Peter Weir

Peter Weir films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 10 films on Boxlist

Known for The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society and Witness.

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Directed by Peter Weir

  1. The Truman Show

    The Truman Show

    1998 · Film

    8.1/10 · TMDB

    Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And...

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  2. Dead Poets Society

    Dead Poets Society

    1989 · Film

    8.3/10 · TMDB

    At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

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  3. Witness

    Witness

    1985 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On...

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  4. Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    1975 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging...

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  5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    2003 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to...

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  6. The Way Back

    The Way Back

    2010 · Film

    7.0/10 · TMDB

    At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.

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  7. Gallipoli

    Gallipoli

    1981 · Film

    7.2/10 · TMDB

    As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the...

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  8. Fearless

    Fearless

    1993 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet...

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  9. The Mosquito Coast

    The Mosquito Coast

    1986 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with...

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