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Bill Nighy has 65 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Shaun of the Dead.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

The Wild Robot
2024 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Peacock · Included

Shelter
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Starz · Included

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Disney+ · Included

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Disney+ · Included

Pride
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Paramount+ · Included

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Dir. David Yates · With Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Dir. Edgar Wright · With Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Dir. Chris Sanders · With Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
Dir. Richard Curtis · With Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy
A man living in self-imposed exile on a remote island rescues a young girl from a violent storm, setting off a chain of events that forces him out of seclusion to protect her from enemies tied to his past.
Dir. Ric Roman Waugh · With Jason Statham, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Naomi Ackie

Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip on the seas under Lord Cutler Beckett—now in control of Davy Jones—the fate of piracy hangs by a thread. Now, they must unite the pirate lords for one final stand. But as loyalties are tested and alliances shift, each must ultimately choose where they stand in the battle for freedom on the high seas.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
Dir. Matthew Warchus · With George MacKay, Ben Schnetzer, Freddie Fox

When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
Dir. Arkasha Stevenson · With Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Dir. Richard Curtis · With Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.
Dir. Rob Letterman · With Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton

A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself.
Dir. Warren Ellis · With Richard Armitage, James Callis, Alejandra Reynoso

In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Dir. Autumn de Wilde · With Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Josh O'Connor

Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Dir. Len Wiseman · With Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen

When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban on government-censored music, they take to the seas to broadcast music and mayhem to millions of adoring fans.
Dir. Richard Curtis · With Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans

A pampered cat takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt after he is rescued and loved by Rose, a kind-hearted and passionate student. When he loses his ninth life, fate steps in to set him on a transformative journey.
Dir. Christopher Jenkins · With Mo Gilligan, Simone Ashley, Sophie Okonedo
Fourteen years after the events of the original film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.
Dir. Richard Curtis, Mat Whitecross · With Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Dir. Richard Eyre · With Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
Dir. Juan Carlos Medina · With Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Dir. Brian Gibson · With Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Dir. Garth Jennings · With Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Zooey Deschanel

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Dir. Len Wiseman · With Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Dir. Fernando Meirelles · With Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Dir. John Madden · With Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Dir. Oliver Hermanus · With Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint

A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.
Dir. Patrick Tatopoulos · With Rhona Mitra, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
Dir. Andrew Levitas · With Johnny Depp, Minami, Hiroyuki Sanada

A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Dir. Ben Taylor · With Bill Nighy, James Norton, Thomasin McKenzie
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