Bruce Robinson Filmography

Born:: May 2, 1946 in Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Bruce Robinson is perhaps best known for having penned the award-winning script to the powerful exposé The Killing Fields (1984), but he is also a former actor and a director. He received training in drama at London's School of Speech and Drama and made his first screen appearance in Franco Zeffirelli...Read More

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The Rum Diary

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Johnny Depp

1/1/10
In Dreams

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey, Jr., Paul Guilfoyle, Dennis Boutsikaris, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Claire Cooper (Annette Bening), has been having psychic visions all of her life, though she's never been clear of what they mean. Now an adult, she lives an idyllic, small-town life in a Massachusetts farmhouse with her airline-pilot husband Paul (Aidan Quinn) and her young daughter Rebecca (Katie Sagona Read More

1/15/99
Still Crazy

Actors: Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy, Juliet Aubrey

Synopsis: Still Crazy is a film that looks back at the "rock band" era of the 1970s. Brian Gibson, who has directed musical biographies on Josephine Baker and Tina Turner, sets his narrative on a rock group, Strange Fruit, who are attempting a comeback twenty years after a bolt of lightening literally ended Read More

12/11/98
Return to Paradise

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis: This remake of Force Majeure (aka Uncontrollable Circumstances), a 1989 film with Alan Bates and Kristin Scott Thomas, recalls the prison plight depicted in Midnight Express (1978). Rambling around Asia, getting high and just having a good time, are three young men -- Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), Lewis Read More

1998
Germinal

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry

Synopsis: Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu Read More

1993
Jennifer Eight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, Graham Beckel, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Stressed out LA detective John Berlin gets too near the edge following the destruction of his marriage and decides to leave the violence an un-ending hub-bub of the big city and take a job in the supposedly quiet northern tow of Eureka. Unfortunately, he isn't there long before he finds himself Read More

11/6/92
Fat Man & Little Boy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern

Synopsis: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning days of World War II. This elaborately assembled film is the story of the events leading up to the dawn of the atomic age. Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, a Read More

10/20/89
How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong, John Shrapnel

Synopsis: After years of capitalizing on the weaknesses of a gullible public, a London advertising executive finds that his worst qualities have literally taken on a life of their own in this scathing satire. Successful copywriter Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) lives a posh life with his lovely wife Read More

5/5/89
Withnail & I

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: Screenwriter Bruce Robinson made his directorial debut with this British comedy. Withnail (Richard E. Grant) is an unsuccessful, pill-popping actor; "I," or Marwood (Paul McGann), is Withnail's roommate and another equally underemployed actor. The time is 1969: Withnail is fast becoming a Read More

6/19/87
The Killing Fields

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, Athol Fugard, Spalding Gray, Bill Paterson

Synopsis: The Killing Fields is a romanticized adaptation of an eyewitness magazine story by New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg. Covering the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1975, Schanberg (Sam Waterston) relies on his Cambodian friend and translator Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) for inside Read More

1984
Harry's War

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, Karen Grassle, David Ogden Stiers, Salome Jens

Synopsis: Harry's War is a "feel good" movie--and you'd better feel good or else. Edward Herrmann plays an postman whose aunt (Geraldine Page) is victimized by the Internal Revenue Service. Uncle Sam has made an error on her return, insisting that the poor old pensioner must pay 190 grand in back taxes. Try Read More

1981
Roadie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain, Don Cornelius

Synopsis: Roadie is a showbiz saga about the working slobs who make live pop-music performances happen. Texas good ol' boy Travis W. Redfish (pop singer Meat Loaf) drives a Shiner beer truck on his appointed rounds, but he becomes smitten with rock groupie Lola Bouillabase (Kaki Hunter), a "roadie" whose Read More

1980
Kleinhoff Hotel

Synopsis: A co-production between Italy and Monaco, this steamy study of sexual obsession was directed by Carlo Lizzani (Crazy Joe). It takes place in a Berlin hotel where Penthouse pet Corinne Clery is an architect's wife who becomes overwhelmed by her attraction to a leftist guerrilla (Bruce Robinson), a Read More

10/14/77
The Brute

Synopsis: The Brute is a typically fast and furious British "exploitation" film directed by an expert in that field, Gerry O'Hara. Model Sarah Douglas is browbeaten (and beaten in other ways) by her behemoth of a husband. Drastic measures seem to be called for, but to whom can Sarah turn? This slightly Read More

1977
The Story of Adele H.

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Reuben Dorey, Joseph Blatchley

Synopsis: Based on the real-life diaries of Adèle Hugo, The Story of Adele H. is a psychological drama opening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the 1860s. The daughter of famous French writer Victor Hugo, Adèle (Isabelle Adjani) has left her father's home to seek out her fiancé, the English soldier Lt. Albert Read More

1975
The Devil's Widow

Actors: Peter Hinwood, Oliver Norman

Synopsis: In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers who surround her. The story is also known as The Devil's Widow and The Ballad of Tam-Lin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
The Music Lovers

Actors: Joanne Brown, Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable, Isabella Telezynska

Synopsis: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given the Ken Russell treatment in The Music Lovers, which means that there is plenty of music, plenty of passion, plenty of debauchery, and plenty of excess. Tame by Russell's later standards (Lisztomania), The Music Lovers nevertheless thrives on creative and sexual Read More

1971
Private Road

Synopsis: Hippie rhetoric abounds in this drama from the early '70s that tells the story of a young author and his sexually liberated girl friend. The trouble begins when she is impregnated and has her father perform the abortion. She then attempts to persuade her boy friend to return to her. ~ Sandra Read More

1971
Romeo and Juliet

Actors: Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, John McEnery

Synopsis: Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was touted at the time of its release (successfully, if the box-office receipts are any indication), as something of a "youth trip" movie. This is because Zeffirelli broke the long-standing tradition of casting over-aged Read More

10/19/68