Bryan Brown — Actor (22)
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Sweet Talker (1991) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Sweet Talker
director: Michael Jenkins actor: Bryan Brown / Karen Allen …
other title: Un simpatico truffatore / Harrys größter Coup
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
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Winter of Our Dreams (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Winter of Our Dreams
director: John Duigan actor: Judy Davis / Bryan Brown …
When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friend's diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes.
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Newsfront (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Newsfront
director: Phillip Noyce actor: Bill Hunter / Wendy Hughes …
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
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Dirty Deeds (2002) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dirty Deeds
director: David Caesar actor: Bryan Brown / Toni Collette …
other title: Dirty Deeds - Le regole del gioco / Dirty Deeds - Dreckige Geschäfte …
Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
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Deadline Gallipoli (2015) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Deadline Gallipoli
director: Michael Rymer actor: Sam Worthington / Hugh Dancy …
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
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Weekend of Shadows (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Weekend of Shadows
director: Tom Jeffrey actor: John Waters / Bill Hunter …
other title: Battuta di caccia
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
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Third Person Plural (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Third Person Plural
director: James Ricketson actor: Bryan Brown / Margaret Cameron …
Four young people get to know each other by spending weekends on a yacht stationed in Sydney's Pittwater area.
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Stir (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Stir
director: Stephen Wallace actor: Bryan Brown / Max Phipps …
other title: Revolte hinter Gittern
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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Breaker Morant (1980) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Breaker Morant
director: Bruce Beresford actor: Edward Albert Arthur Woodward / Jack Thompson …
other title: Esecuzione di un eroe / Stærke viljer …
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
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Hungry Ghosts (2020) [TV] TMDB
Hungry Ghosts
director: Timothy Hobart / John Ridley actor: Suzy Wrong / Christopher Quyen …
When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost loves and exacting revenge, young woman May Le must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatized by war.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
director: Fred Schepisi actor: Tom E. Lewis / Freddy Reynolds …
other title: Die Ballade von Jimmie Blacksmith / La complainte de Jimmie Blacksmith
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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Cocktail (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban Skybridge WikiData
Cocktail
director: Roger Donaldson actor: Tom Cruise / Bryan Brown …
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
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Sweet Country (2018) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sweet Country
director: Warwick Thornton actor: Hamilton Morris / Bryan Brown …
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.
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Along Came Polly (2004) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Along Came Polly
director: John Hamburg actor: Ben Stiller / Jennifer Aniston …
other title: ...E alla fine arriva Polly / Men så kom Polly …
Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there.
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Australia (2008) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Australia
director: Baz Luhrmann actor: Nicole Kidman / Hugh Jackman …
other title: Austrália
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.