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

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),...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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."

Not rated

Not rated