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Brendan Gleeson has 48 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 4 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Braveheart.
London Boulevard
2010
Drama · Crime
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included
Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included
Paddington 2
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Max · Included
Troy
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Apple TV+ · Included
Gangs of New York
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Paramount+ · Included
Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included
When his name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools. Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as Harry's friends help him prepare for the Triwizard Tournament.
Dir. Mike Newell · With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Dir. Doug Liman · With Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.
Dir. Tomm Moore · With David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
Dir. Martin McDonagh · With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Dir. Paul King · With Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Dir. Martin McDonagh · With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Dir. Brad Anderson · With Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.
Dir. John Michael McDonagh · With Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Dir. Sarah Gavron · With Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Dir. John Michael McDonagh · With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly
Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005
Dir. Martin McDonagh · With Brendan Gleeson, Rúaidhrí Conroy, David Wilmot
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.
Dir. Don McKellar · With Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Gordon Pinsent
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.
Dir. Daniel Espinosa · With Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga
Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother Aiden's book, Brendan must overcome his deepest fears on a secret quest that will take him beyond the abbey walls and into the enchanted forest where dangerous mythical creatures hide. Will Brendan succeed in his quest?
Dir. Tomm Moore · With Evan McGuire, Christen Mooney, Brendan Gleeson
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
Dir. Anthony Minghella · With Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean
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
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Dir. Joel Coen · With Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Dir. John Boorman · With Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Dir. Steve Miner · With Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Dir. Vincent Perez · With Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again.
Dir. David E. Kelley · With Brendan Gleeson, Jharrel Jerome, Holland Taylor
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
Dir. Joel Hopkins · With Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, James Norton
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