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Bruce Dern has 47 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Hateful Eight.
Aftermath
2017
Drama · Thriller
The Hateful Eight
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Peacock · Included
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Hulu · Included
Nebraska
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Paramount+ · Included
Freaks
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Peacock · Included
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Prime Video · Included
Hang 'em High
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%AMC+ · Included
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
Dir. Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz · With Shia LaBeouf, Zack Gottsagen, Dakota Johnson
Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Dir. Alexander Payne · With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a trick, who she kills. A string of murder and robbery follows that ultimately leads Aileen to becoming America's first female serial killer.
Dir. Patty Jenkins · With Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
Dir. Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein · With Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Dir. Mark Rydell · With John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
Dir. Ted Post · With Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
Dir. David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro · With Billy Bob Thornton, Nina Arianda, Tania Raymonde
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel
Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbour.
Dir. Ritesh Batra · With Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Matthias Schoenaerts
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
Dir. Tara Wood · With Quentin Tarantino, Zoë Bell, Louis Black
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Dir. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre · With Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Gideon Adlon
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.
Dir. Michael Polish · With Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2 submarine that can barely keep afloat. To make matters worse, Dodge's crew is a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then, he's tagged the "enemy" in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy's best.
Dir. David S. Ward · With Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt
After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.
Dir. Douglas Trumbull · With Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
Soon after a newlywed learns that her husband had her father shot down, she flees from the Callahan ranch in fear. She's rescued by a gunman who safeguards her at a remote outpost as he staves off her husband's attempts to reclaim his bride.
Dir. Michael Feifer · With Jay Pickett, Michael Welch, Skylar Witte
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker
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