Movies starring Adrien Brody

Biography: 
His mother is the Hungarian-born photojournalist Sylvia Plachy, and he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and High School for the Performing Arts. Adrien grew up an only child in Woodhaven, Queens, where he accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice. He credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the camera. Despite a strong performance in The Thin Red  ...  show all 

Hollywoodland (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Adrien Brody | Diane Lane | Ben Affleck | Bob Hoskins | Robin Tunney | Larry Cedar | Jeffrey DeMunn | Brad William Henke | Dash Mihok | Molly Parker | Caroline Dhavernas | Kathleen Robertson | Joe Spano | Gareth Williams | Zach Mills
Directors: Allen Coulter
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood’s most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV’s Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.

The Village (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard | Joaquin Phoenix | Adrien Brody | William Hurt | Sigourney Weaver | Brendan Gleeson | Cherry Jones | Celia Weston | John Christopher Jones | Frank Collison | Jayne Atkinson | Judy Greer | Fran Kranz | Michael Pitt | Jesse Eisenberg
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
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In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods: the townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays true for many years, but when Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from the towns beyond the wood, the pact is challenged. Animal carcasses, devoid of fur, begin to appear around the village, causing the council of elders to fear for the safety of the village, the pact, and so much more.

King Kong (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Jack Black | Adrien Brody | Thomas Kretschmann | Colin Hanks | Andy Serkis | Evan Parke | Jamie Bell | Lobo Chan | John Sumner | Craig Hall | Kyle Chandler | Mark Hadlow | Geraldine Brophy | David Denis
Directors: Bryan Singer | Peter Jackson
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

Bread and Roses (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Spain | Switzerland | UK
Actors: Pilar Padilla | Adrien Brody | Elpidia Carrillo | Jack McGee | Monica Rivas | Frankie Davila | Lillian Hurst | Mayron Payes | Maria Orellana | Melody Garrett | Gigi Jackman | Beverly Reynolds | Eloy Méndez | Elena Antonenko | Olga Gorelik
Directors: Ken Loach
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Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its “justice for janitors” campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she’s also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brian Cox | Hilary Swank | Jonathan Pryce | Simon Baker | Adrien Brody | Joely Richardson | Christopher Walken | Hayden Panettiere | Simon Kunz | Paul Brooke | Peter Eyre | Frank McCusker | Simon Shackleton | Hermione Gulliford | Geoffrey Hutchings
Directors: Charles Shyer
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Paris, 1786: a woman in court. The Crown murdered her father for his views about the poor, now Jeanne wants her home and good name back. She believes all can be set right if she can talk to the Queen, whose House Minister rebuffs her. With the help of a courtside gigolo, she learns to use what others desire to get what she wants. She needs a patron: with forged letters, she convinces Cardinal de Rohan she is the Queen’s confidante and can help him regain royal favor. Jeanne conspires to have the Cardinal purchase a fabulous diamond necklace for the Queen. He delivers it to Jeanne for Marie Antoinette. If the scheme breaks down, what then? Might this affair spark revolution?

The Pianist (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | War
Countries: France | Germany | Poland | UK
Actors: Adrien Brody | | Frank Finlay | Maureen Lipman | Emilia Fox | Ed Stoppard | Julia Rayner | Jessica Kate Meyer | Michal Zebrowski | Wanja Mues | Richard Ridings | Nomi Sharron | Anthony Milner | Lucy Skeaping | Roddy Skeaping
Directors: Roman Polanski
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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Adrien Brody | James Caviezel | Ben Chaplin | George Clooney | John Cusack | Woody Harrelson | John Travolta | Elias Koteas | Jared Leto | Dash Mihok | Tim Blake Nelson | Nick Nolte | John C. Reilly | Larry Romano | John Savage
Directors: Terrence Malick
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In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese’s advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.