Paul Bettany initially appeared on stage productions like ‘Richard III,’ ‘Romeo & Juliet,’ and others. His first screen appearance was on the TV-series ‘Wycliffe’ (1994), followed by the TV-film ‘Sharpe’s Waterloo’ (1997).
Bettany made his film debut in the drama-film ‘Bent’ (1997). His lead role in ‘Gangster No.1’ (2000) earned him a lot of praise. He appeared in ‘A Knight’s Tale’ (2001), while ‘A Beautiful Mind’ (2001) fetched further acclaim.
After ‘Dogville’ (2003), Bettany starred in the war-drama ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’ (2003) earning accolades. He then starred in ‘Wimbledon’ (2004), ‘Firewall’ (2006) and ‘The Da Vinci Code’ (2006).
Bettany earned fame as voice of ‘J.A.R.V.I.S.’ in ‘Iron Man’ (2008) and also, in ‘Iron Man2’ (2010), ‘The Avengers’ (2012), and ‘Iron Man3’ (2013). Continuing with the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, he appeared as ‘Vision’ in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ (2015), ‘Captain America: Civil War’ (2016), and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ (2018) and TV-miniseries ‘WandaVision’ (2021).
Bettany also starred in ‘Inkheart’ (2008), ‘Creation’ (2009), ‘The Tourist’ (2010), ‘Legion’ (2010), ‘Priest’ (2011), ‘Margin Call’ (2011), ‘Transcendence’ (2014), ‘Mortdecal’ (2015), ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ (2018), and ‘Uncle Frank’ (2020).
Bettany wrote, co-produced, and debuted as director with the drama-film ‘Shelter’ (2014).
The intergalactic warlord from Titan, Thanos, is on a quest to collect the six Infinity Stones that will empower him to destroy half of all life in the universe. The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy must come together to stop Thanos and save the world.
The biographical movie, partly inspired by Sylvia Nasar’s book, depicts the life of the mathematician and Nobel Laureate, John Nash. Early in his career, he achieves success with his remarkable discovery. However, he soon begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and goes through years of struggle before he eventually manages to succeed and win the Nobel Prize.
Grace Mulligan is given refuge from gangsters by the people of Dogville, an American town, in exchange for doing small chores. But things take a darker turn when chores turn into torture and rape. When Grace finally accepts her identity of being the gang leader’s daughter she burns the town and its people to the ground.
A mission of Avengers results in the loss of civilian lives, hence political pressure mounts to have regulations for the superhero team. This causes the team to split into two groups – Team Captain America favouring freedom of superheroes and Team Iron Man backing the government. Meanwhile, Captain America’s old friend Bucky Barnes is accused of the murder of King T'Chaka of Wakanda.
In 1805, Captain Jack Aubrey of HMS Surprise pursues the French privateer Acheron, but sustains heavy damage after being ambushed off the coast of Brazil. Despite Europe falling to Napoleon, Aubrey is determined to complete the mission against the decidedly superior vessel with the help of his crew and trusted friend, the ship's doctor, Stephen Maturin.
After the Avengers retrieve Loki's scepter from a Hydra facility, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner use it to complete Stark's Ultron global defense program. However, Ultron turns against humans realizing their wrongdoings, and attacks the Avengers, eliminating Stark's A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. The Avengers must stop a global extinction with mysterious superhuman twins, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff.
An 18 year old girl named Beth moves from her home in Creekville, South Carolina, to attend college in New York City, where her uncle Frank is a professor. She feels closer to him more than anyone in the family, and soon discovers that he is actually gay. When Frank’s father and Beth’s grandfather dies of a heart attack suddenly, Frank agrees to drive with her back to South Carolina to attend the funeral.
Based on Queen Victoria’s early reign, the film portrays her life since the time she was the heir presumptive. Subjected to a political tug of war in the family, she has a difficult time until she accedes to the throne. The film then goes on to depict her struggle as a young queen, her marriage to Prince Albert, their initial fights, ending with their final reconciliation.
The Secret Life of Bees is an American drama film which tells the story of a teen girl who runs away to a small town in South Carolina to know the truth about her mother. She soon finds a group of women who may have a connection to her past.
The drama revolves around a Wall Street investment bank during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the actions taken by its employees. A mass layoff including the firing of Eric Dale, head of risk management, opens the door to conspiracies and the revelation of an underlying devastating financial crisis.
Max is a gay Jewish man, living in 1930s Berlin, during the time of the Nazi regime. He is caught and sent to a concentration camp. He tries to deny that he is gay, and gets a yellow label, meant for Jews, instead of the pink one, meant for gays. He soon meets another prisoner named Horst, who proudly wears the pink label, and begins to develop an attraction to him.
The movie follows the first adventure of the charismatic character of Han Solo from the Star Wars franchise. With the aide of Chewbacca and a young Lando Calrissian, Han must find a way to stop the criminals Dryden Vos, Beckett, and come to terms with his friend and romantic interest Qi'ra’s betrayal.
After his master dies, William Thatcher, a peasant squire, decides to wear his armor to impersonate him, and soon he creates a new identify for himself as a knight. Fueled by desire for food and glory, he starts taking part in more and more tournaments.
A mob boss looks back at his humble beginnings as a small-time crook under the tutelage of an influential and dangerous crime lord. He proves his efficiency to the latter by coming up with creative methods to kill their enemies.
A mystery thriller that explores the events that unfold after a Harvard University professor is suspected of a grisly and unusual murder, The Da Vinci Code is a fast-paced drama with a surprise ending. The film is considered controversial.
Creation is a biographical drama film which revolves around the life of Charles Darwin, a naturalist, as he is trying to complete his book ‘On the Origin of Species’. Although his evolutionary theories conflicts with the religious beliefs of his wife, he tries to maintain their relationship as well as struggles to find a balance between faith and science.
The Reckoning is a mystery crime drama film which takes us to 14th century England, and it revolves around a disgraced priest who joins a traveling acting troupe. When he discovers a murder, he tries to solve the case by recreating it in one of their performances.
After slipping to the rank of 119, British tennis pro Peter colt decides to retire from competitive tennis. As he appears for his last Wimbledon, he meets Lizzie Bradbury, an American rising star and the two fall in love. Peter once again starts winning games. But Lizzie's overprotective father objects to the liaison, fearing it will hamper her career.
Dr. Will Caster is involved in developing a sentient computer when he is shot by an anti-technology terrorist group R.I.F.T. With only a month to live, his wife Evelyn uploads his consciousness into a quantum computer. But soon Evelyn and his best friend Max must find a way to stop him when he starts controlling human minds.
Mo Folchart and his daughter Meggie were born with the gift of reading characters from books into real life. When Mo accidentally, unleashes the villain Capricorn from the book 'Inkheart' into the real world, his wife Resa gets trapped in the book. Mo and Meggie must find a way to survive Capricorn and save Resa.
When Frank Tupelo meets a beautiful woman, Elise, on board a train to Venice, he takes it as a chance encounter. However, soon he finds himself being chased by Inspector John Acheson as well as a mobster, Reginald Shaw, both of who believe that he is the wanted Alexander Pearce who has undergone a surgery to change his face.
Jack Stanfield, head security executive of a bank, is forced by a scheming criminal to steal $100 million from his bank, as ransom for his family held captive at home. He pays by infiltrating bank’s computer security that he designed, but the criminals kidnap his family with no intentions of their safe return. Now he must act fast to save his family.
Priest is a former elite warrior who fought in the long war between humans and vampires and now lives in a walled city controlled by The Church. When his niece, Lucy, is abducted by some vampires and the clergy dismisses the possibility of a vampire resurgence, he launches a rescue attempt with Lucy's boyfriend and a powerful Priestess.
Charismatic British aristocrat and part-time shady art dealer Charlie Mortdecai, suffers constantly from lack of funds to support his lifestyle. Therefore, when his former college friend who is currently an MI5 officer, asks him to find a stolen painting, he accepts. However, it eventually turns out that Charlie is not the only one who is in pursuit of the painting.
Archangel Michael is sent to earth along with Legion of angels to prevent the birth of a savior prophet and bring an end to the human race as God has lost hope in mankind. However, Michael still has hope in humans and disobeys God by not killing the unborn prophet. This leads to a battle between the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, the winner being the one that comes true on the test of God.
In this first crossover film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury assembles a team of superheroes, featuring Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye, who must overcome their differences to tackle extraterrestrial threats posed by Asgardian Loki after he comes into possession of the powerful device Tesseract.
A superhero film based on the eponymous Marvel Comics character and the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man has Tony Stark, a genius billionaire, securing his release from an Afghan cave by creating high-tech suit of armor. He perfects the suit and uses it to fight evil forces to protect the world.
The seventh film in the Iron Man film series, Iron Man Three sees Tony Stark suffering from stress, anxiety and insomnia after the battle of New York. Soon, he finds himself pitted against a powerful and mysterious foe, Mandarin. When his close ones get attacked, Tony goes after those responsible and in process discovers that an event from past is connected to the present.
Since revealing himself as Iron Man, Tony Stark is being pressured by the government and weapon contractors to reveal the technology behind his powerful suit. He must find a way to fight them while also tackling his other enemies.
Based on the true story of twin British criminals Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the film traces their rise to power in the 1960s London. The two brothers resort to violence and intimidation to seize control of a local pub, and eventually most of the dark criminal underworld of London, with Detective Leonard 'Nipper' Read on their trail.
