9 Movies Starring Graham Greene

Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-11-21

Languages:

English, Sioux, Pawnee

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

181 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(171937 Reviews)

Director:

Kevin Costner

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Blake (screenplay)

Michael Blake (novel)

Fullplot:

Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways.

Lost in the Barrens

Lost in the Barrens

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-12-02

Languages:

English, Cree

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (246 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Keith Ross Leckie

Farley Mowat (novel)

Fullplot:

An orphaned teen and a young tribal hunter get lost in the wilderness.

Thunderheart

Thunderheart

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-04-03

Languages:

English, Sioux

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (10718 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Apted

Fullplot:

An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. Slowly he rejects the intimidating tactics of his fellow FBI agents, who are not so interested in solving the crime as covering up an incriminating situation with the locals, and as he becomes more tuned to his heritage, the locals begin trusting him. Based on actual Reservation occurrences of the '70s.

Maverick

Maverick

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-05-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

127 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(76472 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Donner

Cast:

Writer:

Roy Huggins (television series Maverick)

William Goldman

Fullplot:

Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward, all with a light hearted air. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous, though fake, southern accent as the two both try and enter the game.

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-05-19

Languages:

English, German, Romanian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (277747 Reviews)

Director:

John McTiernan

Cast:

Writer:

Jonathan Hensleigh

Roderick Thorp (certain original characters)

Fullplot:

John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what's going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane. Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McClane is going to play a game called "Simon Says". He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he'll blow off another bomb. With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him. But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated up.

Shattered Image

Shattered Image

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-12-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada, UK

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.8 (583 Reviews)

Director:

Raoul Ruiz

Fullplot:

Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman (Anne Parillaud) recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suicide. In one reality, she is a killer destroyer of men. In another she is the new wife on a Jamaican honeymoon with her husband (William Baldwin), who is trying to help her recover. Which is real is the question as the story unfolds.

Skins

Skins

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-01-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1130 Reviews)

Director:

Chris Eyre

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Adrian C. Louis (novel)

Jennifer D. Lyne

Fullplot:

Rudy Yellow Lodge is an investigator with the police department and witnesses firsthand the painful legacy of Indian existence. Although rampant unemployment, alcoholism and domestic violence are the norm for many reservation inhabitants, Rudy has largely escaped this cycle of despair. His brother Mogie, however, has not. Now faced with the discovery of a bloodied body, a flaming liquor store just off native land that sells millions of cans of beer a year to the native population, and his brother's ongoing self-destruction, Rudy goes on a quest to avenge himself, his family, and his culture and to seek justice.

Casino Jack

Casino Jack

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-01-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (14129 Reviews)

Fullplot:

A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protègè go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

From Above

From Above

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-11-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (262 Reviews)

Director:

Norry Niven

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.

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