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!
1 IT Chapter 2 ( 2019 )
The movie IT Chapter 2 (2019). Photo: Pinterest
Trailer
Following the successful part 1, IT Chapter 2 continues the story of a group of young people in the town of Derry and their battle with Pennywise - the ghostly clown. Taking the timeline 27 years after part 1, the Losers Club group has now grown up and returned to Derry as promised to destroy Pennywise. But it is not an easy task, because the clown Pennywise evokes in them obsessions and painful memories. They were forced to keep their minds alert and steady to be able to fight him.
James McAvoy plays William Denbrough, commonly known as Bill. He was once the leader of the Losers Club, whose younger brother Georgie was murdered by Pennywise in part 1. After growing up, Bill became a very famous mystery novelist in Los Angeles.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: Action, Drama, Supernatural, Fantasy
Duration: 129 minutes
Actors: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson
IMDb score: 6.5
2 Glass (2019)
The movie Glass (2019). Photo: Pinterest
Trailer
Glass is the final part of the monster movie trilogy, including Unbreakable (2000), Split (2016) and Glass (2019), directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The plot revolves around three main characters with different extraordinary characteristics, namely: David Dunn (Bruce Willis), Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) and Elijah Price/Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson).
David has superhuman physical strength and the ability to see a person's past crimes by touching that person. Kevin has 24 personalities, each with a unique physical characteristic. Elijah has a genius intellect but is disabled.
The three of them are detained by Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson). She didn't believe in super powers, so she captured them and performed a series of experiments, trying to convince them that the super powers they had were actually just an illusion. The three mutants were forced to find a way to escape the laboratory, and at the same time had to constantly compete with each other to avoid being tricked into death.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: Action, Drama, Supernatural, Fantasy
Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes
Actors: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson
IMDb score: 6.6
3 Atomic Blonde (2017)
Movie Atomic Blonde (2017) - Photo: Pinterest
Trailer (2017)
Atomic Blonde is an action film directed by David Leitch. The film takes place in 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron), a British MI6 agent, is assigned to Berlin to search for a lost watch containing a list of active double agents.
On her journey, Lorraine has to work with another spy named David Percival (James McAvoy). David is an unpredictable spy, with no clear side, and not at all trustworthy. James McAvoy succeeded in expressing the character's multidimensionality and complexity. His character has an important role in the story, creating conflicts and tense situations in Lorraine's mission.
Director: David Leitch
Genre: Action, Thriller, Thriller
Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes
Actors: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman
IMdb score: 6.7
4 X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
The movie X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). Photo: Pinterest
Trailer
X-Men: Apocalypse is the ninth part of the X-Men film series, with the plot taking place in the 1980s, following the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film focuses on the X-Men's fight against Apocalypse - a powerful ancient supervillain intent on destroying the world and creating a new one.
James McAvoy returns to one of the most prominent roles of his career - Charles Xavier, aka Professor X. Professor compassionate and highly respected by other mutants. In this movie, Professor He was forced to fight him cognitively and mentally to regain control of his body and abilities.
Director: Bryan Singer
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure
Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes
Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
IMDb score: 6.9
5 Split (2016)
The movie Split (2016). Photo: Pinterest
Trailer
Split is a film revolving around a man with multiple personalities, Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy). In his body, there exist 23 personalities with distinct personalities and skills. To awaken the 24th personality, Kevin believes he needs a sacrifice. So, he kidnapped three girls and locked them in a secret basement. The girls are forced to find every way to survive Kevin and his dangerous new personality.
It can be said that Kevin Wendell Crumb is one of the pinnacle roles in James McAvoy's career when in reality, he had to transform into more than 20 different characters, coexisting in one body. The actor showed his skillful acting ability and received a rain of praise from the audience and critics.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: Horror, psychological, thriller, crime
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes
Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley
IMDb score: 7.3
6 X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014)
The movie X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Photo: Pinterest
Trailer
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
7 Trance (2013)
The movie Trance (2013). Photo: Pinterest
Trailer
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
8 X-Men: First Class (2011)
The movie X-Men: First Class - Photo: IMDb
Trailer
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
9 Atonement (2007)
The movie Atonement (2007). Photo: IMDb
Trailer
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
10 Becoming Jane (2007)
The movie Becoming Jane (2007). Photo: IMDb
Trailer
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
