Brion James Filmography

The King Is Alive

Actors: Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Shot against the barren sand dunes of Africa's Namib Desert, The King Is Alive is the fourth film to adhere to the stripped-down aesthetic of the Dogma 95 movement, and the first to bear the directorial stamp of the manifesto's co-author Kristian Levring. The improvised, shot-on-digital Read More

Joseph's Gift

Synopsis: Philippe Mora's drama Joseph's Gift, adapted from the biblical story of Joseph, stars Freddy Rodriguez as Joseph Kellar. Joseph has long been the apple of his father's eye, making his brothers seethe with jealousy for years. When the father gives Joseph a gift of an expensive coat, the brothers Read More

In God's Hands

Actors: Vincent Klyn, Philip Boston, Mike Decter, Patrick Shane Dorian, Matt George, Matthew Stephen Liu, Shaun Thompson, Maylin Pultar

Synopsis: Zalman King directed this tale of an international quest for the perfect wave by three professional surfers -- Shane (Patrick Shane Dorian), Mickey (co-scripter Matt George), and Keoni (Matty Liu). Starting in the South Seas, they head to Madagascar, Bali, and Hawaii, experiencing a series of Read More

Place Called Truth

Actors: Audie England, Brion James, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Brion James and Valerie Perrine star in this drama about a young woman who runs away from home after her father tries to force her into a loveless marriage. After she arrives in New Orleans, she discovers a strange woman is following her every move -- and stealing her lovers away from her. ~ Mark Read More

Brown's Requiem

Actors: Michael Rooker, Tobin Bell, Selma Blair, Jack Conley, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by acclaimed crime writer James Ellroy, this film stars Michael Rooker as Fritz Brown, a former L.A.P.D. detective who was kicked off the force due to his drinking. Now struggling to remain sober, Brown works as a private eye when he can, but he makes most of his money Read More

The Fifth Element

Actors: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry

Synopsis: Good and evil battle for the future of 23rd century Earth in this visually striking big-budget science fiction epic. In the movie's prologue, which is set in 1914, scientists gather in Egypt at the site of an event that transpired centuries earlier. Aliens, it seemed, arrived to collect four Read More

Heist

Actors: Daniel Benzali, Myriam Cyr, Brion James

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, four disparate criminals motivated by a shared desire for money and revenge join forces for a robbery, with a mob boss the surprise target of the crime. The theft goes smoothly, but when the time comes to divvy up the proceeds, it becomes obvious that someone has a hidden Read More

Killing Jar

Actors: Brett Cullen, Tamlyn Tomita, Wes Studi, Brion James, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: A man's past comes back to haunt him -- literally -- in this thriller. After surviving a traumatic auto accident that took the life of a close friend and injured his brother, young Michael Sanford was sent off to a boarding school and didn't see his hometown in California's Sonoma Valley for close Read More

Deadly Ransom

Actors: Loren Avedon, Francesco Quinn

Synopsis: In this action-packed drama, Max Lightener (Loren Avedon) is a Navy SEAL and intelligence operative who is pushed too far when his fiancée Jackie Martin (Lisa Crosato) and her father are abducted by Bobby Rico (Brion James), an underworld financier involved in drug running and Wall Street Read More

Back in Business

Actors: Brian Bosworth, Joe Torry, Brion James, Alan Scarfe, Dara Tomanovich

Synopsis: Disgraced in a frame-up perpetrated by his fellow officers, abandoned by his wife for another and with only a radio-talk-show host to help him with his problems, policeman Joe Elkhart is angry and depressed about his life. It is the radio counselor who convinces him to return home to try and make Read More

Evil Obsession

Actors: Corey Feldman, Brion James, Kimberly Stevens, Mark Derwin, Una Damon

Synopsis: When someone starts killing famous fashion models, poor Margo -- one of the world's most famous cover girls -- begins to get a little paranoid. Is someone trying to kill her? She has a few suspects, especially her dweeby stalker. Other potential killers include a flirty private eye and her acting Read More

Snide & Prejudice

Synopsis: This unusual comedy-drama, set in an experimental psychiatric institute, is a departure for genre director Philippe Mora, whose usual oeuvre is science fiction, horror, and low-budget action films. Rene Auberjonois stars as Dr. Sam Cohen, director of the Temporal Displacement Foundation. Cohen's Read More

The Setting Son

Actors: Will (Chucky) Schaub, Darin Cooper, Maureen Muldoon, Brion James, Sally Hughes

Synopsis: Will Schaub, who won his own bout with cancer, scripted this family drama about leukemia. Cal (Will Schaub) misses a chance to compete in the Olympics after learning that his brother Max (Darin Cooper) needs a bone-marrow transplant. Cal heads home to see if he's a match. Shown at the 1997 Boston Read More

American Strays

Actors: Luke Perry, Jennifer Tilly, Eric Roberts, John Savage, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A collection of losers, misfits, and outcasts find their lives unexpectedly converging at a diner along a desert highway in this violent and offbeat comedy drama. Dwayne (John Savage) is a strait-laced-looking vacuum cleaner salesman with a bad habit of murdering prospective customers, while Patty Read More

Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills

Crew: Associate Producer

Synopsis: The Hollywood wife of a noted paleontologist finds herself afflicted with an angry shaman's curse after her husband offends the magical man during a desert exploration in this off-beat comedy. As soon as the curse is sent, poor Pixie Chandler finds herself with an insatiable craving for raw fish Read More

Precious Find

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Brion James, Harold Pruett, Don Stroud

Synopsis: Philippe Mora, the genre filmmaker whose marsupial-themed Howling III and alien-abduction hit Communion solidified his reputation as a director of clunky, substandard fantasy, returned with this space-set remake of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. True to form, it's a clunky mess, with Harold Read More

Steel Frontier

Synopsis: Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been miserable. Then a stranger, a man-of-few-words, comes Read More

Dominion

Actors: Brad Johnson, Brion James, Tim Thomerson, Woody Brown, Glenn Morshower

Synopsis: A crazed hunter starts stalking a group of friends on a hunting trip when they enter his territory. Lots of poor action and acting, even for direct-to-video. ~ Sean D. MacLaggan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sketch Artist 2: Hands That See

Actors: Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: Sketch artist Jeff Fahey returns in this made-for-television sequel. Jack Whitfield stars as Fahey, a police artist whose latest job is to help blind rape victim Emmy O'Connor (Courtney Cox) come up with a description of her attacker. The rapist is also a serial murderer and Emmy is the only one Read More

Cyberjack

Synopsis: In this Canadian/Japanese sci-fi actioner, the trouble begins as a boozy ex-cop tries to forget the horrible killing of his partner by the nefarious, white-wigged Nassim. The only job the cop can find now is as a janitor at a high-tech bio-research lab where they have been working on a super Read More

The Soft Kill

Synopsis: A heated affair threatens to bring down skilled Los Angeles private eye Jack Ramsay in this fast-paced action thriller starring Corbin Bernsen and Carrie-Anne Moss. When the body of his lover -- who also happens to be the wife of rising politician Martin Lewis -- is discovered strangled and Read More

Nature of the Beast

Actors: Eric Roberts, Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Frank Novak, William A. Temple

Synopsis: Two men meet in a diner on a desert highway--an uptight, reserved motorist (Lance Henriksen) and an overbearing, insistent hitchhiker (Eric Roberts). A dangerous balance results when it becomes clear that one of the two is a serial killer known in the media as "The Hatchet Man," while the other is Read More

Scanner Cop

Actors: Daniel Quinn, Darlanne Fluegel, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: In this horror thriller, a psychically super-charged cop uses his unusual gifts to put a permanent end to a cop killer. Highlights include a few hallucination sequences, bad dreams and the trademark of Scanners-related films, an exploding head. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cabin Boy

Actors: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brion James

Synopsis: Former NBC intern and Get a Life creator Chris Elliott stars as the title character, a recent graduate of the exclusive Fancy Lad Academy who unwittingly boards the wrong sea vessel and ends up a whipping post for its gruff, foul-mouthed crew after his predecessor (Andy Richter of The Late Show) Read More

The Dark

Actors: Cynthia Belliveau, Brion James, Stephen McHattie, Neve Campbell

Synopsis: This well-crafted Canadian monster movie pits a rag-tag crew of cops, gravediggers, and the requisite scientist against a giant subterranean rodent that tunnels beneath graveyards and lives off the interred bodies. Scientist Dr. Henderson (Stephen McHattie) wants to analyze the beast's body Read More

Radioland Murders

Actors: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty, George Burns, Scott Michael Campbell

Synopsis: A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is the harried general secretary and de facto manager of a new fourth radio network, WBN. On the night that the Read More

F.T.W.

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Lori Singer, Brion James, Peter Berg, Rodney Grant

Synopsis: A man trying to escape his criminal past becomes involved with a woman born under a bad sign in this crime drama. Frank T. Wells (Mickey Rourke) has just been released after spending ten years in prison, the result of a manslaughter conviction stemming from an act of self-defense. Frank wants to Read More

Art Deco Detective

Actors: John Dennis Johnston, Stephen McHattie, Brion James, Joe Santos, Rena Riffel

Synopsis: In this satirical political thriller, detective Arthur Decowitz (John Dennis Johnston), better known as Art Deco, is a hard-boiled private eye. A dangerous international criminal genius, The Hyena (Stephen McHattie), plans to blow up Los Angeles, and the CIA have gotten wind of his plan. However Read More

Knight Rider 2010

Hong Kong 97

Actors: Brion James, Robert Patrick

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, Reginald Cameron (Robert Patrick) is an executive with a major American corporation who has a secret life as a high-level hit man. As the British government makes the final preparations to hand over control of Hong Kong to China, Cameron takes unusual steps to protect Read More

The Companion

Synopsis: A computer with a mind of its own is the subject of this made-for-television thriller. Set sometime in the future, the film tells the story of a female writer who goes to a secluded cabin to work. She decides to take a programmable male android with her for company. She changes his programming to Read More

Striking Distance

Actors: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: A maverick Pittsburgh policeman loses his job after he shares his suspicion that one of his colleagues is a serial killer. This thriller centers on his hunt to prove his point, a search that becomes more desperate when the killer begins killing the cop's female associates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Brain Smasher: A Love Story

Actors: Andrew Dice Clay, Teri Hatcher, Yuji Okumoto, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Brion James

Synopsis: Andrew Dice Clay trades in dumb yucks for numchucks in Brainsmasher: A Love Story as Ed Molloy, a part-time comic and bouncer who takes on a belligerent gang of ninjas. The story kicks in when supermodel Samantha Crains (Teri Hatcher) receives a red lotus flower from her sister that has to be Read More

Showdown

Frogtown 2

Synopsis: This bargain-basement budgeted sci-fi horror movie pays a kind of tribute to 1930s sci-fi serials such as "King of the Rocket Men." It is set just after the Frog Wars of the preceding film Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988). Following that terrible battle, the Froggie mutants were placed on the special Read More

Precious Victims

Actors: Park Overall

Synopsis: The seemingly heartbroken parents of a murdered child make a sheriff suspicious, in this made-for-television drama. Park Overall and Robby Benson star as The Sims, a couple whose infant daughter is kidnapped and later found dead. By all accounts the Sims appear to be the victims, but when another Read More

Nemesis

Actors: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Merle Kennedy, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: Set in a WW III-decimated 21st-century Los Angeles in which humans compete with cyborgs, this low-budget special-effects laden thriller chronicles the attempts of a heroic fellow to clean up the town and keep the androids from taking over what's left of the planet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Future Shock

Actors: Bill Paxton, Vivian Schilling, Martin Kove, Scott Thompson

Synopsis: Footage from three separate horror projects was assembled for this semi-anthology, framed by the premise of a mad scientist (Martin Kove) who uses virtual-reality technology to delve into the phobias of three different subjects. The first tale, "Jenny Porter," describes a paranoid woman (Vivian Schilling Read More

Rio Diablo

Actors: Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt

Synopsis: Stars of country music fill out the cast of this made-for-TV western. Kenny Rogers plays a bounty hunter who sets off with his newlywed partner (Travis Tritt) to track down the kidnappers who ran off with Tritt's wife (Laura Harring). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

Black Magic

Synopsis: In this satirical made-for-cable feature, a young man loses sleep when his dead cousin decides to haunt him. Unable to stand it any more, the fellow returns to his cousin's town and begins investigating his death. Along the way, he finds himself falling in love with his late relative's former Read More

Time Runner

Actors: Mark Hamill, Rae Dawn Chong, Brion James

Synopsis: It is October 6, 2022 and humankind is nearly extinct thanks to a massive alien attack. Astronaut Michael Raynor is fleeing the planet in his spacecraft when suddenly a "wormhole" opens up and sucks him into a time warp. He finally makes it back to the ground and finds himself in Washington state Read More

Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

Actors: Jean Smart, Park Overall, Tim Grimm, Ernie Lively, Geoffrey Rivas

Synopsis: Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story stars Jean Smart as the title character. One of the rare female serial killers on record, Wuornos was eventually charged with murdering seven men on lonely Florida roads. The killing spree took place between 1990 and 1991, thus this 1992 TV movie could pat itself Read More

Hunter: Under Suspicion

Synopsis: For her shakedown assignment with the Metro Division, Novak (Lauren Lane) investigates a series of bar burglaries. Unfortunately a flu epidemic has severely depleted the Division's manpower, which explains why Novak's "field partner" is nerdish computer expert Hawkins (Gregory Alan-Williams). And Read More

The Amazing World of Marine Mammals

Crew: Executive Producer

Another 48 Hrs.

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross

Synopsis: At times, Another 48 Hrs. seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the cliched absurdity of the goings on. This time, Nolte risks life, limb and career as he obsessively tries to Read More

Beyond the Silhouette

Actors: Tracy Scoggins, Marc Singer

Synopsis: Beyond the Silhouette a Canadian-made, silly, erotic political thriller uses so many pretentious effects and dream sequences that it is almost impossible to follow the story. Samatha Stewart (Tracy Scoggins) is a prim public defender who gives a ride to Vicky (Suzy Joachim) a sexy prostitute Read More

Street Asylum

Synopsis: In this lurid sci-fi actioner a psycho LA police chief has surgeons implant a device into the spines of wounded officers that turns them into lunatic killers who are then assigned to his Scum Quelling Urban Assault Division (SQUAD). After cleaning the streets of slimy crooks, the officers are Read More

Mutator

Synopsis: Also known as Time of the Beast, Mutator concerns a gene corporation that creates--and accidentally unleashes--an evil cat that proceeds to kill and eat as many victims as it can get its claws on. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Enid Is Sleeping

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeffrey Jones, Maureen Mueller, Rhea Perlman

Synopsis: Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry (Judge Reinhold) in bed with her sister June (Elizabeth Perkins), a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities--including her Read More

Tango & Cash

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Read More

The Horror Show

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, DeDee Pfeiffer, Aaron Eisenberg

Synopsis: This muddled attempt at creating a new supernatural serial killer franchise (in the mode of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) features perennial movie thug Brion James as sadistic mass murderer Max Jenke, who hacked up more than 100 victims with a meat cleaver before his Read More

Red Scorpion

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T.P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano

Synopsis: Dolph Lundgren stars in this controversial action film directed by Joseph Zito (Missing in Action). The beefy Swede plays Soviet KGB agent Lt. Nikolai, who is sent to Africa with orders to eliminate a black rebel. Eventually, Nikolai begins to side with the locals, has a red scorpion tattooed on Read More

Dead Man Out

Actors: Danny Glover, Rubén Blades

Synopsis: Danny Glover and Ruben Blades costar in this made-for-cable death row thriller. Blades plays a condemned prisoner, while Glover plays his psychiatrist. The prisoner's behavior is so violent and erratic that he may be too sick to execute. Glover is brought in to calm Blades down--and if he does so Read More

Time of the Beast

Actors: Brion James, Carolyn Ann Clark, Milton Raphael Murrill, Neil McCarthy, Brian O'Shaughnessy

Synopsis: A scientist (Brion James) who once worked for a high-tech genetics lab has come back in disguise to work as a security guard so that he can free the lab's abused animals. However, the lab has also created a chimera, a man/animal combination, which, in this thriller, is a very violent creature. Read More

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

Synopsis: In exchange for clearing Duell McCall's name, the cowboy's assistance is needed in locating the murderer of the sheriff's wife. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mom

Actors: Jeanne Bates, Brion James, Mark Thomas Miller

Synopsis: While investigating a bizarre series of slayings, reporter Clay Dwyer (Mark Thomas Miller) begins to suspect his tenant (Brion James) of being a vampire, and indeed, the man soon turns Dwyer's mother (Jeanne Bates) into one of the undead. Though Clay is able to kill the original blood-sucker, he Read More

A Cry in the Dark

Actors: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Bruce Myles, Sam Neill, Nick Tate

Synopsis: A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early 1980s was the most hated woman in Australia. While visiting the Ayers rock monument in the Outback with her husband Michael (Sam Neill), Lindy notices a dingo creeping into the tent where Read More

Red Heat

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a taciturn law-enforcement officer from Russia. James Belushi co-stars as a wise-lipped Chicago cop. Though they go together like caviar and White Castles, they are forced to team up to collar the Soviet Union's most notorious drug lord. Thus does director Walter Hill Read More

The Wrong Guys

Actors: Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of former Cub Scouts (Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, and Richard Lewis) get together for a reunion over twenty years later and land themselves in a mess of trouble when a deranged convict (John Goodman) takes them for FBI agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

D.O.A.

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Jane Kaczmarek

Synopsis: "They didn't kill me; I was dead already," is the statement uttered by Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid), an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin who has been poisoned by a slow-acting toxin and who has twenty-four hours to track down his killers before he ceases to exist. Remade Read More

Cherry 2000

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Brion James, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: In this arch sci-fi sex comedy-cum-action extravaganza, a hard-nosed female mercenary helps a hapless yuppie find a new body for his robot girlfriend in the post-industrial wasteland of the American Southwest. In the year 2017, what little remains of civilization feeds off the scrap heap of 20th Read More

Hunter: Renegade

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) finds it impossible to believe that his former partner Frank Garriman (James McEachin) is mixed up with drug-dealing and murder. Actually, Frank's delinquent son Bobby (Kevin Best) was the catalyst for the man's troubles: while delivering cocaine for his street gang, Bobby was