10 Movies Starring Jason Clarke

Public Enemies

Public Enemies

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-07-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Japan

Runtime:

140 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(215358 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Ronan Bennett (screenplay)

Michael Mann (screenplay)

Ann Biderman (screenplay)

Bryan Burrough (book)

Fullplot:

This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night.

Lawless

Lawless

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-08-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (165985 Reviews)

Director:

John Hillcoat

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Nick Cave (screenplay)

Matt Bondurant (novel)

Fullplot:

In 1931, in Franklin County, Virginia, Forrest Bondurant is a legend as immortal after surviving the war. Together with his brothers Howard and the coward Jack, the Bondurant family has a distillery and bootlegging business. When the corrupt District Attorney Mason Wardell arrives in Franklin with the unscrupulous Special Deputy Charles Rakes, the Bondurant family refuses to pay the required bribe to the authorities. Rakes pursues the brothers and unsuccessfully tries to find their distillery. Meanwhile Forrest hires the waitress Maggie, a woman with a hidden past in Chicago, and they fall in love with each other. Jack courts the preacher's daughter Bertha Minnix and deals a great load of alcoholic liquor with the powerful gangster Floyd Banner. Jack shows off in Franklin attracting the attention of Rakes that finds the location of their distillery. When he kills the crippled Cricket Pete, the locals join forces to face the corrupt authorities.

Terminator Genisys

Terminator Genisys

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-07-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (92953 Reviews)

Director:

Alan Taylor

Cast:

Writer:

Laeta Kalogridis

Patrick Lussier

James Cameron (characters)

Gale Anne Hurd (characters)

Fullplot:

When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future...

Yelling to the Sky

Yelling to the Sky

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-03-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (568 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.

Trust

Trust

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-04-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(32114 Reviews)

Director:

David Schwimmer

Cast:

Writer:

Andy Bellin

Robert Festinger

Fullplot:

A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend (Chris Henry Coffey) is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.

Swerve

Swerve

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-12-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (1327 Reviews)

Director:

Craig Lahiff

Fullplot:

Colin happens upon a road accident where he finds a dead man, a beautiful woman, and a suitcase full of money. After trying to do the right thing he soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous scheme.

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-01-11

Languages:

English, Arabic

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

157 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (200594 Reviews)

Director:

Kathryn Bigelow

Fullplot:

Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-07-11

Languages:

English, American Sign Language

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (276188 Reviews)

Director:

Matt Reeves

Cast:

Writer:

Mark Bomback

Rick Jaffa

Amanda Silver

Rick Jaffa (characters)

Amanda Silver (characters)

Pierre Boulle (novel)

Fullplot:

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

The Better Angels

The Better Angels

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-11-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(734 Reviews)

Director:

A.J. Edwards

Fullplot:

Indiana, 1817. The entire nation, only 40 years old and a few years removed from a second war of independence, is raw. Men, women, and children alike must battle nature and disease to survive in remote log cabins. This is young Abraham Lincoln's world. Spanning three years of the future president's childhood, The Better Angels explores his family, the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him forever, and the two women who guided him to immortality.

White House Down

White House Down

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-06-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (147218 Reviews)

Director:

Roland Emmerich

Fullplot:

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

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