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Sexy Beast

2000

Directed by Jonathan Glazer

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Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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Ray Winstone Ben Kingsley Ian McShane Amanda Redman James Fox Cavan Kendall Julianne White Álvaro Monje Robert Atiko Nieves del Amo Oruet Enrique Alemán Fabrega Gérard Barray José Maria Cano Ramos Desirée Erasmus Santiago Frías Muñoz José Hernández Ana Maldonado Herreria Andy Lucas José Lirola Ramos José López Carrillo Antonio Fco. Márquez Quesada Juan Manuel Martínez Cobos Dionisio Mesa Eddie O'Connell Terence Plummer Manuel Sánchez Berlanca Frank Scinto Darkie Smith Rocky Taylor Show All…

Alternative Titles

La bestia salvaje, Retour au passé, Erotiko ktinos, Ερωτικό Κτήνος, Sexy Beast - L'ultimo colpo della bestia, Bestia salvaje, Seksi zver, Sexy Beast - Bankraub wider Willen, 性感野兽, Сексуальная тварь, Szexi dög, לצאת נקי, Sexy bestie, Fera Sensual, Секси звяр, 섹시 비스트, Quái Thú Gợi Cảm, セクシー・ビースト, Сексуальна бестія, 性感野獸

Genres

Comedy Drama Thriller Crime

Themes

Crime, drugs and gangsters Intense violence and sexual transgression Heists and thrilling action Gritty crime and ruthless gangsters Violent crime and drugs Violent action, guns, and crime Twisted dark psychological thriller Show All…

Premiere

13 Sep 2000

Canada Toronto International Film Festival

27 Jan 2001

Sweden15 Gothenburg Film Festival

08 Apr 2001

Hong Kong Hong Kong International Film Festival

10 Jul 2001

Czechia Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

21 Oct 2001

Norway15 Bergen International Film Festival

Theatrical limited

15 Jun 2001

USAR

Theatrical

13 Sep 2000

Canada

12 Jan 2001

Hungary18
UK18

17 Jan 2001

FranceTP

18 May 2001

Italy

13 Jun 2001

Belgium

22 Jun 2001

Greece
Poland

13 Jul 2001

USAR

16 Aug 2001

AustraliaMA 15+

06 Sep 2001

Czechia15+

12 Apr 2002

Norway15

27 Jun 2002

Germany16

Physical

12 Jan 2001

FinlandK-18

Australia

16 Aug 2001

TheatricalMA 15+

Belgium

13 Jun 2001

Theatrical

Canada

13 Sep 2000

Premiere Toronto International Film Festival

13 Sep 2000

Theatrical Totonto Film Festival

Czechia

10 Jul 2001

Premiere Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

06 Sep 2001

Theatrical15+

Finland

12 Jan 2001

PhysicalK-18

France

17 Jan 2001

TheatricalTP

Germany

27 Jun 2002

Theatrical16

Greece

22 Jun 2001

Theatrical

Hong Kong

08 Apr 2001

Premiere Hong Kong International Film Festival

Hungary

12 Jan 2001

Theatrical18

Italy

18 May 2001

Theatrical

Norway

21 Oct 2001

Premiere15 Bergen International Film Festival

12 Apr 2002

Theatrical15

Poland

22 Jun 2001

Theatrical

Sweden

27 Jan 2001

Premiere15 Gothenburg Film Festival

UK

12 Jan 2001

Theatrical18

USA

15 Jun 2001

Theatrical limitedR

13 Jul 2001

TheatricalR

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Popular reviews

Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★½

This movie taught me that you can order calamari for dinner. It’s not just an appetizer
Review by YI JIAN ★★★★½ 11

Oh, bloody hell. Fockin' lunacy. Fockin' sexy.
Angry blokes swearin'.
cursin'
yellin'
boilin'
roastin'
swelterin'
Some crazy cunt in a stupid bunny suit, some in stupid man suits. Oh, bloody hell. Ghandi swears like a God. Ohhhh. Ridiculous. Tremendous. Fantastic. Fan-dabby-dozy ---- tastic.
Review by Karsten ★★★★½

barry before barry

(but weirder and darker and sillier)
Review by Vincenzo ★★★★ 7

a crime thriller where the characters commit the worst crime of all: being british
Review by Sam ★★★★½ 1

"Shut up, cunt. You louse. You got some fuckin' neck ain't you. Retired? Fuck off, you're revolting. Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a fucking suitcase out of you. Holdall. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard. You look like fucking Idi Amin, you know what I mean? Stay here? You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? King of the castle? Cock of the walk? What you think this is the Wheel of Fortune? You think you can make your dough and fuck off? Leave the table? Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like…
Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 6

Retirement as an act of simply caging the animal. A British gangster/heist film plot with all the ultra-violence, obscene "cunts" and unhinged British actors that's been formally fractured and made into something uniquely strange and sensual and disturbing. It's obviously operating at a much more extreme, vulgar register than his particular brand of idiosyncratic tranquillity but imo this is closer to Takeshi Kitano's abstracted, expressive thinking on this genre (that this lifestyle is an extremely suffocating/primal example of work vs. leisure leading to bizarre contradictions and situations) than it is, say, Guy Ritchie's.
Review by Will Menaker ★★★★★ 14

This movie is about Ken and Lisa Vanderpump.
Review by •lily• ★★★★½ 2

Sexy Beast’s symbolic boulder walked so Parasite’s metaphorical ornamental rock could run
Review by COBRARocky ★★★★★

U fucking wot m8?
Review by Matt Singer ★★★★

Of all the inviolable rules of crime films, one never gets broken: No one ever successfully pulls off “one last job.” What I like about Sexy Beast is that it is set several years after “one last job” must have already taken place, then proves this rule to be true anyway. Even when you survive one last job, there is always one more. And likely another after that.
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 5

Brit gangster posturing as a shelter from repressed homosexuality.
Review by Jerry McGlothlin ★★★★ 19

The boulder falling is one of my favorite uses of foreshadowing ever. Gal tries very, very hard to stray from the life by putting hundreds of miles and multiple countries between himself and his criminal past, but the funny thing about crimes and those who perpetuate them is how far they can stretch their arms and pull you back into an underworld you believed you crawled your way out of. And let us not forget, we’re taking about an inferno comprised of men, and their view of women is, shall we say, less than Dworkinian.
In a way, masculinity is this very underworld—a hell one can’t escape—and no one has more of a macho-madman streak than Don “Ya Fucking Cunt-Ya Fucking…

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Premiere

13 Sep 2000

27 Jan 2001

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21 Oct 2001

Theatrical limited

15 Jun 2001

Theatrical

13 Sep 2000

12 Jan 2001

17 Jan 2001

18 May 2001

13 Jun 2001

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13 Jul 2001

16 Aug 2001

06 Sep 2001

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27 Jun 2002

Physical

12 Jan 2001

Australia

16 Aug 2001

Belgium

13 Jun 2001

Canada

13 Sep 2000

13 Sep 2000

Czechia

10 Jul 2001

06 Sep 2001

Finland

12 Jan 2001

France

17 Jan 2001

Germany

27 Jun 2002

Greece

22 Jun 2001

Hong Kong

08 Apr 2001

Hungary

12 Jan 2001

Italy

18 May 2001

Norway

21 Oct 2001

12 Apr 2002

Poland

Director

Producers

Writers

Casting

Editors

Cinematography

Assistant Director

Lighting

Camera Operators

Production Design

Art Direction

Set Decoration

Special Effects

Visual Effects

Stunts

Composer

Sound

Costume Design