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  • Lang's aggressive Avatar audition - 27 April 2010
    -Stephen Lang landed his role in Avatar after punching a man in the head while auditioning for director James Cameron. - -The actor was in the running for the role of Colonel Miles Quaritch and managed to secure his place in the biggest-grossing film of all time after

Stephen Lang - what members say


  • Last Exit to Brooklyn
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn review by from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Bleak and gloomy 10 February 2004
    ...now, even...) and grim times. Excellent performances from the leads, especially Stephen Lang (what happened to him...?) ...   Read customer review
  • Gods And Generals
  • Gods And Generals review by from The Gobi Desert
    Rated - 2.0 stars Disappointing Re-creation 7 March 2005
    ...ether and there is no sense of being invested in the story. All things said, Stephen Lang gives a remarkable portrayal of Stonewall Jackson. ...   Read customer review
  • Avatar
  • Avatar review by Filmramblings from
    Rated - 4.0 stars Does it live up to all the hype? 1 June 2010
    ...t first and ask questions later. The epitome of this is Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) the head of the security task force who seems to be lacking any form of humani...   Read customer review

Stephen Lang - filmography


  • Terra Nova - Season 1 (2011)
    Starring: Jason O'Mara,  Stephen Lang,  Shelley Conn
    Director: Alex Graves
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 30 members
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  • Terra Nova - Season 1 - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Jason O'Mara,  Stephen Lang,  Shelley Conn
    Director: Alex Graves
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 2 members
    Not available for rental
  • Public Enemies - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Christian Bale,  Marion Cotillard
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43', director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a sprawling historical crime drama that follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 306 members
    Not available for rental
  • Avatar - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Sam Worthington,  Sigourney Weaver,  Michelle Rodriguez
    Director: James Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The future. Paraplegic war hero, Jake, is taken against his will to the planet of Pandora - a world inhabited by a race of humanoids called The Na'vi. Forced to exploit the valuable resources of the local population, Jake decides to turn against his human companions, and join the planet's people in ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 21,082 members
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  • Avatar on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Sam Worthington,  Sigourney Weaver,  Michelle Rodriguez
    Director: James Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The future. Paraplegic war hero, Jake, is taken against his will to the planet of Pandora - a world inhabited by a race of humanoids called The Na'vi. Forced to exploit the valuable resources of the local population, Jake decides to turn against his human companions, and join the planet's people in ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 63,274 members
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  • Public Enemies (2009)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Christian Bale,  Marion Cotillard
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43', director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a sprawling historical crime drama that follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,459 members
    Not available for rental
  • Save Me (2007)
    Starring: Chad Allen,  Robert Gant,  Judith Light
    Director: Robert Cary
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    "Save Me" is a deft exploration of the controversial ex-gay movement. The story follows Mark, a drug-addicted young man who overdoses and finds himself at the mercy of his disapproving family. Their solution to Mark's problems is to check him into a Christian run ministry overseen by Gayle, who ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7 members
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  • The Treatment (2006)
    Starring: Chris Eigeman,  Ian Holm,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Oren Rudavsky
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Jake Singer is an anxious young schoolteacher in New York - barely on speaking terms with his father, recently abandoned by his girlfriend, and heading for a life of compromise and mediocrity. Emotionally paralyzed by his mothers death, he embarks on a course of psychoanalysis with a maniacal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • Gods And Generals on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Stephen Lang,  Frankie R. Faison
    Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This epic film from writer-director Ron Maxwell chronicles the early events of the American Civil War. It's a prequel to his earlier GETTYSBURG, with some of the same cast, and is part of a planned trilogy. Stephen Lang plays Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the famous (and deeply religious) Confederate ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,896 member
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  • After The Storm on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Stephen Lang,  Jennifer Beals,  Nestor Serrano
    Director: Guy Ferland
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A short story by legendary adventurer Ernest Hemingway serves as the explosive basis for AFTER THE STORM. Benjamin Bratt stars as Arno, a former city slicker who has fled the financial turmoil of the 1930s to live a simple life of scavenging and fishing on the beaches of a secluded island in the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 96 members
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  • Niagara Niagara (1997)
    Starring: Robin Tunney,  Henry Thomas,  Michael Parks
    Director: Bob Gosse
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When star-crossed misfits--he's pathologically shy and she has Tourette's syndrome--meet in the parking lot of a store after unrelated shoplifting missions, they know they're meant to be together. But their inability to fit in compels them to hit the road on a wild odyssey to nowhere. Nuanced, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 116 members
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  • The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)
    Starring: Stephen Lang,  Ryan Slater,  Yi Ding
    Director: Christopher Cain
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Young Ryan travels to China to visit his dad Michael, who works on a panda bear preserve. But to prevent impending budget cuts, Michael and the others need to present a panda cub as an example of their accomplishments. So when poachers snatch the only cub in existence -- which then succeeds in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 13 members
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  • Tombstone on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Step,  Kurt Russell,  Val Kilmer
    Director: George Pan Cosmatos
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Arizona, 1879. Legendary Dodge City marshall Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), his wife Mattie and his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) just rode into Tombstone. These veteran frontiersmen hope to open a small business and settle into a quiet life. But they get more than they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 7,223 members
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  • Murder Between Friends on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Timothy Busfield,  Stephen Lang,  Martin Kemp
    Director: Waris Hussein
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a fight breaks out in a New Orleans home, Bill Fontanille (Martin Kemp) and Kerry Myers (Stephen Lang) are injured, and Myers's wife, Janet (Lisa Blount), ends up dead. Initially, it seems that Fontanille is the murderer. But when prosecutor John Thorn (Timothy Busfield) looks further into the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 34 members
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  • The Hard Way on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  James Woods,  Stephen Lang
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Los Angeles glitz meets New York grit in director John Badham's action-packed comedy. In New York's Times Square a billboard looms larger than life for a new Hollywood blockbuster starring Nick Lang (Michael J. Fox), an Indiana Jones-style superstar. The real Nick Lang is holed up in a neighboring ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,987 member
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  • Another You on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Gene Wilder,  Mercedes Ruehl
    Director: Maurice Phillips
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In their fourth outing as a team, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder star as a chronic liar and a con man whose deceptive ways get them into a very sticky situation involving a missing millionaire, his beautiful wife, a fearsome estate executive, and a serious case of mistaken identity. As the lies and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,008 member
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  • Last Exit to Brooklyn on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Jennifer Jason-Leigh,  Burt Young,  Stephen Lang
    Director: Ulrich Edel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Based on Hubert Selby, Jr.'s novel depicting the flip side of the "fabulous fifties" set against a violent dockworkers strike in Brooklyn 1952. The mean and desolate streets of Brooklyn are home to a host of unhappy, hopeless characters stuck in dead-end lives. A young self-destructive prostitute, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,482 member
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  • Manhunter (2 discs) on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Joan Allen,  Stephen Lang,  Brian Cox
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath's mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,040 members
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  • Manhunter - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Joan Allen,  Stephen Lang,  Brian Cox
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath's mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 477 members
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  • Death of a Salesman on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Charles Durning,  Dustin Hoffman,  Kate Reid
    Director: Volker Schlöndorff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Volker Schlondorff's tragic film is an outstanding stage production of Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Dustin Hoffman recreates his Broadway role of Willy Loman, a tired, emotionally bankrupt salesman. The award-winning cast also features John Malkovich as Willy's son, Biff.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,064 member
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  • Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Ann-Margret,  Ellen Burstyn
    Director: Bud Yorkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid-and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also ..read more »
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Stephen Lang facts

5 most recent films

Terra Nova - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Terra Nova - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Conan the Barbarian - 3.0 stars
Conan the Barbarian - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Avatar - Extended Collector's Edition - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Avatar - Extended Collector's Edition - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Avatar - Extended Collector's Edition - 4.0 stars
Avatar - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Avatar - 4.0 stars
Tombstone - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Twice in a Lifetime - 3 stars
Legacy Of Evil - 2.0 stars
Terra Nova - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Darkness Before Dawn - 2.0 stars
Murder Between Friends - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Giovanni Ribisi - 6 times - show films
Sam Worthington - 4 times - show films
Sigourney Weaver - 4 times - show films
Zoe Saldana - 4 times - show films
Michelle Rodriguez - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Mann - 12 times - show films
Abel Ferrara - 6 times - show films
James Cameron - 4 times - show films
Ulrich Edel - 4 times - show films
Marcus Nispel - 4 times - show films