Results for : Cliff Curtis

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

Director: James Napier Robertson

Genres: Drama

Actors: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, Sia Trokenheim, Andrew Grainger

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

Director: David O. Russell

Genres: Action , Comedy , War

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Director: Frank Darabont

Genres: Drama , Romance , Comedy

Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, David Ogden Stiers, Hal Holbrook

A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.

Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

Genres: Drama

Actors: Gracija Filipović, Danica Ćurčić, Leon Lučev, Cliff Curtis, Jonas Smulders

A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Director: Gary Fleder

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

Director: Lisa Joy

Genres: Science Fiction , Mystery , Romance

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, Daniel Wu, Cliff Curtis

A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema

Director: Thomas C. Grane

Genres: Documentary

Actors: James Cameron, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Director: Niki Caro

Genres: Drama , Family

Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Director: Stewart Main

Genres: Drama

Actors: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell, Cliff Curtis, Michael Hurst

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.

Director: Wayne Kramer

Genres: Crime , Drama

Actors: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis

An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.

Director: Newton Thomas Sigel

Genres: Crime , Thriller , Drama

Actors: Ray Liotta, John Leguizamo, Colm Feore, Cliff Curtis, Bai Ling

When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.

Director: Sarah Spillane

Genres: Adventure , Drama , History

Actors: Teagan Croft, Cliff Curtis, Alyla Browne, Josh Lawson, Anna Paquin

When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once again comes to the rescue and faces one of his most difficult challenges, and must prove himself as a man as well as a god. "Hercules in the Underworld" is the fourth made for TV movie in the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Director: Bill L. Norton

Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , TV Movie

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Tawny Kitaen, Marley Shelton, Cliff Curtis

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

Director: Lee Tamahori

Genres: Drama

Actors: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga, Taungaroa Emile

On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own death. True enough, the money rolls in, but no one can get their hands on it because of the seven year waiting period before a missing person can be declared legally dead. However, a crazed animal rights terrorist, who knows he isn't dead, is trying to kill him, because of the singer's advertisements for fried chicken restaurants. Eventually, it turns out that the singer's manager is paying the terrorist to kill him.

Director: Grant Lahood

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Bryan Marshall, Martyn Sanderson, Ellie Smith, Cliff Curtis, Jed Brophy

Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers, until he looked at the data left on the discs. Was kevin murdered or did he simply get drunk and crash his car? Investigating journalist Mort Whitman says he will find out, even if it kills him. The film is based on material from the book 'The Paradise Conspiracy' by Ian Wishart.

Director: Geoff Murphy

Genres: Thriller , Drama

Actors: Cliff Curtis, Christopher Hobbs, John Leigh, Kelly Johnson, Ian Mune

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Director: Ted Demme

Genres: Crime , Drama

Actors: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ethan Suplee, Ray Liotta, Franka Potente

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.

Director: Niko Tavernise

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Darren Aronofsky, James Chinlund, Cliff Curtis, Jeremy Dawson, Ari Handel

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.

Director: Andrew Davis

Genres: Action , Thriller , Drama

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Francesca Neri, Elias Koteas, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo

Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.

Director: Michael Mann

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Bruce McGill

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Genres: Thriller

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz

Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away suddenly before the film could be completed. The film addresses some of the deepest and most distressing issues Māori communities face, and shows how extraordinary creative solutions are being provided by Māori communities themselves. Mita asks Maori men to front up to some grim realities by talking openly and honestly about the violence and abuse that has plagued their communities for many years. The film is a personal response to this violence, with Mita making a case for a return to an older model of Maori manhood, when men were the ones who sweetly sang the children to sleep. “Merata intended the documentary to count in ways that mattered deeply to her and to change perceptions of abuse and violence by using themes of responsibility, redemption, revitalisation, forgiveness and, most of all, love.” - Carol Hirschfeld, Māori Television.

Director: Merata Mita

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Cliff Curtis, Hone Kaa

Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genres: Drama

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore

When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their heads.

Director: Ivan Reitman

Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Romance

Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

Director: James Cameron

Genres: Science Fiction , Action , Adventure

Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet

The film-within-the-film of the Majestic (2002). Roland is a Morocco-bound insurance salesman waylaid by the handsome but evil Prince Khalid, who is about to wed the virtuous, wall-eyed Isabel against her will. Isabel prefers Roland and, before you can say “blind hatred”, a battle of wits so amazing and daring it cannot be described by any sane writer takes place.

Director: Frank Darabont

Genres: Adventure

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Cliff Curtis, Michael Sloane, Amanda Detmer

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

Director: Vincent Ward

Genres: Adventure , War

Actors: Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis, Stephen Rea, Temuera Morrison

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

Director: Ben Wheatley

Genres: Action , Science Fiction , Horror

Actors: Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Shuya Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy, Sergio Peris-Mencheta

Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen - the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing this, feckless Billy is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family, especially his frustrated wife Pauline (Theresa Healey). However trouble arrives with the return of a local former All Blacks Captain, an old flame of Pauline's.

Director: Michael Hurst

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Cliff Curtis, Theresa Healey, Hori Ahipene, Kevin Smith, Jaime Passier-Armstrong

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.

Director: Stephen Sommers

Genres: Adventure , Action , Horror , Science Fiction

Actors: Famke Janssen, Treat Williams, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor, Una Damon

Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.

Director: Kevin Reynolds

Genres: Adventure

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt, Eru Potaka-Dewes, Emilio Tuki Hito

When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

Director: John Bruno

Genres: Horror , Action , Science Fiction

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell

The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Actors: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Shaun Toub

Ryan Lopez, membre d'un gang est chargé d'infiltrer la police de San Francisco et monte peu à peu en grades, jusqu'à rejoindre les forces spéciales anti-gang. Il est alors partagé entre ses deux "familles"...

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Genres: Action & Adventure , Crime , Drama

Actors: Ramón Rodríguez, Terry O'Quinn, Sung Kang, Inbar Lavi, Reynaldo Gallegos

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Genres: Drama , Adventure , Science Fiction , Romance

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie

Jusqu'où iriez-vous pour sauver la personne que vous aimez le plus au monde? Becca Winstone est confrontée à cette question quand son fils Michael, âgé de 18 ans, est enlevé lors d'un stage d'été en Europe. Cette ex-agente de la CIA a déjà perdu son mari, espion lui aussi, aux mains d'un meurtrier dix ans auparavant. Déterminée à ne pas voir son fils subir le même sort, elle se rend sur le Vieux Continent, où elle doit réveiller ses instincts d'agente secrète pour traquer les ravisseurs. Elle est prête à tout pour sauver Michael, même s'il faut rouvrir d'anciennes blessures, voire même impliquer de vieux amis et ennemis.

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Genres: Mystery , Action & Adventure , Drama

Actors: Cliff Curtis, Sean Bean, Adriano Giannini, Nick Eversman, Ashley Judd