Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor and musician. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a nomination for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award.
He started his career portraying Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours (1986–1989). Pearce received international attention for his breakout role in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). Subsequently, he starred as Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson's crime noir L.A. Confidential (1997) and a man suffering short-term memory loss in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Memento (2000).
He also acted in The Time Machine (2002), Bedtime Stories (2008), The Road (2009), The Hurt Locker (2009), The King's Speech (2010), and Lawless (2012). He portrayed Peter Weyland in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), Aldrich Killian in the Marvel action film Iron Man 3 (2013) and William Cecil in the biopic Mary Queen of Scots (2018). In Australian cinema, Pearce has acted in The Proposition (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014). For his performance in The Brutalist(2024), he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Since 2012, he has played the title role in the TV adaptations of the Jack Irish stories by Australian crime writer Peter Temple. Pearce starred in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown. The former won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.5647 |
| Birthday | 1967-10-05 |
| Place of Birth | Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Guy Edward Pearce, |
2000
Memento
8.177/16121
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the f...
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Memento
1997
L.A. Confidential
7.8/5499
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of...
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L.A. Confidential
2002
The Time Machine
6.304/2517
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two...
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The Time Machine
2008
Bedtime Stories
6.157/2960
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa...
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Bedtime Stories
1999
Ravenous
6.855/684
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...
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Ravenous
2004
Two Brothers
7.078/864
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces...
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Two Brothers
1994
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
7.263/910
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
2000
Rules of Engagement
6.255/787
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.
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Rules of Engagement
2009
The Road
7.017/4247
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough t...
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The Road
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
7.669/2000
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
2008
The Hurt Locker
7.254/6128
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his wo...
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The Hurt Locker
2006
Factory Girl
6.017/269
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems...
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Factory Girl
2008
Traitor
6.654/705
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former...
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Traitor
2007
Death Defying Acts
5.951/278
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
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Death Defying Acts
2002
Till Human Voices Wake Us
5.259/27
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side...
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Till Human Voices Wake Us
2024
The Brutalist
6.955/1617
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United...
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The Brutalist
2025
The Shrouds
5.828/221
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living...
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The Shrouds
2010
Animal Kingdom
6.8/903
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved i...
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Animal Kingdom
2009
Winged Creatures
5.9/150
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horre...
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Winged Creatures
2006
First Snow
6.146/175
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
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First Snow
2022
The Infernal Machine
6.206/294
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought h...
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The Infernal Machine
1996
Dating the Enemy
6.315/33
Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their firs...
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Dating the Enemy
2002
The Hard Word
5.431/51
Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you...
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The Hard Word
2005
The Proposition
7.018/705
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...
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The Proposition
2010
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
5.806/1124
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2009
In Her Skin
6/133
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
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In Her Skin
2024
The Convert
6.155/174
Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maian...
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The Convert
1999
A Slipping Down Life
4.227/22
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
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A Slipping Down Life
2013
Iron Man 3
6.931/23335
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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Iron Man 3
2012
Lockout
5.935/1974
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission...
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Lockout
2018
The Catcher Was a Spy
6.205/320
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
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The Catcher Was a Spy
2012
Prometheus
6.594/13184
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they...
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Prometheus
2012
Lawless
7.071/3313
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging....
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Lawless
2011
Seeking Justice
5.912/1083
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
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Seeking Justice
2012
Jack Irish: Bad Debts
6.5/57
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investi...
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
2012
Jack Irish: Black Tide
6.7/41
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading ph...
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Jack Irish: Black Tide
2014
The Rover
6.275/1043
Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his only...
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The Rover
2012
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
7.033/15
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," featuring cast and crew interviews, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. Rele...
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The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2011
33 Postcards
5.5/20
Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are cha...
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33 Postcards
2013
Breathe In
5.924/330
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters th...
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Breathe In
2014
Hateship Loveship
5.82/153
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's pran...
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Hateship Loveship
1998
Woundings
3.35/10
A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.
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Woundings
Easter Rising
10/1
A film by Irish Director Jason Barry (Bog Bodies, Titanic). Set in Ireland, and starring Guy Pearce (Memento, LA Confidential) as Padraig Pearse, East...
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Easter Rising
2010
The King's Speech
7.733/9255
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie...
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The King's Speech
2014
Jack Irish: Dead Point
6.7/38
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
1990
Heaven Tonight
4.333/3
The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but...
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Heaven Tonight
1991
Hunting
3.4/5
An American tycoon goes to Melbourne where he meets a married secretary.
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Hunting
1993
Flynn
4.5/6
A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.
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Flynn
2017
Alien: Covenant
6.174/9360
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but...
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Alien: Covenant
2025
Killing Faith
5.468/31
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journ...
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Killing Faith
2022
Neighbours Made Me a Star
7/1
Following the soap's final episodes, a tribute to the residents of Ramsay Street and the stars that Neighbours shot to fame. Aside from a look at Kyli...
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Neighbours Made Me a Star
1997
The Devil Game
5.5/2
Detectives are trying to cracking down on a drug smuggling ring in a local fishing village.
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The Devil Game
2015
Results
5.052/213
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
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Results
2024
Sunrise
5.519/54
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a v...
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Sunrise
2015
Equals
6.123/1440
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
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Equals
2025
Inside
5.853/17
After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard, Australia’s most despised criminal, an...
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Inside
2016
Genius
6.48/721
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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Genius
2016
Brimstone
7.148/1256
In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
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Brimstone
2015
Holding the Man
7.682/458
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor...
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Holding the Man
2015
Between a Frock and a Hard Place
7.8/3
This is the story behind one of the world’s most loved films; about three unlikely Australian hero-(ine)s daring to step up from the shadows in their...
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Between a Frock and a Hard Place
Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2
0/0
Plot details are still under wraps, but it will feature a grown-up version of Tick’s 7-year-old son from the original film.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2
1994
Ladies Please!
4.25/4
A rare and stimulating insight into the bohemian world that is drag and into the professional and personal lives of three of its most innovative drag...
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Ladies Please!
2015
Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite
0.5/1
The stars of Neighbours, past and present, reminisce about their time on the show, plus a countdown of the top five most memorable moments chosen by v...
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Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite
2018
Swinging Safari
5.2/67
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed...
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Swinging Safari
2018
Spinning Man
5.59/481
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reaso...
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Spinning Man
2018
Mary Queen of Scots
6.557/1939
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ru...
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Mary Queen of Scots
2019
Domino
4.625/297
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitou...
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Domino
2017
Donny The Drone
4.5/4
Donny the Drone --the world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person of the Year” award as an auditorium of humans are c...
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Donny The Drone
2016
Lorne
5.5/4
Lorne, a wasteland traveler dealing with the oppressing boundaries of isolation, is confronted by a mysterious stranger, who helps him realize his exi...
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Lorne
Poor Boy
0/0
“After a near fatal accident on his seventh birthday, a boy awakens from his coma, only to claim to be the reincarnation of a man who died seven years...
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Poor Boy
2019
The Last Vermeer
6.529/140
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a f...
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The Last Vermeer
2020
Disturbing the Peace
4.567/135
A small-town marshal who hasn't carried a gun since he left the Texas Rangers after a tragic shooting must pick up his gun again to do battle with a g...
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Disturbing the Peace
2020
Bloodshot
6.681/5232
After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman,...
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Bloodshot
2021
The Seventh Day
5.214/288
A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and...
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The Seventh Day
2019
FX's A Christmas Carol
7.21/214
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...
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FX's A Christmas Carol
2021
Zone 414
5.336/299
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
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Zone 414
2020
Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff
6/1
Behind the scenes of Disturbing the Peace
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Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff
2021
Back to the Outback
7.616/784
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an e...
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Back to the Outback
2021
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
6.934/2677
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2022
Memory
6.734/1653
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime s...
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Memory
2008
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
8/3
Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a modern classic.
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Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
2008
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
5/4
Curtis Hanson and his behind-the-scenes collaborators reveal the secrets of bringing 1950s Los Angeles to life in unforgettable style.
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Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
2014
Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'
5/1
Behind the scenes look at David Michôd's 2014 film 'The Rover'.
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Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'
2025
The Woman in Cabin 10
6.191/974
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth...
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The Woman in Cabin 10
Mr. Sunny Sky
0/0
Leonard Moore is a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he meets Shirley, another lost soul wi...
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Mr. Sunny Sky
2015
Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
5.3/3
The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emig...
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Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
Blurred
0/0
After a brutal mugging leaves him with double vision, a fashion photographer turns to a grieving woman for inspiration—until obsession warps reality,...
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Blurred
2026
The Dog Stars
0/0
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gu...
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The Dog Stars
2012
The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023
8.5/8
Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of th...
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The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023
Neponset Circle
0/0
Jimmy O'Mannon, a hailed police officer, and fresh out of prison after serving eight years, gets right back to being a detective, by following-up on a...
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Neponset Circle
Ink
0/0
An explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of misfits and visionaries who had an idea for a new kind of news - one that would give the people...
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Ink
Queen of the Falls
0/0
Said to be a music-infused tale about two lovers on the run.
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Queen of the Falls
1990
Friday on My Mind
9/1
Debut film appearance of Guy Pearce
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Friday on My Mind
2025
Scarcity
0/0
“Scarcity” is a gripping and emotionally charged film set in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, where survival hinges on scarce resources and life ch...
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Scarcity
2025
Together for Palestine
5.5/2
Broadcast of the "Together for Palestine" charity concert organized by Brian Eno along with several artists to raise funds and awareness for Palestini...
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Together for Palestine
The Price of Peace
0/0
Set against the backdrop of the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, in the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s defeat, President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister...
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The Price of Peace
The Marshal
0/0
Clay Mercer, a US Marshal, single-handedly thwarts an assassination of the President, but the event is quickly covered up and his life as he knows it...
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The Marshal
High End
0/0
In Geneva’s affluent ex-pat society, young intern Nollaig's impulsive theft — and bodily absorption — of her host family’s diamonds detonates a deeply...
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High End
The Road Home
0/0
Exiled from his native South Africa, South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela is pulled between two worlds. In the late 1980s, the Anti-Apartheid Movem...
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