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Robert Carlyle has 23 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Trainspotting.
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28 Weeks Later
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

Riff-Raff
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Once Upon a Time
2011 · Series · Actor
Top 44%Disney+ · Included

The Tournament
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 50%Starz · Included

The 51st State
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 61%Prime Video · Included

To End All Wars
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 68%Prime Video · Included
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo · With Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Dir. Peter Cattaneo · With Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Wim Snape

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
Dir. Antonia Bird · With Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette

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

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
Dir. Ken Loach · With Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, George Moss

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell.
Dir. Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz · With Lana Parrilla, Colin O'Donoghue, Robert Carlyle

Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
Dir. Scott Mann · With Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
Dir. Jake Scott · With Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Liv Tyler

An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
Dir. Ronny Yu · With Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer

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

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
Dir. David L. Cunningham · With Ciarán McMenamin, Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland

The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe.
Dir. Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright · With Robert Carlyle, Louis Ferreira, David Blue

This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.
Dir. Peter Sussman, John Ryan, Ed Gernon · With Robert Carlyle, Zoe Telford, Justin Salinger

The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
Dir. Antonia Bird · With Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet

The story of an American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent going undercover to stop an organization from trafficking people, and the struggles of three trafficked women.
With Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, Robert Carlyle
In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.
Dir. Peter Harness · With Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Robert Carlyle
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
Dir. Tony Mitchell · With Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Dir. Stefen Fangmeier · With Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory
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