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Actor · Voice actor · 1950

Ron Perlman

6: briefs
13:00: average
78 min: in total

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Cronos

Guillermo del Toro · 1992

Guillermo del Toro’s 1992 debut follows an elderly antique dealer who discovers a 460-year-old alchemical device that reverses ageing at the cost of bloodlust and physical decay. As he grapples with renewed youth, moral compromise, and encroaching monstrosity, a dying industrialist and his violent nephew pursue the device. Shot in Mexico in Spanish, the film balances gothic horror with Catholic solemnity and familial tenderness — all without recourse to exposition or excess.

The City of Lost Children

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro · 1995

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s 1995 science fiction film constructs a decaying, steampunk-adjacent port city where dreams are harvested, children kidnapped, and bodies augmented. Ron Perlman plays a strongman searching for his abducted brother, aided by a resourceful orphan and a salvaged scientist. Its power lies in tactile worldbuilding — costume, lighting, set design — rather than plot mechanics. Though critically admired for its visual imagination, its narrative opacity divides viewers. It is arthouse science fiction that prioritises atmosphere over explanation.

Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn · 2011

Ryan Gosling plays an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a wheelman, drawn toward his neighbour Irene and her young son right as her ex-convict husband's debts pull them all into a heist that goes wrong. Adapted by Hossein Amini from James Sallis's nonlinear novel and directed by Refn after Gosling handpicked him, the film pairs a stripped-down, near-silent lead performance with Cliff Martinez's synth score and long stretches where almost nothing is said out loud.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson · 2022

Carved by a grieving Geppetto from the tree growing over his dead son's grave, this stop-motion Pinocchio is rowdy, disobedient and impossible to control, set against the rise of Fascist Italy. Fourteen years in development before Netflix financed it, the film keeps Collodi's darkness rather than softening it into a straightforward morality tale.

Tangled

Byron Howard, Nathan Greno · 2010

Rapunzel escapes her tower with the help of a fleeing thief, and the film blends painterly computer animation with a straightforward fairy-tale plot. Directors Byron Howard and Nathan Greno's 2010 film, the most expensive animated feature made at the time, marked Disney's title change from Rapunzel to something less overtly a princess story.

The Book of Life

Jorge R. Gutiérrez · 2014

A bullfighter who would rather play guitar navigates a love triangle, his family's expectations and a wager between two gods of the afterlife. Jorge R. Gutierrez's 2014 directorial debut renders its Day of the Dead setting as carved wooden folk art brought to motion.