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State of Grace (1990)
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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... more |
Phil Joanou |
Dennis McIntyre |
John C. Reilly, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Robin Wright, John Turturro, Joe Viterelli, Jaime Tirelli, Dave Callaham, Burgess Meredith |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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We're No Angels (1989)
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A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do s... more |
Neil Jordan |
David Mamet, Albert Husson |
Robert De Niro, Demi Moore, John C. Reilly, Sean Penn |
Comedy, Crime |
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Taps aka The Siege at Bunker Hill: T.A.P.S (1981)
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Harold Becker |
Devery Freeman |
Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, George C. Scott |
Drama |
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What Just Happened (2008)
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A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in tw... more |
Barry Levinson |
Art Linson |
Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, Robin Wright, Catherine Keener, John Turturro, Stanley Tucci |
Comedy, Drama |
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Into the Wild (2007)
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After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account t... more |
Sean Penn |
Jon Krakauer |
Vince Vaughn, William Hurt, Catherine Keener, Kristen Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, Emile Hirsch, Parris Mosteller |
Adventure, Biography, Drama |
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Bad Boys (1983)
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Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing Paco Moreno's kid brother.... more |
Rick Rosenthal |
Richard Di Lello |
Sean Penn, Clancy Brown, Ally Sheedy, Esai Morales, Alan Ruck, Jorge Noa |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Casualties of War (1989)
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During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.... more |
Brian De Palma |
David Rabe, Daniel Lang |
John C. Reilly, Ving Rhames, Sean Penn, John Leguizamo, Michael J. Fox, Don Harvey |
Adventure, Drama, War |
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Carlito's Way (1993)
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A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life... more |
Brian De Palma |
David Koepp, Edwin Torres |
Sean Penn, John Leguizamo, Al Pacino, Luis Guzmán, Penelope Ann Miller, Viggo Mortensen, Jaime Tirelli, James Rebhorn, Joseph Siravo, Ingrid Rogers, Adrian Pasdar, John Ortiz |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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Amy Heckerling |
Cameron Crowe |
Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus |
Comedy, Drama, Romance |
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I Am Sam (2001)
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Jessie Nelson |
Kristine Johnson |
Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Schiff, Sean Penn, Dakota Fanning, Loretta Devine |
Drama |
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
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After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of r... more |
Sean Penn |
Sean Penn |
Jack Nicholson, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright, David Morse, John Savage, Kari Wuhrer, Priscilla Barnes |
Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller |
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21 Grams (2003)
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Alejandro González Iñárritu |
Guillermo Arriaga |
Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Fair Game (2010)
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Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece... more |
Doug Liman |
Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth |
Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Ty Burrell, Nicholas Sadler, Jessica Hecht, Brooke Smith |
Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller, War |
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The Tree of Life (2011)
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The story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence. The impressionistic story of a Texas family... more |
Terrence Malick |
Terrence Malick |
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Fiona Shaw |
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery |
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All the King's Men (2006)
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Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.... more |
Steven Zaillian |
Robert Penn Warren |
Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Jude Law |
Drama |
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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
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Woody Allen |
Woody Allen |
Uma Thurman, Sean Penn |
Comedy, Drama, Music |
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The Interpreter (2005)
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Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a US Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears ... more |
Sydney Pollack |
Martin Stellman, Brian Ward |
Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Nelson Landrieu, Jesper Christensen |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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The Pledge (2001)
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A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child.... more |
Sean Penn |
Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, Benicio Del Toro, Harry Dean Stanton, Robin Wright, Aaron Eckhart, Vanessa Redgrave, Patricia Clarkson, Dale Dickey |
Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
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The Thin Red Line (1998)
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Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.... more |
Terrence Malick |
James Jones |
John Travolta, George Clooney, John Cusack, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Tim Blake Nelson, Elias Koteas, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Nick Stahl, Jared Leto, Dash Mihok, Miranda Otto, Ben Chaplin, Kirk Acevedo |
Action, Drama, War |
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
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A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.... more |
Tim Robbins |
Helen Prejean |
Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Clancy Brown, Eva Amurri Martino |
Crime, Drama |
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Milk (2008)
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The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official... more |
Gus Van Sant |
Dustin Lance Black |
Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Alison Pill, Joseph Cross, Victor Garber, Diego Luna |
Biography, Drama, History, Romance |
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Hugo Pool (1997)
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Robert Downey Sr. |
Robert Downey Sr. |
Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn, Malcolm McDowell, Cathy Moriarty, Alyssa Milano, Patrick Dempsey |
Comedy, Romance |
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The Weight of Water (2000)
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A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double mur... more |
Kathryn Bigelow |
Christopher Kyle, Alice Arlen, Anita Shreve |
Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, Ciarán Hinds, Sarah Polley, Vinessa Shaw, Ulrich Thomsen, Katrin Cartlidge |
Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
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Before Night Falls (2000)
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Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He... more |
Julian Schnabel |
Lázaro Gómez Carriles, Cunningham O'Keefe |
Sean Penn, Diego Luna, Olatz López Garmendia, Lia Chapman |
Biography, Drama |
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This Must Be the Place (2011)
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A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.... more |
Paolo Sorrentino |
Umberto Contarello |
Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch |
Comedy, Drama |
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The Gangster Squad (2012)
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A chronicle of the LAPD's fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s.... more |
Ruben Fleischer |
Paul Lieberman, Will Beall |
Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Emma Stone, Michael Peña, Josh Brolin, Anthony Mackie, Ryan Gosling, Frank Grillo, Holt McCallany, Mireille Enos |
Crime, Drama |
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