Bruce Beresford Filmography

The Contract is a movie starring John Cusack, Morgan Freeman, and Jamie Anderson. A father and his son attempt to bring in an assassin to the authorities, but his dangerous associates have other plans....

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers....

Tender Mercies is a movie starring Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, and Betty Buckley. A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together....

Ten short films by ten different directors with nearly no speech but set to arias by different composers....

Phil has writer's block after 30 detective novels. In court for inspiration, he sees a cute Romanian murder suspect. He provides her alibi. She stays with him. Will he live to write another novel?...

Driving Miss Daisy is a movie starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, and Dan Aykroyd. An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years....

In a West African nation, the womanizing British 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner deals with different issues....

An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. A controversial therapist seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case....

Paradise Road is a movie starring Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, and Pauline Collins. A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery....

Double Jeopardy is a movie starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, and Bruce Greenwood. A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if......

Desmond's wife leaves him and their 3 kids after Christmas 1953. Unemployed in Dublin, the authorities place the kids in orphanages. Employed again, Desmond tries to get his kids back....

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself is a TV movie starring Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, and Alan Arkin. Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life....

An uptight New York City lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation....

"Mr. Church" tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook - Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen...

Mao's Last Dancer is a movie starring Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, and Kyle MacLachlan. In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a......

Ladies in Black is a movie starring Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, and Rachael Taylor. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted Comedy Drama about the lives of a group......