The Best Tom Hardy Movies You've Never Seen

Though Tom Hardy has more than held his own in starring roles over the years, he's often at his best when working within an ensemble — as proven in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Inception, and Dunkirk. That list includes many of his early films, which you likely never got a chance to see as they simply didn't get much attention outside the U.K. Case in point: Ed Blum's charming low-budget romantic dramedy Scenes of a Sexual Nature.

Set over a hazy summer afternoon in Hampstead Heath park in London, the film dots in and out of brief moments in the lives of seven couples at various stages of romantic entanglement. Frank discussions range throughout this talky film, touching on topics like fidelity, chance encounters, casual sex, homosexual adoption, and a dozen or so other subjects.  

While Scenes of a Sexual Nature does its best to give each topic the credence it deserves, the film doesn't always succeed. In turn, it suffers a bit from an incessant need to sound "edgy" — which will almost certainly leave it feeling dated in today's climate. Either way, it's still a skillfully crafted, cleverly realized look at life and love in the vein of Love Actually that sports a brilliant ensemble effort featuring Ewan McGregor, Andrew Lincoln, Sophie Okonedo, Mark Strong, and a baby-faced Tom Hardy, whose oddball character Noel serves as the connecting tissue for the film's seemingly disparate stories.