Stephen Rea
Actor
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Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.
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Lost Lives (2019)
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Dermot Lavery | Michael Hewitt
Stars: Liam Neeson | Stephen Rea | Kenneth Branagh | Martin McCann | Brid Brennan
Greta (2019)
As: Brian Cody
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Isabelle Huppert | Stephen Rea | Chloë Grace Moretz | Colm Feore | Maika Monroe
Unquiet Graves (2018)
As: Narrator
This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of over 120 civilians in Counties Armagh and Tyrone from July 1972 to 1978.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Sean A Murray
Stars: Stephen Rea | Chris Patrick-Simpson | Patrick Buchanan | Chris McMahon
Black 47 (2018)
As: Conneely
It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his estranged family.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Lance Daly
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Stephen Rea | Freddie Fox | James Frecheville | Barry Keoghan
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch (2015)
As: Danforth
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted by evil forces she sets out to use all her magical powers to get her back.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Evgeny Ruman
Stars: Ed Stoppard | Stephen Rea | Twinnie Lee Moore | Seanna Pereira
Out of the Dark (2014)
As: Jordan
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Lluís Quílez
Stars: Stephen Rea | Scott Speedman | Alejandro Furth | Julia Stiles | Pixie Davies
Tasting Menu (2014)
As: Walter
A year ago, just before his break, Marc and Rachel manage to book a table at one of the best restaurants in the world, reserve to which none of them is willing to give. In this idyllic corner of the Costa Brava will find connoisseurs worldwide. Together they share one of the best sensory experiences of his life. It will be an unforgettable evening.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Roger Gual
Stars: Fionnula Flanagan | Vicenta N'Dongo | Claudia Bassols | Jan Cornet | Marta Torné
Styria (2013)
As: Dr. Hill
Inspired by Carmilla, the seminal 19th Century vampire tale by Sheridan LeFanu, STYRIA plunges the viewer into a haunted world of fantasy and obsession. In 1989, Lara Hill (Eleanor Tomlinson), accompanies her art historian father (Stephen Rea) to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Mauricio Chernovetzky | Mark Devendorf
Stars: Stephen Rea | Julia Pietrucha | Eleanor Tomlinson | Erika Marozsán | Jacek Lenartowicz
Asylum (2013)
As: McGahey
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atrocities, and he may be the only one that can stop them.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Todor Chapkanov | Chris Mancini
Stars: Bruce Payne | Stephen Rea | Dean Haglund | Michael Schmidt | Caroline Ford
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
As: Doc
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Louis Morneau
Stars: Stephen Rea | Ed Quinn | Adam Croasdell | Guy Wilson | Rachel DiPillo
Stella Days (2012)
As: Brendan
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Stars: Amy Huberman | Stephen Rea | Martin Sheen | Joey O'Sullivan | Neill Virtue
Underworld: Awakening (2012)
As: Dr. Jacob Lane
After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Nissa, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Björn Stein | Måns Mårlind
Stars: Michael Ealy | Stephen Rea | Theo James | Kate Beckinsale | India Eisley
Blackthorn (2011)
As: Mackinley
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorne) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Mateo Gil
Stars: Stephen Rea | Magaly Solier | Sam Shepard | Eduardo Noriega | Daniel Aguirre
Roadkill (2011)
As: Seamus
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Johannes Roberts
Stars: Eliza Bennett | Kacey Clarke | Ned Dennehy | Stephen Rea | Oliver James
The Heavy (2010)
As: Anawalt
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Marcus Warren
Stars: Vinnie Jones | Christopher Lee | Shannyn Sossamon | Gary Stretch | Stephen Rea
Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Martin Rosenbaum | Ian Rickson
Stars: Stephen Rea | Andy de la Tour | Henry Woolf | Henry Goodman | Susan Wooldridge
Ondine (2009)
As: Priest
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 | Dervla Kirwan | Alison Barry | Marion O'Dwyer | Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Nothing Personal (2009)
As: Martin
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Urszula Antoniak
Stars: Stephen Rea | Lotte Verbeek | Tom Charlfa | Ann Marie Horan
Espion(s) (2009)
As: M. Palmer
Vincent is a bright young man but has introverted personality. He is working as a baggage handler at an airport and refuses to follow a career path accordingly to his education. With his colleague, Gerard, Vincent used to steal objects from the luggage in the hold before shipment. As he opens a diplomatic baggage, Gerard provokes an explosion and dies.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Saada
Stars: Géraldine Pailhas | Stephen Rea | Archie Panjabi | Hippolyte Girardot | Guillaume Canet
Heidi 4 Paws (2008)
As: Doctor (voice)
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the roles. "Heidi 4 PAWS" tells the story of the young orphan (this time as seen through the eyes of a yellow lab puppy) who is sent to live with her reclusive Grandfather (in this case an old sheepdog). Just as Heidi adjusts to her new life in the mountains, she ...
Runtime: 68 min.
Directed by: Holly Goldberg Sloan
Stars: Marshall Bell | Steve Guttenberg | Joanne Baron | Kimberly Beck | Majandra Delfino
The Devil's Mercy (2008)
As: Tyler
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters dwelling in the attic. When their friends and guests abruptly go missing or die mysteriously, it becomes a race against time as the family's lives are in peril.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Melanie Orr
Stars: Michael Cram | Stephen Rea | Deborah Valente | Dylan Everett | Hannah Lochner
Stuck (2007)
As: Thomas Bardo
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Stephen Rea | Rukiya Bernard | Carolyn Purdy-Gordon | Mena Suvari | Russell Hornsby
The Reaping (2007)
As: Father Costigan
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Stars: Idris Elba | AnnaSophia Robb | David Morrissey | Hilary Swank | Yvonne Landry
Celebration (2007)
As: Waiter
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal ...
Runtime: 42 min.
Directed by: John Crowley
Stars: Colin Firth | Michael Gambon | James Fox | James Bolam | Janie Dee
Until Death (2007)
As: Gabriel Callaghan
Van Damme plays a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Simon Fellows
Stars: Fiona O'Shaughnessy | Jean-Claude Van Damme | William Ash | Selina Giles | Alana Maria
Sisters (2006)
As: Dr. Philip Lacan
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of Siamese twins who were separated at birth, one of them forced to live under the eye of a watchful, controlling psychiatrist.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Douglas Buck
Stars: Chloë Sevigny | Stephen Rea | Dallas Roberts | Lou Doillon | JR Bourne
V for Vendetta (2006)
As: Chief Inspector Eric Finch
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: James McTeigue
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Natalie Portman | John Hurt | Stephen Rea | Stephen Fry
Sixty Six (2006)
As: Dr. Barrie
A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Paul Weiland
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Eddie Marsan | Peter Serafinowicz | Gregg Sulkin | Catherine Tate
Tara Road (2005)
As: Colm
Two grieving women - Ria, a Dublin mom whose husband discloses he's in love with a woman already pregnant, and Marilyn, a Connecticut Yankee who's son has died - swap houses for a couple months. Marilyn finds solace in Ria's garden and becomes friends with Colm, a local with a restaurant and his own demons. Ria gets a job cooking, has a date or two, and gradually comes out of her shell. Meanwhile,
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Stars: Olivia Williams | Andie MacDowell | Stephen Rea | Heike Makatsch | Maria Doyle Kennedy
River Queen (2005)
As: Francis
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Vincent Ward
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland | Stephen Rea | Cliff Curtis | Temuera Morrison | Samantha Morton
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
As: Bertie
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Liam Neeson | Stephen Rea | Laurence Kinlan | Ruth Negga
Control (2004)
As: Dr. Arlo Penner
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Tim Hunter
Stars: Michelle Rodriguez | Willem Dafoe | Ray Liotta | Stephen Rea | Kathleen Robertson
The Halo Effect (2004)
As: Fatso
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is getting the better of him and he has to contend with an endless succession of loan sharks and debt collectors. He employs hopelessly incompetent staff and generally manages to keep the entire community around him ticking over. However just as Fatso seems to ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Lance Daly
Stars: Stephen Rea | Kerry Condon | Grattan Smith | Simon Delaney
Fluent Dysphasia (2004)
As: Murph
A father in Ireland goes to watch a football match with his buddy while his daughter has to study Irish, or Gaelic - the ancient language of Ireland. After over-celebrating his club's victory, he awakes in the morning and finds he only speaks Irish, and that he doesn't even understand English. His buddy is aghast at this situation, believing his friend to have become possessed, but his daughter manages ...
Runtime: 16 min.
Directed by: Daniel O'Hara
Stars: Stephen Rea | Paddy C Courtney | Jayne Stynes | Richard Morton
Bloom (2004)
As: Leopold Bloom
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Sean Walsh
Stars: Hugh O'Conor | Stephen Rea | Angeline Ball
The Good Shepherd (2004)
As: McCaran
CHRISTIAN SLATER plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist, is also his former sweetheart.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Lewin Webb
Stars: Molly Parker | Stephen Rea | Gordon Pinsent | Christian Slater | Nancy Beatty
The I Inside (2004)
As: Doctor Newman
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Roland Suso Richter
Stars: Ryan Phillippe | Stephen Rea | Sarah Polley | Piper Perabo | Robert Sean Leonard
Evelyn (2002)
As: Michael Beattie
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Pierce Brosnan | Aidan Quinn | Stephen Rea | Julianna Margulies | Sophie Vavasseur
Copenhagen (2002)
As: Niels Bohr
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the momentous meeting that occurred one night in September 1941, during which the longtime friends entered into a dangerous discussion about physics and politics.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Howard Davies
Stars: Stephen Rea | Francesca Annis | Daniel Craig
FearDotCom (2002)
As: Alistair Pratt
With four corpses on his hands, New York City gumshoe Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health worker Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to track down a homicidal sadist who telecasts shocking acts of torture on the Internet. But they have their work cut out: It seems the victims' only link is that they all went toes up 48 hours after logging on a site known ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: William Malone
Stars: Stephen Dorff | Stephen Rea | Natascha McElhone | Udo Kier | Amelia Curtis
The Musketeer (2001)
As: Cardinal Richelieu
In Peter Hyams's adaptation of the famous Alexander Dumas story The Three Musketeers, the young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Stars: Tim Roth | Catherine Deneuve | Stephen Rea | Mena Suvari | Justin Chambers
Snow in August (2001)
As: Rabbi Judah Hirsch
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Richard Friedenberg
Stars: Stephen Rea | Lolita Davidovich | Peter Anthony Tambakis | Adam MacDonald | Jase Blankfort
On the Edge (2001)
As: Dr. Figure
On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: John Carney
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Paul Hickey | Vincent Walsh | Camille O'Sullivan | Martin Carney
The King's Wake (2000)
As: King Conor
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and the enemies he killed in his time. Based on the famous Ulster Cycle.
Runtime: 29 min.
Directed by: John McCloskey
Stars: Eleanor Methven | Stephen Rea | Ian McElhinney | Peter Balance | Tony Talbot
The End of the Affair (1999)
As: Henry Miles
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Stephen Rea | Julianne Moore | Ian Hart | James Bolam
Guinevere (1999)
As: Connie Fitzpatrick
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Audrey Wells
Stars: Gina Gershon | Stephen Rea | Sarah Polley | Paul Dooley | Jean Smart
The Life Before This (1999)
As: Brian
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Jerry Ciccoritti
Stars: Joe Pantoliano | Alison Pill | Stephen Rea | Sarah Polley | Catherine O'Hara
I Could Read the Sky (1999)
As: P.J.
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his first love, emigrating to England, searching for his brother Joe, who disappeared after he emigrated several years previously. His marriage and wife's later depth is also remembered.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Nichola Bruce
Stars: Stephen Rea | Brendan Coyle | Maria Doyle Kennedy | Dermot Healy | Jake Williams
This Is My Father (1999)
As: Mission Priest
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland. In flashbacks, we watch a romance develop between Kieran's mother, a college girl, and his father (Aidan Quinn), an inarticulat
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Paul Quinn
Stars: Colm Meaney | Aidan Quinn | John Cusack | Stephen Rea | James Caan
In Dreams (1999)
As: Doctor Silverman
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Aidan Quinn | Stephen Rea | Annette Bening | Robert Downey Jr. | Paul Guilfoyle
Still Crazy (1998)
As: Tony Costello
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Brian Gibson
Stars: Timothy Spall | Stephen Rea | Bill Nighy | Billy Connolly | Jimmy Nail
Sink or Swim (1997)
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter between two figures on the balcony of hotel near his flat and decides to write scripts with his writer friends based on what he saw.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Gary Rosen
Stars: Stephen Rea | Jason Priestley | Illeana Douglas | Lisa Kudrow | Olivia d'Abo
Double Tap (1997)
As: Cypher
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Greg Yaitanes
Stars: Mykelti Williamson | Peter Greene | Stephen Rea | Kevin Gage | Heather Locklear
The Butcher Boy (1997)
As: Da Brady
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Stephen Rea | Fiona Shaw | Eamonn Owens | Alan Boyle | Andrew Fullerton
Fever Pitch (1997)
As: Ray, the Governor
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: David Evans
Stars: Colin Firth | Mark Strong | Ruth Gemmell | Ken Stott | Holly Aird
A Further Gesture (1997)
As: Dowd
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Alfred Molina | Stephen Rea | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Rosana Pastor
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
As: Cab Driver
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: David Keating
Stars: Jared Leto | Stephen Rea | Christina Ricci | Catherine O'Hara | Gabriel Byrne
Michael Collins (1996)
As: Ned Broy
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Aidan Quinn | Liam Neeson | Stephen Rea | Julia Roberts | Alan Rickman
Crime of the Century (1996)
As: Bruno Richard Hauptmann
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Mark Rydell
Stars: Stephen Rea | Isabella Rossellini | Allen Garfield | Michael Moriarty | J.T. Walsh
Trojan Eddie (1996)
As: Trojan Eddie
The story of Eddie, a small town ex con, who discovers he has talent for selling anything and everything. Eddie sees a way to rise above the low life by setting up on his own; what he didn't bargin for was the murder and mahem along the way.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Richard Harris | Stephen Rea | Stuart Townsend | Aislín McGuckin
All Men Are Mortal (1995)
As: Fosca
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Ate de Jong
Stars: Irène Jacob | Colin Salmon | Stephen Rea | Marianne Sägebrecht | Maggie O'Neill
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1995)
Two very different people become friends and partners in this nautical drama. Nikos (Stephen Rea) is a radio man working on a Greek freighter when he finds himself stranded in Hong Kong after the firm that owned his ship suddenly goes out of business. Nikos is already depressed over his recent breakup with his girlfriend, and this latest turn of events hardly makes him feel any better; he ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Marion Hänsel
Stars: Stephen Rea | Jane Birkin | Adrian Brine | Maka Kotto | Ling Chu
Citizen X (1995)
As: Lt. Viktor Burakov
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Chris Gerolmo
Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn | Max von Sydow | Donald Sutherland | Stephen Rea | Joss Ackland
Lumière and Company (1995)
As: Himself
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Lasse Hallström | Yoshishige Yoshida | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Jerry Schatzberg | Nadine Trintignant | Fernando Trueba | Liv Ullmann | Jaco Van Dormael | Régis Wargnier | Zhang Yimou | Sarah Moon | Merzak Allouache | Gabriel Axel | James Ivory | Patrice Leconte | Ismail Merchant | Claude Miller | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Jacques Rivette | Arthur Penn | Bigas Luna | Vicente Aranda | Claude Lelouch | John Boorman | Youssef Chahine | Alain Corneau | Raymond Depardon | Francis Girod | Abbas Kiarostami | Cédric Klapisch | Spike Lee | Michael Haneke | Andrei Konchalovsky | David Lynch | Wim Wenders | Costa-Gavras | Theo Angelopoulos | Peter Greenaway | Hugh Hudson | Gaston Kaboré | Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Bruno Ganz | Romane Bohringer | Alan Rickman | Ticky Holgado | Jeffe Alperi
Ready to Wear (1994)
As: Milo O'Brannigan
Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an all-star cast.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Chiara Mastroianni | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Marcello Mastroianni | Sophia Loren | Kim Basinger
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
As: Santiago
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Brad Pitt | Antonio Banderas | Kirsten Dunst | Christian Slater | Tom Cruise
Princess Caraboo (1994)
As: Gutch
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Michael Austin
Stars: Kevin Kline | Stephen Rea | John Lithgow | Jim Broadbent | Phoebe Cates
Angie (1994)
As: Noel Riordan
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery. This journey includes her family, a new lover and her life. Even her ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Stars: Stephen Rea | James Gandolfini | Geena Davis | Aida Turturro | Philip Bosco
Bad Behavior (1993)
As: Gerry McAllister
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Les Blair
Stars: Stephen Rea | Sinéad Cusack | Philip Jackson | Clare Higgins | Phil Daniels
The Crying Game (1992)
As: Fergus
Irish Republican Army member Fergus (Stephen Rea) forms an unexpected bond with Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar). Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson), in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Forest Whitaker | Miranda Richardson | Stephen Rea | Jaye Davidson | Adrian Dunbar
Life is Sweet (1990)
As: Patsy
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Stephen Rea | Jane Horrocks | Jim Broadbent | Claire Skinner | Alison Steadman
Endgame (1989)
As: Clov
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Tony Coe
Stars: Stephen Rea | Kate Binchy | Charlie Drake | Norman Beaton
Scout (1987)
As: Marshall
Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Stephen Rea | Ray McAnally | Paul Loughran | Gerard O'Hare | Colin Connor
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
As: Timothy Broom
Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Freddie Francis
Stars: Stephen Rea | Timothy Dalton | Julian Sands | Jonathan Pryce | Twiggy
Four Days in July (1985)
As: Dixie McConville
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland. Both women are expecting babies, both couples tell offbeat stories, both couples get by with what little they have. Yet Mike Leigh allows his actors to show not how much but how little these two couple have in common. "Four Days in July" is wonderful yet scathing look at the turmoil ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Stephen Rea | Brid Brennan | Des McAleer | Charles Lawson | Paula Hamilton
The House (1984)
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the ...
Runtime: 59 min.
Directed by: Mike Figgis
Stars: Alun Armstrong | Stephen Rea | Dudley Sutton | Nigel Hawthorne | Jonathan Cecil
The Company of Wolves (1984)
As: Young Groom
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Brian Glover | David Warner | Angela Lansbury | Tusse Silberg | Sarah Patterson
Loose Connections (1983)
As: Harry
A woman (Lindsay Duncan) enlists a man (Stephen Rea) who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Richard Eyre
Stars: Stephen Rea | Lindsay Duncan | Keith Allen | Robbie Coltrane | Carol Harrison
Angel (1982)
As: Danny
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So begins his quest to avenge her. He seeks an answer to the simple question 'Why?' but finds only more, and deeper, questions which resonate with the wider context of 'the Troubles', the inter-communal strife ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Stephen Rea | Alan Devlin | Veronica Quilligan | Peter Caffrey | Honor Heffernan
Professional Foul (1977)
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Bernard Hill | John Shrapnel | Sam Kelly | Stephen Rea | Peter Barkworth