Pete Postlethwaite
Actor
Films to Rent
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht, Pete Postlethwaite
- Dream–like autobiographical vignettes of the director's good and bad memories of growing up in wartime Liverpool. Little narrative structure,…
- Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi…
- Update of James Fenimore Cooper's oft–filmed novel with Daniel Day–Lewis sporting the hero's loin–cloth. Authentically recreates…
- Waterland (1992)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Lena Headey…
- Jeremy Irons plays a history teacher in America who recounts his own suppressed coming of age to his cynical students. Adapted from Graham Swift's…
- Alien 3 (1992)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Pete Postlethwaite…
- Third entry suffers from its plagued production history, but still emerges as an enjoyable piece of hokum and Sigourney is as terrific as always.
- In the Name of the Father (1993)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson
- Daniel Day–Lewis gives a devastating performance in this powerhouse re–creation of the tragedy that beset Jerry Conlon, his family and…
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Mini-series) (1994)
- Dir. Pedr James
Feat. Keith Allen, Paul Scofield, John Mills…
- BAFTA–winning, Emmy–nominated BBC adaptation of the great Charles Dickens satire of American life, death and family fortunes, starring…
- Suite 16 (1995)
- Dir. Dominique Deruddere
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Antoine Camerling, Géraldine Pailhas
- Lurid psycho–sexual drama in which a gigolo is hired by a rich cripple to bed women for his voyeuristic pleasure. Almost interesting, if it was…
- Usual Suspects, The (1995)
- Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin…
- Find out who 'Keyser Soze' is, or who you thought he was, in this utterly captivating, original caper movie that unfolds a series of flashbacks in…
- When Saturday Comes (1996)
- Dir. Maria Giese
Feat. Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite
- Sean Bean balances the prospect of football greatness with the consumption of much lager in a mining town of North England. It's…
- Dragonheart (1996)
- Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Sean Connery, Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis…
- Medieval fantasy hokum highlighted by Sean Connery in drag! Drag–on, that is – the large lizard of legend variety. The sublime CGI…
- Crimetime (1996)
- Dir. George Sluzier
Feat. Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost…
- An educated, grisly thriller from director of THE VANISHING, set in a near–future where TV re–enacts, week by week, the latest efforts of…
- William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Romeo + Juliet) (1997)
- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Pete Postlethwaite…
- Visionary director Baz Luhrmann takes his STRICTLY BALLROOM crew to the Americas and conjures a cinematic universe of striking originality and…
- Lost World, The (Jurassic Park 2) (1997)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite…
- Spielberg steals a few licks from KING KONG for this perfunctory JURASSIC PARK sequel. Yup, its more of the same, really, so its no surprise that the…
- Brassed Off (1997)
- Dir. Mark Herman
Feat. Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite
- Witty and warm–hearted comedy set in a Yorkshire mining community threatened with closure. Leading the town colliery brass band, Tara…
- Serpent's Kiss, The (1997)
- Dir. Phillip Rousseklot
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Richard E. Grant…
- Ambitious period drama follows a renowned Dutch landscape gardener (McGregor) to England where he finds himself coiled in the intrigues of various…
- Among Giants (1998)
- Dir. Sam Miller
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths
- Quirky, lowkey romance from the writer of FULL MONTY, follows the travails of a group of daredevil labourers who paint high–voltage…
- Alice in Wonderland (1999)
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley…
- The creators of the MERLIN TV–series pull–off another updating, this time Lewis Carroll's childrens' classic. Seamless special effects…
- Animal Farm (1999)
- Dir. John Stephenson
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite
- George Orwell's classic farmyard yarn (which also happens to be an allegory of the Russian Revolution) brought to life with hi–tech effects a…
- Lost for Words (1999)
- Dir. Alan J.W. Bell
Feat. Thora Hird, Pete Postlethwaite, Penny Downie…
- British drama with Thora Hird playing a mother whose health declines as she suffers a stroke and succumbs to dementia, and the impact this has on her…
- Rat (2000)
- Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Imelda Staunton
- After a hard night at the pub, Pete Postlethwaite greets the day transformed into a white rat, giving a nicely surreal twist to this surprisingly…
- Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery.
A light hearted…
- Between Strangers (2002)
- Dir. Edoardo Ponti
Feat. Sophia Loren, Pete Postlethwaite, Mira Sorvino…
- The lives of three quite different women move into thematic proximity in this lightweight, but worthy drama.
As played by Loren, Sorvino and…
- Strange Bedfellows (2004)
- Dir. Dean Murphy
Feat. Paul Hogan, Michael Caton, Roy Billing…
- In this nicely–judged farce, red–blooded Aussie mates Hogan and Caton masqerade as a same–sex couple to exploit various tax…
- Dark Water (2005)
- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth…
- Translation to New York of the spooky Japanese horror of the same name, with a recent divorcee (Connelly) and her young daughter moving into a…
- Constant Gardener, The (2005)
- Dir. Fernando Mierelles
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bill Nighy…
- A British diplomat in Kenya (Fiennes) becomes obsessed with uncovering the secrets that lie behind his wife's (Weisz) murder which seem to lead to…
- Aeon Flux (2005)
- Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller…
- Sci–fi action fantasy based on the mid–1990s animation by Peter Chung, in which a spandex–clad superheroine (Theron) flits around…
- Omen, The (Omen 666) (2006)
- Dir. Jason Moore
Feat. Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, David Thewlis…
- A conservative but effective remake of the iconic 1976 horror moving, in which an ambitious diplomat and his wife (Schreiber, Stiles) secretly adopt…
- Closing the Ring (2007)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton…
- Richard Attenborough–directed romance set both in the '40s and present–day, following the wartime history of a ring and an unbreakable…
- Criminal Justice (TV Series) (2008-2009)
- Feat. Ben Whishaw, Pete Postlethwaite, Maxine Peake…
- Grim and unglamorous drama series focuses on an individual’s journey through the British criminal justice system, from prison to courtroom. It…
- Solomon Kane (2009)
- Dir. Michael J. Bassett
Feat. James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite…
- Conan creator Robert E. Howard's pulpy fantasy gets a suitably bloody adaptation with James Purefoy donning the boots to star as the hell–bound…
- Age Of Stupid (2009)
- Dir. Franny Armstrong
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite
- Confronting and dynamic docodrama from the director of McLibel, has Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, looking…
- Clash of the Titans (2010)
- Dir. Louis Leterrier
Feat. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes…
- Beefy, special effects–saturated blockbuster reworks the 1981 fantasy film (and Ray Harryhausen’s beloved stop motion animations), based on…
- 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…
- Town, The (2010)
- Dir. Ben Affleck
Feat. Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm…
- Competent, briskly executed heist drama from actor/dir. Ben Affleck follows an armed robbery crew out of Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, and the…
- Killing Bono (2011)
- Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Krysten Ritter…
- Rock critic Neil McCormick recounts his close brush with stardom in this crowd–pleasing tall story of two brothers whose high school band comes…