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Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June, 1946) is an Emmy Award-winning Scottish actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 film Manhunter, and has since become a familiar face in film and television. He is also known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he...
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Battle for Terra
Battle for Terra, originally screened as Terra, is a 2009 computer animated science fiction film, based on a short film of the same name about a peaceful alien planet which faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human...
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25th Hour
25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff's novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery "Monty" Brogan, a convicted...
Adaptation
Adaptation. is a 2002 American comedy-drama satire film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's novel The Orchid Thief through self-referential events. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Charlie and...
Iron Will
Iron Will is a 1994 family film and adventure film directed by Charles Haid. It is based on the exploits of Albert Campbell, who won the 1917 race from Winnipeg to Saint Paul, and Fred Hartman, the American hope in the race. According to Albert...
L.I.E.
L.I.E. is a 2001 independent film about a relationship between Howie, a 15-year-old boy, and a pederast known as 'Big John'. The title is an acronym for the Long Island Expressway. The film was directed by Michael Cuesta who has said that the film...
Manhunter
Manhunter is a 1986 thriller film based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon. Written and directed by Michael Mann, it features Brian Cox as the popular character Hannibal Lecter (although the character's name is spelled "Lecktor" in this film) and...
Red Eye
Red Eye is a 2005 thriller film directed by Wes Craven and starring Rachel McAdams as a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist (Cillian Murphy) while aboard a red eye flight to Miami. The film score was composed and conducted...
Rob Roy
Rob Roy is a historical drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and released on April 7, 1995. The film was generally inspired by elements of the life of a 17th-18th century Scot named Robert Roy MacGregor and his battles with feudal landowners...
Super Troopers
Super Troopers is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, written by and starring the Broken Lizard comedy group (Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske). Marisa Coughlan, Daniel von Bargen and...
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity is a 2002 spy film based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, and the first of three films in the Bourne Series. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a psychogenic amnesiac attempting to discover his true identity amidst a...
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The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 spy mystery thriller film. The title comes from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, but the film's plot is completely different (even contradictory) to the plot of the book. The title was used because it is a...
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The Corruptor
The Corruptor is a 1999 American action thriller film directed by James Foley, and starring Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg.
Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is one of New York City's most martial police officers and the head of the Asian Gang Unit. Chen's...
The Glimmer Man
For the official employed by coal gas reticulation companies in Ireland during the Emergency see Glimmer Man
The Glimmer Man is a 1996 American action film directed by John Gray. and starring Steven Seagal, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton and Brian...
The Ring
The Ring is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. It is an American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film (also known as Ringu). Both films are based on the novel of...
The Ringer
The Ringer is a 2005 comedy starring Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, and Brian Cox with cameos by Terry Funk and Jesse Ventura. It is produced by the Farrelly Brothers and was released on December 23, 2005 by Fox Searchlight.
The story follows...
X2
X2 (also known as X2: X-Men United, X-Men 2: X-Men United and X-Men 2) is a 2003 superhero film based on the fictional characters the X-Men. Directed by Bryan Singer, it is the second film in the X-Men film series. It stars an ensemble cast...
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Zodiac
Zodiac is a 2007 American film directed by David Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction book of the same name. The Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. joint production stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey, Jr..
Zodiac...
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Bug
Bug is a 2002 comedy film, directed by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. It was released on February 28, 2002.
An eclectic group of individuals in Silverlake, LA, are propelled by a series of cause-and-effect chain reactions to a common destiny.
For Love of the Game
For Love of the Game is an American film drama based on the novel of the same title by Michael Shaara. It is directed by Sam Raimi and stars Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston. The film follows the final game of an aging baseball pitcher as he...
Hidden Agenda
Hidden Agenda is a 1990 political thriller film directed by Ken Loach and starring Frances McDormand, Brian Cox and Brad Dourif.
Hidden Agenda depicts an investigation into the murder of an American civil rights activist in Northern Ireland by the...
A Shot at Glory
A Shot at Glory is a film by Michael Corrente produced in 1999 and released in 2001, starring Robert Duvall and the Scottish football player Ally McCoist. It had limited commercial and critical success. The film features the fictional Scottish...
Trick 'r Treat
Trick 'r Treat is a 2008 horror film. It was written and directed by Michael Dougherty and based on his short film Season's Greetings. Originally slated for an October 5, 2007 release, it was announced in September 2007 that the film had been pushed...
Rushmore
Rushmore is a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray), and their mutual love for elementary school teacher...
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 action thriller film starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, written by Shane Black and directed by Renny Harlin.
Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a suburban mother and schoolteacher with a seemingly normal life...
Agent Crush
Agent Crush is a 2008 animated movie starring Ioan Gruffudd, Brian Cox, Neve Campbell, Roger Moore, Brian Blessed, Rula Lenska and Ruby Wax. It is currently awaiting release.
The Flying Scotsman
The Flying Scotsman is a 2006 British drama film, based on the life and career of Scottish amateur cyclist Graeme Obree. The film covers the period of Obree's life that saw him take, lose, and then retake the world one-hour distance record. The film...
Desperate Measures
Desperate Measures is a 1998 action thriller film starring Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Marcia Gay Harden and Brian Cox, directed by Barbet Schroeder.
San Francisco police officer Frank Conner is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow...
The Water Horse
The Academy Award®-winning producer and special-effects team behind The Lord of the Rings join with Revolution Studios, Walden Media (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Beacon Pictures to bring to the screen the magical motion picture The Water Horse:...
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The Affair of the Necklace
The Affair of the Necklace is a 2001 American historical drama film directed by Charles Shyer. The screenplay by John Sweet is based on what became known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an incident that helped fuel the French populace's...
The Minus Man
The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. It was directed by Hampton Fancher, who also wrote the screenplay.
The movie centers on a serial killer, Vann (Owen Wilson), who picks victims who seem to be unhappy with their lives,...
The Rookie
The Rookie is a 2002 motion picture directed by John Lee Hancock. It is inspired by the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career.
Jim Morris (played by Dennis Quaid) injured his shoulder 12 years before the...
Match Point
Match Point (2005) is a dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton.
When tennis pro Chris Wilton begins a...
Running with Scissors
Running With Scissors is a 2006 Golden Globe-nominated comedy-drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Augusten Burroughs directed by Ryan Murphy starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Gabrielle...
Red
Red is a 2008 thriller film about a couple of kids who kill a dog named 'Red' during an attempted robbery. The dog's owner finds out who they are, and tries to bring them to justice by informing the authorities. However, this amounts to nothing, so...
Shoot On Sight
Shoot On Sight is a 2007 film directed by Jag Mundhra and produced by Aron Govil. The film is ready for release and is being marketed and distributed globally by Aron Govil Productions Inc.
Tariq Ali (Shah), a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard,...
The Escapist
The Escapist is a prison break film starring Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Mackintosh and Damian Lewis. It is directed and co-written by Rupert Wyatt, and premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival...
In Celebration
In Celebration is a 1975 film directed by Lindsay Anderson. It is based in the 1969 stage production of the same name by David Storey which was also directed by Anderson. The movie was meant to be shown theatrically with tickets sold in advance.
It...
Strictly Sinatra
Strictly Sinatra is a 2001 drama film directed by Peter Capaldi. The film was released in the UK in 2001 by Focus Features and stars Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, and Brian Cox.
The film is about a young Italian lounge singer, Toni Cocozza, with a...
Bourne
The Bourne films are a series of spy films based on the character Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from psychogenic amnesia, created by author Robert Ludlum. All three of Ludlum's novels were adapted for the screen, featuring Matt Damon...
Tell-Tale
Tell-Tale is an upcoming thriller film inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story The Tell-Tale Heart. It is directed by Michael Cuesta and stars Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, and Brian Cox, produced is the movie from Tony Scott and Ridley Scott.
A man...
Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword is the thirteenth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It, along with The Goblin King, was produced and completed in 2008, but Goblin King was released...
Braveheart
Braveheart is a 1995 Academy-award winning action-drama film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role. The film was written for screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace. Gibson portrays the legendary Scot, William...
The Good Heart
The Good Heart is a drama film slated for release in 2008. It will be directed by Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari and star Ryan Gosling and Tom Waits. It will be a joint Icelandic-U.S. production. Filming is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2007.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Fantastic Mr. Fox is an upcoming 2009 animated film detailing comedic events that take place in the Roald Dahl novel.
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Ironclad
Ironclad is an upcoming 2010 film, directed by Jonathan English. Written by English and Erick Kastel, based on a screenplay by Stephen McDool, the cast includes Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Mackenzie Crook, Jason Flemying, Derek Jacobi...
Red
Red is an upcoming action/comedy film starring Bruce Willis and directed by Robert Schwentke. It is currenty in pre-production and is scheduled to start filming Jan 11, 2010.
Blue/Orange
Blue/Orange is a 2005 television film by English dramatist, Joe Penhall adapted from his play of the same title. This sardonically comic film that touches on race, mental illness, and twenty-first century British life, was directed by Howard Davies...
