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Adrien Brody

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. He also became the second American male actor to win the César Aw... more

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. He also became the second American male actor to win the César Award for Best Actor for the same film. For his role as a Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States in The Brutalist (2024), he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and earned his second Academy Award Nomination and subsequent win for Best Actor.

Brody has also starred in The Thin Red Line(1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Predators (2010), and See How They Run(2022). He has frequently collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in his films The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City(2023). He portrayed Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and Arthur Miller in Andrew Dominik's Blonde (2022).

On television, he has played Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders (2017) and Pat Riley in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023). He earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014), and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).

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The Pianist
(2002)
Drama, War
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of...
Runtime:
150 min
Director:
Roman Polanski
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman
8.5
95%
85
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
(2014)
Comedy, Drama
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals tha...
Runtime:
100 min
8.1
92%
88
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
(2009)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Wes Anderson
Cast:
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Jason Schwartzman
7.9
93%
83
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Midnight in Paris
(2011)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Woody Allen
Cast:
Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen
7.7
93%
81
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Spider-Man: Far From Home
(2019)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
Runtime:
129 min
Cast:
Tom Holland, Danny DeVito, Zendaya, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalon
7.5
91%
69
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The Thin Red Line
(1998)
Drama, History, War
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ...
Runtime:
171 min
Director:
Terrence Malick
Cast:
Sean Penn, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel
7.6
81%
78
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King Kong
(2005)
Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Runtime:
187 min
Director:
Peter Jackson
Cast:
Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks
7.2
84%
81
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The Darjeeling Limited
(2007)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian co...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Wes Anderson
Cast:
Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston
7.2
69%
67
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Detachment
(2011)
Drama
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Tony Kaye
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan, Christina Hendricks, Lucy Liu
7.7
57%
52
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The Jacket
(2005)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
John Maybury
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch
7.1
44%
44
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The Village
(2004)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
M. Night Shyamalan
Cast:
Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver
6.5
43%
44
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Predators
(2010)
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Nimród Antal
Cast:
Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo
6.4
64%
51
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The Brothers Bloom
(2008)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Rian Johnson
Cast:
Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane
6.8
68%
55
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Summer of Sam
(1999)
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Runtime:
142 min
Director:
Spike Lee
Cast:
John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito
6.7
N/A
67
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The Experiment
(2010)
Drama, Thriller
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Paul Scheuring
Cast:
Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Adrien Brody, Maggie Grace, Clifton Collins Jr
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Hollywoodland
(2006)
Crime, Thriller
The complicated life and controversial suicide of George Reeves is investigated by a fictional private detective who finds that there are reasons to suspect that Reeves may not have killed himself after all. The detective also finds that there is a little of George Reeves in himself, and maybe, each of us.
Runtime:
126 min
Director:
Allen Coulter
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Lois Smith
6.5
68%
62
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Cadillac Records
(2008)
Drama, History, Music
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Darnell Martin
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short
7.0
66%
65
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Splice
(2009)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Vincenzo Natali
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, David Hewlett, Abigail Chu
5.8
74%
66
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Angels in the Outfield
(1994)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
William Dear
Cast:
Danny Glover, Brenda Fricker, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christopher Lloyd, Tony Danza
6.2
32%
44
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Third Person
(2013)
Drama, Romance
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Runtime:
137 min
Director:
Paul Haggis
Cast:
Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody
6.4
24%
38
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New York Stories
(1989)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her separated parents to reconciliate; third, by Allen, is a witty piece of comedy about the impossibility of ...
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola
Cast:
Woody Allen, Nick Nolte, Marvin Chatinover, Rosanna Arquette, Mae Questel
6.4
75%
N/A
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Houdini
(2014)
Drama, History, TV Movie
Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.
Runtime:
210 min
7.4
N/A
N/A
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Dragon Blade
(2015)
Action, Adventure, Drama
Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert and a thrilling story unfolds.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Daniel Lee
Cast:
John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Jackie Chan, Sharni Vinson, Benny Urquidez
6.1
33%
41
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King of the Hill
(1993)
Drama, History
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on ...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Cast:
Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray
7.6
97%
86
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Harrison's Flowers
(2000)
Drama, Romance, War
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Élie Chouraqui
Cast:
Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody, David Strathairn
7.1
49%
49
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Bullet
(1996)
Action, Drama, Thriller
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Julien Temple
Cast:
Mickey Rourke, Frank Senger, Adrien Brody, John Enos III, Ted Levine
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Liberty Heights
(1999)
Drama
This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben completes high school, he falls for Sylvia, a black classmate, creating inevitable tensions. Meanwhile, Ben's brother, Van, attends college and becomes smitten wi...
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Barry Levinson
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna
7.1
87%
75
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Dummy
(2002)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Greg Pritikin
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, Jessica Walter
6.7
71%
48
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Manhattan Night
(2016)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nas...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Brian DeCubellis
Cast:
Yvonne Strahovski, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Beals, Campbell Scott, Steven Berkoff
6.2
33%
44
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Bread and Roses
(2000)
Comedy, Drama
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer ...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Ken Loach
Cast:
Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila
7.1
65%
57
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Backtrack
(2015)
Horror, Thriller
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Michael Petroni
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Bruce Spence, Robin McLeavy, Jenni Baird
5.9
N/A
43
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Wrecked
(2010)
Mystery, Thriller
A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to be sitting dead in the back seat.
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Michael Greenspan
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins, Adrian Holmes, Adrian G. Griffiths
5.3
46%
61
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American Heist
(2014)
Action
Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Sarik Andreasyan
Cast:
Hayden Christensen, Jordana Brewster, Adrien Brody, Akon, Laura Cayouette
5.2
14%
23
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High School
(2010)
Comedy
A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
John Stalberg
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Matt Bush, Sean Marquette, Colin Hanks, Michael Chiklis
5.9
27%
31
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The Affair of the Necklace
(2001)
Drama, History, Romance
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Charles Shyer
Cast:
Hilary Swank, Simon Baker, Christopher Walken, Hayden Panettiere, Jonathan Pryce
6.1
15%
42
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The Singing Detective
(2003)
Comedy, Crime, Music, Mystery
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Keith Gordon
Cast:
Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes
5.6
39%
45
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Oxygen
(1999)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs out, Madeline pursues the trail laid by a killer calling himself Harry Houdini. After capturing him, Madeline brings Harry back to the police station, but is unable to get him to confess wh...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Richard Shepard
Cast:
Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, James Naughton, Laila Robins, Terry Kinney
6.1
77%
N/A
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Back to 1942
(2012)
Drama, War
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling K...
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Feng Xiaogang
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Tim Robbins, 徐帆, Chen Dao-Ming, Alec Su
6.9
36%
41
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Come Together
(2016)
Comedy, Drama, Family
A train is delayed on Christmas day due to a storm, causing the passengers to have their own celebration.
Runtime:
4 min
Director:
Wes Anderson
Cast:
Adrien Brody
7.5
N/A
N/A
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Love the Hard Way
(2003)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic activities, Jack has a regular scam going, ripping off foreign businessmen with his loyal...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Peter Sehr
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, August Diehl, Pam Grier
6.4
28%
42