Sean Bean
Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983. Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe, which originally ran from 1993 to 1997.
Bean's film roles include Patriot Games (1992), GoldenEye (1995), Ronin (1998), Don't Say a Word (2001), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), Troy (2004), Flightplan (2005), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and The Martian (2015).
His television roles include the BBC anthology series Accused, Broken, Game of Thrones, and the ITV historical drama series Henry VIII and Legends. As a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, and the feature films Wolfwalkers and Mummies among others. Bean has also been the main voice over for O2 and their adverts for over 20 years having originally taken the job in 2002.
In 2022, Bean won the British Academy Television Award as Leading Actor in Time, a BBC One drama.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 24.252 |
| Birthday | 1959-04-17 |
| Place of Birth | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Shaun Mark Bean, Шон Бин, Шон Бін, 肖恩·宾, 숀 빈, |
1996
When Saturday Comes
5.795/22
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other idea...
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When Saturday Comes
2007
The Hitcher
5.86/849
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the...
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The Hitcher
2010
Ca$h
5.861/219
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinist...
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Ca$h
2007
Outlaw
5.266/126
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they...
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Outlaw
2010
Black Death
6/776
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village a...
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Black Death
2011
Age of Heroes
5.483/172
The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.
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Age of Heroes
2000
Essex Boys
5.557/53
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper...
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Essex Boys
2010
The Lost Future
4.924/127
A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civ...
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The Lost Future
1993
Sharpe's Eagle
7.1/29
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the Sou...
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Sharpe's Eagle
1993
Sharpe's Rifles
6.583/42
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and i...
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Sharpe's Rifles
1994
Sharpe's Company
6.865/26
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharp...
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Sharpe's Company
1995
Sharpe's Gold
6.6/23
Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for...
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Sharpe's Gold
1994
Sharpe's Enemy
7.14/25
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English o...
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Sharpe's Enemy
1994
Sharpe's Honour
6.688/24
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out...
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Sharpe's Honour
1996
Sharpe's Regiment
6.957/23
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simp...
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Sharpe's Regiment
1996
Sharpe's Mission
6.857/21
Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their...
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Sharpe's Mission
1995
Sharpe's Sword
7.26/25
Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French sp...
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Sharpe's Sword
1997
Sharpe's Waterloo
7.4/23
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the Fren...
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Sharpe's Waterloo
1996
Sharpe's Siege
7.182/22
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewha...
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Sharpe's Siege
1997
Sharpe's Justice
7.071/21
Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a company...
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Sharpe's Justice
1995
Sharpe's Battle
6.841/22
When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughter...
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Sharpe's Battle
2006
Sharpe's Challenge
6.455/33
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years...
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Sharpe's Challenge
2012
Cleanskin
5.731/287
While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member...
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Cleanskin
2008
Sharpe's Peril
6.737/19
Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Co...
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Sharpe's Peril
1997
Sharpe's Revenge
7.159/22
Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend...
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Sharpe's Revenge
2012
Hooligan
6.5/11
Aiming to be an in-depth study of hooliganism (both in act and in what it is to be one), director Donal MacIntyre, a former undercover journalist who...
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Hooligan
1999
Bravo Two Zero
5.71/31
When an elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines, their mission is clear: take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But wh...
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Bravo Two Zero
The 4th Reich
0/0
The chilling realities of Hitler's true intentions are exposed, to create a force that can never be beaten, a 4th Reich - The New World Order. A team...
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The 4th Reich
2013
Wild in the Streets
0/0
An ancient football game is the lifeblood of an English market town and the origin of soccer, rugby and American football.
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Wild in the Streets
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
6/3
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer...
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Sharpe: The Legend
1991
Prince
0/0
Story of how a family is affected very greatly by their Alsation dog Prince
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Prince
2015
Any Day
5.1/20
Following his release from prison, an ex-fighter meets a woman who helps him put his life back together.
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Any Day
1992
Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
0/0
A dramatized speculation of what happened in November 1983 when Micky McAvoy and some of his mates planned a heist and were surprised when they discov...
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Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
2017
Drone
5.3/242
Ideologies collide with fatal results when a military drone contractor meets an enigmatic Pakistani businessman.
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Drone
1998
La Coupe De La Gloire
5.2/2
The French team —on home soil— was always going to be in contention for the title of World Champion. It did not disappoint its fans. France '98 was no...
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La Coupe De La Gloire
Watch the Skies
0/0
When a small starship crashes to earth, it is not a monster or alien overlord that emerges, but a teenage boy who has run away from home - a home on t...
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Watch the Skies
2012
Georgian Fighting Women
0/0
Bare-knuckle boxing, blood-spattered horrific tales of 100-round bouts. Between women. An episode of the four-part series "Fight Club: a History of Vi...
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Georgian Fighting Women
Jupiter Ascending Genetically Spliced
0/0
Talking Heads short discussing the creature design of splices from Jupiter Ascending.
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Jupiter Ascending Genetically Spliced
2017
Faster Than Light: the Dream of Interstellar Flight
6/2
“Faster Than Light” explores the longstanding quest to develop spacecraft with enough power and speed to reach the stars. The film asks: What will it...
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Faster Than Light: the Dream of Interstellar Flight
2015
Sean Bean on Waterloo
0/0
Hollywood star Sean Bean investigates the story of one of history's bloodiest battles.
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Sean Bean on Waterloo
2006
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
6/1
A short documentary about the press of GoldenEye.
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The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
1995
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
6/1
A short documentary about the cast of GoldenEye.
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GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
2018
Taniel
0/0
"Taniel" looks at the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan's life, who was murdered in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The film's narrative is heard in...
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Taniel
1990
Wedded
0/0
A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their ch...
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Wedded
1991
My Kingdom for a Horse
0/0
Steve Deakin teaches history and is a foot soldier in the Sealed Knot Society. In a fortnight between two English Civil War battles he finds he faces...
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My Kingdom for a Horse
2004
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
0/0
A behind-the-scenes featurette that focuses on John Frankenheimer's approach to the 1998 film "Ronin."
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Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
2005
The Dark
5.755/247
In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, S...
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The Dark
2006
Silent Hill
6.543/3891
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car...
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Silent Hill
1995
GoldenEye
6.88/3532
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world...
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GoldenEye
1986
Caravaggio
6.146/130
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous pai...
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Caravaggio
2001
Don't Say a Word
6.213/826
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic s...
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Don't Say a Word
1994
Black Beauty
6.727/319
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
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Black Beauty
1998
Airborne
3/6
A gang of thieves break into a top secret government research centre and steal a deadly virus. Mach 1, a top secret special operations team, is called...
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Airborne
2002
Tom & Thomas
6.738/21
A young boy thinks he's got a lookalike around him, but nobody believes him. Then, he meets Thomas and they switch homes.
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Tom & Thomas
1997
Anna Karenina
6.066/121
Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 1...
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Anna Karenina
1990
Windprints
6.5/3
A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.
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Windprints
1989
The Fifteen Streets
7/2
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the...
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The Fifteen Streets
1995
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
3/2
Jonathan Ross delves into the world of James Bond and meets with new and former cast members who reveal humorous stories and anecdotes in a series of...
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In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
1990
Small Zones
0/0
Intertwined story of the lives of two women; an Englishwoman suffering abuse from her violent husband, and a Russian poet serving hard labour because...
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Small Zones
2017
The Unconquered
9.3/3
The Institute of National Remembrance, Fish Ladder and Juice present “The Unconquered” – an animated film that shows the fight of Poles for freedom, f...
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The Unconquered
2006
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
6/1
Martin Campbell directs Goldeneye.
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Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
1995
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
6/1
Made for TV documentary including interview and behind the scenes footage from the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
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Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1991
Tell Me That You Love Me
0/0
Laura Simms has an exciting job as a top magazine editor, but her love life's a disaster. Her luck seems to change when she meets Gabriel, a handsome...
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Tell Me That You Love Me
1994
Jacob
6.514/35
In this inspiring tale from the book of Genesis, young shepherd Jacob (Matthew Modine) falls in love with and wants to marry Rachel (Lara Flynn Boyle)...
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Jacob
1990
The Field
7/81
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell...
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The Field
2008
Far North
6.051/50
In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all who become involved with her. Saiva is cast out o...
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Far North
2004
Pride
6.28/65
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
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Pride
2010
Death Race 2
5.792/1012
In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When r...
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Death Race 2
2015
Jupiter Ascending
5.433/6353
In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers an...
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Jupiter Ascending
1990
Lorna Doone
6.2/5
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
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Lorna Doone
2014
Wicked Blood
5.449/79
Hannah and Amber Baker are trapped in a dark Southern underworld of violence, drugs and bikers. Both live in fear of their "Uncle Frank" Stinson, the...
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Wicked Blood
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
6.703/231
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for...
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2018
Dark River
5.729/72
After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.
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Dark River
2020
Wolfwalkers
8.247/1020
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with h...
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Wolfwalkers
2020
Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
0/0
The cast and crew talk about the core themes of the film and the seeds of the film.
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Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
8.403/23347
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the han...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2005
The Island
6.664/4984
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled envi...
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The Island
2004
National Treasure
6.606/5851
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas J...
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National Treasure
1988
Stormy Monday
5.866/71
When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his wait...
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Stormy Monday
1992
Patriot Games
6.675/1450
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Patriot Games
1984
Winter Flight
10/1
As the Falklands War looms, an RAF recruit falls for a young barmaid, but their romance is quickly complicated with some surprising news.
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Winter Flight
2016
The Young Messiah
6.429/120
Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Nazareth. Told from his childhood perspective, it fol...
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The Young Messiah
2012
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
5.456/1457
Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand, Now on the eve of her...
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2020
Possessor
6.364/736
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As s...
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Possessor
2006
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
6/7
6 part behind the scenes feature on making 'Silent Hill'.
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Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
2004
Troy
7.146/9385
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav...
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Troy
2002
Equilibrium
7.026/4153
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A...
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Equilibrium
2005
North Country
7.223/574
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endur...
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North Country
1994
Shopping
5.262/42
A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars ar...
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Shopping
2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
6.2/6971
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must ma...
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2003
The Big Empty
6.144/59
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cow...
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The Big Empty
2015
Pixels
5.717/7067
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
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Pixels
1998
Ronin
6.947/2132
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembl...
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Ronin
2005
Flightplan
6.445/2385
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did s...
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Flightplan
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
6.951/152
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and t...
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2015
The Martian
7.678/18537
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and...
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The Martian
2023
Knights of the Zodiac
6.642/834
When a headstrong street orphan, Seiya, in search of his abducted sister unwittingly taps into hidden powers, he discovers he might be the only person...
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Knights of the Zodiac
1989
War Requiem
6.583/18
A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's po...
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War Requiem
2001
Quest for the Ring
6.2/4
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Quest for the Ring
2012
Soldiers of Fortune
5/138
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.
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Soldiers of Fortune
1985
Exploits at West Poley
6/1
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
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Exploits at West Poley
2012
Mirror Mirror
5.917/3031
After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a...
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Mirror Mirror
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8.473/22364
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
6.247/85
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
2019
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
7.1/300
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the...
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
2001
A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
6.4/5
The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work.
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A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
2002
The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring
9/6
A behind the scenes documentary from the making of the "Fellowship of the Ring"
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