The Independent is a 2022 American political film directed by Amy Rice and written by Evan Parter. It stars Jodie Turner-Smith, Brian Cox, Luke Kirby, Stephen Lang, Ann Dowd, and John Cena. The plot centers around a reporter who uncovers a conspiracy that could impact the results of an upcoming presidential election. The film was released on stream...
Starring: Ernest Borgnine•Violet McGraw•Peter O'Toole•Robert Morse•James Caan•Julie Christie
Separation is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by William Brent Bell, from a screenplay by Nick Amadeus and Josh Braun. It stars Rupert Friend, Mamie Gummer, Madeline Brewer, Violet McGraw, Simon Quarterman, and Brian Cox. The film follows a father who must take care of his daughter, after his wife, who filed for divorce, suddenly ...
Starring: Violet McGraw•Robert Pine•Michael Douglas•Jill Clayburgh
Strange but True is a 2019 American thriller film directed by Rowan Athale from a screenplay by Eric Garcia. The film is an adaptation of the 2004 novel of the same name by John Searles and stars Amy Ryan, Nick Robinson, Margaret Qualley, Blythe Danner, Brian Cox, Greg Kinnear and Connor Jessup.
Starring: Joe Don Baker•Violet McGraw•Blythe Danner•John Lithgow•Richard Dreyfuss•Candy Clark•Fred Ward
Pixels is a 2015 science fiction comedy film directed by Chris Columbus, written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, and produced by Columbus, Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, and Mark Radcliffe. Based on the 2010 short film of the same name by Patrick Jean, the film stars Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, and Brian Cox....
Starring: Beverly D'Angelo•Meryl Streep•Violet McGraw•Laraine Newman•Dennis Quaid•Terry Funk•Dan Aykroyd•Helen Mirren•David Keith
Coriolanus is a 2011 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus. It is directed by and stars Ralph Fiennes as the title character, with Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius, Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia, and Brian Cox as Menenius. This is Fiennes' directorial debut. It places Shakespeare's original text and plot into a contempo...
Starring: James Remar•Violet McGraw•Rosanna Arquette•David Morse•Nigel Terry•Julian Glover
The Campaign is a 2012 American political satire comedy film directed by Jay Roach, written by Shawn Harwell and Chris Henchy and stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as two North Carolinians vying for a seat in Congress. The film was released on August 10, 2012, by Warner Bros Pictures, to mixed reviews from critics.
Starring: Morgan Freeman•Michael Keaton•Violet McGraw•John Getz•John Malkovich•Danny Glover•Anthony Edwards•Willem Dafoe•Philip Baker Hall
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 American science fiction film directed by Rupert Wyatt and written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The film is a reboot of the Planet of the Apes film series and its seventh installment overall. It stars Andy Serkis as Caesar, alongside James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, and Da...
Starring: Morgan Freeman•Violet McGraw•Geena Davis•William Petersen•Robert Downey Jr.•Andy García•Keanu Reeves•Stephen Lang•Dennis Farina•Brian Cox
Red is a 2010 American action comedy film loosely inspired by the Homage Comics limited series of the same name. Produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures and distributed by Summit Entertainment, it is the first film in the Red series. Directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, it stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Mal...
Starring: Joan Allen•Tom Noonan•Chad Allen•Alec Baldwin•Bruce Willis•Dylan McDermott•Dermot Mulroney•Violet McGraw•Jesse Ventura•Elias Koteas
The Escapist is a 2008 drama thriller starring Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Mackintosh, Stephen Farrelly and Damian Lewis. It is directed and co-written by Rupert Wyatt, and premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to considerable acclaim. An Irish-UK co-production, the film was produced by Alan ...
Starring: Violet McGraw•Paul Dano•James LeGros•David Hewlett•Sean Bean•Brad Pitt•Adam Sandler•Samuel L. Jackson
Battle for Terra, originally screened as Terra, is a 2007 American computer-animated action-adventure science fiction film, based on the short film Terra, about a race of beings on a peaceful alien planet who face destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human race. The film was directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas who conceived i...
Starring: Mary-Louise Parker•Marcia Gay Harden•John C. Reilly•Michael Gambon•Sterling Jerins•Philip Seymour Hoffman•Gwyneth Paltrow•Violet McGraw•Adrien Brody•Anna Paquin
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 American stop motion animated comedy film directed by Wes Anderson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. The project is based on the 1970 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson star. The plot follows the titul...
Starring: Ben Chaplin•Ralph Fiennes•Karen Duffy•Violet McGraw•David Krumholtz•Dina Meyer•Rosario Dawson•Gabriel Mann•Greg Kinnear•Jena Malone
Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith, Zodiac (1986) and Zodiac Unmasked (2002). The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. with Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Ly...
Starring: Owen Wilson•Emily Watson•Rachel Weisz•Edward Norton•George Clooney•Violet McGraw•Scarlett Johansson•David Morrissey•Clive Owen•Joseph Fiennes
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a 2007 fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on Dick King-Smith's children's novel The Water Horse. It stars Alex Etel as a young boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches out of it: a "water horse" which later becomes the fabled Loch Ness Mon...
Starring: Violet McGraw•Liam Cunningham•Olivia Williams•Brendan Gleeson•Barry Pepper•Joseph Cross•Will Ferrell•Jason Schwartzman•Julia Stiles•Saffron Burrows
Running with Scissors is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ryan Murphy, based on Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir of the same name, and starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh and Gwyneth Paltrow. The semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood...
Starring: James Franco•Violet McGraw•Gerard Butler•Emily Mortimer•Jay Hernandez•Paul Dano•Billy Kay•Orlando Bloom
Red Eye is a 2005 American psychological thriller film directed by Wes Craven and written by Carl Ellsworth based on a story by Ellsworth and Dan Foos. The film follows a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami. The film score was composed and conducted by Marco Beltrami. It was distribu...
Starring: Zach Galifianakis•Violet McGraw•Franka Potente•Karl Urban•Rachel McAdams•Johnny Knoxville•Rachel Griffiths•Marton Csokas•Damian Lewis•Andy Serkis
The Ringer is a 2005 American slapstick sports comedy starring Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, and Brian Cox with cameos by Terry Funk and Jesse Ventura. Directed by Barry W. Blaustein, it was produced by the Farrelly brothers. The film was released on December 23, 2005, by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Starring: Peter Dinklage•Violet McGraw•Leonard Earl Howze•Kevin James•Karin Konoval•Karel Roden•Penelope Wilton•Chelah Horsdal•Tom Felton•Ewen Bremner
Match Point is a 2005 psychological thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, and Penelope Wilton. In the film, Rhys Meyers' character marries into a wealthy family, but his social position is threatened by his affair with his brother-in-law's g...
Starring: Violet McGraw•Michelle Monaghan•Ann Dowd•Geoffrey Arend•Rose Keegan•Colin Salmon•Jonathan Rhys Meyers•Toby Kebbell•Jamie Harris•Seu Jorge
Troy is a 2004 epic historical war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Benioff. Produced by units in Malta, Mexico and Britain's Shepperton Studios, the film features an ensemble cast led by Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad in its narration of the entire story of the decade-...
Starring: Steven Mackintosh•Jenny Wade•Cillian Murphy•Amy Ryan•Violet McGraw•Jack Scalia•Angela Paton•Suzie Plakson•Laura Johnson•Richard Ridings
The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 action-thriller film featuring Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne character. Although it takes the name of the second Bourne novel (1986), its plot is entirely different. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy. It is the second installment in the Jason Bourne film series. It is preceded by...
Starring: Violet McGraw•Dominic Cooper•Stephen Farrelly•Craig Hall•P. J. Byrne•Nick Robinson•James Nesbitt•John Cena•Joel Tobeck•Mamie Gummer
25th Hour is a 2002 American drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Edward Norton. Adapted by David Benioff from his own 2001 debut novel The 25th Hour, it tells the story of a man's last 24 hours of freedom as he prepares to go to prison for seven years for dealing drugs.
Starring: Violet McGraw•Alexander Nathan Etel•Priyanka Xi•Marshall Napier•Erroll Shand•Josh Gad
The Bourne Identity is a 2002 action-thriller film based on Robert Ludlum's 1980 novel. It was directed and co-produced by Doug Liman and written by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from psychogenic amnesia attempting to discover his identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA. I...
Starring: Violet McGraw•Katherine LaNasa•Stephen Farrelly•Jessica Chastain•P. J. Byrne•Nick Robinson
The Rookie is a 2002 American sports drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris who debuted in Major League Baseball at age 35. The film stars Dennis Quaid as Morris, alongside Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Angus T. Jones, and Brian Cox.
Starring: Sterling Jerins•Violet McGraw•Connor Jessup•Jodie Turner-Smith
L.I.E. is a 2001 American drama film about a relationship between Howie, a troubled 16-year-old boy, and a middle aged man 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 is about exploring sexuality. It stars Paul Dano in his first lead role as the boy...
Starring: Violet McGraw•James Caan•Joe Don Baker
Super Troopers is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by and starring the Broken Lizard comedy group. Marisa Coughlan, Daniel von Bargen and Brian Cox co-star while Lynda Carter has a cameo appearance. In total, Fox Searchlight paid $3.25 million for distribution rights of the film and it grossed $23 million at the...
Starring: Violet McGraw•Fred Ward•David Keith
For Love of the Game is a 1999 American sports drama film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Dana Stevens based on Michael Shaara's 1991 novel of the same title. Starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston, it follows the perfect game performance of an aging star baseball pitcher, Billy Chapel as he deals with the pressures of pitching in Yankee Sta...
Starring: David Morse•Kevin Costner•Violet McGraw•Michael Keaton•Kelly Preston
Desperate Measures is a 1998 American action thriller film starring Michael Keaton, Andy García, Marcia Gay Harden and Brian Cox, directed by Barbet Schroeder. It was filmed in both the San Francisco Bay Area and downtown Pittsburgh with such landmarks as the BNY Mellon Center, the Allegheny County Courthouse and the Oakland Bay Bridge. The film wa...
Starring: Kim Greist•Geena Davis•Violet McGraw•William Petersen
Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title The Poodle Springs Story, were subsequently published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962), a collection of excerpts from letters and unpublished ...
Starring: Andy García•Keanu Reeves•Dennis Farina•Violet McGraw•Tom Noonan
Rushmore is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Wes Anderson about a crazy teenager named Max Fischer, his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume, and their shared affection for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross. The film was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. The soundtrack features multiple songs by bands associated with ...
Starring: Ralph Fiennes•Violet McGraw•Samuel L. Jackson•Jena Malone
Chain Reaction is a 1996 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis, starring Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn and Brian Cox. The plot centers on the invention of a new non-contaminating power source based on hydrogen and the attempts by the United States Government to prevent the spreadi...
Starring: Marcia Gay Harden•Dermot Mulroney•John C. Reilly•Violet McGraw•Kevin Dunn•Dina Meyer
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 American action thriller film co-produced and directed by Renny Harlin, and produced by Shane Black and Stephanie Austin with screenplay written by Black. It stars Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Amandes, Yvonne Zima, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko and David Morse. The story follows an amnesiatic sch...
Starring: Jena Malone•Rachel Weisz•Violet McGraw•Craig Bierko•Olivia Williams
Manhunter is a 1986 American thriller film directed and written by Michael Mann. Based on the 1981 novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, it stars William Petersen as FBI profiler Will Graham. Also featured are Tom Noonan as serial killer Francis Dollarhyde, Dennis Farina as Graham's FBI superior Jack Crawford, and Brian Cox as incarcerated killer Hann...
Starring: Marisa Coughlan•Paul Dano•Ernest Borgnine•Billy Kay•Violet McGraw•Dominic Cooper•Daniel von Bargen