October Gale / A September Gale (2014)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to finish the job, while a storm has cut them off from the mainland.
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth, Callum Keith Rennie
Director: Ruba Nadda
Lucky Numbers (2000)
Comedy | Crime
Russ Richards, a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both careers are in a rut thanks to an unusually warm winter. Russ's girlfriend Crystal appears on the State Lottery's weekly televised drawing, pulling the numbered balls out of the rotating bin. With the help of a few of his less scrupulous friends – among them sleazy strip joint proprietor Gig, small time hood Dale The Thug, and Crystal's sleazy cousin Walter – Russ figures out a way to rig the drawing and have Crystal pull numbers that they happen to own. However, Russ discovers that making the scheme work and keeping everyone quiet about it is more trouble than it's worth.
Starring: John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport, Daryl Mitchell
Director: Nora Ephron
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
Grace of Monaco / Grace de Mónaco (2014)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella, Parker Posey, Milo Ventimiglia, Derek Jacobi
Director: Olivier Dahan
Klondike (TV Mini-Series 2014)
Adventure | Drama | Western
Klondike is an event mini-series of epic proportion inspired by the true stories of those who hunted for wealth and battled for survival in the brutal Yukon Territory. At the center of the action are Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein – childhood best friends who risk everything to pursue their dream of striking it rich during the 1890’s gold rush. Lured into this treacherous landscape by the prospect of riches, they endure the unforgiving elements and discover that the deadliest threats are always human.
Starring: Richard Madden, Augustus Prew, Abbie Cornish, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Roth, Sam Shepard
Creator: Paul Scheuring, Joshua Goldin, Rachel Abramowitz
United Passions / F2014 / United Passions: La Légende du Football (2014)
Drama
Once football was all about small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front. Passion, fun, enjoyment. This is the story of the men who took football from that and changed it. A group of wholly honest and deeply ethical men who had a dream and, to achieve that dream, established the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Driven by their determination to lead football into a brighter, bigger future, the trustworthy and wholly honest Sepp Blatter, Jules Rimet, and Joao Havelange overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make FIFA and the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga will tell the story of how an organization currently mired in entirely unsubstantiated accusations of scandal and corruption started their journey to that destination.
Starring: Tim Roth, Sam Neill, Thomas Kretschmann, Fisher Stevens, Gérard Depardieu, Jemima West, Serge Hazanavicius
Director: Frédéric Auburtin
New France / Battle of the Brave / Nouvelle-France (2004)
Drama | History | Romance | War
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls.
Starring: Noémie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye, Gérard Depardieu, Irène Jacob, Tim Roth, Jason Isaacs, Colm Meaney
Director: Jean Beaudin
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Rob Roy (1995)
Action | Adventure | Biography
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Broken (2012)
Drama
An eleven-year-old girl finds herself exposed to the inequities of life in this rite-of-passage drama directed by Rufus Norris. With her mother having left the family home, Skunk (Eloise Lawrence) now lives in suburbia with her kind-hearted father Archie (Tim Roth), her brother Jed (Bill Milner) and Polish au pair Kasia (Zana Marjanovic). In spite of being a diabetic, Skunk refuses to be hamstrung by the disease and always approaches life with a smile on her face. But that all changes when she witnesses a violent attack on her neighbours' simple-minded son Rick (Robert Emms) by fellow neighbour Mr. Oswald (Rory Kinnear), who believes, wrongly, that he has raped one of his daughters.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Rory Kinnear, Zana Marjanovic, Robert Emms, Eloise Laurence
Director: Rufus Norris
Funny Games U.S. / Funny Games (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The vacation begins with Ann, George and their son Georgie on their way to their summer home. The neighbors, Fred and Eva, are already there. They make a date to play golf the next morning. It's a perfect day. Ann begins to make dinner, while her husband and son are busy with their newly restored sailboat. Suddenly, Ann finds herself face to face with a polite young man, the neighbors' guest Peter, who has come to ask for some eggs because Eva has run out. Ann is about to give Peter the eggs, but hesitates. How did he get onto their property? Peter explains that there's a hole in the fence–Fred showed it to him. Things seem strange from the beginning. Soon, violence erupts.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt
Director: Michael Haneke
La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano / The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Drama | Music | Romance
Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. While gaining his sea legs, he was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D….
Starring: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn, Mélanie Thierry, Clarence Williams III, Peter Vaughan
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Youth Without Youth (2007)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), an aging professor of linguistics, survives a cataclysmic event to find his youth miraculously restored. Dominic's physical rejuvenation is matched by a highly evolved intellect, which attracts the attention of Nazi scientists, forcing him into exile. While on the run, he reunites with his lost love, Laura, and works to complete his research into the origins of human language. When his research threatens Laura's well being, Dominic is forced to choose between his life's work and the great love of his life.
Starring: Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Marcel Iures
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one?
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Möbius / Secret Agents (2013)
Drama | Thriller
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman, who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Cécile De France, Tim Roth, Émilie Dequenne, John Lynch, Maksim Vitorgan
Director: Eric Rochant
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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The Liability (2012)
Action | Thriller
When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.
Starring: Tim Roth, Talulah Riley, Jack O'Connell, Kierston Wareing, Peter Mullan, Christopher Hatherall
Director: Craig Viveiros
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Arbitrage (2012)
Drama | Thriller
A hedge-fund magnate is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire before the depths of his fraud are revealed. An unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.
Starring: Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Susan Sarandon, William Friedkin, Laetitia Casta
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Vincent & Theo / Van Gogh (1990)
Biography | Drama
The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
Starring: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys
Director: Robert Altman
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Starring: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Lukas Haas, Gaby Hoffmann, Natasha Lyonne, Natalie Portman, Tim Roth, David Ogden Stiers
Director: Woody Allen
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior, Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the pulse-pounding race is on to reach a sacred temple that may hold the shocking secrets of mankind's past – and the last hope for it's salvation!
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson
Director: Tim Burton
