Brian Cox

Date of Birth: Jun 1, 1946
Country: UK
Biography: Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He has also appeared in many Hollywood productions playing parts such as Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore and William Stryker in X2: X-Men United. He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in the 1986 production Manhunter...(Wikipedia)
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Titles You Haven't Rated (117)
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Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
Three years after witnessing the murder of his fiancée, a man finds himself a fearful drifter, until one day at a Parisian cinema he sees an actress who looks a lot like his dead love, and eventually he finds the truth about his fiancée.
After discovering his old flame now has Alzheimer's, a hopelessly in love widower fakes his way into her senior living community in an effort to reunite with her. (imdb)
A fateful exchange on a flight has consequences for Daniel Murphy. He's left in charge of a corpse of someone he never knew. He is persuaded to take on the challenge of getting a coffin from his family home in Clonakilty to Rathlin Island. (imdb)
Good Omens (2019) - TV Mini-Series
A tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an eleven-year-old Antichrist, and a doom-saying witch.
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child. (imdb)
Relative newcomers Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis are directing from a script by Michael McGowan, Sarah Bellwood and Michal Lali Kagan. The story follows tough old Scotsman Rory MacNeil as he travels from his home in the remote island of Vallasay, Scotland to San Francisco. Seeking treatment for a terminal illness the colorful character stays with his son and his family. (imdb)
A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress. (imdb)
When a border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers are tasked with establishing a Highway Patrol station in the disputed area. (imdb)
Succession (2018) - TV Series
Succession that follows a dysfunctional American global-media family.
A man nicknamed "the Jesuit," is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder. (imdb)
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
War & Peace (2016) - TV Mini-Series
A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky. (imdb)
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled. (imdb)
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to identify the beautiful young "Jane Doe", they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets. (imdb)
Morgan is about a corporate risk-management consultant who has to decide and determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment. (imdb)
When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. (imdb)
The Slap (2015) - TV Series
A once happy family suddenly begins to fall apart following a seemingly minor incident in which a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. (imdb)
Kiefer and Donald Sutherland share the screen in this brooding western about an embittered gunslinger who attempts to make amends with his estranged father whilst their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers. (imdb)
A insight into the origins and stories of Pacific Island rugby teams such as Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. This documentary explores the backgrounds of a wide variety of players, past and present. (imdb)
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma. (imdb)
A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has a few moments to figure out how he got there. (imdb)
Bob Servant (2014) - TV Mini-Series
Sequel to Bob Servant Independant - no longer running to be an MP but the burger wars continue
The Game (2014) - TV Mini-Series
6 episode mini-series by BBC. A Cold War spy thriller that tells the story of invisible wars fought by MI5. (imdb)
Bob Servant Independent (2013) - TV Mini-Series
Bob Servant is a local "worthie" in the town of Broughty Ferry, infamous for his participation in the area's "Burger Wars", who decides to run in the upcoming by-election as an Independent Candidate. His lack of thought prior to speaking leads him into some funny situations and lots of trouble.
An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) - TV Movie
A dramatic re-telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963. (imdb)
Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. (imdb)
A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates. (believe-movie.com)
A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing at his own joke. (imdb)
Two rival North Carolina politicians with presidential aspirations tangle with one another. (imdb)
Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed. (imdb)
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
In 13th century a determined group of Knights Templar defends Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John. (imdb)
A soldier returning from the war in Afghanistan uncovers a conspiracy involving the intelligence services and a gang of drug dealers. (imdb)
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
Exciting and disturbing life-story of the notorious bank robber from the 1940's and 1950's, set in post-war Toronto, with Scott Speedman in the title role. (tiff.net)
In the aftermath of the Civil War an unexplained outbreak of the walking dead claims the life of Edward Young's wife while his son disappears. This sets him off on a harrowing journey into the plagued countryside. Facing off challenges not just from the ferocious undead but also from the living, will Edward find an exit to the grotesque caricature of what humanity has become? The War might be over but the fight has just begun. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Mystery has surrounded these epic structures for centuries with theories varying from the scientific to the bizarre. However with over thirty seven years of in depth research taking in sites from China, Peru, Mexico and Egypt one scientist has as at last managed first to understand and then to prove what lies behind this greatest of archaeological mysteries : a message of paramount importance for all mankind, through time and space. (amazon.co.uk)
The Sinking of the Laconia (2010) - TV Mini-Series
Two-part mini-series based on a true story. After a German U-Boat sinks a merchant vessel, it resurfaces against orders to rescue the civilian passengers.
A bartender takes a young homeless man in under his wing.
Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible.
After trading in his professional past as a black-ops CIA agent for a new identity, Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is basking in normalcy. But he's forced to return to old habits when a shadowy assassin puts a target on his back and goes after the woman (Mary-Louise Parker) he loves. Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich co-star as former members of Moses's team who reluctantly reassemble to save his life.
The Day of the Triffids (2009) - TV Mini-Series
A big-budget retelling of John Wyndham's classic science fiction tale. When most of the population of the planet is struck blind by a solar flare, they struggle to survive -- a struggle made all the more difficult by the increasing dominance of the Triffids, a carnivorous and ambulatory plant species that was previously harvested for oil.
A man's newly transplanted heart leads him on a dangerous journey to find out who murdered its donor. (imdb)
Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family.
Scooby-Doo! And the Samurai Sword (2009) - Direct-to-Video
The Mystery Inc. crew travels the globe on a transcontinental treasure hunt to solve a series of ancient riddles. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are indoctrinated by an unlikely Sword Master.
They Do It with Mirrors (2009) - TV Episode
A reformatory for delinquent boys run by Miss Marple's philanthropic friend becomes the scene of arson and poisoning, and ultimately murder. (imdb)
The Take (2009) - TV Mini-Series
Author Martina Cole's sweeping crime saga is adapted for the screen in this miniseries starring Tom Hardy and Brian Cox. The year is 1984. Freddie Jackson (Hardy) has just served four years of hard time; now he's ready to set the London underworld ablaze. In the following years, Freddie launches a criminal rampage that can best be described as psychotic, and that quickly draws the attention of feared criminal kingpin Ozzy (Cox). (allrovi.com)
A reclusive man sets out for justice and redemption when three troublesome teens kill his dog for no good reason.
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Much of the action takes place within the tunnels, sewers and underground rivers of subterranean London. (imdb)
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband. (imdb)
The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007) - TV Movie
In this innovative version of the world famous Christmas story, 12-year-old Clara takes a magical journey on Christmas Eve to find her father in a World War II Prisoner of War camp. (imdb)
As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer. The case will become an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was.
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
A suspense drama dealing with the current terrorism attacks in UK through a London Metropolitan Police Officer of Muslim heritage who must display courage and persevere in his duties in face of family conflict.
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend. (imdb)
Based on a true story, this film illustrates the story of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree's (Miller) triumph over adversity. (MGM)
Running With Scissors is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoir by Augusten Burroughs. The film chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances. (Sony)
Blue/Orange (2005) - TV Movie
Chris has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder following a psychotic episode. After 28 days in the care of young registrar Dr. Bruce Flaherty he is due to be released, but Bruce fears that his patient... [displays] warning signs of schizophrenia. If Chris is released into the community he could well suffer a terrible breakdown. The scene is set for a struggle with senior consultant Dr. Robert Smith who sees Chris as ready to leave. (IMDb)
This fearless comedy from producers The Farrelly Brothers asks the question: can a comedy be outlandishly off-the-wall, irreverently indelicate and yet...inspirational? The Ringer spikes the uproarious with the uplifting in a story about an ordinary man who discovers what it truly means to be special when he attempts to "fix" the Special Olympics. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
An astronomer enters into a destructive affair with a photographer. (imdb)
Wes Craven presents a suspense thriller at 30,000 feet. Lisa Reisert (McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with fear of flying. Moments after takeoff, Lisa's seatmate Jackson (Murphy), menacingly reveals that he is an operative in a plot to kill the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security -- and Lisa is the key to his success. (DreamWorks Pictures)
Match Point is a drama about ambition and obsession, the seduction of wealth, and the often discordant relationship between love and sexual passion. Perhaps most importantly, however, the story reveals the huge part luck plays in the events of our lives, refuting the comforting misconception that more of life is under our control than really is. (Dream Works Pictures)
Throughout time, men have waged war. Some for power, some for glory, some for honor -- and some for love. (Warner Bros.)
When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
This murder mystery, set in the Middle Ages, is steeped in moral dilemmas about the power of art, the temptations of evil and the search for justice that continue to haunt us in modern times. (Paramount Classics)
Mutants continue to struggle against a society that fears and distrusts them. Their cause becomes even more desperate following an incredible attack by an as yet undetermined assailant possessing extraordinary abilities. With the fates of mankind - and mutantkind - in their hands, the X-Men Face their most dangerous mission ever. (20th Century Fox)
The lives of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, author Susan Orlean and orchid poacher John Laroche become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others' in this adaptation of the best-selling "The Orchid Thief."
A look into the life of Aleister Crowley, a man who promoted a life of freedom which often ended in sexual debauchery and perversion as well as drug abuse and occult rituals. (doctor7)
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon (2002) - TV Movie
A docu-drama that reports on a (fictitious) attack made by terrorist using the disease of small pox to attack the world. Starting in New York the attack is ruthlessly carried out by one man travelling around the city infecting people as he goes. Using hindsight and video diaries the film looks back on the global impact of a silent attack that affected the world. (imdb)
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia.
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son's and her own life. (imdb)
When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot of pitches to be thrown before he makes it off the mound, big-league dreams are revived, and there's no telling where he could go. (imdb)
Thorny, Rabbit, Mac, and Foster are Vermont State Troopers stationed in the boonies on the Canadian border. When they find out that the state has targeted their low-volume station for a potential budget cut, the guys attempt to straighten up their act but find it's not so easy to change their brazen ways. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Is Henry Kissinger -- Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation -- also a war criminal? Provoked by the Christopher Hitchens's book, filmmakers Jarecki and Gibney have constructed a movie which is both brilliant legal brief and chilling psychodrama. (Film Forum)
The 25th Hour depicts the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Prowling through the city until dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, he is forced to re-examine his life and how he got himself into his predicament, which leads to a shocking, disturbing finale. (imdb)
An eclectic group of individuals in Silverlake are propelled by a series of cause-and-effect chain reactions to a common destiny. (imdb)
L.I.E. is about a boy who, in losing just about everything and everyone he has in the space of a single week, finds himself.
The Legend of Loch Lomond (2001) - Short Film
Set on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond in breathtaking Scotland, Legend of Loch Lomond is the dramatic ghostly love story of a brave eighteenth century Highlander and his lovely sweetheart, cruelly separated by war but reunited in the modern day by a beautiful young singer who inadvertently becomes entangled in their tale.
Small-time crooner find himself on the receiving end of the threatening attentions of a gangster, whose wife has fallen for the singer's Sinatra-like aura.
A romantic comedy that celebrates following your heart - while staying fast on your feet. (USA Films)
Gordon McLeod (Duvall) is the manager of a second tier Scottish football team. Faced with pressure from his American owner (Keaton), he is forced to bring on a marquee player to improve the fortunes of the team and prevents its being moved from the fiercely loyal town it's been for a century. (Revere Pictures)
A moving slice-of-life film that focuses on a family living in a small coastal town in Ireland. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Cameron Colley is a young scottish journalist, with an interest in exposing the wrongs committed by the rich and powerful. Life is comfortable enough but uneventful, until someone starts murdering the people in his articles in gruesome ways based on their misdeeds. All the evidence points to Cameron, but is he guilty? (imdb)
Nuremberg (2000) - TV Mini-Series
Following the defeat of Germany in WWII, the Allies determine that there must be an accounting of German war crimes. Twenty-four Nazis, representative of all sections of military and civilian life are chosen to stand trial for the crimes of conspiracy to commit aggression, commission of aggression, crimes during war and crimes against humanity... (imdb)
Longitude (2000) - TV Movie
An 18th century clock maker named Jon Harrison begins what is to become a forty-year task to invent a system for determining longitude at sea with a nautical timepiece. Meanwhile, 200 years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould discovers Harrison's neglected chronometers and sets out to restore them. A high seas saga of passion, determination, and discovery. (cduniverse.com)
A provocative look into the professional and personal passions of a major league baseball player, who in the twilight of a successful career is forced to reconcile a lifetime of decisions that have been clouded by the trappings of fame. (Universal Pictures)
With the aid from a NYC policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things complicate when the Triads try to bribe the policeman. (imdb)
Vann Siegert (Wilson) is a kind, unnoticeable drifter who rolls into a quaint coastal town looking to start over. (Shooting Gallery)
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son... (imdb)
Poodle Springs (1998) - TV Movie
An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail & murder among elite social set in 1963. (imdb)
A Russian immigrant finds himself in bed with the mob after buying a sexual novelties shop.
The king of Rushmore prep school is put on academic probation. (imdb)
Eight kidnapped women. All beautiful. All talented. All in danger of having their lives cut cruelly short if police detective Alex Cross (Freeman) and key witness Kate McTiernan (Judd) can't locate the elusive "collector" who calls himself Casanova.
Star-crossed lovers (Lewis, Watson) are torn between unquestioning loyalty to the ties of tradition and the passion they share in this film set in 1990s Belfast, torn apart by years of religious conflict and IRA violence.
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Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason. (imdb)
A women suffering from amnesia begins to recover her memories after trouble from her past finds her again. (imdb)
Two cops, played by Seagal and Wayans, are forced to work together to solve a chain of mysterious killings by a killer nicknamed "The Family Man" (imdb)
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1600s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future... (imdb)
This re-telling of Hamlet goes back to the original Danish source material. The opening scenario remains the same: Hamlet's father murdered by his brother who then weds the widowed mother. (imdb)
When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. (imdb)
This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media. (imdb)
Sharpe's Eagle (1993) - TV Movie
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle. (imdb)
Sharpe's Rifles (1993) - TV Movie
Portugal 1809, the Peninsular War in the age of Napoleon. A British sergeant in the 95th Rifles saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, and finds himself promoted to Lieutenant and in charge of a company of Rifles that do no respect him, to carry out a dangerous and vital mission. (imdb)
The Cloning of Joanna May (1992) - TV Movie
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her. (imdb)
The Lost Language of Cranes (1991) - TV Episode
When a young gay man comes out of the closet his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship. (imdb)
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth (imdb)
Secret Weapon (1990) - TV Movie
The story of nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli pacifist and government employee, who committed an act of treason in 1986 by informing the British press that his country is working on a nuclear bomb.
Murder by Moonlight (1989) - TV Movie
A NASA security agent is sent to a moonbase in the year 2105 to investigate a series of murders. (James O'Neill)
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988) - TV Mini-Series
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. (imdb)
Documentary on the making of "The Sacrifice."
FBI Agent Will Graham (Petersen) has captured the diabolical Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Cox), nearly losing more than just his mind in the process. But when Graham is called out of retirement to hunt the psychopath known as "The Tooth Fairy" (Noonan) he must once again confront the horrors of "Hannibal The Cannibal". If Will Graham enters the mind of the serial killer, can he ever come back? (Anchor Bay Entertainment)
King Lear (1983) - TV Movie
A made for TV version of the classic Shakespeare play about an elder king who must choose which of her daughters will inherit the throne, with disastrous consequences.
Hammer House of Horror (1980) - TV Series
This British anthology series, which was produced by England's leading exporters of horror films, told tales of haunted houses, demons, ghosts and other supernatural wonders. (imdb)
Play-like movie (set in one room) concerning the memories of three brothers. At first they're all a happy bunch but as the day moves on bitter memories surface. What's interesting is how chatty the father (Owen) is but the mother is reserved. I'm sure if it were three daughters instead of sons then the mother would be the boisterous one. What's also interesting is how different the brothers are - Bates talks too much, Cox is uncomfortably silent, and Bolam appears gay. (imdb)
The tragic story of Nicholas II, the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution... (imdb)