Movies by Brendan Gleeson
As part of the cast:
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Cast: Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant …
Directed by: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
This animated tale follows a pirate captain from the high seas to the streets of London as he strives to win the Pirate of the Year Award. But to snag the coveted prize, he'll have to…
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Safe House (2012)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga …
Directed by: Daniel Espinosa
When men bent on eliminating dangerous criminal Tobin Frost attack the safe house where the CIA has squirreled him away, young operative Matt Weston must find a way to get Frost out alive and…
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The Raven (2012)
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve …
Directed by: James McTeigue
After discovering that a string of baffling murders seems to be inspired by the macabre short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore cop Emmett Fields turns to the brilliant-but-boozy author…
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The Guard (2011)
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham …
Directed by: John Michael McDonagh
When tightly wound FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) invades an Irish village in pursuit of international drug dealers, wisecracking local copper Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) does his…
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Albert Nobbs (2011)
Cast: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson …
Directed by: Rodrigo García
Having for decades disguised herself as a man while working as a butler in a posh 19th-century Dublin hotel, a woman calling herself Albert Nobbs reconsiders her charade when a handsome…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson …
Directed by: David Yates
The first installment of the two-part conclusion to the Harry Potter series finds the bespectacled wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) walking away from his last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy…
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Perrier's Bounty (2009)
Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, James McAvoy, Cillian Murphy …
Directed by: Ian Fitzgibbon
When a gangster orders his henchmen to collect a debt from small-time crook Michael McCrea, his unstable gal pal accidentally shoots one of the goons during the shakedown and the couple must…
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Green Zone (2009)
Cast: Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear …
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agent Clark Poundstone doesn't want to hear what Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller has to say about not finding the weapons of mass destruction he's…
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Into the Storm (2009)
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Janet McTeer, Adrian Scarborough …
Directed by: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
As World War II rages, Winston Churchill (Brendan Gleeson) employs inspiring rhetoric and shrewd leadership as he steers Britain through several tumultuous years. But his political victories…
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The Secret of Kells (2009)
Cast: Evan McGuire, Christen Mooney, Brendan Gleeson …
Directed by: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
When Vikings attack an Irish abbey, the monks must stop work on the legendary Book of Kells and protect their home. So Brendan, the 12-year-old nephew of Abbott Cellach, is tasked with…
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In Bruges (2008)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson …
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
After killing an innocent boy in London, hit men Ray (Colin Farrell, in a Golden Globe–winning role) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are ordered to lay low at a bed and breakfast in Bruges,…
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Black Irish (2007)
Cast: Michael Angarano, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Guiry …
Directed by: Brad Gann
Let down by his emotionally distant father (Brendan Gleeson), 15-year-old Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) turns to the rest of his family -- including his sister Kathleen (Emily VanCamp), his…
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Beowulf: Director's Cut (2007)
Cast: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie …
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis directs this film adaptation of the longest surviving Anglo-Saxon poem, an epic tale concerning a 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf (Ray Winstone) and his mission…
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson …
Directed by: David Yates
Returning for his fifth year of study at the venerable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ever-maturing Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is stunned to find that his warnings about…
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Studs (2006)
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Eoin Macken, Tomas O'Suilleabhain …
Directed by: Paul Mercier
After suffering a humiliating defeat on the field, the members of a working-class soccer team believe all hope is lost. But when the mysterious Walter Keegan (Brendan Gleeson) offers to coach…
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The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Briain Gleeson …
Directed by: John Boorman
Filmmaker John Boorman captures the uneasy mood of turn-of-the-millennium Dublin in this darkly comic thriller about a real-estate tycoon (Brendan Gleeson) whose life begins to unravel when a…
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson …
Directed by: Ridley Scott
During the 12th century in the holy city of Jerusalem, a young peasant blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) takes up the mantle of knighthood so he can help repel the army of Islamic crusaders that…
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint …
Directed by: Mike Newell
Best-selling author J.K. Rowling's fourth book comes to life as young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) starts a new school year at Hogwarts, competes in the treacherous Tri-Wizard…
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea …
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Born the love child of a priest (Liam Neeson) in a conservative Irish hamlet, transvestite Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy) leaves small-town life behind and heads to swinging 1970s London to…
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The 2005 Academy Award Short Films Collection (2005)
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox …
Directed by: Mark Andrews, Sean Ellis, Rob Pearlstein …
This compilation of Oscar nominees delivers the best animated and live-action short films of 2005 in one collection. Selections include the winning films: "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined…
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Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut (2005)
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Steven Robertson, Liam Neeson …
Directed by: Ridley Scott
During the 12th century in the holy city of Jerusalem, a young peasant blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) takes up the mantle of knighthood so he can help repel the army of Christian crusaders that…
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Troy (2004)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom …
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
In 1193 B.C., the love-struck Prince Paris of Troy (Orlando Bloom) kidnaps legendary beauty Helen (Diane Kruger) from her husband, King Menelaus of Sparta, setting the two nations on a…
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The Village (2004)
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody …
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever in this…
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In My Country (2004)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson …
Directed by: John Boorman
&NFi;Washington Post&NFi_; journalist Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) heads to South Africa to cover the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, at which…
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Cold Mountain (2003)
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger …
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
This epic tale of love and loss follows a wounded Civil War soldier making a long, treacherous journey home. All the while, his faraway love fights for her own sanity and survival on her…
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Amid the savage Irish and Italian rivalry that dominated New York City in the mid-1800s, young Amsterdam Vallon hunts down his father's hateful murderer, Bill "the Butcher" Cutting.…
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Dark Blue (2002)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele …
Directed by: Ron Shelton
Days before the acquittal of white police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King, a brutal Los Angeles cop under investigation for corruption and his rookie partner are…
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28 Days Later (2002)
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Naomie Harris …
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors (including Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson) are caught…
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The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis …
Directed by: John Boorman
In this gripping adaptation of John le Carré's best-selling novel, a disgraced, amoral British spy blackmails a local tailor into stealing secrets from the Panama Canal Commission…
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
In this dark, contemplative tale, an advanced prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to show unconditional love. When his human family, unprepared for the…
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Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton …
Directed by: John Woo
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically…
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Harrison's Flowers (2000)
Cast: Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Elias Koteas …
Directed by: Elie Chouraqui
Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah, a happily married photo editor for &NFi;Newsweek&NFi_; whose Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist husband, Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn), is having…
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Lake Placid (1999)
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt …
Directed by: Steve Miner
As bodies pile up and cattle go missing around a Maine lake, Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) is forced to team up with office-dwelling Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) to investigate the mystery, and…
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The General (1998)
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Angeline Ball …
Directed by: John Boorman
This account of Ireland's notorious Robin Hood, Martin Cahill, charts his rise from a scrappy boy to an unremorseful adult with a penchant for stealing from the rich. As his thefts…
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This Is My Father (1998)
Cast: James Caan, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea …
Directed by: Paul Quinn
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya…
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Turbulence (1997)
Cast: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Hector Elizondo …
Directed by: Robert Butler
"This is your captain speaking. Fasten your seat belts -- there's a serial killer on board." Transporting prisoners by air never seems to work, and now Ryan Weaver, the "Lonely Hearts…
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Trojan Eddie (1997)
Cast: Stephen Rea, Richard Harris, Stuart Townsend …
Directed by: Gillies Mackinnon
As a member of a band of wandering Irishmen called the "travelers," Trojan Eddie (Stephen Rea) finds himself questioning his loyalties, especially when he's given the task of fixing one…
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Braveheart (1995)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan …
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron (Catherine McCormack) -- his new bride and childhood love -- legendary Scottish warrior William Wallace (Mel Gibson, who also directed the film) slays a…
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Far and Away (1992)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson …
Directed by: Ron Howard
In Ron Howard's epic drama, two 19th-century Irish immigrants make the journey to the United States together, but for very different reasons. Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is a poor farmer…
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Into the West (1992)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciaran Fitzgerald …
Directed by: Mike Newell
Given the chance to escape their dreary lives, two impoverished Irish brothers flee Dublin on a magical white steed. But they must embark on a daring rescue mission after the stallion ends up…