19 Movies Starring Josh Brolin

The Goonies

The Goonies

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-06-07

Languages:

English, Spanish, Cantonese, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (163721 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Donner

Cast:

Writer:

Steven Spielberg (story)

Chris Columbus (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood -- unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course, and that's quite doubtful. But when Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed "One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune, Mikey, Brandon, and their friends Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, Stefanie "Stef" Steinbrenner, and Richard "Data" Wang, calling themselves The Goonies, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood. The treasure is in a cavern, but the entrance to the cavern is under the house of evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons Jake Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, and the severely disfigured Lotney "Sloth" Fratelli. Sloth befriends the Goonies and decides to help them.

Nightwatch

Nightwatch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-04-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (15311 Reviews)

Director:

Ole Bornedal

Cast:

Writer:

Ole Bornedal (film Nattevagten)

Ole Bornedal (screenplay)

Steven Soderbergh (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A law student takes a job as the night-watchman in a morgue, thinking that he will have much time to study, with his biggest problem being his paranoia in this scary setting. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and the student ends up getting mixed up with one of the murders, becoming a suspect.

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-05-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (5962 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Barker

Fullplot:

Nick is caught in a dead end job in a dead end town. About the only thing going well for him is Lissa, his new girlfriend. A chance to make some easy cash, and a way out of town, only leads to more trouble. Also caught in the web of sex, thefts, gangsters, kidnappings and murder is Nick's college friend, Bryce.

Hollow Man

Hollow Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-08-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (95808 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Writer:

Gary Scott Thompson (story)

Andrew W. Marlowe (story)

Andrew W. Marlowe (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Having discovered they could turn animals invisible, a group of scientists test the subject on a human. Head of research, Dr. Sebastian Caine decides to use himself as the subject. After the experiment can't be reversed, it takes a toll on Caine's personality, causing him to hunt down and kill his colleagues

Coastlines

Coastlines

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-01-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (491 Reviews)

Director:

Victor Nunez

Fullplot:

After serving time in prison, Sonny returns to his coastal Florida hometown, where life and the residents haven't changed much, including the local crime boss, Vance, who owes Sonny some money. When Sonny goes to collect, he gets beaten up, then his house is blown up and his father is killed. Sonny, while seeking revenge against Vance and his crime gang, moves into the home of his old friend Dave, the local sheriff, and his nurse wife Ann, and their two children. Soon, a romance forms between the grieving Sonny and Ann.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-08-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (91398 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Frank Miller

Frank Miller (graphic novels)

Fullplot:

Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller's "Sin City" graphic novels back to the screen. Weaving together two of Miller's classic stories with new tales, the town's most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more notorious inhabitants.

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-21

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (547160 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Joel Coen (screenplay)

Ethan Coen (screenplay)

Cormac McCarthy (novel)

Fullplot:

In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.

American Gangster

American Gangster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

157 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (306990 Reviews)

Director:

Ridley Scott

Cast:

Writer:

Steven Zaillian

Mark Jacobson (article)

Fullplot:

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Milk

Milk

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-01-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (126879 Reviews)

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Fullplot:

Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.

Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-06-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

81 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.6 (42435 Reviews)

Director:

Jimmy Hayward

Cast:

Writer:

Mark Neveldine (screenplay)

Brian Taylor (screenplay)

William Farmer (story)

Mark Neveldine (story)

Brian Taylor (story)

John Albano (characters appearing in magazines published by DC Comics)

Tony DeZuniga (characters appearing in magazines published by DC Comics)

Fullplot:

During Grant's presidency, Jonah Hex is a remorseless bounty hunter. In the Civil War, he was a rebel whose honor put him afoul of a Confederate general, Quentin Turnbull, who murdered Jonah's family while Jonah watched. As a result of the ordeal, Jonah's face is disfigured and he can talk with the dead. After staging his own death, Turnbull, with a group of rebel stalwarts, hatches a plan to bring the Union to its knees. Grant wants Hex to stop it. While the nation readies to celebrate Independence Day, Hex and an unlikely ally have little time to stop Turnbull and his weapon of mass destruction.

Planet Terror

Planet Terror

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-06-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (156297 Reviews)

Genres:

ActionHorror

Fullplot:

After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called "sickos" threaten to take over the whole town and the world.

W.

W.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-17

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Switzerland, China

Runtime:

129 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (39473 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Stone

Fullplot:

Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial presidents in USA history, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.

Oldboy

Oldboy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-11-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (44513 Reviews)

Director:

Spike Lee

Cast:

Writer:

Garon Tsuchiya (manga)

Nobuaki Minegishi (manga)

Mark Protosevich (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.

Oldboy

Oldboy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-11-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (44538 Reviews)

Director:

Spike Lee

Cast:

Writer:

Garon Tsuchiya (manga)

Nobuaki Minegishi (manga)

Mark Protosevich (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.

True Grit

True Grit

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-12-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (221231 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Joel Coen (screenplay)

Ethan Coen (screenplay)

Charles Portis (novel)

Fullplot:

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.

Men in Black 3

Men in Black 3

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (243311 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Etan Cohen

Lowell Cunningham (based on the Malibu comic by)

Fullplot:

After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.

The Tillman Story

The Tillman Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-01-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (3946 Reviews)

Director:

Amir Bar-Lev

Cast:

Writer:

Amir Bar-Lev

Mark Monroe

Fullplot:

Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn't done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev's riveting and enraging documentary.

Labor Day

Labor Day

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-01-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (27705 Reviews)

Director:

Jason Reitman

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jason Reitman (screenplay)

Joyce Maynard (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

A depressed mother's husband has left her for she could not bear a second child. Living alone with her only son, she has an unlikely meeting with an injured escaped convict, and reluctantly takes him into her own care. The man proves to be better than his criminal image as the three bond over Labor Day weekend. The only problem? Everyone in town is looking for him.

Sicario

Sicario

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-10-02

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (1689 Reviews)

Fullplot:

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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