Tim Roth
Director, Actor
- Meantime (1983)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Pam Ferris…
- Mike Leigh's skewed sense of humour takes on the doledrums of Thatcher's London. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are unrecognisably awkward in a…
- Made in Britain (1983)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Tim Roth, Sean Chapman
- Probably the finest skinhead movie ever made – Tim Roth giving an electrifying debut performance as a glaring malcontent who takes out his rage…
- Hit, The (1984)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth
- Stool pigeon Terence Stamp gives a pair of hired killers a run for their money when they discover his 10–year hideaway.
- Return to Waterloo - The Kinks (1984)
- Dir. Ray Davies
Feat. Ray Davies, Tim Roth
- A unique 80s–era rock–opera from The Kinks which takes place in the mind of a solitary train–commuter and features various songs…
- Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon
- Greenaway combines the best elements of his previous work into one illustrious concoction of charcoal humour, explicit violence, awe–inspiring…
- Vincent and Theo (1990)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tim Roth
- This biopic charts the relationship between the tortured artist and his patron brother, with sympathetic direction and Tim Roth's performance as…
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
- Dir. Tom Stoppard
Feat. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth
- Tom Stoppard films his own play that follows the aimless lives of two incidental characters from HAMLET. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth dazzlingly…
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi…
- Partners–in–crime Keitel, Roth, Buscemi, Madsen and others reel from a botched jewel heist in an abandoned warehouse. Tarantino's…
- Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1992)
- Dir. Jeff Stanzler
Feat. Tim Roth, Alexis Arquette
- Tim Roth and Alexis Arquette both give knock–out performances in this powerful drama about a violent man trying to clean–up his…
- Heart of Darkness (1993)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Tim Roth, John Malkovich
- A more literal adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel that inspired APOCALYPSE NOW. Roth plays the British captain leading a team along the Congo and…
- Bodies Rest and Motion (1993)
- Dir. Michael Steinberg
Feat. Tim Roth, Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates…
- Suburban aimlessness underlies this entertaining, stylish 'gen–X' romancer with an appealing twentysomething quartet.
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman…
- With just his second film, Quentin Tarantino not only became a household name but a massive cultural phenomenon.
He miraculously surpasses…
- Little Odessa (1994)
- Dir. James Gray
Feat. Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave…
- Fugutive assassin Tim Roth returns home to the Russian quarter of New York, where personal problems compound the stresses of the job. Portrait of a…
- Captives (1994)
- Dir. Angela Pope
Feat. Julia Ormond, Tim Roth
- Working in a tough British prison, young dentist Julia Ormond becomes intimate with violent inmate Tim Roth, and too becomes a helpless captive as…
- Rob Roy (1995)
- Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Tim Roth, Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange
- The other kilt and bagpipes period epic is set in the 17th Century highlands, and maintains its own dignity under capable direction. Roth has a riot…
- Four Rooms (1995)
- Dir. Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Bruce Willis…
- Tim Roth's bellboy connects four wild comedies from four hot shot directors from the American indie scene, led by QT himself. A…
- Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Alan Alda, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts…
- Woody Allen finds refreshing harmonies amongst his familiar cast of upper–crust Manhattan–ites, with a wide–eyed take on the…
- Gridlock'd (1996)
- Dir. Vondie Curtis Hall
Feat. Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur, Vondie Curtis Hall…
- Keyboardist Tim Roth and bassist Tupac Shakur jam out a squalid riff of muso–junkie blues. With girlfriend in a coma, the bureaucratic road to…
- No Way Home (1996)
- Dir. Buddy Giovinazzo
Feat. Tim Roth, James Russo, Deborah Kara Unger
- A recently paroled Tim Roth finds his hopes for a new life threatened by his brothers involvement with drugs. Though the introduction of a thriller…
- Legend of 1900, The (1998)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn…
- A beautiful and completely impossible tale about a musician (Tim Roth) whose life is defined by the luxury ocean liner on which he has grown up –…
- War Zone, The (1998)
- Dir. Tim Roth
Feat. Ray Winstone, Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont…
- An uncompromising directorial debut for actor Tim Roth, exploring the type of fractured family made familiar by mentors Alan Clarke and Ken Loach,…
- Lucky Numbers (2000)
- Dir. Nora Ephron
Feat. John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth
- Down–on–his–luck local smoothie John Travolta conceives a lottery–scam with the help of girlfriend Lisa Kudrow and pal Tim…
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth
- Attempting to “re–imagine” (rather than merely ape) the 1968 original, dir. Burton ups the ante with fiercer simians and darker…
- Vatel (2002)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth…
- Talent–studded drama set in the cuisine–conscious French nobility of Louis XIV’s reign, where master chef Gerard Depardieu must prepare…
- 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…
- Invincible (2002)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Tim Roth, Udo Kier
- An interesting treatment of the lives of the (secretly) Jewish strongman Zishe Breitbart and nightclub impressario Erik Jan Hanussen (Roth), who…
- Silver City (2004)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Chris Cooper, Danny Huston, Daryl Hannah…
- Oddly tangled satire of Bush–era American politics in which a George Dubya soundalike (Cooper) goes on the campaign trail in Colorado, while…
- Beautiful Country, The (2004)
- Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Ling Bai…
- A troubling account of how a young Vietnamese man (Nguyen) – the offspring of a brief liason between a Vietnamese woman and an American G.I.…
- 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…
- Don't Come Knocking (2005)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth…
- Desultry tale of a washed–out actor who goes missing from a film production and, with the insurance company on his tail, ends up uncovering…
- Even Money (2006)
- Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Kim Basinger, Danny De Vito, Kelsey Grammer…
- Admonitory gambling drama concerning the lives of nine individuals who become ensnared in a world of high–class addiction and each other.…
- Tsunami: The Aftermath (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
- Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Hugh Bonneville…
- Inspired by the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the…
- Funny Games (2007)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt…
- This contentious ‘self–remake’ finds perennial agitator Michael Haneke revisiting his subversive home invasion classic, emigrating the…
- Youth Without Youth (2007)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
- Joining a recent glut of Dorian Gray–like fantasies, this Francis Ford Coppola comeback (following a 10 year sabbatical) centres on a Romanian…
- Incredible Hulk, The (2008)
- Dir. Louis Leterrier
Feat. Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt…
- The Green Machine gets another going–over in this serviceable update of the Marvel comic, tracking itinerant scientist Edward Norton as he…
- Lie To Me (TV Series) (2009-2011)
- Feat. Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Brendan Hines
- Engaging crime drama that sees an unlikely Tim Roth play Cal Lightman, a doctor who has such an uncanny ability to read facial expressions and body…
- Sea Wolf, The (2009)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Sebastian Koch, Stephen Campbell Moore, Neve Campbell…
- Thrilling maritime–yarn based on the grim Jack London book, chronicling the exploits of the vindictive Captain Wolf Larson (Koch) and the…
- Pete Smalls is Dead (2010)
- Dir. Alexandre Rockwell
Feat. Peter Dinklage, Mark Boone Jr., Seymour Cassel…
- Indie dark horse Alexandre Rockwell (IN THE SOUP) directs this tipsy tale of Hollywood deadbeats. Peter Dinklage stars as an L.A. exile trying to…
- Arbitrage (2012)
- Dir. Nicholas Jarecki
Feat. Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling…
- Sleek drama with "silver fox" Richard Gere in fine form as a troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire before…
- Broken (2012)
- Dir. Rufus Norris
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence…
- In Rufus Norris’s artfully constructed drama... there’s a lot to like, not least a striking central performance from newcomer Eloise Laurence.…
- Klondike (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Dir. Simon Cellan Jones
Feat. Richard Madden, Abbie Cornish, Marton Csokas…
- The Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s is richly evoked in this frontier western, which is largely faithful to the history, conditions, and…
- Grace of Monaco (2014)
- Dir. Olivier Dahan
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Milo Ventimiglia…
- Nicole Kidman plays Grace Kelly in this fairytale biopic of the Hollywood actress turned princess.
- Selma (2014)
- Dir. Ava DuVernay
Feat. David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth…
- Stirring chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
- 600 Miles (2015)
- Dir. Gabriel Ripstein
Feat. Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer
- A character driven hostage thriller with Tim Roth as federal agent kidnapped by a Mexican gun runner and driven back across the border into cartel…
- Hateful Eight, The (2015)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh…
- An extremely bloody western from Tarantino that features a typically stellar cast as a group of miscreants and misanthropes holed up in a cabin in a…
- Hardcore Henry (2015)
- Dir. Ilya Naishuller
Feat. Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett…
- Innovative yet wearying sci–fi action film completely shot from a first–person perspective (using multiple head–mounted…
- Rillington Place (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. Craig Viveiros
Feat. Tim Roth, Samantha Morton, Nico Mirallegro…
- Three–part crime drama starring Tim Roth as serial killer John Christie, who strangled a string of victims during the 1940s and early 1950s…
- Twin Peaks (TV Series) (Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, Twin Peaks: The Return) (2017)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Catherine E. Coulson, Madchen Amick…
- Revival of the cult TV series with most of the same cast (plus many, many more), which rivals and occasionally surpasses the terrifying brilliance of…
- Tin Star (TV Series) (2017)
- Dir. Rowan Joffe
Feat. Tim Roth, Christina Hendricks
- TV show by writer–director of BRIGHTON ROCK, set in the majestic Canadian Rockies and following a former British detective who moves with his…
- Luce (2019)
- Dir. Julius Onah
Feat. Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr.…
- A tense and knotty social thriller based on a play of the same name by J.C. Lee, about a married American couple who have their idealised image of…