Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton

Born: November 5, 1960
in London, England, UK
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades throughout her career, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Swinton began her career by appearing in experimental films starting with Caravaggio (1986), followed by The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), for which she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2001), and followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation (2002), Constantine (2005), Julia (2008), and I Am Love (2009).

For the film Young Adam (2003), she won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress. Her performance in Michael Clayton (2007) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Additionally, she won the European Film Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Swinton has also played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–2010) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.

Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the institution, for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and filmmaker and recognises her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy." That same year, The New York Times ranked her thirteenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.

Movies for Tilda Swinton...

“…and then we dance?”
Title: “…and then we dance?”
Character: Dancer
Released: March 6, 2024
Type: Movie
A pretty prince pays for a dance.
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Problemista
Title: Problemista
Character: Elizabeth
Released: March 1, 2024
Type: Movie
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
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The Killer
Title: The Killer
Character: The Expert
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: Movie
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
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All Kinds of Love
Title: All Kinds of Love
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Tilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg.
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Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
Title: Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 17, 2023
Type: Movie
A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the essay by George Orwell and narrated by Tilda Swinton.
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Cannes Uncut
Title: Cannes Uncut
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2023
Type: Movie
A luminary-packed tribute that lifts the curtain on the Cannes Film Festival in its 75th year – for as they say in France, ‘the story of Cannes is the story of cinema’.
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Asteroid City
Title: Asteroid City
Character: Dr. Hickenlooper
Released: June 8, 2023
Type: Movie
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Title: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captures the artistry of a unique tale years in the making.
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The Eternal Daughter
Title: The Eternal Daughter
Character: Julie / Rosalind
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
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Durmiente
Title: Durmiente
Released: November 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Durmiente shows Tilda Swinton, the lead actress of Memoria, sleeping in a bedroom as the shadows grow longer.
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Title: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Character: Wood Sprite / Death (voice)
Released: October 22, 2022
Type: Movie
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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Three Thousand Years of Longing
Title: Three Thousand Years of Longing
Character: Alithea
Released: August 24, 2022
Type: Movie
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Title: The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Character: Self
Released: December 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Joining Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas on his annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Mark Cousins gives an intimate glimpse into the life of the legendary icon behind some of the most controversial and acclaimed films of all time.
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Goliath: Playing with Reality
Title: Goliath: Playing with Reality
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 1, 2021
Type: Movie
After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds his salvation in online video games.
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The French Dispatch
Title: The French Dispatch
Character: J.K.L. Berensen
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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The Souvenir: Part II
Title: The Souvenir: Part II
Character: Rosalind
Released: October 11, 2021
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
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Memoria
Title: Memoria
Character: Jessica Holland
Released: September 30, 2021
Type: Movie
One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’. This haunting sound dispels her sleep for days, calling into question her identity and guiding her from recording studios to secluded jungle villages in an attempt to find its source.
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Title: What If...?
Character: The Ancient One (voice)
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: TV
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
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Title: Marvel Studios Legends
Character: The Ancient One (archive footage)
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: TV
Revisit the epic heroes, villains and moments from across the MCU in preparation for the stories still to come. Each dynamic segment feeds directly into the upcoming series — setting the stage for future events. This series weaves together the many threads that constitute the unparalleled Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The Human Voice
Title: The Human Voice
Character: Woman
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: Movie
A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Title: Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
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Last and First Men
Title: Last and First Men
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 25, 2020
Type: Movie
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
Title: The Personal History of David Copperfield
Character: Betsey Trotwood
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
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Uncut Gems
Title: Uncut Gems
Character: Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice)
Released: August 30, 2019
Type: Movie
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
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The Souvenir
Title: The Souvenir
Character: Rosalind
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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The Dead Don't Die
Title: The Dead Don't Die
Character: Zelda Winston
Released: May 15, 2019
Type: Movie
In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.
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Avengers: Endgame
Title: Avengers: Endgame
Character: The Ancient One
Released: April 24, 2019
Type: Movie
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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Title: What We Do in the Shadows
Character: Tilda
Released: March 27, 2019
Type: TV
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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Suspiria
Title: Suspiria
Character: Madame Blanc / Helena Markos / Dr. Klemperer
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
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Title: Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 1, 2018
Type: TV
As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women.
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Isle of Dogs
Title: Isle of Dogs
Character: Oracle (voice)
Released: March 23, 2018
Type: Movie
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
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Letters from Generation Rx
Title: Letters from Generation Rx
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 18, 2017
Type: Movie
As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P. Miller to share their experiences on psychiatric drugs. Miller combines their gripping tales with the latest mental health research, science, and medical health perspectives.
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Okja
Title: Okja
Character: Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando
Released: June 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Title: The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox four-part documentary that visits him at his Alpine home
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War Machine
Title: War Machine
Character: German Politician
Released: May 26, 2017
Type: Movie
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
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async - first light
Title: async - first light
Released: April 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film are all his friends, he sent cameras to friends and asked them to shoot. Apichatpong often carries Digital Harinezumi camera with him, and completing a lot of works with this camera. This work was first exhibited at the WATARI Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (Japan, 2017).
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Tania Libre
Title: Tania Libre
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 14, 2017
Type: Movie
In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of expression. Shortly after her release she returned to the United States and located Dr. Frank M. Ochberg, the founding father of trauma therapy, particularly PTSD and Stockholm Syndrome. The filmed therapy sessions between them exposes an intimate yet profound analysis of Cuba, surveillance and the politics in of repression embedded in government and family structures.
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Doctor Strange
Title: Doctor Strange
Character: The Ancient One
Released: October 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
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Letters from Baghdad
Title: Letters from Baghdad
Character: Gertrude Bell (voice)
Released: October 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
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Hail, Caesar!
Title: Hail, Caesar!
Character: Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker
Released: February 5, 2016
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
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A Bigger Splash
Title: A Bigger Splash
Character: Marianne Lane
Released: November 26, 2015
Type: Movie
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.
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Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Title: Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Character: Self / Social Services
Released: September 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of "Moonrise Kingdom".
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Trainwreck
Title: Trainwreck
Character: Dianna
Released: July 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Title: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Character: Self
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: Movie
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
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Dreams Rewired
Title: Dreams Rewired
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Tracing anxieties about technology back to the 1880s, DREAMS REWIRED combines clips from nearly 200 films and newsreels with an insightful commentary by Tilda Swinton on our eternal love/hate relationship with a hyper-mediated world.
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Title: Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 2014
Type: TV
PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of actors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.
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The Gospel According to St Derek
Title: The Gospel According to St Derek
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman’s unique approach to low-budget film-making (his near-alchemical ability to turn the base components of film-making in to artistic gold, his placing of himself at the heart of all his work and his need to be part of a repertory company-type set-up). The Gospel… also promotes Derek Jarman’s importance as one of Britain's finest film-makers and acts, therefore, as a rally call to all would-be independent film-makers. This is the ’10 commandments of St. Derek ‘(who was indeed canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) on low-budget film-making.
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Antarctica: On the Edge
Title: Antarctica: On the Edge
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It is a huge land covered with ice as thick as three miles, seemingly invulnerable, cold and dark for eight months of the year. Yet Antarctica is also a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges, arguably the most stunning, breathtaking and still-pristine place on earth. The one constant is that it is constantly changing, every season, every day, every hour. I've been fortunate to travel to Antarctica many times; most recently with 3D cameras, a first for the continent. The result is our new film, Antarctica: On the Edge.
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The Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: The Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character: Self / Madame D.
Released: June 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes featurette of making 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' from the Criterion Collection release.
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
Title: Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
Character: Self
Released: April 22, 2014
Type: Movie
A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive.
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Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Title: Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Documentary on the making of the film.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character: Madame D.
Released: February 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
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Title: Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2014
Type: TV
Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC’s "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Title: Only Lovers Left Alive
Character: Eve
Released: December 12, 2013
Type: Movie
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
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The Zero Theorem
Title: The Zero Theorem
Character: Dr. Shrink-Rom
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
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Death for a Unicorn
Title: Death for a Unicorn
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Little Billy’s life is tormented by his scheming aunt who drags him daily to the cemetery and forces him to clean his uncle’s headstone. There Billy meets Myrtle, a little girl ghost stuck between the worlds of the living and the dead. Freeing Myrtle means losing the only friend Billy has ever had.
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Snowpiercer
Title: Snowpiercer
Character: Minister Mason
Released: August 1, 2013
Type: Movie
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
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When Björk Met Attenborough
Title: When Björk Met Attenborough
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have admired each other's work for years but this is the first time they have discussed their mutual love of music and the natural world on screen. In this remarkable documentary, Björk explores our unique relationship with music and discovers how technology might transform the way we engage with it in the future.
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David Bowie: Five Years
Title: David Bowie: Five Years
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: from Ziggy Stardust to the Soul Star of Young Americans, to the ‘Thin White Duke’. It explores his regeneration in Berlin with the critically acclaimed album Heroes, his triumph with Scary Monsters and his global success with Let’s Dance. With interviews with all his closest collaborators, David Bowie - Five Years presents a unique account of why Bowie has become an ‘icon of our times’.
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One Water
Title: One Water
Released: April 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film festival in the Maldives where she invited the artist to take part in the project. While he was with her, Weerasethakul asked Swinton to recall her dreams in front of his camera. One Water portrays a poignant friendship between the actress and filmmaker, who continue to collaborate today.
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Love Flesh
Title: Love Flesh
Character: Self
Released: February 6, 2013
Type: Movie
During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hotel room in Paris to another in Budapest, from Istanbul to Bucharest, the journeys weave a fabric of the contemporary world. Its testimonials – some famous, others anonymous – say or dance their vision of the universe.
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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Title: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Narrated by Tilda Swinton and produced by the National Gallery of Art, this documentary film explores Serge Diaghilev's Russian roots, his genius for bringing together avant-garde composers, dancers, painters, and designers, and the legacy of the Ballets Russes. The film includes dazzling highlights from recreations of Ballets Russes productions by major dance companies in the US and Europe.
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Radioman
Title: Radioman
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2012
Type: Movie
The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
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Ashes
Title: Ashes
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 2012
Type: Movie
In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethakul was invited to make a work to launch the new LomoKino, a portable motion picture camera. Ashes juxtaposes the intimacy of his daily routine with the destruction of memories and his observations of the dark side of Thailand’s social realities.
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Moonrise Kingdom
Title: Moonrise Kingdom
Character: Social Services
Released: May 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
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Song 1
Title: Song 1
Character: Self
Released: March 22, 2012
Type: Movie
An installation commissioned to be projected on the outer ring of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
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Cinema Is Everywhere
Title: Cinema Is Everywhere
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary feature film that ties four narratives - from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia - together with countless insights from venerable filmmakers and ordinary moviegoers. An aspiring actress in Mumbai battles to break into Bollywood; two friends in Scotland take a mobile film festival across the highlands; a young crew in Hong Kong embarks on the shooting of its first film; a Tunisian director anxiously anticipates the premiere of his controversial film at a major festival. These stories are woven together with scenes from video stores, projection booths, studios, cinemas, and slums into a vivid meditation on the power of cinema to shape our world.
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Title: Women, War & Peace
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered? These two questions were at the heart of this critically acclaimed five-part special series.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Character: Eva Khatchadourian
Released: September 28, 2011
Type: Movie
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
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14 Actors Acting
Title: 14 Actors Acting
Character: Self
Released: December 8, 2010
Type: Movie
This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Character: White Witch
Released: December 2, 2010
Type: Movie
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
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Behind Jim Jarmusch
Title: Behind Jim Jarmusch
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his movie "The Limits of Control" (starring Isaach de Bankolé, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt...)
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Climate of Change
Title: Climate of Change
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 12, 2010
Type: Movie
"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old member of a youth environmental defense group in India. He and his fellow voraciously energetic students actively rally against the use of plastics. In Africa, a renaissance man teaches citizens to harness solar power to cook food. In Papua New Guinea, villagers practice sustainable logging to save their rainforests. A woman in London uses her PR savvy to start a successful environmental communications firm. Self-described "hillbillies" in Appalachia battle the big business behind strip mining. In this rich and inspiring documentary, director Brian Hill takes us around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment.
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I Am Love
Title: I Am Love
Character: Emma Recchi
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
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The Invisible Frame
Title: The Invisible Frame
Character: The Cyclist
Released: November 12, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1988 Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wall into little-known territory. The film CYCLING THE FRAME is now an unusual document. 21 years later, in June 2009, Beatt & Swinton re-traced the line of the Wall that once isolated West Berlin. THE INVISIBLE FRAME depicts this poetic passage through varied landscapes, this time on both sides of the former Wall.
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Title: Getting On
Character: Elke
Released: July 8, 2009
Type: TV
Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.
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The Limits of Control
Title: The Limits of Control
Character: Blonde
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
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Moments on the Set of I Am Love
Title: Moments on the Set of I Am Love
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Character: Elizabeth Abbott
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
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Burn After Reading
Title: Burn After Reading
Character: Katie Cox
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Character: White Witch
Released: May 15, 2008
Type: Movie
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz. Now, with the help of a colorful cast of new characters, including Trufflehunter the badger and Nikabrik the dwarf, the Pevensie clan embarks on an incredible quest to ensure that Narnia is returned to its rightful heir.
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Julia
Title: Julia
Character: Julia
Released: March 12, 2008
Type: Movie
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
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Derek
Title: Derek
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker and actress, Isaac Julien and Tilda Swinton respectively, have produced and narrated a film on his life whereby the use of language is perpetuated to give some type of palpable meaning to British audiences alone, and to their own personal relationship with him.
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Cannes: All Access
Title: Cannes: All Access
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 2007
Type: Movie
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red carpet event of the year. Filmmaker Richard Schickel's fascinating documentary captures the glitz and glamour of the festival's incredible 60-year run with archival footage and unforgettable moments. Hollywood's biggest names including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone and Harvey Weinstein talk about the politics, madness, and thrills of competing for one of the industry's highest honors - the coveted Palme d'Or - and what it's like to be at the most fabulous festival by the sea.
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Michael Clayton
Title: Michael Clayton
Character: Karen Crowder
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
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The Man from London
Title: The Man from London
Character: Camélia
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
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Stephanie Daley
Title: Stephanie Daley
Character: Lydie Crane
Released: April 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.
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Faceless
Title: Faceless
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 20, 2007
Type: Movie
In an eerily familiar city, a calendar reform has dispensed with the past and the future, leaving citizens faceless, without memory or anticipation. Unimaginable happiness abounds - until a woman recovers her face...
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Title: Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Character: Self
Released: February 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
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Strange Culture
Title: Strange Culture
Character: Hope Kurtz
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.
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Sleepwalkers
Title: Sleepwalkers
Character: Violinist working as a Copy Clerk
Released: January 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their way through an evening in New York City. A collection of eight large-scale moving images projected on the walls of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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Deep Water
Title: Deep Water
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 15, 2006
Type: Movie
DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever – the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.
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Title: Galapagos
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: September 26, 2006
Type: TV
The history of these beautiful Islands from their creation as uprising lava to their being studied by Darwin to their modern day inhabitants.
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Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
Title: Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
Character: Self
Released: January 24, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Character: White Witch
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
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The Somme
Title: The Somme
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 14, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Made in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: TV
Made in Hollywood is a talk show hosted by Kylie Erica Mar and Julie L. Harkness airing in syndication since September 30, 2005. The series is currently in its seventh season. The series is filmed in two studios in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Made in Hollywood also airs a spinoff series, Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition.
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Broken Flowers
Title: Broken Flowers
Character: Penny
Released: August 5, 2005
Type: Movie
As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.
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Constantine
Title: Constantine
Character: Gabriel
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
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Thumbsucker
Title: Thumbsucker
Character: Audrey Cobb
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: Movie
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.
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The Statement
Title: The Statement
Character: Annemarie Livi
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
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Young Adam
Title: Young Adam
Character: Ella Gault
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: Movie
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
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Adaptation.
Title: Adaptation.
Character: Valerie Thomas
Released: December 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
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Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
Title: Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 2002
Type: Movie
At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, loneliness and love.
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Teknolust
Title: Teknolust
Character: Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
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Vanilla Sky
Title: Vanilla Sky
Character: Rebecca Dearborn
Released: December 14, 2001
Type: Movie
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
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The Deep End
Title: The Deep End
Character: Margaret Hall
Released: January 21, 2001
Type: Movie
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
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The Dilapidated Dwelling
Title: The Dilapidated Dwelling
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom.
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Possible Worlds
Title: Possible Worlds
Character: Joyce
Released: September 4, 2000
Type: Movie
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.
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The Beach
Title: The Beach
Character: Sal
Released: February 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
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The Protagonists
Title: The Protagonists
Character: Actress
Released: September 10, 1999
Type: Movie
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.
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The War Zone
Title: The War Zone
Character: Mum
Released: June 11, 1999
Type: Movie
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
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Conceiving Ada
Title: Conceiving Ada
Character: Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Title: Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Character: Muriel Belcher
Released: September 16, 1998
Type: Movie
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond.
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Female Perversions
Title: Female Perversions
Character: Eve Stephens
Released: November 21, 1996
Type: Movie
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.
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Title: The Daily Show
Character: Self
Released: July 22, 1996
Type: TV
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Title: Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda Swinton and Rupert Everett in lead roles, the tape confronts the conventions of world television and satellite broadcast, drawing on the fragmentary nature of the medium and the cliches of the three minute attention span. At the same time, it replaces bland mainstream images with darker, more satirical observations and studies. The environment is surreal, a virtual reality television land of landscapes and imaginary cities, enhanced by Marvin Black's dark, dense soundtrack. It is a cyberspace where the impossible is all too possible. Within this parallel world, a series of archetypes act, observe and comment, informed by a strong sexual sensibility. '..a mesmerising, sometimes hysterically funny, cinematic bricolage with a strong sexual and mostly gay sensibility'. - Cordelia Swann
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Glitterbug
Title: Glitterbug
Character: Self
Released: March 5, 1994
Type: Movie
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
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Visions of Heaven and Hell
Title: Visions of Heaven and Hell
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 31, 1994
Type: Movie
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined social changes brought about by new information technologies, along with other issues and dilemmas facing society in the 21st Century.
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The Open Universe
Title: The Open Universe
Character: Carla
Released: October 16, 1993
Type: Movie
The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills his father and seduces his mother. Then he explores the changing world. The end finds him in a Polynesian village, where the chief bestows him with a girl of his age-class. A novel of adventure, a novel of love, also an oratory of some sort.
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Blue
Title: Blue
Character: (voice)
Released: August 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
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Wittgenstein
Title: Wittgenstein
Character: Lady Ottoline Morrell
Released: March 26, 1993
Type: Movie
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
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Orlando
Title: Orlando
Character: Orlando
Released: December 11, 1992
Type: Movie
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Ophelia (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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Man to Man
Title: Man to Man
Character: Ella / Max Gerike
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
A woman pretends to be her dead husband in Nazi Germany in order to survive.
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Edward II
Title: Edward II
Character: Isabella
Released: October 18, 1991
Type: Movie
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
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The Party: Nature Morte
Title: The Party: Nature Morte
Character: Queenie
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.
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Derek Jarman: A Portrait
Title: Derek Jarman: A Portrait
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring interviews with Jarman, his collaborators and friends.
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Title: Your Cheatin' Heart
Character: Cissie Crouch
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: TV
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
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Your Cheatin' Heart
Title: Your Cheatin' Heart
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: Movie
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
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The Garden
Title: The Garden
Character: Madonna/Voice Overs
Released: September 6, 1990
Type: Movie
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
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Play Me Something
Title: Play Me Something
Character: Hairdresser
Released: February 18, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is delayed. At that moment, a stranger appears and begins telling the story of a summer romance in Venice.
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War Requiem
Title: War Requiem
Character: The Nurse
Released: January 6, 1989
Type: Movie
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images by maintaining hope in his love for an army nurse. But he also begins to accept his fate as another battlefield sacrifice.
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A Call to Arms
Title: A Call to Arms
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and memoires unravel in her head. In the final light of day she wakes herself and prepares for ‘battle’… A Call to Arms is an allegory of the emotional and practical struggles of the artist. It also aims to overcome this turmoil with a new mythopoetic legend, differing in purpose and conclusion from those traditionally offered. It pillages a number of tales and images of conflict which form part of our collective memory, and challenges these by placing women as central and powerful figures. Pageantry, flourishing banners and other emblems of war persist but an unusual serenity and poise underlies these suggestions of aggression and battle.
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Volcano Saga
Title: Volcano Saga
Character: Gudrun
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.
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Cycling the Frame
Title: Cycling the Frame
Character: The Cyclist
Released: August 30, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate - accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. As Swinton travels through fields and historic neighborhoods, past lakes and massive concrete apartment buildings, the Wall is a constant presence.
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Degrees of Blindness
Title: Degrees of Blindness
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.
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Aria
Title: Aria
Character: Young Girl
Released: September 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
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The Last of England
Title: The Last of England
Character: The Maid
Released: August 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
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Friendship's Death
Title: Friendship's Death
Character: Friendship
Released: August 17, 1987
Type: Movie
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, comes to her aid when she is found wandering without papers following a bombing and grants her refuge in his hotel room. But there she tells him she is a robot, sent as a peace envoy from another planet. He is not sure whether to believe her story or not, but finds her unusual view of the world appealing. They examine the human condition in a series of incredibly insightful and entertaining conversations.
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Depuis le Jour
Title: Depuis le Jour
Released: May 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Derek Jarman's sequence from the anthology film Aria,which gathered together short musically-themed pieces by a variety of internationally esteemed directors.
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Egomania: Island Without Hope
Title: Egomania: Island Without Hope
Character: Sally
Released: May 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distant thunder of the boiling sea. The film’s characters – riddled with unconscious desires – find themselves imprisoned on an island. Drawing parallels to the work of British filmmaker Derek Jarman and staring Jarman’s actress-muse Tilda Swinton, Schlingensief’s raw and almost mythological film stands in contrast to his more offensive efforts.
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Caravaggio
Title: Caravaggio
Character: Lena
Released: August 29, 1986
Type: Movie
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
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Title: Zastrozzi: A Romance
Character: Julia
Released: April 13, 1986
Type: TV
In a heady tale of revenge and obsession, the outlaw Zastrozzi, assisted by courtesan, Matilda, abducts his half-brother, Verezzi, and torments him into believing his lover, Julia, has been murdered. His campaign of vicious psychological abuse signals a grisly bloodbath of greed, envy, betrayal, retribution, and eternal damnation.
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The Sluggard
Title: The Sluggard
Character: The Sluggard
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A young woman lazes about while those around her try to maintain order. Produced in 1986 and released on the 1988 VHS Fat of the Land Selected British Videos 1984-1987, released on Factory Records's video imprint IKON. "Here is the first tape of a new British cinema which should be seen by everyone who loves film. The official British cinema is truly dead, alive only in admens bought dreams. This is the way to go."- Derek Jarman.
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Caprice
Title: Caprice
Character: Lucky
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
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The Room Next Door
Title: The Room Next Door
Character: Martha
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows the story of a very imperfect mother and a spiteful daughter separated by a huge misunderstanding. Between them, another woman, a friend of the mother's, is trusted with the pain and bitterness of both of them.
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The End
Title: The End
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A post-apocalyptic story about a rich family living in a salt mine converted into a luxurious home. The earth around them has apparently been destroyed, but their son has never seen the outside world. As a young girl appears at the entrance of the bunker, the balance of the family is threatened.
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Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Project
Title: Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Project
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams.