The best Pete Postlethwaite’s drama movies

Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

07/02/1945- 02/01/2011
Today we present the best Pete Postlethwaite’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Pete Postlethwaite’s movies.
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The Town

The Town
7.5/10
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects
8.5/10
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/11/1996
  • Character: Father Laurence
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/12/1993
  • Character: Giuseppe Conlon
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans
7.7/10
In war-torn Colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, Cora Munro, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers, including Hawkeye, a rugged frontiersman and the adopted son of the Mohicans comes to their rescue. A passionate romance soon blossoms between Cora and Hawkeye, but many forces test their love as they continue to journey through the Frontier.

Hamlet

Hamlet
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/12/1990
  • Character: Player King
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

The Duellists

The Duellists
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 31/08/1977
  • Character: Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.

The Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardener
7.4/10
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Brassed Off

Brassed Off
7.2/10
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

Killing Bono

Killing Bono
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/04/2011
  • Character: Karl
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.

Animal Farm

Animal Farm
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFamily
  • Release: 03/10/1999
  • Character: Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Closing the Ring

Closing the Ring
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/09/2007
  • Character: Quinlan
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.

Between Strangers

Between Strangers
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/08/2002
  • Character: John
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Waterland

Waterland
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 21/08/1992
  • Character: Henry Crick
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.

To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest
6.1/10
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

The Shipping News

The Shipping News
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/12/2001
  • Character: Tert Card
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Amistad

Amistad
7.3/10
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

Cowboy Up

Cowboy Up
5.6/10
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a rodeo clown, and the two use each other to play up their acts. But love may be one thing that tears the brothers apart. When Ely falls for the rodeo's sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), Hank is filled with jealousy and hatred. The brothers try to come to grips with their differences, but the competition gets as fierce as the bulls in the ring.

Bandyta

Bandyta
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/11/1997
  • Character: Sincai
Bastard depicts the distress of needy children and the love of a nurse and a hard boiled criminal. A film from Polish director Maciej Dejczer and actor Til Schweiger’s first international film.

Tumbledown

Tumbledown
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaTV MovieWar
  • Release: 29/05/1988
  • Character: Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.

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