Actor: Sean Penn, starred in:
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| 1. 21 Grams (year: 2003) |
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Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu makes his first English-language feature with the downbeat drama 21 Grams. Set in an unnamed U.S. urban ...
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| 2. At Close Range (year: 1986) |
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Amazingly, At Close Range was based on a true story. Bored teenager Sean Penn meets his prodigal father (Christopher Walken) for the first time in yea ...
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| 3. Carlito's Way (year: 1993) |
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Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung ...
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| 4. Colors (year: 1988) |
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Colors stars Robert Duvall and Sean Penn as partners on the LAPD's gang crime division. Duvall had hoped to spend more time with his family, but he's ...
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| 5. Dead Man Walking (year: 1995) |
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Tim Robbins' second directorial effort (after the political satire Bob Roberts) was this drama based on a true story, which explores the issue of capi ...
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| 6. Dogtown and Z-Boys (year: 2001) |
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In the mid-'70s, skateboarding was widely seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in California. ...
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| 7. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (year: 1982) |
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Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the t ...
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| 8. Hugo Pool (year: 1997) |
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Cult figure Robert Downey, Sr. directed this offbeat comedy set in the eccentric environs of Los Angeles. Hugo Dugay (Alyssa Milano) is a young woman ...
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| 9. I Am Sam (year: 2001) |
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Sean Penn stars in this drama as Sam Dawson, a developmentally disabled adult who has been working at a coffee shop and raising his daughter Lucy (Dak ...
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| 10. Mystic River (year: 2003) |
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Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set ...
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| 11. Persepolis (year: 2007) |
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Filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi collaborated to co-write and co-direct this adaptation of Satrapi's bestselling autobiographical grap ...
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| 12. Taps (year: 1981) |
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Devery Freeman's novel Father Sky was the inspiration for the far-fetched but convincingly acted and directed Taps. When an exclusive military school ...
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| 13. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (year: 2004) |
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The true story of a man who, on February 22, 1974, was thwarted from an ambitious plan for political assassination provides the basis for this strikin ...
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| 14. The Interpreter (year: 2005) |
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An overheard conversation leads a woman into a dark world of deadly intrigue in this political thriller. Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an African é ...
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| 15. The Thin Red Line (year: 1998) |
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The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's ...
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| 16. The Weight of Water (year: 2000) |
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A woman studying a crime of the past finds her own life becoming a morass of suspicion and deceit in this drama based on the novel by Anita Shreve. Je ...
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