Movies starring Sean Connery
When Paramount Pictures greenlit production for The Hunt for Red October, there was no thought of it becoming the first film in a “Jack Ryan” series. Red October, Tom Clancy’s debut as an author, became an international best-seller but wa...
U.S. Release Date: 1990-03-02
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Thriller
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Sean Connery, Courtney B. Vance, Tim Curry, ...
A Good Man in Africa, based on William Boyd's novel of the same name, is supposed to be a biting satire on the colonial attitudes of British subjects. The problem with the film is that it's frequently more tedious than funny. The story -- tha...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-09-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Colin Friels, Sean Connery, John Lithgow, ...
Forever remembered as the "Japanese Bond", You Only Live Twice takes 007 to the Far East for his fifth screen adventure, Sean Connery's final consecutive appearance as the top British agent (the actor returned to the role twice more: 1971's D...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Akiko Wakabayashi, ...
The Untouchables is a tour de force, the pinnacle of a career. For Brian De Palma, known best for his stylish crafting of Hitchcock-influenced plots, The Untouchables represents not only a departure from the norm, but an unqualified triumph. This...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-06-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, ...
Ever wondered what Dorothy's trip along the Yellow Brick Road might have been like if, instead of traveling with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, she had been accompanied by H.G. Welles, Roald Dahl, and Monty Python? Or how C.S. ...
U.S. Release Date: 1981-11-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/COMEDY
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Craig Warnock, David Rappaport, Kenny Baker, ...
In 1971, following the release of Diamonds Are Forever, Sean Connery announced that he would "never again" play the role of James Bond. As a result, the producers brought in Roger Moore, and the series continued. 12 years later, in 1983,...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Pamela Salem, Alec McCowen, ...
From Russia with Love, along with its successor, Goldfinger, represents Bond at his best. Although the series has run for more than thirty years with seventeen "official" entries, it has yet to better, or even equal, what it achieved in 1963-19...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, ...
With 1964's Goldfinger, the third James Bond story to reach the screen, the "Bond formula" had reached maturity. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, a participant in the scripting of the previous two movies, Dr. No and From Russia with Love, had id...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Sean Connery, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, ...
Although the third chapter in the Indiana Jones saga doesn't approach the highs of Raiders of the Lost Ark, it also avoids the lows of The Temple of Doom. A fitting end to the original trilogy, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade captures some of t...
U.S. Release Date: 1989-05-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, ...
In the early summer sweepstakes, Warner Brothers has weighed in with Twister, Paramount with Mission Impossible, and now Universal with Dragonheart, director Rob Cohen's swords-and-sorcery saga. No prizes for guessing which is most likely to be th...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-31
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, ...