 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994  R, 102 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick, Mark Holmes, Al Clark, Julia Cortez, Rebel Penfold-Russell, John Casey, June Marie Bennett, Murray Davies, Frank Cornelius
This witty story features two drag queens, Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Felicia (Guy Pearce), who join transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) on a bus trip–the name of the bus is "Priscilla"–across Australia's outback to perform in a distant resort. Along the way, they discover things about themselves and the world around them amidst ABBA and other disco music.
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Bedtime Stories 2008 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths, Teresa Palmer, Lucy Lawless, Courteney Cox, Jonathan Morgan Heit, Laura Ann Kesling, Jonathan Pryce, Nick Swardson, Thomas Hoffman, Allen Covert, Carmen Electra
When he was a boy, Skeeter Bronson (Thomas Hoffman) worked at his father's motel before he sold it to Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths). Barry agreed that when Skeeter reached adulthood, Barry would hire Skeeter as the manager. Thirty years later, Skeeter (now played by Adam Sandler) is working as a handyman for Barry at his luxury hotel. The management position has not come his way. Matters change after Skeeter spends a week babysitting for his sister Wendy's (Courteney Cox) children Patrick and Bobbi (Jonathan Morgan Heit and Laura Ann Kesling). Skeeter entertains them with bedtime stories in which he fantasizes about a better life. Amazingly, the stories come true, and Skeeter tries to use the stories for his own personal gain. Then he learns that it is the children's contributions to the stories that end up coming true, and Patrick and Bobbi have much to do with Skeeter's good–and bad–fortunes.
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The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, Dagmara Dominczyk, Luis Guzman, Michael Wincott, James Frain, Albie Woodington, Alex Norton, Christopher Adamson
After his jealous friend, Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce), denounced him, sailor Edmund Dantes (James Caviezel) is imprisoned during which time he is educated by a priest, Faria (Richard Harris), who also gives him a treasure map. Sixteen years later, a wealthy Dantes has assumed the name of the Count of Monte Cristo and, along with his loyal sidekick, Jacopo (Luis Guzman), determines to get revenge.
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Factory Girl 2006  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Hickenlooper
Cast: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Hayden Christensen, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, Illeana Douglas, Jack Huston, Armin Amiri, Tara Summers, Beth Grant, James Naughton, Edward Herrmann, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Don Novello
Debutante Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) drops out of college in 1965 and heads to New York hoping to escape a past filled with family tragedies. She meets young Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who tells her he will make her a star and features her in a series of art films. Edie gains stardom–only to find problems dealing with success, losing her grip on reality, and spiraling down into the world of drug and alcohol abuse.
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Flynn 1996  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Howson
Cast: Guy Pearce, Steven Berkoff, Claudia Karvan, John Savage, Wendy Matthews, William Gluth, Nicki Paull, Tim Hughes, Adrian Wright, Jan Friedl
The life of a swashbuckling, but trouble-plagued, movie star of the 1930s and 1940s–Errol Flynn–is brought to the screen with Guy Pearce in the title role.
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The Hard Word 2002 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Scott Roberts
Cast: Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert(3) Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson, Rhondda Findleton, Vince Colosimo, Kate Atkinson, Paul Sonkkila, Kim Gyngell
While convict brothers (Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, and Damien Richardson) serve prison time, they find a way to make money. The crooked warden (Robert Taylor) lets them out on secret furloughs, and they mastermind robberies around Sydney. They are happy, and so is the warden. But, payback time is fast approaching.
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 L.A. Confidential 1997  R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Ron Rifkin, Matt McCoy, Paolo Seganti, Steve Rankin, Graham Beckel, Elisabeth Granli, Sandra Taylor
This crime story is set in Hollywood in the 1950s and features police detectives Jack Vincennes and Bud White (Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe) whose ethical behavior is definitely suspect. Then there is Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) who is a "strictly by the book" cop despite the fact that his captain, Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), tries to get him to relax his morals. In this atmosphere, crimes are investigated, but it is not always the guilty who pay. This film, based on James Ellroy's novel, is one of the year's best. Two Oscars were received, including Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger for her role as call-girl Lynn Bracken); seven other nominations were received, including Best Picture and Director.
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 Memento 2000  R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harriet Samson Harris, Callum Keith Rennie, Russ Fega, Kimberly Campbell, Jorja Fox, Thomas Lennon, Marianne Muellerleile, Larry Holden, Buzz Visconte
In a desperate attempt to avenge his wife's murder, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), who suffers from short-term memory loss, must rely on Polaroid pictures and tattoos as permanent reminders. Inconsistencies abound in Leonard's world but serve to give the viewer clues to this psychological puzzle's solution. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Editing and Writing.
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The Proposition 2005 R, 104 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: John Hillcoat
Cast: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Richard(2) Wilson, Emily Watson, John Hurt, David Wenham, Noah Taylor, David Gulpilil, Leah Purcell, Garry Waddell, Boris Brkic, Jeremy Madrona, Jae Mamuyac, Mick Roughan
The Australian frontier in the late 1800s is not unlike the American Old West, and Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) has been brought in from England to help in the taming process. This film centers around the Burns brothers, a notorious gang who have raped and pillaged throughout the territory. When two of them, Charlie (Guy Pearce) and young Mike (Richard Wilson), are captured after killing a family, Stanley has a proposition for Charlie: find and kill the older brother and gang leader, Arthur (Danny Huston), and gain pardons for him and Mike. But, he must do it within nine days or Mike will be hanged on Christmas day.
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 Ravenous 1999  R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Antonia Bird
Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, David Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer, Stephen Spinella, Neal McDonough, Bill Brochtrup, Sheila Tousey
This story begins when a nearly dead man, Col. Ives/F.W. Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle) staggers into a U.S. Army camp during the Mexican-American War. He tells the story of cannibalism that he just encountered when his party of settlers began to eat each other while stranded in the snow. Convinced they should look for other survivors, the "rescuers" are not prepared for what they find.
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 Rules of Engagement 2000 R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Blair Underwood, Anne Archer, Guy Pearce, Philip Baker Hall, Bruce Greenwood, Nicky Katt, Roma Maffia
After Colonel Terry L. Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is accused of inciting a riot and then firing on innocent civilians, Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) reluctantly takes on the legal case in defense of his comrade, who, 28 years ago, saved his life in Vietnam.
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A Slipping-Down Life 1999 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Toni Kalem
Cast: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Veronica Cartwright, Marshall Bell, Shawnee Smith, Bruno Kirby, Tom Bower, Clea DuVall, Lew Temple
A young woman (Lili Taylor), whose life seems to be going nowhere, obsesses over a rock singer and carves his name on her forehead. While this act makes her a celebrity, it also clears the way for her own liberation.
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 Till Human Voices Wake Us 2002 R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Petroni
Cast: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Frank Gallacher, Brooke Harman, Lindley Joyner, Peter Curtin, Margot Knight, Anthony Martin, Dawn Klingberg, David Ravenswood
After returning to the small, Australian town where he grew up, Melbourne psychiatrist Sam Franks (Guy Pearce) meets the ghost (Helena Bonham Carter) of a young friend (Brooke Harman) who died when they were in their teens.
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 The Time Machine 2002 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure
Director: Simon Wells
Cast: Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Sienna Guillory, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Omero Mumba, Laura Kirk, Josh Stamberg, Alan Young, Yancey Arias, John W. Momrow, Max Baker, Jeffrey M. Meyer
Adapted from H.G. Wells' 1895 novel, this version of "The Time Machine" is directed by Simon Wells, the great-grandson of the author. This time around, the time machine inventor, Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce), is changed from an English scientist into an absent-minded, NYC professor who manages to reach the future in his quest to understand why he cannot change the past.
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Traitor 2008 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Said Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Aly Khan, Archie Panjabi, Raad Rawi, Hassam Ghancy, Mozhan Marno, Adeel Akhtar, Lorena Gale, Scali Delpeyrat, Mehdi Ortelsberg, Aizoun Abdelkader
At age 12, he saw his father killed in a car bombing in Sudan and then was raised by his mother in Chicago. Now, 30 years later, Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) is a Muslim jihad attempting to sell plastic explosives in Yemen. Samir is arrested and jailed where Omar (Said Taghmaoui) is also being held. Samir had served as a military advisor to Omar in the past. Now, Omar is part of an international terrorist ring recruiting young Muslims to fight a holy war against the West. FBI agents Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) and Max Archer (Neal McDonough) offer Samir his freedom if he will talk, but Samir refuses the deal. When Omar's cohorts break him out of jail, Samir joins them, but now Clayton and Archer are on Samir's trail hoping to prevent an attack on American soil.
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Two Brothers 2004 PG, 109 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore, Oanh Nguyen, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Moussa Maaskri, Vincent Scarito, Mai Anh Le, Jaran "See Tao" Petcharoen, Stephanie Lagarde, Bernard Flavien, Annop Varapanya, David Gant, Somjin Chimwong, Teerawat Mulvilai
Two tigers–captured and separated by Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce) while still cubs–are raised in very different worlds. Aidan raises one cub and names it Kumal, but the tiger is later sold to a circus. Raul (Freddie Highmore) captures Kumal's brother, names him Sangha, and raises him as a pet–until Sangha proves to be too much for Raul, and he gives Sangha to the prince (Oanh Nguyen) who trains it to fight. Later, the tigers are reunited in an arena where it is expected they will fight to the death. But, they recognize each other, and tables are turned when they plan their escape.
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| 1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
2. Bedtime Stories (2008)
3. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
4. Factory Girl (2006)
5. Flynn (1996)
6. The Hard Word (2002)
7. L.A. Confidential (1997)
8. Memento (2000)
9. The Proposition (2005)
10. Ravenous (1999)
11. Rules of Engagement (2000)
12. A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
13. Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
14. The Time Machine (2002)
15. Traitor (2008)
16. Two Brothers (2004)
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