Mark Strong
Actor
- Emma (Jane Austen's Emma) (1996)
- Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Dominic Rowan, Mark Strong…
- Released the same year as the fanfared Gwyneth Paltrow version, this modest made–for–TV version of Jane Austen's matchmaker rom–com…
- 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.…
- Body Of Lies (2008)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Vince Colosimo…
- Double–crossing political thriller starring DiCaprio as a street–savvy US intelligence operative at the beck and (phone)call of a CIA…
- Sherlock Holmes (2009)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams…
- Blockbuster makeover of the famous sleuth has Holmes re–imagined as a brawny, off–beat super–hero type, battling a fiendish villain…
- Endgame (2009)
- Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller…
- South Africa's fraught history is tackled in this solid, involving account of President P.W. Botha’s segregationist regime, and his secretive talks…
- Kick-Ass (2010)
- Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage…
- Adapted from the kick–ass graphic novel, this gleeful bone–cruncher portrays a world in which wannabe superheroes don costumes and fight…
- Robin Hood (2010)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow…
- Reuniting GLADIATOR director Ridley Scott with star Russell Crowe, this brawnier, grittier update of the Sherwood forest legend surveys the origins…
- Way Back, The (2010)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell…
- A small group of multi–national prisoners escape a Siberian Gulag and make their way across five countries on foot in this survivalist epic…
- Guard, The (2010)
- Dir. John Michael McDonagh
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham…
- A straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) and a raucous Irish cop (Gleeson) buddy up to take down an international drug smuggling ring in this riotous…
- Eagle, The (2011)
- Dir. Kevin MacDonald
Feat. Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland…
- Rousing, decidedly old–school epic with Tatum as a Roman soldier who journeys to occupied Britain to discover what caused the disappearance of…
- Green Lantern (2011)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard…
- Superhero spectacle, with Ryan Reynolds as a test pilot granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as…
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, John Hurt…
- An enthralling, impeccably cast screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s quintessential cold war spy novel, centred on a retired George Smiley (Oldman)…
- John Carter (2012)
- Dir. Andrew Stanton
Feat. Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton…
- Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci–fi novel is the basis for this hulking intergalactic adventure extravagantly financed by Disney studios,…
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler…
- Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER) directs this formidable thriller based on the CIA's decade–long manhunt for Osama bin Laden.
- Blood (2012)
- Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox…
- Though fairly derivative, this overcast thriller about a family of policemen who struggle to cover up the death of a murder suspect they've also been…
- Welcome to the Punch (2013)
- Dir. Eran Creevy
Feat. James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough…
- James McAvoy and Mark Strong square off as obsessive cop and elusive criminal mastermind respectively in this high–performance thriller set in…
- Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
- Dir. Manuel Sicilia
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Freddie Highmore…
- Essentially Pixar's BRAVE turned inside out, this amusing medieval fantasy centres on a young aspiring knight whose parents wish for him to instead…
- Mindscape (Anna) (2013)
- Dir. Jorge Dorado
Feat. Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox…
- Psychological thriller set in the near future, where a 'memory detective' is tasked with entering the mind of a troubled 16–year–old girl…
- Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
- Dir. Rowan Joffe
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong…
- Twisty thriller with Kidman excellent as a woman who wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past.
- Imitation Game, The (2014)
- Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode…
- Entertaining, though hardly accurate, biopic of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who here claims full credit for his work leading a team of…
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
- Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson…
- Good–natured, violent spoof in which gentleman spy Colin Firth recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the ultra–competitive…
- Grimsby (2016)
- Dir. Louis Leterrier
Feat. Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson…
- Sacha Baron Cohen brings his gift for mimicry to the action genre, playing a dim–witted football hooligan reuniting with his estranged brother…
- Miss Sloane (2016)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Jessica Chastain, Michael Stuhlbarg, Gugu Mbatha-Raw…
- Political thriller following the exploits of a steely, determined Washington lobbyist (Chastain). With an unparalleled reputation in the high stakes…
- Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
- Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton…
- Sequel to the outrageous blockbuster spy spoof about an elite secret organisation called Kingsman, who this time must team up with their American…
- 6 Days (Six Days) (2017)
- Dir. Toa Fraser
Feat. Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish…
- Kiwi filmmaker Toa Fraser helms this hostage thriller that faithfully recreates the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London, 1980.
- Stockholm (2018)
- Dir. Robert Budreau
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong
- Serviceable crime thriller taking some entertaining liberties with the true story of the 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm, often…
- Shazam! (2019)
- Dir. David F. Sandberg
Feat. Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong
- Playful DC comics movie about a teenage boy who can transform into an adult superhero by shouting one word: SHAZAM! Naturally he goes about…
- Cruella (2021)
- Dir. Craig Gillespie
Feat. Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry…
- Crime comedy starring Emma Stone as the villainous character Cruella de Vil from Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
Director…
- Tár (Tar) (2022)
- Dir. Todd Field
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant…
- A striking and rigorously intelligent drama from the director of IN THE BEDROOM that interrogates the process, pressures and politics in the…