Movies with Sean Penn

Gangster Squad

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling

Directors: Ruben Fleischer

Country: USA

Year: 2013

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def

In 1949, when gangster Mickey Cohen seems to have an iron grip of Los Angeles. And no one is willing or alive to testify against him. So Police Chief Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen. He chooses Sgt. O'Mara, a World War 2, vet to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and WW2 vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops.

 

Dogtown and Z-Boys

Genres: Sport, Documentary

Starring: Sean Penn, Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Jeff Ament, Bob Biniak

Directors: Stacy Peralta

Country: USA

Year: 2001

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

An exuberant documentary account of the rebirth of skateboarding in the early seventies. It seems that a fortuitous combination of newly invented polyurethane wheels and a drought in Southern California-all those drained swimming pools with their curved bottoms and vertical sides-led a bunch of surfer rats in Santa Monica to adapt their crouching, wave-touching moves to the skateboard. As a culture, skateboarding took off from there, and almost thirty years later, the little group of punky pioneers is still proud of what they did. Skate legend Stacy Peralta directed, and the documentary has lots of home movies, stills, and current interviews ...

 

The Tree of Life

Genres: Drama

Starring: Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Fiona Shaw, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan

Directors: Terrence Malick

Country: USA

Year: 2011

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Music

Starring: Judge Reinhold, Scott Thomson, Forest Whitaker, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Amanda Wyss, Vincent Schiavelli

Directors: Amy Heckerling

Country: USA

Year: 1982

Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

 

State of Grace

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Gary Oldman, John C. Reilly, John Turturro, R.D. Call, Ed Harris, Sean Penn, Thomas G. Waites

Directors: Phil Joanou

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1990

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.

 

U Turn

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Brent Briscoe, Richard Rutowski, Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe

Directors: Oliver Stone

Country: USA, France

Year: 1997

When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.

 

Bad Boys (1983)

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Alan Ruck, Ally Sheedy, Sean Penn, Clancy Brown, Jim Moody, Reni Santoni, Esai Morales

Directors: Rick Rosenthal

Country: USA

Year: 1983

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A delinquent held in juvenile detention for the murder of a noted youth gang member awaits a showdown with the dead man's vengeful brother in the deadly prison environment.

 

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

Genres: History, Documentary, Biography

Starring: Sean Penn, Joan Baez, Tom Hayden, Arthur Gorson, Christopher Hitchens, Jac Holzman, Michael Ochs

Directors: Kenneth Bowser

Country: USA

Year: 2010

From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s. In this biographical documentary, veteran director Kenneth Bowser shows how Phil's music and his fascinating life story and eventual decline into depression and suicide were intertwined with the history-making events that defined a generation. Even as his contemporaries moved into folk-rock and pop music, Phil followed his own vision, challenging himself and his listeners. Not one to pull punches, Ochs never achieved the commercial success he desperately desired. But hi...

 

Taps

Genres: Drama

Starring: Tom Cruise, Billy Van Zandt, Evan Handler, George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn

Directors: Harold Becker

Country: USA

Year: 1981

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the young cadets led by their stodgy commander. Under the command of a student cadet major, the cadets seize the campus, refuse entry of the construction crews and ultimately confront the real military.

 

Fair Game

Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Naomi Watts, Michael Kelly, Sean Penn, Ty Burrell, Jessica Hecht, Brooke Smith, Anand Tiwari

Directors: Doug Liman

Country: USA, United Arab Emirates

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

 

Dead Man Walking

Genres: Crime, Drama

Starring: Roberta Maxwell, R. Lee Ermey, Barton Heyman, Sean Penn, Raymond J. Barry, Celia Weston, Susan Sarandon

Directors: Tim Robbins

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1995

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation.

 

All the King's Men

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini

Directors: Steven Zaillian

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 2006

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.

 

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Kathy Bates, Sean Penn, Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron

Directors: Wendy Apple

Country: USA, UK, Japan

Year: 2004

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

 

21 Grams

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn, John Rubinstein, Melissa Leo, Eddie Marsan

Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Country: USA

Year: 2003

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English

 

The Interpreter

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Curtiss Cook, Eric Keenleyside, Sean Penn, Jesper Christensen, Catherine Keener, George Harris

Directors: Sydney Pollack

Country: USA, UK, France

Year: 2005

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words "The Teacher will never leave this room alive," in an instant, Silvia's life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses' past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspi...

 

I Am Sam

Genres: Drama

Starring: Mason Lucero, Ken Jenkins, Richard Schiff, Sean Penn, Dakota Fanning, Doug Hutchison, Rosalind Chao

Directors: Jessie Nelson

Country: USA

Year: 2001

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.

 

She's So Lovely

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Justina Machado, Harry Dean Stanton, Sean Penn, John Travolta, Jamie Bozian, James Gandolfini, Robin Wright Penn

Directors: Nick Cassavetes

Country: USA, France

Year: 1997

Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and is put in a psychiatric institution. Ten years later, Eddie is released and finds that Maureen has divorced him and is remarried with three children, one of whom is his little girl Jeanie. Eddie goes to reclaim his wife.

 

Colors

Genres: Crime, Drama

Starring: Robert Duvall, Glenn Plummer, Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Charles Walker, Grand L. Bush, Sherman Augustus

Directors: Dennis Hopper

Country: USA

Year: 1988

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.

 

Carlito's Way

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: John Leguizamo, Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, James Rebhorn, Sean Penn, John Ortiz, Joseph Siravo

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

From the producer of Scarface and Carlito's Way comes the action thriller Carlito's Way: Rise to Power. Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzman (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers in crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for t...

 

It's All About Love

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Penn, Alun Armstrong, Claire Danes, Mark Strong, Geoffrey Hutchings, Margo Martindale

Directors: Thomas Vinterberg

Country: Germany, USA, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden

Year: 2003

The time is out of joint: it's July, 2021, but snow falls in New York City, people freeze in Uganda, gravity has lost its power in parts of Africa, and hearts give out suddenly. John, an academic on his way to Calgary, stops in New York to meet his wife Elena, a world-renowned skater, at the airport for a quick signing of divorce papers. Instead, she sends bodyguards who take John to her hotel where he catches whiffs of a plot that may place her in mortal danger. Can he trust her brother, Michael? Meanwhile, his own brother, Marciello, circles the globe in a plane observing the onset of global winter. Is there a corner of the world where love...