Cast: Sean Penn
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Sean Penn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Fast Times
1982 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Amy Heckerling
Cast Sean Penn · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Judge Reinhold · Phoebe Cates
Plot Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a...
5.5
3K votes
5.5
3K votes
Judgment in Berlin
1988 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Leo Penn
Cast Martin Sheen · Heinz Hoenig · Jutta Speidel · Sam Wanamaker
Plot American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
5.4
89 votes
5.4
89 votes
Up at the Villa
2000 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Philip Haas
Cast Kristin Scott Thomas · Sean Penn · James Fox · Jeremy Davies
5.3
625 votes
5.3
625 votes
Crackers
1984 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Donald Sutherland · Jack Warden · Sean Penn · Wallace Shawn
Plot Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner...
5.2
53 votes
5.2
53 votes
Loved
1997 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Erin Dignam
Cast Robin Wright · William Hurt · Sean Penn · Amy Madigan
Plot K.D. Deitrickson (William Hurt) is a district attorney who sets out to prove that a man accused of abusing three women is guilty. The evidence against the defendant is overwhelming...
5.0
117 votes
5.0
117 votes
It's All About Love
2003 · Movie · 103 min. · Denmark
Direction Thomas Vinterberg
Cast Joaquin Phoenix · Claire Danes · Sean Penn · Douglas Henshall
Plot Year 2021. The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star,...
4.9
1K votes
4.9
1K votes
The Weight of Water
2000 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Kathryn Bigelow
Cast Sean Penn · Elizabeth Hurley · Catherine McCormack · Sarah Polley
Plot Newspaper photographer Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) travels to a New Hampshire island with her husband Thomas (Sean Penn), brother-in-law Rich (Josh Lucas), and his girlfriend Adaline Gunne (Elizabeth Hurley) to...
4.8
3K votes
4.8
3K votes
What Just Happened?
2008 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Barry Levinson
Cast Robert De Niro · Bruce Willis · Sean Penn · Robin Wright
Plot A desperate movie producer hanging on to the tattered threads of his career as he tries to maintain his dignity while surviving the mounting humiliations of Hollywood. What Just Happened...
4.7
7K votes
4.7
7K votes
Flag Day
2021 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Sean Penn
Cast Sean Penn · Dylan Penn · Josh Brolin · Hopper Penn
Plot A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
4.6
171 votes
4.6
171 votes
The Gunman
2015 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Pierre Morel
Cast Sean Penn · Idris Elba · Javier Bardem · Ray Winstone
Plot A former Special Forces soldier and military contractor suffering from PTSD tries to reconnect with his long time love, but first must go on the run from London to Barcelona...
4.4
3K votes
4.4
3K votes
Hugo Pool
1997 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Robert Downey Sr.
Cast Alyssa Milano · Mark Boone Junior · Malcolm McDowell · Sean Penn
Plot Hugo Dugay is a young pool cleaner in Los Angeles. In the course of one day, Hugo cleans 44 pools, deals with eccentric and dangerous clients, helps her parents grow...
4.3
37 votes
4.3
37 votes
Superpower
2023 · Documentary · 123 min. · United States
Direction Sean Penn · Aaron Kaufman
Cast Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Sean Penn
Plot On February 24, 2022, while directors Penn and Kaufman were filming in Kyiv, Putin’s invasion took the world by storm. As explosions rocked the city, they became inadvertent front-row witnesses...
4.1
31 votes
4.1
31 votes
Pauly Shore is Dead
2003 · Documentary · 82 min. · United States
Direction Pauly Shore
Cast Pauly Shore · Pamela Anderson · B-Real · Tommy Chong
Plot Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy...
3.9
135 votes
3.9
135 votes
Shanghai Surprise
1986 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jim Goddard
Cast Sean Penn · Madonna · Paul Freeman · Richard Griffiths
Plot Year 1937. Glendon Wasey is a sleazy, down-on-his-luck con man struggling to sell glow-in-the-dark neckties in Shanghai. When he encounters the lovely Gloria Tatlock, a missionary nurse who wants to...
3.2
1K votes
3.2
1K votes
Untitled PTA Film
2025 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · Regina Hall · Sean Penn · Chase Infiniti
Plot New film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the plot is unknown but it is known that the script is set in a contemporary era and will be the...
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Daddio
2023 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Christy Hall
Cast Dakota Johnson · Sean Penn
Plot A woman takes a cab ride from JFK and engages in a conversation with the taxi driver about the important relationships in their lives.
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Citizen Penn
2020 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States
Direction Don Hardy
Cast Sean Penn
Plot After a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010 aid workers from around the world went to help, including actor and filmmaker Sean Penn.
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Rosy-Fingered Dawn: a Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Documentary · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luciano Barcaroli · Carlo Hintermann · Gerardo Panichi · Daniele Villa
Cast Penelope Allen · Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Jim Caviezel · Ben Chaplin
Plot Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE (considered three main moments in the American cinema),...
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The Beaver Trilogy
2000 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States
Direction Trent Harris
Cast Groovin' Gary · Sean Penn · Crispin Glover · Stefan Arngrim
Plot It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. Harris...
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The People Speak
2009 · Documentary · 113 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Arnove · Chris Moore · Howard Zinn
Cast Viggo Mortensen · Josh Brolin · Matt Damon · Rosario Dawson
Plot A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
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