In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

The Omen

2006

English

5.5

♡ 48

26%

parent child relationship

John Moore Director

Nikki Amuka-Bird as Dr. Becker

Julia Stiles as Katherine Thorn

David Thewlis as Keith Jennings

MyAnna Buring as Tabloid Reporter #2

A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.

Naked

1993

English

7.7

♡ 46

88%

Mike Leigh Director

David Thewlis as Johnny

Susan Vidler as Maggie

Toby Jones as Men at Tea Bar

Deborah MacLaren as Woman in Window

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Anonymous

2011

English

6.8

♡ 38

47%

Roland Emmerich Director

Richard Durden as Archbishop

Tom Wlaschiha as Captain of the Guard

Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker

David Thewlis as William Cecil

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

Seven Years in Tibet

1997

English

7.1

♡ 54

57%

himalaya mountain range

Jean-Jacques Annaud Director

Ric Young as General Chang Jing Wu

Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer BD Wong

BD Wong as Ngawang Jigme

David Thewlis as Peter Aufschnaiter

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

DragonHeart

1996

English

6.4

♡ 67

48%

Rob Cohen Director

Dennis Quaid as Bowen

Dina Meyer as Kara

David Thewlis as King Einon

Jason Isaacs as Lord Felton

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.

James and the Giant Peach

1996

English

6.7

♡ 43

91%

based on novel or book

Henry Selick Director

Richard Dreyfuss as Centipede

David Thewlis as Earthworm

Michael Bell as Skeleton Pirates

Susan Sarandon as Spider

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

Total Eclipse

1995

English

6.4

♡ 8

24%

60%

based on play or musical

Agnieszka Holland Director

Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud

Romane Bohringer as Mathilde Maute

Andrzej Seweryn as Mr. Maute De Fleurville

David Thewlis as Paul Verlaine

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

2008

English

7.7

♡ 140

65%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Mark Herman Director

Asa Butterfield as Bruno

David Thewlis as Father

Rupert Friend as Lieutenant Kotler

Vera Farmiga as Mother

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

Macbeth

2015

English

6.6

♡ 67

80%

Justin Kurzel Director

David Thewlis as Duncan

Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth

Michael Fassbender as Macbeth

Sean Harris as Macduff

Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

Anomalisa

2015

English

7.2

♡ 98

92%

Charlie Kaufman Director

Tom Noonan as Everyone else

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lisa Hesselman

David Thewlis as Michael Stone

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

2007

English

5.1

10%

Paul Auster Director

Irène Jacob as Claire Martin

Michael Imperioli as Jim Fortunato

David Thewlis as Martin Frost

Paul Auster as Narrator

A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but as time passes she becomes more and more unattainable.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020

English

6.5

♡ 89

82%

50%

4:3

Action

based on novel or book

Charlie Kaufman Director

David Thewlis as Father

Jesse Plemons as Jake

Toni Collette as Mother

Oliver Platt as The Voice

Jessie Buckley as The Young Woman

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

The Theory of Everything

2014

English

7.7

♡ 256

81%

84%

Action

based on a true story

based on memoir or autobiography

husband wife relationship

physicist

Romance

James Marsh Director

Emily Watson as Beryl Wilde

Glenda Jackson as Cathy

David Thewlis as Dennis Sciama

Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

The New World

2005

English

6.7

♡ 69

63%

native american attack

Romance

virginia

Terrence Malick Director

Colin Farrell as Captain Smith

Christian Bale as John Rolfe

Roger Rees as Virginia Company Representative

David Thewlis as Wingfield

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Stonehearst Asylum

2014

English

6.8

♡ 100

psychological thriller

Romance

Thriller

Brad Anderson Director

Michael Caine as Benjamin Salt

Kate Beckinsale as Eliza Graves

David Thewlis as Mickey Finn

Brendan Gleeson as The Alienist

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009

English

7.6

♡ 489

83%

David Yates Director

David Bradley as Argus Filch

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter

Emma Watson as Hermione Granger

David Thewlis as Remus Lupin

As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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