Sam Neill

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Sleeping Dogs (1977): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Sam Neill, Warren Oates; Roger Donaldson's nihilistic action–thriller in which Sam Neill finds himself alone between two opposing extremist groups. A trail–blazer…
My Brilliant Career (1979): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Neill; Landmark Australian film, with Judy Davis as a determinedly independent femme in the late 19th century. From the novel by Miles Franklin.
Lucinda Brayford (TV Mini Series) (1980): Dir. John Gauci
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill; Australian mini–series based on the novel by Martin Boyd, and depicting the span of generations of a family of English emigrees in the late…
Possession (1981): Dir. Andrzej Zulawski
Feat. Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani; Brazenly over–the–top tale of domestic disharmony and demon possession, infamous for an incredibly mannered performance by Sam Neill and…
Final Conflict, The (The Omen III) (1981): Dir. Graham Baker
Feat. Sam Neill; Anti–christ Damien Thorn is now a 33–year–old corporate tycoon planning a diabolical takeover bid. This installment has the…
Attack Force Z (1982): Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood; Manly, gung–ho war vehicle stars fresh–faced Australasians Mel Gibson and Sam Neill as commandos dispatched to rescue survivors of a…
Enigma (1982): Feat. Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey…; Iron curtain defector Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) returns to East Germany on a CIA mission to save five dissidents by stealing an exemplary of the…
Reilly Ace Of Spies (TV Mini-series) (1983): Dir. Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Egan, Ian Charleson…; Quintessential 1980s mini–series follows the adventures of a real life British superspy Sidney Reilly in the turbulent Russia, Europe and Asia…
Plenty (1985): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill…; Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
Robbery Under Arms (1985): Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. Sam Neill; Rollicking outback western with our Sam Neill as a charismatic bushranger at the head of a wild colonial gang in search of love, loot and adventure.…
Kane And Abel (Mini-series) (1985): Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Strauss, Ron Silver; Based on the epic best selling novel by Jeffrey Archer, about two ambitious men born on the same day on either side of the Atlantic, one to a…
Umbrella Woman, The (1986): Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Rachel Ward, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown; Smalltown adultery in 30s Australia, with Rachel Ward and Sam Neill.
Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, Sam Neill; Jack–of–all–accents, Meryl Streep, does wonders as Lindy Chamberlain, the woman accused of murdering her child in the Australian…
Dead Calm (1989): Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane; A married couple are terrorised by a charmer with a bad case of sea–stroke in this riveting sea–bound thriller. A unique genre entry with…
Death in Brunswick (1990): Dir. John Ruane
Feat. Sam Neill, John Clarke; Sam Neill gets himself into deep water when he lands a job in a seedy nightclub, falls in love, but unwittingly gets caught up in ethnic…
Hunt for Red October (1990): Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Sean Connery, Adam Baldwin, Scott Glenn…; Sean Connery plays a renegade Soviet captain of a high–tech submarine who deviates into Western waters. Is he hostile or is he trying to…
Until the End of the World (1991): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill; Wim Wenders dream project, shot in nine countries, concerns global ambling at the end of the millenium before developing its best idea about…
One Against the Wind (1991): Dir. Larry Elikann
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Anthony Higgins…; Judy Davis gives a typically gutsy performance in this drama set during the Nazi occupation of France and based on the true story of a British Red…
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill…; 'Straight' comic vehicle for Chevy Chase in which he plays a womanising stock–broker blessed/cursed with invisibity. Blessed with some great,…
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, The (1992): Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Tony Barry…; Telemovie enactment of the French–sponsored bombing of the Greenpeace vessel ' Rainbow Warrior' in 1984. Solidly dramatised with Neill and…
Piano, The (1993): Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin…; A romantic masterpiece set in pioneering New Zealand worthy of its reputation and phenomenal success. Worth a second glance for the cast's impeccable…
Jurassic Park (1993): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum…; All–time world box–office champ will be most remembered for the breakthrough computer effects that bring the Dinos to astonishing life.…
Sirens (1994): Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Hugh Grant, Sam Neill, Elle MacPherson…; Catholic minister Hugh Grant and wife are sent to rural Australia to dissuade renegade artist Sam Neill from painting 'pornography'. As an 'Elle…
In the Mouth of Madness (1994): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Sam Neill; Sam Neill is uncannily good as an insurance investigator who uncovers a diabolical alternate reality when he is sent to locate a vanished…
Jungle Book, The (1994): Dir. Stephen Sommers
Feat. Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey…; Disney's live–action rendering of the adventures of Mowgli is a treat, with Jason Scott Lee perfectly cast as the adult jungle boy. Spectacular…
Country Life (1994): Dir. Michael Blakemore
Feat. Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, Kerry Fox; Yet another version of Uncle Vanya, this time set 'out back' in WWI–era New South Wales, and providing some interesting comparisons between…
Restoration (1995): Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Sam Neill, Meg Ryan…; Golden–age English past is again revisited, to when debauched King Charles II was re–throned and decadence reigned. Robert Downey Jnr,…
Children of the Revolution (1996): Dir. Peter Duncan
Feat. Judy Davis, Richard Roxburgh, Sam Neill; An eclectic, ambitious black comedy based on a highly fictional premise – Stalin's son rises through the ranks in Australian politics.…
Snow White in the Black Forest (A Tale of Terror) (1996): Dir. Michael Cohn
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill; A Brothers Grimm fairytale more grim than fairy–ish. Sigourney Weaver steps into the wicked–stepmother robes for a nice little bedtime…
In Cold Blood (1996): Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Sam Neill, Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts; Mini–series adaptation of Truman Capote's novel about the real–life murders of a family in a sleepy Kansas town. Solid but not a patch on…

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