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.

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...

The Human Voice
(2020)Madness and melancholy intersect to thrilling effect as Almodóvar reimagines Jean Cocteau’s short play The Human Voice for an era in which isolation has become a way of life. Laws of desire become the rules of the game as Tilda Swinton’s unnamed woman paces and panics in a glorious Technicolor apartment where décor offers a window into her state of mind.

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. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.

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.

Caprice
(1986)A then-unknown Tilda Swinton commands the screen with her ethereal playfulness in Joanna Hogg’s prismatic graduation short, referenced in The Souvenir diptych. With influences ranging from German expressionism to Technicolor reveries, this wonderland of fashion spreads is a sartorial thrill.

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.

Memoria
(2021)Tilda Swinton stars in the first English-language feature from master filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul; a mesmerising and beautifully immersive work.

The Last of England
(1987)A narrator introduces scenes of the devastation of England, inter-cut with shots of director Derek Jarman working in his London flat.

Stephanie Daley
(2007)Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

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.

The Garden
(1990)A film which uses religion, in particular the Passion of Christ, to fuel the discussion about the repression of sexuality in the world. A panoply of events and characters, with the underlying theme of homosexual discrimination.

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.