Tilda Swinton Filmography

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: As directed by David Fincher and adapted by scribe Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story of the same name, the fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button stars Brad Pitt as the title character. Button begins the story as an old man, then begins physically aging in Read More

Burn After Reading

Actors: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: A CIA agent who is currently in the process of writing a book loses the disc containing his only manuscript in this comedic tale of espionage that reunites filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen with Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? star George Clooney. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

Derek

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: Actress Tilda Swinton collaborates with director Isaac Julien on this richly textured tribute to the late British filmmaker Derek Jarman. In 2002, Swinton penned the text entitled "Letter to an Angel" in memory of her deceased friend and collaborator. In this film, that elegiac piece of writing is Read More

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Actors: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Sergio Castellitto, Ben Barnes

Synopsis: The adventure continues as producer/director Andrew Adamson teams with screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to tell the tale of the dashing Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) -- who sets out to defeat a tyrannical king who has overtaken Narnia and secure his rightful place on the throne. Read More

Come Like Shadows

Actors: Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton

The Limits of Control

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch directs Isaach De Bankole in The Limits of Control, a Focus Features production that follows an unlawful lone wolf as he pulls a job in Spain. Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Gael Garcia Bernal co-star in the Focus Features production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Julia

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Jude Ciccolella

Synopsis: Tilda Swinton stars in director Erick Zonca's drama about a forty year old alcoholic who, in a rare moment of sobriety, sees where her life is headed and makes one last ditch attempt to steer herself away from the disastrous path that she has been locked on for as far back as she can remember. Read More

Strange Culture

Actors: Peter Coyote, Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Josh Kornbluth, Steve Kurtz

Synopsis: Filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson examines a strange miscarriage of justice amplified by post-9/11 hysteria in this imaginative fusion of documentary and docu-drama. Steve Kurtz is an artist and political activist who was an associate professor at State University of New York's Buffalo campus and a Read More

Michael Clayton

Actors: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe

Synopsis: Michael Clayton (George Clooney) handles all of the dirty work for a major New York law firm, arranging top-flight legal services and skirting through loopholes for ethically questionable clients. But when a fellow "fixer" decides to turn on the very firm they were hired to clean up for, Clayton Read More

Deep Water

Actors: Donald Crowhurst, Francoise Moitessier de Cazalet, Simon Crowhurst, Bernard Moitessier, Clare Crowhurst

Synopsis: Co-directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell's historical documentary Deep Water chronicles one of the most infamous nautical tragedies of the past several decades. In autumn 1968, Britisher Donald Crowhurst, the proprietor of a down-and-out manufacturing business for marine electrical Read More

Stephanie Daley

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton, Denis O'Hare, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: A frightened and irresponsible girl and an emotionally conflicted woman are brought together under tragic circumstances in this independent drama. Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn) is a 16-year-old girl who while on a school-sponsored ski trip collapses in a puddle of blood; a medical examination Read More

The Man From London

Actors: Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Erika Bok, Janos Derzsi, Agi Szirtes

Synopsis: A man whose lonely life at the edge of the sea has become a predictable as the tide witnesses a murder that sends him on an existential journey the likes of which he could never have anticipated in director Béla Tarr's philosophical drama. Maloin had reached a point in life where he was content to Read More

Galapagos [TV Documentary Series]

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Actors: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson

Synopsis: Four siblings -- Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Lucy (Georgie Henley), Peter (William Moseley), and Susan (Anna Popplewell) -- are sent from their London home to the country estate of an eccentric professor in order to ensure their safety during World War II. The house is very dull, except for a large Read More

Thumbsucker

Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves

Synopsis: A high-school senior finds that fate (and modern medicine) plays some interesting tricks with his personality in this dramatic comedy. Justin Conn (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a neurotic teenager who has a difficult time with his peers, especially Rebecca (Kelli Garner), a cute girl in his debate class Read More

Broken Flowers

Actors: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy

Synopsis: A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this comedy drama from director Jim Jarmusch. Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to Read More

Constantine

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker

Synopsis: An ordinary man with an extraordinary gift must save the planet from evil in this action-packed fantasy. Unknown to most people, the world is crowded with spirits both good and evil who walk among us in human guise. One of the few who can see these spirits is John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), but Read More

Young Adam

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone

Synopsis: An amoral young man wends his way into the lives of a handful of damaged souls in this adaptation of British Beat Generation writer Alexander Trocchi's first novel. Written for the screen and directed by David Mackenzie, Young Adam begins with the discovery of a barely dressed woman's corpse by Read More

Teknolust

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, Karen Black, Al Nazemian

Synopsis: In this offbeat sci-fi-drama, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) is a scientist specializing in biogenetics who has made a major breakthrough in artificial biological engineering. Rosetta has created a type of Self-Replicating Automaton, which looks like a human being, but is in fact part machine and Read More

In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

The Statement

Actors: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, John Neville, William Hutt

Synopsis: A man who has been able to avoid the consequences of his actions for nearly 50 years suddenly finds he must answer pursuers on both sides of the law in this drama, based on the novel by Brian Moore and inspired by a true story. After France fell to German occupation during World War II, the Read More

Adaptation

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the 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

The Deep End

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Raymond Barry, Josh Lucas

Synopsis: A mother is drawn into a sinister web of blackmail while trying to protect her son in this drama. Margaret Hall (Tilda Swinton) is a wife and mother of three living in Lake Tahoe, whose husband is a Naval officer stationed in the Atlantic ocean. Margaret's oldest son, teenaged Beau (Jonathan Read More

The Beach

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Paterson Joseph

Synopsis: For his first major project after the overwhelming success of Titanic, Leonardo Di Caprio took a risky path in this adaptation of Alex Garland's acclaimed novel, directed by Danny Boyle. Richard (Di Caprio) is an American backpacking through Asia with a handful of friends from Europe. While in Read More

Possible Worlds

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann, Gabriel Gascon, Rick Miller

Synopsis: A man moves across space and time to do the right thing for the woman he loves in this sci-fi-tinged fantasy thriller. George (Tom McCamus) is a man who possesses an unusual level of awareness -- he not only understands that people exist in parallel worlds at once, but also is able to experience Read More

The Dilapidated Dwelling

Actors: Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: Patrick Keiller, who left behind a career as an architect to pursue filmmaking, directed this documentary about the sad state of British housing, which ponders how a nation responsible for some of Europe's most cutting-edge technology could allow itself to have such a rapidly decaying Read More

The Protagonists

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Fabrizia Sacchi, Andrew Tiernan, Claudio Gioe, Paolo Briguglia

Synopsis: British indie queen Tilda Swinton stars as a detective looking to solve a notoriously senseless thrill killing in 1994. Swinton and her crew piece together the crime in which a couple of upper class lads from Oxford venture into London on a bloodlust binge. Failing to find a pusher or a pimp to Read More

The War Zone

Actors: Ray Winstone, Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont, Freddie Cunliffe, Kate Ashfield

Synopsis: Noted actor Tim Roth made his directorial debut with this powerful drama about a family in crisis. Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) is an awkward and troubled 15-year-old boy whose isolation increases when his family moves from London to a remote community in the Devon countryside. Tom, his 18-year-old Read More

Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarborough

Synopsis: This British biographical drama probes the life of painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), critically acclaimed as the outstanding British painter of the latter half of the 20th Century. This unsympathetic portrait of Bacon (Derek Jacobi) begins when George Dyer (Daniel Craig), a small-time criminal Read More

Conceiving Ada

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Karen Black, Dr. Timothy Leary, John O'Keefe

Synopsis: In 1980 the U.S. Department of Defense named the Ada programming language in honor of Lord Byron's daughter, the mathematician Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), credited as the "first computer programmer" because of her plan for calculating Bernoulli numbers. Lady Ada was 18 when Read More

Female Perversions

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas, Laila Robins, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: An outwardly successful woman teeters on the brink of emotional collapse in this psychological drama. Evelyn Stevens (Tilda Swinton) is a skilled and well-regarded attorney who is being considered for a prestigious judicial appointment. However, she's plagued by self-doubt and neurotic obsessions Read More

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Rupert Everett, Aiden Brady, Mark Lawrence, Shyrene

Synopsis: The gay lifestyle is examined from the point of view of both gays and straights in British gay lampoon which satirizes the effect the media has on modern society. Subtly examined within this almost-experimental film are AIDS, drugs, rape, gay-bashing, ignorance, transsexuals, race riots, and S&M. Read More

Wittgenstein

Actors: Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Kevin Collins

Synopsis: Derek Jarman directed this witty, stylish biography of the life of the eccentric 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (Karl Johnson). Wittgenstein is shown as a boy living a repressive youth, demonstrated by his family appearing in Roman togas. When Wittgenstein leaves to study under Read More

Blue

Actors: John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: A year before director Derek Jarman succumbed fully to AIDS, he made his last film. In Blue, the color blue is all there is to see as Jarman tries to bring the audience into his vision-impaired world. Jarman offers his insights on life, love, disease, the meaning of art, and the symbology of the Read More

Edward II

Actors: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Kevin Collins

Synopsis: Two years before director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely ambitious variation on Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play. While Marlowe is the root of this film, Jarman has taken a great deal of leeway with the manner of presentation. The story revolves around King Edward's Read More

Orlando

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story Read More

The Party: Nature Morte

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Féodor Atkine, Lutz Weidlich

Synopsis: In this free-form experimental, black-and-white film, a group of intellectuals and would-be intellectuals accept the invitation of a feuding couple to come to a party, and a great many verbal conversations and some carnal conversations take place. Occasionally one of them sings a song. Aside from Read More

Man to Man

Actors: Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: After the death of her crane-driving husband in Germany in the 1930s, Ella must find some way to earn a living. Donning her husband's clothes, she takes up his old profession, which she learned by watching him at it. Taken for a man, she is completely enthralled by the way men behave when away Read More

The Garden

Actors: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Mills, Jody Graber, Kevin Collins, Pete Lee-Wilson, Philip MacDonald, Roger Cook

Synopsis: Director Derek Jarman takes the viewer for a walk around his own garden in rural England for this non-narrative film. Many of the scenes depict the Passion of Christ, but the sufferings are instead visited upon a gay couple. Jarman then assaults the senses with a series of images, including a Read More

Your Cheatin' Heart [TV Series]

Actors: Tilda Swinton, John Gordon Sinclair, Kevin McMonagle

Synopsis: Its title notwithstanding, Your Cheatin' Heart was not an American country & western series but instead a six-episode British melodrama. Tilda Swinton starred as Cissie Crouch, whose life was turned upside down when her country-singer husband was arrested for drug dealing. In her efforts to clear Read More

Play Me Something

Actors: John H.M. Berger, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: The line between story and reality is blurred in this arch drama. While waiting for a plane at an airport on an island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, a group of would-be passengers are entertained by a stranger's long tale of a romance in Venice between a secretary and a singing Italian peasant Read More

Aria

Actors: Theresa Russell, Nicola Swain, Jackson Kyle, Buck Henry, Marianne McLoughlin, Julie Hagerty, Tilda Swinton, Marion Peterson

Synopsis: An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising Read More

War Requiem

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes, Rohan McCullough

Synopsis: The first BBC television film to be given a British theatrical release, Derek Jarman's War Requiem is a cinematic interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's famed oratorio. Narrated by Lord Laurence Olivier, whose last film this was, War Requiem combines Britten's music with the words of Read More

Friendship's Death

Actors: Bill Paterson, Tilda Swinton, Patrick Bauchau, Ruby Baker, Joumana Gill

Synopsis: The conflict in Palestine during the '70s provides the setting for this challenging political sci-fi film that centers on an alien woman from a distant galaxy who has come to make peace. As the tale begins, archival films of the "Black September," battles that leveled Amman, Jordan are shown. The Read More

The Last of England

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Spring, Gay Gaynor, Matthew Hawkins

Synopsis: British filmmaker Derek Jarman combines his standard erotic imagery with innovative documentary techniques in his Last of England. The film traces the decline and fall of Britain as seen from the vantage points of London and Belfast. Old home movies, newly shot hand-held 8 millimeter photography Read More

Caravaggio

Actors: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and Read More