Tom Courtenay films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 17 films on Boxlist

Known for Queen at Sea, 45 Years and Doctor Zhivago.

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Starring Tom Courtenay

Queen at Sea
2026 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
As advanced dementia erodes an older woman's ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.
45 Years
2015 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy...
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Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in...
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Summerland
2020 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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Quartet
2012 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday...
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The Aeronauts
2019 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery...
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The Night of the Generals
1967 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are...
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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The Railway Children Return
2022 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
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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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Flood
2007 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the...
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King of Thieves
2018 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with...
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Gambit
2012 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
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Dad's Army
2016 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
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The Queen's Corgi
2019 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his three fellow Corgis in Her Majesty’s heart. His arrogance can be quite irritating. When he causes a diplomatic incident during an official...
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