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Tom Courtenay has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society.
Oh Lucy!
2018
Comedy · Drama
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Netflix · Included
The Aeronauts
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Night Train to Lisbon
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 56%Prime Video · Included
45 Years
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 63%AMC+ · Included
The Golden Compass
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 79%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Dir. Mike Newell · With Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Dir. David Lean · With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Dir. Jessica Swale · With Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Dir. Anatole Litvak · With Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.
Dir. Tom Harper · With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Courtenay
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
Dir. Tony Richardson · With Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
Dir. Bille August · With Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston
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
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
Dir. Andrew Haigh · With Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
Dir. Morgan Matthews · With Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith, Tom Courtenay
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.
Dir. Dustin Hoffman · With Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly
In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Dir. Chris Weitz · With Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Dir. Michael Hoffman · With Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Dir. Oliver Parker · With Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.
Dir. James Marsh · With Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay
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
