Movies with Cliff Curtis
Movies found: 24, viewing from 1 to 20
Whale Rider
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, New Zealand
Director: Niki Caro
Starring: Cliff Curtis, Rawiri Paratene, Tammy Davis, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Vicky Haughton, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod
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 dest...
A Thousand Words
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Brian Robbins
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Allison Janney, Cliff Curtis, Greg Collins, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke, Edi Patterson
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word we speak.
Colombiana
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2011
Country: USA, France
Director: Olivier Megaton
Starring: Jordi Mollà , Michael Vartan, Jesse Borrego, Zoe Saldana, Cliff Curtis, Graham McTavish, Lennie James
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
A young woman grows up to be a stone-cold assassin after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target - the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Fracture
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2007
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Bob Gunton, Judith Scott, Xander Berkeley, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts.
Collateral Damage
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: John Leguizamo, Jsu Garcia, Raymond Cruz, John Turturro, Elias Koteas, Miguel Sandoval, Cliff Curtis
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
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. Frustrated with the official investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice, Brewer takes matters into his own hands and tracks his quarry ultimately to Colombia.
The Piano
Year: 1993
Country: Australia, New Zealand, France
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Kerry Walker, Sam Neill, Cliff Curtis, Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Pete Smith
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It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them int...
Three Kings
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1999
Country: USA, Australia
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Judy Greer, Mykelti Williamson, Holt McCallany, Jamie Kennedy, Nora Dunn, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
At the end of the Persian Gulf War, four U.S. soldiers plan to steal a secret stash of Kuwaiti gold. Instead, they find themselves getting involved with civilians being executed by Saddam Hussein and left defenseless by the U.S. military.
The Last Airbender
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Jackson Rathbone, Randall Duk Kim, Aasif Mandvi, Cliff Curtis, Shaun Toub, Francis Guinan, Dev Patel
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The world is divided into four kingdoms, each represented by the element they harness, and peace has lasted throughout the realms of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire under the supervision of the Avatar, a link to the spirit world and the only being capable of mastering the use of all four elements. When young Avatar Aang disappears, the Fire Nation launches an attack to eradicate all members of the Air Nomads to prevent interference in their future plans for world domination. 100 years pass and current Fire Lord Ozai continues to conquer and imprison anyone with elemental "bending" abilities in the Earth and Water Kingdoms, while siblings Katara a...
The Fountain
Genres: Romance, Drama, Sci-Fi
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Donna Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Cliff Curtis, Rachel Weisz, Ethan Suplee
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.
Sunshine
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Year: 2007
Country: USA, UK
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Rose Byrne, Troy Garity, Archie Macdonald, Hiroyuki Sanada
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50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team are sent to finish the mission as they are Earth's last hope.
Runaway Jury
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Gerry Bamman, Bruce McGill, Stanley Anderson, Gene Hackman, Nestor Serrano, Cliff Curtis
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Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a past ..... and their own agenda.
Rapa Nui
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: Cliff Curtis, Jason Scott Lee, Sandrine Holt, Rawiri Paratene, Esai Morales, Pete Smith, George Henare
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Tenuously based on the legends of Easter Island, Chile, this story details a civil war between the two tribes on the island: the Long Ears and the Short Ears. A warrior from the ruling class falls in love with a girl from the lower class, and must decide on his position in a time of great civil unrest. The ruling class are demanding larger and larger Moai (stone statues), a task which the lower class and the island ecology are more and more reluctant to provide.
Once Were Warriors
Genres: Drama
Year: 1994
Country: New Zealand
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis, Julian Arahanga, Rena Owen, Pete Smith, Taungaroa Emile, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot. DVD Quality PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
Bringing Out the Dead
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Mary Beth Hurt, Nestor Serrano, John Goodman, Cliff Curtis, Arthur J. Nascarella
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Frank Pierce is a paramedic working Gotham's Hell's Kitchen. He's become burned out and haunted by visions of the people he's tried to save.
River Queen
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 2005
Country: UK, New Zealand
Director: Vincent Ward
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis, Samantha Morton, Stephen Rea, Anton Lesser, Wi Kuki Kaa
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
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.
Point of Origin
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Newton Thomas Sigel
Starring: Graham Beckel, John Leguizamo, Colm Feore, Illeana Douglas, Cliff Curtis, Ray Liotta, Ronny Cox
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Fact-based drama about an arson investigator (Ray Liotta) searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Blow
Genres: Crime, Drama, Biography
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Director: Ted Demme
Starring: Jordi Mollà , Paul Reubens, Johnny Depp, Miguel Sandoval, Cliff Curtis, Ray Liotta, Max Perlich
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his danger...
Live Free or Die Hard
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2007
Country: USA, UK
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Willis, Yorgo Constantine, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zeljko Ivanek, Maggie Q, Justin Long
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When a criminal plot is in place to take down the entire computer and technological structure that supports the economy of the United States (and the world), it's up to a decidedly "old school" hero, police detective John McClane, to take down the conspiracy, aided by a young hacker.
Six Days Seven Nights
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Year: 1998
Country: USA
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Harrison Ford, Danny Trejo, John Koyama, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison
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Big-screen favorite Harrison Ford stars in this adventure about a dream vacation that turns into a tropical nightmare! A gruff, rough-hewn cargo pilot living in the islands, Quinn Harris hates tourists . . . though he's not above making a fast buck from a sharp-tongued New Yorker, Robin Monroe, when she's desperate for a quick flight to Tahiti! But this already uneasy relationship suddenly takes a nosedive when his weather-beaten old plane is forced down in a storm! Now, stranded together on a deserted isle, Quinn and Robin quickly discover all the perils of paradise, as this mismatched pair finds themselves facing danger at every turn.
Deep Rising
Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1998
Country: USA
Director: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Heald, Derrick O'Connor, Famke Janssen, Cliff Curtis, Treat Williams, Kevin J. O'Connor
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
When a band of ruthless hijackers invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship, they're shocked to discover the passengers have mysteriously vanished! But that doesn't mean they are alone! Something terrifying is lurking just out of sight: a deadly force from the unexplored depths of the ocean that begins to snatch the horrified intruders one by one!