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Isaach de Bankolé has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Casino Royale.
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Casino Royale
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%MGM+ · Included

Night on Earth
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Calvary
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

The Brutalist
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Max · Included

Manderlay
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%MUBI · Included

The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 55%Prime Video · Included

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Dir. John Michael McDonagh · With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly

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

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
Dir. Claire Denis · With Isaach de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.
Dir. Claire Denis · With Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle

A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
Dir. Claire Scanlon · With Kristen Bell, Ben Platt, Allison Janney

The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.
Dir. Breck Eisner · With Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
Dir. Azazel Jacobs · With Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Isaach de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin
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