Simon McBurney films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 20 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Wolfwalkers, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation and Nosferatu.

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Starring Simon McBurney

Wolfwalkers
2020 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their...
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Carnival Row
2019 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDB
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime...
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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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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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The Last King of Scotland
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to...
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The Conjuring 2
2016 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organisation committed to destroying the IMF.
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The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly...
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The Duchess
2008 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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Allied
2016 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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Nosferatu
2024 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
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Body of Lies
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link –...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
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Magic in the Moonlight
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
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Robin Hood
2010 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and...
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The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he...
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The Golden Compass
2007 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
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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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A Mistake
2024 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner, a nurse at the hospital, turns her back on her.
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Siberia
2020 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the...
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Friends with Money
2006 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
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