Willem Dafoe
1) River
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
An exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth's rivers. Spanning six continents, this visual and musical tour-de-force is by turns celebratory, cautionary, and ultimately hopeful that we are beginning to understand rivers in all their complexity and fragility. Narrated by Oscar Nominee Willem Dafoe. With music by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Radiohead.
3) Aquaman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Summary
An action-packed adventure that reveals the origin story of half-human, half- Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime, one that will not only force him to face who he really is but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be a king.
6) Platoon
Pub. Date
[2001]
Summary
Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
7) White sands
Pub. Date
2000
Summary
To untangle a mystery, a small-town sheriff takes on the identity of a murdered FBI agent and becomes the man on the inside of an international crime ring.
9) Existenz
Pub. Date
[1999]
Summary
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
10) The Langoliers
Author
Pub. Date
p2008
Summary
On a cross-country flight, the passengers of American Pride Flight 29 undergo a terrifying ordeal. After falling asleep, a handful of passengers awaken to realize that they have broken the time-space continuum and landed in a static and lifeless world. As they tentatively explore their new surroundings, they begin to hear menacing crunching noises over the hills.
Summary
FBI agent Paul Smecker (Dafoe) is on the trail of two vigilante brothers (Flanery and Reedus) whose spiritual sense of right and wrong has turned Boston's streets red with blood. The victims: villains and mob bosses whom the authorities have been powerless to stop. Now, Smecker finds himself torn between whether he should catch the killers ... or join them.
12) Siberia
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
Clint tends bar at a snowbound roadhouse whose patrons speak a language he doesn₂t understand, and things may not be what they seem. Desperate for answers, he drives a sled team to a nearby cave, but finds no peace. Are the spirits that confront him mere figments of his imagination, or will they slowly tear his body and soul to pieces?
Pub. Date
2022
Summary
When a young woman has run off with an army deserter, a hired gun, Max, is contracted to go after them and bring her home. Finding out that she fled from an abusive husband, Max is faced with the choice to finish the job or look the other way while ruthless assassins and his longtime rival, Joe close in.
14) Tommaso
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
Abel Ferrara’s first dramatic feature since 2014’s Pasolini reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who delivers a career-best performance as the title character, an older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality...
15) Bad country
Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
18) Inside man
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
19) Nightmare alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
A corrupt con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist to trick people into giving them money.
20) Pasolini
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer, in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes from an unmade final film and his incomplete novel, Petrolio. Willem Dafoe, regally exhausted, is the spitting image of the murdered director, and Pasolini’s beloved muse Ninetto Davoli returns...