Idris Elba

Actor

Films to Rent

Show: All FilmsRental Rental DVD Rental Blu-Ray Rental VHSSales Sales DVD Sales Blu-Ray Sales VHS

Wire, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002): Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris…; Tough, patient HBO TV policier (from David Simon, creator of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS) follows the Baltimore drug scene from both the police and…
Wire, The - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003): Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris…; Much of the cast of the first season of this phenomenal HBO crime drama return for another complex delve into the Baltimore crime scene. This time…
Wire, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Dominic West, Frankie Faison, Idris Elba…; Third season of this cracking HBO crime drama set in the seedy underbelly of the Baltimore crime scene. This season the Baltimore mayor is…
Sometimes in April (2005): Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Debra Winger, Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero; A worthy HBO dramatisation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which around one million ethnic 'Tutsis' were slaughtered by ethnic 'Hutu' military and…
Reaping, The (2007): Feat. Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba…; Apocalyptic horror hokum set in bible belt America, with Hilary Swank managing to rise above the schlock as a former missionary turned scientific…
28 Weeks Later (2007): Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…; Post–Apocalyptic sequel to 28 DAYS LATER takes place weeks after the Rage Virus outbreak, with a small community attempting to…
Prom Night (2008): Dir. Nelson McCormick
Feat. Idris Elba, Jessica Stroup, Johnathon Schaech; Lame duck remake of the 80's teen horror, with a picture perfect cast being chased around by a deranged killer on their…
RocknRolla (2008): Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton…; Stylephile Guy Ritchie revisits well–trodden territory with this typically tangled crime caper involving a menagerie of seedy opportunists…
Obsessed (2009): Dir. Steve Shill
Feat. Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter…; Campy stalker thriller sees a successful bank manager (Elba) relentlessly pursued by an obsessive temp who works in his office. THE WIRE vet Elba…
Losers, The (2010): Dir. Sylvain White
Feat. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans…; Bombastic, boof–headed action based on the Vertigo comic about double–crossed mercenaries out for revenge will satisfy those in search of…
Takers (2010): Dir. John Luessenhop
Feat. Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon…; Slick, but generic heist film has a notorious gang of thieves running up against a hard–bitten detective determined to foil their latest heist.
Luther (TV Series) (2010-2019): Feat. Idris Elba, Saskia Reeves, Indira Varma…; Stylish, swaggering BBC cop show created by SPOOKS–scriptwriter (and currently Wellington resident) Neil Cross stars THE WIRE's Idris Elba as a…
Thor (2011): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman…; Engaging superhero escapism with The God of Thunder banished to earth where his skills with a hammer soon come in handy. Flitting between godly…
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (2011): Dir. Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba…; Vrrmm, vrmmm....Nicolas Cage races with the devil in this unnecessary sequel to Marvel's mediocre GHOST RIDER. Despite CRANK directors Neveldine and…
Prometheus (2012): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender…; Ridley Scott's return to the ALIEN franchise results in his most visually enthralling film since BLADE RUNNER, with outstanding art direction and…
Pacific Rim (2013): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi…; Guillermo Del Toro injects some bravado and visual panache into this otherwise knuckleheaded live–action cartoon about a team of robot pilots…
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…
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom (2013): Dir. Justin Chadwick
Feat. Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge; Idris Elba portrays the late Nelson Mendela from his childhood rural upbringing through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected…
Gunman, The (2015): Dir. Pierre Morel
Feat. Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca…; Sean Penn stars as a sniper on a mercenary assassination team, who kills a Congolese minister, but his shot forces him into hiding.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo…; More Marvel mayhem has the team forced to reassemble after Tony Stark and Bruce Banner awaken a long dormant peacekeeping program.
Zootopia (2016): Dir. Rich Moore, Byron Howard
Feat. Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba…; This Pixar animation smash is a smart, hugely entertaining romp set in a city of anthropomorphic animals in which a rookie bunny cop and a cynical…
Jungle Book, The (2016): Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley…; An eye–popping, effects–driven take on the tale of Mowgli a young boy raised by wolves who's existence is threatened by the tiger Shere…
Bastille Day (2016): Dir. James Watkins
Feat. Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon…; Brawny thriller with Idris Elba as a CIA agent forced to team up with a young con artist to thwart a terrorist attack.
Finding Dory (2016): Dir. Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
Feat. Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O'Neill…; Beautifully rendered sequel to Pixar's FINDING NEMO follows Ellen DeGeneres' forgetful blue tang fish as she searches for her long–lost…
Star Trek: Beyond (2016): Dir. Justin Lin
Feat. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban…; Thrilling third installment has Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter…
100 Streets (2016): Dir. Jim O’Hanlon
Feat. Idris Elba, Gemma Arterton, Tom Cullen…; Compelling ensemble drama following the lives of a diverse range of characters all within one square mile of London. The story lines are…
Guerrilla (TV Mini-series) (2017): Feat. Idris Elba, Freida Pinto, Babou Ceesay…; 6–part Miniseries set in 1970's London, where a politically active couple have their relationship and values tested after forming a radical…
Dark Tower, The (2017): Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
Feat. Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor…; Stephen King adaptation which simplifies the author's acclaimed fantasy series into a watchable battle of good vs evil – represented by Idris…
Mountain Between Us, The (2017): Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
Feat. Idris Elba, Kate Winslet; Indris Elba and Kate Winslet are appealing in this lusciously shot romantic drama doubling as a tense mountain survival story. The pair are a surgeon…
Thor: Ragnarok (2017): Dir. Taika Waititi
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett…; New Zealand's most successful film–maker on home turf (and former Aro Valleyite) Taika Waititi makes his equally successful Hollywood debut…
Molly's Game (2017): Dir. Aaron Sorkin
Feat. Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner…; The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic–class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high–stakes poker game and became an FBI target.…
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…
Cats (2019): Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. James Corden, Judi Dench, Idris Elba…; Vilified remake of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about a group of cats competing at an elaborate ceremony to decide who will be reincarnated. A…
Suicide Squad, The (2021): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena…; The standalone sequel to SUICIDE SQUAD is this bold, bright and chaotic superhero movie based on the DC Comics characters. Harley Quinn (Margot…
Beast (2022): Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley…; Idris Elba stars in this pulse–pounding thriller about a recently–widowed father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves hunted…

Main menu

Section navigation menu

Idris Elba

Films to Rent