Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite


Filmography

1. The Town

The Town
Crime Drama Thriller Heist Relationship Drama
7.5
20102h 5minUnited Kingdom, United States

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.


2. Inception

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.


3. The Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardener
Drama Mystery Thriller Political Drama Investigation Mystery
7.3
20052h 9minGermany, United Kingdom

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.


4. The Shipping News

The Shipping News
Drama Romance Family Drama Bittersweet Romance
6.7
20011h 51minUnited States

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.


5. Animal Farm

Animal Farm
Drama Comedy
6.0
19991h 31minUnited Kingdom, United States

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.


6. Amistad

Amistad
Drama History Mystery
7.3
19972h 35minUnited States

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.


7. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Adventure Action Science Fiction
6.6
19972h 9minUnited States

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.


8. Brassed Off

Brassed Off
Comedy Romance Drama Bittersweet Romance Professional Drama
7.2
19961h 47minUnited Kingdom, United States

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.


9. Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet
Drama Romance
6.7
19962hAustralia, United States

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.


10. DragonHeart

DragonHeart
Fantasy Action Adventure Drama
6.4
19961h 43minUnited States

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.