Cast: Aidan Quinn

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Aidan Quinn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Mission

1986 · Movie · 125 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Robert De Niro · Jeremy Irons · Ray McAnally · Aidan Quinn

Plot A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries...

7.6

55K votes

7.6

55K votes

Looking for Richard

1996 · Documentary · 112 min. · United States

Direction Al Pacino

Cast Al Pacino · Alec Baldwin · Kevin Spacey · Winona Ryder

Plot A workshop of William Shakespeare's Richard III inspires actor-director Al Pacino's breezy documentary, which aims to make the playwright accessible to contemporary American audiences. Though a noteworthy cast of stage...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Song for a Raggy Boy

2003 · Movie · 100 min. · Ireland

Direction Aisling Walsh

Cast Aidan Quinn · Iain Glen · Dudley Sutton · Marc Warren

Plot "Song for a Raggy Boy" is based on the true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in...

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Flipped

2010 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Madeline Carroll · Callan McAuliffe · Aidan Quinn · John Mahoney

Plot Year 1957. Juli and Bryce are two eighth graders who start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites. Based on the novel "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen.

Max

6.9

8K votes

6.9

8K votes

Legends of the Fall

1994 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Edward Zwick

Cast Brad Pitt · Anthony Hopkins · Julia Ormond · Aidan Quinn

Plot Director Edward Zwick's epic romance, set against the backdrop of WWI and the wide sky and rugged terrain of Montana, stars Anthony Hopkins as William Ludlow, an idealistic retired colonel...

6.8

69K votes

6.8

69K votes

Sarah's Key

2010 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Cast Kristin Scott Thomas · Mélusine Mayance · Niels Arestrup · Frédéric Pierrot

Plot In May 2002, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist who has been living in Paris for twenty years, is commissioned with an article related to the sixtieth anniversary of the Jewish...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

Michael Collins

1996 · Movie · 132 min. · Ireland

Direction Neil Jordan

Cast Liam Neeson · Aidan Quinn · Stephen Rea · Alan Rickman

Plot Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this epic film tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative...

6.7

9K votes

6.7

9K votes

Benny & Joon

1993 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jeremiah Chechik

Cast Johnny Depp · Mary Stuart Masterson · Aidan Quinn · Julianne Moore

Plot An oddball love story about a fey loner named Sam (Johnny Depp), who falls in love with the mentally unbalanced Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), who lives in the care of...

6.5

4K votes

6.5

4K votes

The American Guest (TV Miniseries)

2021 · Series · 45 min. · Brazil

Direction Bruno Barreto

Cast João Côrtes · Trevor Eve · Gene Jones · Fabio Souto

Plot The American Guest follows the journey of former U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt, alongside Brazilian army officer Cândido Rondon, in a quest to explore unknown regions of the Brazilian Amazon.

6.5

21 votes

6.5

21 votes

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (TV)

2007 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Yves Simoneau

Cast Aidan Quinn · Anna Paquin · Adam Beach · August Schellenberg

Plot Beginning with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), né...

Max

6.5

248 votes

6.5

248 votes

Third Watch (TV Series)

1999 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Wells · Edward Allen Bernero · Jesús Salvador Treviño · Félix Enríquez Alcalá

Cast Coby Bell · Anthony Ruivivar · Molly Price · Skipp Sudduth

Plot TV Series (1999-2005). The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics in the fictional 55th Precinct.

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

This is My Father

1998 · Movie · 120 min. · Ireland

Direction Paul Quinn

Cast Aidan Quinn · James Caan · Stephen Rea · John Cusack

Plot Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown...

6.4

368 votes

6.4

368 votes

An Early Frost (TV)

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Erman

Cast Gena Rowlands · Ben Gazzara · Sylvia Sidney · Aidan Quinn

Plot A young lawyer hasn't told his parents about his homosexuality. Now he must tell them--at a time when the diagnosis was still a death sentence--that he has AIDS.

6.4

36 votes

6.4

36 votes

Nine Lives

2005 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Rodrigo García

Cast Kathy Baker · Amy Brenneman · Elpidia Carrillo · Glenn Close

Plot NINE LIVES is a moving exploration of the individual experiences of nine women as told through nine single unbroken takes. As characters from one story reappear in supporting roles in...

6.4

5K votes

6.4

5K votes

Songcatcher

2000 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Maggie Greenwald

Cast Janet McTeer · Aidan Quinn · Michael Davis · Michael Goodwin

Plot After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There...

6.4

26 votes

6.4

26 votes

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

1995 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction James Keach

Cast Robert Duvall · Aidan Quinn · Frances Fisher · Brian Dennehy

Plot The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he...

6.4

38 votes

6.4

38 votes

Empire Falls (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 195 min. · United States

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Ed Harris · Paul Newman · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Helen Hunt

Plot Running the Empire Grill while attempting to deal with myriad life crises proves to be a tough job for Miles Roby (Ed Harris) in EMPIRE FALLS. Miles picked up the...

Max

6.4

585 votes

6.4

585 votes

Avalon

1990 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Elizabeth Perkins · Aidan Quinn · Elijah Wood

Plot Sam Krichinsky came to America in 1914. Then he came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place he had seen in his entire life. Sam and his brothers married,...

6.2

497 votes

6.2

497 votes

Lumière and Company

1995 · Documentary · 88 min. · France

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Plot In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using...

6.2

813 votes

6.2

813 votes

Elementary (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Doherty · John Polson · Andrew Bernstein · Seith Mann

Cast Jonny Lee Miller · Lucy Liu · Aidan Quinn · Jon Michael Hill

Plot TV Series (2012-2019). 7 Seasons. 154 Episodes. A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City.

6.2

6K votes

6.2

6K votes