Gary Oldman Filmography

Unborn

Actors: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Carla Gugino

Synopsis: Blade II and Batman Begins scribe David S. Goyer writes and directs this supernatural thriller about a 19-year-old girl (Odette Yustman) haunted by a "dybbuk" (a malevolent wandering soul of Jewish folklore) that was once a young boy ruthlessly slaughtered in Auschwitz. Though her sympathetic Read More

The Dark Knight

Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played Read More

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year of studies, only to find that the magical community seems to be in a curious state of denial about his recent encounter with the sinister Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in the fifth installment of the Read More

The Backwoods

Actors: Paddy Considine, Virginie Ledoyen, Gary Oldman, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Lluís Homar

Synopsis: First-time 31-year-old director Koldo Serra's thriller The Backwoods (AKA El bosque de las sombras, 2006) re-charts thematic territory covered, in years prior, by such well-worn classics as Deliverance and Southern Comfort, and such B-grade horror pictures as Savage Island (2004). With their Read More

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment to the Harry Potter series finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) wondering why his legendary scar -- the famous result of a death curse gone wrong -- is aching in pain, and perhaps even causing mysterious visions. Before he can think too much about it Read More

Batman Begins

Actors: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The origins of the Caped Crusader of Gotham City are finally brought to the big screen in this new adaptation of the perennially popular comic-book series. The young Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) leads a privileged life as the son of wealthy, philanthropist parents, both of whom stress their commitment Read More

Dead Fish

Actors: Gary Oldman

Synopsis: Gary Oldman, Terence Stamp, Robert Carlyle, and Billy Zane headline this stylish, darkly comic crime comedy centering on a disarmingly charming hit man (Oldman) on a frantic quest for love, money, and bloody revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: After directing the first two movies in the Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus opted to serve as producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and passed the baton to Y Tu Mamá También director Alfonso Cuarón. Though "immensely popular" is an understatement when it comes to Harry Potter Read More

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Who's Kyle

Interstate 60

Actors: James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell, Michael J. Fox, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: At the beginning of Interstate 60, Neal Oliver (James Mardsen) has more questions about his future than answers. Though he would rather pursue a career in art, Neal debates whether or not he should set his goals towards a law degree, as his father would greatly prefer. He has a girlfriend, but he Read More

Sin

Actors: Kerry Washington, Ving Rhames, Gary Oldman, Brian Cox

Synopsis: It's often said that in order to catch a killer, you must first truly understand the motivations that drive their madness. The old saying is true, and retired homicide detective Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) is about go to some of the darkest depths imaginable in a desperate bid to rescue his sister Read More

Tiptoes

Actors: Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Matthew McConaughey, Patricia Arquette, Peter Dinklage

Synopsis: Matthew Bright directs the romantic comedy Tiptoes, written by Bill Weiner. Rolfe (Gary Oldman) is a dwarf, but his brother Steven (Matthew McConaughey) is not. When Steven's wife, Carol (Kate Beckinsale), gets pregnant, she worries about the baby being born a dwarf. She also ends up falling for Read More

Hannibal

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta, Frankie R. Faison, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: Based on the controversial sequel novel of the same name, Hannibal is the much-anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Anthony Hopkins returns as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, one of the world's most cunning and feared serial killers, who resurfaces after a decade in Read More

Nobody's Baby

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Gary Oldman, Radha Mitchell, Mary Steenburgen, Gordon Tootoosis

Synopsis: A slack-jawed yokel discovers the joys of parenthood while trying to avoid the law in this gleefully tasteless comedy. Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Buford (Gary Oldman) are two dim-witted rednecks who grew up together in an orphanage; as adults, the pair ended up in prison after reading other people's Read More

Friends: The One With Chandler and Monica's Wedding, Part 2

Actors: Gary Oldman, Kathleen Turner, Morgan Fairchild, Elliott Gould, Christina Pickles

Synopsis: The second half of Friends' seventh-season finale (originally telecast as a single one-hour "special") finds Joey (Matt LeBlanc) still stuck on the set of his movie -- in a World War I uniform -- even as his presence is desperately required at the wedding of Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry Read More

Friends: The One With Chandler and Monica's Wedding, Part 1

Actors: Gary Oldman, Kathleen Turner, Morgan Fairchild, Elliott Gould, Christina Pickles

Synopsis: Season seven of Friends comes to an unforgettable close as Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) prepare to march down the matrimonial aisle. In the first half of the two-part season finale (originally telecast as a single one-hour special), everyone gathers for the ceremony Read More

The Contender

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, Christian Slater

Synopsis: The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) as he Read More

Jesus

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Debra Messing, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: He was a poor carpenter who never traveled further than 50 miles from his home and died at the age of 33, but his teachings changed the world and he's still followed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, 2,000 years after his death. Jesus, originally produced as a television Read More

Plunkett & Macleane

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Liv Tyler, Ken Stott, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: A historical comedy that applies a 1990's mindset to a tale of crime in the 1740's, Plunkett and Macleane stars Robert Carlyle as Will Plunkett and Jonny Lee Miller as Capt. James Macleane. Plunkett is a druggist who has gone broke and turned to robbery to pay his bills, while Macleane was a minor Read More

Lost in Space

Actors: William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, Jack Johnson

Synopsis: This $90 million science fiction adventure is adapted from the television series, created by Irwin Allen, which originally ran on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The original series employed a Swiss Family Robinson in outer space premise; sent to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri system, the Robinson Read More

Quest For Camelot

Actors: Jessalyn Gilsig, Andrea Corr, Cary Elwes, Bryan White, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: For this feature-length foray into Arthurian animation, screenwriters Kirk DeMicco (A Day in November), William Schifrin (Townies), Jacqueline Feather (Dancing in the Dark), and David Seidler (Tucker, Dancing in the Dark) adapted The King's Damosel (1976) by British novelist Vera Chapman. The Read More

The Fifth Element

Actors: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry

Synopsis: Good and evil battle for the future of 23rd century Earth in this visually striking big-budget science fiction epic. In the movie's prologue, which is set in 1914, scientists gather in Egypt at the site of an event that transpired centuries earlier. Aliens, it seemed, arrived to collect four Read More

Air Force One

Actors: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: In this action drama, Harrison Ford plays James Marshall, a onetime combat hero in the Vietnam War who is now President of the United States. While visiting the former Soviet Union, Marshall gives a speech in which he supports a get-tough attitude against both terrorists and a right-wing general Read More

Nil by Mouth

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlie Creed-Miles, Kathy Burke, Laila Morse, Ray Winstone

Synopsis: A working class British family struggles with their demons -- sometimes violently -- in this intensely emotional drama that marked the directorial debut of actor Gary Oldman. Janet (Laila Morse) is a widowed factory worker who shares her home with her aged mother Kath (Edna Dore), her daughter Read More

Basquiat

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie

Synopsis: Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at Read More

Murder in the First

Actors: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, William H. Macy

Synopsis: This shocking prison drama was inspired by a true story. In 1938, Henri Young (Kevin Bacon), sentenced to Alcatraz for stealing $5, attempted to escape from prison with three other prisoners. One of the escapees was captured, and to curry favor with Warden Glenn (Gary Oldman), he informed on the Read More

The Scarlet Letter

Actors: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Robert Prosky, Edward Hardwicke

Synopsis: Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel of hypocrisy among America's pilgrims was brought to the screen by director Roland Joffe in this 1995 feature. Demi Moore stars as Hester Prynne, a new arrival to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1666. Prynne, who interacts freely with slaves and Quakers and Read More

Immortal Beloved

Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Barry Humphries, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: This biography of Ludwig von Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) builds its narrative around an actual letter found after his death, addressed only to the composer's "immortal beloved." The responsibility of discovering this mysterious person's identity falls to Beethoven's friend and secretary Read More

Romeo Is Bleeding

Actors: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: New York cop Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) has a nice home, a stunning wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), and a sweet, if stupid mistress, Sheri (Juliette Lewis). Jack also earns extra money by betraying mob witnesses to Mafia-boss Don Falcone (Roy Scheider). Assigned to guard the viciously sexy Read More

The Professional

Actors: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello, Peter Appel, Michael Badalucco

Synopsis: As visually stylish as it is graphically violent, this thriller directed by Luc Besson concerns Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a 12-year-old girl living in New York City who has been exposed to the sordid side of life from an early age: her family lives in a slum and her abusive father works for drug Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

True Romance

Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba Read More

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Sadie Frost

Synopsis: Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) is motivated more by romance Read More

JFK

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been Read More

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth

Synopsis: Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from a skewed and unexpected perspective. In this case, it's the perspective of two relatively minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Read More

State of Grace

Actors: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro

Synopsis: This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best Read More

Chattahoochee

Actors: Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Pamela Reed, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Since Chattahoochee is a story based on true events, it may seem absurd to suggest that the actual events of Chattahoochee are pirated from other true-life tales like Gideon's Trumpet. But it certainly seems as if true stories are just as derivative as any fictional narrative coming out of Read More

Heading Home

Actors: Gary Oldman, Joely Richardson, Stephen Dillane, Stella Gonet, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: An older woman recalls the circumstances that lead to the loss of her innocence in this touching, off-beat drama. For her, the road to worldliness began just after WW II when she fell in love with a poet and a real estate magnate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Criminal Law

Actors: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Karen Young, Joe Don Baker, Tess Harper, Ron Lea

Synopsis: Criminal Law is an inadvertently legal thriller wherein criminal defense attorney Ben Chase (Gary Oldman) decides to prove that his client Martin Thiel (Kevin Bacon) is in fact a serial killer, despite the acquittal that Ben won for him. When new murders occur, Ben takes matters into his own Read More

We Think the World of You

Actors: Alan Bates, Gary Oldman, Max Wall, Liz Smith, Frances Barber

Synopsis: Set in sexually repressive 1950's London, We Think the World of You features actor Alan Bates as Frank, a gay middle-aged businessman whose lover Johnny (Gary Oldman) is married and in jail for burglary. While Johnny (Oldman) is behind bars, his beloved German shepard Evie becomes the center of a Read More

Track 29

Actors: Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Sandra Bernhard, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: A dissatisfied woman encounters a mysterious stranger who may be her long-lost son in this peculiar, darkly comic drama. Theresa Russell plays the deeply disappointed Linda Henry, who feels stifled by a strained marriage to Dr. Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd), who pays more attention to his model Read More

The Firm

Actors: Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The Firm, acclaimed British television director Alan Clarke's last feature film, deals with the football hooliganism that was such a serious problem in England during the 1980s. Gary Oldman stars as Bex, a real estate agent whose true passion is being the "top boy" of the Inter-City Crew, or ICC Read More

Prick Up Your Ears

Actors: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Read More

Sid and Nancy

Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Debby Bishop

Synopsis: Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to Read More

Honest, Decent and True

Actors: Derrick O'Connor, Adrian Edmondson, Juliette Mole, Gary Oldman, Richard E. Grant

Synopsis: Its title dripping with sarcasm, Honest, Decent and True strikes a few more-than-glancing blows at the advertising industry. The scene is a British brewery, where the conservative executive board bemoans a steady loss of revenue. Into this rarefied atmosphere bursts a team of yuppie ad Read More

Remembrance

Actors: Al Ashton, Martin Barrass, Nick Dunning, Sally Jane Jackson

Synopsis: In this slice-of-life film shot in 1981 for British television, a wide-ranging group of Royal Navy men -- very young men -- try to have one last reprieve on land before they take off for NATO duty. Each sailor is confronted with a unique challenge: Mark (David John) tries to help out a victim of a Read More

Meantime

Actors: Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Jeff Robert

Synopsis: Colin (Tim Roth, making his screen debut) and his brother Mark (Phil Daniels, who starred in Quadrophenia) are down and out. They live in a squalid flat with their unemployed father, Frank (Jeff Robert), and their put-upon mother, Mavis (Pam Ferris). They're on the dole, and Mark is constantly Read More