Sean Penn Movie Rankings
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3.2895
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. ... more about Milk
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3.2370
Honoring the request of a lonely and desperate man, Sister Helen Prejean writes to Matthew Poncelet, the condemned killer of two teenage lovers, and is wholly unprepared for the relationship which will follow. ... more about Dead Man Walking
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
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3.2363
Craig discovers a secret passage, at his new job, which leads into actor John Malkovich's head. Craig begins renting and charging for rides into Malkovich. Soon he realizes the more time he spends there the more control over Malkovich he has. ... more about Being John Malkovich
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3.1177
Childhood friends Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) and Dave Boyle (Robbins) reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie (Rossum). ... more about Mystic River
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Actor
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
IFTA Awards - Best International Actor
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Vancouver Film Critics Circle - Best Actor
5
3.0808
'Fast Times' is a high school classic spawning a generation of high school comedies and immortalizing Sean Penn as the forever stoned, Spicoli. Each character struggles with sexuality, authority and responsibility, hoping only to make it through high school alive without humiliation. ... more about Fast Times at Ridgemont High
6
3.0427
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack ... more about 21 Grams
Actor Awards
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
7
3.0268
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. ... more about Casualties of War
8
3.0104
An American Army unit is stationed in Japan fighting the Battle of Guadalcanal Island in WWII. The film explores how the men form a close family-like bond and go from fighting for their country to fighting for their lives and the life of the man next to them. ... more about Thin Red Line
9
2.9908
A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. ... more about Carlito's Way
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
10
2.9725
Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. ... more about Game
11
2.9164
Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. ... more about Before Night Falls
12
2.9019
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. ... more about Sweet and Lowdown
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
13
2.8375
Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. ... more about Assassination of Richard Nixon
Actor Awards
Satellite Awards - Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
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15
2.7892
After the American playwright and actor Sam Shepard had played the role of the ghost in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, Shepard invited the filmmaker to document rehearsals for his The Late Henry Moss, that he staged with Nick Nolte and Sean Penn in leading ... more about This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
16
2.7840
Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who's personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios. ... more about Hurlyburly
Actor Awards
Venice Film Festival - Best Actor
17
2.7823
Escalating events begin when U.N. translator 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. ... more about Interpreter
18
2.7568
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. ... more about U Turn
19
2.6702
A boy and his friends seek to join a mid-atlantic gang led by the boy's estranged father, unaware that his father's ruthlessness takes no account of family ties. ... more about At Close Range
20
2.5338
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. ... more about Colors
21
2.5176
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. ... more about Bad Boys
22
2.4942
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. ... more about Pauly Shore Is Dead
23
2.4936
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. ... more about She's So Lovely
24
2.4883
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. ... more about I Am Sam
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
25
2.4826
Over a handful of days in 1938, a penniless English widow, on vacation near Florence, considers the marriage proposal of an aging British aristocrat who is the newly-appointed governor of Bengal, accepts a pistol that he presses on her for safety, takes ... more about Up At The Villa
26
2.4626
Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner (Alyssa Milano stars as Hugo Dugay) who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease. ... more about Hugo Pool
27
2.4444
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 (George C. Scott). ... more about Taps
28
2.4181
Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. ... more about Racing with the Moon
29
2.3219
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. ... more about Weight of Water
30
2.3103
Two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. ... more about What Just Happened
31
2.2748
A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly. ... more about We're No Angels
32
2.1905
It's All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. ... more about It's All About Love
33
2.1314
The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his ... more about Falcon and the Snowman
34
2.0969
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. ... more about State of Grace
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36
2.0062
An idealistic southern politician who appeals to the common man whilst effectively playing dirty politics slowly becomes corrupted by the system. ... more about All the King's Men
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38
1.8470
The US offers hope but that often comes at a price. Many can earn citizenship legally through a lengthy bureaucratic process, but others find themselves out of luck in a country where virtually anything can be bought. Sex, violence and betrayal become their currency. ... more about Crossing Over
Not Available on DVD
39
1.8361
Based on the novel by Anita Shreve, this is the story of a contemporary woman whose obsession with a notorious unsolved crime from the 1800s leads her to confront devastating truths in her own life. ... more about Weight of Water
Not Available on DVD
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1.4273
Garvey (Jack Warden) is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. ... more about Crackers
Not Available on DVD
43
1.4155
It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. ... more about Beaver Trilogy
Not Available on DVD
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45
0.8337
Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock (Madonna) is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. ... more about Shanghai Surprise
Actor Awards
Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
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0.0001
Surfer and one time drug smuggler, Allan Weisbecker's search for lifelong buddy Christopher, rumored to be living somewhere in Central America, so they can share their dream of the "Endless Summer" takes him through sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing ... more about In Search of Captain Zero
Not Available on DVD
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