Filmography

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The list includes the work of Adrien Brody as an actor, producer, director, producer music on soundtrack, narrator, writer, and documentary composer.

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Annie McGuire (TV Series – 1988 )

Episode: Annie and the Brooklyn Bridge

Genre: Comedy

Role: Lenny McGuire

• Newlyweds Anne and Nick McGuire both have a great deal of personal history they are bringing into the marriage. They both have kids from previous marriages, and are trying to balance out… (See more on IMDb)

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Home at Last (TV Movie – 1988)

Genre: Drama

Role: Billy

• What he needed most was to be wanted… (See more on IMDb)

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New York Stories / Historias de Nueva York (1989)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Role: Mel

• A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12 year old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales. (See more info on IMDb)

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The Boy Who Cried Bitch / El chico que gritó puta (1991)

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Role: Eddie

• A psychotic 12 year old makes life hell for his emotionally frail mother. (See more info on IMDb)

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King of the Hill / El rey de la colina (1993)

Genre: Drama, History

Role: Lester

• A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down motel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest. (See more info on IMDb)

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Angels in the Outfield / Angeles (1994)

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Role: Danny Hemmerling

• When a boy prays for a chance to have a family if the California Angels win the pennant, angels are assigned to make that possible. (See more info on IMDb)

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Rebel Highway (TV Series – 1994)

Genre:  Drama

Episode: Jailbreakers

Role: Skinny

• A series of made-for-TV movies inspired by B-movies of the 1950s. (See more info on IMDb)

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Ten Benny / Nothing to Lose / Nada que perder (1995) 

Genre: Drama

Role: Ray Diglovanniaka

• Ray and his good friends grew up in their working class neighbourhood. Ray is a salesman but dreams of something more: he wants his own business, and wants to marry his childhood sweetheart Jo… See more info on IMDb

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Bullet Hearts (TV Movie – 1996)

Genre: Drama

Role: Chuckie Bragg

• TV movie. (See more info on IMDb)

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Solo (1996)

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Role: Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo’s designer

• Mario Van Peebles stars as an android killing weapon designed by the military and utilized to enter into a Latin American war to destroy the rebels – natives fighting simply to maintain their freedom… See more info on IMDb

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Bullet (1996)

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Role: Ruby Stein

• Butch “Bullet” Stein is a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Brooklyn, is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer, Tank, and is soon right … See more info on IMDb

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The Last Time I Committed Suicide / La última vez que me suicidé  (1997)

Genre: Biography, Drama

Role: Ben

• Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence… See more info on IMDb.

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The Undertaker’s Wedding (1997) / La boda del enterrador 

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Role: Mario Bellini

• A hapless undertaker becomes embroiled in a mafia war when he’s forced to protect the brutal brother of a mob kingpin while be becomes romantically involved with the mob brother’s wife. See more info on IMBd.

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Six Ways to Sunday (1997)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Role: Arnie Finklestein

• Eighteen-year-old mothers’ son Harry (he lives with his overprotective mother Kate) shows his cruel side at one occasion and is hired as hitman/enforcer by the Jewish mob. See more info on IMDb.

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Restaurant / Rstaurante (1998)

Genre: Drama

Role: Chris Calloway

Nominated: Best Male Lead – Independent Spirit Awards (2001)

• A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise getting into the artistic community. See more info on IMDb.

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The Thin Red Line / La delgada linea roja (1998)

Genre: Drama, War

Role: Cpl. Fife

• Terrence Malick’s adaptation of James Jones’ autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War. See more info on IMDb.

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Split Screen (TV Series – 1999)

Episode: Waiting for Star Wars

Role: Harry (archive footage)

• Split Screen featured segments from many notable filmmakers, actors, and actresses. Waiting for Star Wars episode release date: 31 May 1999 (USA) (See more on IMDb)

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Summer of Sam / La noche del asesino (1999)

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Producer – music: performer “Hello from the Gutters”

Role: Richie Tringale

• Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. See more info on IMDb.

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Oxygen / 24 horas para morir  (1999)

Genre:  Crime, Drama, Thriller

Role: Harry

• A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini, who has kidnapped a rich woman and has buried … See more on IMDb.

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Liberty Heights (1999)

Genre:  Drama, Music, Romance

Role: Van Kurtzman

• Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and … See more on IMDb.

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Bread and Roses / Pan y Rosas / Lejos de casa (2000)

Genre: Drama

Role: Sam Shapiro

• Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize. See more on IMDb.

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Harrison’s Flowers / Las flores de Harrison (2000)

Genre:  Drama, Romance, War

Role: Kyle Morris

• When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him. See more on IMDb.

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Love the Hard Way / Amar al límite (2001)

Genre:  Drama, Crime, Romance

Role: Jack Grace

Award: VFAA – Best actor

• The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved. See more on IMDb.

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The Affair of the Necklace / El misterio del collar (2001)

Genre:  Drama, History, Romance

Role: Count Nicolas De La Motte

• In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family’s fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace. See more on IMDb.

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Dummy (2002)

Genre:  Comedy, Drama, Romance

Producer – music: Performer “She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain When She Comes” (uncredited)

Role: Steven

• An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life. See more on IMDb.

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The Pianist / El Pianista (2002)

Genre:  Biography, Drama, War

Role: Wladyslaw Szpilman

Awards:

Academy Award for Best Actor
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
César Award for Best Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor

• A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. See more on IMDb.

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The Singing Detective / El detective cantante (2003)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical

Role: First Hood

• From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots. See more on IMDb.

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The Village / La aldea / El bosque (2004)

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Role: Noah Percy

• The population of a small, isolated countryside village believe that their alliance with the mysterious creatures that inhabit the forest around them is coming to an end. See more on IMDb.

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The Jacket / Regresiones de un muerto (2005)

Genre:  Drama, Horror, Mystery

Role: Jack Starks

• A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a Doctor’s experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. See more on IMDb.

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King Kong (2005)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Role:  Jack Driscoll

• In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow. See more on IMDb.

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Hollywoodland (2006)

Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama

Also additional cinematographer

Role: Louis Simo

• A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, TV’s Superman. See more on IMDb.

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The Darjeeling Limited / Viaje a Darjeeling (2007) 

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Role: Peter

•  A year after their father’s funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other. See more on IMDb.

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The Tehuacan Project (2007)

Genre: short

Role: Himself – Narrator (voice)

• Young Lucia and Jesus, both deaf from preventable childhood disease, find their way to Tehuacan, Mexico where their dream for a life of sound might come true at Mexico’s first school for the deaf.

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A Matador’s Mistress / Manolete (2008)

Genre:  Biography, Drama, Romance

Role: Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez “Manolete”

• The film starts in the trip from Sevilla to Linares, where Manolete stops in Córdoba to see his mother. He will be remembering some passages of his life. See more on IMDb.

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Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy (2008)

Documentary, short

Release date: 25 April 2008 (USA)

Producer: Adrien Brody

• A film portrait of photographer Sylvia Plachy (Adrien Brody’s mother)

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The Brothers Bloom / Los hermanos Bloom (2008)

Genre:  Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Role: Bloom

• The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they’ve decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world. See more on IMDb.

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Cadillac Records (2008)

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Role: Leonard Chess

Award: Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble

• Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists. See more on IMDb.

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Giallo (2009)

Genre: Thriller

Also producer

Role: Inspector Enzo Avolfi / Giallo (as Byron Deidra)

• In Italy, a woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it’s worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow. See more on IMDb.

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Splice / Experimento mortal (2009)

Genre:  Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Role: Clive Nicoli

• Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use. See more on IMDb.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox / El fantástico Sr. Zorro (2009)

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Role: Field Mouse (voice)

• An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation. See more on IMDb.

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High School (2010)

Genre: Comedy

Role: Edward “Psycho Ed” Highbaugh

• A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail. See more on IMDb.

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Predators / Depredadores (2010)

Genre:  Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |

Role: Royce

• A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators. See more on IMDb.

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The Experiment / El experimento (2010)

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Role: Travis

• 26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control. See more on IMDb.

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Wrecked (2010)

Genre:  Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Also executive producer

Role: Man

• A man trapped in a car wreck at the bottom of a ravine must overcome incredible odds to survive. See more on IMDb.

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Detachment / El Profesor (2011)

Genre: Drama

Also executive producer

Role: Henry Barthes

• A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment. See more on IMDb.

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Midnight in Paris / Media noche en París (2011)

Genre:  Comedy, Romance

Role:  Salvador Dalí

Nominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Acting
Nominated – San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée’s family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight. See more on IMDb.

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Yi jiu si er / Back to 1942 / Regreso a 1942 (2012)

Genre: Drama

Role: Theodore Harold White

• A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China’s Henan province during the war against Japan. See more on IMDb.

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InAPPropriate Comedy  / Comedia de inapropiados (2013)

Genre: Comedy

Also co-writer; uncredited

Role: Flirty Harry

• In this comedy film, a computer tablet full of the world’s most hilariously offensive apps breaks through the borders of political correctness, stirring up cultural anarchy. See more on IMDb.

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Third Person / En tercera persona (2013)

Genre: Drama, Romance

Role: Scott

• Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York. See more on IMDb.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel / El Gran Hotel Budapest (2014)

Genre:  Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Role: Dmitri

• The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. See more on IMDb.

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Houdini (TV Mini-Series – 2014)

Genre: Biography, Drama

Episodes: Part 1, part 2

Role: Harry Houdini

Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.

• Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. See more on IMDb.

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American Heist (2014)

Genre:  Action, Crime, Drama

Also executive producer

Role: Frankie Kelly

• James owes his life to his older brother, Frankie after taking the rap for a crime they committed together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around, got a steady job and began courting his former girlfriend Emily. Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets with no money and no place to go. See more on IMDb.

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The Dodge Brothers (ad campaign – 2015)

Genre: spot, ad campaing, short

Director: Adrien Brody

• Dodge is expanding its “Dodge Brothers” ad campaign to include four new TV ads directed by Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody.

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Tian jiang xiong shi / Dragon Blade (2015)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Role: Tiberius

• When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends. See more on IMDb.

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Backtrack / Sin regreso (2015)

Genre:  Mystery, Thriller

Role: Peter Bower

• Psychologist Peter Bower’s life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a … See more on IMDb »

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The Library Book (Short Film – 2015)

Genre: Drama

Role: Desmond

• A stranger returns an overdue book to his home library. See more on IMDb.
• Travis Calvert’s short film, the Jameson First Shot 2015 winner for the United States. (See the short film here)

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Boredom (Short Film – 2015)

Genre: Short film, Drama, Comedy

Role: Danny

• A man who decides to leave the boring adult life to be who he is and keep his “inner child” See more on IMDb.
• Stephan Tempier’s short film, the Jameson First Shot 2015 winner for Canada, (See the short film here)

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The Mascot (Short Film – 2015)

Genre: Short film, Drama

Role: Adam / Patrick The Panda

• Adam is Patrick the longtime mascot star who does not take it well after getting the pink slip from his employer after 20 years. In one locker room scene post-firing, Adam even loses it on the guy who takes his place in the Patrick the Panda suit, in a panda fight. See more on IMDb.
• Mark Middlewick’s short film, the Jameson First Shot 2015 winner for South Africa. (See the short film here)

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Septembers of Shiraz (2015)

Genre:  Thriller

Also executive producer

Role: Isaac

• Prior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish. This is the story of a prosperous Jewish family who abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries.
• Septembers of Shiraz is an upcoming American drama film directed by Wayne Blair and written by Hanna Weg. It is based on Dalia Sofer’s 2007 novel The Septembers of Shiraz. See more on IMDb.

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Stone Barn Castle (Documentary – 2015)

Genre: documentary

Director, producer and composer; documentary

Role: Himself

Release Date: USA March 2015 (Southwest Film Festival)

• In 2007, Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody fell in love with a partially burned stone barn, reminiscent of an old European castle, hidden in the woods of upstate New York. Looking to fulfill a life-long dream of having a place in the country, he went out on a limb and purchased the enchanting but dilapidated structure. Adrien took charge of an elaborate restoration of the property spanning seven years, transforming it into a magical place to share with family and friends. Teaming up with filmmaker Kevin Ford, Adrien created a personal cinematic record of the journey. Stone Barn Castle is a portrayal of the pursuit of dreams and the distance one must travel to achieve them. (See more on IMDb)

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Breakthrough ( TV episode/documentary – 2015)

Genre: brain science, longevity, water, energy, pandemics, technology

Episode: Decoding the Brain

Role: Himself / narrator

Directed by: Brett Ratner

Narrated by: Adrien Brody

Release date: November 15, 2015

• Six episodes. “Breakthrough” specifically focuses on discoveries in brain science, longevity, water, energy, pandemics and cyborg technology. (National Geographic)

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Dice (TV Series – 2016)

Genre: Comedy

Season: 1

Episode: “Ego”

Role: Himself

Release date: 17 April 2016

• After a sex quiz reveals that Dice and Carmen only “sizzle” in bed, Dice makes it his mission in life to make his girlfriend “boil.” Meanwhile, an Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody asks Dice if he can research him as part of his ‘method’ while studying for an upcoming Broadway performance. (See more on IMDb)

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Manhattan Nocturne / Manhattan nocturno (2016)

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Also producer

Role: Porter Wren

• Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and … See more on IMDb »

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Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion (Short – 2016)

Genre: Short film, Comedy

Director: Wes Anderson

Role: Ralph

Release date: 27 November 2016

Spot for: H&M Company

• Lone passengers are traveling to join their loved ones for the Christmas holiday, but winter weather conspires to way-lay them. (See full short here)

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Emperor (N/A)

Status: post-production

Genre: Adventure, Thriller

Role: The Emperor Charles V

• Action epic about a young girl who seeks revenge on the holy roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. It happens in a world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliations, sex, manipulation and treason… it’s the 16th century revisited. See more on IMDb.
• Update: Is currently in post-production and the release date is unknown because problems with the production company. The film has been completed and is in post-production since 2015.

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Bullet Head (2017)

Genre: Thriller, Crime

Role: Stacy

• Three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse with the law closing in and an even worse threat waiting inside – a nigh unstoppable killer dog.

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Peaky Blinders (TV Series – 2017)

Genre: Drama, Crime

Season: 4

Episodes: 6

Role: Luca Changretta

• A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
• Luca Changretta is a major character and antagonist in Series 4 of Peaky Blinders, oldest son of Vicente Changretta, a New York mafioso with a vendetta against the Shelbys.

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The Bombing (2018)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Role: Steve

• During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940.

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Clean (2020)

Genre: Crime, Drama

Role: N/A

• Tormented by his past, a garbage man named Clean attempts a quiet life of redemption. But, soon finds himself forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.

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The French Dispatch (2021)

Status: Completed

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Role: Julian Cadazio

• A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch Magazine”.

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Blonde (2021)

Status: Post-Production

Genre: Biography, Drama

Role: Arthur Miller (The Playwright)

• A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.

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El Tonto (N/A)

Status: Post-production

Genre: Comedy

Role: N/A

• A fool for love becomes an accidental celebrity only to lose it all.

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Chapelwaite (TV Series) (N/A)

Status: Filming

Genre: Horror, Drama

Also Know As: Jerusalem’s Lot

Creator: Stephen King

Season: 1

Episodes: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Role:  Charles Boon

• Captain Charles Boone , who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea.

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The Salamander Lives Twice (N/A)

Status: Pre-Production

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Role: N/A

• Adrien Brody and Vera Farmiga will headline director Ant Timpson’s mystery thriller The Salamander Lives Twice.
• Written by Toby Harvard, with a story by Timpson and Harvard, the pic follows an injured man (Brody) with an impenetrable briefcase and no memory who is found on the shoreline of a remote island by Iris and her daughter Goggy (Farmiga), the last remaining members of a once prosperous family dynasty.

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Succession (2021)

(TV- mini series)

Season: 3 / Episodes: 1

Status: filming

Role: Josh Aaronson

• The Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.

• Josh Aaronson, a billionaire activist investor who becomes pivotal in the battle for the ownership of Waystar.

Untitled Murder Mystery (2022)

Status: Pre-Production

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Role: Leo Köpernick

•  A desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard and rookie Constable Stalker find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit.

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Untitled Lakers Project (2022)

(TV Mini-Series)

Status: Pre-Production

Role: Pat Riley

• The story of how the Los Angeles Lakers became the most successful professional basketball team in the 1980s.

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List compiled by AdrienBrody-Fansite from IMDb and wikipedia