Biography: Brendan Gleeson |

A former teacher, burly Irish actor Brendan Gleeson spent the 1990s earning an increasing amount of acclaim for his work in a variety of films, most notably John Boorman's The General (1998). Gleeson, who made his feature film debut in Jim Sheridan's
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Cast: Matt Damon   
Tags: Political Drama Drama Police Drama 
Length: min
United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary exposé of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the ~Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was...

Into the Storm: Churchill at War (2009)
Length: 98min
A sequel to HBO's award-winning film The Gathering Storm, Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Into the Storm stars Brendan Gleeson as the intrepid British leader whose fiery rhetoric inspired Allied forces to fight back against Hitler's Germany to with everything...

Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy 
Length: min

Cast: Ralph Fiennes   
Tags: Comedy Buddy Film Action Comedy 
Length: 107min
Having just carried out a particularly difficult hit in London, two hitmen seek shelter in Bruges, Belgium, only to find their views on life and death permanently altered by their interactions with the locals, the tourists, and a film crew. Colin...

Cast: Anthony Hopkins Robert Zemeckis John Malkovich Angelina Jolie   
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy 
Length: 114min
Inspired by the epic Old English poem of the same name, director Robert Zemeckis's digitally rendered film follows the Scandinavian hero Beowulf (Ray Winstone) as he fights to protect the Danes from a ferocious beast named Grendel (Crispin Glover)....

Tags: Coming-of-Age Family Drama Drama 
Length: 94min
A young man struggles to grow up with principles as his family begins to self-destruct around him in this coming of age drama. Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a boy in his middle-teens growing up in an Irish-Catholic family in Boston. While Cole has...

Cast: John Boorman   
Tags: Comedy Drama 
Length: 106min
Deliverance and Tailor of Panama director John Boorman returns to the director's chair for this tale of a hawkish businessman who slowly finds his life being taken over by the twin brother he never knew he had. Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a...

Cast: Ridley Scott Jeremy Irons Brendan Gleeson   
Tags: Religious Epic Historical Epic Historical Film Epic 
Length: 145min
Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the Crusades of the 12th century. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a humble French blacksmith who is searching for a reason to go on after the death of his wife and children....

Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy 
Length: 90min
Locked into a steady losing streak thanks to their hapless coach, their flimsy defense, and their dispirited team captain, Emmett Rovers Football Club receives a much-needed blast of motivation in the form of a new coach that promises to lead them all...

Cast: Brad Pitt Peter O'Toole Julie Christie Wolfgang Petersen   
Tags: Historical Epic Epic Sword-and-Sandal Historical Film 
Length: 165min
Homer's sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale adventure. In 1193 B.C., Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom), has fallen in love; however, the beautiful woman who has beguiled him...




























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