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Tim Roth

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MeantimeMeantime (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 BritainMade in Britain (1983) Aro Favourite
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, TheHit, 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 KinksReturn to Waterloo - The Kinks (1984) Recommended
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, TheCook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989) Aro Favourite
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 TheoVincent 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 DeadRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991) Recommended
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 DogsReservoir Dogs (1992) Aro Favourite
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 BoneyardJumpin' at the Boneyard (1992) Recommended
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 DarknessHeart 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 MotionBodies Rest and Motion (1993) Recommended
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 FictionPulp Fiction (1994) Aro Favourite
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 OdessaLittle 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…
CaptivesCaptives (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 RoyRob Roy (1995) Recommended
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 RoomsFour 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 YouEveryone Says I Love You (1996) Recommended
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'dGridlock'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 HomeNo 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, TheLegend 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, TheWar Zone, The (1998) Recommended
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 NumbersLucky 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 ApesPlanet 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…
VatelVatel (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, TheMusketeer, 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…
InvincibleInvincible (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 CitySilver 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, TheBeautiful 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 WaterDark 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 KnockingDon'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 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)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 GamesFunny 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 YouthYouth 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, TheIncredible 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)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, TheSea 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 DeadPete 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…
ArbitrageArbitrage (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…
BrokenBroken (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)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 MonacoGrace 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.
SelmaSelma (2014) Recommended
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 Miles600 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, TheHateful 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 HenryHardcore 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)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 (TV Series) (Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, Twin Peaks: The Return) (2017) Recommended
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)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…
LuceLuce (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…

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