Sam Neill Filmography

Daybreakers

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill

Synopsis: Fresh off the success of their inventive take on the zombie genre, Undead masterminds Michael and Peter Spierig direct Ethan Hawke in an ambitious tale of a futuristic Earth populated entirely by vampires, and the efforts made by the creatures to ensure that their food supply doesn't run out as Read More

Crusoe [TV Series]

Actors: Philip Winchester, Sam Neill, Tongayi Chirisa, Anna Walton, Joaquim de Almeida

Angel

Actors: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: A destitute-but-determined young woman living in turn-of-the-century England ascends the social ranks after authoring a series of successful romantic novels in French writer/director François Ozon's first English-language feature. Romolo Garai takes on the title role in a French and Belgian Read More

The Tudors: Season 01

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam, Gabrielle Anwar, Callum Blue

Little Fish

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson, Noni Hazlehurst

Synopsis: A former drug-addict in her early thirties attempts to put her shady past to rest while paving the way for a brighter future in director Rowan Woods' tale of love, trust, and redemption in modern-day Australia. Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett) hasn't lived her 32 years so much as she has simply Read More

Merlin's Apprentice: The Search for the Holy Grail

Actors: Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, John Reardon, Christopher Jacot, Andrew Jackson

Synopsis: Directed, acted, and produced in the same mold -- and on the same level -- as its many other family friendly, critically-acclaimed television specials, Hallmark Entertainment presents Merlin's Apprentice: Search for the Holy Grail. Starring screen legend Sam Neill (Dead Calm, A Cry in the Dark) in Read More

Yes

Actors: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock

Synopsis: Filmmaker Sally Potter directed this artful meditation on the dynamics of the romantic and sexual relationship. She (Joan Allen) is an intelligent and gifted genetic scientist of Irish-American heritage who feels smothered in her marriage to a British politician (Sam Neill). While dining at a Read More

Irresistible

Synopsis: A paranoid housewife finds that her worst fears are merely dwarfed be the terrifying reality of her dangerous obsession in director Ann Turner's psychologically bent study in fear starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, and Emily Blunt. Convinced that her husband's beautiful co-worker Mara (Blunt) is Read More

Gallipoli

Synopsis: Produced over the course of six years, drawing on over seventy archives in Europe and beyond, and researched with over sixteen international historians to ensure the it was as accurate as possible, this documentary from director Tolga Örnek draws on the diaries, letters, and documents of average Read More

The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant

Actors: Romola Garai, Jack Davenport, Alex O'Loughlin, Sam Neill, Tony Martin

Synopsis: An eighteenth century female convict arrested for petty theft and sentenced to seven years in Botany Bay stages the only successful escape from the Australian penal colony ever recorded in an inspirational tale of survival and perseverance starring Ramola Garai, Jack Davenport, and Sam Neill. The Read More

To the Ends of the Earth

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch

The Triangle

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Sam Neill, Lou Diamond Phillips, Catherine Bell, Bruce Davison, Michael Rodgers

Synopsis: When a series of cargo ships vanish into the open waters of the Bermuda Triangle, a team of determined specialists attempt to uncover the mystery of the planet's most perplexing phenomenon in Storm of the Century and Rose Red director Craig R. Baxley's spooky sci-fi miniseries. Billionaire Eric Read More

Wimbledon

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jon Favreau, Sam Neill, Austin Nichols

Synopsis: Directed by Richard Loncraine, Wimbledon follows the plight of aspiring tennis-star Peter Colt (Paul Bettany), whose bad luck seems to manifest itself just about everywhere. Professionally, Peter is near the very bottom of the world tennis ranks, and personally, he can't find love despite his best Read More

Murray Whelan: The Brush Off

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Drunk at home and frustrated after a late night tryst with arts magazine editor Salina Fleet went abruptly awry, State Government Labor Minister policy advisor Murray Whelan (David Wenham)'s thoughts slowly drift back to the cabinet reshuffle that ultimately brought about the death of Fleet's Read More

Framed

Synopsis: A remake of the 1992 British film of the same name, the made-for-cable Framed begins as New York cop Mike Santini (Rob Lowe) is vacationing with his family in the Bahamas. By chance, Santini spots another "tourist": Eddie Meyers (Sam Neill), a high-profile fugitive mobster and a key player in a Read More

Perfect Strangers

Actors: Sam Neill, Rachael Blake, Joel Tobeck, Robyn Malcolm, Madeleine Sami

Synopsis: Written, directed, and co-produced by Gaylene Preston, Perfect Strangers centers around the romance between Melanie (Rachael Blake) and the handsome stranger (Sam Neill) who charmed her into joining him at his "castle." The so-called castle is little more than a beat-up shack on a deserted island Read More

Hyperspace, Vol. 3: Destiny

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Hyperspace, Vol. 2: Staying Alive

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Hyperspace, Vol. 1: Life

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National Geographic: SuperCroc

Actors: Sam Neill

Synopsis: Paleontologist Dr. Paul Sereno and reptile expert Dr. Brady Barr made perhaps the most exciting discovery of their careers when they discovered fossilized bones in the Sahara Desert which confirmed the existence of a massive prehistoric crocodile -- 40 feet long, weighing ten tons, and as big as a Read More

Doctor Zhivago

Actors: Keira Knightley, Hans Matheson, Sam Neill, Kris Marshall

Synopsis: Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel of love and betrayal amidst the Soviet Revolution is given a new interpretation for the small screen in this made-for-television adaptation. Yury Zhivago (Hans Matheson) is a young man who is sent to live with his aunt and uncle, Anna and Alexander Read More

Dirty Deeds

Actors: Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington

Synopsis: Directed by David Caesar, Dirty Deeds is an Australian crime picture inspired by real-life Sydney mobsters, and is set in the Sydney crime underworld of 1969. Bryan Brown stars as Barry Ryan, a prominent gangster whose ruthlessness rivals some of the toughest in the trade. He lives with his Read More

Jurassic Park III

Actors: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan

Synopsis: Director Joe Johnston takes over the creative reins from Steven Spielberg for this third installment in the thriller franchise. Sam Neill returns as Dr. Alan Grant, a scientist who's tricked by wealthy couple Paul and Amanda Kirby (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) into a fly-over of Isla Sorna. The Read More

The Zookeeper

Actors: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri, Javor Loznica

Synopsis: A man who has devoted his life to animals rather than dealing with the emotional and political uncertainties of humans finds he's challenged when his zoo becomes a battlefield in this downbeat drama. Ludovic (Sam Neill) lives and works in an unnamed city in the Balkans; once an idealistic Read More

Submerged

Synopsis: Made for television, Submerged is the true story of the U.S.S Squalus, a submarine which was immobilized some 230 feet below the Portsmouth Naval Yard in 1939. Taking into account the 59 crew members on board, a daring and dangerous plan was hatched to expedite a rescue, using a diving bell for Read More

The Dish

Actors: Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton, Genevieve Mooy

Synopsis: In this comedy, as American astronauts prepare to make one giant leap for mankind, a small Australian town stumbles through its own small steps to help. In the summer of 1969, Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill) leads a team of scientists overseeing the operations of one of the world's largest radio Read More

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Actors: Sam Neill, Carmen Ejogo, Diahann Carroll, Mare Winningham, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: This miniseries details the complex real-life relationship between Thomas Jefferson (Sam Neill), author of the Declaration of Independence and his slave Sally Hemings (Carmen Ejogo). Fuelled by recent DNA evidence of the Hemings-Jefferson relationship, the miniseries sidesteps much of Jefferson's Read More

The Magic Pudding

Actors: John Cleese, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette

Synopsis: One of Australia's best-loved children's books is brought to the screen in this animated comedy-adventure from down under. Bunyip Bluegum (voice of Geoffrey Rush) is a koala bear who has lost his parents and can't find them. While many of his friends and relatives fear that Bunyip's folks are Read More

Bicentennial Man

Actors: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Embeth Davidtz, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Read More

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Actors: David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Thom Hoffman, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to Read More

The Horse Whisperer

Actors: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed himself for the first time in this romantic drama adapted from the 1995 best-seller by Nicholas Evans. Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson of Manny & Lo) and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose Read More

Sweet Revenge

Actors: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Martin Clunes

Synopsis: Telecast on American cable television as Sweet Revenge, this wickedly black comedy was produced for British TV under the title The Revengers' Comedies, which was also the name of the Alan Ayckbourn play collection upon which it was based. Late one night on London Bridge, two potential suicides Read More

Merlin

Actors: Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: This four-hour fantasy miniseries, elaborating on the Arthurian legend and filmed in England and Wales, offers a portrait of the wizard Merlin (Sam Neill), following his life as a youth (Daniel Brocklebank) to his later conflicts with the evil Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson) and his love for Nimue (Isabella Rossellini Read More

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Monica Keena, Miroslav Táborský

Synopsis: Once upon a time, pursuing wolves frighten horses drawing a carriage, and it tumbles down a hill. Dying, the pregnant woman inside orders her grieving husband Frederick (Sam Neill) to cut the baby from her womb, so that at least it might live. Years later, the infant is now headstrong young Lilli (Taryn Davis Read More

Event Horizon

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones

Synopsis: In this sci-fi/horror scarefest, Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill) is a scientist who has designed a spacecraft called Event Horizon which will explore the outer reaches of space past the planet Neptune; the ship employs a special transport mechanism that, in effect, creates a black hole that the ship Read More

Forgotten Silver

Actors: Thomas Robins, Peter Jackson, Leonard Maltin, Sam Neill, Harvey Weinstein, Peter Corrigan

Synopsis: Originally presented to an unsuspecting New Zealand public as the real deal, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's masterful mocumentary initially proved so convincing that unsuspecting viewers bought it hook, line, and sinker. A remarkably detailed look at the life of early filmmaker Colin Read More

Children of the Revolution

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths

Synopsis: Children of the Revolution is an Australian film whose cinematic roots go back to the sardonic comedies of Billy Wilder. It is set in two time periods, the 1950s and 1990s, and goes back and forth between them. In the 1990s, Australian politician Joe Welch (Richard Roxburgh) is having some serious Read More

In Cold Blood

Synopsis: Jonathan Kaplan remakes Richard Brooks' 1967 masterpiece that takes the viewer inside the mind of a pair of killers during a shocking murder of a farm family in 1950s Kansas. Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts star in this version. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Victory

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Simon Callow, Jean Yanne, Ho Yi

Synopsis: This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation) is the one that stick's closest to the original story of a reclusive, hard-hearted fellow living on a private island in the Dutch East Indies who must protect his Read More

Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill

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Actors: Sam Neill

Synopsis: This documentary is New Zealand expatriate actor and filmmaker Sam Neill's moody entry in the British Film Institute commissioned series, "Century of Cinema," designed to be a collection of the personal opinions of renowned international filmmakers concerning the cinema of their native countries. Read More

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese

Synopsis: Twenty-seven years after turning one of Rudyard Kipling's best known works into a successful animated musical, Disney returned to the same source material for this live-action adventure, which hews slightly closer to the original source material. Mowgli (Sean Naeleli) is the five-year-old son of a Read More

In the Mouth of Madness

Actors: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Charlton Heston, David Warner

Synopsis: Hired to help locate a missing author, an insurance investigator discovers to his terror that the nightmarish events depicted in the writer's best-selling horror novels are coming true. Wishing to be both a horror film and a parody of the genre, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness combines Read More

Sirens

Actors: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle MacPherson, Portia de Rossi

Synopsis: Sex, religion, and morality are the key ingredients in this Australian comedy set in the 1930s. Rev. Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant) is a liberal, forward-thinking Anglican priest who is sent on an unusual assignment. Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a popular and highly controversial artist whose Read More

Restoration

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: This lavish historical drama based on the acclaimed novel by Rose Tremain won Oscars for Costume Design and Art Direction. Robert Downey, Jr. stars as Robert Merivel, a gifted medical student of the 17th century who ignores his studies in favor of pursuing debauched fun -- much to the Read More

Country Life

Actors: Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore

Synopsis: This Australian drama has been adapted from Chekov's Uncle Vanya. It is set in post WW I Australia at a time when the Aussies were getting ready to break away from England. After his father's death, Jack Dickens sacrificed his literary aspirations to run the family farm. He lives in the old farm Read More

Jurassic Park

Actors: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Read More

Rainbow Warrior

Actors: Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence, Kerry Fox, John Callen

Synopsis: "Rainbow Warrior" was the name of a real-life Greenpeace vessel, which embarked upon a worldwide pro-ecological mission in the early 1980s. While docked in New Zealand in 1985, the Rainbow Warior was destroyed by a bomb, and a crew member was killed. In this dramatization, Sam Neill and Jon Voight Read More

The Piano

Actors: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker

Synopsis: Writer/director Jane Campion's third feature unearthed emotional undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, and her Read More

Family Pictures

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Sam Neill, Kyra Sedgwick, Jamie Harrold

Synopsis: Family Pictures is a two-part TV adaptation of the Sue Miller novel of the same name. Anjelica Huston and Sam Neill are Lainey and David Eberlin, a 1950s married couple with six children, one of whom, Randall (Jamie Harrold), is autistic. The parents' initial decision not to institutionalize the Read More

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Actors: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Chevy Chase stars, though not always visibly, as Nick Halloway, a low-level businessman with an acerbic approach to life and work, whose humdrum existence utterly bores him. Nick gets an unexpected jolt of excitement when, nursing a hangover, he's the only one not to evacuate an office building Read More

Hostage

Actors: Sam Neill, Talisa Soto, James Fox, Art Malik, Cristina Higueras

Synopsis: This direct-to-video thriller stars Sam Neill as a British secret agent who wants to retire--much to the dismay of his superiors, who decide instead to have him killed. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Until the End of the World

Actors: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars Solveig Dommartin as Claire, a young Frenchwoman who comes into contact with a large sum of money stolen during a bank heist; in her travels she picks up a mysterious American Read More

The Shadow of China

Actors: John Lone, Koichi Sato, Sammi Davis, Vivian Wu, Roy Chiao

Synopsis: John Lone, the star of the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (89), portrays a Chinese revolutionary in Shadow of China. Pursued by the Communists, Lone escapes to Hong Kong, where he builds up a multimillion dollar business enterprise. He hopes to use his international clout to effect changes in Read More

One Against the Wind

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Higgins, Christien Anholt

Synopsis: This award-winning TV production tells the true story of a heroic woman's underground operation to spirit allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied France. Her name is Mary Lindell, a British-born Red Cross nurse living in France with her two teenage children, Maurice and Barbé, by Lindell's marriage Read More

Megaville

Actors: Billy Zane, J.C. Quinn, Grace Zabriskie, Kristen Cloke, Daniel J. Travanti

Synopsis: In a futuristic world, the U.S. is ruled by a repressive government that bans most forms of media. As part of the enforcement, a cop (Billy Zane) is sent to the rebel state of Megaville on an undercover mission to infiltrate an unlawful media organization. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Fever

Actors: Armand Assante, Sam Neill, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: In this violent made-for cable actioner, a pair of disparate rivals, one a lawyer, the other an ex-con determined to reform, team up to save the life of their lady love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hunt for Red October

Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill

Synopsis: The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders Read More

Death in Brunswick

Actors: Sam Neill, Zoe Carides, John Clarke, Yvonne Lawley, Deborah Kennedy

Synopsis: Carl Fitzgerald (Sam Neill) is a shy, unassertive man, given to following orders from anyone around him who will take the trouble to boss him about, starting with his nagging mother. In this story, he is very much down on his luck and is forced to take a job as dishwasher in a Greek restaurant in Read More

Dead Calm

Actors: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane

Synopsis: Grieving over the death of their son, a married couple decide to take a long yachting trip for relaxation's sake. Their journey takes a dark turn, however, when they rescue a young man from a drifting vessel. The couple soon discover that the other ship's crew had been brutally murdered by their Read More

La Revolution Française

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Andrzej Seweryn, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film is actually two films released under one general title. The first, subtitled The Light Years, covers the period from the first stirrings of the revolution (e.g., the Read More