Movies starring Cliff Curtis

Biography: 
Cliff Curtis was born in Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand on July 27, 1968. Of New Zealand Maori descent (Ngati Hauiti, Te Arawa) he spent time when young learning the traditional Maori fighting styles of mau rakau. He enrolled at the New Zealand Drama School, and then the Teatro Dmitri Scoula in Switzerland. After returning to Aotearoa New Zealand from Europe, he was cast in "The Piano (1993)" ...  show all 

Blow (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Penélope Cruz | Franka Potente | Rachel Griffiths | Paul Reubens | Jordi Mollà | Cliff Curtis | Miguel Sandoval | Ethan Suplee | Ray Liotta | Kevin Gage | Max Perlich | Jesse James | Miguel Pérez | Dan Ferro
Directors: Ted Demme
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A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950’s. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George’s father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960’s, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960’s, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Training Day (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Ethan Hawke | Scott Glenn | Tom Berenger | Harris Yulin | Raymond J. Barry | Cliff Curtis | Dr. Dre | Snoop Dogg | Macy Gray | Charlotte Ayanna | Eva Mendes | Nick Chinlund | Jaime Gomez | Raymond Cruz
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. ‘Training Day’ follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris’ methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.

Deep Rising (1998)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Treat Williams | Famke Janssen | Anthony Heald | Kevin J. O'Connor | Wes Studi | Derrick O'Connor | Jason Flemyng | Cliff Curtis | Clifton Powell | Trevor Goddard | Djimon Hounsou | Una Damon | Clint Curtis | Warren Takeuchi | Linden Banks
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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A gang of jewel thieves board an empty luxury liner in the South Seas to find that the crew and passengers have been killed by a monster that kills its victims and sucks the water from their bodies that looks like a mix of a giant squid and the monster from “Aliens”.

Sunshine (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cliff Curtis | Chris Evans | Troy Garity | Archie Macdonald | Cillian Murphy | Hiroyuki Sanada | Mark Strong | Benedict Wong | Paloma Baeza | Rose Byrne | Sylvia Macdonald | Michelle Yeoh
Directors: Danny Boyle
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50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team are sent to finish the mission as they are Earth’s last hope.

Fracture (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Ryan Gosling | David Strathairn | Rosamund Pike | Embeth Davidtz | Billy Burke | Cliff Curtis | Fiona Shaw | Bob Gunton | Josh Stamberg | Xander Berkeley | Zoe Kazan | Judith Scott | Gary Cervantes | Petrea Burchard
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

River Queen (2005)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Samantha Morton | Kiefer Sutherland | Cliff Curtis | Temuera Morrison | Anton Lesser | Rawiri Paratene | Stephen Rea | Wi Kuki Kaa | Mark Ruka | Tyson Reweti | Grayson Putu | Nathan Passfield | Laura Coyte Douglas | Julie Ranginui | Brandon Lakshman
Directors: Vincent Ward
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An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonisation of New Zealand.

The Fountain (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Rachel Weisz | Ellen Burstyn | Mark Margolis | Stephen McHattie | Fernando Hernandez | Cliff Curtis | Sean Patrick Thomas | Donna Murphy | Ethan Suplee | Richard McMillan | Lorne Brass | Abraham Aronofsky | Renee Asofsky | Anish Majumdar
Directors: Darren Aronofsky
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Point of Origin (2002)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Liotta | John Leguizamo | Colm Feore | Cliff Curtis | Ling Bai | Illeana Douglas | Ronny Cox | Trent Gill | Ingrid Rubio | Ryan B. Adams | Graham Beckel | Mike Camello | Joe Colligan | Shashawnee Hall | Marshall Manesh
Directors: Newton Thomas Sigel
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Based on a true story, this twisting psychological thriller focuses on a serial arsonist whose terrifying six-year crime spree is juxtaposed with the increasingly desperate efforts of investigators to bring him to justice. Charged with investigating many of these fires is Captain John Orr (Ray Liotta), a legendary figure in the Glendale Fire Department, possessed with an uncanny ability to pinpoint the origins of a fire, as well as the devices by which an arsonist may have carried out the crime. Through a fingerprint left at the scene of one crime and a series of surprise revelations focusing on arsons set in several towns, the task force is able to close in on an unlikely suspect. . . and ultimately crack the case.

Whale Rider (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | New Zealand
Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes | Rawiri Paratene | Vicky Haughton | Cliff Curtis | Grant Roa | Mana Taumaunu | Rachel House | Taungaroa Emile | Tammy Davis | Mabel Wharekawa | Rawinia Clarke | Tahei Simpson | Roi Taimana | Elizabeth Skeen | Tyronne White
Directors: Niki Caro
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Virus (1999)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis | William Baldwin | Donald Sutherland | Joanna Pacula | Marshall Bell | Sherman Augustus | Cliff Curtis | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Yuri Chervotkin | Keith Flippen | Olga Rzhepetskaya-Retchin | Levani Outchaneichvili | David Eggby
Directors: John Bruno
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After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug “Sea Star” takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton (’Donald Sutherland’ (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew believes their troubles are over and they are set for life when the captain informs them of the value of salvaging this apparent ghost-ship. However, the navigator Kit Foster (’Jamie Lee Curtis’ (qv)) and the chief engineer Steve Baker (’William Baldwin’ (qv)) are not convinced that it will be that easy. Once power is restored to the ship strange things start to happen and the crew mysteriously disappear one by one. It isn’t until the discovery of the last remaining Russian crew member, the chief science officer Nadia Vinogradiya (’Joanna Pacula’ (qv)), that the crew realise the enemy ranged against them isn’t the Russians but something far more malevolent…