Stephen Dillane’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Stephen Dillane has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
Recurring themes

Copying Beethoven
2006
Drama

The Aviator
2004
Drama

Factory Girl
2006
Drama · History

Me and Orson Welles
2008
Drama · History

The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
Comedy · Drama

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008
Drama · Romance

Love in the Time of Cholera
2007
Drama · Romance

Death Defying Acts
2007
Drama · Romance

Spy Game
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included

Outlaw King
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Netflix · Included

The Hours
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Mary Shelley
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%AMC+ · Included

The Professor and the Madman
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Prime Video · Included

The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Disney+ · Included

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Dir. Joe Wright · With Gary Oldman, Stephen Dillane, Lily James

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
Dir. David Mackenzie · With Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Dir. Haifaa al-Mansour · With Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Dir. Farhad Safinia · With Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer

A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
Dir. Bill Paxton · With Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Josh Flitter

Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.
Dir. Guy Burt · With Otto Farrant, Stephen Dillane, Vicky McClure

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.
Dir. Kirk Ellis · With Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Dir. David Mackenzie · With Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Ewen Bremner

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.
Dir. Nora Fingscheidt · With Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
Dir. Danny Cannon · With Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan · With Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Colin Farrell

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei

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

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates

Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her to convalesce at a large rural home, where she becomes friends with the woman's stepson, Michael. As Cassie delves into Michael's research about an old, newly discovered area church, it triggers some strange premonitions and offers gradual clues about her deeper links to this British community.
Dir. Brian Gilbert · With Christina Ricci, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane

The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. They later learn that the killer—who comes to be nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist"—is on a moral crusade to highlight many social problems, terrorising both countries in the process
Dir. Ben Richards · With Stephen Dillane, Clémence Poésy, Thibault de Montalembert

A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.
Dir. John Duigan · With Steve Coogan, Lena Headey, Ben Miller

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
Dir. Bill Bennett · With Sandra Bullock, Denis Leary, Yaphet Kotto

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
Dir. Tom Kalin · With Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
Dir. Malcolm Venville · With Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. Stuck in ever-increasing danger and with four men pursuing her, another stranger offers assistance - but who can she trust?
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Thandiwe Newton, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Robbins
During a weekend, two shady businessmen flee to the Cayman Islands to avoid federal prosecution. But their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads a British native to commit a crime that changes the nation.
Dir. Frank E. Flowers · With Orlando Bloom, Anthony Mackie, Bill Paxton

Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.
Dir. Frank Spotnitz · With Melissa George, Morven Christie, Adam Rayner
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