Noah Taylor Filmography

The New World

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Terrence Malick, the universally acclaimed American filmmaker responsible for the key 1970s features Badlands and Days of Heaven, returns for a rare directorial outing with the sweeping period piece The New World -- an epic dramatization of Pocahontas' relationships with John Smith and John Rolfe. Malick Read More

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Actors: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: Director Tim Burton brings his unique vision and sensibility to Roald Dahl's classic children's story in this lavish screen interpretation. Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) is the secretive and wildly imaginative man behind the world's most celebrated candy company, and while the Wonka factory is Read More

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Actors: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: The first effort from director Wes Anderson since his critically beloved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou finds the filmmaker re-teaming with a number of familiar faces, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Seymour Cassel. Murray plays Steve Zissou, an Read More

Brand New World

Actors: Guy Pearce, Julie Cox, Sammi Davis, Twiggy Lawson, Emily Lloyd

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: This sequel to the 2001 hit video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finds Jan de Bont stepping in for director Simon West, helming his first feature since 1999's The Haunting. From a script by first-time scribe Dean Georgaris, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life finds Angelina Jolie Read More

Max

Synopsis: In the wake of his rise to power, Adolf Hitler became known as perhaps the most villainous and destructive political leader of the 20th century. But what was he like before he formed the Nazi party? Screenwriter and director Menno Meyjes explores that question in this drama, a work of fiction Read More

The Sleeping Dictionary

Actors: Hugh Dancy, Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Bob Hoskins, Emily Mortimer, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: Guy Jenkin directs this straight-to-video romantic drama shot on-location in Malaysia. In the rainforests of Boreno in the 1930s, English officer John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) accepts a position to colonize the native population of Sarawak at the request of the British government. In following with Read More

Vanilla Sky

Actors: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee

Synopsis: A remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes (1997), this thriller from director Cameron Crowe bears one of several discarded titles for his previous, Oscar-winning film Almost Famous (2000). Tom Cruise stars as David Ames, a womanizing playboy who finds romantic redemption when he falls in love Read More

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor, Iain Glen, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: A popular video game comes to the screen with this big-budget adventure starring Angelina Jolie as a buxom heroine recalling equal parts Indiana Jones and James Bond. Jolie is Lara Croft, a proper British aristocrat groomed at schools for the children of the elite. Croft leads a double life Read More

He Died With a Felafel In His Hand

Actors: Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton, Romane Bohringer, Alex Menglet

Synopsis: Danny (Noah Taylor) is a young man seemingly used to chaos, but he soon discovers that the fates are more than capable of dishing out more than he can handle in this offbeat Australian comedy. By his own count, thirtyish Danny has found himself sharing living quarters with one or more friends more Read More

Almost Famous

Actors: Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel

Synopsis: Writer and director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a teenage rock journalist -- he was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone while still in high school -- inspired this coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy hitting the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s. Elaine Miller Read More

Simon Magus

Actors: Noah Taylor, Embeth Davidtz, Stuart Townsend, Ian Holm, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Director of award-winning short films Ben Hopkins embarked on this ambitious feature project with Robert Jones, the producer of The Usual Suspects. The screenplay is inspired by Central European folklore, spaghetti Westerns and industrial history. But the film, which runs like a fable, has its Read More

Mauvaise Passe

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Francis Barber

Synopsis: Writer-director Michel Blanc, whose previous works include the acclaimed Marche a l'ombre (1984) and Dead Tired (1994), creates this gritty drama about a middle-aged impoverished French writer in London who becomes a gigolo. The film opens with Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) getting worked over by an Read More

Life in the Fast Lane

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, Debi Mazar, Téa Leoni, James LeGros

Synopsis: Eleanor Gaver wrote and directed this slapstick comedy-fantasy about graffiti-artist Jeff (Noah Taylor), who loves artist Mona (Fairuza Balk). After Mona produces a painting in which a church sculpture crushes a girl, she sees a church accident identical to her painting, although a stranger (Patrick Dempsey Read More

Frontier

Actors: Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Jerome Ehlers, Chris Hayward

True Love and Chaos

Synopsis: A pregnant back-up singer in a Melbourne band finds herself saddled with two fellow travellers (one of whom is the father of her child), who are using her to escape the vengeful drug dealer they just robbed. When Mimi first asks her lover Haniff to travel with her to Perth so she can make peace Read More

Down Rusty Down

Actors: Noah Taylor, Bob Ellis, Tex Perkins

Shine

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud

Synopsis: The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor Geoffrey Rush winning for Best Actor. Rush stars as David Helfgott, a pianist with a history of mental problems. As a fragile boy genius at math, chess, and piano, David is Read More

Dad and Dave on Our Selection

Synopsis: This Australian period comedy set at the turn-of-the-century, is based on the anecdotal books of Steele Rudd (the pen name for author Arthur Hoey) that described life on a rural "selection" (a small farm) in Queensland. Like the original written tales, the film is anecdotal and chronicles events Read More

Nostradamus Kid

Actors: Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto

Synopsis: This genial Australian coming-of-age film is based on the experiences of its narrator, writer and director Bob Ellis. The first part of the film covers the difficulties teenaged Ken (Noah Thomas) has at a church summer camp run the the Seventh Day Adventists; he is not "with the program," and Read More

One Crazy Night

Synopsis: Five crazy Australian Beatle fans end up stranded in the basement of the very Melbourne hotel where the Fab Four are staying. This nostalgic Australian comedy chronicles the hours they spend there. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Flirting

Actors: Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose, Felix Nobis, Kiri Paramore

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker John Duigan followed up his captivating The Year My Voice Broke with Flirting. Noah Taylor repeats his "Danny" characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school. Billeted at a nearby Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Secrets'

Synopsis: When a TV producer strikes up a romance with an old flame, a star in his new TV series, their relationship is threatened by mysteries she won't explain to him. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Secrets

Actors: Noah Taylor, Danni Minogue

Synopsis: Danny is a young man who favors Elvis over the newest arrivals on the music scene, the Beatles, and is really ticked off at the adulation they are receiving. When the Fab Four arrive in Melbourne and are nearly overrun by their mobs of admirers as they check into the Southern Cross Hotel, Danny Read More

Lover Boy

Actors: Noah Taylor, Gillian Jones, Ben Mendelsohn, Daniel Pollock, Alice Garner

Synopsis: Mick (Noah Taylor) is just 16, but he would rather hang out with Sally (Gillian Jones), who is 43, rather than his friends. Sally originally hired him to cut her grass. Now they are lovers. Mick gets really dejected when she replaces him with a more age-appropriate lover. When he discovers that Read More

The Prisoner of St. Petersburg

Actors: Noah Taylor, Solveig Dommartin

Synopsis: The producers of this black and white art film showed it around at every film festival they could get it entered into, from Melbourne to Cannes. An enigmatic and very poetic drama with an inconclusive storyline, it may not be everyone's cup of tea. The story concerns a somewhat disoriented young Read More

Bangkok Hilton

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: In one of her first adult starring roles, Nicole Kidman played the lead in the three-part Australian miniseries Bangkok Hilton. Searching for her long-estranged father at Bangkok airport, Katrina "Kat" Stanton unwittingly becomes a "mule" for drug-smuggler Arkie Ragan (Jerome Ehlers). Captured by Read More

The Year My Voice Broke

Actors: Noah Taylor, Leone Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran

Synopsis: The life of a teen in an isolated small town is the subject of Australian writer/director John Duigan's film, set in 1962 in New South Wales. Duigan's coming-of-age story has many familiar elements -- Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) discovers his sexual attraction to a childhood playmate (Leone Carmen Read More

Dadah Is Death

Actors: Julie Christie, John Polson, Hugo Weaving, Victor Banerjee, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie, produced in Australia, was based on the tragically true story of an Australian teenager (John Polson) condemned to death for dealing in drugs in Malaysia. Part One set up the circumstances which landed Polson and his friend Hugo Weaving on Malaysia's death row. In Part Two Read More