Top 10 best movies not to miss by actor James McAvoy
James McAvoy is a famous actor from the UK with many impressive roles. The career of the actor born in 1979 began to expand more with his role in the movie Atonement (2007). James McAvoy then continued to conquer the audience with many more thorny and complex roles in the X-Men film series and many other masterpieces such as Atomic Blonde (2017) or IT Chapter 2 - The Clown Spooky 2 (2019). To know more good movies by James McAvoy, let's explore some compiled movie information with Topshare, refer to below!
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X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014)
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Set in the fictional year 2023, Sentinel robots have taken over the world. They hunt and destroy both mutants and normal humans. To save humanity, the X-Men seek to send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back to the past to change an important event through which the future is also changed.
When returning to the past, Wolverine met young Professor Xavier (James McAvoy). At this time, Professor X is falling into depression after a major incident. He turned to alcohol and used a serum to be able to walk again. Instead, the serum blocked his telepathic abilities.
Wolverine must convince Xavier to believe that he comes from the future to change the past and support him in preventing Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from committing acts of launching a war between humanity and mutants. Thanks to his meeting with the future Wolverine, Xavier gradually changed, shook off his trauma and became more mature.
Director: Bryan Singer
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes
Cast: James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Brown Findlay
IMDb score: 7.9
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Trance (2013)
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Trance (2013) is a story about a mission to steal Goya's painting Witches in the Air, but told from three perspectives of three different character lines. The contradictions in the three perspectives are a special feature of the film, causing the audience to be misled, not knowing who is telling the truth.
In the film, James McAvoy plays Simon, an employee of a center specializing in organizing art auctions. Simon shakes hands with Franck (Vincent Cassel), agreeing to work as an inside guy to help him complete the art theft. But unlike Franck's expectations, Simon, with his own greed, took the upper hand and hid the painting as his own.
To get the painting, the thieves took Simon away, but unfortunately hit him in the head, causing him to lose his memory. To restore Simon's memories, Franck invites a hypnotist and from here, things start to get confusing.
Director: Danny Boyle
Genre: Psychological, Action, Mystery
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes
Actors: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel
IMDb score: 6.9
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X-Men: First Class (2011)
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Set in the 1960s, at a time when the Cold War was escalating, the film focuses on the mutants' youth, mainly revolving around the relationship between Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Erik. Lensherr (played by Michael Fassbender).
Initially, the two of them accompanied each other in recruiting mutants, forming an army to fight evil to save the world from the threat of nuclear war. However, during the battle with the evil side, there was a serious conflict between the two and that was when Charles realized they were no longer of the same mind.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Superhero, Science Fiction
Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes
Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
IMDb score: 7.7
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Atonement (2007)
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Atonement is one of the classic psychological melodrama films in contemporary cinema history. The work tells the tragic love story between Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy).
Robbie is the son of a butler for the wealthy Tallis family. He and Cecilia - the eldest daughter of the Tallis family - had a secret relationship, but it was accidentally discovered by the youngest daughter of the Tallis family, Briony (Saoirse Ronan). With the naive intelligence and rich imagination of a 13-year-old girl, Briony misunderstood the relationship between Robbie and her sister, thinking that Robbie was a bad guy.
Because of this thought, Briony later testified falsely, accusing Robbie of rape. Robbie was imprisoned and his love affair with Cecilia fell into tragedy from here.
Playing the role of Robbie Turner, James McAvoy impresses not only with his outstanding acting, but also with his heart-stopping beauty, a classic "muse" with blue eyes, clear as a lake.
Director: Joe Wright
Genre: Romance, War, Fantasy
Duration: 123 minutes
Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan
IMDb score: 7.8
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Becoming Jane (2007)
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Becoming Jane retells the love story of famous female writer Jane Austen. Her love story was also the inspiration for her to write the classic work Pride and Prejudice. In the film, "American rose" Anne Hathaway transforms into Jane Austen, while James McAvoy plays lawyer Thomas Lefroy - Jane's childhood lover.
The story of the film begins when Jane Austen reaches marriageable age but her family has not yet found a suitable partner for her. Jane has aspirations of becoming a writer, but her mother does not support that dream. One day, the handsome lawyer Thomas Lefroy moved to live in the peaceful countryside where Jane's family resided.
Having heard many bad stories about Thomas and having a bad first meeting, Jane really disliked Thomas, thinking he was a cocky and arrogant person. But after many interactions, they gradually developed feelings for each other. However, their love story is not smooth when faced with status gap and harsh reality. Can they get together like Lizzy and Mr. Darcy of Pride and Prejudice?
Director: Julian Jarrold
Genre: Romance, biographical film
Duration: 120 minutes
Actors: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters,...
IMDb score: 7
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