Christopher Eccleston
Actor
Films to Rent
Let Him Have It (1991)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins
- Riveting re–creation of events pre–empting the tragic 1952 hanging of a simple teenager, whose only crime was to ambiguously utter “Let…
Cracker (TV Series) (1993-1994)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom, Andy Wilson, Julian Jarrold
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Christopher Eccleston, Adrian Dunbar…
- Justifiably acclaimed, often grim television drama centred round the forensic exploits of troubled, gambling–addict psychologist Robbie…
Shallow Grave (1994)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Kerry Fox, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
- Kerry Fox, Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston are flatmates whose opportunistic prayers are answered when a guest drops dead with a suitcase…
Jude (1996)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham…
- Christopher Eccleston excels in the title role of a common man in relentless pursuit of a higher education and the forbidden love of his cousin (Kate…
Our Friends in the North (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig…
- British TV show following four friends living in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England over a period of 31 years from 1964 to 1995.…
Price Above Rubies, A (1998)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Julianne Margulies…
- Sincere though meddlesome attempt to depict life in the closed society of Hasidic Judaism, finds it hard to measure up to dir. Boaz Yakin's…
Clocking Off (TV Series) (2000-2003)
- Dir. John Strickland, Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Sarah Lancashire, Jason Merrells…
- BAFTA–winning drama with a self–contained anthology format that focuses each episode on the home life of a worker at a Manchester textile…
Others, The (2001)
- Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Eric Sykes, Christopher Eccleston
- Ghostly tale in the classic tradition of Henry James, conjuring a spectral fog of unease from a gaunt mansion on the island of Jersey in 1945,…
Othello (2001)
- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Eamonn Walker, Keeley Hawes…
- Andrew Davies' brilliantly distilled screenplay brings Othello's universal themes of love and obsession into the format of a modern crime drama set…
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…
Doctor Who (Series 1) [Christopher Eccleston] (Dr. Who) (2004-2005)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper
- A Doctor Who for the digital age with Christopher Eccleston upholding the fine tradition of the quirky, time–travelling hero, with one time…
Seeker, The - The Dark is Rising (2007)
- Dir. David L Cunningham
Feat. Alexander Ludwig, Ian McShane, Christopher Eccleston…
- Choppy big screen adaptation of Susan Cooper's popular children's series, which pits a chosen young boy against Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane,…
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
- Dir. Stephen Sommers
Feat. Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Rachel Nichols…
- SFX heavy live–adaptation of the popular toy franchise sees the G.I. Joe super–soldiers take on a corrupt arms dealer and the mysterious…
Amelia (2009)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor…
- A conventional retelling of the Amelia Earhart legend, examining the ground–breaking aviator’s turbulent love life during the years between…
Accused (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Naomie Harris, Warren Brown…
- Acclaimed British anthology series centres each episode on the back story of a new character as they make their way to the dock in court to await the…
Shadow Line, The (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. Hugo Blick
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall…
- This quality BBC production builds a compelling and morally complex story around the death of a convicted drugs smuggler, whose murder is…
Blackout (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Ewen Bremner, Dervla Kirwan…
- Christopher Eccleston is suitably shady as an alcoholic counselor who suffers a blackout, during which he realises he may have committed a murder. As…
Song for Marion (Unfinished Song) (2012)
- Dir. Paul Andrew Williams
Feat. Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Arterton…
- A dying woman (Vanessa Redgrave) inspired by her Young at Heart–style choir convinces her depressed husband to join the group as an ode to her…
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Dir. Alan Taylor
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston…
- In this predictably bombastic sequel, the action relocates from Earth to the Nine Realms, where the Norse God must team up with nemesis Loki…
Mystery of Lord Lucan, The (Lucan, The Trial of Lord Lucan) (2013)
- Feat. Rory Kinnear, Catherine McCormack, Christopher Eccleston
- A two–part TV miniseries depicting the mysterious real–life case of an aristocrat, the 7th Earl of Lucan, who disappeared 1974 after…
Leftovers, The (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston…
- Thoughtful adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel about life in a small town after many of its residents vanished in a Rapture–like event.
Safe House (TV Series) (2015-2017)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Marsha Thomason, Paterson Joseph…
- ITV crime series about a married couple who are asked by a police officer and their close friend to turn their remote Guest House into a Safe…
Legend (2015)
- Dir. Brian Helgeland
Feat. Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton…
- Tom Hardy flexes his acting muscle as the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray in this otherwise unremarkable drama that charts the rise…
Where Hands Touch (2018)
- Dir. Amma Asante
Feat. Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish…
- Weighty wartime melodrama from accomplished writer–director Amma Asante (A UNITED KINGDOM), following the fate of a young African American girl…
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
- Dir. Tom Edmunds
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Freya Mavor…
- A struggling writer outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin on the brink of retirement (Tim Wilkinson), in this stylistically ambitious film for…