Cillian Murphy
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Sunburn (1999) 
- Dir. Nelson Hume
Feat. Paloma Baeza, Cillian Murphy, Barry Ward… 
- Minor–key indie with Paloma Baeza as an Irish drifter who takes the easy path of a summer’s slacking in Long Island, USA. Music by The High…
 
Trench, The (1999) 
- Dir. William Boyd
Feat. Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer… 
- WWI film set in the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme, in which the British Army lost the greatest number of soldiers in a single day of…
 
Disco Pigs (2000) 
- Dir. Kirsten Sheridan
Feat. Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy 
- Bleak, edgy rites–of–passage portrait of an intense friendship between two 17 year–olds who share a twisted appetite for…
 
Bitter Harvest (How Harry Became a Tree) (2001) 
- Dir. Goran Paskaljevic
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Adrian Dunbar, Colm Meaney 
- Set in 1920s rural Ireland, this raw fable concerns a troubled widower (Meaney) who tries to make a comeback in life by launching a personal vendetta…
 
The Way We Live Now (2001) 
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Shirley Henderson… 
- The rise and fall of a Jewish financer is laid bare by the masterful pen of Anthony Trollope. David Suchet broadly, if unlikeably encompasses the…
 
On the Edge (2002) 
- Dir. John Carney
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea 
- Fairly risky and consistently bleak drama set around three teenage mental patients and their doctor. Thin treatment of the subject matter is redeemed…
 
28 Days Later (2003)
 
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson 
- Effective 'end of the world' thriller, where a scientifically–engineered contagion escapes the lab, turning most of Britain's populace into…
 
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
 
- Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson… 
- A superior dramatic conceit that speculates on the background to Johannes Vermeer's enigmatic 17th century portrait of the title.
Johannson plays…
 
Intermission (2003) 
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy… 
- Irish crime drama teeming with 'interconnected' plotlines and profane lowlife, dreaming various criminal and romantic endeavours into…
 
Red Eye (2005)
 
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox 
- Dir. Wes Craven whittles a lean, claustrophobic thriller around the plight of a woman (McAdams), menaced onboard of short–haul plane flight by…
 
Breakfast on Pluto (2005) 
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson… 
- Cillian Murphy glitters in this whimsical drama as an Irish transgender escort during the social and political upheaval of the 70s. 
Despite the…
 
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)
 
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney 
- Thoroughly gripping Cannes winner from "kitchen sink" exponent Ken Loach, retelling with parochial force Ireland's tumultuous twenties, where the…
 
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…
 
Watching the Detectives (2007) 
- Dir. Paul Soter
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Lucy Liu 
- Screwball comedy sees geeky noir–loving video store clerk (Cillian Murphy) taking a walk on the wild side after an ebullient femme fatale (Lucy…
 
Edge of Love, The (2008) 
- Dir. John Maybury
Feat. Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy… 
- Atmospheric wartime romance based on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Rhys) and his love for two free–spirited women who become firm…
 
Peacock (2009) 
- Dir. Michael Lander
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon… 
- A freak accident in a small American town threatens to disclose a bank teller's secret life – that of a split personality – in this…
 
Perrier's Bounty (2009) 
- Dir. Ian Fitzgibbon
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Gabriel Byrne… 
- Jovial Irish caper in the vein of Sexy Beast, with Murphy as a petty crim in hock to a local gangster. A talented cast clearly enjoying themselves…
 
Inception (2010)
 
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt… 
- Hitmaker Christopher Nolan (THE DARK KNIGHT) conjures up yet another thrilling, immaculately shot blockbuster, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the…
 
In Time (2011)
 
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy… 
- More high–concept futurism from ex–pat Kiwi Andrew Niccol (GATTACA, S1M0NE) finds Justin Timberlake on the lam in a world where units of…
 
Retreat (2011) 
- Dir. Carl Tibbets
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Thandiwe Newton, Jamie Bell 
- Unnerving thriller with a couple recovering from tragedy on a secluded island who have their mourning interrupted by a bloodied soldier claiming a…
 
Red Lights (2012) 
- Dir. Rodrigo Cortes
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro… 
- A pair of investigators famous for exposing fraudulent psychics meet their match when they take on a legendary blind mystic (played by Robert De…
 
Broken (2012) 
- Dir. Rufus Norris
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence… 
- In Rufus Norris’s artfully constructed drama... there’s a lot to like, not least a striking central performance from newcomer Eloise Laurence.…
 
Peaky Blinders (TV Series) (2013)
 
- Feat. Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory…
 
- A gangster epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy…
 
Transcendence (2014) 
- Dir. Wally Pfister
Feat. Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany… 
- Johnny Depp plays an innovator in the field of artificial intelligence whose consciousness is absorbed into a computer mainframe. The directorial…
 
In the Heart of the Sea (2015) 
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson… 
- Ron Howard directs this effects–heavy  recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, the inspiration for the…
 
Free Fire (2017) 
- Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor… 
- Gleeful and hilariously nihilistic parody of the insanity of gun violence by acclaimed director Ben Wheatley (HIGH RISE). Set in 1970's Boston, an…
 
Dunkirk (2017)
 
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Fionn Whitehead, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan… 
- Christopher Nolan's grandiose staging of the famous evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk in May 1940 is a departure from the fantasy pictures the…
 
Party, The (2017) 
- Dir. Sally Potter
Feat. Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones… 
- A bitingly sharp social satire from the usually more experimental director Sally Potter (ORLANDO) with an experienced ensemble cast lead by Patricia…
 
Anna  (2019) 
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans… 
- A beautiful Russian woman goes undercover for the KGB in this slick spy thriller that ticks all the boxes for Luc Besson fans.
 
A Quiet Place Part II (A Quiet Place 2) (2021)
 
- Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds… 
- Highly anticipated sequel to the inventive horror movie A QUIET PLACE, about parents (played by director John Krasinksi and real–life spouse…
 
Oppenheimer (2023)
 
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon… 
- Christopher Nolan's grand biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the American Physicist credited with being the "father of the atomic…