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Julian Sands has 24 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Blood and Bone.
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The Hunger
1983
Horror · Drama

Lord of Illusions
1995
Horror · Fantasy

The Prophecy
1995
Fantasy · Horror

The Woman in Black
2012
Drama · Horror

Castle Freak
1996
Thriller · Drama

The Craft
1996
Horror · Drama

The Devil's Advocate
1997
Horror · Drama

The Ring Two
2005
Drama · Horror

Blood and Bone
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Killing Fields
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Leaving Las Vegas
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

The Keeper
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Painted Bird
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%AMC+ · Included

Warlock
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
Dir. Ben Ramsey · With Michael Jai White, Julian Sands, Dante Basco

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
Dir. Roland Joffé · With Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.
Dir. Robert C. Cooper · With Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Dir. Mike Figgis · With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
Dir. Marcus H. Rosenmüller · With David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw

as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar') · Voice
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
Dir. Raúl García · With Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
Dir. Václav Marhoul · With Petr Kotlár, Nina Šunevič, Alla Sokolova

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm

In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?
Dir. Steve Miner · With Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Richard E. Grant

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Dir. James Ivory · With Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Dir. Frank Marshall · With Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman

A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.
Dir. Joachim Hedén · With Kim Spearman, Jack Parr, Alexander Arnold

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.
Dir. Uli Edel · With Benno Fürmann, Alicia Witt, Kristanna Loken
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Dir. Ken Russell · With Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson

A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Glenn Close, Max Irons, Stefanie Martini

Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.
Dir. Stephen King · With Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?
Dir. Roland Joffé · With Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
Dir. Gordon Chan · With Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
Dir. Wim Wenders · With Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Davies

as Manuel Romasanta
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.
Dir. Paco Plaza · With Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky, John Sharian
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the evil, or banish it for another six hundred years. An order of Druids battles with a Warlock determined to unleash his father upon the world.
Dir. Anthony Hickox · With Julian Sands, Chris Young, Paula Marshall
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Julian Sands, Asia Argento, Andrea Di Stefano
A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the disease, from a dangerous gang hunting her led by a psychopath who believes he’s going to use her to save the world.
Dir. Jon Keeyes · With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Malkovich, Ruby Modine
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
Dir. Jennifer Lynch · With Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton
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