Brett Ratner Filmography

The Boys From Brazil

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Director Brett Ratner teams with screenwriters Richard Potter and Matthew Stravitz for a second screen adaptation of Ira Levin's paranoid novel concerning a South American Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich. Originally filmed in 1978 with actors Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck in the leads, Levin Read More

Mr. S: My Life With Frank Sinatra

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Chris Tucker

Synopsis: Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner join forces once again on the New Line production based on the book Mr. S: My Life With Frank Sinatra, a tell-all from the perspective of Sinatra's longtime valet and good friend George Jacobs, whom Tucker is set to play. William Stadiem is adapting the memoirs that Read More

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Murphy

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy stars in this new incarnation of Richard Matheson's classic adventure, this time portrayed with a comic slant in the tale of a magician who must break a shrinking hex that's been thrown on him before he grows so small that he ceases to exist. The Reno 911! screenwriting duo of Thomas Read More

21

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira

Synopsis: Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) may be shy, but his Read More

New York, I Love You

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Some of the world's most-respected directors align forces to pay tribute to the city of the New York in this unconventional omnibus sister film to the previous year's Paris, je t'aime. Broken into short segments, each titled after a specific neighborhood, New York, I Love You is comprised of 12 Read More

Rush Hour 3

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: In this third installment of the popular action comedy franchise, LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) book a flight for Europe and prepare to clean up the streets of Paris after discovering that Chinese triads have extended their criminal influence to Read More

Code Name: The Cleaner

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Mark Dacascos, Callum Keith Rennie

Synopsis: A man who has lost his memory has a new and dangerous life thrust upon him in this comedy thriller. Jake (Cedric the Entertainer) is a janitor who finds himself stricken with a crippling case of amnesia. While Jake struggles to regain his memory and identity, he becomes convinced that he's an Read More

Women's Murder Club [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Angie Harmon, Paula Newsome, Laura Harris, Aubrey Dollar, Tyrees Allen, Rob Estes, Linda Park

Synopsis: Based on a series of popular mystery novels by James Patterson, the ABC crime show Women's Murder Club received an abudance of pre-release publicity not so much because of its source material, but because it represented the long-overdue return to television of former Law&Order regular Angie Read More

Entourage: The Prince's Bride

Synopsis: As Vince negotiates an indecent proposal with a shady prince interested in financing the production of "Medellin," Drama rides the wave of his recent television success straight to Brett Ratner's backyard pool and Turtle's date with dream girl Kelly turns into a nightmare thanks to the beauty's Read More

On the Lot [TV Series]

Synopsis: Oscar-winning Hollywood visionary Steven Spielberg teams with reality television pioneer Mark Burnett for an unscripted series in which undiscovered filmmakers compete for the opportunity to win a development deal at DreamWorks -- the production company behind such major box-office hits as Read More

Helmut by June

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most celebrated photographers of his generation, the master of a singular visual style in which the famous and the unfamiliar where made part of Newton's visual netherworld of uneasy glamour, kinky sex and unspoken perversity. While Newton worked regularly Read More

The Outsider

Actors: James Toback

Synopsis: Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved. From pre-production to final cut, Jarecki Read More

X-Men: The Last Stand

Crew: Director

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin

Synopsis: The explosive X-Men motion picture trilogy officially draws to a close with this release that finds Rush Hour director Brett Ratner stepping in for Bryan Singer to tell the tale of a newly discovered mutant "cure," and the polarizing effect it has on mutant/man relations. With the pressure on Read More

Running Scared

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner

Synopsis: A minor crook finds himself in major peril when a "hot" weapon goes missing in this violent crime thriller. Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) is a low-level "mechanic" in the Mafia who hopes to rise through the ranks by doing whatever is needed. One night, a drug deal goes very wrong when police show up Read More

Lovewrecked

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Jonathan Bennett, Joey Kern

Synopsis: An 18-year old rock & roll fan finds her crafty scheme to have a little fun in the sun with her favorite musician thwarted in this romantic teen comedy starring Amanda Bynes and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. Jenny (Bynes) is a wide-eyed teen who has recently been hired to work at a popular tropical resort Read More

Class Act

Actors: Desmond Child, Adam Jay Epstein, Jose Behar, Anthony M. Davis, Jay W. Jensen

Prison Break: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As the first episode of FOX's Prison Break begins, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is receiving the last in a series of elaborate tattoos. In the past months Michael has gotten his chest, back, and the entire length of his arms covered in tattoos, and when the artist comments that most folks Read More

End Game

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The president has been assassinated, and it's now up to the Secret Service agent who failed to act in time to save the Commander in Chief's life to solve the crime and get the gunman in a tense tale of political intrigue starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Burt Reynolds, and James Woods. Alex Thomas Read More

Prison Break [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Undoubtedly pitched to network executives as "24 Behind Bars," the weekly, hour-long continuing drama Prison Break starred Wentworth Miller as structural engineer Michael Scofield, who when first seen by the audience was somewhat inexplicably in the process of committing a bank robbery -- and then Read More

After the Sunset

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris

Synopsis: In this caper movie from director Brett Ratner, two brilliant criminals are lured out of retirement...or are they? Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) is a master jewel thief who, with the help of his accomplice and lover Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), has stolen two of the three Napoleon diamonds, among Read More

Paid in Full

Crew: Producer

Actors: Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Carroll, Esai Morales, Chi McBride

Synopsis: Paid in Full marks the feature debut of director Charles Stone III, who rose to fame after creating Budweiser's "Wassup" commercials. The urban gangster drama is loosely based on the true story of 1980s Harlem drug kingpins AZ, Rich Porter, and Alpo. (This story was also the basis for a Read More

Red Dragon

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary-Louise Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Following the phenomenal success of The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, Anthony Hopkins returns as brilliant madman Hannibal Lecter in this thriller based on the novel in which author Thomas Harris introduced the character. Will Graham (Edward Norton) is an FBI agent with a rare gift for Read More

Rush Hour 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi, Roselyn Sanchez

Synopsis: A surprise box-office smash spawns this inevitably action-packed buddy comedy follow-up that reunites director Brett Ratner with stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Chan is Chief Inspector Lee of the Royal Hong Kong Police, who travels back to China with his American colleague, Los Angeles Read More

Double Take

Crew: Producer

Actors: Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Edward Herrmann, Gary Grubbs, Shawn Elliott

Synopsis: A man trying to run away from trouble finds it follows him in unexpected ways in this action-packed vehicle for comic actors Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones. Daryl Chase (Jones) is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York firm. Chase discovers to his Read More

The Family Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: In this whimsical romantic comedy that recalls It's a Wonderful Life, Nicolas Cage plays Jack Campbell, a workaholic bachelor who gets to see what his life might have been like had he stayed with his old sweetheart, Kate (Tea Leoni). Thirteen years before, Jack accepted a brokerage internship that Read More

Rush Hour

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Peña, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Brett Ratner directed this action-comedy that found box-office success by teaming Chris Tucker with Jackie Chan -- performing his own stunts as per his earlier films. As the story begins, Hong-Kong supercop Lee's (Chan), detective savvy leads to the confiscation of $500 million in weapons, drugs Read More

Money Talks

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Gerard Ismael, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: A low-level criminal and a struggling newsman become unlikely partners in this comedy. Franklin Hatchett (Chris Tucker) is a fast-talking hustler who runs a small time ticket-scalping business. A TV news story by reporter James Russell (Charlie Sheen) brings Franklin's business to the attention of Read More