Tilda Swinton
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
(2011)Flashbacks reveal a woman's calamitous efforts to raise her firstborn son while, in the present, she grapples with the aftermath of his horrific act.

Only Lovers Left Alive
(2013)This acclaimed independent romantic story is about two ageless vampires who have managed to stay inseparable in love for hundreds of years.

Deep Water
(2006)The stunning true story of Donald Crowhurst's 1968 solo round-thee-world sailing race that turned into an ill-fated voyage. Confronted by perilous sea, bad weather, an unfinished boat and painfully slow progress, Donald faces an impossible dilemma - to continue into the open ocean with a leaking boat or return home defeated and bankrupt. Using original 16mm footage, tape recordings and interviews, this film reconstructs one man's extraordinary physical and psychological journey.

I Am Love
(2010)A Russian woman marries a rich Italian industrialist and becomes a respected member of his family, until a talented young chef fires up her appetites.

Orlando
(1992)Sally Potter’s fearless adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s supposedly unfilmable book, Orlando was nine years in the making. This restlessly rule-bending, gender fluid, time-traveling epic—starring a dazzling Tilda Swinton on typically shape-shifting form—remains an unmatched feat of queer filmmaking.

Three Thousand Years of Longing
(2022)Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary...

Possible Worlds
(2000)A man (Tom McCamus) lives in parallel worlds, always falling in love with the same woman (Tilda Swinton), while the police hunt down a serial killer who steals brains.

The Somme
(2005)Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through the letters and journals of soldiers who were there.

The Deep End
(2001)Margaret Hall attempts to shield her son from a murder after she finds his lover's body on a beach.

Last and First Men
(2020)Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Tilda Swinton narrates this visually stunning lament for humanity by acclaimed composer JĂłhann JĂłhannsson (Sicario, Arrival).

A Bigger Splash
(2015)A reworking of Jacques Deray’s La Piscine, this sun-scorched, suspenseful thriller from Luca Guadagnino (Queer) assembles a star-studded central quartet—Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Ralph Fiennes—and lets sparks fly. An alluring, luscious adult drama.

The Invisible Frame
(2009)In 1988 the British director Cynthia Beatt, who is based in Berlin, embarked on a journey into little-known territory. She filmed Tilda Swinton as they followed the Berlin Wall, capturing the inward-looking West Berlin and the over-the-Wall views of East Berlin. In June 2009, Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton re-traced the line of the Wall that once isolated Berlin from East and West Germany. “The Invisible Frame“ describes this journey, the print of a second foot, a Wall’s fall and 21 years later, through varied landscapes, this time on both sides of the former Wall. The stagnation of organic growth that characterized the areas separated by the Wall, is now replaced by unchecked nature and building development. The rhythmic interaction of fixed camera and tracking shots combine in a vibrant orbiting of Berlin, visually intertwining west and east. Tilda Swinton’s personal reflections are integrated as inner monologues and complete the film’s soundscape composed by Simon Fisher Turner, who collaborated with Derek Jarman and Tilda Swinton in the 80’s.

The Eternal Daughter
(2022)At an eerie hotel haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother (both played by Tilda Swinton) confront long-buried secrets.

Strange Culture
(2007)In this moving and wildly innovative film, director Lynn Hershman Leeson tells the terrifying true story of how one man's personal tragedy turns into persecution by a paranoid and overzealous government.

The Protagonists
(1999)Long before Queer and Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino partnered with the one-and-only Tilda Swinton for his experimental debut feature. A surreal faux-documentary about a mysterious murder, this cinematic fever dream presciently taps into the current cultural obsession with true-crime dramas.

Female Perversions
(1997)Sundance Grand Jury Nominee. In her US film debut, Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton electrifies as a bi-sexual lawyer on the edge of professional breakthrough, personal breakdown, and sexual awakening. Shocking when it was first released in 1995, it is now deemed a "Feminist Classic" from director Susan Streitfeld.

Letters from Baghdad
(2017)Letters From Baghdad is the story of a true original-Gertrude Bell-sometimes called the female "Lawrence of Arabia." Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I.

The End
(2024)The golden age of Hollywood musicals is given a postapocalyptic twist in this dazzling epic from Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. With Tilda Swinton and George MacKay leading a stellar ensemble cast, The End journeys to the end of the world to explore the limits of our shared humanity.

Okja
(2017)A gentle giant and the girl who raised her are caught in the crossfire between animal activism, corporate greed and scientific ethics.

Problemista
(2024)An aspiring toy designer from El Salvador struggles to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City as time on his work visa runs out. His only hope to stay in the country and realize his dreams is a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast.