Actor · Voice actor · 1953

Ciarán Hinds

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13:00: average
52 min: in total

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Life During Wartime

Todd Solondz · 2009

Todd Solondz’s 2009 film revisits the Jordan family from Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse with new actors and a bleaker, more metaphysical tone. Trish raises her children while hiding her imprisoned ex-husband Bill’s crime; Bill returns seeking absolution he won’t receive; Joy drifts between visions of dead men. Edward Lachman’s restrained cinematography and Solondz’s unsparing script refuse catharsis, treating trauma, accountability, and time as layered, unresolved conditions rather than narrative problems to solve.

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Miami Vice

Michael Mann · 2006

Michael Mann’s 2006 Miami Vice is a digitally shot, atmospherically dense crime film starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Miami-Dade detectives infiltrating a transnational drug operation. Shot on location across the Caribbean and South Florida, it trades the 1980s TV series’ stylisation for a muted, immersive realism — prioritising surveillance aesthetics, ambient sound, and moral ambiguity over exposition or catharsis. Though polarising on release, its reputation has grown for its formal rigour and sensory coherence.

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Frozen

Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee · 2013

Two royal sisters are separated by one sister's uncontrollable ice powers, and the younger one sets out to bring her home rather than defeat her. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee's 2013 film reworks Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen into a story about repair between siblings rather than romance.

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There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson · 2007

There Will Be Blood follows Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman, across roughly three decades of the Californian oil boom, loosely adapting Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! Daniel Day-Lewis plays Plainview opposite Paul Dano's preacher Eli Sunday, with Jonny Greenwood's score and Robert Elswit's cinematography setting a tone closer to horror than period drama. Anderson's screenplay narrows Sinclair's sprawling novel to its first chapters and lets one man's ambition curdle into something closer to a diagnosis than a character study.