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Aidan Quinn has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Flipped.
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Benny & Joon
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Prime Video · Included

Sarah's Key
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Prime Video · Included

Song for a Raggy Boy
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Prime Video · Included

Elementary
2012 · Series · Actor
Top 29%Hulu · Included

Stakeout
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Prime Video · Included

Music of the Heart
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 55%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe, Rebecca De Mornay

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Dir. Roland Joffé · With Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
Dir. Edward Zwick · With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik · With Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.
Dir. Aisling Walsh · With Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
Dir. Robert Doherty · With Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill

Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.
Dir. Nick Moore · With Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer, Natasha Richardson

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
Dir. Griffin Dunne · With Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
Dir. John Badham · With Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea

Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
Dir. Christian Duguay · With Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Dir. Yves Simoneau · With Anna Paquin, Chevez Ezaneh, August Schellenberg
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.
Dir. Mark Williams · With Liam Neeson, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Taylor John Smith

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Dir. Susan Seidelman · With Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Dir. Al Pacino · With Al Pacino, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client
Dir. Bille August · With Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, Kelly Preston

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
Dir. Lewis Gilbert · With Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Dir. Volker Schlöndorff · With Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slew his wife and child.
Dir. Jimmy Hayward · With Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox
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