13 Movies Starring Jeremy Northam

The Net

The Net

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-07-28

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (45996 Reviews)

Director:

Irwin Winkler

Cast:

Writer:

John D. Brancato

Michael Ferris

Fullplot:

Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.

Mimic

Mimic

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-08-22

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (34304 Reviews)

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Donald A. Wollheim (short story "Mimic")

Matthew Robbins (screen story)

Guillermo del Toro (screen story)

Matthew Robbins (screenplay)

Guillermo del Toro (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.

Gloria

Gloria

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (4260 Reviews)

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Cast:

Writer:

John Cassavetes

Steve Antin (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.

Enigma

Enigma

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-06-07

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (16874 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Apted

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Harris (novel)

Tom Stoppard (screenplay)

Fullplot:

During the heart of World War II, in March of 1943, cryptoanalysts at Britain's code-breaking center have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their Enigma Code. Authorities enlist the help of a brilliant young man named Tom Jericho to help them break the code again. The possibility of a spy within the British code-breakers' ranks looms and Tom's love, Claire, has disappeared. To solve the mysteries, Tom recruits Claire's best friend, Hester Wallace. In investigating Claire's personal life, the pair discovers personal and international betrayals.

Happy, Texas

Happy, Texas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-12-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (8553 Reviews)

Director:

Mark Illsley

Cast:

Writer:

Ed Stone

Mark Illsley

Phil Reeves

Fullplot:

Two escaped convicts arrive in the town of Happy, Texas, where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town's Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant. Enjoying the celebrity and using their skill as con-men, the two adopt their persona to take on the task. Of course, as the two are heterosexual, their interest in the involved ladies intensifies. Ally Walker is a banker, who is distrustful of men and has given up on love. Illeana Douglas plays the dowdy, badly dressed teacher.

Possession

Possession

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-08-30

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (11277 Reviews)

Director:

Neil LaBute

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

A.S. Byatt (novel)

David Henry Hwang (screenplay)

Laura Jones (screenplay)

Neil LaBute (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Roland Michell is an American scholar trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academia. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.

Cypher

Cypher

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-01-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (26235 Reviews)

Director:

Vincenzo Natali

Fullplot:

Hoping for a more exciting life than the suburban drawl he currently inhabits, nerdy salary man Morgan Sullivan takes a job as an industrial spy at Digicorp, a global computer corporation. Digicorp assigns him the duty of flying to various conventions around America, recording the speeches that are made. But when Sullivan meets a mysterious woman he begins to realize that his job may not be what it seems, as he descends into a dark underworld of brainwashing and struggles to maintain his own identity.

The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (6875 Reviews)

Director:

Keith Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

Dennis Potter (screenplay)

Dennis Potter (television series)

Fullplot:

"While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with his protagonist, a detective investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles."

The Statement

The Statement

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-02-27

Languages:

English, German, Italian, Latin, French

Countries:

Canada, France, UK

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (4126 Reviews)

Director:

Norman Jewison

Cast:

Writer:

Ronald Harwood (screenplay)

Brian Moore (novel)

Fullplot:

Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hit men and Police investigators.

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-04-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (3106 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Rowdy Herrington (story)

Kim Dawson (story)

Rowdy Herrington (screenplay)

Bill Pryor (screenplay)

Tony De Paul (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., aka "Bobby Jones" rises from complete obscurity to become a golfing legend. Jones overcomes his own fierce temper, intense passion, and perfectionist tendencies to master the game and win the Grand Slam, the U.S., British, and Amateur Opens in golf, a feat unequaled even today. But it is Jones's style, personality, and character that separate him from the other professionals in his field. When Jones realizes that his unparalleled success may be destroying those he loves he's presented with an astounding proposition, one that shocks the world.

Guy X

Guy X

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-10-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, Iceland, UK

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (1765 Reviews)

Director:

Saul Metzstein

Genres:

ComedyWar

Cast:

Writer:

Steve Attridge (screenplay)

John Paul Chapple (screenplay)

John Griesemer (novel)

Fullplot:

A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

The Invasion

The Invasion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-08-17

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

USA, Australia

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (62316 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

David Kajganich (screenplay)

Jack Finney (novel)

Fullplot:

While returning to Earth, the space shuttle explodes and the fragments bring an alien virus that recodes the human DNA. In Washington, the psychiatrist Carol Bennell observes the modification of the behavior of one of her clients first, then in her former husband and finally in the population in general. Together with her friend Dr. Ben Driscoll the researcher Dr. Stephen Galeano, they discover that the extraterrestrial epidemic affects human beings while sleeping and that her son Ollie, who had chickenpox when he was a baby, is immune to the disease and may save mankind from the outbreak.

My Talks with Dean Spanley

My Talks with Dean Spanley

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-12-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

New Zealand, UK

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (2672 Reviews)

Director:

Toa Fraser

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Lord Dunsany (book)

Alan Sharp

Fullplot:

Each Thursday, a man approaching middle age calls upon his father, aged, caustic, nihilistic, and emotionally distant, perhaps from the loss of a son in the Boer War and his wife soon after. On this day, the son suggests they attend a visiting guru's lecture on the transmigration of souls. There they chat with a vicar and a soldier of fortune; dinner follows. Over glasses of Hungarian Tokay, the vicar, Dean Spanley, tells a story of friendship, freedom, and reincarnation. In what earthly way could this tale connect father and son?

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