The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn
Director: Steven Spielberg
When the Sky Falls (2000)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton invades the Irish underworld and attempts to expose the illegitimate activities that she has found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.
Starring: Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: John Mackenzie
DragonHeart (1996)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Dina Meyer, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, Brian Thompson
Director: Rob Cohen
The Omen / The Omen: 666 (2006)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
An American official realizes that his young son may literally be the Devil incarnate.
Starring: Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Director: John Moore
Strange Bedfellows / I Now Pronounce You Vince and Ralph (2004)
Comedy
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
Starring: Paul Hogan, Michael Caton, Alan Cassell, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Dean Murphy
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Drama | Music
The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Lorraine Ashbourne, Andrew Schofield, Pauline Quirke, John Michie
Director: Terence Davies
To Kill a Priest / Popieluszko (1988)
Drama | History | Thriller
Based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Solidarity was challenging Soviet authority in Poland, an outspoken priest, Father Alek, defies martial law and continues to rally followers around the cause of Solidarity. The Soviet-controlled Polish government enlists a police official, Stefan, to stop the priest. Stefan, a devoted party follower, finds that the only way he can silence Father Alek is to have him killed. Along the way, however, the priest has a profound influence on Stefan.
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joss Ackland, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Agnieszka Holland
The Shipping News (2001)
Drama | Romance
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn
Director: Lasse Hallström
Valley of the Heart's Delight (2006)
Drama
When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the powers-that-be to prevent the lynching of two men he believes are innocent.
Starring: Gabriel Mann, Pete Postlethwaite, Emily Harrison, Diana Scarwid, Bruce McGill, Tom Bower, Ron Roggé
Director: Tim Boxell
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Jim Sheridan
Dark Water (2005)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) and her five-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment – dilapidated and worn – suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange happenings in the deserted apartment above send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit – one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Walter Salles
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Killing Bono (2011)
Comedy | Music
A dark comedy about the people who don't find fame and fortune, the film is loosely based on the lives of brothers Neil and Ivan McCormick, who grew up with the members of U2 and played in a rival band, only to watch their former schoolmates become world famous while the McCormick brothers continued to struggle for recognition.
Starring: Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Krysten Ritter, Stanley Townsend, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Nick Hamm
Brassed Off (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson
Director: Mark Herman
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. But as Kint lures his interrogators into the incredible story of this crime lord's almost supernatural prowess, so too will you be mesmerized by a lore that is completely captivating from beginning to end!
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Bryan Singer
