Tim Roth’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Tim Roth has 48 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Reservoir Dogs.
Recurring themes

The Limey
1999
Crime · Drama

The Bandit
1996
Crime · Drama

Dirty Pretty Things
2002
Crime · Drama

The Lookout
2007
Crime · Drama

Bad Day for the Cut
2017
Thriller · Drama

Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017
Drama · Crime

The Hate U Give
2018
Crime · Drama

The Drop
2014
Drama · Crime

Reservoir Dogs
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

The Hateful Eight
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Peacock · Included

Selma
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Paramount+ · Included

Lie to Me
2009 · Series · Actor
Top 14%Hulu · Included

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Netflix · Included

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%MGM+ · Included
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Dir. Ava DuVernay · With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his skills also make it easier for him to deceive others.
Dir. Sam Baum · With Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Monica Raymund

When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Helen Mirren

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

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Dir. Tom Stoppard · With Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss

When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt

16-year-old skinhead Trevor has no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. Social worker Harry Parker tries his best, but Trevor is only interested when there's something in it for him. The centre authorities try to conform Trevor to the norms of society, but he takes no notice, and would rather speak in a torrent of four-letter words and racial abuse.
Dir. Alan Clarke · With Tim Roth, Terry Richards, Bill Stewart

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
Dir. Vondie Curtis-Hall · With Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur, Thandiwe Newton

Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore Henry takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.
Dir. Ilya Naishuller · With Andrey Dementyev, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky

Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Dir. Rufus Norris · With Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy

A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.
Dir. Paco Cabezas · With Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Tim Roth

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

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
Dir. Mike Leigh · With Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Jeffrey Robert

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
Dir. François Girard · With Tim Roth, Clive Owen, Catherine McCormack

Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his covers, he and Arnulfo end up in a journey where he will be the hostage of this young criminal.
Dir. Gabriel Ripstein · With Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Harrison C. Thomas

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Dir. Bill Duke · With Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz

After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
Dir. Leif Tilden · With Graham Rogers, Billy Crudup, Liana Liberato

Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.
Dir. James Gray · With Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly
Dahlia and her five-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment — dilapidated and worn — suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange happenings send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit — one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.
Dir. Walter Salles · With Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Dir. Julius Onah · With Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
Dir. Wim Wenders · With Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.
Dir. Jonas Pate, Josh Pate · With Tim Roth, Michael Rooker, Renée Zellweger
Top Collaborators
Directors with 2+ shared titles, ranked by frequency