 Adaptation 2002  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ron Livingston, Jay Tavare, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Doug Jones, Jim Beaver
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage) takes on the project of adapting Susan Orlean's (Meryl Streep) non-fiction book, "The Orchid Thief," into a movie. Orlean's story involves John Laroche's (Chris Cooper) poaching of "ghost orchids" from a Florida Everglades natural preserve. Charlie faces a mid-life crisis when his brother Donald (also played by Cage), who is following in his brother's footsteps as a screenwriter, moves in with him. Donald breezes through the writing of his assigned screenplay. Meanwhile, paranoid Charlie encounters more than a few problems writing his and, in the process, ends up as the subject in his script that tells of his inability to adapt Orlean's book into a film. Cooper won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; three other nominations were received, including Best Actor (Cage) and Actress in a Supporting Role (Streep).
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Aria 1987  R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Theresa Russell, John Hurt, Nicola Swain, Jack Kayle, Buck Henry, Anita Morris, Beverly D'Angelo, Julie Hagerty, Genevieve Page, Bridget Fonda, Albie Selznick, Elizabeth Hurley, Peter Birch, Tilda Swinton, Sophie Ward
Bruce Beresford ("Driving Miss Daisy"), Robert Altman ("M*A*S*H"), Ken Russell ("Altered States") and seven other well-known directors each interpreted a different aria in this film about opera. Each of the 10 segments is unique.
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 The Beach 2000 R, 119 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle, Paterson Joseph, Jerry Swindall, Lars Arentz-Hansen, Staffan Kihlbom, Peter Youngblood Hills, Weeratham "Norman" Wichairaksakui, Jak Boon, Daniel York, Abhijati "Meuk" Jusakul, Sanya 'Gai' Cheunjit
Based on Alex Garland's bestseller, this thriller is set on an island beach off Thailand. Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) finds a map that leads to what purports to be an island paradise. It isn't long before he and his companions–Etienne (Guillaume Canet) and Francoise (Virginie Ledoyen)–are headed to what they believe will be a tourist utopia. Surprises await them.
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 Broken Flowers 2005  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, Alexis Dziena, Chloe Sevigny, Christopher McDonald, Larry Fessenden, Pell James
Poor Don Johnston (Bill Murray) has been dumped again by a girlfriend (Julie Delpy) and now has received a letter from a former lover who tells him that he has an 18-year-old son who is searching for him. With encouragement from his neighbor, Winston (Jeffrey Wright), Don heads out on a cross-country trek bringing flowers to old girlfriends. The experience is filled with surprises as Don finally faces his past and, now, his future.
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Burn After Reading 2008  R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, David Rasche, J.K. Simmons, Olek Krupa, Michael Countryman, Kevin Sussman, J.R. Home, Hamilton Clancy, Armand Schultz, Jeffrey DeMunn
Ex-CIA analyst Osborne Cox's (John Malkovich) wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) has turned over to her lawyer the CD on which Osborne had listed his finances and his memoirs of days as a government spook. Katie is in love with Harry (George Clooney) and wants the CD to be used as evidence when she divorces Osborne. But, the lawyer loses the CD, and it turns up in the hands of health club workers Chad Feldheimer and Linda Litzke (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) who decide to enter the game of blackmail and turn the CD into cash.
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 Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 2005 PG, 140 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson, Kiran Shah, James Cosmo, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Judy McIntosh
For their own protection during the air raids of World War II, four London children–Lucy (Georgie Henley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Peter (William Moseley), and Susan (Anna Popplewell)–are sent to the country home of Professor Kirke (Jim Broadbent). While exploring the house, the children discover a wardrobe that leads to the magical world of Narnia. Once there, they encounter the evil White Witch (Tilda Swinton), but they get help from Aslan the Lion (Liam Neeson) and work together to rid Narnia of the White Witch. The film received an Academy Award for Best Makeup and received two additional nominations.
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Conceiving Ada 1997  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Timothy Leary, Karen Black, Francesca Faridany, John Perry Barlow, John O'Keefe, J. D. Wolfe, Owen Murphy, David Brooks, Esther Mulligan
A computer genius, Emmy Coer (Francesca Faridany), devises software that allows her to communicate with a historical figure of the past. Her connection is with Ada Lovelace (Tilda Swinton)–a 19th-century mathematician who has been credited with writing the first computer program. Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron, was thwarted in her endeavors by the Victorian world's tenets dictating that women should stay home and raise children. Emmy plans to defeat death and give Ada a second chance in the modern-day world.
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 Constantine 2005 R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker, Gavin Rossdale, Peter Stormare, Jesse Ramirez, Jose Zuniga, Francis Guinan, Larry Cedar, April Grace, Suzanne Whang
Comic book, supernatural detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) comes to the screen in this story that begins when Angela (Rachel Weisz) asks his aid in investigating the suicide of her twin sister, Isabel (also played by Weisz). This leads to demon slayer Constantine battling emissaries of both Heaven and Hell who are trying to upset the balance of cosmic power.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 PG-13, 167 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Fantasy / Romance
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Jared Harris, Elias Koteas, Phyllis Somerville, Rampai Mohadi, Elle Fanning, Madisen Beaty, Lance E. Nichols, Ed Metzger
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, this plot revolves around Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) who, when he is born, is in his 80s, and then spends his lifetime growing young. He meets Daisy (Elle Fanning) when she is six years old and he is in his 70s, and their lives will intersect in their star-crossed relationship as Daisy (played by Madisen Beaty as a 10-year-old) ages into an adult Daisy (Cate Blanchett). Later, as Benjamin continues to grow younger, he spends time with Captain Mike (Jared Harris) aboard a tugboat and learns the true meaning of life and how he has been able to view life from his own unique perspective. The film won three Academy Awards and was nominated for 10 others which included Best Picture, Actor (Pitt), Supporting Actress (Taraji P. Henson for her role as Queenie), and Director.
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The Deep End 2001 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Peter Donat, Josh Lucas, Raymond J. Barry, Tamara Hope, Jordon Dorrance, Margo Krindel, Georgann Johnson
One problem leads to another as Navy wife Margaret Hall (Tilda Swinton) tries to keep her son, Beau (Jonathan Tucker), out of big trouble while her admiral husband is away serving his country. Originally enjoyed as the 1947 novel, "The Blank Wall," and, later, the 1949 film, "The Reckless Moment," details are changed, but "The Deep End" retains the original myriad of plot twists and turns.
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Female Perversions 1996 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Susan Streitfeld
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas, Frances Fisher, Laila Robins, Paulina Porizkova, Clancy Brown
Eve (Tilda Swinton) is a young, aggressive lawyer with a future–she is due for an appointment as a judge and has learned to use her weapons as a female (clothes and makeup). However, her career path could take a curve if Eve defends her kleptomaniac sister, Madelyn (Amy Madigan).
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The Limits of Control 2009 R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Isaach De Bankole, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Paz de la Huerta, Gael Garcia Bernal, Youki Kudoh, Alex Descas, Hiam Abbass, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Oscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar, Maria Isasi, Hector Colome, Norma Yessenia Paladines
A well-dressed, mysterious man (Isaach De Bankole) with a criminal past travels through Spain. He carries a briefcase and receives cryptic messages from contacts who he meets as he walks through cities and fields across the country to complete his mission of killing an American businessman (Bill Murray).
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Love Is the Devil
Director: John Maybury
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarborough, Karl Johnson, Annabel Brooks, Richard Newbould, Andy Linden, Tallulah, David Kennedy, Ariel de Ravenel, Gary Hume, Antony Cotton, Damian Dibben
This biography of the British painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) focuses on his life from the fateful night in 1964 when he encounters a burglar, George Dyer (Daniel Craig), who he invites into his bed. George soon becomes not only Francis' lover but the model for his paintings. But, George is not without demons, including a death wish, and as Francis gains international status as a painter, George's life begins to unravel. 1 User Review
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Michael Clayton 2007 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sean Cullen, Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Ken Howard, Denis O'Hare, Robert Prescott, Austin Williams, Merritt Wever, David Lansbury, Bill Raymond, David Zayas
Corporate lawyer Michael Clayton (George Clooney) routinely gets damage control assignments from his Manhattan law firm, and when the firm's lead attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) suffers a mental breakdown during a deposition, Clayton steps in to meet the largest challenge of his career. It appears that Eden has uncovered the fact that the company, U/North, he was representing was guilty of putting a carcinogenic pesticide on the market and claiming innocence. Meanwhile, U/North's chief counsel Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) steps in and offers a solution to relieve her employer from paying out billions. Will Clayton take the money and run, or will he stand firm in what he knows is right? The film received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Swinton); six other nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Clooney), Supporting Actor (Wilkinson), Supporting Actress (Swinton), and Director.
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 The Statement 2003 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, Ciaran Hinds, John Neville, Matt Craven, Edward Petherbridge, Frank Finlay, David de Keyser, William Hutt
In this less-than-brilliant film based on Brian Moore's 1996 novel, a former Nazi executioner, Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine), has been living out his life in Southern France where he is protected by the Catholic Church. But now he becomes the target of assassins as well as the law and must turn to his wartime cohorts for help in this next challenge of his life as a fugitive.
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Stephanie Daley 2007 R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hilary Brougher
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton, Denis O'Hare, Jim Gaffigan, Deirdre O'Connell, Melissa Leo, Halley Feiffer, Kel O'Neill, Neal Huff, John Ellison Conlee, Vincent Piazza, Marceline Hugot, Kaiulani Lee, Novella Nelson
Sixteen-year-old Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn) gives birth in the ladies' room during a school ski trip. Later, when the fetus is discovered dead, and, although she claims the baby was stillborn, Stephanie faces murder charges. Forensic psychologist Lydie Crane (Tilda Swinton) is assigned to meet with Stephanie to determine whether or not she is telling the truth. During their sessions Lydie, who is pregnant, deals with her own guilt about a previous pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth as well as her confused feelings about the baby she is now carrying.
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Teknolust 2002 R, 85 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, Karen Black, Josh Kornbluth, John O'Keefe, Al Nazemian, Thomas Jay Ryan, Abigail Van Alyn, Paule West, John Pirruccello, Dick Bright
Rosetta (Tilda Swinton) believes that the world would be a better place if artificial life was in the mix. Thus, using her DNA, she creates three clones–Self Replicating Automatons (SRA)–that are part computer and part living organism. But the SRAs require male semen to survive, so one of the SRAs, Ruby, takes care of that need by having sex with men and bringing back the semen for sharing. The men who had the encounters with Ruby break out with a skin rash and a bar code appearing on their foreheads. But, fear not; two investigators (James Urbaniak and Karen Black) are on the case.
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Thumbsucker 2005 R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn, Keanu Reeves, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt, Chase Offerle, Walter Kim, Sarah Iverson
Teenage Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a thumbsucker, and, whether his problems are at school or home, sucking his thumb is soothing. To help Justin get over sucking his thumb, he is put on Ritalin. But the change after taking the drug is dramatic, and Justin emerges from a shy introvert into an over-achieving pain-in-the-neck.
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Vanilla Sky 2001 R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Delaina Mitchell, Shalom Harlow, Oona Hart, Ivana Milicevic, Johnny Galecki, Jhaemi Willens
After spoiled playboy David's (Tom Cruise) girlfriend Julie (Cameron Diaz) finds him with Sofia (Penelope Cruz), she purposefully steers their car off a bridge, kills herself, and disfigures David. For the rest of the story, David wears a mask and is under the care of a psychologist, Dr. Curtis McCabe (Kurt Russell), who tries to get the facts of a murder David has been accused of–maybe Julia's, maybe Sofia's. But was there really a murder, or was it all in David's head?
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The War Zone 1999 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim Roth
Cast: Ray Winstone, Lara Belmont, Freddie Cunliffe, Tilda Swinton, Kate Ashfield, Aisling O'Sullivan, Colin Farrell, Annabelle Apsion, Mean Thorp, Kim Wall
In this film–Tim Roth's first directorial effort–the drama revolves around Tom's (Freddie Cunliffe) suspicion that his sister, Jessie (Lara Belmont), has been having an incestuous relationship with their father (Ray Winstone). Tom's self-imposed mission is to find proof.
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Young Adam 2003  NC-17, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Therese Bradley, Ewan Stewart, Stuart McQuarrie, Pauline Turner, Alan Cooke, Rory McCann, Ian Hanmore
A drifter who is also a writer with secrets, Joe (Ewan McGregor), works for Les (Peter Mullan) and Ella (Tilda Swinton) on their barge moving coal between Glasgow and Edinburgh. After they discover the corpse of a young woman floating near the barge, Joe's secret past begins to rise to the surface.
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1. Adaptation (2002)
2. Aria (1987)
3. The Beach (2000)
4. Broken Flowers (2005)
5. Burn After Reading (2008)
6. Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
7. Conceiving Ada (1997)
8. Constantine (2005)
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
10. The Deep End (2001)
11. Female Perversions (1996)
12. The Limits of Control (2009)
13. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
aka: Love Is the Devil
14. Michael Clayton (2007)
15. The Statement (2003)
16. Stephanie Daley (2007)
17. Teknolust (2002)
18. Thumbsucker (2005)
19. Vanilla Sky (2001)
20. The War Zone (1999)
21. Young Adam (2003)
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