Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Holy Lands (2019)

As: David

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry (James Caan) suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica (Rosanna Arquette) is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), as well as her own.

Directed by: Amanda Sthers

Stars: James Caan | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Rosanna Arquette | Tom Hollander | Efrat Dor

The 12th Man (2017)

As: Kurt Stage

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Harald Zwart

Stars: Martin Kiefer | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Mads Sjøgård Pettersen | Thomas Gullestad | Marie Blokhus

The Shadow Effect (2017)

As: Reese

A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Amariah Olson | Obin Olson

Stars: Michael Biehn | Cam Gigandet | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Michael Aaron Milligan | Brit Shaw

Damascus Cover (2017)

As: Ari Ben-Sion / Hans Hoffmann

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Daniel Zelik Berk

Stars: John Hurt | Jürgen Prochnow | Olivia Thirlby | Navid Negahban | Jonathan Rhys Meyers

London Town (2016)

As: Joe Strummer

A 14-year old boy’s life changes forever when his estranged mother introduces him to the music of The Clash in 1979 London.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Derrick Borte

Stars: Tom Hughes | Natascha McElhone | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Dougray Scott | Daniel Huttlestone

Stonewall (2015)

As: Trevor

"Stonewall" is a drama about a young man in New York caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event widely considered the starting point for the modern gay civil rights movement.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Stars: Joey King | Ron Perlman | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Jeremy Irvine | Jonny Beauchamp

Another Me (2013)

As: John

A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Isabel Coixet

Stars: Claire Forlani | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Ivana Baquero | Sophie Turner

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

As: Valentine

In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must ...

Runtime: 130 min.

Directed by: Harald Zwart

Stars: Jamie Campbell Bower | Kevin Zegers | Jemima West | Lily Collins | Robert Sheehan

Belle du Seigneur (2012)

As: Solal

English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Glenio Bonder

Stars: Ed Stoppard | Maria Bonnevie | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Marianne Faithfull | Natalia Vodianova

Albert Nobbs (2011)

As: Viscount Yarrell

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Rodrigo García

Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Mia Wasikowska | Pauline Collins | Glenn Close | Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Shelter (2010)

As: David / Adam / Wesley

A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Måns Mårlind | Björn Stein

Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn | Frances Conroy | Julianne Moore | Nate Corddry | Jonathan Rhys Meyers

From Paris with Love (2010)

As: James Reece

James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig, working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realizes that ...

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Pierre Morel

Stars: Bing Yin | Richard Durden | Kasia Smutniak | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | John Travolta

A Film With Me In It (2008)

As: Pierce 2

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Ian Fitzgibbon

Stars: Amy Huberman | Aisling O'Sullivan | Mark Doherty | Keith Allen | Dylan Moran

The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

As: George Hogg

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

Runtime: 125 min.

Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode

Stars: Michelle Yeoh | Radha Mitchell | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Matthew Walker | Chow Yun-Fat

August Rush (2007)

As: Louis Connelly

A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Kirsten Sheridan

Stars: Freddie Highmore | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Robin Williams | Terrence Howard | Keri Russell

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

As: Declan Gormley

Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.

Runtime: 126 min.

Directed by: J.J. Abrams

Stars: Ving Rhames | Michelle Monaghan | Tom Cruise | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Billy Crudup

Match Point (2005)

As: Chris Wilton

Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Stars: Brian Cox | Emily Mortimer | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Scarlett Johansson | Penelope Wilton

Alexander (2004)

As: Cassander

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: Jared Leto | Colin Farrell | Val Kilmer | Angelina Jolie | Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Vanity Fair (2004)

As: George Osborne

Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims ...

Runtime: 141 min.

Directed by: Mira Nair

Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Gabriel Byrne | Reese Witherspoon | Romola Garai | James Purefoy

The Lion in Winter (2004)

As: Philip

King Henry II (Patrick Stewart) keeps his wife, Eleanor (Glenn Close) locked away in the towers because of her frequent attempts to overthrow him. With Eleanor out of the way he can have his dalliances with his young mistress (Yuliya Vysotskaya). Needless to say the queen is not pleased, although she still has affection for the king. Working through her sons, she plots the king's demise and the rise of her ...

Runtime: 167 min.

Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky

Stars: Andrew Howard | Rafe Spall | Patrick Stewart | Glenn Close | Antal Konrád

The Emperor's Wife (2003)

As: Chamberlain

In an undisclosed location and time, in the land of 1001 nights, the law dictates that the Emperor must take a new wife if his current Empress does not bear a son within seven years of marriage. At the celebration Ball of their sixth wedding anniversary, the Emperor (MAX BEESLEY - Torque) and his faithful manservant, Chamberlain (JONATHAN RHYS-MEYERS - Vanity Fair, Bend It Like Beckham, I'll Sleep When I'm ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Julien Vrebos

Stars: Claire Johnston | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Rosana Pastor | Leticia Dolera | Max Beesley

Bend It Like Beckham (2003)

As: Joe

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Gurinder Chadha

Stars: Keira Knightley | Anupam Kher | Shaheen Khan | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Parminder Nagra

Octane (2003)

As: The Father

After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson (Madeleine Stowe) is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat (Mischa Barton), down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker (Bijou Phillips), their journey goes awry. Nat decides to give her mom the slip and runs off with the hitchhiker at a rest stop. In a desperate search to ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Marcus Adams

Stars: Norman Reedus | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Madeleine Stowe | Mischa Barton | Bijou Phillips

The Tesseract (2003)

As: Sean

A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Oxide Pang Chun

Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Saskia Reeves | Lena Christensen | Alexander Rendell | Carlo Nanni

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)

As: Davey

Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Mike Hodges

Stars: Charlotte Rampling | Malcolm McDowell | Clive Owen | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Jamie Foreman

The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)

As: George Amberson Minafer

The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his ...

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Aráu

Stars: Bruce Greenwood | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Madeleine Stowe

Tangled (2001)

As: Alan Hammond

A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Jay Lowi

Stars: Estella Warren | Rachael Leigh Cook | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Lorraine Bracco | Shawn Hatosy

Prozac Nation (2001)

As: Noah

Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. Her psychiatrist prescribes Prozac … but is that her only choice?

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Erik Skjoldbjærg

Stars: Michelle Williams | Anne Heche | Christina Ricci | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Jason Biggs

Titus (1999)

As: Chiron

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

Runtime: 162 min.

Directed by: Julie Taymor

Stars: Matthew Rhys | Anthony Hopkins | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Jessica Lange | Osheen Jones

Ride with the Devil (1999)

As: Pitt Mackeson

Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning ...

Runtime: 138 min.

Directed by: Ang Lee

Stars: Skeet Ulrich | Tobey Maguire | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Jeffrey Wright | Jewel

The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)

As: Nic, aged 16

The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Mike Figgis

Stars: Justin Chadwick | Stefano Dionisi | Julian Sands | Saffron Burrows | Kelly Macdonald

B. Monkey (1998)

As: Bruno

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past ...

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Michael Radford

Stars: Jared Harris | Asia Argento | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Rupert Everett | Julie T. Wallace

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

As: Brian Slade

Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Todd Haynes

Stars: Christian Bale | Ewan McGregor | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Toni Collette | Janet McTeer

The Governess (1998)

As: Henry Cavendish

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Sandra Goldbacher

Stars: Tom Wilkinson | Harriet Walter | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Minnie Driver | Florence Hoath

The Tribe (1998)

As: Adam

Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff

Stars: Anna Friel | Trevor Eve | Jeremy Northam | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Joely Richardson

The Maker (1997)

As: Josh Minnell

Josh is a high school guy who lives with adoptive parents and is involved in little crimes with his friends (including young lesbian Bella). Suddenly his elder brother Walter comes out of the blue (he left home 10 years ago when he was 18 and was never heard during these years). After that Walter starts to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Tim Hunter

Stars: Mary-Louise Parker | Fairuza Balk | Michael Madsen | Matthew Modine | Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Telling Lies In America (1997)

As: Kevin Boyle

Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a boy in school who has moved from Hungary to America in the 1960's. He is struggling in school and trying to adjust to America's culture. He then hears about a radio DJ Billy Magic (Kevin Bacon) who holds a contest for a Student Hall of Fame every week. When Karchy finally wins after several weeks, he spends more time with Billy Magic...a man with money, girls, and glam. Karchy ...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Guy Ferland

Stars: Kevin Bacon | Calista Flockhart | Maximilian Schell | Brad Renfro | Paul Dooley

The Disappearance of Finbar (1997)

As: Finbar Flynn

A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Sue Clayton

Stars: Sean Lawlor | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Marie Mullen | Luke Griffin | Eleanor Methven

Michael Collins (1996)

As: Collin's Assassin

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

Killer Tongue (1996)

As: Rudolph

This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and her poodles are transformed into four drag queens. The whole thing grows even weirder as her boy friend escapes from prison ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Alberto Sciamma

Stars: Nigel Whitmey | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Robert Englund | Melinda Clarke | Jason Durr

A Man of No Importance (1994)

As: First Young Man

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Suri Krishnamma

Stars: Brenda Fricker | Michael Gambon | Rufus Sewell | Albert Finney | Tara Fitzgerald