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Guy Pearce has 54 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 Memento.
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Memento
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Mare of Easttown
2021 · Mini · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Back to the Outback
2021 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Netflix · Included

Iron Man 3
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Disney+ · Included

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Prime Video · Included

The Road
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
Dir. Tom Hooper · With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
Dir. Kevin Reynolds · With Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris

A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
Dir. Brad Ingelsby · With Kate Winslet, Jean Smart, Julianne Nicholson

In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
Dir. Martin Koolhoven · With Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Carice van Houten

Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.
Dir. Harry Cripps, Claire Knight · With Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Dir. Shane Black · With Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
Dir. Neil Armfield · With Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Guy Pearce

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Dir. John Hillcoat · With Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore

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Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Dir. Stephan Elliott · With Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—'Bloodshot'. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.
Dir. David S. F. Wilson · With Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Sam Heughan

Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move. Alex must question his every action and whom he can ultimately trust.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Taj Atwal

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.
Dir. John Hillcoat · With Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.
Dir. John Hillcoat · With Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Dir. Nick Murphy · With Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
Dir. Antonia Bird · With Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.
Dir. Brady Corbet · With Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
Dir. David Michôd · With Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
Dir. Simon Wells · With Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he encounters leads to an emotional roller-coaster ride full of fear and danger, where things are not always as clear as they seem to be, and where past deeds can have dire consequences.
Dir. Andrew Hunt · With Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Jeremy Davies

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn.
Dir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff · With Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.
Dir. Dan Friedkin · With Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
Dir. Josie Rourke · With Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
Dir. Michael Grandage · With Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman

Inconsolable since the death of his wife, prominent businessman Karsh Relikh invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce
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