Brad Pitt Filmography

Born:: December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, OK
Occupation:: Actor, Producer
Birth name:: William Bradley Pitt
Biography:: With looks that have inspired countless People magazine covers, Internet shrines, and paparazzi blitzkreigs, Brad Pitt is an actor whose very name inspires drooling platitudes, more about male beauty than about acting. Following his breakthrough as the wickedly charming drifter who seduces Geena Davis...Read More

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Chad Schmidt

Actors: Brad Pitt

Synopsis: What happens when an actor moves to L.A. at the tail end of the '80s, only to discover that his job opportunities are slim to none thanks to his overwhelming resemblance to Brad Pitt? The question is answered in the Steven Conrad-penned Columbia Pictures comedy starring, who else, but Brad Pitt. Read More

1/1/10
Lost City of Z

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars and produces Lost City of Z, a Plan B production that tells the true tale of Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British adventurer who disappeared into the Amazon in 1925 while looking for a lost city. Paramount Pictures distributes the picture, based on a David Grann screenplay. Read More

1/1/10
Tree of Life

Actors: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn

Synopsis: Enigmatic filmmaker Terrence Malick takes a seat behind the camera once again with the drama Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, and Sean Penn for River Road Entertainment. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: As directed by David Fincher and adapted by scribe Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story of the same name, the fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button stars Brad Pitt as the title character. Button begins the story as an old man, then begins physically aging in Read More

12/19/08
Burn After Reading

Actors: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: A CIA agent who is currently in the process of writing a book loses the disc containing his only manuscript in this comedic tale of espionage that reunites filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen with Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? star George Clooney. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

9/12/08
Eat, Pray, Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in director Ryan Murphy's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Gilbert was a woman who had it all - a loving husband, a great apartment, and a Read More

2008
The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jamie Foxx

Synopsis: Screenwriter Matt Carnahan adapts Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen's 2006 novel for the silver screen to tell the tale of a brutal killing spree that rocked San Francisco, California that left at least sixteen people dead between 1973 and 1974. Jamie Foxx stars as Sanders, one of two Read More

1/1/08
The Time Traveler's Wife

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana

Synopsis: A Chicago librarian suffers from a rare genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time whenever he is under extreme duress; despite the fact that he vanishes at inordinately frequent and lengthy intervals, he attempts to build a stable future with the beautiful young heiress he loves. Eric Bana Read More

1/1/08
The Fighter

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Mark Wahlberg stars in Paramount Pictures' inspirational docudrama exploring the remarkable rise of Massachusetts-born lightweight title-winner "Irish" Micky Ward. A determined pugilist whose career in the ring was shepherded by his loyal half-brother Dicky (Brad Pitt) - a hard-living Read More

2008
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider

Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars as legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James in Chopper director Andrew Dominik's cinematic rendering of the events that would eventually bring about the death of the man rumored be the "fastest gun in the West." An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually Read More

9/21/07
A Mighty Heart

Crew: Producer

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irfan Khan, Denis O'Hare, Archie Panjabi

Synopsis: Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in director Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Mariane's memoir recounting the abduction and murder of her husband (played in the film by Dan Futterman) by Pakistani militants. It was on January 23, 2002, that Mariane Read More

6/22/07
Ocean's Thirteen

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia

Synopsis: Cinema icon Al Pacino joins a powerhouse cast headed by of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and series newcomer Ellen Barkin for this, the third installment of director Steven Soderbergh's popular series of glitzy crime comedies. The only hotelier in Las Read More

6/8/07
Year of the Dog

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Tom McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly, Peter Sarsgaard

Synopsis: An unremarkable administrative assistant finds her life going to the dogs both literally and figuratively in actor/screenwriter-turned-director Mike White's dark comedy drama. An inexplicably cheerful office worker whose somewhat sad excuse for a life seems to revolve around her pet beagle Pencil Read More

4/13/07
God Grew Tired of Us

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Bul Dau, Panther Bior, Daniel Abul Pach, Nicole Kidman

Synopsis: Three young men leave behind a land in chaos to find new lives in a thoroughly different culture in this documentary. As the African nation of Sudan fell into political disarray near the dawn of the 21st century, with unspeakable violence following in its wake, thousands of refugees attempted to Read More

1/12/07
Dirty Tricks

Crew: Producer

Actors: Annette Bening, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Meryl Streep

1/1/07
Babel

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Koji Yakusho

Synopsis: The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the Read More

10/27/06
Running With Scissors

Crew: Producer

Actors: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Screen newcomer Joseph Cross portrays Augusten Burroughs in director Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of author Burroughs' best-selling personal memoir of the same name. A child of the 1970s whose alcoholic father Norman (Alec Baldwin) and delusional, unpublished poet mother Deidre (Annette Benning) Read More

10/20/06
The Departed

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly Read More

10/6/06
The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid

Synopsis: Narrated by motorcycle enthusiast Ewan McGregor, The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid documents a celebrated 2005 MotoGP race. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Actors: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington

Synopsis: Many married couples have secrets, but one pair of lovebirds discover they've both been living dangerous secret lives in this action thriller laced with comedy. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and play Jane Smith and John Smith, a suburban couple whose marriage has started to go a bit stale after Read More

6/10/05
Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge [TV Documentary Series]

2005
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2005
Ocean's Twelve

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: After pulling off the heist of their lives, Danny Ocean and his pals unexpectedly find themselves back in harness in this sequel to 2001's blockbuster hit Ocean's Eleven. After robbing a cool $160 million from the Bellaggio Hotel Casino and winning back his former wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), from Read More

12/10/04
Troy

Actors: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Brendan Gleeson, Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Homer's sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale adventure. In 1193 B.C., Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom), has fallen in love; however, the beautiful woman who has beguiled him is Helen, Queen of Sparta (Diane Kruger), who is Read More

5/14/04
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Actors: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: The legendary rogue of the seven seas confronts a new assortment of dangers and thrills in this animated action-adventure tale. Sinbad (voice of Brad Pitt) and his crews of pirate adventurers are hoping to retire to Fiji, and they discover a treasure that could make that possible -- the Book of Read More

7/2/03
Paparazzi, Vol. 1: Price of a Picture

Synopsis: In Paparazzi, Vol. 1: Price of a Picture, real-life paparazzi Louis D. shoots such stars as Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jennifer Aniston, and several others. Each entry in Win Media's Paparazzi series takes viewers behind the scenes in the world of the Read More

2003
Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

2002
Ocean's Eleven

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new Read More

12/7/01
The Mexican

Actors: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, J.K. Simmons

Synopsis: A clumsy criminal is put in a position where he not only has to save his own skin, but that of his girlfriend in this comedy with strong undercurrents of romance. Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) is a low-level Mafia "mechanic" whose ineptitude is countered by frequent (but unpredictable) bursts of dumb Read More

3/2/01
Growing Up Grizzly

Synopsis: Actor Brad Pitt narrates this film about two orphaned grizzly bears adopted by a human family after the bears' mother was killed. The Seus family proudly talks about the many lessons Honey-Bump and Little Bart have learned during their first year of captivity. Besides allowing the bears to frolic Read More

2001
Celebrities: Caught On Camera

Synopsis: Doug Bruckner hosts this collection of paparazzi footage "Ripped From the Headlines!" Hollywood personalities and stars photographed, filmed as they go out on the town and to motion picture premieres, include Nicolas Cage, Alec Baldwin, Madonna, Dennis Rodman, Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson, Heather Read More

2001
Spy Game

Actors: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman

Synopsis: Brad Pitt is reunited as a co-star with his A River Runs Through It (1992) director Robert Redford for this espionage thriller from Tony Scott. On the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that his one-time protégé Tom Bishop (Pitt) has Read More

2001
Snatch

Actors: Mike Reid, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Jason Flemyng

Synopsis: Guy Ritchie's sophomore follow-up to his 1998 sleeper hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch revisits the previous film's territory of London's crime-ridden underbelly, and does so with the same brand of humor and stylish direction that made Ritchie's first effort a surprise success. Read More

9/1/00
Fight Club

Actors: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto

Synopsis: In this darkly comic drama, Edward Norton stars as a depressed young man (named in the credits only as "Narrator") who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the Read More

10/15/99
Meet Joe Black

Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: The cycle of life on Earth hangs in the balance when Death becomes emotionally involved in this romantic fantasy. William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) is a tremendously wealthy and powerful man who oversees a worldwide multi-media empire. Despite the loss of his wife, whom he dearly loved, William is Read More

11/13/98
The Devil's Own

Actors: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams

Synopsis: A policeman plays Good Samaritan to a visitor from Ireland, only to discover that he has a potentially deadly secret. Belfast-born Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) saw his father gunned down by enemy soldiers at the age of eight, and when he grew up he joined the Irish Republican Army, determined that Read More

1997
Seven Years in Tibet

Actors: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe

Synopsis: Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to Read More

1997
Sleepers

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," a nickname courtesy of his three childhood pals from Hell's Kitchen -- Michael (Brad Pitt), John (Ron Eldard), and Tommy (Billy Crudup). Read More

1996
12 Monkeys

Actors: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, David Morse

Synopsis: An intense film about time travel, this sci-fi entry was directed by Terry Gilliam, a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python. The film stars Bruce Willis as James Cole, a prisoner of the state in the year 2035 who can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and thwart a devastating Read More

1995
Seven

Actors: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a Read More

1995
The Favor

Actors: Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt, Ken Wahl

Synopsis: They say you can't miss what you never had, but one woman wants to put that idea to the test in this comedy. Kathy Whiting (Harley Jane Kozak) is a housewife and mother of two who enjoys a happy but unexciting relationship with her husband Peter (Bill Pullman), while her best friend Emily Embrey (Elizabeth McGovern Read More

1994
Interview With the Vampire

Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director Neil Jordan's major Hollywood productions, the film stays close to its source material, retaining the frame of a young reporter (Christian Slater) Read More

1994
Legends of the Fall

Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas, Julia Ormond, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: The sweeping, melodramatic saga of three brothers, their powerful father, and a beautiful woman, the popular period drama Legends of the Fall presents a romanticized view of rugged masculinity against lush Montana scenery. Based on a novel by Jim Harrison, the film covers decades in the lives of Read More

1994
Filmmaking: Shadow Casting - The Making of "A River Runs Through It"

1994
True Romance

Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba Read More

1993
Kalifornia

Actors: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes, Sierra Pecheur

Synopsis: This debut feature film from music video director Dominic Sena is a romp through the world of serial killing, which in its bleakness and moral bankruptcy looks backwards to Terrence Malick's Badlands and forward to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Michelle Forbes plays hip, Mapplethorpe-esque Read More

1993
A River Runs Through It

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as Read More

10/9/92
Johnny Suede

Actors: Brad Pitt, Calvin Levels, Alison Moir, Catherine Keener, Tina Louise

Synopsis: Tom DiCillo directed this surrealistic black comedy starring Brad Pitt as Johnny Suede, a young man with an attitude and an immense pompadour, who wants to be a rock n' roll star like his idol Ricky Nelson. He has all the stylistic accouterments, except a pair of black suede shoes. And one night Read More

8/14/92
Cool World

Actors: Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt, Michele Abrams, Deirdre O'Connell

Synopsis: Sex is cool, but sex with a hot animated tootsie is way cool. Such is the undercurrent running through Ralph Bakshi's confused and chaotic response to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The story begins with a prologue in postwar Las Vegas, where Vegas cop Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) is catapulted into the Read More

7/10/92
Contact

1992
Thelma & Louise

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon play Thelma and Louise, two working-class friends who together have planned a weekend getaway from the men in their lives. Thelma's husband, Darryl (Chris McDonald), is an overbearing oaf, and Louise's boyfriend, Jimmy (Michael Madsen), simply will not commit. Though Read More

5/24/91
Too Young to Die?

Actors: Juliette Lewis, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Another "based on fact" TV movie, Too Young to Die? stars Juliette Lewis as a benighted teenaged girl. She is married at 14, is deserted, and begins walking the streets at 15. Abused by virtually every man with whom she comes in contact (including her own father), Lewis commits murder--and finds Read More

1990
Happy Together

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Helen Slater, Kevin Hardesty, Marius Weyers

Synopsis: A college student clashes with his co-ed roommate, then falls for her in this romantic comedy. Sheltered freshman Chris Wooden (Patrick Dempsey) arrives at his university ready to hone his writing skills. His hard-partying roommate, however, proves to be a distraction. Alex Page (Helen Slater) Read More

1989
Cutting Class

Actors: Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, Martin Mull

Synopsis: This reject from slasher-movie remedial school -- featuring copious amounts of teen sex and the usual unimaginative gore murders -- involves the return of a problem teen (Donovan Leitch) to high school after his release from an institution. After essentially pinning the "Red Herring" sign on the Read More

1989
Across the Tracks

Actors: Rick Schroder, Brad Pitt, David Anthony Marshall, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: Rick Schroder and Brad Pitt are cast as unlikely brothers in Across the Tracks. Schroder is a drug-dealing layabout, while Pitt is a hardworking "model son" (talk about casting against type!) When Schroder begins straigtening himself out by becoming a high school track star, Pitt suffers the pangs Read More

1989
Growing Pains: Feet of Clay

Synopsis: In his second Growing Pains appearance, Brad Pitt is cast as rock superstar Jonathan Keith. Aware that son Ben (Jeremy Miller) idolizes Keith, Maggie (Joanna Kerns) arranges for the boy to attend the singer's sold-out concert--and even fixes it so that Ben can attend a warmup session. In the Read More

1989
The Dark Side of the Sun

Actors: Brad Pitt

Synopsis: A youthful Brad Pitt stars in this drama about a man looking for the cure to a rare skin disease who discovers love on the way. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
The Image

Actors: Albert Finney, Marsha Mason, Swoosie Kurtz, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Albert Finney stars as a TV-news anchorman who wrongly implicates a good friend in a savings-and-loan scandal; when the friend commits suicide, Finney must question his ethics and obsession with high Nielsen ratings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
A Stoning in Fulham County

Actors: Olivia Burnette, Maureen Mueller, Ken Olin, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: A Stoning in Fulham County spends much of its screen time in a rural North Carolina Amish community. The tendency of the Amish to shun all modern convenience and to keep to themselves has fomented hostility from their neighbors. When the baby daughter of Amish couple Ron Perlman and Maureen Mueller Read More

1988
Growing Pains: Who's Zoomin' Who?

Synopsis: Here's the first of two Growing Pains episodes featuring a young, pre-superstardom Brad Pitt. The plotline is motivated by Carol's weariness of her boyfriend Bobby, who in addition to being a walking repository of bad habits is also profoundly unexciting (at least that's the consensus of the other