Peter Berg’s Typical Vibe
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Peter Berg has 25 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Lone Survivor.
Recurring themes

The Limey
1999
Crime · Drama

The Usual Suspects
1995
Drama · Crime

The General
1998
Crime · Drama

Suicide Kings
1997
Action · Comedy

Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Thriller · Crime

Red Rock West
1993
Crime · Drama

The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
Thriller · Crime

The Bandit
1996
Crime · Drama

Collateral
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Paramount+ · Included

The Last Seduction
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Friday Night Lights
2006 · Series · Creator
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

Fire in the Sky
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%MGM+ · Included

Spenser Confidential
2020 · Movie · Director
Top 43%Netflix · Included

Cop Land
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch

In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper

A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
Dir. John Dahl · With Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman

The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.
Dir. Brian Grazer, Peter Berg · With Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden

After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.
Dir. Rob Lieberman · With D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich

Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin

A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Dir. James Mangold · With Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta

A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.
Dir. Morgan Spurlock · With Morgan Spurlock, Peter Berg, Paul Brennan

An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais

When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson

On a mission deep in the Bolivian jungle, a team of elite commandos finds itself on the receiving end of a lethal betrayal. Now presumed dead, the men join forces with a mysterious operative named Aisha to hunt down their enemy and even the score.
Dir. Sylvain White · With Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldaña, Chris Evans
Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?
Dir. Peter Berg · With Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman

Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
Dir. Peter Berg · With Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau

In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.
Dir. Keith Gordon · With Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.
Dir. Robert Redford · With Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Berg

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna
When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.
Dir. Reginald Hudlin · With Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Berg
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
Dir. Rob Pritts · With Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk

A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.
Dir. Valerie Breiman · With Adam Sandler, Scott LaRose, Tom Hodges