Charles Dance films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 39 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for The Imitation Game, Frankenstein and Gosford Park.

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Starring Charles Dance

The Imitation Game
2014 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at...
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Me Before You
2016 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker...
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Testament: The Story of Moses
2024 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
This illuminating docudrama series chronicles Moses' remarkable life as a prince, prophet and more with insights from theologians and historians.
Churchill at War
2024 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
This captivating docuseries examines Winston Churchill's pivotal role in World War II and the formative events that made him an ideal leader for the era.
Frankenstein
2025 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Woman in Gold
2015 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just...
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Rabbit Hole
2023 · TV
7.2/10 · TMDB
Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.
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Mank
2020 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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Gosford Park
2001 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In 1930’s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
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Michael Collins
1996 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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.
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The First Omen
2024 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil...
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Against the Ice
2022 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed...
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Scoop
2006 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Death to 2020
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was...
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For Your Eyes Only
1981 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
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Swimming Pool
2003 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a...
Starter for 10
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college...
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Dracula Untold
2014 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his...
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Last Action Hero
1993 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to...
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Alien³
1992 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor...
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Underworld: Awakening
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal...
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Johnny English Strikes Again
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back...
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Child 44
2015 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
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Iron Mask
2019 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The Russian Czar Peter the Great commissions Jonathan Green, an English traveller, to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire. Green sets off on yet another long journey, full of unbelievable adventures, which eventually leads...
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Ironclad
2011 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter...
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Wildcat
2025 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An ex-black ops team reunite to pull off a desperate heist in order to save the life of their leader’s eight-year-old daughter.
Ali G Indahouse
2002 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and 'realness'...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of...
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Victor Frankenstein
2015 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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The Golden Child
1986 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy...
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Forbidden Empire
2014 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods...
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Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A heart-warming tale about friendship, honour & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if...
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Ladies First
2026 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
An arrogant but charismatic ladies' man finds his life of money, power and casual flings upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women.
Space Truckers
1996 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and...
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The Contractor
2007 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
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The Hanging Sun
2022 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
On the run from his former employer, a reluctant hitman seeks refuge in an isolated village where he is faced with events that test the true nature of his conscience.
Ghostbusters
2016 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
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Your Highness
2011 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a quest in order to save their father's kingdom.
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Rumours
2024 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
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The King's Man
2021 · Film
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
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