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Ben Chaplin has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Baby Boy
2001
Crime · Drama

Angel Eyes
2001
Drama · Romance

Owning Mahowny
2003
Crime · Drama

Sunshine Cleaning
2008
Comedy · Drama

Thumbsucker
2005
Comedy · Drama

A Touch of Spice
2003
Comedy · Drama

Real Women Have Curves
2002
Comedy · Drama

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002
Comedy · Drama

September 5
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Prime Video · Included

Little Boy
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Prime Video · Included

The Remains of the Day
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Hulu · Included

Cinderella
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Disney+ · Included

Stage Beauty
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Prime Video · Included

The Dig
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Netflix · Included

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Dir. Tim Fehlbaum · With Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Dir. Alejandro Monteverde · With Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Dir. James Ivory · With Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden

Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
Dir. Richard Eyre · With Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Derek Hutchinson

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
Dir. Simon Stone · With Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Dir. Jay Russell · With Alex Etel, Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
Dir. Richard Eyre · With Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead

A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
Dir. Michael Lehmann · With Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes

John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
Dir. Jez Butterworth · With Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel

Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
Dir. Oliver Parker · With Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall

Two hundred years after the construction of the great cathedral, the medieval town of Kingsbridge is taken under siege by Queen Isabella. Caris, a visionary young woman, inspires her people to stand up for their rights and revolt against to the most powerful forces of her time, the Church and the Crown.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Oliver Maltman, David Bradley, Ben Chaplin

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Dir. Barbet Schroeder · With Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.
Dir. Janusz Kamiński · With Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter

A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
Dir. William Monahan · With Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, David Thewlis
A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Bruce Dern
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