The Young Victoria (2009)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Transcendence (2014)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall
Director: Wally Pfister
Uncle Frank (2020)
Drama
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
Starring: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Lois Smith, Margo Martindale, Stephen Root
Director: Alan Ball
Journey's End (2017)
Drama | War
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
Starring: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge
Director: Saul Dibb
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau, Ben Kingsley
Director: Shane Black
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Mystery | Thriller
A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years — which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina
Director: Ron Howard
Dogville (2003)
Crime | Drama
On the run from a group of gangsters, including her powerful father, Grace comes to the small mining town of Dogville in Colorado. Town philosopher Tom Edison gives her shelter and proposes a bargain: she will lend a hand to the townspeople in exchange for a safe place to hide. After a fortnight, the people will vote whether she can stay or must leave. Grace agrees to the terms and then becomes acquainted with the locals. Before long her standing in the town spirals downward as the search for her intensifies.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany, Blair Brown
Director: Lars von Trier
Shelter (2014)
Drama
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Mackie, Bruce Altman, Scott Johnsen, J.D. Williams, Steve Cirbus
Director: Paul Bettany
Legend (2015)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1950s and 1960s.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston, Paul Anderson, Paul Bettany, Taron Egerton
Director: Brian Helgeland
Mortdecai (2015)
Action | Comedy
Art dealer Charles Mortdecai searches for a stolen painting that's reportedly linked to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Bettany
Director: David Koepp
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Drama
To escape her cruel, angry father – and discover the truth about her late mother’s past – 14-year old Lily Owens flees with her caregiver and friend Rosaleen to a South Carolina town where she’s taken in by the bee-keeping Boatwright sisters.
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys, Paul Bettany
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Transcendence (2014)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
As two leading computer scientists, Will and Evelyn Caster, progress toward their goal of creating a machine possessing sentience and collective intelligence, a group of anti-technology extremists fights to stop them, fearing a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human mind.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall
Director: Wally Pfister
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Inkheart (2008)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
When Mo Folchart reads a story, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. Mo must somehow use his special powers to send the interlopers back to their world… and save ours. If ever a task was easier read than done, this is it. Mo and his daughter Meggie, aided by friends real and fictional, plunge into a thrilling quest that pits them against diabolical villains, fantastic beasts and dangers at every turn.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
Blood (2012)
Thriller
Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.
Starring: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Stephen Graham, Brian Cox, Zoë Tapper, Ben Crompton
Director: Nick Murphy
Legion (2010)
Action | Fantasy | Horror
At a remote desert truck stop, the fate of the world will be decided. Evil's armies are amassing. Armed and united by the Archangel Michael, a group of strangers become unwitting soldiers on the frontlines of the Apocalypse. Their mission: protect a waitress and her sacred unborn child from the relentless, bloody siege of the demonic legion.
Starring: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki
Director: Scott Stewart
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
After serving a number of years as a squire, an earnest young commoner poses as a knight and establishes himself in the jousting tournaments of Europe. He and a princess fall in love, but she is unaware of his deceit and common roots. The false knight is estranged from the princess once his true roots are revealed. He struggles to amend their relationship.
Starring: Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon, Laura Fraser
Director: Brian Helgeland
Creation (2009)
Biography | Drama
Set before the publication of "On The Origin Of Species", 'Creation' finds Darwin grieving over the death of his daughter and feeling far away from his wife.
Starring: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly
Director: Jon Amiel
Wimbledon (2004)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon
Starring: Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Director: Richard Loncraine
The Tourist (2010)
Action | Romance | Thriller
Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Firewall (2006)
Crime | Thriller
Firewall stars Harrison Ford as bank security expert Jack Stanfield, whose specialty is designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. But there's a hidden vulnerability in the system he didn't account for – himself. When a ruthless criminal mastermind (Paul Bettany) kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance, he has only hours to find a loophole in the thief's own impenetrable system of subterfuge and false identities to beat him at his own game.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Robert Patrick
Director: Richard Loncraine
