Description: Tilda Swinton Is a Scottish actress born in London (5 November 1960). She is the daughter of Judith Balfour and Sir John Swinton, the Laird of Kimmerghame House.
The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages.
Swinton considers herself “first and foremost” a Scot.
She is known for her leading roles in independent film and occasional supporting roles in blockbusters.
Nominated for numerous accolades, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the 2007 film Michael Clayton. She also won the British Academy Scotland Award as Best Actress for the 2003 film Young Adam, and has received three Golden Globe Award nominations.
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Orlando
( 1992 )
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex.
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Only Lovers Left Alive
( 2013 )
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
( 2011 )
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
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Adaptation.
( 2002 )
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
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Constantine
( 2005 )
Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.
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Snowpiercer
( 2014 )
In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
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Michael Clayton
( 2007 )
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.
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Caravaggio
( 1986 )
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
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The Garden
( 1990 )
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
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Teknolust
( 2010 )
Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, which she cloned from her own D.N.A.
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The Statement
( 2004 )
Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hitmen and Police investigators.
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Julia
( 2008 )
A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.
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The Man from London
( 2007 )
After witnessing a crime during his night shift as railway switchman near the docks, a man finds a briefcase full of money. While he and his family step up their living standards, others start looking for the disappeared case.
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A Bigger Splash
( 2015 )
The vacation of a famous rock star and her boyfriend in Italy is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.
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War Requiem
( 1989 )
A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue. It's imagery reflects Owen's story, that of other soldiers, and a nurse during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contempo...Read all
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Letters from Baghdad
( 2016 )
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
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Stephanie Daley
( 2006 )
Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.
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Young Adam
( 2003 )
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
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The Last of England
( 1988 )
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
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I Am Love
( 2010 )
Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
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Thumbsucker
( 2005 )
Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
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Deep Water
( 2006 )
A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race.
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The Souvenir
( 2019 )
A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
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Suspiria
( 2018 )
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
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The Deep End
( 2001 )
A woman spirals out of control while trying to keep her son from being found culpable in a murder investigation.
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Okja
( 2017 )
A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
( 2008 )
The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
( 2010 )
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.
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The Dead Don't Die
( 2019 )
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
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War Machine
( 2017 )
An idiosyncratic General confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuilding operation in Afghanistan.
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Isle of Dogs
( 2018 )
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
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Doctor Strange
( 2016 )
While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
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Hail, Caesar!
( 2016 )
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
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Trainwreck
( 2015 )
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
( 2014 )
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
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The Zero Theorem
( 2013 )
A hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
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Moonrise Kingdom
( 2012 )
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
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The Limits of Control
( 2009 )
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
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The War Zone
( 1999 )
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
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The Beach
( 2000 )
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.
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Burn After Reading
( 2008 )
A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
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Broken Flowers
( 2005 )
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.
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Vanilla Sky
( 2001 )
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
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Conceiving Ada
( 1999 )
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
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The Souvenir: Part II
( 2022 )
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
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Memoria
( 2021 )
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
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