement, Martin finds himself connecting with Lucy and her two children as well as the harsh & mysterious landscape.
Starring: Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor
Director: Daniel Nettheim
American Psycho (2000)
Crime | Drama
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status, and style, with a stunning fiancée (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the 80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.
Starring: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis
Director: Mary Harron
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John Carter (2012)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, Thomas Haden Church
Director: Andrew Stanton
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
The winds of political change are rumbling through the halls of the Capitol as a popular President is being targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. Only two people stand between anarchy and freedom: One of them, Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), has just survived a hit on the National Security Agency's top-secret headquarters and is on the run. The other, a decorated Special Ops soldier, Darius Stone (Ice Cube), sits under close guard in a military prison. Gibbons once again finds himself in need of an outsider and Stone is his man. The new xXx agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history.
Starring: Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Strauss, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Lee Tamahori
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Drama
A depiction of Christ's life including a vision of what his life might have been like had he not been crucified.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey
Director: Martin Scorsese
Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
Drama
To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa will graduate from college — decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious accident interrupts the celebration, the far more nuanced reality of this Midwestern family's history and relationships come to light.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Ioan Gruffudd, Julia Roberts
Director: Dennis Lee
Wild at Heart (1990)
Crime | Romance | Thriller
If Lula knows on thing in this world, it's that she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor – no matter how many times her mama tries to kill him. But when she and Sailor finally hit the road in a desperate bid to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld filled with sexual secrets and dangerous desires that form a terrifying "tapestry of human extremity" (Variety).
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini
Director: David Lynch
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