Guillermo del Toro — Playwright (20)
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
★ 6.1 8 ratings
Guillermo del Toro actor: Ronald Francis Perlman / Selma Blair …
other title: Hellboy - The Golden Army / Hellboy II - O Exército Dourado …
Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.
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Cronos (1993)
Cronos
★ 6.4 5 ratings
Guillermo del Toro actor: Federico Luppi / Ron Perlman …
other title: La invención de Cronos
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
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The Devil's Backbone (2001)
El espinazo del diablo
★ 7.0 6 ratings
Guillermo del Toro actor: Marisa Paredes / Eduardo Noriega …
other title: La spina del diavolo / Nas Costas do Diabo …
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
★ 8.3 19 ratings
Mark Gustafson / Guillermo Del Toro actor: Ewan McGregor / David Bradley …
other title: Pinocchio di Guillermo del Toro / Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio …
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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Mimic (1997)
Mimic
Guillermo del Toro actor: Mira Sorvino / Jeremy Northam …
other title: Predadores de Nova York / Mimic - Angriff der Killerinsekten …
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
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Hellboy (2004)
Hellboy
★ 6.2 13 ratings
Guillermo del Toro actor: Ronald Francis Perlman / Selma Blair …
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
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Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020)
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Bob actor: Anne Hathaway / Octavia Spencer …
other title: Le streghe / The Witches …
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
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Pacific Rim (2013)
Pacific Rim
★ 7.0 40 ratings
Guillermo del Toro actor: Charlie Hunnam / Joe Pingue …
other title: Batalha do Pacífico / 环太平洋 …
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
El laberinto del fauno
★ 8.3 30 ratings
Guillermo del Toro actor: Ivana Baquero / Sergi López …
other title: Il labirinto del fauno / Pans labyrint …
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
★ 7.8 28 ratings
PJ actor: Ian McKellen / Martin Freeman …
other title: There and Back Again / Lo Hobbit: La battaglia delle cinque armate …
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.