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Peter Capaldi has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015
Drama · Comedy

Christopher Robin
2018 · Movie · Voice
Top 8%Disney+ · Included

The Thick of It
2005 · Series · Actor
Top 16%Peacock · Included

In the Loop
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%AMC+ · Included

Modigliani
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Prime Video · Included

The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 49%Hulu · Included

The Lair of the White Worm
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 50%Prime Video · Included

as The Doctor (12)
Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.
Dir. Jamie Payne · With Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Peter Capaldi
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
Dir. Paul Wilmshurst · With Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Nick Frost
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them.
Dir. Rachel Talalay · With Peter Capaldi, David Bradley, Mark Gatiss

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.
Dir. Marc Forster · With Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael

as The Doctor
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.
Dir. Douglas Mackinnon · With Peter Capaldi, Alex Kingston, Greg Davies

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
Dir. Paul King · With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
Dir. Armando Iannucci · With Peter Capaldi, Rebecca Front, Chris Addison

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.
Dir. Armando Iannucci · With Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Dir. Bill Forsyth · With Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
Dir. Mick Davis · With Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili

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

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Dir. Ken Russell · With Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg

Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.
Dir. Tom Moran · With Jessica Raine, Peter Capaldi, Nikesh Patel

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
Dir. Bille August · With Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris

In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
Dir. Menno Meyjes · With John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski

In the heart of London, an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives—a young woman in the early stages of her career and a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy—into a fight to correct an old miscarriage of justice.
Dir. Paul Rutman · With Peter Capaldi, Cush Jumbo, Shaun Dooley

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Dir. Bill Condon · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Dir. Steven R. Monroe · With Kelly Brook, Dennis Hopper, Hippolyte Girardot
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