Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Dominic Cooper, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Cara Seymour and Olivia Williams. Categories: Drama. Year: 2009.
Peter Sarsgaard in An Education
Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga play two loving parents who decide to adopt a third child. They hope to bring joy into her life and theirs, but Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), the girl they adopt, has a dark secret. She is no ordinary child, and anyone who crosses her soon finds that out, as they suffer accidents and even death. Her adopted parents don't know what to do with a girl who looks so angelic but is really anything but. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. With CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Karel Roden and Aryana Engineer. Categories: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2009.
Peter Sarsgaard in Orphan
David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley), a charismatic professor and cultural critic, beieves that he is an independent, self-actualized man and as a result keeps his relationships with women brief and casual. All of that changes when Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz), a beautiful, confident student, awakens David's sexual possessiveness. Caught in the first serious relationship since his divorce, David's preconceptions about women are shattered by Concuela, but his jealous fantasies drive him to the point of obsession. Directed by Isabel Coixet. With Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper and Peter Sarsgaard. Categories: Drama, Romance, Based on a Novel. Year: 2008.
Peter Sarsgaard in Elegy
A coming-of-age comedy-drama, the film is about Art Bechstein (Jon Foster), a recent college graduate with mixed feelings about his gangster father (Nick Nolte). Art has always kept his family life separate from his friends, but during the summer after he graduates, he meets Cleveland (Peter Sarsgaard), who makes collections for a loan shark buddy of his father's. He also has a romance with a strange girl named Phlox (Mena Suvari) and lusts after Cleveland's girlfriend (Sienna Miller). Based on a novel by Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys). Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. With Jack Baun and Omid Abtahi. Categories: Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Year: 2008.
Peter Sarsgaard in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
After the Egyptian born Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington DC, his American wife, Isabella (Reese Witherspoon), travels to the nation's capital to try to learn the truth. Meanwhile, CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins to question his assignment after witnessing El-Ibrahimi's interrogation at a secret military detention center. Directed by Gavin Hood. With Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard and Alan Arkin. Cateogries: Thriller, Drama. Year: 2007.
Peter Sarsgaard in Rendition
When Peggy (Molly Shannon), a lonely, unmarried secretary, unexpectedly loses her dog Pencil, the love of her life, her world begins to spin out of control. With the help of her family and coworkers, Peggy tries to find new ways to pass the time, but eventually she gets so wrapped up in animal rights causes that she puts her job and new relationships in danger. Directed by Mike White. With Laura Dern, Regina King, Peter Sarsgaard and John C. Reilly. Categories: Comedy, Drama. Year: 2007.
Peter Sarsgaard in Year of the Dog
Robert Sandrich (Peter Sarsgaard), a fledgling screenwriter, is offered a million dollars by a slick, ruthless studio exec (Campbell Scott) for an autobiographical script about his lover who died of AIDS. The only catch is that he has to change the film's male character into a female. The grieving writer is seduced both creatively and emotionally into making a difficult decision, while also beginning a secret online relationship with the studio exec's wife (Patricia Clarkson). Directed by Craig Lucas. Categories: Drama, Romance. Year: 2005.
Peter Sarsgaard in The Dying Gaul
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster), an aeronautical engineer who has recently lost her husband, and her daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), fly home from Berlin on a new aircraft that she helped design. But, when Julia goes missing at 30,000 feet, Kyle begins to question her sanity when no one on board will admit that the little girl was ever on the plane. With few clues, Kyle must overcome a corrupt crew and her own doubt to complete the desperate search. Directed by Robert Schwentke. With Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen and Sean Bean. Categories: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Peter Sarsgaard in Flightplan
After being estranged from his family for nearly a decade, struggling actor Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) returns home to New Jersey for his mother's funeral. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Largeman meets old acquaintances around every corner and does his best to avoid an inevitable confrontation with his father (Ian Holm). But, when Largeman meets Sam (Natalie Portman), a girl who is everything he isn't, her warmth and fearlessness give him the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of life. Directed by Zach Braff. With Peter Sarsgaard. Categories: Drama, Comedy, Romance. Year: 2004.
Peter Sarsgaard in Garden State
Directed by Kimberly Peirce. With Hilary Swank and Chlo_ Sevigny. Categories: Crime, Drama, Romance. Year: 1999.
Peter Sarsgaard in Boys Don't Cry
Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) is happy making money by breaking into vending machines. But following a botched raid on a college, this drug-addicted teenage runaway is approached by a drug buddy's charismatic uncle, Mel (James Woods), with an offers to bring Bobby into the big-time. Bobbie and his pregnant girlfriend Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner) follow Mel and his partner Sid (Melanie Griffith) into the fast paced world of grand larceny, hard drugs and shopping sprees. Directed by Larry Clark. With Peter Sarsgaard. Categories: Drama, Crime, Independent Film. Year: 1997.
Peter Sarsgaard in Another Day in Paradise
Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) acts as the spiritual advisor to Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), the condemned killer of two teenage lovers. After spending time with Poncelet in prison, Sister Helen begins to see the terrified human beneath his brash, unrepentant facade. Increasingly disturbed by Poncelet's anguish leading up to his execution and the rage of the victims' families, Sister Helen struggles for the life, dignity, and soul of a confused and angry man. Directed by Tim Robbins. With R. Lee Ermey and Raymond J. Barry. Categories: Crime, Drama. Year: 1995.
Peter Sarsgaard in Dead Man Walking