Robert Pattinson has come a long way from his 'Twilight' days. The actor has lately been slowly demonstrating his range in anything from big-budget entertainers to avant-garde titles. On the occasion of his birthday, here are seven notable films of the actor. (Compiled by Nandana S Nair)
Number one on the list is Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi film Mickey 17. Pattinson delivers a powerful performance as the throwaway Mickey Barnes, navigating a landscape of repeated deaths and births with a mix of dark humour and vulnerability.
This movie can be seen as a career-defining performance for Robert Pattinson, where he portrays the role of Connie Nikas, a desperate and flawed person whose saga of bad decisions keeps the audience on edge.
The psychologically intense story of a young lighthouse keeper who experiences unsettling supernatural occurrences on a remote New England island in the 1980s. The line between reality and delusion becomes unclear.
James Grey’s visually stunning The Lost City of Z depicts the expeditions into the Amazon in search of a mythical lost city while facing the harsh realities of the jungle.
In Claire Denis’s cryptic sci-fi film, Pattinson conveys a subtle yet impactful performance as Monte, a criminal sent on a space mission towards a black hole while struggling with an existential crisis.
Set in a post-World War II backdrop, Robert Pattinson plays Rev Preston Teagardin, whose manipulative nature and abuse of power becomes the key thread of the film’s exploration of faith, corruption and violence.
The movie showcases the disturbing early years of an American Boy (Prescott) living in France after World War I who develops authoritarian tendencies