Best Brian Cox movies
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TOP 25: RED
Brian Cox as: Ivan Simanov
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2010
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
TOP 24: Super Troopers
Brian Cox as: Captain O'Hagan
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Release: 2001
Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.
TOP 23: Rob Roy
Brian Cox as: Killearn
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Release: 1995
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
TOP 22: The Boxer
Brian Cox as: Joe Hamill
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1997
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
TOP 21: The Flying Scotsman
Brian Cox as: Douglas Baxter
Genre: Drama
Release: 2006
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
TOP 20: Red
Brian Cox as: Avery Ludlow
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2008
Avery, a reclusive older man, has a best friend in his dog, Red. When three teens kill Red without reason, Avery sets out for justice and redemption, attempting to follow the letter of the law. But when the law fails him, and the boys' father clearly defines right and wrong in his own way, Avery must avenge himself by any means possible.
TOP 19: L.I.E.
Brian Cox as: Big John Harrigan
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2001
In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he loses nearly everything and everyone he knows and is left to navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised.
TOP 18: X2
Brian Cox as: William Stryker
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2003
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
TOP 17: Hidden Agenda
Brian Cox as: Peter Kerrigan
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1990
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
TOP 16: Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Brian Cox as: Green Dragon (voice)
Genre: Mystery, Animation, Comedy, Family, Action, Fantasy
Release: 2009
The gang of Mystery Inc. take a trip to Japan and find themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate, an ancient blade fabled to possess extraordinary supernatural powers.
TOP 15: Manhunter
Brian Cox as: Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Release: 1986
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
TOP 14: Troy
Brian Cox as: King Agamemnon
Genre: Adventure, History
Release: 2004
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 wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans.
TOP 13: Nicholas and Alexandra
Brian Cox as: Trotsky
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Release: 1971
Biography of the last Russian Monarch, Tsar Nicholas II and his Tsarina, Alexandra.Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
TOP 12: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Brian Cox as: John Landon
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2011
Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in intelligence and brain activity in the primate subjects – especially Caesar, his pet chimpanzee.
TOP 11: The Bourne Supremacy
Brian Cox as: Ward Abbott
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 10: Match Point
Brian Cox as: Alec Hewett
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Release: 2005
Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would take him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.
TOP 9: The Bourne Identity
Brian Cox as: Ward Abbott
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 8: Adaptation.
Brian Cox as: Robert McKee
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 7: 25th Hour
Brian Cox as: James Brogan
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2002
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.
TOP 6: Rushmore
Brian Cox as: Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1998
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
TOP 5: Zodiac
Brian Cox as: Melvin Belli
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2007
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for three men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
TOP 4: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Brian Cox as: Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2009
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
TOP 3: An Adventure in Space and Time
Brian Cox as: Sydney Newman
Genre: Drama
Release: 2013
This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
TOP 2: Braveheart
Brian Cox as: Argyle Wallace
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Release: 1995
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 against English rule.
TOP 1: Her
Brian Cox as: Alan Watts (voice)
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Romance
Release: 2013
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.