Best Bruce Dern movies
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TOP 25: Freaks
Bruce Dern as: Mr. Snowcone
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2019
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
TOP 24: Hang 'em High
Bruce Dern as: Miller
Genre: Western
Release: 1968
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
TOP 23: The War Wagon
Bruce Dern as: Hammond
Genre: Western
Release: 1967
An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
TOP 22: The Mustang
Bruce Dern as: Myles
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
TOP 21: Support Your Local Sheriff!
Bruce Dern as: Joe Danby
Genre: Comedy, Western
Release: 1969
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.
TOP 20: Lez Bomb
Bruce Dern as: Grandpa
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2018
A closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming-out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate.
TOP 19: Coming Home
Bruce Dern as: Capt. Bob Hyde
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Release: 1978
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.
TOP 18: The Driver
Bruce Dern as: The Detective
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1978
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.
TOP 17: Class Rank
Bruce Dern as: Oswald Flannigan
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2017
Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
TOP 16: Marnie
Bruce Dern as: Sailor
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1964
Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
TOP 15: QT8: The First Eight
Bruce Dern as: Self
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2019
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
TOP 14: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Bruce Dern as: Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Genre: Western
Release: 1973
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
TOP 13: The Cowboys
Bruce Dern as: Long Hair
Genre: Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
Release: 1972
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
TOP 12: Monster
Bruce Dern as: Thomas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2003
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.
TOP 11: Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Bruce Dern as: John Mayhew
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Release: 1964
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
TOP 10: Corman's World
Bruce Dern as: Himself - Actor
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2011
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
TOP 9: The Peanut Butter Falcon
Bruce Dern as: Carl
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy
Release: 2019
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
TOP 8: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Bruce Dern as: George Spahn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2019
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
TOP 7: Nebraska
Bruce Dern as: Woody Grant
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Release: 2013
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
TOP 6: Wild River
Bruce Dern as: Jack Roper
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1960
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
TOP 5: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Bruce Dern as: James Bates
Genre: Drama
Release: 1969
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
TOP 4: The Hateful Eight
Bruce Dern as: General Sandy Smithers
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Release: 2015
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
TOP 3: A Decade Under the Influence
Bruce Dern as: Self
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2003
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
TOP 2: Emperor
Bruce Dern as: Levi Coffin
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2020
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
TOP 1: Django Unchained
Bruce Dern as: Old Man Carrucan
Genre: Drama, Western
Release: 2012
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.