Donald Sutherland Filmography

Trumbo

Actors: Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane

Synopsis: A documentary adaptation of the popular regional theatrical monologue -- in which such heavyweights as Paul Newman, Nathan Lane, and Joe Mantegna essayed the lead on various occasions -- Trumbo recounts the life and times of legendary Hollywood scribe-turned-HUAC scapegoat Dalton Trumbo. As with Read More

Fool's Gold

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner

Synopsis: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days co-stars Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey re-team on the big screen for this adventurous tale about a treasure-hunting couple whose eight-year quest for the ultimate prize has left them flat broke and fresh out of gas. Ben "Finn" Finnegan (McConaughey) is a treasure Read More

National Geographic: Stonehenge Decoded

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: This National Geographic documentary attempts to trace the origins of the world famous Stonehenge. The filmmakers utilize special effects in order to reconstruct the building of the structures, and to show how they most likely looked at the tine of their completion. Historians analyze who built Read More

Fierce People

Actors: Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Anton Yelchin, Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart

Synopsis: Actor turned director and producer Griffin Dunne (Practical Magic, Addicted to Love) teams up with scenarist Dick Wittenborn for the slice-of-life ensemble drama Fierce People. As summer encroaches, 16-year-old Manhattanite Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin) would love nothing more than to trek off to Read More

Reign Over Me

Actors: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows

Synopsis: A chance run-in with an old college roommate becomes the catalyst for healing in writer/director Mike Binder's tale of friendship and understanding in post-9/11 New York. When the Twin Towers went down on that fateful morning in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything that he had to Read More

Puffball

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Samantha Morton, Rita Tushingham, William Houston

Synopsis: Don't Look Now director Nicholas Roeg steps back behind the camera for the first time in fifteen years to weave this macabre tale of a young architect who finds her unborn child in danger after moving deep into the Irish countryside. Liffrey (Kelly Reilly) has had enough of the big city, and now Read More

Dirty Sexy Money [TV Series]

Actors: Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald

Synopsis: The Bad Old Days of Dallas and Dynasty were gloriously resurrected in this over-the-top ABC drama series about the impossibly wealthy, incredibly dysfunctional Darling family of New York. After the death of his father Dutch George (Trevor St. John) in a suspicious plane crash, straight-arrow Read More

Jolene

Actors: Jessica Chastain, Dermot Mulroney, Donald Sutherland, Michael Vartan

Synopsis: Author E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed short story Jolene: A Life gets the big screen treatment in Mrs. Palfrey at the Clairemont's director Dan Ireland's independent drama about life on the road. Jolene (Jessica Chastain) is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any Read More

Aurora Borealis

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Zack Ward

Synopsis: Duncan (Joshua Jackson), a depressed twentysomething living in a rundown section of Minneapolis, has just lost another job. He has another source of income, letting his brother use his apartment for extramarital trysts. On a rare visit to his grandparents, Ronald (Donald Sutherland) and Ruth (Louise Fletcher Read More

An American Haunting

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'Arcy, Matthew Marsh

Synopsis: The wind whispers ominous warnings of death before a malevolent entity arrives to claim the life of a young girl as director Courtney Solomon brings author Brent Monahan's chilling, fact-based tale of supernatural murder to the screen in this tale of terror starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Read More

American Gun

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Linda Cardellini, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Three stories of how America's obsession with firearms impacts its citizens are explored in this independent drama. Carl Wilk (Donald Sutherland) runs a gun shop in Virginia that has been owned and operated by his family for generations. Carl sees the shop as his family's legacy without paying Read More

Ask the Dust

Actors: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by John Fante, Robert Towne's Ask the Dust stars Colin Farrell as Arturo Bandini, a young writer who comes to Los Angeles during the Great Depression in order to write a novel. As the film opens, he is down to his last nickel and decides to spend it on coffee in a diner. He is Read More

Land of the Blind

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Mark Warren, Lara Flynn Boyle

Synopsis: The debut film by director Robert Edwards, Land of the Blind, is a political satire starring Ralph Fiennes as a military man who helps overthrow his government. He does so at the urging of a political prisoner, played by Donald Sutherland, who has been outspoken about the corruption of the current Read More

Pride & Prejudice

Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennetts (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their Read More

Human Trafficking

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Robert Carlyle

Synopsis: For naïve audiences under the impression that sexual slavery is a thing of the past, director Christian Duguay's Golden Globe-nominated tale of the multi-billion-dollar modern slavery industry proves that even in the 21st century, human life can still be measured in dollars. Four girls from across Read More

Commander in Chief [TV Series]

Actors: Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Rumor has it that this weekly, hour-long ABC series about America's first woman president was conceived in anticipation of Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely 2008 presidential bid. Whatever the case, Geena Davis starred as Mackenzie Allen, the politically unaffiliated vice president of popular Read More

Baltic Storm

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland, Dieter Laser, Juergen Schormagel

Synopsis: In an era when at-sea disasters have grown increasingly rare thanks to "foolproof" naval technology, the September 28, 1994 wreck of the ferry boat M/S Estonia raised more than a few eyebrows. En route from Talinn to Stockholm, via the Baltic Sea, the craft capsized and 852 civilians never reached Read More

Frankenstein

Actors: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, William Hurt, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Kevin Connor directs William Hurt, Donald Sutherland, and Julie Delpy in this adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The film follows the storyline of the book closely. Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a man from the parts of different corpses, and the creature turns out to be superior to his Read More

Salem's Lot

Actors: Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Rutger Hauer, James Cromwell

Synopsis: In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in Jerusalem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a local mansion called the Marsten House. Read More

Cold Mountain

Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil War. Jude Law stars as Inman, a young soldier who, despite an injury, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman Read More

The Italian Job

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham

Synopsis: A team of high-class thieves avenge their mentor's death -- with the help of his own daughter -- in this big-budget remake of the 1969 British caper classic. The Italian Job stars Mark Wahlberg as Charlie, the mastermind of a daring Venice heist overseen by John (Donald Sutherland), a lifelong Read More

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Synopsis: Federico Fellini was one of the leading figures of the international cinema in the 1960s, whose dreamlike images and indelible characters made La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Juliet of the Spirits among the most acclaimed films of that era. Fellini himself was a character as unique as any he created for Read More

Big Shot's Funeral

Synopsis: An American movie maker famous for living large wants to die in his own unique manner -- which turns out to be harder to pull off than anyone expected -- in this offbeat comedy from Chinese director Feng Xiaogang. Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland) is a well-known American filmmaker who has come to Read More

Piazza delle Cinque Lunes

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Rocca, Greg Wise, Aisha Cerami

Path to War

Actors: Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Inspired by author Robert A. Caro's massive biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the made-for-cable Path to War retraces the world-shaking events occurring between LBJ's jubilant inaugural in 1965 and his tired, dispirited decision not to seek another presidential term in 1968. At the Read More

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods

Synopsis: The first feature-length motion picture to use computer-generated imagery to create not only effects, props, and environments but also the human cast members themselves, this lavish science-fiction adventure follows closely on the heels of another video game-based film, Tomb Raider (2001). Ming-Na Read More

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 2: Passage to India

Uprising

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Uprising is based on the true story of the Jewish Fighting Organization, a courageous band of youthful Polish guerrillas and freedom fighters who refused to knuckle under to the Nazis during World War II. Led by schoolteacher Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria), the organization comes into being as Read More

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 1: Engines of Change

Queen Victoria's Empire [TV Documentary Series]

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 4: The Scramble for Africa

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 3: The Moral Crusade

The Art of War

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Donald Sutherland, Michael Biehn

Synopsis: A spy who has convinced much of the world he doesn't exist now must prove that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this thriller. After the assassination of Wu (James Hong), China's ambassador to the United Nations, in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact, FBI agent Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes Read More

Space Cowboys

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) were top pilots within an elite Air Read More

Panic

Actors: William H. Macy, John Ritter, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: A middle-aged man finds love in the last place he was looking -- his psychiatrist's waiting room -- in this dark comedy drama. Alex (William H. Macy) is a man in his mid-forties who is having something of a midlife crisis; he's unhappy with his life; his marriage to Martha (Tracey Ullman) is going Read More

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: A documentary about the iconic career of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows traces its subject's work from his earliest days in Hollywood to his award-winning (and career-salvaging) films of the 1990s. Directed by Bruce Ricker, who also made the lauded jazz Read More

Virus

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell

Synopsis: When the salvage tug Sea Star is caught unprepared in a violent storm, it slowly sinks, and the crew, led by Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland), wander upon another ship for refuge. The ship, apparently deserted, turns out to be a Russian research vessel loaded with high-tech electronics. The Sea Read More

Instinct

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza

Synopsis: A man who leaves humanity behind to live with animals returns to society under unpleasant circumstances, but with valuable lessons about human and animal relationships. Anthony Hopkins stars as Ethan Powell, a noted anthropologist studying the behavior of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. The longer Read More

The Hunley

Actors: Armand Assante, Donald Sutherland, Alex Jennings, Christopher Bauer, Gerry Becker

Synopsis: The true story of the world's first submarine and its maritime usage by the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Behind the Mask

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Bradley Whitford, Matthew Fox

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Behind the Mask is the true story of Dr. Bob Shushan, a workaholic who disdains any sort of private life--and neglects his family in the process--the better to help his patients at the British Columbian Centre for the Mentally and Physically Disabled. When Shushan suffers a heart Read More

Without Limits

Actors: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: One of two filmed biographies of late track star Steve Prefontaine to be produced in the late '90s, Without Limits comes from director Robert Towne, who previously took a stab at the track-star drama with his directorial debut, 1982's Personal Best. Billy Crudup stars as the ill-fated athlete who Read More

Fallen

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) narrates, taking the audience back to "the time I almost died." This sets a flashback in motion, beginning at the prison cell of Read More

Free Money

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, Marlon Brando, Charlie Sheen, Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis: The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino) to investigate. On the home front, the Read More

Great Books: Gulliver's Travels

Synopsis: The Great Books video series presented by the Discovery Channel introduces literary classics to students and readers, telling the stories with the help of clips from feature films and other dramatically acted scenes. Interviews with scholars provide information about the authors, the historical Read More

Shadow Conspiracy

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Theodore Bikel, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Presidential advisor Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is hunted by an unknown assailant in this political thriller. With the help of Chief-of-Staff Jake Conrad (Donald Sutherland) and the newspaper journalist Amanda (Linda Hamilton), he uncovers an assassination plot to kill the President and his Read More

The Living Edens: Bhutan - The Last Shangri-La

Synopsis: The Living Edens: Bhutan, The Last Shangri-La, a documentary, transports viewers to Bhutan, home to a small Buddhist kingdom, and a place in which time is said to stand still. Pocketed between Tibet and India, Bhutan is often referred to as the jewel of the Himalayas. To the north of the kingdom Read More

The Assignment

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri, Celine Bonnier, Liliana Komorowska

Synopsis: In this drama, a naval officer named Annibal Ramirez (Aidan Quinn) is vacationing in Israel when he's arrested and questioned by Israeli agents, led by Amos (Ben Kingsley). Unknown to Annibal, he bears a striking resemblance to Carlos Sanchez (also played by Aidan Quinn), a famous and feared Read More

Natural Enemy

Actors: Donald Sutherland, William McNamara, Lesley Ann Warren, Joe Pantoliano, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: In this low-budget thriller, which was released directly to video, Donald Sutherland stars as a Ted Robards, a small-time stockbroker who allows promising young Harvard alumnus Jeremy (William McNamara) to move into his home and help run his firm. While pretending to build up the business, Jeremy Read More

Hollow Point

Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, Tia Carrere, Donald Sutherland, John Lithgow, David Hemblen

Synopsis: Tempered with action and adventure, this romantic comedy centers on a pair of rivalrous government agents from different agencies who are forced to team up to stop a wicked crime lord. The FBI agent is a beautiful sexy woman while the handsome DEA agent oozes machismo. Both of their employers are Read More

A Time to Kill

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Clint Eastwood

Citizen X

Actors: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of Burakov (Rea), a Russian forensic pathologist assigned to track down a brutal serial killer who is targeting young drifters. The nature of the Read More

Outbreak

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Synopsis: A handful of scientists struggle to prevent the destruction of a small town -- and possibly the entire country -- in this suspense drama. In the mid-1960s, a deadly virus is discovered in Zaire that wipes out an entire village in 24 hours. Government researchers are brought in to investigate, but Read More

Disclosure

Actors: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: Michael Douglas runs afoul of a treacherous supervisor in this film version of Michael Crichton's novel. Douglas plays Tom Sanders, an executive at DigiCom, a leading computer software firm. DigiCom is about to launch a new virtual reality-based data storage system that is expected to Read More

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Actors: Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: Originally a television mini-series, this drama chronicles the painful and lively reminiscences of a 100 year old woman. Much of the story centers on her tumultuous marriage to a Civil War vet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lifeforce Experiment

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Donald Sutherland stars as a mad scientist in this made-for-television sci-fi thriller. CIA agent Jessica Saunders (Mimi Kuzyk) has been assigned to work in the lab of scientist Dr. Maclean (Sutherland) to gather information. Maclean is doing experiments that seem fascinating and harmless, but Read More

The Puppet Masters

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton

Synopsis: Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters comes to the screen 43 years later. Sharp-eyed viewers will recognize similarities to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Heinlein's book came first. Parasitic space aliens invade the Midwest, taking over the bodies of humans and manipulating Read More

Younger and Younger

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Lolita Davidovich, Brendan Fraser, Julie Delpy, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: Jonathan Younger (Donald Sutherland) runs his offbeat storage facility as if it were an odd amalgam of a nightclub for the rich and famous and a pied a terre for The Addams Family. He greets each customer and potential customer with the flair and sinister graciousness of Bela Lugosi at the door of Read More

Benefit of the Doubt

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Amy Irving, Rider Strong, Christopher McDonald, Graham Greene

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, a woman wonders if she can trust her memory when her father returns from prison a very different man from the violent psychopath she remembers. Karen (Amy Irving) is a single mother who twenty years ago delivered the testimony that put her father Frank (Donald Read More

Six Degrees of Separation

Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith,