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.

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).

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

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 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.

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.

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
This epic exploration of filmmaking by women offers an essential history of cinema told through the lenses of the world’s greatest female directors.

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.
Teknolust
(2002)Academy-Award® winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning Sci-Fi about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, (S.R.A.'s) which she cloned from her own DNA. Though they look human, the S.R.A. cyborgs were bred as intelligent machines and are immortal. In order to survive, they need sustenance of male Y chromosome, found only in sperm. Their task is to harvest sperm in the old fashioned way, which leads to a quest for love. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan award for writing and directing and features Karen Black, Thomas Jay Ryan and Jeremy Davies.

Climate of Change
(2010)Official selection of 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. From the producers of "Food Inc," Award winning actress Tilda Swinton narrates this inspiring documentary of a world of everyday people taking action to save our environment.

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