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Best Colin Farrell movies

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TOP 25: Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Character: George Pierce
Genre: Drama
Release: 2017
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm’s frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.


TOP 24: Solace

Character: Charles Ambrose
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2015
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.

TOP 23: Ondine

Character: Syracuse
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.


TOP 22: Epic

Character: Ronin (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2013
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.


TOP 21: Pride and Glory

Character: Jimmy Eagan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2008
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.

TOP 20: Triage

Character: Mark Walsh
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Release: 2009
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.


TOP 19: Widows

Character: Jack Mulligan
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 2018
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.


TOP 18: The New World

Character: Captain Smith
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Release: 2005
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

TOP 17: Horrible Bosses

Character: Bobby Pellitt
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 2011
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.


TOP 16: Dumbo

Character: Holt Farrier
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2019
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.


TOP 15: Veronica Guerin

Character: Tattooed Boy
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2003
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

TOP 14: Tigerland

Character: Pvt. Roland Bozz
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 2000
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971


TOP 13: A Home at the End of the World

Character: Bobby Morrow (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2004
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.


TOP 12: Phone Booth

Character: Stu Shepard
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 2002
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.


TOP 11: Seven Psychopaths

Character: Marty Faranan
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 2012
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

TOP 10: The Way Back

Character: Valka
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Release: 2010
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous & uncertain journey to freedom, as they cross deserts, mountains, & several nations.


TOP 9: The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Character: Steven Murphy
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2017
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.


TOP 8: Crazy Heart

Character: Tommy Sweet
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Release: 2009
When reporter, Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.


TOP 7: The Lobster

Character: David
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller, Romance
Release: 2015
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.


TOP 6: The War Zone

Character: Nick
Genre: Drama
Release: 1999
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

TOP 5: Minority Report

Character: Danny Witwer
Genre: Action, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2002
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.


TOP 4: Saving Mr. Banks

Character: Travers Robert Goff
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 2013
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.


TOP 3: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Character: Percival Graves
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2016
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.


TOP 2: The Gentlemen

Character: Coach
Genre: Action, Crime
Release: 2020
A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.


TOP 1: In Bruges

Character: Ray
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2008
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

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