Movies starring Sean Penn

Biography: 
Powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work who has gone from strength to strength during a colorful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints, California-born Sean Penn is the second son of actress Eileen Ryan and director Leo Penn and first appeared in roles as a strong-headed or unruly youths. such as the military cad ...  show all 

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Adrien Brody | James Caviezel | Ben Chaplin | George Clooney | John Cusack | Woody Harrelson | John Travolta | Elias Koteas | Jared Leto | Dash Mihok | Tim Blake Nelson | Nick Nolte | John C. Reilly | Larry Romano | John Savage
Directors: Terrence Malick
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In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese’s advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.

All the King’s Men (2006)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Jude Law | Anthony Hopkins | Kate Winslet | Mark Ruffalo | Patricia Clarkson | James Gandolfini | Jackie Earle Haley | Kathy Baker | Talia Balsam | Travis Champagne | Frederic Forrest | Paul Desmond | Kevin Dunn | Kevin McCarthy
Directors: Steven Zaillian
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In the 50’s, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.

The Weight of Water (2000)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Ciarán Hinds | Richard Donat | Sarah Polley | Ulrich Thomsen | Anders W. Berthelsen | Joseph Rutten | John Walf | Katrin Cartlidge | Vinessa Shaw | Adam Curry | Catherine McCormack | Sean Penn | Josh Lucas | Elizabeth Hurley | John Maclaren
Directors: Kathryn Bigelow
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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 murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean’s private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters.

Hurlyburly (1998)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Kevin Spacey | Robin Wright Penn | Chazz Palminteri | Garry Shandling | Anna Paquin | Meg Ryan | Gianna Ranaudo | David Fabrizio | Kenny Vance | Michaline Babich | Elaine Corral Kendall | Sharon Tay | Frank Somerville | Bob Jimenez
Directors: Anthony Drazan
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Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe’s well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who’s personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they’re peddling to the studios.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Naomi Watts | Don Cheadle | Jack Thompson | Brad William Henke | Nick Searcy | Michael Wincott | Mykelti Williamson | April Grace | Lily Knight | Jared Dorrance | Jenna Milton | Mariah Massa | Eileen Ryan | Derek Greene
Directors: Niels Mueller
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother’s old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon’s broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Samantha Morton | Uma Thurman | Brian Markinson | Anthony LaPaglia | James Urbaniak | Gretchen Mol | John Waters | Brad Garrett | Woody Allen | Ben Duncan | Daniel Okrent | Dan Moran | Tony Darrow
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A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray’s life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music.

The Interpreter (2005)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Sean Penn | Catherine Keener | Jesper Christensen | Yvan Attal | Earl Cameron | George Harris | Michael Wright | Clyde Kusatsu | Eric Keenleyside | Hugo Speer | Maz Jobrani | Yusuf Gatewood | Curtiss Cook | Byron Utley
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words “The Teacher will never leave this room alive,” in an instant, Silvia’s life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia’s world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses’ past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and Tobin couldn’t be more different. Silvia’s strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil grows and Silvia’s life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis before it’s too late.

It’s All About Love (2003)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Germany | Japan | Netherlands | Sweden | UK | USA
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix | Claire Danes | Sean Penn | Douglas Henshall | Alun Armstrong | Margo Martindale | Mark Strong | Geoffrey Hutchings | Harry Ditson | Thomas Bo Larsen | Teddy Kempner | Indra Ové | Georgi Staykov | Anna Wallander | Mariann Rudberg
Directors: Thomas Vinterberg
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It’s All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It’s All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.

The Game (1997)

Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Young | James Brooks | Joe Frank | Kimberly Russell | Michael Douglas | Sean Penn | Deborah Kara Unger | James Rebhorn | Peter Donat | Carroll Baker | Anna Katarina | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Charles Martinet | Scott Hunter McGuire | Florentine Mocanu | Elizabeth Dennehy | Caroline Barclay | Daniel Schorr | John Aprea
Directors: David Fincher
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Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.

Mystic River (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Tim Robbins | Kevin Bacon | Laurence Fishburne | Marcia Gay Harden | Laura Linney | Kevin Chapman | Tom Guiry | Emmy Rossum | Spencer Treat Clark | Andrew Mackin | Adam Nelson | Robert Wahlberg | Jenny O'Hara | John Doman
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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Summer, 1975: in a tight blue-collar Boston neighborhood, three kids are playing when one is abducted and sexually abused for several days. Jump ahead: the victim, Dave, is haunted by memories and protective of his own son. Jimmy’s an ex-con, father of three. Sean is a homicide detective, estranged from his pregnant wife. When Jimmy’s teen daughter dies, Sean investigates, Dave’s a suspect, and Jimmy vows to find the killer before the cops. The dead girl has a boyfriend whose long-missing father has a history with Jimmy. The boyfriend’s a suspect, and when ballistics turns up a link to a gun owned by the young man’s father, the case breaks. In the background, wives move events along.