Directed by Phillip Noyce • 1989 • Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane
It’s anything but smooth sailing in this tightly wound maritime thriller, featuring a sensational Nicole Kidman in her international breakthrough performance. Adapted from a novel by pulp master Charles Williams—originally filmed by Orson Welles for an ultimately unfinished project—DEAD CALM follows grieving couple Rae (Kidman) and John Ingram (Sam Neill), who take their yacht onto the remote waters of the Pacific for a sailing expedition as they attempt to work through the recent death of their child. When they rescue the half-delirious sole survivor (Billy Zane) of a crippled schooner, the couple find themselves plunged into a desperate cat-and-mouse game on the high seas.
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To Die For
Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1995 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin PhoenixThe all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. I...
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The Portrait of a Lady
Directed by Jane Campion • 1996 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara HersheyJane Campion’s dreamily impressionistic adaptation of Henry James’s classic novel follows the fortunes of the free-spirited Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman), a bright-eyed America...
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Eyes Wide Shut
Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1999 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney PollackStanley Kubrick’s final magnum opus, an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Dream Story,” is one of the great late films—an unsettlingly enigmatic journey into erotic fantasy and ...
