The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith
Director: Jonathan Demme
W. / Bush (2008)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
A chronicle of the life and Presidency of George W. Bush.
Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, James Cromwell, Richard Dreyfuss, Scott Glenn
Director: Oliver Stone
Training Day (2001)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Raymond J. Barry
Director: Antoine Fuqua
The Hill (2023)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The remarkable true-life story of Rickey Hill's improbable journey to play Major League Baseball.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Colin Ford, Joelle Carter, Randy Houser, Jesse Berry, Bonnie Bedelia, Scott Glenn
Director: Jeff Celentano
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramírez
Director: Paul Greengrass
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Peña
Director: Gregor Jordan
Greenland (2020)
Action | Thriller
A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor, Roger Dale Floyd
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
A Painted House (2003)
Drama | Family
A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming season, the boy learns that his challenges guide him in discovering who he really is.
Starring: Scott Glenn, Arija Bareikis, Robert Sean Leonard, Melinda Dillon, Logan Lerman, Audrey Marie Anderson, Geoffrey Lewis, Pablo Schreiber, Michael Shamus Wiles
Director: Alfonso Arau
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Drama | Romance
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn
Director: Sofia Coppola
Backdraft (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A childhood incident has left brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffret mentally scarred, but that doesn't stop them following in their father's footsteps by becoming firefighters. Brian, the more wary of the two, teams up with dogged arson investigator Donald Rimgale after a series of blazes, and finds himself at loggerheads with the more gung-ho Stephen when he is led to suspect someone in his former unit.
Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn
Director: Ron Howard
Absolute Power (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed–and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Clint Eastwood
Tall Tale / Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill (1995)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Western
A young boy draws inspiration from the tall tales of Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyon to fight against a evil land baron in the old west.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn, Stephen Lang
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
The Right Stuff (1983)
Adventure | Drama | History
The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey
Director: Philip Kaufman
The Barber (2014)
Thriller
The Barber, examines two men fixated on what triggers the enormity of evil: a father whose life is destroyed in pursuit of a killer, a son caught in a deadly charade as he tries to unravel his father's obsession.
Starring: Scott Glenn, Chris Coy, Stephen Tobolowsky, Kristen Hager, Jessica Lu, Lydia Hearst
Director: Basel Owies
The Shipping News (2001)
Drama | Romance
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn
Director: Lasse Hallström
Magic Valley (2011)
Drama
From acclaimed producer Heather Rae (Frozen River) comes this beautiful and elegant exploration into who we are in the moment after this one. Shot with immense beauty and elegance, Tribeca Film Festival alum Magic Valley takes a deep and reflective look at life unfolding before our eyes. A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Scott Glenn, Kyle Gallner, Alison Elliott, Brad William Henke, Johnny Lewis, Will Estes
Director: Jaffe Zinn
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The Paperboy (2012)
Thriller
A sexy thriller based on the New York Times best seller by Pete Dexter. Lured by imploring letters from the beautiful siren Charlotte (Nicole Kidman), handsome, hard-nosed reporter Ward James (Matthew McConaughey) and his partner, Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo), return to Ward's hometown of Lately, Florida, to investigate the seemingly unjust imprisonment of Charlotte's lover, alligator hunter Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack)
Starring: Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, David Oyelowo, Scott Glenn
Director: Lee Daniels
Freedom Writers (2007)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed – a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them. Based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary and supported by a cast of first-time actors who drew from their actual experiences on the street, Gruwell teaches us all an important lesson about tolerance and trust.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, April Lee Hernandez
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Vertical Limit (2000)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
K2, a 28,250-foot mountain in Pakistan's Karakoram Range, is the setting for this adrenaline-pumping action-adventure. It's a race against time when a retired mountain climber (Chris O'Donnell) leadsa rescue mission to save his estranged sister (Robin Tunney) and other members of her team who havebecome trapped on K2 after a deadly avalanche. Martin Campbell, the celebrated director of The Maskof Zorro and GoldenEye, delivers high-voltage action and exhilarating suspense in a film that pits man against his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements.
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco
Director: Martin Campbell
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The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
Russia's newest Typhoon-class nuclear missile submarine Red October, equipped with a silent propulsion system, sets sail from Murmansk. At the same time a mysterious letter is sent from Red October's captain, Marko Ramius, to the chief political officer of the Soviet Navy. Shortly after almost the entire Soviet fleet in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean sets out for the Atlantic Ocean with the mission to hunt down and destroy the Red October. CIA-analyst Jack Ryan believes that Ramius is trying to defect to the West. The Pentagon and White House generals do not believe in his idea. They believe Soviet's story, that Ramius is a madman and that he will launch his nuclear missiles at the United States. A race between NATO and the Soviet Union begins. Who will find the Red October first? In the middle of all this Ryan is trying to get to Ramius and help him.
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Joss Ackland
Director: John McTiernan
