The Good Nurse is a crime drama thriller film on Netflix, which is based on Charles Graeber’s book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. The thriller film tells the chilling true story of Charles Cullen, a nurse and serial killer who confessed to killing up to 40 patients over the course of his career.
Starring Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren, Eddie Redmayne as Charles Cullen, Nnamdi Asomugha as Danny Baldwin, Noah Emmerich as Tim Braun and others. The film truly showcases the range of its actors, especially the leads. Eddie Redmayne may not have played a serial killer role before, but with the intensity he portrays it, is eerily captivating.
So if you found yourself creeping into Edmayne’s fanbase, if you weren’t already; we bring you some of the earlier roles played by the actor that is equally amazing. The actor is mostly known for portraying real-life characters, but after watching The Good Nurse, we would absolutely love to see him in some more negative/grey roles.
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4 Eddie Redmayne Films Like The Good Nurse
Like Minds (2006)
Like Minds is a 2006 Australian psychological thriller film, starring Eddie Redmayne as Alex Forbes, Tom Sturridge as Nigel Colby, Toni Collette as Sally Rowe and others. The film shows that after the shotgun death of schoolboy Nigel Colby, seventeen-year-old roommate Alex Forbes is placed in a juvenile remand centre.
With mounting pressure from Alex’s influential father to have the murder charges dropped, Detective McKenzie appoints forensic psychologist Sally Rowe to determine if there is sufficient evidence to find Alex culpable. Sally begins to unravel the truth behind Nigel’s death. High achievers, Alex and Nigel, are reluctant roommates in a privileged, public boarding school.
In an attempt to understand Nigel’s peculiar behaviour, (a morbid fascination with all things dead), Alex enters his macabre world and is drawn into a psychological game. Each boy vying to control the other’s mind, together they plunge headlong into a spellbinding world of dark secrets and deadly mind games. The film is available to watch on Apple TV+.
Savage Grace (2007)
Savage Grace is a drama film, based on the book Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson. The story is based on the highly dysfunctional relationship between the heiress and socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son, Antony. The film stars Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Elena Anaya, and Hugh Dancy.
The film is an examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s that explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland (Julianne Moore) and her only son, Antony (Eddie Redmayne). Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to cure Antony of his sexuality, sometimes by seducing him herself – the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
Watch this film on Amazon Prime Video.
The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
The Yellow Handkerchief is an independent drama film which is a remake of the 1977 Japanese classic of the same name – directed by Yoji Yamada. The film is about three strangers of two generations who embark on a road trip through post-Katrina, Louisiana. Along the way, relationships forge and change in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love.
Brett Hanson dealing with a painful past crosses paths with Martine, a troubled teenager, and her new ‘ride’ Gordy. The trio head out together, each motivated by his/her own reasons: Brett must decide whether he wants to return to the uncertainty of his life and his ex-wife May for whom he longs, Martine yearns to escape her family and Gordy hopes to get close to her. Watch this film on Amazon Prime Video.
Black Death (2010)
Starring Sean Bean, David Warner, Eddie Redmayne and others, this action horror film is set in 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black Death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. In this apocalyptic environment, the church is losing its grip on the people. There are rumours of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach.
There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric (Sean Bean), a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumours. He enlists the guidance of a novice monk, Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) to lead him and his band of mercenary soldiers to the marshland, but Osmund has other motives for leaving his monastery.
Their journey to the village and the events that unfold take them into the heart of darkness and to horrors that will put Osmund’s faith in himself and his love for God to the ultimate test. Watch this film on Amazon Prime Video.
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