Michael Fassbender

There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.

Taika Waititi's follow-up to 2019's Jojo Rabbit is this adaptation of the 2014 soccer documentary, following the American Samoan football team - the worst team in the world - and Dutch coach Thomas Rongen's attempt to turn around their fortunes. Michael Fassbender plays Rongen, co-stars Elisabeth Moss, Rhys Darby, Oscar Kightley and David Fane.

After a fateful near-miss, an assassin (Michael Fassbender) battles his employers on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal in this crime-thriller from David Fincher.

Longtime X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg directs his own screenplay in the final instalment of the current X-Men franchise.  

Michael Fassbender is Detective Harry Hole in this adaptation of Jo Nesbø's best-selling novel from the Harry Hole series.

Directer Ridley Scott follows up 2012's sci-fi thriller Prometheus. Stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride.

Action-adventure based on the video game series starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, directed by their Macbeth helmer Justin Kurzel.

A lighthouse keeper (Michael Fassbender) and his wife (Alicia Vikander) living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat. From writer-director Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines)...

Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Natalie Portman star in this rock-n-roll love story from filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Filmmaker Bryan Singer follows up his X-Men, X-Men 2 and Days of Future Past (as well as Matthew Vaughn’s First Class) with this all-encompassing entry to the Marvel mutant superhero franchise.

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) open an unconventional window into the life of Steve Jobs. Michael Fassbender is Jobs, Seth Rogen is co-founder Steve Wozniak and Kate Winslet is Mac designer Joanna Hoffman. 

Michael Fassbender sees a dagger before him as Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, self-fulfilling a prophecy to become King of Scotland by means of blood and betrayal. Co-stars Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth, who spurs her husband into action.

Sundance-winning feature debut from writer-director John Maclean, starring Oscar-nominee Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) as an elusive man in 19th Century America guiding a teenager (Kodi Smit-McPhee, Let Me In) through the frontier in search of the young man’s love.

Time-travelling storyline brings together the two universes created by directors Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2) and Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class). The all-star cast includes Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult and Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage as the film's villain.

Michael Fassbender is titular enigma Frank - the leader of a pop band who wears a fake head made of papier-mâché - in this Irish comedy. Filled with aspirations, a young musician (Domhnall Gleeson, About Time) joins the band only to discover that he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Co-stars Maggie Gyllenhall as Frank's terrifying sidekick Clara.

2014 Golden Globe (Best Film, Drama) and Academy Award (Best Picture) winner, based on the true story of free black man Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who was taken from his home in upstate New York and sold into slavery.

Michael Fassbender stars in this Ridley Scott (Prometheus) thriller about a respected lawyer whose one-time dalliance with an illegal business deal spirals out of control. From writer Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men). Co-stars Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt.

Director Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller, set in the same universe as the Alien series. A discovery about the origin of life leads a team of explorers to travel to a distant planet, but the investigation brings them into contact with a threat that could cause our extinction.

David Cronenberg (A History of Violence) directs this true drama about a love triangle between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and a troubled patient. Stars Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Kiera Knightley.

Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) action-thriller starring model and mixed martial-arts fighter Gina Carano as a kick-ass black ops soldier. She is joined by an all-star cast including Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas.

Charlotte Brontë adaptation with Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland), from the director of Sin Nombre. Also starring Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins and Jamie Bell.

Prequel to the X-Men trilogy (2000-2006), set in the 1960s amid Cold War paranoia, following the origins of the Marvel mutant mythology. Directed by Kick-Ass' Matthew Vaughn.

A western-horror, based on a comic book, with Josh Brolin as Jonah Hex, a scarred drifter and bounty-hunting gunslinger who can track down anyone and anything. Also stars John Malkovich and Megan Fox...

With Fish Tank in competition at Cannes last year writer/director Andrea Arnold clinched her place as the bright new hope of British cinema...