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Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford

Australian film director
August 16, 1940 (83 years old)
Aust. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Bruce Beresford with Angourie Rice, Julia Ormond, Rachael Taylor. In 1959 in Australia, a teenage girl with dreams of higher education works in a Sydney department store, where she bonds with a Slovenian refugee and her European friends.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 2015. Drama by Bruce Beresford with Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Natascha McElhone. In 1971, an African-American cook enters the service of a widow with breast cancer and develops a deep friendship with her tem-year-old daughter.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 2013. Biography by Bruce Beresford with Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Holly Hunter. The adventurous criminal life of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, a famous bank robbing couple during the Depression in the United States.
Runtime: 240 min.

Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding

V.O.: Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
Aust. 2009. Biography by Bruce Beresford with Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan. The life of Li Cunxin, a Chinese dancer from the countryside, who defected in 1981 during one of the first student exchanges with the United States.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 2003. History by Bruce Beresford with Antonio Banderas, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent. In the 1910s, Hollywood makes a deal with the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to make a film about his life.
Runtime: 111 min.
Irl. 2002. Court drama by Bruce Beresford with Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Vavasseur, Aidan Quinn. In 1953, in Dublin, an penniless worker abandoned by his wife goes all the way to the Supreme Court to regain custody of his three children placed in an orphanage.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 2001. Biography by Bruce Beresford with Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Pérez. The life of Alma Mahler who successively dated the musician Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, the painter Oskar Kokoschka and the writer Franz Werfel.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1999. Crime drama by Bruce Beresford with Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood. Unjustly accused of the murder of her husband who framed her, a woman seeks revenge.
Runtime: 105 min.
Aust. 1997. War drama by Bruce Beresford with Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett. In a Japanese camp during World War II, female prisoners of various nationalities form a vocal ensemble.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 1995. Court drama by Bruce Beresford with Rob Morrow, Sharon Stone, Randy Quaid.
U.S. 1994. Psychological drama by Bruce Beresford with Richard Dreyfuss, Ben Faulkner, Linda Hamilton.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1993. Mores comedy by Bruce Beresford with Colin Friels, Sean Connery, John Lithgow. Trapped by a corrupt politician, a British diplomat must carry out a delicate mission with an influential doctor in an African country.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1992. Chronicle by Bruce Beresford with Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe. When her mother unexpectedly leaves the family home, a teenager struggles to take care of the household.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 1991. History by Bruce Beresford with Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Aden Young. In 17th century New France, a missionary undertakes a perilous journey to reach a Huron settlement.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1990. Social drama by Bruce Beresford with Maynard Eziashi, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward. The tribulations of a young Nigerian accountant working for an English judge in charge of building a road in the brush.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1989. Police comedy by Bruce Beresford with Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels. A novelist short of ideas is seduced by a young Romanian woman accused of murder and offers to be her alibi.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1989. Psychological drama by Bruce Beresford with Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd. In Atlanta, a wealthy septuagenarian widow with an irascible temper befriends her illiterate Black chauffeur.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 1987. Music performance by Nicolas Roeg, Charles Sturridge, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Bruce Beresford, Robert Altman, Franc Roddam, Ken Russell, Derek Jarman, Bill Bryden with John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Marion Peterson. Opera arias linked together by the stroll of a disillusioned singer.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1986. Dramatic comedy by Bruce Beresford with Sissy Spacek, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange. After following different paths, three sisters find themselves in curious circumstances.
Runtime: 105 min.
Aust. 1986. Social drama by Bruce Beresford with Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza. The tribulations of an Australian Indigenous family whose daughter dreams of entering white society.
Runtime: 98 min.
G.-B. 1985. Biblical drama by Bruce Beresford with Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Jack Klaff. The adventures of the young shepherd David who killed the giant Goliath and became king of Israel after many battles.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 1982. Mores drama by Bruce Beresford with Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley. A former country music singer becomes attached to a widow and her young son.
Runtime: 92 min.
Aust. 1981. Mores comedy by Bruce Beresford with Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja, Geoff Rhoe.
Runtime: 87 min.
Aust. 1980. Sports drama by Bruce Beresford with Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson.
Aust. 1980. War drama by Bruce Beresford with Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters.
Runtime: 106 min.
Aust. 1977. Psychological drama by Bruce Beresford with Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, John Waters. The trials and tribulations of a young country girl who comes to the city to study at a posh boarding school.
Runtime: 100 min.
Aust. 1976. Dramatic comedy by Bruce Beresford with John Hargreaves, Jeanie Drynan, Ray Barrett. In a Sydney suburb, various unpleasant incidents occur at a gathering of friends on a national election night.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 114 min.

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