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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 57% from 165 members
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  • Beautiful Kate on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Rachel Griffiths,  Sophie Lowe,  Maeve Dermody
    Director: Rachel Ward
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Award winning actress Rachel Ward’s stunning and handsome directorial debut, Beautiful Kate is the story of a family whose all too human mistakes lead to tragedy, recrimination, guilt and finally salvation. Told in parallel strands of past and present, the film recounts the sexual awakening of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,723 member
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  • Australia - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Hugh Jackman,  David Wenham
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    MOULIN ROUGE's Baz Luhrman and Nicole Kidman reteam for this epic that pays homage to their homeland. In AUSTRALIA, Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) is a prim and proper Englishwoman who journeys to Australia in the years before World War II reached the country's shores. She is determined to have her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 8,663 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 4,219 members
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  • Australia on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Hugh Jackman,  David Wenham
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    MOULIN ROUGE's Baz Luhrman and Nicole Kidman reteam for this epic that pays homage to their homeland. In AUSTRALIA, Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) is a prim and proper Englishwoman who journeys to Australia in the years before World War II reached the country's shores. She is determined to have her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 54,535 members
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  • The Living Wake on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Mike O'Connell,  Jesse Eisenberg,  Jim Gaffigan
    Director: Sol Tryon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and comedian Mike O’Connell and hailed as "One of the most original American movies of the decade" (Indiewire), THE LIVING WAKE is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew (O'Connell), has one ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 38 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 53% from 213 members
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  • Dirty Deeds on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  John Goodman,  Toni Collette
    Director: David Caesar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    DIRTY DEEDS is an Aussie gangster flick set against the booming casino underworld of late 1960s Sydney. Bryan Brown (COCKTAIL, THE THORN BIRDS) stars as Barry Ryan, an Australian mobster who controls the city's gambling scene and is making a killing from the casino slot machines. His profitable ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,161 member
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  • Styx on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Peter Weller,  Angus MacFadyen,  Bryan Brown
    Director: Alexander Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An expert safecracker (Peter Weller) who went straight after a near-fatal armored car explosion decides to come out of retirement and team up with another veteran career criminal (Bryan Brown) in order to save his brother, who is in deep trouble with some loan sharks. This particular job will not ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 66 members
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  • Risk (2000)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Tom Long,  Claudia Karvan
    Director: Alan White
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Young Ben Madigan (Tom Long, THE DISH) has just become an insurance adjuster out of a desire to help people. When he joins the firm, however, he falls under the wing of seasoned and unscrupulous veteran adjuster John Kriesky (Bryan Brown). Preying on Ben's naivete, Kriesky embroils him in an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 51% from 17 members
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  • On The Beach (2000)
    Starring: Armand Assante,  Rachel Ward,  Bryan Brown
    Director: Russell Mulcahy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An American submarine sets out to investigate after an atomic war between America and China has destroyed most of the world and the only refuge for survivors is Australia.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 386 members
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  • Two Hands (1999)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Heath Ledger,  Rose Byrne
    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 1,578 member
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  • Grizzly Falls on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Oliver Tobias,  Richard Harris
    Director: Stewart Raffill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A thrill-seeking hunter (Brown) brings his son Harry along on an expedition to capture a grizzly bear. With Indian tracker (Jackson) and jaded hunting colleague (Tobias) in tow, it isn't long before they seize a pair of cubs. Upon finding her kids tied-up and caged, the mother bear in turn abducts ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 106 members
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  • Cocktail on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Bryan Brown,  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 13,862 members
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  • Gorillas In The Mist on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Bryan Brown,  Julie Harris
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on anthropologist Dian Fossey's autobiography, and an article by Harold T. P. Hayes, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is a portrait of the determined woman who will do anything to save the mountain gorillas that she studies, and for whose well-being she has a passionate commitment. In the process, she ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,784 members
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  • The Good Wife on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Rachel Ward,  Bryan Brown,  Sam Neill
    Director: Ken Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starved for affection from her unromantic husband, Marge's long denied sexuality is unleashed by a charming but coldhearted womaniser who arrives in town to run the hotel bar. Set in 1939 in a small New South Wales timber town.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 60 members
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  • Tai-Pan on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  John Stanton,  Joan Chen
    Director: Daryl Duke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    This exotic drama tells of the founding of Hong Kong and the Western merchants who traded the South China Sea risking their lives to create magnificent dynasties. Based on James Clavell's bestseller and filmed in the Republic of China.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 209 members
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  • FX - Murder By Illusion on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Brian Dennehy,  Diane Venora
    Director: Robert Mandel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rollie Tyler, Hollywood's best special effects man, is commissioned to execute a murder that can only be carried out through the use of his incredible skills. However, it later becomes unclear as to whether Rollie is the "weapon" or the victim.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,689 members
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  • Rebel on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Matt Dillon,  Debra Byrne,  Bryan Brown
    Director: Michael Jenkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Australia, 1942, World War II. Kathy (Debbie Byrne) is a performer in a Quonset hut saloon where she entertains the troops. One night after a performance, Kathy throws a party and meets Marine Sergeant Rebel (Matt Dillon). Injured in battle and recuperating in Australia, Rebel has gone AWOL, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 69 members
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  • Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
    Starring: Paul McCartney,  Bryan Brown,  Ringo Starr
    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."
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4 members
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  • Breaker Morant on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Edward Woodward,  Jack Thompson,  Bryan Brown
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the film is a tersely dramatic account of the true story of the court-martial of three soldiers attached to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 960 members
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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 64% from 110 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 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Dean Spanley - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

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

5 lowest-rated films

The Living Wake - 2.5 stars
Risk - 3.0 stars
Give My Regards to Broad Street - 3.5 stars
Limbo - 4.5 stars
Styx - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sam Neill - 3 times - show films
Brian Dennehy - 3 times - show films
Jack Thompson - 3 times - show films
Alec Baldwin - 2 times - show films
Philip Bosco - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Baz Luhrmann - 2 times - show films
Daryl Duke - 2 times - show films
Rachel Ward - 2 times - show films
John Hamburg - 2 times - show films
Rachel Ward - 2 times - show films