Brendan Gleeson films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 47 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Paddington 2, The Banshees of Inisherin and Edge of Tomorrow.

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Starring Brendan Gleeson

Spider-Noir
2026 · TV
8.4/10 · TMDB
Ben Reilly, an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.
Song of the Sea
2014 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time...
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Braveheart
1995 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did?...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The rebellion begins! Lord Voldemort has returned, but the Ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth – including appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defence Against...
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Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of...
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In Bruges
2008 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
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The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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Paddington 2
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
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The Secret of Kells
2009 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother Aiden's book, Brendan must overcome his deepest fears on a secret quest...
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Gangs of New York
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket...
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Suffragette
2015 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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The Comey Rule
2020 · TV
7.3/10 · TMDB
An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and...
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28 Days Later
2002 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and...
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman...
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Mr. Mercedes
2017 · TV
7.2/10 · TMDB
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again...
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Troy
2004 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his...
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Calvary
2014 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
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Breakfast on Pluto
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for...
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The Guard
2011 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and...
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Cold Mountain
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he...
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Michael Collins
1996 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
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Kingdom of Heaven
2005 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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In the Heart of the Sea
2015 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
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Far and Away
1992 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The...
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Green Zone
2010 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one...
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A Greyhound of a Girl
2023 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Mary is a 12-year-old girl with a passion for cooking, absorbing information from her grandmother, who is a wonderful cook. However, Mary and her family must come to terms with her grandmother's illness.
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The Village
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
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Safe House
2012 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants...
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain...
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The Raven
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
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Albert Nobbs
2011 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape...
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Dark Blue
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
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Live by Night
2016 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered on a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
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The Company You Keep
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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Mission: Impossible II
2000 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera...
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The Tailor of Panama
2001 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama...
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Beowulf
2007 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.
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Lake Placid
1999 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet...
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The Smurfs 2
2013 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what...
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Trespass Against Us
2016 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad...
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Joker: Folie à Deux
2024 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.
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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
2021 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration of life. Based on the stage show phenomenon of the same name and...
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Assassin's Creed
2016 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant of the secret 'Assassins' society. After gaining incredible knowledge and skills, he...
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Frankie
2019 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.
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H Is for Hawk
2025 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.

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