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Sam Neill

Sam Neill

New Zealand actor, writer, producer and director
September 14, 1947 (76 years old)
U.S. 2022. Science-fiction by Colin Trevorrow with Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Isabella Sermon. Various activists and scientists try to stop a megalomaniac who exploits prehistoric animals for commercial purposes.
Runtime: 146 min.
Aust. 2020. Dramatic comedy by Jeremy Sims with Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson. Two brothers, who have not spoken to each other for years, join forces when a contagious disease threatens the survival of their respective flocks of sheep.
Runtime: 115 min.
Aust. 2019. Sports drama by Rachel Griffiths with Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill, Sullivan Stapleton. The life and career of the first woman jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in Australia.
Runtime: 98 min.
Aust. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Rachel Ward with Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Richard E. Grant. A group of old friends reunites at Sydney's Palm Beach to celebrate a special birthday, but soon enough, the fun gives way to the messy realities of life.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2019. Drama by Roger Michell with Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Rainn Wilson. A 60-year-old woman suffering from a degenerative disease gathers her family members for one final weekend.
Runtime: 97 min.
Aust. 2018. Fantasy comedy by Will Gluck with Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Sam Neill. A mischievous rabbit sees red when the village girl who took him under her wing falls in love with her new neighbour, a psychorigid city dweller who hides his hatred of animals.
Runtime: 95 min.
Aust. 2017. Adventures by Warwick Thornton with Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill. In 1920s Australia, an elderly Aboriginal farmhand is chased by an angry mob after killing a white man in self-defense.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 2017. Thriller by Jaume Collet-Serra with Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Colin McFarlane. On a commuter train, an insurance agent must identify the owner of a bag with compromising contents before arriving at the last stop or his family will be killed.
Runtime: 106 min.
N.-Z. 2016. Adventures by Taika Waititi with Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. A runaway delinquent and his adoptive father are hunted for by police and social services.
Runtime: 101 min.
Aust. 2015. Drama by Simon Stone with Paul Schneider, Geoffrey Rush, Odessa Young. An Australian with a fragile mental state returns from exile to attend the wedding of his father, the head of a logging company going out of business.
Runtime: 96 min.
Aust. 2014. Thriller by Michael Petroni with Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Robin McLeavy. Having discovered that his patients are actually ghosts, a psychologist returns to his native village, where he is confronted with his painful past.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 2014. History by Frédéric Auburtin with Tim Roth, Sam Neill, Gérard Depardieu. The history of FIFA and the soccer world cup, through the destinies of its president-founder Jules Rimet, and his successors Joao Havelange and Sepp Blatter.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2013. Thriller by Mikael Hafström with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel. An engineer specializing in the design of maximum security prisons sees his latest assignment in a penitentiary turn into a nightmare.
Runtime: 116 min.
G.-B. 2013. Dramatic comedy by Pascal Chaumeil with Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots. In London, four suicidal people, who met on the evening of December 31 on the roof of a building, pledge not to take their lives until Valentine's Day.
Runtime: 96 min.
G.-B. 2012. Adventures by Jonathan Newman with Aneurin Barnard, Michael Sheen, Sam Neill. With the help of a strange adventurer, a young man sets out to rescue his parents and younger brother, who have been kidnapped by a mysterious individual looking for a box with fabulous powers.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 2012. Adventures by Danny Cannon with Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill.
Runtime: 120 min.

The Dragon Pearl

V.O.: Xun long duo bao
Aust. 2011. Adventures by Mario Andreacchio with Louis Corbett, Jordan Chan, Sam Neill. Neglected by their archaeologist parents, two teenagers unite to find a magic pearl that will allow them to free a thousand-year-old dragon.
Runtime: 93 min.
Aust. 2011. Adventures by Daniel Nettheim with Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill. An American bounty hunter attempts to capture a Tasmanian tiger for a mysterious client.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 2011. Sentimental drama by Michael Sucsy with Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Wendy Crewson. A young man from Chicago tries to win back his wife who, after an accident, has no memory of their meeting and happy relationship.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 2011. Disaster movie by Nick Copus with Richard Roxburgh, Frances O'Connor, Claire Forlani.
Runtime: 184 min.
N.-Z. 2009. Adventures by Jonathan King with Tom Cameron, Sophie McBride, Sam Neill.
Runtime: 87 min.
Aust. 2009. Horror by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig with Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan. In 2019, on a vampire-dominated Earth, a hematologist is tasked with finding a synthetic substitute for human blood when it runs out.
Runtime: 98 min.
G.-B. 2008. Drama by Anthony Fabian with Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige. Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2008. Drama by David Wu with Sun Li, Luke Macfarlane, Sam Neill. A young Chinese girl disguised as a boy gets hired on the railroad construction crew in the Rockies, where she hopes to find her father.
Runtime: 181 min.

My Talks With Dean Spanley

V.O.: Dean Spanley
N.-Z. 2008. Psychological drama by Toa Fraser with Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole. At the beginning of the 20th century in London, the friendship between a bachelor and a pastor who tells him about his past life, in the form of a dog.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2006. Melodrama by François Ozon with Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Michael Fassbender. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young, successful novelist experiences various setbacks in her personal life.
Runtime: 134 min.
U.S. 2006. Fantasy by David Wu with Sam Neill, John Reardon, Miranda Richardson. Upon awakening from a fifty-year long sleep, Merlinthe magician sets out to find the Holy Grail which has disappeared from Camelot.
Runtime: 175 min.
Aust. 2005. Mores drama by Rowan Woods with Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Dustin Nguyen. A former drug addict whose relatives are involved in all sorts of illegal activities wants to start a business and faces the bank
U.S. 2004. Sentimental comedy by Richard Loncraine with Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Neill. During his farewell tournament, a declining tennis player begins to win again when he falls in love with a young American colleague.
Runtime: 97 min.
G.-B. 2004. Mores drama by Sally Potter with Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill. In London, a biologist married to an unfaithful politician becomes involved in a passionate affair with a Lebanese-born cook.
Runtime: 100 min.
Aust. 2004. Drama by Peter Andrikidis with Leanna Walsman, Lisa Harrow, Sam Neill. In Australia at the beginning of the 20th century, a young woman who
Runtime: 196 min.
N.-Z. 2003. Thriller by Gaylene Preston with Sam Neill, Rachael Blake, Joel Tobeck. A young waitress finds herself trapped on a deserted island by an unhinged admirer.
Runtime: 96 min.

Zhivago

V.O.: Doctor Zhivago
G.-B. 2002. Chronicle by Giacomo Campiotti with Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley, Sam Neill. During the Russian revolution, a married doctor has a romance with a nurse who has been separated from her husband by the war.
U.S. 2001. Drama by James Keach with Sam Neill, Shea Whigham, Emily Procter. In 1939, the crew members of an American submarine endure hours of distress after their vessel sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic.
U.S. 2001. Science-fiction by Joe Johnston with Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni. A couple hires a paleontologist to find their missing son on an island populated by dinosaurs.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 2000. History by Charles Haid with Sam Neill, Carmen Ejogo, Mare Winningham. The controversial affair between Thomas Jefferson, who was president of the United States from 1801 to 1809, and a young Black slave.
Runtime: 251 min.
Aust. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Mark Lamprell with Sinead Cusack, Matthew Newton, Sam Neill. A widow in her fifties decides to go to the same college as her eighteen-year-old son.
Runtime: 95 min.
Aust. 2000. Historic chronicle by Rob Sitch with Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Patrick Warburton. In July 1969, the team of a radio telescope in Australia prepares to broadcast live images of Apollo XI from the Moon to the world.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1999. Science-fiction by Chris Columbus with Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz. Created in 2005, a domestic robot with a conscience spends two centuries trying to become human.
G.-B. 1998. Comedy by Malcolm Mowbray with Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas. Instead of carrying out their suicide plan, two strangers decide to help each other by killing their respective enemies.
Runtime: 86 min.
U.S. 1998. Fantasy by Steve Barron with Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Isabella Rossellini. The story of the magician Merlin, King Arthur, and the knights of the Round Table.
Runtime: 182 min.

Snow White

V.O.: Snow White: A Tale of Terror
U.S. 1997. Fantasy by Michael Cohn with Monica Keena, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill.
U.S. 1997. Science-fiction by Paul W.S. Anderson with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan. In 2047, the crew of a space ship finds the wreckage of a space station near Neptune, haunted by evil powers.
Runtime: 96 min.
18A
U.S. 1996. Crime drama by Jonathan Kaplan with Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Sam Neill.
Runtime: 179 min.
Aust. 1996. Dramatic comedy by Peter Duncan with Judy Davis, Richard Roxburgh, Sam Neill.
G.-B. 1995. Drama by Mark Peploe with Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Rufus Sewell.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Michael Hoffman with Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, Meg Ryan.
Runtime: 117 min.
Aust. 1994. Mores comedy by John Duigan with Tara Fitzgerald, Hugh Grant, Sam Neill.
Runtime: 94 min.
Aust. 1994. Dramatic comedy by Michael Blakemore with Michael Blakemore, Greta Scacchi, Sam Neill.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1994. Fantasy by John Carpenter with Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1994. Adventures by Stephen Sommers with Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1993. Science-fiction by Steven Spielberg with Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough. Thanks to cloning, a promoter manages to populate a deserted island with dinosaurs in order to turn it into an amusement park.
Runtime: 126 min.
U.S. 1993. Chronicle by Philip Saville with Anjelica Huston, Sam Neill, Kyra Sedgwick. The various problems encountered during two decades by a family whose son is autistic.
G.-B. 1992. Spy drama by Robert Young with Sam Neill, Talisa Soto, James Fox. An agent of the British secret service considers defecting when he comes to organize the kidnapping of an influential businessperson
Runtime: 98 min.
Aust. 1992. Sentimental drama by Jane Campion with Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin. Around 1850 in New Zealand, a mute Scottish woman, mother of a little girl, abandons the settler she married by correspondence to begin an affair with his neighbor.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1992. Fantasy comedy by John Carpenter with Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill. After a laboratory accident , a financier becomes invisible and is chased by CIA agents.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1992. Spy drama by Michael Tuchner with Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence. In New Zealand, the French secret serviceplans an attack against the boat of an environmental movement.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1991. Drama by Larry Elikann with Armand Assante, Sam Neill, Marcia Gay Harden. A former convict and a lawyer rescue a former drug addict who has been kidnapped by thugs.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1991. War drama by Larry Elikann with Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Anthony Higgins. During the Second World War, Allied pilots whose planes were shot down manage to leave occupied France thanks to the heroism of a young Englishwoman.
Runtime: 96 min.

Until the End of the World

V.O.: Bis ans Ende der Welt
Fr. 1991. Science-fiction by Wim Wenders with Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Sam Neill. Travelling around the world on a secret mission, the son of an inventor is chased by various individuals, including a young woman who has fallen in love with him.
Runtime: 175 min.
U.S. 1990. Spy drama by John McTiernan with Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn. The commander of a Soviet submarine that sets course for the United States to pass to the West thus arouses the concern of the Americans who do not know his intentions.
Runtime: 135 min.

French Revolution: Years of Hope

V.O.: La Révolution française - Les Années lumière
Fr. 1989. History by Robert Enrico with Jean-François Balmer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, François Cluzet. A portrayal of the facts surrounding the French Revolution, from 1789 to the summer of 1792.
Runtime: 170 min.
U.S. 1988. Social drama by Stephen Gyllenhaal with Anne Archer, Sam Neill, Frances Lee McCain. A woman suffering from a supposedly incurable cancer manages to cure herself thanks to new therapies.
Runtime: 97 min.
Aust. 1988. Social drama by Fred Schepisi with Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Tingwell. A mother is charged with infanticide after claiming that her baby was taken by a wild dog while she was camping in the Australian outback with her family.
Runtime: 121 min.
Aust. 1988. Thriller by Phillip Noyce with Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane. During a yacht cruise, a couple discovers a young man with murderous tendencies on an abandoned ship.
Runtime: 96 min.
Aust. 1986. Psychological drama by Ken Cameron with Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill. In the 1930's, the wife of an undemonstrative lumberjack develops an obsessive passion for a stranger who recently arrived in the village.
Runtime: 97 min.

The Blood of Others

V.O.: Le Sang des autres
Can. 1983. Drama by Claude Chabrol with Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill. Out of love for a communist militant, a young designer joins the resistance.
Runtime: 135 min.
G.-B. 1983. Spy drama by Jim Goddard with Sam Neill, Leo McKern, Peter Egan. In the early nineteenth century, the exploits of a Russian spy working for the British secret service.
Runtime: 79 min.
G.-B. 1982. Spy drama by Jeannot Szwarc with Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey. The CIA sends a man to East Berlin to get hold of a decoder that will prevent the assassination of Russian dissidents who have taken refuge abroad.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1981. Fantasy by Andrzej Zulawski with Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent. Back in Berlin after a long absence, a man discovers that his wife is holed up in a shabby apartment with a mysterious companion.
Runtime: 123 min.
G.-B. 1981. Biography by Krzysztof Zanussi with Cezary Morawski, Sam Neill, Lisa Harrow.
Runtime: 140 min.
U.S. 1981. Fantasy by Graham Baker with Sam Neill, Lisa Harrow, Rossano Brazzi. Convinced that a young American ambassador is the son of Satan, some monks set out to put him to death.
Runtime: 107 min.
Aust. 1980. War drama by Tim Burstall with John Philip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill.
Runtime: 89 min.
Aust. 1979. Dramatic comedy by Gillian Armstrong with Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes.
Runtime: 98 min.
N.-Z. 1977. Political drama by Roger Donaldson with Sam Neill, Ian Mune, Bernard Kearns. Unjustly arrested by the government forces, a man manages to escape from them to join the rebels.
Runtime: 105 min.

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