Movies starring Cate Blanchett

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Cate Blanchett graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992 and, in a little over a year, had won both critical and popular acclaim. On graduating from NIDA, she joined the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls", then played Felice Bauer, the bride, in Timothy Daly 's "Kafka Dances", winning the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Crit ...  show all 

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Ian McKellen | Elijah Wood | Noel Appleby | Alexandra Astin | Sean Astin | David Aston | John Bach | Sean Bean | Cate Blanchett | Orlando Bloom | Billy Boyd | Sadwyn Brophy | Alistair Browning | Marton Csokas | Richard Edge | Jason Fitch | Bernard Hill
Directors: Peter Jackson
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.

The Good German (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Thompson | John Roeder | George Clooney | Tobey Maguire | Cate Blanchett | Dominic Comperatore | Dave Power | Tony Curran | Ravil Isyanov | J. Paul Boehmer | Igor Korosec | Boris Kievsky | Vladimir Kulikov | Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy | Aleksandr Sountsov
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain’s uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who’s now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he’s assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena’s keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Mohamed Akhzam | Peter Wight | Harriet Walter | Trevor Martin | Matyelok Gibbs | Georges Bousquet | Claudine Acs | André Oumansky | Michael Maloney | Dermot Crowley | Wendy Nottingham | Henry Maratray | Linda Broughton
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Owen Wilson | Cate Blanchett | Anjelica Huston | Willem Dafoe | Jeff Goldblum | Michael Gambon | Noah Taylor | Bud Cort | Seu Jorge | Robyn Cohen | Waris Ahluwalia | Niels Koizumi | Pawel Wdowczak | Matthew Gray Gubler
Directors: Wes Anderson
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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he’s having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he’s attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?

Bandits (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Billy Bob Thornton | Cate Blanchett | Troy Garity | Brian F. O'Byrne | Stacey Travis | Bobby Slayton | January Jones | Azura Skye | Peggy Miley | William Converse-Roberts | Richard Riehle | Micole Mercurio | Scott Burkholder | Anthony Burch
Directors: Barry Levinson
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A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. Becoming known as the “Sleepover Bandits”, the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough. Using a dim-witted stunt man (Troy Garrity) as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs that gets them recognition on a tv show about America’s criminals. When a bored housewife (Cate Blanchett) with a failing marriage decides to runaway, she ends up in the hands of the criminals. Initially attracted to Willis, she nonetheless also ends up in bed with Thornton and a confused romantic relationship begins. Continuing along with their spree, the bandits hit the wall when the bank managers realize that they are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees. This leads to one more big score at the Alamo Bank, where in the very opening scenes, things appear to go awry.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Gwyneth Paltrow | Jude Law | Cate Blanchett | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Jack Davenport | James Rebhorn | Sergio Rubini | Philip Baker Hall | Celia Weston | Fiorello | Stefania Rocca | Ivano Marescotti | Anna Longhi | Alessandro Fabrizi
Directors: Anthony Minghella
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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie’s cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom’s talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf’s privileges his own.

The Aviator (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Cate Blanchett | Kate Beckinsale | John C. Reilly | Alec Baldwin | Alan Alda | Ian Holm | Danny Huston | Gwen Stefani | Jude Law | Adam Scott | Matt Ross | Kelli Garner | Frances Conroy | Brent Spiner
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

Little Fish (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Sam Neill | Hugo Weaving | Martin Henderson | Noni Hazlehurst | Joel Tobeck | Lisa McCune | Susie Porter | Nina Liu | Linda Cropper | Daniella Farinacci | Ferdinand Hoang | Anh Do | Jason Chong | Anthony Wong
Directors: Rowan Woods
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In Sidney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey’s mother Janelle fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley ‘The Jockey’ Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Liv Tyler | Viggo Mortensen | Sean Astin | Cate Blanchett | John Rhys-Davies | Bernard Hill | Christopher Lee | Billy Boyd | Dominic Monaghan | Orlando Bloom | Hugo Weaving | Miranda Otto | David Wenham
Directors: Peter Jackson
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Sauron’s forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman’s army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron’s troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.