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Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce
Born 5 Oct 1967, in Ely, Cambridgeshire

Wise words: "I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things."



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  • Pearce in talks to join Iron Man 3 cast - 20 April 2012
    -Aussie actor Guy Pearce is in talks to join Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Sir Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3.-The Memento star is slated to play geneticist Aldrich Killian - the man behind the Extremis serum, which empowers heroes, like Downey, Jr's Iron Man


  • Pearce apologises for mocking Australian capital - 13 April 2012
    -Guy Pearce has apologised to his fellow Australians after mocking the nation's capital city in a U.S. interview, insisting he feels "embarrassed and mortified" and is "truly very sorry".-The Memento star, who was born in England and moved to Australia as a child, m


  • Pearce's bodybuilding background helped him bulk up for action movie - 11 April 2012
    -Aussie movie star Guy Pearce didn't have to struggle to get into shape for new action film Lockout - he was a teenage bodybuilding champion.-The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert star admits he became gym obsessed in his mid-teens and started wowing with

Guy Pearce - what members say


  • L.A. Confidential
  • L.A. Confidential review by A customer from Hull
    Rated - 4.0 stars As good as the book 20 September 2003
    ...scar. It was far from the best performance in the movie. That also brings me to Guy Pearce. Maybe it's because I'm supposed to dislike his character but I just found him ...   Read customer review
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Count of Monte Cristo review by FutureMan from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars More swashbuckles than you can shake a sword at! 9 August 2008
    ...executed. If you haven't read the book, then you can certainly enjoy this film. Guy Pearce is great as a hilariously evil, snarling villain, whilst Jim Caviezel makes for...   Read customer review

Guy Pearce - filmography


  • Breathe In (2013)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Felicity Jones,  Amy Ryan
    Director: Drake Doremus
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
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  • Prometheus on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Noomi Rapace,  Michael Fassbender,  Charlize Theron
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 13,470 members
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  • Prometheus - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Kate Dickie,  Logan Marshall-Green,  Patrick Wilson
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ridley Scott helms this sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce. After finding fragments of Alien DNA, a team of scientists known as The Company travels into space aboard the state-of-the-art Prometheus spacecraft to investigate the origins of human ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,394 members
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  • Lawless on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Hardy,  Shia LaBeouf
    Director: John Hillcoat,  John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in 1920s prohibition era America, Lawless is the true story of the Bondurant brothers. Brazen and fearless, these young rural bootleggers became legendary criminals. The youngest brother, Jack (Shia LaBeouf), is ambitious and impulsive, the middle brother, Howard, is loyal but reckless and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 10,213 members
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  • Prometheus - 3D Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Benedict Wong,  Sean Harris,  Michael Fassbender
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ridley Scott helms this sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce. After finding fragments of Alien DNA, a team of scientists known as The Company travels into space aboard the state-of-the-art Prometheus spacecraft to investigate the origins of human ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,458 member
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  • Jack Irish on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Guy Pearce
    Director: Jeffrey Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don t ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 584 members
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  • Lawless - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Hardy,  Shia LaBeouf
    Director: John Hillcoat,  John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in 1920s prohibition era America, Lawless is the true story of the Bondurant brothers. Brazen and fearless, these young rural bootleggers became legendary criminals. The youngest brother, Jack (Shia LaBeouf), is ambitious and impulsive, the middle brother, Howard, is loyal but reckless and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,989 members
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  • Justice on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Nicolas Cage,  Xander Berkeley
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Action thriller starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce. When his beautiful musician wife, Laura (Jones), is brutally assaulted and left severely traumatised, high school teacher Will Gerard (Cage), having little faith in the power of the law, jumps at the offer of instant justice from ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 7,317 members
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  • Justice - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Nicolas Cage,  Xander Berkeley
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Action thriller starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce. When his beautiful musician wife, Laura (Jones), is brutally assaulted and left severely traumatised, high school teacher Will Gerard (Cage), having little faith in the power of the law, jumps at the offer of instant justice from ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4,292 members
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  • The King's Speech on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Geoffrey Rush,  Helena Bonham-Carter
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The King's Speech is the tale of Elizabeth II's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue. Fascinating, moving and often humourous it charts the personal relationship that developed between England's reluctant King George VI, plagued by a nervous stammer, and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 62,178 members
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  • The King's Speech - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Geoffrey Rush,  Helena Bonham-Carter
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The King's Speech is the tale of Elizabeth II's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue. Fascinating, moving and often humourous it charts the personal relationship that developed between England's reluctant King George VI, plagued by a nervous stammer, and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 18,966 members
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  • Don't Be Afraid of the Dark on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Bailee Madison,  Katie Holmes,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Troy Nixey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Troy Nixey directs this horror remake, written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, about a young girl who discovers monsters after moving in to her father's country mansion. Shortly after joining her father, Alex (Guy Pearce), and his girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), in their new home, Sally ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 9,929 members
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  • Animal Kingdom on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Ben Mendelsohn,  Joel Edgerton
    Director: David Michod
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Animal Kingdom tells the story of seventeen year-old J (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 17,433 members
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  • Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Bailee Madison,  Katie Holmes,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Troy Nixey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Troy Nixey directs this horror remake, written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, about a young girl who discovers monsters after moving in to her father's country mansion. Shortly after joining her father, Alex (Guy Pearce), and his girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), in their new home, Sally ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 4,352 members
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  • The Road on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Kodi Smit-McPhee,  Charlize Theron
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Post apocalyptic tale based on the bestselling novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men). A father and son travel on foot through a devastated American landscape, battling both starvation and cannibals.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 45,834 members
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  • Traitor on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Don Cheadle,  Guy Pearce,  Neal McDonough
    Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations Officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 17,526 members
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  • Traitor - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Mozhan Marno,  Guy Pearce,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller starring Guy Pearce and Don Cheadle. Samir Horn (Cheadle) is a devout American Muslim and former US army explosives expert who has been linked to a string of international terrorist bombings. FBI agent Roy Clayton (Pearce) is assigned to investigate the bombings - but can he capture Horn ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,801 members
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  • The Hurt Locker on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jeremy Renner,  Anthony Mackie,  Brian Geraghty
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 97,291 members
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  • Bedtime Stories - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Adam Sandler,  Keri Russell,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Disney family comedy adventure starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, an ordinary hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew magically start to come true. The all-star supporting cast includes Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,520 members
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  • The Hurt Locker - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Brian Geraghty,  Evangeline Lilly,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tense and gritty war film from director Kathryn Bigelow, following the lives of an army bomb disposal squad in war-torn Iraq. Having to look death in the face daily, the soldiers of an elite ordnance disposal team struggle to accept their new sergeant, William James (Jeremy Renner), when he risks ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 25,812 members
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  • Bedtime Stories on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Adam Sandler,  Keri Russell,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Disney family comedy adventure starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, an ordinary hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew magically start to come true. The all-star supporting cast includes Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 27,806 members
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  • Death Defying Acts on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones,  Guy Pearce,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Director Gillian Armstrong's drama follows the efforts of master illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) to make contact with his dead mother. In 1926, Houdini is at the height of his powers, enjoying worldwide fame and adoration from his legion of fans. The death of his mother Cecilia, however, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 3,467 members
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  • Factory Girl on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Sienna Miller,  Hayden Christensen
    Director: George Hickenlooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 15,456 members
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  • The Proposition - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Tom Budge,  Emily Watson,  Ray Winstone
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    John Hillcoat directs this violent western set in the Australian outback, from an original screenplay by musician Nick Cave. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is presented with an impossible choice by ruthless lawman Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). To save his younger brother from the gallows, he must ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,852 member
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  • The Proposition on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Budge,  Emily Watson
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 16,748 members
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  • Two Brothers (2004)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Freddie Highmore,  Jean-Claude Dreyfus
    Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Set not so long ago in a distant land, the film follows the adventures of twin tiger cubs--one shy and gentle, the other bold and fierce--who are born among the temple ruins of an exotic jungle. However, on a fateful day, the brothers are separated by fate. The bold brother is sold off to a circus, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 12,123 members
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  • The Count of Monte Cristo on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Dagmara Dominczyk,  Albie Woodington,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Kevin Reynolds
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes is a guileless and honest man, whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand, who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. Set up to be unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 6,723 members
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  • The Time Machine (2002)
    Starring: Samantha Mumba,  Jeremy Irons,  Phyllida Law
    Director: Simon Wells
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    When turn-of-the century scientist Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) uses his newly-invented time machine to travel back and prevent the murder of his girlfriend Emma (Sienna Guillory), he finds that he is nonetheless unable to change the past. Curious as to why this is, Alexander travels into the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 7,546 members
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  • The Hard Word (2002)
    Starring: Joel Edgerton,  Guy Pearce,  Rachel Griffiths
    Director: Scott Roberts
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The three Twentyman Brothers are back out of prison for the umpteenth time thanks to their dodgy lawyer who is well in with the wife of one of them. They now plan to pull off one last job - ripping off the bookies at The Melbourne Cup.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,443 member
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  • Memento on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Carrie-Anne Moss,  Joe Pantoliano
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is suffering from acute short-term memory loss and is unable to remember anything for more than a few minutes at a time. This means that not only does he have no idea who he is, but that also, whenever he meets someone, a few minutes later he will have forgotten who they ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 75,501 members
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  • Memento - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Carrie-Anne Moss,  Joe Pantoliano
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is suffering from acute short-term memory loss and is unable to remember anything for more than a few minutes at a time. This means that not only does he have no idea who he is, but that also, whenever he meets someone, a few minutes later he will have forgotten who they ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 551 members
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  • Rules Of Engagement on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Dale Dye,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is a war hero whose peacekeeping mission to Yemen goes horribly wrong when he orders his men to open fire on a group of demonstrators. The colonel is subsequently charged with murder and asks his comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,116 members
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  • Ravenous on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  John Spencer,  David Arquette
    Director: Antonia Bird
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The Sierra Nevada mountains, 1847. A bedraggled stranger (Robert Carlyle) stumbles into Fort Spencer, claiming to be Colquoun, a settler who has been trapped in a mountain cave by a snowstorm. He reports that his fellow cave-dwellers have been reduced to cannibalism and that he was lucky to escape ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,722 members
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  • L.A. Confidential - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Russell Crowe,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Fifties Los Angeles, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) are three very different cops. Ed is ambitious and incorruptible, Bud takes pleasure in beating up wrong-doers, and Jack works as technical advisor to the television show 'Badge of Honour'. Ed ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 3,478 members
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  • L.A. Confidential on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Russell Crowe,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Fifties Los Angeles, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) are three very different cops. Ed is ambitious and incorruptible, Bud takes pleasure in beating up wrong-doers, and Jack works as technical advisor to the television show 'Badge of Honour'. Ed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 59,492 members
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  • Snowy River - The McGregor Saga (1993)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Pino Amenta,  Tim Burstall
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    SNOWY RIVER, the Australian TV series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man from Snowy River," takes place in the late 19th century in a small mountain town outside of Melbourne. The program follows the dramatic story of Matt McGregor and his family as it plays out in the course of this charming, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 18 members
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  • Hunting on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Rebecca Riggs,  Kerry Armstrong,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Frank Howson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Erotic drama about death and desire. When a beautiful married woman begins an affair with a ruthless businessman, the relationship takes her deep into a world of blackmail and murder.
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 40 members
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  • Flynn on DVD
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  John Savage,  Claudia Karvan
    Director: Frank Howson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Biopic of swashbuckling movie star Errol Flynn, who was, or so it is claimed here, a conman, seducer and liar and a man who also liked a drink and a fight. His early years in the gutters of Sydney to the Golden Era of Hollywood are all documented here with former 'Neighbours' star Guy Pearce in the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 87 members
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Guy Pearce facts

5 most recent films

Iron Man 3 - 4.0 stars
Breathe In - 3 stars
Prometheus - 3.5 stars
Prometheus - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Lawless - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Memento - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The King's Speech - 4.0 stars
The King's Speech - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Iron Man 3 - 4.0 stars
L.A. Confidential - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Breathe In - 3 stars
Hunting - 1.5 stars
A Slipping Down Life - 2.0 stars
Snowy River - The McGregor Saga - 2.5 stars
First Snow - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charlize Theron - 6 times - show films
Joel Edgerton - 4 times - show films
Don Cheadle - 4 times - show films
Logan Marshall-Green - 3 times - show films
David Morse - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Hillcoat - 9 times - show films
Stephan Elliott - 4 times - show films
Christopher Nolan - 4 times - show films
Kathryn Bigelow - 4 times - show films
Tom Hooper - 3 times - show films