Best Chris Cooper movies
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TOP 25:
Jarhead
Chris Cooper as: Lt. Col. Kazinski
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 2005
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Brian Geraghty movies?
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 2005
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Brian Geraghty movies?
TOP 24:
The Kingdom
Chris Cooper as: Grant Sykes
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama
Release: 2007
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Ilia Volok movies?
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama
Release: 2007
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Ilia Volok movies?
TOP 23:
Demolition
Chris Cooper as: Phil Eastwood
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2015
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Judah Lewis movies?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2015
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Judah Lewis movies?
TOP 22:
Cars 3
Chris Cooper as: Smokey Yunick (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2017
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Tony Shalhoub movies?
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2017
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Tony Shalhoub movies?
TOP 21:
The Horse Whisperer
Chris Cooper as: Frank Booker
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1998
Based on the novel by the same name from Nicholas Evans, the talented Robert Redford presents this meditative family drama set in the country side. Redford not only directs but also stars in the roll of a cowboy with a magical talent for healing.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jessalyn Gilsig movies?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1998
Based on the novel by the same name from Nicholas Evans, the talented Robert Redford presents this meditative family drama set in the country side. Redford not only directs but also stars in the roll of a cowboy with a magical talent for healing.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jessalyn Gilsig movies?
TOP 20:
August: Osage County
Chris Cooper as: Charles Aiken
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2013
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Julianne Nicholson movies?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2013
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Julianne Nicholson movies?
TOP 19:
Seabiscuit
Chris Cooper as: Tom Smith
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2003
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best William H. Macy movies?
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2003
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best William H. Macy movies?
TOP 18:
Lone Star
Chris Cooper as: Sam Deeds
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Release: 1996
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best DJ Qualls movies?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Release: 1996
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best DJ Qualls movies?
TOP 17:
Fastball
Chris Cooper as: Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2016
Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Kevin Costner movies?
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2016
Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Kevin Costner movies?
TOP 16:
Capote
Chris Cooper as: Alvin Dewey
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2005
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Amy Ryan movies?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2005
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Amy Ryan movies?
TOP 15:
This Boy's Life
Chris Cooper as: Roy
Genre: Drama
Release: 1993
In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Eliza Dushku movies?
Genre: Drama
Release: 1993
In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Eliza Dushku movies?
TOP 14:
Remember Me
Chris Cooper as: Neil Craig
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2010
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Martha Plimpton movies?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2010
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Martha Plimpton movies?
TOP 13:
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Chris Cooper as: Jerry Vogel
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Khary Payton movies?
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Khary Payton movies?
TOP 12:
The Patriot
Chris Cooper as: Col. Harry Burwell
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Release: 2000
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Release: 2000
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
TOP 11:
The Town
Chris Cooper as: Stephen MacRay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2010
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2010
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
TOP 10:
A Time to Kill
Chris Cooper as: Dwayne Looney
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1996
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1996
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
TOP 9:
Matewan
Chris Cooper as: Joe Kenehan
Genre: Drama
Release: 1987
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Genre: Drama
Release: 1987
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
TOP 8:
Interstate 60
Chris Cooper as: Bob Cody
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 2002
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 2002
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
TOP 7:
The Bourne Supremacy
Chris Cooper as: Alexander Conklin
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2004
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2004
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
TOP 6:
Adaptation.
Chris Cooper as: John Laroche
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2002
A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2002
A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
TOP 5:
The Bourne Identity
Chris Cooper as: Alexander Conklin
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2002
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2002
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
TOP 4:
October Sky
Chris Cooper as: John Hickam
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 1999
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 1999
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
TOP 3:
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Chris Cooper as: Gary (voice)
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2012
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2012
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.
TOP 2:
Little Women
Chris Cooper as: Mr. Laurence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
TOP 1:
American Beauty
Chris Cooper as: Colonel Frank Fitts
Genre: Drama
Release: 1999
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Genre: Drama
Release: 1999
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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