Brendan Gleeson
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- General, The (1998)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Jon Voight
- Top–rate return to form for dir. Boorman, styling the career of true–life Dublin gangster Martin Cahill as an epic comedy of criminal…
- Tailor of Panama, The (2000)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis…
- Sly, cynical little spy–thriller, unfolds with a morally–dubious UK spy Pierce Brosnan stitching together a big–score in Panama by…
- Harrison'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…
- Dark Blue (2002)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Kurt Russell, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson…
- Unexpectedly sharp police drama lifted from a James Ellroy story and placed into Los Angeles on the eve of the 1992 riots.
Expressing the…
- 28 Days Later (2003)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson
- Effective 'end of the world' thriller, where a scientifically–engineered contagion escapes the lab, turning most of Britain's populace into…
- Cold Mountain (2003)
- Dir. Anthony Minghella
Feat. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger…
- Prestige historical epic set in the closing days of the American Civil War, with a wounded confederate soldier (Law) deserting the ranks to rejoin…
- Troy (2004)
- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom…
- Homer's epic is cranked up to full fury in this Hollywood CGI–ed adaptation, depicting the seige of Troy by the vengeful Greek army and the…
- Village, 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…
- In My Country (Country of my Skull) (2004)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson
- One of the first stabs at dramatising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in South Africa, here used as a grueling backdrop for romance…
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Eva Green…
- Arch–epic of the 12th century crusades, this follows an honourable French blacksmith (Bloom) into the maelstrom of Jerusalem,…