Patrick Lyster’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Patrick Lyster has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Black Beauty.
Recurring themes

Hellion
2014
Thriller · Drama

Flight
2012
Drama

The Sleeping Voice
2011
Drama · History

Road to Paloma
2014
Thriller · Drama

The Outsider
2016
Thriller · Drama

Kabir Singh
2019
Drama · Romance

Aftermath
2017
Drama · Thriller

From Straight A's to XXX
2017
Drama · TV Movie

Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.
Dir. Ashley Avis · With Kate Winslet, Mackenzie Foy, Iain Glen

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Dir. Bille August · With Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

An American web designer inherits an animal reserve in South Africa. A no-nonsense ranger takes her on a safari in hopes that she will fall in love with the land, the animals and him.
Dir. Leif Bristow · With Lacey Chabert, Jon Cor, Brittany Bristow

As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain.
Dir. Jérôme Salle · With Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker, Conrad Kemp

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
Dir. Steven Silver · With Malin Åkerman, Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch

An elite hitman returns to erase his past only to find that somebody has messed with his future.
Dir. Perry Bhandal · With Luke Goss, Caroline Tillette, Stephen Marcus
Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett, son of the U.S. Marine Corps' deadliest sniper, Thomas Beckett, must turn to his father's former protégé (Billy Zane) to track down and kill a mysterious sniper before he kills his next target.
Dir. Claudio Fäh · With Chad Michael Collins, Richard Sammel, Annabel Wright