Biography: Charles Bronson |

The son of a Lithuanian coal miner, American actor Charles Bronson claimed to have spoken no English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania. Though he managed to complete high school, it was expected that Bronson would go into the mines like his... more
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Tags: Crime Drama Crime Police Drama 
Length: 90min
Charles Bronson stars as Paul Fein, a detective on the Milwaukee Police Force, in this thriller directed by Sheldon Larry. While investigating a double homicide involving a well-to-do banker and his wife, Detective Fein makes a shocking discovery: His...

Tags: Crime Police Drama 
Length: 90min
In this made-for-TV thriller, Paul Fein (Charles Bronson) is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie (Sebastian Spence) is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of...

Cast: Diane Ladd   
Tags: Police Drama Crime Crime Drama 
Length: 93min
A priest has been murdered in the neighborhood of Inspector Paul Fein's youth, and it's up to the seasoned cop to crack the case in director David Greene's entry into the tense Family of Cops series. It's not going to be easy going back to the streets...

Death Wish 5: The Face of Death (1994)
Cast: Michael Parks   
Tags: Action Action Thriller 
Length: 96min
In this final film in the Death Wish series, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) returns to New York City, where he attempts to resume a normal life by proposing to his girlfriend Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down), a fashion designer. However, Olivia runs afoul of...

Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama 
Length: 120min
This is a '90s version of the classic Jack London story about the steel-willed captain of a seal-hunting ship who wrangles with a rough-neck crew. Charles Bronson plays Captain Wolf Larsen. Some of the sea scenes were actually taken from the 1941...

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Cast: Charles Bronson J. Lee Thompson   
Tags: Police Detective Film Thriller Action 
Length: 97min
Once again, Charles Bronson plays a renegade cop out for vigilante justice in the darkest heart of the urban jungle. This time, he is targeting an especially ruthless pimp who has been leading innocent young girls into prostitution. When the pimp...

Cast: Sean Penn Viggo Mortensen David Morse Patricia Arquette Benicio Del Toro Valeria Golino   
Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 127min
The Indian Runner, Sean Penn's debut film as director (he also wrote the script, based on the Bruce Springsteen song &"Highway Patrolman") is a brooding tale of two brothers -- one peaceful and sedate, the other violent and aggressive -- whose...

Cast: Dana Delany   
Tags: Thriller Police Detective Film 
Length: min
Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past. ~ Sandra...

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Tags: Action Thriller Action 
Length: 100min
Charles Bronson, weary and comatose, is trotted out again as the cocked crusader Paul Kersey in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Director Michael Winner has jumped ship for this installment, replaced by J. Lee Thompson (who has seen better days). Kersey...

Tags: Action Thriller Thriller 
Length: 90min
Even though Charles Bronson doesn't carry a gun in this feature, there are still plenty of the fights, car chases, and explosions -- all hallmarks of Bronson's action films. Bronson plays ~Denver Tribune crime reporter Garrett Smith, who investigates...

























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