Daddio (2023)
Drama
A woman taking a cab ride from JFK engages in a conversation with the taxi driver about the important relationships in their lives.
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Sean Penn
Director: Christy Hall
Asphalt City / Black Flies (2023)
Drama | Thriller
Ollie Cross is a young paramedic assigned to the NYC night shift with an uncompromising and seasoned partner Gene Rutkovsky. Each 911 call is often dangerous and uncertain, putting their lives on the line every day to help others.
Starring: Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Raquel Nave, Kali Reis, Michael Pitt, Katherine Waterston, Mike Tyson
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Flag Day (2021)
Crime | Drama
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
Starring: Dylan Penn, Sean Penn, Katheryn Winnick, Josh Brolin, Hopper Penn, Regina King
Director: Sean Penn
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
The Pledge (2001)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard
Director: Sean Penn
Crackers (1984)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Larry Riley, Trinidad Silva
Director: Louis Malle
The Professor and the Madman (2019)
Biography | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Natalie Dormer, Sean Penn, Jeremy Irvine, Jennifer Ehle, Ioan Gruffudd
Director: Farhad Safinia
The Indian Runner (1991)
Drama
A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.
Starring: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson, Sandy Dennis
Director: Sean Penn
The Last Face (2016)
Drama
A director of an international aid agency in Africa meets a relief aid doctor amidst a political/social revolution, and together face tough choices surrounding humanitarianism and life through civil unrest.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Javier Bardem, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Jared Harris, Jean Reno
Director: Sean Penn
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Drama
Freddie Gale is a seedy jeweler who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright, John Savage, Piper Laurie
Director: Sean Penn
State of Grace (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.
Starring: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John Turturro, Burgess Meredith
Director: Phil Joanou
The Gunman (2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An international spy must clear his name in order to save himself from the organization that he used to work for.
Starring: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca
Director: Pierre Morel
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Crime | Drama
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey, Celia Weston
Director: Tim Robbins
The Gunman (2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An international spy must clear his name in order to save himself from the organization that he used to work for.
Starring: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca
Director: Pierre Morel
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We're No Angels (1989)
Comedy | Crime
Ned and Jim, two escaped convicts on the run, find refuge with the Catholic Church when they are confused for and pose as priests.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, Ray McAnally
Director: Neil Jordan
U Turn (1997)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drifter becomes entangled with a femme fatale and her husband after his car breaks down in their small Southwest town.
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Voight, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe
Director: Oliver Stone
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
They were best friends from the best of families. Then they committed a crime against their country and became the two most wanted men in America.
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten
Director: John Schlesinger
Into the Wild (2007)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Into The Wild is inspired by the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life. Screenplay and directed by Sean Penn and featuring an all-star cast including William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener and Hal Halbrook, Into The Wild is "as stirring, entertaining and steadfastly thrilling as it is beautiful." (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn
Director: Sean Penn
Casualties of War (1989)
Drama | History | War
The true story of a group of U.S. soldiers, and their battle-scarred sergeant who takes his problems out on a new squad member during the war in Vietnam.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Dale Dye
Director: Brian De Palma
All the King's Men (2006)
Drama | Thriller
Gripping adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's novel stars Sean Penn as Willie Stark, a small- time Louisiana politico tapped to run for governor as part of a plot to keep the big-money incumbent in office. Realizing he's being used as a pawn, the once idealistic Stark becomes a ruthless, power-hungry political operator obsessed with winning the gubernatorial race.
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Steven Zaillian
