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Cillian Murphy has 33 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 5 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including 28 Days Later.
Recurring themes

Dark Waters
2019
Drama · Thriller

Septembers of Shiraz
2015
Drama · Thriller

Mean Dreams
2016
Drama · Thriller

Lila & Eve
2015
Thriller · Drama

Pink
2016
Drama · Thriller

Text
2019
Drama · Thriller

Vengeance: A Love Story
2017
Action · Drama

Inhale
2010
Drama · Action

The Dark Knight
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Peaky Blinders
2013 · Series · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Batman Begins
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Max · Included

A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Netflix · Included

In Time
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Hulu · Included

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Netflix · Included

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Dir. Steven Knight · With Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Dir. John Krasinski · With Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".
Dir. Andrew Niccol · With Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy

After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
Dir. Tom Harper · With Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Rebecca Ferguson

In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Dir. Sean Ellis · With Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Dir. Ken Loach · With Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson

An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox

Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Dir. Rufus Norris · With Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy

Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
Dir. Sally Potter · With Patricia Clarkson, Cherry Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
Dir. Ben Wheatley · With Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.
Dir. Paul Soter · With Cillian Murphy, Lucy Liu, Jason Sudeikis

Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.
Dir. Rodrigo Cortés · With Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Dir. Tim Mielants · With Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Dir. John Crowley · With Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Kelly Macdonald

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Dir. Peter Webber · With Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Dir. Wally Pfister · With Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany

Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
Dir. Carl Tibbetts · With Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell, Thandiwe Newton

Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.
Dir. Tim Mielants · With Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman, Jay Lycurgo

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
Dir. Ian Fitzgibbon · With Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.
Dir. Michael Lander · With Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon
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