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  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Thin Red Line review by from Monmouthshire
    Rated - 5 stars One of the five or ten best war films ever made 24 August 2004
    ...n the numerous performances contributing to its success. The gravely quality of Nick Nolte's voice-over in the opening act hints at the pain and anguish that is to come; ...  
  • Another 48 Hours
  • Another 48 Hours review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 16 July 2005
    ...seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the cliched abs...  
  • Extreme Prejudice
  • Extreme Prejudice review by A customer from Edinburgh, Scotland.
    Rated - 4 stars An underated action classic. 9 March 2006
    ...at much about it, hence the reason for going back to it nearly 20 years later. Nick Nolte stars as a texas ranger trying to put to an end drug running across the border,...  

Nick Nolte - filmography


  • Tropic Thunder on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Trieu Tran,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ben Stiller. Jack Black. Robert Downey, Jr. Comedy fans can start drooling immediately at the thought of these three funnymen joining forces in TROPIC THUNDER. The men star as a trio of actors whose filming experience in southeast Asia gets a little too real as they must become as tough as the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 53,080 members
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  • Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride - Hunter S... on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Nick Nolte
    Director: Tom Thurman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hunter S. Thompson didn’t write stories, he lived them. This documentary about a life that was often out of control, and always interesting, captures Thompson’s spirit through stories told by some of the outlaw celebrities he inspired. Nick Nolte, Johnny Depp, and Sean Penn are among the voices who ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 171 members
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  • Clean on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Maggie Cheung,  Mary Moulds,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Olivier Assayas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Awarded the Best Actress Award at the 2004 Festival de Cannes for her performance, Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love, 2046) stars as the conflicted and confused Emily Wang in writer/director Olivier Assayas’ film. Her past riddled with drug use, crime and the recent death of her (once famous ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,204 member
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  • Hulk - HD DVD Version (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 490 members
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  • The Good Thief on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Tcheky Karyo,  Said Taghmaoui
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME, MICHAEL COLLINS) and veteran actor Nick Nolte combine their talents for this breezy heist picture. Bob (Nolte) is a retired master thief and gambler living as an expatriot in France. His past robberies are the stuff of underworld legend, but he's given ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,022 members
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  • Hulk on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 31,763 members
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  • Simpatico on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Albert Finney,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Matthew Warchus
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the play by Shepard, SIMPATICO is the tale of a childhood friendship gone sour. When Lyle, a successful horse breeder in Kentucky, receives a desperate phone call from Vinnie, a troubled barfly living in Southern California, their shady past threatens to ruin them both once and for all. As ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 193 members
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  • The Thin Red Line on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Adrien Brody,  Jim Caviezel
    Director: Terrence Malick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this adaptation of the classic WWII novel by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, which will have a major effect on the outcome ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 11,259 members
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  • Nightwatch on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Patricia Arquette,  Josh Brolin
    Director: Ole Bornedal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    While choking down his new job as the night watchman in a creepy, eerily lit morgue, a squeamish law student (Ewan McGregor) finds himself targeted as a suspect in the serial killings of prostitutes. The film is long on style, with solid technical execution of the requisite alone-with-corpses ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,520 member
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  • Affliction on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  James Coburn,  Sissy Spacek
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the novel by Russell Banks, AFFLICTION is a sobering, absorbing psychological study of the precarious relationship between an abusive father and his two sons. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is a middle-aged ineffectual sheriff in a small New Hampshire town, where he and his brother, Rolfe (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 709 members
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  • U-Turn on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jennifer Lopez,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Oliver Stone shelved his social conscience while making this vicious nest-of-vipers noir. Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, a gambler on the run who is forced to lay up in a desolate Arizona whistlestop with car trouble. Desperate and broke, he receives an offer from the middle-aged Jake McKenna (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,022 members
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  • Mother Night on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Sheryl Lee,  Alan Arkin
    Director: Keith Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Keith Gordon's darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 210 members
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  • Jefferson In Paris on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Greta Scacchi,  Thandie Newton
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 235 members
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  • I Love Trouble on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Julia Roberts,  Robert Loggia
    Director: Charles Shyer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A romantic-comedy-thriller set amidst Chicago's newspaper trade, this star vehicle pits an established news writer against a beautiful cub reporter from a rival paper. When a story each is after turns dangerous, they put aside their differences to get to the bottom of a lethal miasma of corporate ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 556 members
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  • Lorenzo's Oil on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Susan Sarandon,  Peter Ustinov
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The true story of determined parents, economist Augusto and linguist Michaela Odone who battled time and the medical establishment to save the life of their son who was diagnosed in 1985 with a rare disease (Adrenoleukodystrophy). Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best (Original) Screenplay, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,456 member
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  • Cape Fear on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte,  Jessica Lange
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 14,804 members
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  • Q And A on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Timothy Hutton,  Armand Assante
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Taking its title from the stenographer's record in a criminal investigation, Sidney Lumet's brutal look at police corruption peers at the rotten center of crime-fighting institutions and spotlights one man's naive attempt to intervene. Timothy Hutton is young District Attorney Al Reilly, called in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 350 members
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  • Everybody Wins on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Debra Winger,  Nick Nolte,  Will Patton
    Director: Karel Reisz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Things certainly aren’t easy for a jaded private detective on the weird streets of Connecticut, just ask down and out private eye Tom ‘O Toole. Hired by a mysterious woman convinced that a local, juvenile teen banged up on a murder charge is innocent, detective Tom ‘O Toole is ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 3 members
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  • Farewell To The King on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Nigel Havers,  Marius Weyers
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    During World War II a British Army officer is despatched to Borneo to train the local tribesmen to fight the Japanese and is surprised to discover the tribal king is an American. The two train the tribe and fight in a series of battles. The officer is intrigued by the American's loyalty to the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 141 members
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  • Extreme Prejudice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Powers Boothe,  Maria Conchita Alonso
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A Texas Ranger (Nick Nolte) stands on one side of the border aimed at cleaning up the Mexican drug traffic. On the other side is a ruthless narcotics kingpin (Powers Boothe) who'll stop at nothing to get his way. They were friends since childhood - now bitter adversaries. Directed by Walter Hill (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 321 members
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  • Grace Quigley on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Anthony Harvey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Grace Quigley, penniless and about to become homeless asks a professional killer to 'bump her off'. However, the killer and her friends join the band wagon and Grace's business senses proves hilariously successful.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 52 members
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  • 48 Hours on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Nick Nolte,  Annette O'Toole
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A tough, super-jaded cop (Nick Nolte) springs a hard luck robber (Eddie Murphy) from jail for two days to help nab his former partners. They form a kind of friendship (based on mutual hatred) as they chase a trio of remorseless villains through the streets of San Francisco. Rounded characters and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 6,675 members
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  • 48 Hours - BLU-RAY Version (1983)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Nick Nolte,  Annette O'Toole
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A tough, super-jaded cop (Nick Nolte) springs a hard luck robber (Eddie Murphy) from jail for two days to help nab his former partners. They form a kind of friendship (based on mutual hatred) as they chase a trio of remorseless villains through the streets of San Francisco. Rounded characters and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 51 members
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  • Under Fire on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Gene Hackman,  Joanna Cassidy
    Director: Roger Spottiswoode
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Samoza Regime in Nicaragua find themselves under fire from both sides. After an American news reporter is killed in Nicaragua, two of his fellow journalists choose to participate actively in the revolution. But as the Somoza ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 304 members
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  • Dog Soldiers on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Tuesday Weld,  Michael Moriarty
    Director: Karel Reisz
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Karel Reisz's film, based on Robert Stone's novel Dog Soldiers, John Converse (Michael Moriarty), a Marine combat veteran, returns to Vietnam as a war correspondent. He is overwhelmed by the challenges that face him, and so he decides that in an insane world, it makes sense to to smuggle heroin ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 136 members
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  • The Deep on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Robert Shaw,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 839 members
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  • Deep, The - BLU-RAY Version (1977)
    Starring: Robert Shaw,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6 members
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  • Blue Chips
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Mary McDonnell,  Matt Nover
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a college basketball coach (Nick Nolte) has his first losing season, he must decide between his personal sense of values and the value of a winning team. Does he "buy" hot prospects and win, only to lose his self-respect? Featuring cameo appearances by real-life basketball legends Bobby Knight,..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 22 members
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Nick Nolte facts

5 most recent films

Tropic Thunder - 3.0 stars
Spiderwick Chronicles, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Tropic Thunder - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
The Spiderwick Chronicles - 3.5 stars
Off The Black - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Hotel Rwanda - 4.0 stars
The Spiderwick Chronicles - 3.5 stars
Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride - Hunter S. Thompson On Film - 3.5 stars
Spiderwick Chronicles, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Cape Fear - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Everybody Wins - 1.5 stars
North Dallas Forty - 2.5 stars
Blue Chips - 2.5 stars
Afterglow - 2.5 stars
Mysteries of Pittsburgh,The - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Eddie Murphy - 4 times - show films
Brion James - 4 times - show films
Frank McRae - 4 times - show films
Jennifer Connelly - 4 times - show films
Eric Bana - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Walter Hill - 5 times - show films
Ang Lee - 3 times - show films
Mark Waters - 2 times - show films
James Ivory - 2 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 2 times - show films