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David Thewlis has 42 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
2011
Drama
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included
The Theory of Everything
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included
Wonder Woman
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Max · Included
Enola Holmes 2
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included
An Inspector Calls
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%BritBox · Included
The Artful Dodger
2023 · Series · Actor
Top 20%Hulu · Included
Harry Potter's life is in danger once more as dangerous wizard Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is heading to Hogwarts.
Dir. Alfonso Cuarón · With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.
Dir. James Marsh · With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
Dir. Mark Herman · With Asa Butterfield, Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Dir. Patty Jenkins · With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen
Enola takes on her first official case as a detective, but to solve the mystery of a missing girl, she'll need help from friends — and brother Sherlock.
Dir. Harry Bradbeer · With Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, David Thewlis
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Brad Pitt, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, David Thewlis
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Dir. Brad Anderson · With Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.
Dir. Aisling Walsh · With David Thewlis, Ken Stott, Finn Cole
It's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.
Dir. David Maher, David Taylor, James McNamara · With Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis, Maia Mitchell
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Dir. Mike Leigh · With David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Dir. Mike Leigh · With Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Dir. Dean Parisot · With Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.
Dir. Rob Cohen · With Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, David Thewlis
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Dir. Caroline Thompson · With Alan Cumming, Docs Keepin Time, Sean Bean
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Dir. Paul McGuigan · With Paul Bettany, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Susan Wooldridge, Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Dir. Henry Selick · With Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Dir. Charlie Kaufman · With Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Dir. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman · With David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Dir. Bernard Rose · With Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Dir. John Moore · With Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Dir. Agnieszka Holland · With Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer
A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
Dir. Ed Sinclair · With Olivia Colman, David Thewlis, Dipo Ola
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar · With Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Dir. Justin Kurzel · With Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Paddy Considine
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Dir. Roland Emmerich · With Jamie Campbell Bower, Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis
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