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Dev Patel has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Lion.
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Lion
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Hotel Mumbai
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Netflix · Included

The Newsroom
2012 · Series · Actor
Top 14%Max · Included

Poison
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Netflix · Included

The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%AMC+ · Included

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Dir. Garth Davis · With Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham

Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.
Dir. Anthony Maras · With Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal

A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel

A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
Dir. Aaron Sorkin · With Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr.

Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Dir. Dev Patel · With Dev Patel, Sikandar Kher, Makrand Deshpande

When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Dir. Matt Brown · With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones

A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Dir. Gren Wells · With Robert Sheehan, Dev Patel, Zoë Kravitz

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

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.
Dir. David Lowery · With Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
Dir. Neill Blomkamp · With Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
Dir. Armando Iannucci · With Dev Patel, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Dir. John Madden · With Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Richard Gere

Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, Jim Sarbh
A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of air, water, and earth in its attempt for global domination. Aang, the long-lost Avatar, is found by Water Tribe siblings Katara and Sokka and must learn to master water, earth, and fire bending to defeat the Fire Nation and restore balance to the world.
Dir. M. Night Shyamalan · With Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz
18-year-old Angelina shuffles between school, a dead-end job, her exploitative boyfriend, and home, where her life consists of cleaning up after her alcoholic mother and protecting her younger sister from their menacing stepfather. After arranging an escape to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew, she soon finds herself dating a coke-addicted attorney and becoming immersed in the local porn industry, mentored by lesbian director Margaret, who has more than just a professional interest in Angelina's talents.
Dir. Stephen Elliott · With Ashley Hinshaw, Lili Taylor, Dev Patel
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