Movies directed by Phillip Noyce

Biography: 
Born in the Australian outback town of Griffith, New South Wales, Noyce moved to Sydney with his family at the age of 12. As a teenager, he was introduced to underground films produced on shoestring budgets as well as mainstream American movies. He was 18 when he made his first film, the 15-minute "Better to Reign in Hell," utilizing a unique financing scheme selling roles in the movie to his frie ...  show all 

Catch a Fire (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: France | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Tim Robbins | Derek Luke | Bonnie Mbuli | Mncedisi Shabangu | Tumisho Masha | Sithembiso Khumalo | Terry Pheto | Michele Burgers | Mpho Lovinga | Mxo | Jessica Anstey | Charlotte Savage | Nomhlé Nkyonyeni | Michael Mabizela | Eduan van Jaarsveldt
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country’s oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives.

Patriot Games (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Anne Archer | Patrick Bergin | Sean Bean | Thora Birch | James Fox | Samuel L. Jackson | Polly Walker | J. E. Freeman | James Earl Jones | Richard Harris | Alex Norton | Hugh Fraser | David Threlfall | Alun Armstrong
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy’s techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family.

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Willem Dafoe | Anne Archer | Joaquim de Almeida | Henry Czerny | Harris Yulin | Donald Moffat | Miguel Sandoval | Benjamin Bratt | Raymond Cruz | Dean Jones | Thora Birch | Ann Magnuson | Hope Lange | Tom Tammi
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President’s “life long” friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the “victim” of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss’s. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA’s involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it’s sole boss. James Cutter, the President’s National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark’s men subsequently being captured by Cortez’s mercenaries.

Dead Calm (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Sam Neill | Billy Zane | Rod Mullinar | Joshua Tilden | George Shevtsov | Michael Long | Lisa Collins | Paula Hudson-Brinkley | Sharon Cook | Malinda Rutter
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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A married couple sail the Pacific Ocean to forget a tragic accident. After a month at sea, they sight a mysterious yacht and are boarded by its lone surviving crew member. When the husband discovers the yacht’s terrible secret, the crewman goes wild, kidnapping his wife and taking his ship. Terror on the high seas is center stage as the husband fights to keep the mystery yacht afloat and his wife battles the psychotic who’s assumed control of their ship.

The Saint (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Valery Nikolaev | Val Kilmer | Elisabeth Shue | Rade Serbedzija | Valeri Nikolayev | Henry Goodman | Alun Armstrong | Michael Byrne | Eugene Lazarev | Irina Apeksimova | Lev Prygunov | Charlotte Cornwell | Emily Mortimer | Lucija Serbedzija | Velibor Topic | Tommy Flanagan
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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As a young orphan, a boy refuses to accept the name given him by priests and instead chooses to take on the name of Simon Templar after the Saint of magic. Speed ahead and the young boy is now a master thief in bidding wars with countries for his services. Using his skills of master disguise, he eludes all pursuers as he assumes names associated with the various Saints. In this role after stealing from a Russian industrialist, the industrialist hires The Saint to steal a formula for cold fusion being developed by a young female scientist. Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case The Saint falls in love with the scientist placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young scientist. When she becomes threatened by the Russian Mafia, he has no choice but to go ahead with his job. However, she follows him to Moscow, setting off a chase across the City and through their sewers.

The Bone Collector (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Angelina Jolie | Queen Latifah | Michael Rooker | Mike McGlone | Luis Guzmán | Leland Orser | John Benjamin Hickey | Bobby Cannavale | Ed O'Neill | Richard Zeman | Olivia Birkelund | Gary Swanson | James Bulleit | Frank Fontaine
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father’s suicide and thinking she’s next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.