Cliff Curtis
Actor
- Desperate Remedies (1993)
- Dir. Peter Wells, Stewart Main
Feat. Michael Hurst, Cliff Curtis, Kevin Smith…
- An audacious, decadent soap–opera which proudly flaunts its contempt for traditional local film–making with drugs, kinky sex,…
- Once Were Warriors (1994)
- Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Julian Arahanga…
- As sensational as it is important, Lee Tamahori's adaptation managed to transform Alan Duff's relentlessly down–beat novel about domestic…
- Chicken (1996)
- Dir. Grant Lahood
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Bryan Marshall, Martyn Sanderson…
- Blackly comic farce about an middle–aged ex–pop–star–turned–fast–food–proprietor who is being stalked by a…
- Three Kings (1999)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-Cube…
- A refreshingly irreverent view of the US Military translated into a box–office hit for this unpredictable black–comedy that puts a…
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames…
- Drawn from the hell–bent memoirs of a New York ambulance driver, this sees dir. Scorcese returning to home–turf, a script by Paul…
- Jubilee (2000)
- Dir. Michael Hurst
Feat. Theresa Healey, Hori Ahipene, Cliff Curtis…
- Down–at–heel family man Cliff Curtis gets roped into organising the 75th jubilee party for his one–horse town, stretching his…
- Blow (2001)
- Dir. Ted Demme
Feat. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ray Liotta…
- ‘Cocaine biopic’ of Pablo Escobar’s American partner, George Jung (Johnny Depp), who graduated from low–level…
- Collateral Damage (2001)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Cliff Curtis
- Overtaken by the events of September 11, 2001, (the cinema release was delayed 6 months) this terrorist thriller has…
- Whale Rider (2003)
- Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton…
- A stirring, widely–acclaimed adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel about a young girl’s struggle to win the approval of her patriarchal…
- Runaway Jury (2003)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman…
- It's back to court with John Grisham, in a well–cast, entertaining tale of gun–control issues, jury–manipulation, big business and…
- Fracture (2004)
- Dir. Larry Parr
Feat. Kate Elliot, Miranda Harcourt, Jennifer Ward-Lealand…
- An impressively staged adaptation of Maurice Gee's novel "Crime Story", set around two equally fractured families who enter each other's orbit after…
- Spooked (2004)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Cliff Curtis, John Leigh, Christopher Hobbs…
- An ambitious though uneven thriller based on the true–life NZ case of a computer expert who ended up with disc–fulls of incriminating…
- River Queen (2005)
- Dir. Vincent Ward
Feat. Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis…
- Both underrated and overblown, dir. Vincent Ward's (VIGIL) ambitious historical drama depicts the journey across heart, soul and land–scapes of…
- Fountain, The (2006)
- Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn…
- A madly ambitious, visually splendid odyssey from dir. Darren Aronofksy, this will certainly intrigue fans of his earlier work, while sci–fi…
- Sunshine (2007)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh…
- Proverbial space peril from the creators of 28 DAYS LATER; a crew of astronauts, and mankind’s last hope, set about delivering a nuclear payload to…
- Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free or Die Hard) (2007)
- Dir. Len Wiseman
Feat. Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long…
- Bruce Willis returns as hardass action copper John McClane, taking on a plugged–in, post–9/11 terrorist cell in this fourth addition to…
- Fracture (2007)
- Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn…
- A you–know–whodunnit legal psychodrama with Anthony Hopkins as a wealthy businessman who shoots his wife dead, then plays a cruel (if…
- 10,000 B.C. (2008)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis
- Beasts, behemoths and flesh–eating emus prowl the prehistoric landscape in another of Roland (INDEPENDENCE DAY) Emmerich's effects–heavy…
- Push (2009)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Camilla Belle, Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning…
- Four telekinetic outcasts band together to expose a government conspiracy in this familiar, if crispy executed sci–fi thriller.
Derives…
- Trauma (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Cliff Curtis, Derek Luke, Aimee Garcia…
- Kiwi Cliff Curtis is the charismatic frontman of this short–lived medical drama centred on a group of dashing San Francisco paramedics.…
- Last Airbender, The (2010)
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz…
- Based on the weirdly popular Nickelodeon series, this cheesy live–action version from know–it–all director M. Night Shyamalan was…
- Colombiana (2011)
- Dir. Olivier Megaton
Feat. Zoe Saldana, Jordi Molla, Lennie James…
- Yet another Luc Besson–produced action vehicle centred on a deadly female assassin, in which Zoe Saldana plays a trained killer seeking revenge…
- Missing (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Ashley Judd, Sean Bean, Cliff Curtis…
- Ashley Judd brings it as an ex–CIA operative turned homemaker who takes on an international conspiracy when her son goes missing in Rome.…
- Dark Horse, The (2014)
- Dir. James Napier Robertson
Feat. Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance…
- Cliff Curtis turns in a magnificent performance in this accomplished and powerful story of speed chess champion Genesis Potini, his battles with…
- Last Knights (2015)
- Dir. Kazuaki Kiriya
Feat. Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie…
- Clive Owen gets medieval as a fallen swordsman who leads a small army against a sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master.
- Fear the Walking Dead (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane
- Grisly prequel to THE WALKING DEAD follows Cliff Curtis as he negotiates a world rapidly turning apocalyptic.
- Meg, The (2018)
- Dir. Jon Turteltaub
Feat. Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson…
- Shamelessly cheesy sub–JAWS aquatic entertainment, with Stratham as a deep–sea rescue diver who is going to save a group of scientists…
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Hobbs and Shaw) (2019)
- Dir. David Leitch
Feat. Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba…
- Ever more over–the–top (ergo, ludicrous) spinoff of THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (aka FF8), focusing on Dwayne Johnson's US Diplomatic…
- Reminiscence (2021)
- Dir. Lisa Joy
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton…
- Hugh Jackman plays a private investigator of the mind in this sci–fi action thriller set in a near future world destroyed by climate…
- Muru (2022)
- Dir. Tearepa Kahi
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Jay Ryan, Manu Bennett…
- A riveting local action–thriller that boldly fictionalizes events surrounding the Nga Tuhoe raids of 2007.
Our finest actor Cliff Curtis…