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Adrien Brody has 43 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Pianist.
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Dragon
2011
Drama · Action

Blood Ties
2013
Thriller · Crime

2048: Nowhere to Run
2017
Science Fiction · Thriller

Saving Zoë
2019
Drama · Mystery

Aftermath
2017
Drama · Thriller

No Date, No Signature
2017
Drama · Mystery

Frankie & Alice
2010
Drama · Thriller

Disconnect
2013
Drama · Thriller

The Pianist
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

Detachment
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Ghosted
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Apple TV+ · Included

The Brutalist
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Max · Included

The Experiment
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 42%Prime Video · Included

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022 · Series · Actor
Top 42%Max · Included

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Dir. Tony Kaye · With Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman

Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.
Dir. Dexter Fletcher · With Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Dir. Darnell Martin · With Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union

as Julian Cadazio
Prime Video · Rent
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.
Dir. Brady Corbet · With Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Dir. Paul T. Scheuring · With Adrien Brody, Cam Gigandet, Forest Whitaker

A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.
Dir. Jim Hecht, Max Borenstein · With John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Dir. John Maybury · With Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Dir. Rian Johnson · With Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
Dir. Nimród Antal · With Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Dir. Ken Loach · With Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Jack McGee

Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert and a thrilling story unfolds.
Dir. Daniel Lee · With Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Dir. Julien Temple · With Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur, Adrien Brody
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Dir. Spike Lee · With John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino

In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
Dir. Peter Filardi, Jason Filardi · With Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Ens

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
Dir. Tom George · With Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Dir. M. Night Shyamalan · With Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody

Harry Houdini emerges as America's first bonafide world-renowned superstar.
Dir. Uli Edel · With Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, Evan Jones

Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.
Dir. Paul Solet · With Adrien Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt
A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.
Dir. John Stalberg Jr. · With Adrien Brody, Matt Bush, Sean Marquette

When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
Dir. Allen Coulter · With Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck

In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Dir. Wayne Blair · With Adrien Brody, Salma Hayek Pinault, Gabriella Wright
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