Best Bruce Greenwood movies
We present our ranking of the best Bruce Greenwood movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Bruce Greenwood.
TOP 25: Super 8
Bruce Greenwood as: Cooper
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2011
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
TOP 24: Flight
Bruce Greenwood as: Charlie Anderson
Genre: Drama
Release: 2012
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
TOP 23: Ararat
Genre: Drama
Release: 2002
A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
TOP 22: Endless Love
Bruce Greenwood as: Hugh Butterfield
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2014
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
TOP 21: Exotica
Bruce Greenwood as: Francis
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Release: 1994
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
TOP 20: Mao's Last Dancer
Bruce Greenwood as: Ben Stevenson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
TOP 19: Déjà Vu
Bruce Greenwood as: Agent Jack McCready - FBI
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2006
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
TOP 18: Mao's Last Dancer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
TOP 17: I, Robot
Bruce Greenwood as: Lawrence Robertson
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Release: 2004
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
TOP 16: Eight Below
Bruce Greenwood as: Davis McClaren
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Release: 2006
In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.
TOP 15: The Place Beyond the Pines
Bruce Greenwood as: Bill Killcullen
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2012
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
TOP 14: The Post
Bruce Greenwood as: Robert McNamara
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2017
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
TOP 13: Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Bruce Greenwood as: President of the United States
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 2017
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.
TOP 12: Thirteen Days
Bruce Greenwood as: John F. Kennedy
Genre: Thriller
Release: 2000
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
TOP 11: Capote
Bruce Greenwood as: Jack Dunphy
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'.
TOP 10: Doctor Sleep
Bruce Greenwood as: Dr. John
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2019
Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the 'shine'. Instinctively recognising that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers.
TOP 9: Fathers and Daughters
Bruce Greenwood as: William
Genre: Drama
Release: 2015
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
TOP 8: The Challenger
Bruce Greenwood as: General Kutyna
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, TV Movie
Release: 2013
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe, were watched live on television by millions of viewers. But what was more shocking was that the cause of the disaster might never be uncovered. The Challenger is the story of how Richard Feynman, one of America's most famous scientists, helped to discover the cause of a tragedy that stunned America.
TOP 7: Barney's Version
Bruce Greenwood as: Blair
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2010
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
TOP 6: The Sweet Hereafter
Bruce Greenwood as: Billy Ansel
Genre: Drama
Release: 1997
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
TOP 5: Star Trek Into Darkness
Bruce Greenwood as: Christopher Pike
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 2013
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
TOP 4: First Blood
Bruce Greenwood as: Guardsman #5
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Release: 1982
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.
TOP 3: Elephant Song
Bruce Greenwood as: Dr. Toby Green
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Release: 2014
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
TOP 2: Star Trek
Bruce Greenwood as: Christopher Pike
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 2009
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
TOP 1: Batman: Under the Red Hood
Bruce Greenwood as: Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery
Release: 2010
Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code.