Colin Farrell
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Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor, who has appeared in films including Tigerland, Daredevil, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander, S.W.A.T., and In Bruges.
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Dumbo (2019)
As: Holt Farrier
Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children Milly and Joe to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere, who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment ...
Directed by: Tim Burton
Stars: Colin Farrell | Eva Green | Michael Keaton | Danny DeVito | Sandy Martin
Widows (2018)
As: Jack Mulligan
Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Stars: Viola Davis | Michelle Rodriguez | Elizabeth Debicki | Cynthia Erivo | Colin Farrell
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
As: Steven Murphy
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Colin Farrell | Nicole Kidman | Barry Keoghan | Raffey Cassidy | Sunny Suljic
Roman J Israel, Esq. (2017)
As: George Pierce
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm’s frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Denzel Washington | Colin Farrell | Carmen Ejogo | Lynda Gravatt | Amanda Warren
The Beguiled (2017)
As: Corporal John McBurney
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Colin Farrell | Nicole Kidman | Kirsten Dunst | Elle Fanning | Oona Laurence
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
As: Percival Graves
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: David Yates
Stars: Eddie Redmayne | Colin Farrell | Katherine Waterston | Dan Fogler | Alison Sudol
The Lobster (2015)
As: David
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Colin Farrell | Rachel Weisz | Léa Seydoux | Ben Whishaw | Ariane Labed
Solace (2015)
As: Charles Ambrose
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Afonso Poyart
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Abbie Cornish | Colin Farrell | Marley Shelton
Miss Julie (2014)
As: John
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Liv Ullmann
Stars: Colin Farrell | Jessica Chastain | Samantha Morton | Nora McMenamy
Winter's Tale (2014)
As: Peter Lake
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Akiva Goldsman
Stars: Colin Farrell | Jessica Brown Findlay | Russell Crowe | William Hurt | Jennifer Connelly
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
As: Travers Robert Goff
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: John Lee Hancock
Stars: Emma Thompson | Tom Hanks | Paul Giamatti | Colin Farrell | Ruth Wilson
Epic (2013)
As: Ronin (voice)
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Chris Wedge
Stars: Colin Farrell | Josh Hutcherson | Amanda Seyfried | Christoph Waltz | Jason Sudeikis
Dead Man Down (2013)
As: Victor
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Niels Arden Oplev
Stars: Colin Farrell | Noomi Rapace | Terrence Howard | Dominic Cooper | Isabelle Huppert
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
As: Marty Faranan
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Stars: Colin Farrell | Sam Rockwell | Woody Harrelson | Christopher Walken | Tom Waits
Total Recall (2012)
As: Doug Quaid/Carl Hauser
Welcome to ReCall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the ...
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Len Wiseman
Stars: Colin Farrell | Kate Beckinsale | Jessica Biel | Bryan Cranston | Bill Nighy
Fright Night (2011)
As: Jerry Dandrige
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician in this remake of the 1985 comedy-horror classic.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Stars: Anton Yelchin | Colin Farrell | Toni Collette | Christopher Mintz-Plasse | David Tennant
Horrible Bosses (2011)
As: Bobby Pellitt
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Seth Gordon
Stars: Jennifer Aniston | Jason Bateman | Charlie Day | Jason Sudeikis | Colin Farrell
London Boulevard (2010)
As: Harry Mitchel
A parolee battles a gangster for the affections of a reclusive movie star.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: William Monahan
Stars: Colin Farrell | Keira Knightley | David Thewlis | Anna Friel | Ben Chaplin
Burma Soldier (2010)
As: Narrator (Voice)
The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Nic Dunlop | Ricki Stern | Anne Sundberg
Stars: Colin Farrell | Myo Myint
The Way Back (2010)
As: Valka
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous & uncertain journey to freedom, as they cross deserts, mountains, & several nations.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Stars: Colin Farrell | Dejan Angelov | Dragoș Bucur | Ed Harris | Jim Sturgess
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
As: Imaginarium Tony 3
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Christopher Plummer | Heath Ledger | Johnny Depp | Jude Law | Colin Farrell
Crazy Heart (2009)
As: Tommy Sweet
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an existence playing in the shadow of Tommy, the upstart kid he once mentored?
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Stars: Jeff Bridges | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Colin Farrell | Robert Duvall | Paul Herman
Ondine (2009)
As: Syracuse
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Colin Farrell | Alicja Bachleda-Curuś | Dervla Kirwan | Alison Barry | Marion O'Dwyer
Triage (2009)
As: Mark Walsh
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Danis Tanović
Stars: Colin Farrell | Paz Vega | Christopher Lee | Kelly Reilly | Jamie Sives
Pride and Glory (2008)
As: Jimmy Eagan
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Gavin O'Connor
Stars: Edward Norton | Jon Voight | Colin Farrell | Noah Emmerich | Jennifer Ehle
Kicking It (2008)
As: Narrator
Kicking It chronicles the lives of seven players taking a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent their country at the Cape Town 2006 Homeless World Cup. Najib from war torn Afghanistan; Alex from the slums of Kenya; Damien and Simon from the drug rehab clinics of Dublin, Ireland; Craig from the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina; Jesus from the overflowing public shelters of Madrid, Spain,
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Susan Koch | Jeff Werner
Stars: Colin Farrell | Brandon Francis
In Bruges (2008)
As: Ray
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Stars: Colin Farrell | Brendan Gleeson | Ralph Fiennes | Clémence Poésy | Thekla Reuten
Cassandra's Dream (2007)
As: Terry Blaine
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Colin Farrell | Ewan McGregor | Hayley Atwell | Sally Hawkins | Tom Wilkinson
Miami Vice (2006)
As: Detective James "Sonny" Crockett
Miami Vice is a feature film based on the 1980s action drama TV series. The film tells the story of vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs and how their personal and professional lives are dangerously getting mixed.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Michael Mann
Stars: Jamie Foxx | Colin Farrell | Gong Li | Luis Tosar | Naomie Harris
Ask the Dust (2006)
As: Arturo Bandini
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Robert Towne
Stars: Colin Farrell | Salma Hayek | Donald Sutherland | Eileen Atkins | Idina Menzel
The New World (2005)
As: Captain Smith
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Stars: Colin Farrell | Q'orianka Kilcher | Christopher Plummer | Christian Bale | August Schellenberg
Alexander (2004)
As: Alexander
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Runtime: 175 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: Colin Farrell | Angelina Jolie | Val Kilmer | Jared Leto | Jonathan Rhys Meyers
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
As: Bobby Morrow (1982)
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Michael Mayer
Stars: Colin Farrell | Dallas Roberts | Robin Wright | Sissy Spacek | Ryan Donowho
Intermission (2003)
As: Lehiff
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: John Crowley
Stars: Colin Farrell | Colm Meaney | Kelly Macdonald | Cillian Murphy | Brían F. O'Byrne
S.W.A.T. (2003)
As: Jim Street
Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Clark Johnson
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | Colin Farrell | Michelle Rodriguez | LL Cool J | Josh Charles
Veronica Guerin (2003)
As: Tattooed Boy
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Gerard McSorley | Ciarán Hinds | Brenda Fricker | Don Wycherley
Daredevil (2003)
As: Lester / Bullseye
He dwells in a world of eternal night, but the blackness is filled with sounds and scents, tastes and textures that most cannot perceive. Although attorney Matt Murdock is blind, his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden. At night he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of the city, a relentless avenger of justice.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson
Stars: Ben Affleck | Jennifer Garner | Colin Farrell | Michael Clarke Duncan | Jon Favreau
The Recruit (2003)
As: James Clayton
A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Al Pacino | Colin Farrell | Bridget Moynahan | Gabriel Macht | Karl Pruner
Phone Booth (2002)
As: Stu Shepard
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Colin Farrell | Kiefer Sutherland | Forest Whitaker | Radha Mitchell | Katie Holmes
Minority Report (2002)
As: Danny Witwer
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Cruise | Colin Farrell | Samantha Morton | Max von Sydow | Lois Smith
Hart's War (2002)
As: Lt. Thomas W. Hart
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwafe vetran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Stars: Bruce Willis | Colin Farrell | Terrence Howard | Marcel Iureș | Cole Hauser
American Outlaws (2001)
As: Jesse James
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jessie James.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Les Mayfield
Stars: Colin Farrell | Scott Caan | Ali Larter | Gabriel Macht | Gregory Smith
Tigerland (2000)
As: Pvt. Roland Bozz
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Colin Farrell | Matthew Davis | Clifton Collins Jr. | Tom Guiry | Shea Whigham
Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
As: Alec
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Stars: Kevin Spacey | Linda Fiorentino | Peter Mullan | Stephen Dillane | Helen Baxendale
The War Zone (1999)
As: Nick
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Tim Roth
Stars: Ray Winstone | Tilda Swinton | Lara Belmont | Colin Farrell | Freddie Cunliffe
Falling for a Dancer (1998)
As: Daniel McCarthey
Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Runtime: 50 min.
Directed by: Richard Standeven
Stars: Elisabeth Dermot Walsh | Dermot Crowley | Liam Cunningham | Maureen O'Brien | Rory Murray
The Disappearance of Finbar (1997)
As: Simon
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Sue Clayton
Stars: Luke Griffin | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Sean Lawlor | Marie Mullen | Eleanor Methven
Frankie Starlight (1995)
As: Young Man In Cinema No. 2
The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Matt Dillon | Corban Walker | Gabriel Byrne | Anne Parillaud | Niall Toibin