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Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand-born actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Perfo... more

Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand-born actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, Doctor Sleep (2019), Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). His television roles include NBC's Trauma, and ABC's Body of Proof and Missing. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.

He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.

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Training Day
(2001)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
Antoine Fuqua
Cast:
Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin
7.7
73%
69
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Avatar: The Way of Water
(2022)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Runtime:
192 min
Director:
James Cameron
Cast:
Kate Winslet, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Selçuk Şahin
7.6
76%
67
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The Insider
(1999)
Drama, History, Thriller
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
Runtime:
158 min
Director:
Michael Mann
Cast:
Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall
7.8
96%
84
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Blow
(2001)
Crime, Drama
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, s...
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Ted Demme
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ethan Suplee, Ray Liotta, Franka Potente
7.6
55%
52
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Live Free or Die Hard
(2007)
Action, Thriller
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Len Wiseman
Cast:
Bruce Willis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q
7.1
82%
69
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Sunshine
(2007)
Science Fiction, Thriller
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Danny Boyle
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Chris Evans
7.2
77%
64
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The Fountain
(2006)
Adventure, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Darren Aronofsky
Cast:
Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie
7.2
52%
51
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Fracture
(2007)
Thriller
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Gregory Hoblit
Cast:
Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, David Strathairn
7.2
71%
68
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The Piano
(1993)
Drama, Romance
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes in...
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Jane Campion
Cast:
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Tungia Baker
7.6
91%
89
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Three Kings
(1999)
Action, Comedy, War
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
David O. Russell
Cast:
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis
7.1
94%
82
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Runaway Jury
(2003)
Drama, Thriller
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Gary Fleder
Cast:
John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce McGill
7.1
73%
61
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Once Were Warriors
(1994)
Drama
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Lee Tamahori
Cast:
Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga, Taungaroa Emile
7.9
93%
77
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Whale Rider
(2003)
Drama, Family
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Niki Caro
Cast:
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa
7.5
91%
80
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Bringing Out the Dead
(1999)
Drama
Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore
6.8
72%
70
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The Majestic
(2001)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Runtime:
152 min
Director:
Frank Darabont
Cast:
Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, David Ogden Stiers, Hal Holbrook
6.9
42%
27
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Colombiana
(2011)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Olivier Megaton
Cast:
Zoe Saldana, Cliff Curtis, Callum Blue, Michael Vartan, Lennie James
6.4
27%
45
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Push
(2009)
Action, Science Fiction
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes ...
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Paul McGuigan
Cast:
Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Chris Evans, Djimon Hounsou, Maggie Siff
6.1
23%
36
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The Meg
(2018)
Action, Horror, Science Fiction
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Eli Roth
Cast:
Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Jessica McNamee
5.7
46%
46
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Crossing Over
(2009)
Crime, Drama
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality tha...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Wayne Kramer
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis
6.7
15%
38
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Six Days Seven Nights
(1998)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Ivan Reitman
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison
5.8
38%
51
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Deep Rising
(1998)
Action, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Stephen Sommers
Cast:
Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor, Una Damon
6.1
30%
N/A
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Last Knights
(2015)
Action, Adventure
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Kazuaki Kiriya
Cast:
Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sung-kee Ahn
6.2
14%
27
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A Thousand Words
(2012)
Comedy, Drama
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from ...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Brian Robbins
Cast:
Eddie Murphy, Allison Janney, Cliff Curtis, Clark Duke, Kerry Washington
5.9
N/A
26
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Collateral Damage
(2002)
Action, Drama, Thriller
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Andrew Davis
Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Francesca Neri, Elias Koteas, Cliff Curtis, John Turturro
5.5
19%
33
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Risen
(2016)
Drama, History
Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Kevin Reynolds
Cast:
Tom Felton, Cliff Curtis, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Firth, Leonor Watling
6.3
51%
51
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10,000 BC
(2008)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Roland Emmerich
Cast:
Steven Strait, Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Nathanael Baring
5.1
9%
34
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The Dark Horse
(2014)
Drama
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
Runtime:
124 min
7.5
N/A
77
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Virus
(1999)
Action, Horror, Science Fiction
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
John Bruno
Cast:
Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Joanna Pacula
5.0
12%
19
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Rapa Nui
(1994)
Adventure
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Kevin Reynolds
Cast:
Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt, Eru Potaka-Dewes, Emilio Tuki Hito
6.4
N/A
N/A
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River Queen
(2005)
Adventure, War
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Vincent Ward
Cast:
Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis, Stephen Rea, Temuera Morrison
5.9
40%
N/A
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Traffic
(2004)
A three-part miniseries that offers a look into the world of trafficking, where drugs, weapons, and even people are traded all over the world. Here, the lives of three Seattle-based men become intertwined...until they're all in over their heads.
Runtime:
260 min
Director:
Eric Bross, Stephen Hopkins
Cast:
Cliff Curtis, Martin Donovan, Balthazar Getty, Elias Koteas, Mary McCormack
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Hercules in the Underworld
(1994)
Adventure, Fantasy, TV Movie
When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once again comes to the rescue and faces one of his most difficult challenges, and must prove himself as a man as well as a god. "Hercules in the Underworld" is the fourth made for TV movie in the ...
Runtime:
91 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Point of Origin
(2002)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Newton Thomas Sigel
Cast:
Ray Liotta, Cliff Curtis
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Desperate Remedies
(1993)
Drama
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a ro...
Runtime:
93 min
6.9
40%
N/A
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Fracture
(2004)
A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mot...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Larry Parr
Cast:
Kate Elliott, Jared Turner, Tim Lee, Miranda Harcourt, John Noble
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Spooked
(2004)
Drama, Thriller
Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers, until he looked at the data left on the discs. Was kevin murdered or did he simply get drunk and crash his car? Investigating journalist Mort Whitman says he will find out, even if it kil...
Runtime:
93 min
4.8
N/A
N/A
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Chicken
(1996)
Comedy
On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own death. True enough, the money rolls in, but no one can get their hands on it because of the seven year waiting period before a missing person can be declared legally dead. However, a crazed animal rights terrorist, who knows he isn't dead, ...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Grant Lahood
Cast:
Bryan Marshall, Martyn Sanderson, Ellie Smith, Cliff Curtis, Jed Brophy
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotio...
Director:
James Cameron
Cast:
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Avatar 4
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller
Director:
James Cameron
Cast:
Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Jubilee
(2000)
Comedy
Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen - the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing this, feckless Billy is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family, especially his frustrated wife Pauline (Theresa Healey). However trouble arrives with the return of a local forme...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Michael Hurst
Cast:
Cliff Curtis, Theresa Healey, Hori Ahipene, Kevin Smith, Jaime Passier-Armstrong
N/A
N/A
N/A