John Sessions films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 19 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Henry V, Gangs of New York and Loving Vincent.

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Starring John Sessions

Loving Vincent
2017 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to...
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Gangs of New York
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket...
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Henry V
1989 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Hawking
2004 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is intrigued by...
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Victoria
2016 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public...
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Finding Your Feet
2017 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.
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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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Filth
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
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The Merchant of Venice
2004 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish...
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Denial
2016 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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The Bounty
1984 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant...
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Made in Dagenham
2010 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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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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Mr. Holmes
2015 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy about lovers whose romantic affections are manipulated by fairy magic. The setting is updated to a Tuscan hill town in the late 19th century.
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The Iron Lady
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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The Good Shepherd
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career...
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Castaway
1986 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead...
Nativity!
2009 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Martin Freeman is lovelorn teacher Mr Maddens, a former am-dram star whose girlfriend (Ashley Jensen) dumped him over Christmas five years ago and upped sticks, inexplicably, to La-La Land. Yuletide cheer is not his forte, but he's forced...

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