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1	The Truman Show (1998) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life is a hugely popular 24-hour-a-day TV series. In ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £2.77!
2	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Lee Ingleby Director Peter Weir's first turn behind the camera since 1998's critically acclaimed The Truman Show, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is based on two Napoleanic War-era adventure novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Master and Commander and The Far Side of the World. Russell Crowe stars as Captain Jack Aubrey, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.54!
3	Witness (1985) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes In Peter Weir's thriller Witness, Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy, witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. Harrison Ford stars as John Book, the police detective investigating the murder. When Book discovers that the crime was part of a conspiracy involving several officials in his department, he flees Philadelphia ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £6.41!
4	Dead Poets Society (1989) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process (and life itself) changed when a new teacher comes to ... see all copies from £1.51! new only from £4.58!
5	Green Card (1990) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Robert Prosky Green Card fuses the template of a light romantic comedy with a classic fish-out-of-water scenario. In order to retain her beautiful rent-controlled Manhattan apartment, a beautiful, socially-conscious American woman (Andie MacDowell) has to be married, so she decides to marry a burly French composer (Gerard Depardieu), who is eager to earn a ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.35!
6	The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own good, he is brought back to earth by his "conscience ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £6.00!
7	Gallipoli (1981) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Harold Hopkins, Ronny Graham, Stan Green The first of two consecutive films to see director Peter Weir team with Mel Gibson (the other being The Year of Living Dangerously), Gallipoli follows two idealistic young friends, Frank (Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee), who join the Australian army during World War I and fight the doomed Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey. The first half of the film ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.53!
8	The Mosquito Coast (1986) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Hilary Gordon Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Phoenix), "Look around you. It's a toilet." He moves his ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.36!
9	Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the ... see all copies from £14.73! new only from £14.73!
10	The Last Wave (1977) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Nadjiwarra Amagula Peter Weir follows up on his critically acclaimed masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock with this surrealist psychological drama. The film opens with a freak hailstorm in Australia's outback. Cut to David Burton (Richard Chamberlain), a well-to-do Sydney corporate lawyer plagued by visions of impending doom who is assigned to defend five accused of ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £9.66!
11 view cover	Fearless (1993) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Hulce, John Turturro Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias from his own novel, Fearless explores the complex struggle back to mental health of post-traumatic stress disorder victim Max Klein (Jeff Bridges). One of few survivors of a fatal plane crash, Klein remains calm and assists other survivors out of the burning debris, earning praise as a hero by the media. ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.71!
12 view cover	The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Charles Metcalfe, Frank Saba, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Melissa Jaffer, Kevin Miles, Max Gillies This first effort from acclaimed writer/director Peter Weir is set in the secluded rural town of Paris, Australia, where the chief source of income is provided by the orchestration of automobile accidents -- which frequently claim the lives of passing tourists, though those who survive are usually subjected to bizarre brain experiments by a loony ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £9.66!
13 view cover	The Plumber (1979) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Judy Morris, Robert Coleby, Ivar Kants, Candy Raymond The plumber (Ivar Kants) shows up at the door of well-to-do Australian couple Robert Coleby and Judy Cowper. Though the plumber apparently hasn't been summoned, he is given unquestioned free reign in the household. He ends up staying several days, his work and personality growing weirder with each passing day. Housewife Cowper is driven to ... see all copies from £9.66! new only from £9.66!

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