Movies starring Robert Carlyle

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T2 Trainspotting

It’s impossible to catch lightning in a bottle twice, yet that’s what director Danny Boyle is trying to do with his belated sequel to Trainspotting. More an extended epilogue to the cult 1996 movie than a stand-alone story, T2 (the title is...

Run Time: 1:57
U.S. Release Date: 2017-03-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, ...
Full Monty, The

The Full Monty is the third recent dramatic comedy to emerge from the United Kingdom to illustrate the effects of unemployment on the individual and the family. Like Brassed Off! and The Van, The Full Monty combines humor with light drama to e...

Run Time: 1:30
U.S. Release Date: 1997-08-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, ...
World Is Not Enough, The

Ten years ago, when the second and final Timothy Dalton Bond movie, Licence to Kill, tanked at the box office, it looked like the venerable secret agent had finally run out of gas, driven into the ground by the likes of The Terminator and Rambo. A...

Run Time: 2:08
U.S. Release Date: 1999-11-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, ...
Trainspotting

Next to Independence Day, Trainspotting may be the most hyped motion picture of the summer. Miramax Films, the distributor that saturated the market with ads for The Crying Game in 1992- 93 and Pulp Fiction in '94, has struck again. Trainspotti...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Drugs, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, ...
Riff-Raff

Stevie (Robert Carlyle) is an ex-con from Scotland struggling to start anew. In an attempt to change his life, he takes a construction job in North London where he meets an assortment of others who, in one way or another, are just like him. H...

Run Time: 1:36
U.S. Release Date: 1993-04-07
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman, ...
Go Now

Few screen romances are as touching, as tragic, and as life affirming as the one shared by Nick (Robert Carlyle) and Karen (Juliet Aubrey) in director Michael Winterbottom's Go Now. While the film is ultimately about the effects of multiple sc...

Run Time: 1:26
U.S. Release Date: 1998-05-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt, ...
Beach, The

Let me start with a disclosure: I have not read the Alex Garland novel upon which The Beach is based, so I'm not in a position to discuss firsthand whether or not it butchers its source text (according to some reports, it does). The film represen...

Run Time: 1:58
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, ...
28 Weeks Later

Another week, another disappointing summer sequel. So it goes… In actuality, the screenplay for 28 Weeks Later isn't all that bad. Sure, it's repetitious and much of it has been regurgitated from 2003's 28 Days Later, but it contains some in...

Run Time: 1:39
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR/THRILLER
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Catherine McCormack, ...
Eragon

The creative and financial successes of two franchises - Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings - have changed the way in which fantasy is viewed by movie-goers. Once a genre pigeonholed as fit only for Dungeons & Dragons nerds, fantasy has gone m...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Stefan Fangmeier
Cast: Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, ...
Priest

The Catholic community's outcry against Priest has already begun, and it will doubtlessly become more intense before it abates. One of the most disturbing elements of any organized protest of this sort is that most of those involved will not have ...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 1995-03-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Antonia Bird
Cast: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson, ...