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  • Breaker Morant
  • Breaker Morant review by from High Wycombe, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Breaker Morant - Make it a priority 29 March 2007
    ...al Tour de force from Edward Woodward, in the title role supported admirably by Bryan Brown. If you haven't seen it yet, well just get to it, you won't regret it ! ...   Read customer review
  • FX - Murder By Illusion
  • FX - Murder By Illusion review by from Lanarkshire
    Rated - 3.0 stars Effects? Yes. Special? ABSOLUTELY! 21 July 2004
    ...Bryan Brown sizzles in this high-tech thriller - certainly enough to keep the ladies interested. In my humble opinion, this is the best movie about special effects guys b...   Read customer review
  • Two Hands
  • Two Hands review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Good or Bad? 2 March 2004
    ...n hilarious viewing. Health Ledger proves he can be charismatic on screen, and Bryan Brown is one of the best bad guys ever! I would recommend this movie highly! ...   Read customer review

Bryan Brown - filmography


  • Love Birds on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Rhys Darby,  Sally Hawkins,  Faye Smythe
    Director: Paul Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Doug (Rhys Darby) thinks he has the perfect life and is stunned when long term girlfriend Susan (Faye Smythe) dumps him. He finds an injured duck and reluctantly decides to nurse it better until such time as a new home can be found for it. The task gives him new found motivation and propels Doug ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 340 members
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  • Beautiful Kate on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Sophie Lowe,  Rachel Griffiths
    Director: Rachel Ward
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Set in Australia's outback, "Beautiful Kate" is a love story about the sexual awakening of three siblings growing up in isolation. Returning to the family home with his much younger fiancée Toni, Ned is forced to confront the realities surrounding the dramatic death of his twin sister Kate when she ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,961 member
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  • Australia on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Hugh Jackman,  David Wenham
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Baz Luhrmann directs this sweeping historical epic set in northern Australia. Nicole Kidman stars as Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who inherits a vast cattle ranch in the unforgiving Australian outback. When her land comes under threat from a takeover plot by English cattle barons, Sarah ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 56,284 members
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  • Australia - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Hugh Jackman,  David Wenham
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Baz Luhrmann directs this sweeping historical epic set in northern Australia. Nicole Kidman stars as Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who inherits a vast cattle ranch in the unforgiving Australian outback. When her land comes under threat from a takeover plot by English cattle barons, Sarah ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,088 members
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  • Dean Spanley on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jeremy Northam,  Sam Neill,  Bryan Brown
    Director: Toa Fraser
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,426 members
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  • The Poseidon Adventure on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Adam Baldwin,  Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer
    Director: John Putch
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm, a radical terrorist group is preparing to send a bloody message to Western politicians. Shortly after the 2,500 passengers and crew have celebrated New Year, a huge blast rips through the hull, sending freezing waters rushing ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 227 members
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  • Along Came Polly on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Ben Stiller,  Hank Azaria
    Director: John Hamburg,  John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Risk-averse Reuben Feffer, whose best-laid plans for life and love careen wildly off-track when his bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor. Stunned, humiliated and in the grip of acute indigestion, Reuben plans to play it safer than ever. But a chance adventure with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 43,439 members
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  • Along Came Polly - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Ben Stiller,  Hank Azaria
    Director: John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller. Reuben (Stiller) is a risk assessor for an insurance company, and hates taking risks of any kind. But when his new bride runs off with the diving instructor on their honeymoon, he begins to wonder if his risk assessment is so accurate after ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 183 members
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  • Dirty Deeds (2002)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Sam Worthington,  Sam Neill
    Director: David Caesar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in the Sydney crime underworld in 1969. Barry Ryan (Bryan Brown) is a prominent gangster whose business is threatened when a Chicago mafia boss sends two of his men to scope out the poker machine scene for a potential takeover. Tony (John Goodman) and Sal (Felix Williamson), however, are lost ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,187 member
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  • Styx on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Peter Weller,  Angus Macfadyen
    Director: Alexander Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Expert safecracker Nelson Reedy (Peter Weller) has rejected his life of crime and has been playing it straight for sometime now. But when his younger brother Mike (Angus MacFadyen) comes to see him, desperate to find the money he needs to pay off his massive gambling debts, Nelson is persuaded to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 67 members
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  • Risk (2000)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Tom Long,  Claudia Karvan
    Director: Alan White
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ben Madigan (Tom Long) has just started working as a personal injury assessor for a big insurance company. His boss John Kriesky (Bryan Brown) thinks highly of his work and offers to include him in a lucrative scam based around the filing of fraudulent claims. Ben is reluctant to get involved, but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 51% from 17 members
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  • Grizzly Falls on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Richard Harris,  Oliver Tobias
    Director: Stewart Raffill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In the middle of the wilderness, an old man tells his grandchildren a tale of his own childhood. Following thedeath of his mother, his usually-absent father, whom he barely knows, takes him into these same wilds to hunt for a grizzly. Discovering a mother bear with two cubs, the hunters capture the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 111 members
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  • Two Hands (1999)
    Starring: Susie Porter,  Bryan Brown,  Tom Long
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In his wonderfully inventive and decidedly Australian debut feature, Gregor Jordan returns to Sundance (his short, Swinger, played in 1996) with a film that is fresh, funny, and an unqualified delight. With its sophisticated meshing of gangster, horror, and deadpan comedy genres (in the director's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,654 member
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  • FX2 - The Deadly Art of Illusion on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Rachel Ticotin,  Tom Mason
    Director: Richard Franklin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Follow-on from the 1986 film 'FX - Murder by Illusion' in which Tyler (Bryan Brown) is now semi-retired. However, he is talked out of the quiet life after five years and into taking part in a police-sting operation by his girlfriend's ex-husband. When the latter is murdered, Tyler investigates, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,641 member
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  • Blame It On The Bellboy on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Dudley Moore,  Bronson Pinchot
    Director: Mark Herman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hitman Lawton (Bryan Brown), small-town mayor Horton (Richard Griffiths), and billionaire's assistant Orton (Dudley Moore) all check into the same Venice hotel, on various kinds of business. Hilarious misunderstandings ensue when the bellboy finds it impossible to stop their names getting mixed up.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 503 members
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  • Cocktail on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Kelly Lynch,  Elisabeth Shue
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect rich chick who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo bar-tending ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 14,512 members
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  • Gorillas In The Mist on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Bryan Brown,  John Omirah Miluwi
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sigourney Weaver plays Diane Fossey, crusader for the protection of gorillas, in this dramatisation of her life. A dedicated scientist, Fossey devoted her whole life to studying gorillas and produced ground breaking research into their natures. But her fiercely protective nature led to frequent run-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,905 members
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  • The Good Wife (1987)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Steven Vidler,  Sam Neill
    Director: Ken Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a New South Wales logging community in the 1930s, Marge (Rachel Ward) feels stifled by her marriage to a lumberjack and searches for more excitement, first with her brother-in-law and then with a womanising bartender in town.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 71 members
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  • Tai-Pan on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  John Stanton,  Tim Guinee
    Director: Daryl Duke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    An adaptation of the James Clavell novel that focuses on the buccaneering nature of Western merchants who were drawn to China by the wealth of silk, jade and opium. China was an unknown land, closed to the western world until the mid 1800s, when its borders were opened. The story follows the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 224 members
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  • FX - Murder By Illusion on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Mason Adams,  Diane Venora
    Director: Robert Mandel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Special effects expert Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) is widely acknowledged as the best in the business. Hired by the Justice Department to fake the death of Mafia boss-turned-informant Nicholas DeFranco, Rollie pulls the job off without a hitch. However, when the Mafioso kingpin goes missing for real,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,775 members
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  • Rebel on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Matt Dillon,  Debra Byrne
    Director: Michael Jenkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    World War Two drama set in Australia. With the war already three years old and no end in sight, Rebel (Matt Dillon) is becoming sickened by the horrors of jungle warfare and believes that desertion is the only way out. While on the run, he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Kathy (Debra ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 73 members
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  • Rudyard Kipling's Kim on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Ravi Sheth,  Bryan Brown,  Peter O'Toole
    Director: John Howard-Davies
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rudyard Kipling's classic story of espionage set in colonial India. Kim (Ravi Sheth) is a happy-go-lucky urchin who lives on the streets of Lahore in the 1890s and is known for his kind heart and ability to survive on his wits. The young man's many adventures see him meet up with a horse trader (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 132 members
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  • Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
    Starring: Paul McCartney,  Paul Mccartney,  Bryan Brown
    Director: Peter Webb
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An engaging musical fantasy about a famous rock star who discovers that the master tapes from his latest album have been stolen. During his frantic search, a number of popular songs are performed, including "Yesterday," "Here, There and Everywhere," and "Eleanor Rigby."
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6 members
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  • Breaker Morant on DVD (1980)
    Starring: John Waters,  Bryan Brown,  Jack Thompson
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    During the Boer War, the Australian unit led by Lieutenant Harry 'Breaker' Morant (Edward Woodward) is commanded to fight the Boers to the death. Morant, keen to avenge the death and mutilation of his best friend at the hands of the Boers, is happy to comply, but his capture and execution of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,005 member
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  • The Odd Angry Shot on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Graham Kennedy,  John Hargreaves,  John Jarratt
    Director: Tom Jeffrey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four soldiers from Australia's most highly trained and toughest army unit, are sent to Vietnam for twelve months active service. They believe they can deal with any situation - but in truth they are ill-prepared for the harsh realities of armed combat.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 125 members
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Bryan Brown facts

5 most recent films

Love Birds - 3.0 stars
Limbo - 4.5 stars
Beautiful Kate - 3.0 stars
Australia - 3.5 stars
Australia - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Breaker Morant - 3.5 stars
Gorillas In The Mist - 3.5 stars
Australia - 3.5 stars
Two Hands - 3.5 stars
Australia - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Risk - 3.0 stars
Give My Regards to Broad Street - 3.0 stars
Limbo - 4.5 stars
Styx - 2.0 stars
On The Border - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sam Neill - 4 times - show films
Sophie Lowe - 3 times - show films
Ben Mendelsohn - 3 times - show films
Jack Thompson - 3 times - show films
Brian Dennehy - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rachel Ward - 3 times - show films
Rachel Ward - 3 times - show films
Toa Fraser - 2 times - show films
Daryl Duke - 2 times - show films
Roger Donaldson - 2 times - show films