Direction: Bruce Beresford

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Bruce Beresford. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Roots (TV Miniseries)

2016 · Series · 480 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford · Thomas Carter · Phillip Noyce · Mario Van Peebles

Cast Malachi Kirby · Laurence Fishburne · Forest Whitaker · Emayatzy Corinealdi

Plot TV Miniseries (2016). 4 Episodes. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave sold to America and his descendants.

7.1

889 votes

7.1

889 votes

Breaker Morant

1980 · Movie · 107 min. · Australia

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Edward Woodward · Jack Thompson · John Waters · Bryan Brown

Plot During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who...

6.9

366 votes

6.9

366 votes

Driving Miss Daisy

1989 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Morgan Freeman · Jessica Tandy · Dan Aykroyd · Patti LuPone

Plot Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, "Driving Miss Daisy" covers the 25 year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black...

6.9

37K votes

6.9

37K votes

Black Robe

1991 · Movie · 101 min. · Canada

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Lothaire Bluteau · Aden Young · Sandrine Holt · August Schellenberg

Plot In the 17th century, french Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue travels to the magnificently austere Canadian wilderness to save the souls of a "savage and godless" peoplethe native tribes of the...

6.6

241 votes

6.6

241 votes

Tender Mercies

1983 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Robert Duvall · Tess Harper · Betty Buckley · Ellen Barkin

Plot Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.

6.5

698 votes

6.5

698 votes

Money Movers

1978 · Movie · 92 min. · Australia

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Terence Donovan · Tony Bonner · Ed Devereaux · Charles Tingwell

Plot A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house only to have the scam overtaken by a crime boss due to...

6.4

152 votes

6.4

152 votes

Mr. Church

2016 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Eddie Murphy · Britt Robertson · Xavier Samuel · Lucy Fry

Plot "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....

6.4

303 votes

6.4

303 votes

Don's Party

1976 · Movie · 91 min. · Australia

6.3

27 votes

6.3

27 votes

Mao's Last Dancer

2009 · Movie · 117 min. · Australia

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Bruce Greenwood · Kyle MacLachlan · Amanda Schull · Joan Chen

Plot A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to...

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

Paradise Road

1997 · Movie · 114 min. · Australia

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Glenn Close · Frances McDormand · Pauline Collins · Cate Blanchett

Plot The group of women from different countries and social levels are prisoners in a Japanese POW camp, where one of them, Adrienne, who is a graduate of the Royal Academy...

6.2

876 votes

6.2

876 votes

Evelyn

2002 · Movie · 94 min. · Ireland

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Julianna Margulies · Aidan Quinn · Stephen Rea

Plot Based on true events, this is the inspiring story of real-life hero Desmond Doyle and his young children, Evelyn, Maurice and Dermot. Struggling to raise his kids alone in Ireland...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Crimes of the Heart

1986 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Diane Keaton · Jessica Lange · Sissy Spacek · Sam Shepard

Plot Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and...

5.9

441 votes

5.9

441 votes

Bonnie and Clyde (TV Miniseries)

2013 · Series · 240 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Emile Hirsch · Holliday Grainger · Holly Hunter · William Hurt

Plot TV Miniseries (2013). 2 Episodes. Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet,...

5.7

262 votes

5.7

262 votes

Ladies in Black

2018 · Movie · 109 min. · Australia

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Julia Ormond · Rachael Taylor · Angourie Rice · Ryan Corr

Plot "Ladies in Black" is set in Sydney in the summer of 1959, against the backdrop of Australia's cultural awakening, breakdown of class structures, and liberation of women. It tells the...

5.7

93 votes

5.7

93 votes

Double Jeopardy

1999 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Ashley Judd · Tommy Lee Jones · Bruce Greenwood · Annabeth Gish

Plot Libby Parsons is happily married to Nick and has a wonderful son, Matty. One day while spending the night on their boat, Libby wakes up and finds Nick gone and...

5.7

9K votes

5.7

9K votes

Aria

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Altman · Bruce Beresford · Jean-Luc Godard · Derek Jarman

Cast Theresa Russell · Jacques Neuville · Buck Henry · Elizabeth Hurley

Plot Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner),...

5.6

132 votes

5.6

132 votes

Bride of the Wind

2001 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Sarah Wynter · Jonathan Pryce · Vincent Pérez · Simon Verhoeven

Plot Vienna, 1902: Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She beautiful, young, plays, and composes: music is her life. She becomes Mahler's lover, then he marries her, asking that she give up...

5.5

121 votes

5.5

121 votes

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV)

2003 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Antonio Banderas · Alan Arkin · Colm Feore · Jim Broadbent

Plot Banderas delivers a powerful, larger-than-life performance as the title character of this extraordinary story from HBO Films, which reveals how Mexican Revolutionary Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him...

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5.4

440 votes

5.4

440 votes

Silent Fall

1994 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

5.4

964 votes

5.4

964 votes

Mister Johnson

1990 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Maynard Eziashi · Pierce Brosnan · Edward Woodward · Beatie Edney

Plot In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the...

5.3

165 votes

5.3

165 votes