Movies with Bruce Dern
Movies found: 33, viewing from 1 to 20
Twixt
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Bruce Dern, Val Kilmer, Ben Chaplin, David Paymer, Elle Fanning, Ryan Simpkins, Don Novello
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.
Inside Out
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Artie Mandelberg
Starring: Allen Boudreaux, Parker Posey, Bruce Dern, Michael Cudlitz, Michael Rapaport, J.D. Evermore, James DuMont
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
For the last thirteen years AJ (Triple H) has been behind bars, convicted of manslaughter for killing a man who intended to kill his best friend...
Wild Bill
Genres: Action, Biography, Western
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: John Hurt, David Arquette, Bruce Dern, Diane Lane, Pato Hoffmann, James Gammon, James Remar
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Wild Bill Hickok, famed lawman and gunman of the Old West, is haunted by his past and his reputation. He is loved by, but cannot love, Calamity Jane. Dogging his trail is young Jack McCall, who blames Bill for abandoning the boy's mother and destroying her life. McCall has sworn to kill Bill, and Bill's ghosts, his failing eyesight, and his fondness for opium may make McCall's task easier.
The Cake Eaters
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Starring: Bruce Dern, Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Melissa Leo, Miriam Shor, Talia Balsam, Jayce Bartok
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
'The Cake Eaters' is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss. Living in rural America, The Kimbrough family is a normally odd bunch; Easy, the patriarch and local butcher, is grieving over the recent loss of his wife, Ceci, while hiding a secret ongoing affair for years; Beagle, his youngest son who was left to care for his ailing mother, works in the local high school cafeteria by day but has a burning passion inside that manifests itself through painting street signs; and the eldest son, Guy, has been away from the family for years while pursui...
Marnie
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Mystery
Year: 1964
Country: USA
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Bruce Dern, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Alan Napier, Louise Latham, Tippi Hedren, Meg Wyllie
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at Rutland's, she also catches the eye of the handsome owner, Mark Rutland. He prevents her from stealing and running off, as is her usual pattern, but also forces her to marry him. Their honeymoon is a disaster and she cannot stand to have a man touch her and on their return home, Mark has a private detective look into her past. When he has the details of what happened in her childhood to make her what she is, he arranges a confrontation with her mother realizing ...
Big Love - Season Five
Genres: Drama
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Bruce Dern, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Harry Dean Stanton, Shawn Doyle, Melora Walters, Audrey Wasilewski, Daveigh Chase
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Big Love is an American television drama aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. The show is about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, Douglas Smith, Bruce Dern, Grace Zabriskie, Mary Kay Place, Matt Ross, and Cassi Thomson.
The Lightkeepers
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2009
Country: Unknown
Director: Daniel Adams
Starring: Bruce Dern, Blythe Danner, Julie Harris, Richard Dreyfuss, Mamie Gummer, Tom Wisdom, Stephen Russell
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
Drive, He Said
Year: 1971
Country: USA
Director: Jack Nicholson
Starring: Bruce Dern, Michael Warren, David Ogden Stiers, William Tepper, Karen Black, Joseph Walsh, June Fairchild
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.
The Rebel Rousers
Year: 1970
Country: USA
Director: Martin B. Cohen
Starring: Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton, Diane Ladd, Robert Dix, John 'Bud' Cardos, Cameron Mitchell
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sherif...
Choose
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Marcus Graves
Starring: Bruce Dern, Kevin Pollak, Talia Balsam, Katheryn Winnick, Gary Cherkassky, Daniel Farcher, Jake Goldberg
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A journalism student tracks a killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist.
1969
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Ernest Thompson
Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Bruce Dern, Kiefer Sutherland, Christopher Wynne, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Mariette Hartley
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the onset of wide public dissatisfaction with the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken in their opposition to the war. Scott's attitude alienates him from his father and he and Ralph leave town to enjoy their 'freedom'. Various events lead them back to town where they learn of the death of the brother. This event proves to be the catalyst needed to bridge the gap between father and son and enlightens them both to the true cost of war.
The King of Marvin Gardens
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Josh Mostel, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Arnold Williams, John P. Ryan
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.
The Wild Angels
Year: 1966
Country: USA
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Bruce Dern, Michael J. Pollard, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd, Buck Taylor, Norman Alden, Joan Shawlee
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.
Silent Running
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Bruce Dern, Ron Rifkin, Steven Brown, Jesse Vint, Cliff Potts, Mark Persons, Cheryl Sparks
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
The loner crew member of a spaceship harbouring Earth's last nature reserves goes renegade when he is instructed to jettison his beloved forests and return home. Accompanied only by three robots, he ponders the fate of his last pocket of nature and the murders of his fellow crew members in this far-looking speculative film.
American Cowslip
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Mark David
Starring: Bruce Dern, Blake Clark, Val Kilmer, Cloris Leachman, Peter Falk, Rip Torn, Diane Ladd
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter. After convincing his senior poker buddies that he is diabetic, in order to explain his frequent use of syringes, Ethan shoots up while trying to win poker money to fund his gardening hobby and drug use. Nearing eviction, Ethan gardens furiously in hopes of winning the $10,000 first prize in the "Garden of the Year" contest so he can pay his delinq...
The Burbs aka Life in the Burbs
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Henry Gibson, Bruce Dern, Tom Hanks, Robert Picardo, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, Franklyn Ajaye
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood, when some new neighbors come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson. These new people are really strange; nobody has ever seen them, their house is a real mess, and during the night you can hear weird noises from their basement. The only thing they know is their name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) suddenly disappears and everyone starts to suspect the Klopeks...
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Year: 1967
Country: USA
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Bruce Dern, Jason Robards, Ralph Meeker, Joe Turkel, George Segal, Paul Richards, Milton Frome
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Smile
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1975
Country: USA
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Bruce Dern, Colleen Camp, Geoffrey Lewis, Melanie Griffith, Denise Nickerson, Annette O'Toole, Nicholas Pryor
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?
Last Man Standing
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Leslie Mann, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, Ken Jenkins, Patrick Kilpatrick, Bruce Willis, R.D. Call
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
John Smith is an amoral gunslinger in the days of Prohibition. On the lam from his latest (unspecified) exploits, he happens upon the town of Jericho, Texas. Actually, calling Jericho a town would be too generous--it has become more like a ghost town, since two warring gangs have 'driven off all the decent folk.' Smith sees this as an opportunity to play both sides off against each other, earning himself a nice piece of change as a hired gun. Despite his strictly avowed mercenary intentions, he finds himself risking his life for his, albeit skewed, sense of honor....
Hang 'Em High
Year: 1968
Country: USA
Director: Ted Post
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Pat Hingle, James Westerfield, Charles McGraw, Ben Johnson
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die. He returns to his former profession of lawman to hunt down his lynchers and bring them to justice.