Stephen Rea

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Angel (1982): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Stephen Rea, Marie Kean, Ray McAnally; The gritty feature debut of Irish director Neil Jordan stars Stephen Rea as a saxophonist who witnesses the gangland murder of the band's manager and…
Company of Wolves (1984): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea; This modest, dream–like horror fantasy was liked so much by author Anne Rice, it led to the Irish director calling the shots on INTERVIEW WITH…
Life Is Sweet (1990): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Alison Steadman, Timothy Spall, Jane Horrocks…; Life is always bittersweet in a Mike Leigh film, but never so funny. Naturalism and caricature harmonise is this domestic black comedy thanks to his…
Crying Game, The (1992): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker…; An IRA terrorist attempts to shrug off his past but becomes involved with the chantreuse sister of the man he was obliged to murder. Surprise hit…
Bad Behaviour (1993): Dir. Les Blair
Feat. Stephen Rea, Sinead Cusack, Phil Daniels…; Middle life and class are sliced from the Leigh/Loach mould, but with more improvisation and less cynicism. Stephen Rea plays a town planner at the…
Princess Caraboo (1994): Dir. Michael Austin
Feat. Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline, Jim Broadbent…; All star cast gather for this whimsical tale of an 'abducted' Indonesian princess who may or may not be conniving her way into 19th Century British…
Angie (1994): Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Geena Davis, Stephen Rea; Geena Davis brings real authenticity to her role as an expectant mother who, after meeting flamboyant Irishman Stephen Rea, discovers there's is more…
Pret-a-Porter (1994): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Sophia Loren…; Director Altman's take on the Paris fashion industry hasn't the edgy sarcasm or the incisiveness of his THE PLAYER and SHORT CUTS, but is…
Citizen X (1995): Dir. Chris Gerolmo
Feat. Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow; A suitably disturbing account of the world's most prolific serial killer, Viktor Burakov, a man whose eight year, 52–victim reign of terror…
Crime of the Century (1996): Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Stephen Rea, Isabella Rossellini, J.T. Walsh…; Astute re–enactment of the controversial Lindbergh trial that resulted in a supposed wrongful execution for the kidnap and murder of a baby in…
Butcher Boy, The (1998): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw; Despairing yet distinctive black comedy depicts the insanity implicit in a boy's view of his small town in Ireland, circa 1962. Adopts a lurid…
This Is My Father (1998): Dir. Paul Quinn
Feat. James Caan, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea…; The discovery of an old family photo triggers a trip to Ireland and into the past for Irish–American James Caan and his nephew. Inevitably…
End of the Affair, The (1999): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea; Graham Greene's most personal novel is a supremely cynical, thorny affirmation of religious faith, a quality that Ralph Fiennes embodies in a…
Life Before This, The (1999): Dir. Jerry Ciccoritti
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Joe Pantoliano…; Based loosely on a real–life shootout in Toronto, this ambitious drama postulates life as a mosaic of interconnected actions, where often…
Guinevere (2001): Dir. Audrey Wells
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea; Sarah Polley (GO) headlines in this Sundance–winning indie, as a directionless Harvard graduate who falls under the spell of…
Musketeer, The (2002): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Justin Chambers, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari…; Concentrating itself on one of Dumas’s “Three Musketeers”, D’Artagnan (Justin Chambers) fights the influence of a villainous Tim Roth in 17th…
Fear Dot Com (Fear.com) (2002): Dir. William Malone
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea, Natascha McElhone; Incoherent horror flick that goes on–line with the plot of Japanese horror film RING, this will be most compared to the American remake of that…
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…
Evelyn (2002): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Margulies, Stephen Rea…; A labour–of–love for Irishman Pierce Brosnan as actor and producer, this is a heartfelt family drama about a working class father who…
Bloom (2003): Dir. Sean Walsh
Feat. Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball, Hugh O'Conor…; The second attempt at adaptating James Joyce's famously 'difficult' novel "Ulysses" is more ambitious (and successsful) than the 1967 version at…
I Inside, The (2003): Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo…; Head–scratching psychological thriller centred on an amnesiac (Phillippe) who cannot recall the last two years of his life and begins to travel…
Control (2004): Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez…; Ray Liotta is typically compelling as an unrepentant sociopath on 'death row', who, in return for his life, agrees to become a guinea pig in a…
Good Shepherd, The (2004): Dir. Lewin Webb
Feat. Christian Slater, Stephen Rea, Molly Parker; Canadian thriller loosely based on Hitchcock's I CONFESS, in which an ambitious cleric becomes uneasy about being recruited to defend the church in a…
V for Vendetta (2005): Dir. James McTeigue
Feat. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea…; Set in the year 2020, this dystopian thriller adapts Alan Moore's graphic novel about a world where deadly viruses have wiped out most of America and…
Tara Road (2005): Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea…; An attractive cast distinguishes this middling adaptation of Mauve Binchy's (CIRCLE OF FRIENDS) best–seller, in which two women – one…
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…
Sixty Six (2006): Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Rea…; Gentle, uplifting British comedy–drama about a young boy preparing for his Bar Mitzvah in North London, which just happens to clash with the…
Halo Effect, The (2006): Dir. Lance Daly
Feat. Stephen Rea; Half–baked Irish jig delivers an enjoyable performance from Stephen Rea, but little else in its story of a downtrodden takeaway worker whose…
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…
Stuck (2007): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby; Macabre morality play that's unfortunately based on the true tale of a young woman who ran over a homeless man, and left him bleeding to death in her…
Ondine (2009): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Colin Farrell, Alicia Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan…; Lyrical modern fairytale with Colin Farrell, a luckless fisherman living with his ailing daughter, catching a beautiful woman in his nets who may or…
Father and Son (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Brian Kirk
Feat. Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea…; Gritty, tough–minded BBC serial examines the reverberations of crime across two parallel storylines: a father (Scott), whose wife was murdered…
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…
Blackthorn (2011): Dir. Mateo Gil
Feat. Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea…; Rugged western with Sam Shepard as a decidedly grizzled Butch Cassidy living out his days in Bolivia and venturing out for one more adventure.…
Underworld: Awakening (2012): Dir. Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Charles Dance; When the human race wages war on both the Vampire and Lycan species, leather–clad warrioress Kate Beckinsale goes to battle in this routine…
Tasting Menu (2013): Dir. Roger Gual
Feat. Stephen Rea, Fionnula Flanagan, Togo Igawa…; The last ever service at the "world's best restaurant" is the backdrop for a series of lighthearted romantic encounters in this culinary comedy with…
Honourable Woman, The (TV Mini-series) (2014): Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lubna Azabal…; A rigorous, fast–paced thriller with Maggie Gyllenhaal as a woman who inherits her father's arms business, and finds herself in a international…
Dickensian (TV Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Tuppence Middleton, Sophie Rundle, Stephen Rea…; A drama series that plays within the detailed literary universe of Charles Dickens, colliding many of his iconic characters on the streets of 19th…
War and Peace (TV Series) (2016): Dir. Tom Harper
Feat. Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton…; Stellar BBC take on the Tolstoy's classic tale of aristocratic families caught in the tumult of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
Greta (2018): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Chloe Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe…; Creepy psychological thriller from Neil Jordan with a reliably fantastic performance from Huppert as a lonely widow with a sinister agenda who…
Black '47 (2018): Dir. Lance Daly
Feat. James Frecheville, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea…; A harrowing revenge thriller set in 1847 during the Irish Famine, where an ranger abandons his post in the British Army to return to his family as…

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