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Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

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Brendan Gleeson - what members say


  • 28 Days Later
  • 28 Days Later review by from Northern Ireland
    Rated - 5 stars Excellent 27 April 2004
    ...essive anyway) but because you really have an involvement with the characters. Brendan Gleeson has one of the best performances in the film but relative newcomers Cillian Mur...  
  • Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
  • Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, England
    Rated - 3 stars Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 24 November 2005
    ...l and Shirley Henderson and an enjoyable turn as new teacher 'Mad Eye Moody' by Brendan Gleeson. From the kids come the familliar beats but its clear, again, that Rupert Grint...  
  • The General
  • The General review by A customer from Barrhead, Scotland
    Rated - 3 stars Okay story, but GREAT acting 11 September 2007
    ...I think Brendan Gleeson is one of the best actors working in the UK today. This story is okay, but not terribly compelling. It is beautifully shot in black and white, well d...  

Brendan Gleeson - filmography


  • The Secret of Kells (2009)
    Starring: Mick Lally,  Evan McGuire,  Christen Mooney
    Director: Tomm Moore,  Nora Twomey
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Adventure, action and danger await 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. Brendan is hard at work with his uncle, helping to strengthen the abbey walls as protection against the Viking raids. But a new life of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 6 members
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  • Green Zone (2009)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Amy Ryan,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Paul Greengrass
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A thriller about a pair of CIA agents on the trail of certain Weapons of Mass Destruction and a foreign correspondent following their mission. Inspired by Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 7 members
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  • Beowulf - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Anthony Hopkins,  John Malkovich
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Using the same CGI technique as his film THE POLAR EXPRESS, Robert Zemeckis directs this adaptation of Beowulf and Grendel's legendary story. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone voice the epic heroes and villains with a script from Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 702 members
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  • The Tiger's Tail on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Kim Cattrall,  Ciaran Hinds
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dublin property developer Liam O’Leary (Gleeson) gets the shock of his life when his exact double starts to follow him around. The sinister stranger begins posing as Liam both at home and at work, and Liam must struggle to prove his own identity as everyone assumes he is his criminal double.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 376 members
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  • Studs on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Domhnall Gleeson,  David Herlihy
    Director: Paul Mercier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A hapless keeper, a hopeless defence and captain who has lost the will to win, emmett Rovers FC are a team in trouble. and now this motley crew of Sunday league losers are facing the final whistle, with no manager and the ground up for graps. The Rovers need a hero...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 330 members
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  • Troy on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Orlando Bloom,  Sean Bean
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With soaring photography that circles from above then swoops in for the action, TROY is Wolfgang Petersen's majestic presentation of the classic Greek legend. It tells the story of an epic battle over Helen (Diane Kruger), the queen of Sparta, who is kidnapped by her lover Paris (Orlando Bloom), ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 75,380 members
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  • Cold Mountain on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Nicole Kidman,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Anthony Minghella
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 44,060 members
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  • Dark Blue on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  Brendan Gleeson,  Scott Speedman
    Director: Ron Shelton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set amidst the brutal L.A riots, Dark Blue tells the gritty story of crime and corruption within the Los Angeles Police Department. Kurt Russell stars as Sgt. Eldon Perry, a committed but crooked cop who will stop at nothing to rid the streets of crime. But when the old-blooded shootings and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 4,025 members
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  • 28 Days Later on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Cillian Murphy,  Megan Burns,  Noah Huntley
    Director: Danny Boyle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    TRAINSPOTTING director Danny Boyle returns to edgy form and reinvents the science-fiction/horror genre with this apocalyptic tale of viral infection and Darwinian survival. A fatal virus is unleashed on the British public following the liberation of infected chimps from a research laboratory by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 46,638 members
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  • The Tailor Of Panama on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Geoffrey Rush,  Jamie Lee Curtis
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,801 member
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  • Lake Placid on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Bridget Fonda,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    ALLY McBEAL creator David E. Kelley wrote and produced this smalltown horror comedy with equal parts laughs and gore. When scientists studying beavers in a Maine lake are killed by something mysterious in the water, an investigation reveals a very large crocodile with an insatiable appetite. The ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,372 members
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  • The General on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Adrian Dunbar,  Sean McGinley
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brendan Gleeson stars as Martin Cahill, the leading Irish criminal of the 1980s. A protean figure, Cahill was a man of extraordinary intelligence, obsessive secretiveness, and vicious brutality who was never stopped by the Irish police despite having pocketed more than $60 million of other people's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 828 members
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  • Turbulence on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Ray Liotta,  Lauren Holly,  Hector Elizondo
    Director: Robert Butler
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When a commercial jetliner transporting a death-row rapist/serial killer falls into the seductive psycho's hands, a plucky flight attendant attempts not only to escape the lunatic's plans to torture and kill her, but to personally land the 747 before the nutcase can achieve his kamikaze goal of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 508 members
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  • Trojan Eddie on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Stephen Rea,  Richard Harris,  Sean McGinley
    Director: Gillies Mackinnon,  Gillies MacKinnon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie, a low-level flunky in a "family" of Irish swindlers, gets a case of torn loyalties after one of the junior members absconds with the willing, too-young bride of the family's boss--and with the dowry money, as well. While trying to clean up the mess, Eddie also contends with his own sloppy ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 69 members
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  • Troy - HD DVD Version
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Orlando Bloom,  Sean Bean
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1193B.C. the dandy Trojan prince Paris (Bloom) irresponsibly spirits away the unhappy wife of Menelaus (Gleeson), the Spartan king. Demanding the return of Helen, the Greeks launch a thousand ships and lay siege to Troy. Under the command of Agamemnon (Cox), revered warrior Achilles (Pitt) leads ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 893 members
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Brendan Gleeson - watch online


  • Turbulence to Watch Now (1997)
    Starring: Ray Liotta,  Lauren Holly,  Brendan Gleeson
    Director: Robert Butler
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 100 minutes
    Airplane travel is a precarious thing at best, and despite the billions of miles traveled safely, the notion of being trapped in a thin metal shell miles above the ground with someone who deliberately imperils lives never fails to chill. In this thriller, serial killer Ryan Weaver (Ray Liotta) ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 52 members
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Brendan Gleeson facts

5 most recent films

The Secret of Kells - 2.5 stars
Green Zone - 3.0 stars
In Bruges - 3.5 stars
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Beowulf - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
In Bruges - 3.5 stars
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Six Shooter - 3.5 stars
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Secret of Kells - 2.5 stars
Green Zone - 3.0 stars
Trojan Eddie - 2.5 stars
Studs - 2.5 stars
The Tiger's Tail - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Liam Neeson - 7 times - show films
Orlando Bloom - 7 times - show films
Ray Winstone - 6 times - show films
Anthony Hopkins - 6 times - show films
Peter O'Toole - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Wolfgang Petersen - 5 times - show films
John Boorman - 4 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 4 times - show films
John Woo - 3 times - show films
Anthony Minghella - 3 times - show films