 Bent 1997  NC-17, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sean Mathias
Cast: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Brian Webber, Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gresby Nash, Suzanne Bertish, David Meyer
This is the film version of Martin Sherman's play about Max (Clive Owen) and Horst (Lothaire Bluteau) who become homosexual lovers in the Nazi concentration camp, Dachau.
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 Beyond Borders 2003 R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Yorick van Wageningen, Noah Emmerich, Timothy West, Kate Trotter, Jonathan Higgins, John Gausden, Isabelle Horler, Iain Lee, John Bourgeois, Keelan Anthony, Kalyane Tea
Sarah Jorden (Angelina Jolie) is stirred by Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) to lead a relief effort to Ethiopia. Next, the story moves five years ahead as Sarah crosses paths with Nick again in Cambodia. From this point on, the love story seems to take precedence over the plight of starving children.
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The Bourne Identity 2002  PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Julia Stiles, Gabriel Mann, Walton Goggins, Nicky Naude, Josh Hamilton, Orso Maria Guerrini, Tim Dutton, Denis Braccini, Anthony Green
Suffering from amnesia and riddled with bullets, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea. There is only one clue to his identity: a laser device, implanted under his skin, that identifies a Swiss bank account number. After locating the contents of the account, Bourne finds himself the target of the CIA and pays Marie (Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris on what turns out to be a breathtaking trip. Based on Robert Ludlum's novel.
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 Children of Men 2006  R, 109 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Danny Huston, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Peter Mullan, Pam Ferris, Michael Caine, Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi, Michelle Hussain, Rob Curling, Jody Halse
The year is 2027, and humans face their own extinction as no child has been born in the last 18 years. But now, a lone pregnant woman, Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey), is found, and Theodore Faron (Clive Owen) and his ex-wife, Julian Taylor (Julianne Moore), join forces in taking Kee from one safe house to another in an effort to save the unborn child and, perhaps, humanity as well. The film received three Oscar nominations.
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 Closer 2004 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick Hobbs, Colin Stinton, Robert Stone, Bret Yount, Adbul Popoola, Antony Gabriel, Steve Morphew, Ray Donn, Steve Benham
London novelist Dan (Jude Law) falls in love with Alice (Natalie Portman), but her needs become too much for him. Meanwhile, photographer Anna (Julia Roberts) and Dan are attracted to each other, but she marries Larry (Clive Owen). The relationships in this love quadrangle are shown at the beginnings and endings when flirtations, passions, deceptions, and betrayals rise to the fore. Graphic sexual descriptions. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Supporting Actress (Portman) and Supporting Actor (Owen).
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Croupier 1998 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Clive Owen, Kate Hardie, Alex Kingston, Gina McKee, Nicholas Ball, Nick Reding, Alexander Morton, Paul Reynolds, Ozzie Yue, Kate Fenwick
Struggling author Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) hopes to find material for a book and takes a job as a croupier in a casino. He succeeds in coming up with the idea for a novel, but the late hours and drinking take their toll on his relationship with girlfriend Marion (Gina McKee).
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Derailed 2005 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Cast: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, RZA, Addison Timlin, Tom Conti, Xzibit, Giancarlo Esposito, Sandra Bee, David Morrissey, Rachael Blake, William Armstrong, Richard Leaf
Charles (Clive Owen) and Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston) are in a hotel room about to begin an adulterous affair when a stranger (Vincent Cassel) bursts into the room, knocks Charles unconscious, and rapes Lucinda. Because both are married to others, Charles and Lucinda decide to not report the crime to the police–a mistake that leads to blackmail and more danger in the near future.
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Doomsday Gun 1994 TV, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Young
Cast: Frank Langella, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Michael Kitchen, Francesca Annis, Tony Goldwyn, Aharon Ipale, James Fox, Rupert Graves, Clive Owen
This semi-documentary is based on the true story of Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain a superior weapon, leading to his dealings with Canadian Gerald Bull (Frank Langella) who is willing to sell his services to the highest bidder.
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Duplicity 2009  PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Dan Daily, Lisa Roberts Gillan, David Shumbris, Rick Worthy, Oleg Shtefanko, Denis O'Hare, Wayne Duvall, Khan Baykal, Kathleen Chalfant, Thomas McCarthy, Fabrizio Brienza
While attending a cocktail party, CIA operative Ray Koval (Clive Owen) and MI6 agent Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) are attracted to each other and begin a love affair. Later, they both quit their jobs and enter the world of corporate espionage as each sets out to secure a product's formula that will bring a fortune to the corporation that patents it first. Ray and Claire now find themselves on opposite sides of the corporate warfare between rivals Dick Garsil (Paul Giamatti) and Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson) who will use any means necessary to get the patent rights.
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish, Jordi Molla, John Shrapnel, Aimee King, Elise McCave, Penelope McGhie, Eddie Redmayne, Stuart McLoughlin, Adrian Scarborough
In this sequel to "Elizabeth" (1998), Cate Blanchett again takes the title role, and Geoffrey Rush returns as Elizabeth's closest advisor, Sir Francis Waisingham. Elizabeth has now been Queen of England for 27 years and, amidst the changing political and religious moods in 16th-century Europe, is struggling to maintain her position while Spanish King Philip II (Jordi Molla) plots to restore Catholicism to Protestant England. Meanwhile, the story emphasizes the personal side of Elizabeth including her flirtation with Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) as well as the political intrigue between Elizabeth and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton). The film received an Academy Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for Best Actress (Blanchett).
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Greenfingers 2000 R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joel Hershman
Cast: Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer, Adam Fogerty, Paterson Joseph, Natasha Little, Peter Guinness, Sally Edwards
When the time nears for his release from prison, a sullen Colin Briggs (Clive Owen) is transferred to a minimum-security prison, Edgefield, where he shares a room with a kindly older prisoner, Fergus Wilks (David Kelly). A wary friendship develops, and Briggs receives a packet of violet seeds from Wilks for Christmas. Briggs plants them, they survive, and it isn't long before he is gardening with other prisoners. When gardening guru Georgina Woodhouse (Helen Mirren) comes to town for a booksigning, she spots Briggs' garden and gets the jailed gardeners a spot in a contest for England's best garden at the Hampton Court Flower Show. Meanwhile, romance blooms between Briggs and Woodhouse's daughter, Primrose (Natasha Little), who have plans for their own "gardening."
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 Inside Man 2006 R, 129 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carlos Andres Gomez, Kim Director, James Ransone, Bernard Rachelle, Peter Gerety, Victor Colicchio, Cassandra Freeman, Peter Frechette, Gerry Vichi
When a gang led by Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) attempts to rob the Manhattan Trust Bank, NYPD Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and his partner, Bill Mitchell (Chiwetel Ejiofor), are sent to negotiate. But, negotiating is not going to be an easy task. First, Frazier and Mitchell must deal with other police officers–Captain Darius (Willem Dafoe) wants to storm the bank. Then, the hostages are forced to dress in jumpsuits and masks like the robbers making it difficult to separate the good guys from the bad guys. As if that were not enough, a bank executive (Christopher Plummer) hires a "fixer," Madeline White (Jodie Foster) to intercede and deal with the robbers. Trouble, trouble, and more troubles ensue.
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The International 2009 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen, Michel Voletti, Patrick Baladi, Jay Villiers, Fabrice Scott, Haluk Bilginer, Luca Barbareschi, Jack McGee, Allesandro Fabrizi, Felix Solis, Nilaja Sun
Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) teams up with Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) to investigate the International Bank of Business and Credit and its connection to an Italian arms dealer. Salinger and Whitman find their lives in peril as they travel through Berlin, Milan, New York, and Istanbul on the trail of the bank's paid assassin, The Consultant (Brian F. O'Byrne). They end up at New York's Guggenheim Museum where bullets fly and concrete shatters as they try to stop the bank's financing of war and terror.
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 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 2004 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Malcolm McDowell, Jamie Foreman, Ken Stott, Sylvia Syms, Alexander Morton, John Surman, Paul Mohan, Amber Batty, Damian Dibben
Three years ago, Will (Clive Owen) left his world of organized crime and has been living a very quiet life. But, when his brother, Davey (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), commits suicide after being raped, Will investigates. He figures out that a married crime lord (Malcolm McDowell) raped Davey, and, now, Will seeks revenge.
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 King Arthur 2004 PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen, Joel Edgerton, Hugh Dancy, Ray Winstone, Ray Stevenson, Keira Knightley, Stephen Dillane, Stellan Skarsgard, Til Schweiger, Ivano Marescotti
In the fifth century, at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire, Arthur (Clive Owen) is a Saxon knight who chooses to remain in England where he joins a band of knights striving to bring order to the countryside.
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The Return of the Native 1994 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ray Stevenson, Clive Owen, Joan Plowright, Steven Mackintosh, Claire Skinner, Paul Rogers, Celia Imrie, Peter Wight, Gregg Saunders
Beautiful Eustacia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) lives in rustic Egdon Heath, but she dreams of living in Paris and thinks she has found her escape by marrying a Paris jeweler, Clym (Ray Stevenson), Plans go awry when Clym, for health reasons, opts to remain at Egdon Heath, but, undaunted, Eustacia now sets her sights on the rogue, Damon (Clive Owen).
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The Rich Man's Wife 1996 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Amy Holden Jones
Cast: Halle Berry, Christopher McDonald, Clive Owen, Peter Greene, Clea Lewis, Frankie Faison, Charles Hallahan, Allan Rich
When unhappy wife Josie Potenza (Halle Berry) meets a psychopathic stranger, Cole (Peter Greene), in a bar, she makes the mistake of telling him about her problems. He offers to kill her husband Tony (Christopher McDonald), and the suspense begins as Cole is successful, and police suspect Josie of the murder.
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Second Sight 1999 TV, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Beeson
Cast: Clive Owen, Claire Skinner, Stuart Wilson, Phoebe Nicholls, Rebecca Egan, Selina Boyack, Stephen Critchley, Benjamin Smith, Louise Atkins, Donald(2) Douglas, Eddie Marsan, Jonell Elliott
When Chief Inspector Ross Tanner (Clive Owen) realizes that he is going blind, he relies on his deputy, Catherine Tully (Claire Skinner), to become his second set of eyes in solving the brutal murder of a young man.
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Shoot 'Em Up 2007 R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Michael Davis
Cast: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk, Daniel Pilon, Ramona Pringle, Julian Richings, Tony Munch, Scott McCord, Sidney&Lucas Mende-Gibson, Wiley M. Pickett
Strong, silent Smith (Clive Owen) encounters a pregnant woman (Ramona Pringle) who is being attacked by a thug. He intervenes and ends up delivering her baby (Sidney & Lucas Mende-Gibson) in the midst of a gun fight. The woman dies, and Smith escapes with the infant in tow. After figuring that the baby is the target, Smith takes the infant to a lactating prostitute (Monica Bellucci) to serve as a wet nurse. Now, Smith hunts down the criminal mastermind Hertz (Paul Giamatti) to find out just why he wants the infant killed. And gun battles ensue throughout the chase.
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 Sin City 2005  R, 124 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: Frank Miller's Sin City
Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl, Powers Boothe, Rutger Hauer, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Jaime King, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Jude Ciccolella
Three of Frank Miller's stories–"The Hard Goodbye," "The Big Fat Kill," and "The Big Fat Bastard"–make up this movie in which murder, gore, and mayhem abound. In one segment, Marv (Mickey Rourke) is in love with prostitute Goldie (Jaime King) but finds her murdered by demon cannibal Kevin (Elijah Wood). Another segment, involves cop Hartigan (Bruce Willis) doing everything in his power to save stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba) from being raped by the murdering "Yellow Bastard" (Nick Stahl). And, then there is photographer Dwight (Clive Owen) who tangles with corrupt cop Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) only to find himself in the middle of a mess involving dangerous ladies of Sin City who are led by Gail (Rosario Dawson). Great special effects.
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| 1. Bent (1997)
2. Beyond Borders (2003)
3. The Bourne Identity (2002)
4. Children of Men (2006)
5. Closer (2004)
6. Croupier (1998)
7. Derailed (2005)
8. Doomsday Gun (1994)
9. Duplicity (2009)
10. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
11. Greenfingers (2000)
12. Inside Man (2006)
13. The International (2009)
14. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004)
15. King Arthur (2004)
16. The Return of the Native (1994)
17. The Rich Man's Wife (1996)
18. Second Sight (1999)
19. Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
20. Sin City (2005)
aka: Frank Miller's Sin City
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