David Thewlis films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 41 films and 4 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, The Big Lebowski and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

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Starring David Thewlis

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · Film
8.4/10 · TMDB
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
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The Artful Dodger
2023 · TV
8.3/10 · TMDB
In 1850s Australia, in the lively colony of Port Victory, Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, has transferred his fast fingers as a pickpocket to the nimble skilled fingers of a surgeon. Dodger's past returns to haunt him with the arrival...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking...
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The Big Lebowski
1998 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events...
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The Theory of Everything
2014 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The rebellion begins! Lord Voldemort has returned, but the Ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth – including appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defence Against...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle...
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Enola Holmes 2
2022 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends — and Sherlock himself —...
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must...
Wonder Woman
2017 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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War Horse
2011 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
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Seven Years in Tibet
1997 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a...
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Anomalisa
2015 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
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Val
2021 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with...
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Legend
2015 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while...
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Kingdom of Heaven
2005 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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Landscapers
2021 · TV
6.8/10 · TMDB
A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
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Sherlock & Daughter
2025 · TV
6.7/10 · TMDB
Sherlock Holmes faces a sinister case risking friends' lives. American Amelia joins, seeking her father after her mother's murder. Despite differences, they solve a conspiracy and her mother's case.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
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DragonHeart
1996 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his...
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The New World
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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Human Resources
2022 · TV
6.6/10 · TMDB
Lovebugs, Hormone Monsters and a parade of other creatures juggle romance, workplace drama and their human clients' needs in this "Big Mouth" spinoff.
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Black Beauty
1994 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
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RED 2
2013 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
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James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
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Macbeth
2015 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
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Anonymous
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
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The Amazing Maurice
2022 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down the drain.
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The Zero Theorem
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
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The Fifth Estate
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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Veronika Decides to Die
2009 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
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London Boulevard
2010 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
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The Mercy
2018 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to...
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Eternal Beauty
2020 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
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Timeline
2003 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
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The Omen
2006 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
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Regression
2015 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is...
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Basic Instinct 2
2006 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
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The Thing with Feathers
2025 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
After a tragic loss, a grieving father tries to raise his young sons whilst dealing with an unlikely, unpredictable, and uninvited houseguest.
Signal One
2026 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A computer scientist is invited by a tech billionaire to join his private facility on a Caribbean island to investigate extraterrestrial matter on Earth. When they make contact beyond our world, chaos erupts as we’re left to wonder: do...

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