Movies starring Penn
Reservoir Dogs grabs you by the throat and digs its claws in deep. From the moment that the unwitting viewer tumbles into the realm of Lawrence Tierney's gang of eight, they are hopelessly trapped there until the final credits roll. As the first ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, ...
Not since Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing has a motion picture about capital punishment been so disturbing and compelling. Dead Man Walking has appropriated a controversial subject by giving pain and personality to both sides of t...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-01-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tim Robbins
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Raymond J. Barry, ...
21 Grams is a stunning kaleidoscope of a motion picture - a mosaic of images that gradually resolves itself into a powerful tale of tragedy and redemption. Not only is this one of the year's most compelling motion pictures, but, in terms of struct...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-11-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cast: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, ...
With Mystic River, Clint Eastwood has rebounded nicely from the failure of his mediocre previous effort, Blood Work. Absent from the screen but behind the camera for the first time since Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Eastwood concentrat...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-10-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, ...
Helicopters thunder through the air over Los Angeles, raining malathion on the city in an attempt to end the dreaded Medfly invasion. Below, in each house and apartment, an individual drama is being played out. As in any human settlement at...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-10-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Frances McDormand, Tim Robbins, ...
The Namesake is an affecting drama spanning two generations of an Indian American family and exploring the generational and cultural conflicts that arise as a result of their assimilation into society. By carefully developing her characters and al...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irfan Khan, ...
30 years have passed since the assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and, the ballot passage of California's recent Proposition 8 notwithstanding, advances have been made in the area of gay rights, although there are still many hurd...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-11-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, ...
Robert Downey, Sr. is an original American independent film maker. He has been at his craft for more than 30 years now -- his debut, Chafed Elbows, came out in 1965. His best known work, the trilogy of Putney Swope, Pound, and Greaser's Palace, w...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Cast: Alyssa Milano, Patrick Dempsey, Malcolm McDowell, ...
At its least, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is an ambitious slice of cinema by a major filmmaker. Striving for no less than the pinnacle of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Tree of Life falls short of masterful but retains a power ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-05-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, ...
Long ago, the concept of "money" was devised as a means by which commerce could be simplified - after all, it's easier to carry around some kind of marker than cows or cattle or bags of grain. As society has evolved, however, so has the way in whic...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, ...