Pete Postlethwaite
27 titles
Filmography
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Brassed Off
(1996)Ewan McGregor and Pete Poslethwaite star in this typically British award winning comedy about a Yorkshire mining town turning to music for inspiration when faced with the loss of its way of life.

The Age of Stupid
(2009)This enormously ambitious dramadocumentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055

Valley of the Heart's Delight
(2006)Based on a true story of California’s last lynch mob, a young reporter defies power to stop the lynching of two innocent men in 1933 San Jose.

Red Mercury
(2005)A hostage crisis plays out inside a restaurant and on national TV after the members of a London terrorist cell develop the means to build a nuke.

In the Name of the Father
(1993)Based on the true story of Gerry Conlon, an Irishman who was wrongly imprisoned, alongside three of his friends, for a fatal bombing in a Guildford pub.

Distant Voices, Still Lives
(1988)Distant Voices, Still Lives presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and 50s.

Lost for Words
(1999)Deric and his wife Aileen must come to terms with his mother’s decline in health when a stroke cruelly robs her greatest gift: her power of speech.

Solomon Kane
(2009)When a powerful sorcerer kidnaps a local girl, a warrior renounces his vow of peace and promises to kill anyone in his path in order to rescue her.

Crimetime
(1996)The lines of reality blur for an actor playing a notorious killer when his TV show becomes a hit and inspires more real-life slayings.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(1997)It has been four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants.

Strange Bedfellows
(2004)Vince and his mate Ralph are two very straight country blokes who attempt to exploit a new tax legislation by declaring themselves as a gay couple.
The Dressmaker
(1988)In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle with looking after their 17-year-old niece who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

James and the Giant Peach
(1996)This is the story of James Henry Trotter, a lonely orphan sent to live with his horribly wicked and greedy Aunts Spiker and Sponge. when James meets a strange old man who promises that marvellous things will happen, indeed they do. Escaping his aunts by climbing inside a giant peach that mysteriously and suddenly grows on their barren tree, he meets some very unusual new friends.

When Saturday Comes
(1996)A rebellious, hard-drinking brewery worker with a knack for soccer catches a scout’s eye and gets a shot at going pro, playing for Sheffield United.
The Limit
(2004)In this mysterious drama, Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall ("How to Marry a Millionaire") stars as an elderly woman who turns the tables on her kidnapper.

The Shipping News
(2001)Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a newspaper inksetter in Poughkeepsie, silently suffering in a marriage of inconvenience to a woman, Petal (Cate Blanchett) who doesn't love him and is keen to put their baby daughter up for adoption. Petal is killed in an accident however, and worse, Quoyle's parents both die fairly soon after in a dual-suicide.

DragonHeart
(1996)The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.

Dark Water
(2005)HD. A leaky apartment turns out to have a terrifying connection to the supernatural in this bone-chilling tale starring Jennifer Connelly.

The Serpent's Kiss
(1997)In 17th-century England, an architect is drawn into a web of passion and deceit, as he builds a luxuriant garden for a man whose wife has a past.

The Omen
(2006)Remake of Richard Donner's 1976 horror classic. Katherine (Julia Stiles) and Robert (Liev Schreiber) Thorn are as loving parents as any young boy could ask for, but as fate would have it, their new son Damien is far from the typical child.