Adrien Brody
          Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
Last Time I Committed Suicide, The (1997) 
- Dir. Stephen T. Kay
Feat. Thomas Jane, Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody… 
- Free–spirited odyssey inspired by a letter from the pen of beatnik hedonist Neal Cassady. See Keanu Reeves smoke, drink and shoot pool in…
 
Summer of Sam (1999)
 
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino… 
- Getting some distance from his usual street–scene, Spike Lee lets off a real firecracker of a film, set during the heatwave summer of 1977,…
 
Liberty Heights (2000) 
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Adrien Brody, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth 
- Drawing once again on memories of his Baltimore childhood, dir. Levinson (DINER) examines life for a Jewish family on the eve of the rock'n'roll era…
 
Harrison's Flowers (2000) 
- Dir. Elie Chouraqui
Feat. Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Adrien Brody… 
- Andie MacDowell searches for her photojournalist husband (David Strathairn), presumed dead in the 1991 Serbian siege of Vukovar, with the aid of…
 
Bread and Roses (2000) 
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pilar Padilla, Elpidia Carrillo 
- Another politically–charged turn from dir. Loach follows two Latina women in Los Angeles who campaign for better working conditions and the…
 
Affair of the Necklace, The (2001) 
- Dir. Charles Shyer
Feat. Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Joely Richardson… 
- Hilary Swank (BOYS DON’T CRY) wigs up as a penniless French aristocrat in pre–revolution times who conspires to defraud Cardinal Jonathon…
 
Love the Hard Way (2001) 
- Dir. Peter Sehr
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pam Grier 
- Big–city fable with Brody playing a snakeskin–jacketed thief with some polished one–liners, who nurses a secret ambition to be a…
 
Pianist, The (2002)
 
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay 
- Boldly visualised, fact–based drama concerning the Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who evaded Poland’s Nazi authorities during WW2, living…
 
Dummy (2002) 
- Dir. Greg Pritikin
Feat. Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas… 
- Unusual, mostly effective comedy has unemployed clerk Brody take up his ventriloquism hobby fulltime. With yiddish sidenotes, simmering romance and…
 
Singing Detective, The (2003) 
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robin Wright, Jeremy Northam… 
- A not unthoughtful remake of Dennis Potter's iconic 1980s TV Series, in which a psoriasis–afflicted crime writer hallucinates mystery plots and…
 
Village, The (2004) 
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody… 
- A further investigation in atmospherics from the maker of SIGNS and THE SIXTH SENSE, this time sent in the foreboding microcosm of an 18th century…
 
King Kong (2005)
 
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black… 
- Peter Jackson's colossal remake lavishes one of the cinema's greatest legends in 21st century technology and ratchets up the emotional stakes to…
 
Jacket, The (2005)
 
- Dir. John Maybury
Feat. Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson… 
- Adding to a growing canon of mind–bending thrillers of distinction (see our 'Close Relatives' below), this certainly feels part of a distinct…
 
Hollywoodland (2006) 
- Dir. Allen Coulter
Feat. Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck… 
- The intriguing, mysterious circumstances surrounding George ‘Superman’ Reeves’ suicide are exhumed by a private eye (Adrien Brody) in this…
 
Darjeeling Limited, The (2007) 
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman… 
- Idiosyncratic comedy from the dir. of THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS combines a dusty, nostalgic sub–continental adventure–quest with a whimsical…
 
Cadillac Records (2008) 
- Dir. Darnell Martin
Feat. Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union… 
-  Flashy interpretation of the rise of the seminal Chess Records, regarded by many as America's greatest blues label.
This ensemble piece is more…
 
Brothers Bloom, The (2008) 
- Dir. Rian Johnson
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo… 
- Fanciful tale of two grifting brothers (Brody, Ruffalo) who, in attempting to ensnare an eccentric heiress (Weisz), fall for both her feminine charms…
 
Manolete (2008) 
- Dir. Menno Meyjes
Feat. Adrien Brody, Penelope Cruz, Nacho Aldeguer 
- Soapy biopic of the great Spanish bullfighter focuses more on his torrid love affair with a hot–tempered actress than his actual bullfighting…
 
Splice (2009) 
- Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley 
- The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…
 
Predators (2010) 
- Dir. Nimrod Antal
Feat. Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga… 
- Chosen for their ability to kill without conscience, a group of killers must survive an alien race of predators that have set out to target them as…
 
Experiment, The (2010) 
- Dir. Paul Scheuring
Feat. Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr. 
- Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker chew the scenery in this slick, if largely diminished remake of the 2001 German thriller, itself a dramatisation of…
 
Wrecked (2010) 
- Dir. Michael Greenspan
Feat. Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins 
- Artful micro–thriller with Brody as an injured man trapped in a car wreck with no memory of what happened. Resourceful suspenser that relies on…
 
Midnight in Paris (2011)
 
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates… 
- High class whimsy from Woody Allen with Woody–surrogate honours going this time to Owen Wilson as a frustrated hack screenwriter magically…
 
Detachment (2011)
 
- Dir. Tony Kaye
Feat. Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan… 
- The magnetic Adrien Brody plays gifted but disillusioned substitute teacher who connects with troubled students, teachers and a young prostitute in…
 
Third Person (2013) 
- Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Liam Neeson, Maria Bello, Mila Kunis… 
- Paul Haggis attempts to renew the winning formula of his Oscar–winning CRASH with this trio of interlocking love stories set in Rome, Paris,…
 
Grand Budapest Hotel, The (2014)
 
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric… 
- Dir. Wes Anderson at last marries his quirky, meticulous aesthetic to a marvellously exotic setting and characters to create arguably his finest film…
 
Backtrack (2015) 
- Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, George Shevtsov… 
- Australian paranormal thriller about a psychotherapist (Adrian Brody) who is plagued by sinister visions after the death of his daughter. Returning…
 
French Dispatch, The (2021)
 
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton… 
- A wildly inventive anthology film from meticulous auteur Wes Anderson (GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) set in in a fictional 20th century French town, where a…
 
Asteroid City (2023) 
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks… 
- A parade of caricatures converge on the tiny desert town of "Asteroid City": famous for it's rock in a hole. When things get ...…