Mel Gibson
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Sullivans, The (TV Series) (1976-1983) 
- Feat. Mel Gibson
 
- Long–running Australian series set during WW2 Melbourne that became an iconic, antipodean version of THE WALTONS, eventually running to 1114…
 
Summer City (1977) 
- Dir. Christopher Fraser
Feat. Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt 
- The exploits of four boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they…
 
Tim (1979) 
- Dir. Michael Pate
Feat. Mel Gibson, Piper Laurie 
- Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie are the young simpleton and older woman drawn together in this adaptation of Colleen McCullough's first novel.
 
Mad Max (1979)
 
- Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley… 
- Mel Gibson made his international splash in an apocalyptic, futuristic actioner charged with a fierce energy that only a paltry budget can bring.…
 
Gallipoli (1981)
 
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Mark Lee 
- Well–crafted, intoxicating depiction of the Gallipoli landings in WWI with a boyish Mel Gibson and Mark Lee as youthful idealists who enlist as…
 
Mad Max II - The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) (1981)
 
- Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence 
- Studio–backed sequel retains the integrity of the first while sprucing up the artillery, pyrotechnics and going for a more futuristic style.…
 
Attack Force Z (1982) 
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood 
- Manly, gung–ho war vehicle stars fresh–faced Australasians Mel Gibson and Sam Neill as commandos dispatched to rescue survivors of a…
 
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983)
 
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt… 
- Multi–layered, vivid yarn posits Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as foreign officials in 1965 Indonesia at the time of the communist coup.…
 
Bounty, The (1984) 
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier… 
- Robert Bolt’s (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) version of the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ tale of Fletcher Christian’s (Mel Gibson) mutiny…
 
Mrs. Soffel (1984) 
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine… 
- Sombre though interesting drama set in 1901 Pittsburgh about a woman who helps one of the inmates of her prison warden husband. 
 
River, The (1984) 
- Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn 
- A handsomely–shot epic set around a struggling Midwest farming couple who must battle the elements and local land barons to survive on their…
 
Mad Max III - Beyond Thunderdome (Mad Max 3) (1985) 
- Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence 
- Tina Turner's appearance as Mel Gibson's foe in this third of the series, signalled a vie for a broader audience, but the hyper–kinetic battle…
 
Lethal Weapon (1987)
 
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover 
- Enjoyable caper–comedy, teaming up Gibson and Glover as partners–in–crime–fighting, struck a winning formula and inspired a…
 
Lethal Weapon Legacy (Lethal Weapon 1-4) (1987-1998) 
- Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
 
- All four outings for Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as mismatched cops.
 
Tequila Sunrise (1988) 
- Dir. Robert Towne
Feat. Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer… 
- Wandering yet amiable thriller replicates the trashy romanticism of Old Hollywood, with drug–dealer Mel Gibson trying to go straight under the…
 
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) 
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci… 
- Riggs and Murtaugh are back in a slicker, crasser, bigger–budget sequel, the hallmarks of Bond–style franchise fare. With Mel Gibson,…
 
Bird On a Wire (1990) 
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine… 
- Mel Gibson plays a protected witness who is wanted by some nasty crooks for putting them behind bars. 
 
Hamlet (1990)
 
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates… 
- Mel Gibson pulls off a creditable lead performance as the melancholy Dane, certainly aided by the director's eye for detail, and top supporting…
 
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) 
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo 
- More Mel Gibson and Danny Glover – it's another action–packed, fast–paced and amusing ensemble of good–guy/bad–guy…
 
Forever Young (1993) 
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis 
- 1930s test pilot Mel Gibson loses his great love and volunteers for a cryogenics experiment. Fast forward fifty years, enter Jamie Lee Curtis and son…
 
Man Without a Face, The (1993) 
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Mel Gibson 
- Mel Gibson directs his first film, playing a guy with only half a pretty face. The other half is deformed, but inside lies an astute academic, a…
 
Maverick (1994) 
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner 
- The popular TV Western is refried with Mel Gibson as the carefree card–shark, Jodie Foster his not–too–bright love interest and…
 
Braveheart (1995)
 
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan… 
- Mel Gibson stars in and directs this illustrious historical account of the struggle of William Wallace, a common Scot who initiated a revolt against…
 
Ransom (1996)
 
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise… 
- Kidnappers post a nasty ultimatum to airline mogul Mel Gibson, who didn't get to where he is today by responding kindly to threats.
Hi–gloss…
 
Conspiracy Theory (1997) 
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts 
- Mel Gibson plays a conspiracy–obsessed psychiatric patient, who bends the sympathetic ear of lawyer Julia Roberts, and uncovers a real one. A…
 
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) 
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci… 
- Mel and Danny couldn't refuse the pay–cheque for this fourth and biggest–grossing outing yet, which at least has Hong Kong's Jet Li to…
 
Payback (1998)
 
- Dir. Brian Helgeland
Feat. Mel Gibson, Deborah Kara Unger 
- Mel Gibson gets to behave badly as an indestructible armed robber who gets carried away on a sadistic get–even mission against a crime…
 
Million Dollar Hotel, The (1999) 
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich… 
- Dir. Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE) works–up his latest narrative of modern alienation in the scuzzy, titular hotel (which actually exists in…
 
Patriot, The (2000) 
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson… 
- Mel Gibson transplants the patriotic, anti–English fervour of BRAVEHEART into an American Revolutionary setting, playing real–life…
 
Chicken Run (2000)
 
- Dir. Nick Park, Peter Lord
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson 
- Britain's Aardman animation studio make the feature film leap with the aid of Hollywood and pull it off with wit and spirit in tact, while making…
 
What Women Want (2000) 
- Dir. Nancy Meyers
Feat. Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt 
- ‘Freak accident’–comedy in which ad–man Mel Gibson finds himself hearing the intimate thoughts of women everywhere (and their…
 
We Were Soldiers (2002)
 
- Dir. Randall Wallace
Feat. Mel Gibson, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein… 
- Big–budget, lavish re–enactment of America’s curtain–raiser in the Vietnam War, the fierce battle of la Drang, with an…
 
Signs (2002) 
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan… 
- Trading on a promise to explore the mysterious crop–circle phenomenon, the third supernatural blockbuster from M. Night Shyamalan instead…
 
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…
 
Passion of the Christ, The (2004) 
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci 
- A visceral depiction of Jesus Christ's final day before being crucified, this controversial work from devout Christian Mel Gibson is bluntly literal,…
 
Apocalypto (2006)
 
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Dalia Hernandez, Rudy Youngblood 
- Dir. Mel Gibson’s oft–enthralling action adventure follows a young tribesman living in a jungle village who is taken prisoner by Mayan…
 
Edge Of Darkness (2010) 
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston 
- Kiwi Martin Campbell helms this compact Hollywood remake of the 1986 BBC mini–series he also directed.
Despite Mel Gibson’s…
 
Beaver, The (2011) 
- Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin… 
- A haggard Mel Gibson adopts the persona of a beat–up hand puppet in an attempt to cope with his deteriorating mental health in this…
 
Get the Gringo (2012)
 
- Dir. Adrian Grunberg
Feat. Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez 
- Mel Gibson slums it as a drug runner sent to a hellish Tijuana prison in this lurid south–of–the–border thriller.
Befitting of…
 
Machete Kills (2013) 
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson, Demian Bichir… 
- More stupid splatter from exploitation exponent Robert Rodriguez, here reviving Danny Trejo's Mexican badass for another round of saving the world,…
 
Expendables 3, The (2014) 
- Dir. Patrick Hughes
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Harrison Ford… 
- Harrison Ford and Antonio Banderas lend their arthritic bodies to this chest–thumping third installment, no longer a throwback to the heydays…
 
Blood Father (2016)
 
- Dir. Jean-François Richet
Feat. Mel Gibson, William H. Macy, Erin Moriarty… 
- Mel Gibson attempts career rehabilitation in this stolid actioner, playing an ex–con who reunites with his estranged wayward…
 
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
 
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn… 
- The true World War II story of a conscientious objector who, at the Battle of Okinawa, won the Medal of Honor for his bravery and regard for his…
 
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
 
- Dir. S. Craig Zahler
Feat. Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles… 
- A simmering, witty and entirely unpredictable heist epic from the writer/director of BONE TOMAHAWK that stars an ageing Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughan…
 
Professor and the Madman, The (2019)
 
- Dir. P. B. Shemran
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer… 
- Biographical drama set in London in 1879, where a professor (Mel Gibson) compiling the first Oxford England Dictionary receives a submission of over…
 
Fatman (2020) 
- Dir. Ian Nelms, Eshom Nelms
Feat. Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste 
- Mel Gibson indulges his curmudgeonly side as a rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus who is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, a neglected…