Best Michael Ironside movies
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TOP 25: Reeker
Michael Ironside as: Henry
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Release: 2005
Strangers trapped at an eerie travel oasis in the desert must unravel the mystery behind their visions of dying people while they are preyed upon by a decaying creature.
TOP 24: Visiting Hours
Michael Ironside as: Colt Hawker
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 1982
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
TOP 23: Still/Born
Genre: Horror
Release: 2018
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child - a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her.
TOP 22: Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
Michael Ironside as: Fred Skolnick
Genre: Drama
Release: 2000
At school, Roseanne is the object of fellow student Vincent's infatuation. By night, she deals with a troubled family life: her mother, Maggie, cheats on her drunken husband, Fred. When Maggie's adultery is revealed, Fred viciously takes his anger out on stepdaughter Roseanne. With the help of her boyfriend, Jimmy, Maggie plots her revenge, but Vincent might be the one to help her forge a new life in this contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
TOP 21: Surveillance
Michael Ironside as: Billings
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Release: 2008
An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
TOP 20: Heavy Metal 2000
Michael Ironside as: Tyler (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Release: 2000
Upon discovery of a shard of what could be the Loc-Nar, a miner named Tyler becomes possessed with an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for immortality. On his way to the planet of youth, Tyler wipes out most of a space colony and kidnaps a beautiful young woman. His only mistake is that he doesn't kill her sister, Julie, who then sets out on a mission of rescue and revenge.
TOP 19: Extreme Prejudice
Michael Ironside as: Maj. Paul Hackett
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Release: 1987
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
TOP 18: Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York
Michael Ironside as: Levering
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Release: 2006
Illegal experimentation accidentally rips open a previously unknown hidden magma reserve directly under Manhattan!
TOP 17: Father Hood
Michael Ironside as: Jerry
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Release: 1993
Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.
TOP 16: Terminator Salvation
Michael Ironside as: General Ashdown
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2009
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
TOP 15: Free Willy
Michael Ironside as: Dial
Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Release: 1993
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.
TOP 14: Major Payne
Michael Ironside as: Lt. Col. Stone
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Release: 1995
Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch of ragtag losers with no hope.
TOP 13: The Vagrant
Michael Ironside as: Lt. Ralf Barfuss
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Release: 1992
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
TOP 12: Storm Cell
Michael Ironside as: James
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2008
A brother and sister are torn apart when their parents die tragically in a tornado. While he moves to Seattle to be away from the memory, she devotes her life to studying storms and weather patterns. When she discovers the threat of a powerful series of tornadoes are heading for Seattle, she must convince her brother and the entire city that she is not crazy; and they are in grave danger
TOP 11: The Perfect Storm
Michael Ironside as: Bob Brown
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2000
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure.
TOP 10: Turbo Kid
Michael Ironside as: Zeus
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Release: 2015
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.
TOP 9: The Falcon and the Snowman
Michael Ironside as: FBI Agent
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Release: 1985
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
TOP 8: Scanners
Michael Ironside as: Darryl Revok
Genre: Science Fiction, Horror
Release: 1981
After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
TOP 7: Starship Troopers
Michael Ironside as: Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 1997
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
TOP 6: Top Gun
Michael Ironside as: Lt. Cdr. Heatherly 'Jester'
Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure
Release: 1986
A heart-pounding combination of action, music and incredible aerial photography helped make Top Gun the blockbuster hit. of 1986. Top Gun takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.
TOP 5: Total Recall
Michael Ironside as: Richter
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 1990
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.
TOP 4: X-Men: First Class
Michael Ironside as: Captain
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Release: 2011
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
TOP 3: The Machinist
Michael Ironside as: Miller
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 2004
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is suffering from insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...
TOP 2: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising
Michael Ironside as: Ultra Magnus
Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction
Release: 2013
A resurrected Unicron has taken over the now-lifeless body of Megatron to seek vengeance on the Autobots and ultimately, the destruction of Cybertron.
TOP 1: Nobody
Michael Ironside as: Eddie Williams
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Release: 2021
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.