David Thewlis
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- 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…
- Prime Suspect (TV Series) (1991-2003)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Tom Wilkinson…
- Helen Mirren stars as DCI Tennison in seven award–winning (Emmy and BAFTA) mini–series from the pen of Lynda La Plante.
- Naked (1993)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. David Thewlis, Katrin Cartlidge, Lesley Sharp…
- David Thewlis gives a bravura performance in a difficult role, somehow bringing humility to a complex yet unpleasant character – misogynist,…
- Black Beauty (1994)
- Dir. Caroline Thompson
Feat. Sean Bean, David Thewlis
- The screenwriter of THE SECRET GARDEN and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS brings this century–old tale to the modern screen with Sean Bean and David…
- Dandelion Dead (TV Mini-Series) (1994)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, David Thewlis…
- A respected solicitor in a small country town poisons his wife – and expects to get away with it – in this riveting murder–mystery,…
- Restoration (1995)
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Sam Neill, Meg Ryan…
- Golden–age English past is again revisited, to when debauched King Charles II was re–throned and decadence reigned. Robert Downey Jnr,…
- 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…
- Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Brad Pitt, David Thewlis
- On the eve of WWII, Austrian nationalist Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) embarks on a mountain–climbing odyssey in the Himalayas, where he is…
- Divorcing Jack (1998)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. David Thewlis
- David Thewlis (NAKED) does what he does best as a hard–drinking, hard–bitten hack who, after a rotten series of luck, musters up the…
- Besieged (1998)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis
- Returning to a 'chamber–piece' setting reminiscent of LAST TANGO IN PARIS, dir. Bertolucci unfolds an enigmatic relationship in a Rome…