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Stephen Graham has 38 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Snatch.
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White Boy Rick
2018
Crime · Drama

Don't Be Bad
2015
Crime · Drama

Fruitvale Station
2013
Drama

I, Daniel Blake
2016
Drama

Roxanne Roxanne
2017
Drama

Just Mercy
2019
Drama · Crime

Small Country: An African Childhood
2020
Drama

The Many Saints of Newark
2021
Crime · Drama

Young Woman and the Sea
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Disney+ · Included

The Irishman
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Netflix · Included

Greyhound
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Apple TV+ · Included

Boardwalk Empire
2010 · Series · Actor
Top 10%Max · Included

Taboo
2017 · Series · Actor
Top 16%Peacock · Included

Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Disney+ · Included
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Jason Statham, Alan Ford, Stephen Graham

This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the 21-mile trek from France to England.
Dir. Joachim Rønning · With Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
Dir. Aaron Schneider · With Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Dir. Terence Winter · With Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Dir. Shane Meadows · With Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Dir. Steven Knight, Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy · With Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce

After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.
Dir. Andy Serkis · With Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?
Dir. Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne

After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
Dir. Tom Harper · With Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Rebecca Ferguson

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
Dir. Tom Hooper · With Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney

Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.
Dir. Kelly Marcel · With Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple

A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.
Dir. Philip Barantini · With Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice May Feetham

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Dir. Nick Murphy · With Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham

Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Dir. Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning · With Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush

An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.
Dir. Matthew Warchus · With Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch
Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.
Dir. Marc Munden · With Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Ian Hart

It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.
Dir. Shane Meadows · With Joseph Gilgun, Vicky McClure, Stephen Graham

When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past, he's not sure if it's love...or if she's a ruthless con artist using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush

Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating events that took place two and a half years before. She and Woody both find themselves struggling to cope with their lives without each other after he leaves the gang. Lol is carrying the burden of her guilt, whilst Woody is trying to build a domestic life with a new girlfriend and a potential promotion at work. Shaun has started drama college and, although still in a relationship with Smell, he has grown close to a girl performing in his Christmas play.
Dir. Shane Meadows · With Thomas Turgoose, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.
Dir. Paul McGuigan · With Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
Dir. Scott Cooper · With Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser
A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police.
Dir. Christopher Smith · With Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Warwick Davis

With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
Dir. Cédric Jimenez · With Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell

One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
Dir. Paul Tomalin · With Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor

When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.
Dir. Roland Suso Richter · With Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Dir. Saul Dibb · With Asa Butterfield, Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany
A group of men, heading to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce, soon discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.
Dir. Jake West · With Stephen Graham, Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.
Dir. Jake Paltrow · With Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz
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