Jonathan Pryce
Actor
Films to Rent
- Breaking Glass (1980)
- Dir. Brian Gibson
Feat. Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels, Jon Finch…
- Grievously under–rated and singular rock music drama from the post–punk era offers more than just nostalgic interest, with an impassioned…
- Ploughman's Lunch, The (1983)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry
- Complex dissection of British motives during the Falklands War.
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd…
- Classic Ray Bradbury story of good and evil, set in a small American town, where two adventurous boys become entangled with a diabolical carnival and…
- Brazil (1985)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm…
- Daydreaming bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a mystery woman before falling victim to his own…
- Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner…
- Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
- Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane…
- Amiable escapade with trouble aplenty for Goldberg after she starts receiving S.O.S messages from a British spy trapped in Soviet Russia. When she…
- Shopping (1993)
- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Jonathan Pryce
- Joy–riding, shop–looting youths cruise the neon–lit urban squalors of Northern England. Realism is bypassed in favour of a visual…
- Deadly Advice (1993)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Jonathan Pryce…
- A wicked little black comedy about murder in small, genteel provincial town on the Welsh borders. The twist is to have the bickering ghosts of…
- Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert…
- James Garner, Jonathan Pryce and Peter Riegert engage in power–plays and an outrageous take–over bidding war for cigarette giant,…
- Business Affair, A (1993)
- Dir. Charlotte Brandstom
Feat. Carole Bouquet, Christopher Walken, Jonathan Pryce…
- Would–be writer Carole Bouquet is caught between her husband (another struggling scribe) and publisher Christopher Walken. European…
- Carrington (1995)
- Dir. Christopher Hampton
Feat. Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington…
- Titular tomboy Emma Thompson finds inexplicable desire for fellow 'Bloomsbury groupie' and effette intellectual Lytton Strachey in this academic…
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh…
- Pierce Brosnan is back for a second round as 007, this time embroiled in the war–waging activities of an unscrupulous media baron (Jonathan…
- Ronin (1997)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone…
- Perfunctory caper round the grey streets of Paris stuffs as much car–chasing and other cliches as possible into its baggy plot concerning…
- Regeneration (Behind the Lines) (1997)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller…
- An exploration of the mental trauma of trench–warfare in WWI, adapted from the novel by Pat Barker and set in a Scottish Hospital where…
- Affair of the Necklace, The (2001)
- Dir. Charles Shyer
Feat. Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Joely Richardson…
- Hilary Swank (BOYS DON’T CRY) wigs up as a penniless French aristocrat in pre–revolution times who conspires to defraud Cardinal Jonathon…
- Very Annie-Mary (2001)
- Dir. Sara Sugarman
Feat. Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce
- Set in the tiny Welsh village of Ogw and embracing the national obsession with singing, this doggedly eccentric comedy is not for all tastes yet has…
- Unconditional Love (2002)
- Dir. P.J. Hogan
Feat. Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Lynn Redgrave…
- A neatly amusing comedy concerning the fan of a recently deceased pop crooner, who teams up with the singer's gay lover to investigate the death (or…
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush…
- A terrific, tongue–in–cheek action romp set in the pirate days of the Caribbean, with Johnny Depp leading the charge as a madcap, slyly…
- De-Lovely (Delovely) (2004)
- Dir. Irwin Winkler
Feat. Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce
- Refined and dandy musical biopic of legendary tunesmith Cole Porter, who composed some great music while leading a gay double–life during his…
- Brothers Grimm (2005)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Heath Ledger, Matt Damon, Jonathan Pryce…
- Loosely based on the lives of 19th century German folklore collectors Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, this has the said brothers (played by Ledger and…
- Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley…
- Smash sequel–equal, which replicates the swashbuckling wit, quirkiness and visual excitement of its predecessor, again following the…
- Renaissance (2006)
- Dir. Christian Volckman
Feat. Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm…
- Painting a typically bleak, oppressive view of the not–to–distant future, this French animation conception realises its dystopian malaise…
- Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End (2007)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom…
- Blockbuster third installment in the ever–popular swashbuckling franchise finds Johnny Depp and crew having to sail off the edge of the map and…
- Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
- Dir. Julian Kemp
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Anna Chancellor
- Holmes gets kicked into the 21st century with this made–for–TV family drama in which the crime–busting duo must rely on a gang of…
- Leatherheads (2008)
- Dir. George Clooney
Feat. George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, Jonathan Pryce
- The debonair George Clooney directs and stars in this charming 1920s comedy as a player–coach who gets caught up with a plucky journalist…
- Bedtime Stories (2008)
- Dir. Adam Shankman
Feat. Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce…
- Sure–fire Disney high–concept comedy starring Adam Sandler as a baby–sitting uncle whose bedtime stories start to influence his…
- Return to Cranford (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie…
- Winning follow–up to the acclaimed drama is set one year after the marriage of Dr. Harrison and Sophy Hutton. There's some exciting additions…
- Hysteria (2011)
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce…
- A buoyant, light–to–touch period romance about the 19th Century invention of the vibrator, devised as cure for the female ailment know as…
- G.I Joe: Retaliation (2013)
- Dir. Jon M. Chu
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis…
- The Joes strap up for another explosive slug fest with arch enemies Cobra in this dumb–fun sequel to the toy franchise blockbuster.
- Salvation, The (2014)
- Dir. Kristian Levring
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan…
- High on action, low on dialogue, this enjoyable Danish western follows the story of a peaceful American settler who kills his family's murderer and…
- Listen Up Philip (2014)
- Dir. Alex Ross Perry
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce…
- Acidic, stylistically bold portrait of a young narcissistic writer (Schwartzman) who petulantly refuses to promote his second novel, and instead…
- Woman in Gold (2015)
- Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl…
- Helen Mirren elevates this polished if prosaic dramatisation of an elderly Jewish woman who teams with a rookie lawyer (Reynolds) to seek restorative…
- Dough (2015)
- Dir. John Goldschmidt
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Jerome Holder, Phil Davis…
- Gentle comedy with Jonathan Pryce as an old Jewish baker who struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice drops cannabis…
- Man Who Invented Christmas, The (2017)
- Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce…
- Delightful Christmas movie to suit all ages, following the life of Charles Dickens as he writes A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Scrooge was inspired by…
- Wife, The (2017)
- Dir. Björn Runge
Feat. Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater…
- An intelligent drama exploring the 40 year marriage between a Nobel Prize winning novelist and his wife, who has remained in the shadows as her own…
- Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The (2018)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard…
- Madcap fantasy adventure from director Terry Gilliam following a cynical advertising director (Adam Driver) who succumbs to outrageous delusions…