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Anthony Minghella has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Talented Mr. Ripley.

The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%Paramount+ · Included

The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · Mini · Creator
Top 25%Peacock · Included

The English Patient
1996 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 26%Paramount+ · Included

New York, I Love You
2008 · Movie · Writer
Top 73%Prime Video · Included

Breaking and Entering
2006 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 83%Starz · Included

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law

A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Brian Henson, Michael Gambon

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe

Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Michael Maloney

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger

New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
Dir. Allen Hughes, Shekhar Kapur, Yvan Attal, Brett Ratner, Natalie Portman, Mira Nair, Shunji Iwai, Fatih Akin, Jiang Wen, Randall Balsmeyer, Joshua Marston · With Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Bradley Cooper

Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Vera Farmiga
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz