Cliff Curtis movie list

Cliff Curtis was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, on July 27, 1968. He is of New Zealand Maori descent (with Ngati Hauiti and Te Arawa tribal affiliations). He enrolled at the New Zealand Drama School, and then the Teatro Dmitri Scuola in Switzerland. After returning to New Zealand from Europe, he was cast in The Piano (1993). Subsequent roles in New Zealand include the camp melodrama Desperate Remedies (1992), the grueling urban drama Once Were Warriors (1994), and the lighthearted comedy Jubilee (2000). In Hollywood, Curtis has played a range of different roles and ethnicities in films. He plays a Colombian in Blow (2001), an Arab in Three Kings (1999) and The Insider (1999), a Latino in Training Day (2001) and Runaway Jury (2003), and a drug dealer of ambiguous ethnicity in Bringing Out the Dead (1999). However, he is probably best known for his role as Paikea's father Porourangi, in Whale Rider (2002).

Avatar: Fire and Ash

United States2025ActionThrillerScience fictionAdventure

Sequel of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The plot is unknown.

Meg 2: The Trench

Meg 2: The Trench

6.3United StatesChina2023ActionThrillerScience fictionAdventure

In the ocean's darkest depths, researchers fight for survival against massive prehistoric sea creatures and an equally predatory mining operation.

Avatar: The Way of Water

8.7United States2022ActionScience fictionAdventure

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell 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.

Muru

8New Zealand2022ActionDrama

Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant 'Taffy' Tawharau (Cliff Curtis), who must choose between his badge and his people, when the Government launches an armed raid through his Ruatoki community, on a school day.

Reminiscence

4.8United States2021ThrillerRomanceScience fiction

Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case becomes an obsession after she disappears and he fights to learn the truth about her.

Doctor Sleep

7.6United States2019DramaThrillerScience fiction

A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult who's goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

6.6United StatesJapan2019ActionThrillerAdventure

A spinoff of The Fate of the Furious, focusing on Johnson's US Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with Statham's Deckard Shaw.

The Meg

5United StatesChina2018ActionThrillerScience 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.

Colombiana

4.6United KingdomUnited StatesFrance2011ActionDramaThriller

A young girl in Bogotá witnesses her parents' murder and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.

The Last Airbender

The Last Airbender

2.3United States2010ActionDramaScience fictionAdventure

The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.