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Adrien Brody

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Last Time I Committed Suicide, TheLast Time I Committed Suicide, The (1997)
Dir. Stephen T. Kay
Feat. Thomas Jane, Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody
Free–spirited odyssey inspired by a letter from the pen of beatnik hedonist Neal Cassady. See Keanu Reeves smoke, drink and shoot pool in…
Summer of SamSummer of Sam (1999) Recommended
Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino
Getting some distance from his usual street–scene, Spike Lee lets off a real firecracker of a film, set during the heatwave summer of 1977,…
Liberty HeightsLiberty Heights (2000)
Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Adrien Brody, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth
Drawing once again on memories of his Baltimore childhood, dir. Levinson (DINER) examines life for a Jewish family on the eve of the rock'n'roll era…
Harrison's FlowersHarrison's Flowers (2000)
Dir. Elie Chouraqui
Feat. Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Adrien Brody
Andie MacDowell searches for her photojournalist husband (David Strathairn), presumed dead in the 1991 Serbian siege of Vukovar, with the aid of…
Bread and RosesBread and Roses (2000)
Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pilar Padilla, Elpidia Carrillo
Another politically–charged turn from dir. Loach follows two Latina women in Los Angeles who campaign for better working conditions and the…
Affair of the Necklace, TheAffair of the Necklace, The (2001)
Dir. Charles Shyer
Feat. Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Joely Richardson
Hilary Swank (BOYS DON’T CRY) wigs up as a penniless French aristocrat in pre–revolution times who conspires to defraud Cardinal Jonathon…
Love the Hard WayLove the Hard Way (2001)
Dir. Peter Sehr
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pam Grier
Big–city fable with Brody playing a snakeskin–jacketed thief with some polished one–liners, who nurses a secret ambition to be a…
Pianist, ThePianist, The (2002) Recommended
Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
Boldly visualised, fact–based drama concerning the Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who evaded Poland’s Nazi authorities during WW2, living…
DummyDummy (2002)
Dir. Greg Pritikin
Feat. Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas
Unusual, mostly effective comedy has unemployed clerk Brody take up his ventriloquism hobby fulltime. With yiddish sidenotes, simmering romance and…
Singing Detective, TheSinging Detective, The (2003)
Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robin Wright, Jeremy Northam
A not unthoughtful remake of Dennis Potter's iconic 1980s TV Series, in which a psoriasis–afflicted crime writer hallucinates mystery plots and…
Village, TheVillage, The (2004)
Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody
A further investigation in atmospherics from the maker of SIGNS and THE SIXTH SENSE, this time sent in the foreboding microcosm of an 18th century…
King KongKing Kong (2005) Recommended
Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black
Peter Jackson's colossal remake lavishes one of the cinema's greatest legends in 21st century technology and ratchets up the emotional stakes to…
Jacket, TheJacket, The (2005) Aro Favourite
Dir. John Maybury
Feat. Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson
Adding to a growing canon of mind–bending thrillers of distinction (see our 'Close Relatives' below), this certainly feels part of a distinct…
HollywoodlandHollywoodland (2006)
Dir. Allen Coulter
Feat. Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck
The intriguing, mysterious circumstances surrounding George ‘Superman’ Reeves’ suicide are exhumed by a private eye (Adrien Brody) in this…
Darjeeling Limited, TheDarjeeling Limited, The (2007)
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman
Idiosyncratic comedy from the dir. of THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS combines a dusty, nostalgic sub–continental adventure–quest with a whimsical…
Cadillac RecordsCadillac Records (2008)
Dir. Darnell Martin
Feat. Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union
Flashy interpretation of the rise of the seminal Chess Records, regarded by many as America's greatest blues label. This ensemble piece is more…
Brothers Bloom, TheBrothers Bloom, The (2008)
Dir. Rian Johnson
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo
Fanciful tale of two grifting brothers (Brody, Ruffalo) who, in attempting to ensnare an eccentric heiress (Weisz), fall for both her feminine charms…
ManoleteManolete (2008)
Dir. Menno Meyjes
Feat. Adrien Brody, Penelope Cruz, Nacho Aldeguer
Soapy biopic of the great Spanish bullfighter focuses more on his torrid love affair with a hot–tempered actress than his actual bullfighting…
SpliceSplice (2009)
Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley
The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…
PredatorsPredators (2010)
Dir. Nimrod Antal
Feat. Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga
Chosen for their ability to kill without conscience, a group of killers must survive an alien race of predators that have set out to target them as…
Experiment, TheExperiment, The (2010)
Dir. Paul Scheuring
Feat. Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr.
Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker chew the scenery in this slick, if largely diminished remake of the 2001 German thriller, itself a dramatisation of…
WreckedWrecked (2010)
Dir. Michael Greenspan
Feat. Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins
Artful micro–thriller with Brody as an injured man trapped in a car wreck with no memory of what happened. Resourceful suspenser that relies on…
Midnight in ParisMidnight in Paris (2011) Recommended
Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
High class whimsy from Woody Allen with Woody–surrogate honours going this time to Owen Wilson as a frustrated hack screenwriter magically…
DetachmentDetachment (2011) Aro Favourite
Dir. Tony Kaye
Feat. Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan
The magnetic Adrien Brody plays gifted but disillusioned substitute teacher who connects with troubled students, teachers and a young prostitute in…
Third PersonThird Person (2013)
Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Liam Neeson, Maria Bello, Mila Kunis
Paul Haggis attempts to renew the winning formula of his Oscar–winning CRASH with this trio of interlocking love stories set in Rome, Paris,…
Grand Budapest Hotel, TheGrand Budapest Hotel, The (2014) Aro Favourite
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric
Dir. Wes Anderson at last marries his quirky, meticulous aesthetic to a marvellously exotic setting and characters to create arguably his finest film…
BacktrackBacktrack (2015)
Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, George Shevtsov
Australian paranormal thriller about a psychotherapist (Adrian Brody) who is plagued by sinister visions after the death of his daughter. Returning…
French Dispatch, TheFrench Dispatch, The (2021) Recommended
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton
A wildly inventive anthology film from meticulous auteur Wes Anderson (GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) set in in a fictional 20th century French town, where a…
Asteroid CityAsteroid City (2023)
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks
A parade of caricatures converge on the tiny desert town of "Asteroid City": famous for it's rock in a hole. When things get ...…

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