Cliff Curtis
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, Doctor Sleep (2019), Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). His television roles include NBC’s Trauma, and ABC’s Body of Proof and Missing. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.
He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.
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Cliff Curtis Movies
Discover the best Cliff Curtis movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Cliff Curtis ranked by year and score.
1
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
Adventure
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Still grieving the death of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri find no peace on a Pandora scarred by war. A new enemy emerges from the volcanic margins of...
Score
7.6
2
Last Breath (2025)
Drama
Thriller
Hundreds of feet beneath the surface, a diver is stranded, oxygen running low, with no guarantee that anyone can reach him in time. His crewmates, seasoned veterans of the deep...
Score
6.9
3
Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
Action
Horror
Science Fiction
A deep-sea research crew descends to the ocean's most uncharted trenches, only to find that the biggest threat down there is not prehistoric. A ruthless black-market mining operation has beaten...
Score
6.4
4
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
More than a decade after Jake Sully made Pandora his permanent home, he and Neytiri are raising a family when old enemies force them to flee everything they have built....
Score
7.6
5
Reminiscence (2021)
Mystery
Science Fiction
Thriller
In a flooded, half-submerged Miami, Nick Bannister makes his living as a memory broker, guiding paying clients back through moments they cannot let go. Then Mae walks in, and something...
Score
6.5
6
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Fantasy
Horror
Decades after surviving the horrors of the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance has spent years trying to dull the memories with alcohol and drifting. Sobriety brings fragile stability, but it also...
Score
7.1
7
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Action
Adventure
Comedy
A by-the-book federal agent and a mercenary with a personal vendetta have spent years as bitter rivals, exchanging insults and knuckle sandwiches whenever their paths crossed. When a technologically augmented...
Score
6.8
8
The Meg (2018)
Action
Horror
Science Fiction
Somewhere beneath the deepest point on Earth, something enormous has been waiting. When a rescue mission into the Mariana Trench cracks open a thermocline barrier thought to seal off a...
Score
6.2
9
Risen (2016)
Action
Adventure
Drama
A Roman tribune named Clavius has seen plenty of death on the battlefield, but nothing has prepared him for this assignment. Ordered by Pontius Pilate to locate the body of...
Score
6.3
10
Colombiana (2011)
Action
Crime
Drama
Cataleya Restrepo was nine years old when she watched her parents die in Bogota. Twenty years later, she has rebuilt herself from that grief into something precise and lethal, working...
Score
6.6
11
The Last Airbender (2010)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
When a young monk awakens from a century-long slumber, he discovers he's the world's only hope against an imperialist regime that's systematized the suppression of three entire cultures. Armed with...
Score
4.7
12
Push (2009)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Nick Gant's father dies at Division's hands, leaving him burning for vengeance against the shadowy agency that weaponizes the human mind. Regrouping in Hong Kong with a scrappy crew of...
Score
6.1
13
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Action
Thriller
John McClane finds himself outmatched when a coordinated cyberattack threatens to cripple America's entire digital infrastructure. Forced to partner with a brilliant young hacker he's arrested, the aging cop must...
Score
6.6
14
Fracture (2007)
Thriller
Ted Crawford shoots his wife, calls the police, and hands over the gun. The case looks airtight, almost insultingly so, for Willy Beachum, a sharp young prosecutor already angling toward...
Score
7.3
15
Sunshine (2007)
Science Fiction
Thriller
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission...
Score
7.0
16
The Fountain (2006)
Adventure
Drama
Romance
Darren Aronofsky's ambitious meditation on mortality weaves together three temporal narratives: a conquistador's quest, a modern oncologist's desperate research, and a space traveler adrift among the stars. Each thread explores...
Score
6.9
17
Whale Rider (2003)
Drama
Family
A Māori girl discovers she has inherited a spiritual connection to whales and the ocean, one her traditional grandfather believes belongs only to men. Set in contemporary New Zealand, the...
Score
7.1
18
Training Day (2001)
Action
Crime
Drama
A young narcotics officer eager to prove himself gets partnered with a veteran detective whose methods blur the boundary between justice and corruption. What begins as a mentorship descends into...
Score
7.5
19
Blow (2001)
Crime
Drama
George Jung watched his father's failures and promised himself he'd never go broke. By the late 1960s, he'd built a marijuana empire in California. Prison introduced him to something bigger:...
Score
7.4
20
The Insider (1999)
Drama
Thriller
Jeffrey Wigand spent years developing cigarettes for a tobacco giant. When he agrees to tell what he knows on camera, the industry's legal machinery turns his life upside down, and...
Score
7.5
21
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Drama
Frank Pierce has spent years as a New York paramedic rescuing the dying, but the job has hollowed him out. Haunted by those he couldn't save, he drifts through shifts...
Score
6.6
22
Three Kings (1999)
Action
Comedy
War
As the Gulf War winds down, four American soldiers stumble upon a treasure map promising access to stolen Kuwaiti gold buried in the desert. What begins as a straightforward heist...
Score
6.6
23
Virus (1999)
Action
Horror
Science Fiction
A salvage crew searching for a payday stumbles onto a ghost ship drifting in the Pacific, a massive Russian research vessel with no survivors and no obvious explanation. What they...
Score
5.4
24
Deep Rising (1998)
Action
Adventure
Horror
Somewhere in the South Pacific, a gang of armed thieves sets out to rob a gleaming luxury cruise ship, expecting easy pickings among the wealthy passengers. What they find instead...
Score
6.2
25
Once Were Warriors (1994)
Drama
Beth Heke fights to protect her children from her husband Jake's escalating brutality. What begins as a portrait of domestic violence becomes a story about cultural identity and survival, as...
Score
7.4
26
The Piano (1993)
Drama
Romance
Ada arrives in remote nineteenth-century New Zealand bound to a husband she barely knows, carrying her piano as the only voice she possesses. Mute since childhood, she communicates through music...
Score
7.4
Cliff Curtis TV Shows
Browse the ultimate list of Cliff Curtis TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Cliff Curtis.
1
Chief of War (2025)
Drama
Before European contact reshaped the Hawaiian archipelago forever, the legendary warrior Kaʻiana navigates a fractured political landscape where rival chiefs command separate kingdoms. His vision of unified islands faces a...
Score
7.3
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Cliff Curtis?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Cliff Curtis are Avatar: Fire and Ash, Last Breath, and Meg 2: The Trench.
How many movies and TV shows has Cliff Curtis starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 27 titles starring Cliff Curtis, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Cliff Curtis worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Cliff Curtis maintains a strong average user rating of 6.8 out of 10 across all tracked titles.