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Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere (pronounced /ˈɡɪər/ geer, born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, and came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in several hit films...
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American Gigolo
American Gigolo is a 1980 thriller film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. Schrader based the film on French director Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959). It is also (informally) considered the second installment in his "night workers" trilogy,...
An Officer and a Gentleman
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a United States Navy aviation Officer Candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him. It was written by Douglas Day Stewart and...
Bee Season
Bee Season is a 2005 feature film based on the 2000 novel by Myla Goldberg. The film was directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and written by Naomi Foner. It stars Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.
Saul Naumann (Gere) is a somewhat controlling...
Chicago
Chicago is a 2002 American musical film adapted from the satirical stage musical Chicago, the film explores the themes of 'celebrity' and 'scandal' in Jazz age Chicago. Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted for film by screenwriter...
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Days of Heaven
Days of Heaven is a 1978 film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in the early twentieth century, it tells a story about transient laborers who travel to the Texas...
Final Analysis
Final Analysis (1992) is an American neo-noir drama directed by Phil Joanou and written by Wesley Strick. The executive producers were Richard Gere and Maggie Wilde.
The film tells of Isaac Barr (Richard Gere), a top notch San Francisco Freudian...
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First Knight
First Knight is a 1995 American romantic fantasy adventure film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere, Sean Connery as King Arthur and Ben Cross as Malagant.
The film...
I'm Not There
I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical/musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl...
Internal Affairs
Internal Affairs is a 1990 American crime thriller film set in Los Angeles about the police department's Internal Affairs Division.
Directed by Mike Figgis, the film stars Richard Gere as Dennis Peck, a suave womanizer, clever manipulator and...
Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman is a 1990 romantic comedy film. The film centers on down-on-her-luck prostitute Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) who is hired by a wealthy businessman and corporate raider, Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) to be his escort for several business...
Primal Fear
Primal Fear is a 1996 motion picture directed by Gregory Hoblit which tells the story of a defense attorney, Martin Vail (Richard Gere), who defends an altar boy, Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop. The...
Rhapsody in August
Rhapsody in August (八月の狂詩曲, Hachigatsu no rapusodī, aka Hachigatsu no kyōshikyoku) is a 1991 film by Akira Kurosawa. The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four...
Runaway Bride
Runaway Bride is a 1999 romantic comedy film starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and directed by Garry Marshall. While not as successful at the box office as the previous movie the three made together (also guest starring Héctor Elizondo),...
Shall We Dance?
Shall We Dance? is an American motion picture released in 2004. It is a remake of the award-winning Masayuki Suo 1996 Japanese film, Shall We Dansu?. The film made its US premier at the Hawaii International Film Festival.
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The Jackal
The Jackal is a 1997 suspense film starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Diane Venora and Sidney Poitier. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. While its title is similar to the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, it shares only the main story point...
The Mothman Prophecies
The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 film directed by Mark Pellington, adapted from the 1975 book of the same name by parapsychologist and Fortean John Keel. The film stars Richard Gere as John Klein, a reporter who researches the legend of the Mothman....
Unfaithful
Unfaithful is a 2002 American erotic drama film starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez, directed by Adrian Lyne, and adapted by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. from the French film The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle) by...
The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a popular real-life Harlem jazz club in the 1930s, the Cotton Club.
The movie was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred...
The Hoax
The Hoax is a 2006 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström. The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the same title by Clifford Irving and focuses on the autobiography Irving supposedly helped Howard Hughes write. Many of...
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Yanks
Yanks is a 1979 John Schlesinger film, set in World War II in the village of Dobcross, in Greater Manchester, England. Starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn, Rachel Roberts and Tony Melody.
The film focusses on three...
Autumn in New York
Autumn in New York (2000) is a romantic drama film directed by Joan Chen and starring Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, and Anthony LaPaglia.
The movie focuses on Will Keane (Gere) who falls in love with Charlotte Fielding (Ryder), a sweet, but terminally...
Breathless
Breathless is a 1983 American drama film starring Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky. It is a remake of the 1960 French film À bout de souffle (known as Breathless in English) and was released in France under the title A Bout de Souffle Made in USA....
The Hunting Party
The Hunting Party is an action-adventure-thriller with dark comedy elements released on September 7, 2007, starring Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Diane Kruger, Joy Bryant, and Jesse Eisenberg. The working title for this film was Spring Break in...
Dr. T & the Women
Dr. T & the Women is a 2000 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Altman. It stars Richard Gere as wealthy gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis ("Dr. T") and Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid, Kate Hudson and Liv...
Sommersby
Sommersby is a 1993 romantic drama film directed by Jon Amiel and starring Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman and James Earl Jones. The music was created by Danny Elfman and praised for its dark themes of tragedy and romance.
Set in the...
No Mercy
No Mercy is a 1986 film starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger about a cop who accepts an offer to kill a Cajun gangster.
A maverick Chicago cop, Eddie Jillette, poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done....
The Flock
The Flock is a 2007 thriller film directed by Andrew Lau, the co-director of the Infernal Affairs trilogy. The film, which marks his first English-language film, stars Richard Gere and Claire Danes.
A hyper-vigilant employee of the Department of...
King David
King David is a film about the second king of Israel, David.
It was filmed in 1985 in Matera and Craco, Italy. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and starred Richard Gere in the title role.
Intersection
Intersection is a 1994 film, directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, and Lolita Davidovich.
A remake of the French film Les choses de la vie (1970) by Claude Sautet, the story — set in Vancouver, British Columbia — concerns...
Red Corner
Red Corner is a drama film produced in 1997, directed by Jon Avnet and written by Robert King. It tells the story of a wealthy American businessman named Jack Moore (played by Richard Gere) working in China and attempting to put together a satellite...
Miles from Home
Miles From Home is a 1988 film starring Richard Gere. It is about two brothers who, after being forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west, become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers. The...
Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones is a 1993 romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Delroy Lindo and Anne Bancroft, and directed by Mike Figgis.
Mr. Jones (Gere) is a man suffering from bipolar disorder, a disease that affords him periods of intense emotional...
Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe is a 2008 film from Warner Bros., based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, starring Unfaithful's Richard Gere and Diane Lane. The film is rated PG-13 for some sensuality and was...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 film starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, and also features Tom Berenger. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Judith Rossner, which was in turn based on the real life murder of New York...
Amelia
Amelia is a currently released 2009 dramatized biographical film of the life of Amelia Earhart, starring Hilary Swank as Earhart along with a cast that includes Richard Gere, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor. It is directed by Mira Nair based...
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Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest is an American crime film starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle. It is directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Michael C. Martin, a one-time subway flagger from East New York. It was the first film to sell at the...
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Power
Power is a 1986 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Richard Gere. The original screenplay by David Himmelstein focuses on political corruption and how power affects both those who wield it and the people they try to control....
Hachiko: A Dog's Story
Hachiko: A Dog's Story is a drama film based on the true story of the faithful Japanese dog Hachikō. It is a remake of the 1987 Japanese film Hachikō Monogatari. It is directed by Lasse Hallström, written by Stephen P. Lindsey and stars Richard Gere...
The Honorary Consul
The Honorary Consul is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo. It is based on the novel The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene. It was also released under the...
Mustang - Journey of Transformation
Mustang - Journey of Transformation is a 2009 film directed by Will Parrinello.
