Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

Valkyrie

2008

English

7.1

♡ 151

62%

husband wife relationship

Bryan Singer Director

Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

Tom Hollander as Colonel Heinz Brandt

Bill Nighy as General Friedrich Olbricht

Efka Kvaraciejus as SS Soldier - Berghof

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

The Bookshop

2017

English

6.5

♡ 21

57%

based on novel or book

Isabel Coixet Director

Bill Nighy as Edmund Brundish

Emily Mortimer as Florence Green

James Lance as Milo North

Patricia Clarkson as Violet Gamart

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Their Finest

2016

English

♡ 60

90%

72%

Action

based on novel or book

Lone Scherfig Director

Bill Nighy as Ambrose Hilliard

Jake Lacy as Carl Lundbeck

Gemma Arterton as Catrin Cole

Sam Claflin as Tom Buckley

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

Arthur Christmas

2011

English

7.1

♡ 61

93%

Sarah Smith Director

James McAvoy as Arthur

Bill Nighy as Grandsanta

Joan Cusack as Lead Elf

Jane Horrocks as Lead Elf

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980

English

7.5

♡ 8

80%

Jack Gold Director

Ricky Schroder as Lord Fauntleroy

Connie Booth as Mrs. Errol

Bill Nighy as Officer

Patrick Stewart as Wilkins

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

Gideon's Daughter

2005

English

6.9

♡ 7

77%

Stephen Poliakoff Director

Tom Hardy as Andrew

Ronni Ancona as Barbara

Bill Nighy as Gideon

Emily Blunt as Natasha

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.

Pride

2014

English

7.8

♡ 29

93%

89%

1980s

Action

based on a true story

Matthew Warchus Director

Bill Nighy as Cliff

Imelda Staunton as Hefina

Dominic West as Jonathan

Liz White as Margaret

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

Total Recall

2012

English

6.2

♡ 196

30%

Len Wiseman Director

Ethan Hawke as Carl Hauser

Colin Farrell as Douglas Quaid / Carl Hauser

Kate Beckinsale as Lori Quaid

Bill Nighy as Matthias

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.

The Little Drummer Girl

1984

English

6.1

♡ 3

55%

59%

american

Drama

George Roy Hill Director

Bill Nighy as Al

Diane Keaton as Charlie

Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Katrin

Sami Frey as Khalil

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

Role Play

2024

English

5.5

♡ 34

25%

husband wife relationship

Romance

secret life

submissive

Thomas Vincent Director

Bill Nighy as Bob Kellerman

Kaley Cuoco as Emma Brackett

Connie Nielsen as Gwen Carver

Stephanie Levi-John as Molly

Emma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey – she also has a secret life as an assassin for hire – a secret that her husband David discovers when the couple decide to spice up their marriage with a little role play.

Rango

2011

English

7.3

♡ 231

88%

Gore Verbinski Director

Isla Fisher as Beans

Charles Fleischer as Elbows

Johnny Depp as Rango / Lars

Bill Nighy as Rattlesnake Jake

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.

Living

2022

English

7.2

♡ 46

96%

Oliver Hermanus Director

Adrian Rawlins as Middleton

Michael Cochrane as Sir James

Tom Burke as Sutherland

Bill Nighy as Williams

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

About Time

2013

English

7.8

♡ 415

71%

parent child relationship

Richard Curtis Director

Margot Robbie as Charlotte

Bill Nighy as Dad

Vanessa Kirby as Joanna

Rachel McAdams as Mary

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.

The Constant Gardener

2005

English

7.3

♡ 61

83%

pharmaceutical industry

Fernando Meirelles Director

Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle

Claire Simpson as Maude Donohue

Bill Nighy as Sir Bernard Pellegrin

Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Jack the Giant Slayer

2013

English

6.3

♡ 180

52%

Bryan Singer Director

Bill Nighy as General Fallon

Eleanor Tomlinson as Isabelle

Nicholas Hoult as Jack

Ian McShane as King Brahmwell

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

2006

English

7.4

♡ 466

53%

Gore Verbinski Director

Tom Hollander as Cutler Beckett

Bill Nighy as Davy Jones

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow

Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.

That Christmas

2024

English

6.8

♡ 20

67%

Simon Otto Director

Bill Nighy as Lighthouse Bill

Lolly Adefope as Mrs. McNutt

Fiona Shaw as MS Trapper

Brian Cox as Santa

It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's.

I Capture the Castle

2003

English

6.8

♡ 12

78%

76%

1930s

Action

based on novel or book

castle

Drama

father daughter relationship

Romance

sibling relationship

teenage protagonist

Tim Fywell Director

James Faulkner as Aubrey Fox-Cotton

Bill Nighy as James Mortmain

Rose Byrne as Rose Mortmain

Henry Cavill as Stephen Colley

In 1930s England, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggle to survive in a decaying English castle.

The Boat That Rocked

2009

English

7.3

♡ 59

Richard Curtis Director

Emma Thompson as Charlotte

Gemma Arterton as Desiree

Bill Nighy as Quentin

Kenneth Branagh as Sir Alistair Dormandy

When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban on government-censored music, they take to the seas to broadcast music and mayhem to millions of adoring fans.

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Living

About Time

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

That Christmas

I Capture the Castle

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