James McAvoy

James McAvoy


Filmography

11. X-Men: Days of Future Past

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.


12. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Drama Tragic Drama
6.3
20141h 59minUnited States

A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.


13. Filth

Filth
Crime Drama Comedy Narcotics Crime Psychological Drama
7.0
20131h 37minBelgium, Germany

A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.


14. Trance

Trance
Thriller Crime Drama Mystery Mind Game Thriller
6.9
20131h 41minUnited Kingdom, United States

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.


15. Welcome to the Punch

When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.


16. Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas
Drama Animation Family Comedy Family Animation
7.1
20111h 37minUnited Kingdom, United States

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.


17. X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class
Action Science Fiction Adventure
7.7
20112h 12min

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.


18. Gnomeo & Juliet

Gnomeo & Juliet
Animation Family Family Animation Holiday Family
5.9
20111h 24minUnited Kingdom, United States

A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?


19. Wanted

Wanted
Action Thriller Crime Superhero Action Mind Game Thriller
6.7
20081h 50minUnited States

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.


20. Penelope

Penelope
Fantasy Comedy Romance Fantasy Romance High-Concept Comedy
6.7
20071h 43minUnited Kingdom, United States

Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company? This untraditional fairy tale is about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.