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Ray Winstone has 41 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Departed.
2002
Crime · Drama

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 2%Peacock · Included

Black Widow
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Disney+ · Included

Hugo
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · Movie · Voice
Top 10%Disney+ · Included

Damsel
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Netflix · Included

The Proposition
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
Dir. Joel Crawford · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Harvey Guillén

Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
Dir. Cate Shortland · With Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz

as Mr. Beaver (voice) · Voice
Disney+ · Included
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
Dir. Andrew Adamson · With William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes

A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.
Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo · With Millie Bobby Brown, Brooke Carter, Nick Robinson

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

Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.
Dir. Ken Loach · With Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle

Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
Dir. John Hay · With Lewis McKenzie, Jane Lapotaire, Gina McKee

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.
Dir. Jonathan Glazer · With Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.
Dir. Alan Clarke · With Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger

Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Dir. Franc Roddam · With Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
Dir. Gary Oldman · With Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Dir. Tim Roth · With Freddie Cunliffe, Lara Belmont, Ray Winstone

A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.
Dir. Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard · With Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Blixa Bargeld

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Dir. Robert Carlyle · With Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
Dir. Liliana Cavani · With John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Dir. Brian Kirk · With Douglas Booth, Jack Roth, Ray Winstone

A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
Dir. David Moore · With Ray Winstone, Essie Davis, David Warner

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty
A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".
Dir. Ericson Core · With Edgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer

Jack Regan, a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
Dir. Nick Love · With Ray Winstone, Plan B, Hayley Atwell

Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.
Dir. Pierre Morel · With Sean Penn, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem

as Bill Warr
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
Dir. Daniel Graham · With Matt Hookings, Ray Winstone, Jodhi May
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.
Dir. Mora Stephens · With Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, Richard Dreyfuss

Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Vera Farmiga

Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen
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