Brian W. Cook is a Actor, Director, Associate Producer and First Assistant Director born on 1 january 1943 at Hertfordshire (United-kingdom)
Brian W. Cook
Brian W. Cook participated to
41 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
11 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Director
, 2h39
Directed by Stanley Kubrick,
Brian W. CookOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
Erotic thrillerThemes Christmas films,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman,
Sydney Pollack,
Todd Field,
Jackie Sawiris,
Madison EgintonRating74%
Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), are a young couple living in New York. They go to a Christmas party thrown by a wealthy patient, Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack). Bill meets an old friend from medical school, Nick Nightingale (Todd Field), who now plays piano professionally. While a Hungarian man named Sandor Szavost (Sky du Mont) tries to pick up Alice, two young models try to take Bill off for a tryst. He is interrupted by a call from his host upstairs, who had been having sex with Mandy (Julienne Davis), a young woman who has overdosed on a speedball. Mandy recovers with Bill's aid., 2h10
Directed by John McTiernan,
Brian W. Cook,
Vic ArmstrongOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films about filmsActors Arnold Schwarzenegger,
F. Murray Abraham,
Charles Dance,
Tom Noonan,
Austin O'Brien,
Art CarneyRating64%
Danny Madigan is a teenage boy living in a crime-ridden area of New York City with his widowed mother Irene. To escape from his harsh reality, Danny often skips school to watch movies at the run-down Pandora movie theater, owned and managed by Danny's friend Nick. Nick receives the film reels for Jack Slater IV, the latest in one of Danny's favorite film series about the titular Los Angeles police detective and violent action hero, and offers to show it to Danny at a private screening just before the world premiere. To mark the occasion, Nick tears up a special ticket he received from Harry Houdini years ago, giving one half of the stub to Danny as a keepsake., 1h34
Directed by Peter MacDonald,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
Crime,
RomanceActors Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Rosanna Arquette,
Kieran Culkin,
Ted Levine,
Joss Ackland,
Edward BlatchfordRating57%
Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a Québécois convict in the United States who escapes from Federal custody with the aid of his bank-robbing partner. In their last heist, Sam's partner killed a bank guard, a crime for which Sam was ultimately convicted. Sam's partner is killed in the break, forcing Sam to continue on alone. He sets up camp on a piece of farmland owned by Clydie Anderson (Rosanna Arquette), the widowed mother of two kids, Mike (nicknamed "Mookie") (Kieran Culkin) and Bree (Tiffany Taubman)., 1h59
Directed by Stanley Kubrick,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Fantastic,
HorrorThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about writers,
Films about children,
Films about families,
Feminist films,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about drugs,
Films about domestic violence,
Ghost films,
Films about psychiatry,
Comedy horror filmsActors Jack Nicholson,
Shelley Duvall,
Danny Lloyd,
Scatman Crothers,
Barry Nelson,
Philip StoneRating82%
Jack Torrance arrives at the mountain isolated Overlook Hotel, 25 miles from the closest town, Sidewinder, Colorado, interviewing for the position of winter caretaker, planning to use the hotel's solitude to write. The hotel, built on the site of a Native American burial ground, becomes snowed-in during the winter; it is closed from October to May. Manager Stuart Ullman warns Jack that a previous caretaker, Charles Grady, developed cabin fever and killed his family and himself. In Boulder, Jack's son, Danny Torrance, while brushing his teeth, has a terrifying premonition about the hotel, viewing a cascade of blood emerging from an elevator door, before falling in trance. Jack's wife, Wendy, tells a doctor that Danny has an imaginary friend named Tony, and that Jack has given up drinking because he dislocated Danny's shoulder following a binge., 1h32
Directed by Mel Brooks,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
MusicalThemes Films set in Africa,
La préhistoire,
Films about religion,
Musical films,
Portrayals of Jesus in film,
Children's films,
Histoire de France,
French Revolution filmsActors Dom DeLuise,
Madeline Kahn,
Cloris Leachman,
Mel Brooks,
Harvey Korman,
Gregory HinesRating67%
The film is a parody of the historical spectacular film genre anthology, including the sword and sandal epic and the period costume drama subgenres. The four main segments consist of stories set during the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, and the French Revolution. Other intermediate skits include reenactments of the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Last Supper., 1h48
Directed by Mike Hodges,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Space adventure films,
Monde imaginaire,
Dans l'espace,
Sur une planète fictive,
Superhero films,
Space opera,
Films about extraterrestrial lifeActors Sam J. Jones,
Melody Anderson,
Chaim Topol,
Timothy Dalton,
Max von Sydow,
Ornella MutiRating64%
Emperor Ming the Merciless declares that he will first play with and then destroy the Earth using natural disasters. On Earth, New York Jets football star "Flash" Gordon boards a small plane, where he meets travel journalist Dale Arden. Mid-flight, the cockpit is hit by a meteorite and the pilots are lost. Flash takes control and manages to crash land into a greenhouse owned by Dr. Hans Zarkov. Zarkov, who believes the disasters are being caused because an unknown source is pushing the Moon towards Earth, has secretly constructed a spacecraft which he plans to use to investigate. Zarkov's assistant refuses to go, so he lures Flash and Dale aboard. The rocket launches, taking them to the planet Mongo, where they are captured by Ming's troops., 2h14
Directed by Michael Cimino,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Gangster filmsActors Mickey Rourke,
John Lone,
Ariane Koizumi,
Raymond J. Barry,
Victor Wong,
Caroline KavaRating68%
Stanley White (Rourke) is a decorated police captain and Vietnam War veteran assigned to New York City's Chinatown, where he makes it his personal mission to come down hard on Chinese organized crime., 1h32
Directed by Michael Anderson,
Brian W. CookOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Cétacé,
Natural horror films,
Mise en scène d'un cétacé,
Disaster films,
American disaster filmsActors Richard Harris,
Charlotte Rampling,
Will Sampson,
Bo Derek,
Keenan Wynn,
Robert CarradineRating57%
The movie revolves around the exploits of Captain Nolan (Harris), an Irish Canadian who catches marine animals to pay off the mortgage of his boat, and return to Ireland. Nolan's crew is looking for a great white shark for a local aquarium, but a scientist named Ken (Carradine) is being targeted by the shark. An orca comes and kills the shark, saving Ken. This switches Nolan's target to the orca. While Nolan is on the journey with his crew, he tries to capture what he believes to be a bull orca, but mistakenly harpoons a pregnant female. Nolan and his crew get the orca on board, where she subsequently miscarries. The crew hoses the dead fetus overboard as the male looks on screaming., 2h26
Directed by Michael Cimino,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Children's films,
Gangster filmsActors Christophe Lambert,
John Turturro,
Joss Ackland,
Barbara Sukowa,
Terence Stamp,
Giulia BoschiRating53%
En 1943 en Sicile, Salvatore Giuliano abat un carabinier qui l'avait appréhendé au cours d'un contrôle alors qu'il livrait clandestinement du blé. Giuliano est un hors-la-loi qui vole les riches pour donner aux pauvres avec l'espoir de voir les paysans racheter leurs terres et que la Sicile devienne un état libre., 3h40
Directed by Michael Cimino,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Historical,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about immigration,
Politique,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
La précarité,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Political films,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Kris Kristofferson,
Christopher Walken,
Isabelle Huppert,
Jeff Bridges,
John Hurt,
Sam WaterstonRating67%
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, brilliant but obviously intoxicated, follows this with his opposing, irreverent views. A celebration is then held after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averill's girlfriend., 2h57
Directed by Stanley Kubrick,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy-drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about sexuality,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Political filmsActors Ryan O'Neal,
Marisa Berenson,
Leon Vitali,
Patrick Magee,
Hardy Krüger,
Wolf KählerRating80%
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