The Big Year (2011)
Comedy
Two bird enthusiasts try to defeat the cocky, cutthroat world record holder in a year-long bird-spotting competition.
Starring: Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Brian Dennehy, Anjelica Huston, Rashida Jones
Director: David Frankel
Son of the South (2020)
Biography | Drama
In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him. SON OF THE SOUTH is from executive producer Spike Lee and based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek."
Starring: Lucas Till, Lex Scott Davis, Lucy Hale, Jake Abel, Shamier Anderson, Julia Ormond, Brian Dennehy, Cedric the Entertainer
Director: Barry Alexander Brown
Gladiator (1992)
Action | Drama | Sport
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing – where punches can kill.
Starring: James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr., Brian Dennehy, Jon Seda, Vonte Sweet, Robert Loggia
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Driveways (2019)
Drama
A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, and ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
Starring: Hong Chau, Lucas Jaye, Brian Dennehy, Christine Ebersole, Jeter Rivera, Sophia DiStefano
Director: Andrew Ahn
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Adventure | Drama
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Starring: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Hugh Webster, Tom Dahlgren
Director: Carroll Ballard
3 Days with Dad / Life Support (2019)
Comedy
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.
Starring: Larry Clarke, Brian Dennehy, J.K. Simmons, Tom Arnold, Julie Ann Emery, Mo Gaffney, Jon Gries, Eric Edelstein, Lesley Ann Warren
Director: Larry Clarke
The Seagull (2018)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Annette Bening, Corey Stoll, Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Zegen, Jon Tenney, Billy Howle
Director: Michael Mayer
The Song of Sway Lake (2017)
Drama | Musical | Romance
Music collector Ollie Sway recruits his only friend, a rowdy Russian drifter, to help him steal a 78 record from his own family's estate.
Starring: Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan, Isabelle McNally, Mary Beth Peil, Elizabeth Peña, Jack Falahee, Brian Dennehy, Anna Shields
Director: Ari Gold
The Challenger / The Challenger Disaster (2013)
Drama
Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 explosion.
Starring: Joanne Whalley, William Hurt, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Dennehy, Kevin McNally
Director: James Hawes
Best Seller (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
Starring: James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant, Paul Shenar, George Coe, Anne Pitoniak
Director: John Flynn
10th & Wolf / For Life (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
Starring: James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi, Brad Renfro, Piper Perabo, Dennis Hopper, Brian Dennehy, Lesley Ann Warren, Dash Mihok, Tommy Lee, Val Kilmer
Director: Robert Moresco
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, Bill Paxton, Michael C. Gwynne
Director: John Mackenzie
Legal Eagles (1986)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
Starring: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp
Director: Ivan Reitman
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A prosecutor is accused of murdering a beautiful colleague with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Greta Scacchi, Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Dennehy, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Alan J. Pakula
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Drama
Peter Greenaway writes and directs this psychological drama. Architect Stourley Kracklite goes to Rome to organise an exhibition paying tribute to an 18th century predecessor. There he becomes convinced his pregnant wife, Louisa, is having an affair with one of his rivals and when he develops stomach cramps he suspects she is trying to poison him.
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
Director: Peter Greenaway
Gorky Park (1983)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.
Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula
Director: Michael Apted
Ratatouille (2007)
Animation | Comedy | Family
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely – and certainly unwanted – visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. Remy finds himself torn between his calling and passion in life or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef.
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn
Director: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
Meet Monica Velour (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When an awkward teen meets his favorite porn star, whose career peaked in the '80s, an unexpected friendship follows as the young man gets a glimpse inside Monica Velour's current life as a single mom struggling to make ends meet.
Starring: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy, Keith David
Director: Keith Bearden
First Blood / Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
He never fought a battle he couldn't win. Academy Award-nominee Sylvester Stallone stars as war hero, ex-green Beret John Rambo in the one that started it all! First Blood is an explosive action-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final, powerful frame.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, David Caruso, Jack Starrett
Director: Ted Kotcheff
