The best Peter Capaldi’s crime movies

Peter Capaldi

Peter Capaldi

14/04/1958 (66 años)
Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role in In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, an affectionate spoof documentary about a fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema. Film roles include Oldsen in Local Hero, Angus Flint in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm, and Mr Curry in Paddington and its sequel, Paddington 2. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and helmed two series of sitcom Getting On. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Peter Capaldi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  

Shooting Fish

Shooting Fish
6.5/10
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow
6.3/10
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House
6.8/10
In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
3.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/09/2011
  • Character: Peter Van Gellis
After sixteen years at Her Majesty's Pleasure, Britain's hardest man is released from prison, and into the care of a documentary film crew headed by a Brit-loving American film-maker who follow him for the next week, on an hilarious roller-coaster tour of gangland London and beyond.

Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/01/2003
  • Character: DI Terry Machin
A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom.

Prime Suspect 3: The Keeper of Souls

Prime Suspect 3: The Keeper of Souls
8.1/10
Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Jane Tennison investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.

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