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Gung-ho action, cartoonish politics, a hackneyed story and toe-curling dialogue make for a bland and brainless dud. Butler does the action-man/asshole schtick in London this time, with the filmmakers dolloping on extra xenophobia, racial stereotypes…
How to Train Your Dragon 2
- Directed by: Dean DeBlois
- Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.
J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harington
- UK release: 10 July 2014
Sequel to the 2010 hit film with the original cast returning.
Chasing Mavericks
- Directed by: Michael Apted/Curtis Hanson
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Elisabeth Shue
- UK release: 5 July 2013
The true story of surfer Jay Moriarty (Weston) who enlisted the help of veteran surfer Frosty Hesson (Butler) to help him train for the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on earth.
Olympus Has Fallen
- Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
- UK release: 17 April 2013
When a team of Korean paramilitaries take the US President (Eckhart) hostage, it's up to disgraced security chief Mike Banning (Butler) to stage a rescue attempt.
Windy nonsense.
Gods of Egypt
- Directed by: Alex Proyas
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Bryan Brown
- UK release: 17 June 2016
In an alternative world where the gods walk the earth, Egyptian gods Set (Butler) battles Horus (Coster-Waldau) and tears out his eyes – whereupon Horus wants revenge.
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King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, drawing in the entire London underworld into a feeding frenzy at a time when the old criminal regime is losing turf to a wealthy foreign mob.
When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.
An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept.
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A London antiques dealer (Christopher Plummer) travels to New Orleans to save his estranged daughter from his nemesis, Count Dracula (Gerard Butler).
After kidnapping the daughter of a couple, a man (Pierce Brosnan) forces the two (Gerard Butler, Maria Bello) to comply with a series of daunting tasks.
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
Gilly, fresh out of prison, and J, a hustler with a major drug problem, just can't shake their criminal ways.
The friendship of a loyal servant, Scotsman John Brown (Billy Connolly), revives the spirits of Britain's widowed Queen Victoria (Judi Dench).
A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
Mortal hero Bek teams with the god Horus in an alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness, who has usurped Egypt's throne, plunging the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict.
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways.
Gerard Butler Movies
List of the best Gerard Butler movies: 300(2006), RocknRolla(2008), Chasing Mavericks(2012), The Phantom of the Opera(2004), Den of Thieves(2018), Machine Gun Preacher(2011), Hunter Killer(2018), Olympus Has Fallen(2013), Greenland(2020), Angel Has Fallen(2019), The Game of Their Lives(2005), One More Kiss(1999) ...
Fiennes, debuting as director, creates a modern day, war-torn Rome using Serbian locations, restless cinematography and an excellent cast, making this a powerful and resonant…
Machine Gun Preacher
- Directed by: Marc Forster
- Written by: Jason Keller
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon
- UK release: 2 November 2011
The true story of Sam Childers who progresses from drug dealer to crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who had been forced to become soldiers.
How to Train Your Dragon
- Directed by: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
- Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.
J. Miller, Kristen Wiig
- UK release: 31 March 2010
Commendable new DreamWorks animation set in the mythical world of Vikings and dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell. See full summary »
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
In Denmark, during the 6th century, Danish king Hrothgar and his warriors kill a troll whose son, Grendel, vows revenge.
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance.
In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment.
and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S.
Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.
Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 U.S.
soccer team, who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Ridiculous melodrama of cheesy CGI punctuated by cheesy soap opera histrionics, with untold millions dying in eco-catastrophes until the US saves the day. In its certainty about good guys and bad guys it has a certain nostalgic seduction, but it's basically derivative, cheesy and fantastically unconvincing.
Movie 43
- Directed by: Patrik Forsberg, Peter Farrelly, Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner
- Written by: Rocky Russo, Jeremy Sosenko, Patrik Forsberg, Will Carlough, James Gunn
- Cast: Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, Anna Faris, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Kate Winslet
- UK release: 1 February 2013
Star-studded but puerile anthology of inept sketches, tenuously roped together by the mirthless antics of three teenage boys searching online for the most controversial movie ever.
Although no U.S. team has ever won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her ...
It may be about subs, but it’s a real floater.
Geostorm
- Directed by: Dean Devlin
- Written by: Dean Devlin, Paul Guyot
- Cast: Abbie Cornish, Gerard Butler, Mare Winningham
- UK release: 20 October 2017
Satellite architect and space cowboy Jake (Butler) has designed a device to protect our planet from climate change, but it’s sabotaged.
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Playing for Keeps
- Directed by: Gabriele Muccino
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Dennis Quaid
- UK release: 1 January 2013
George (Butler), a former football star, tries to reconnect with his estranged wife (Biel) and son (Lomax) by coaching his son’s soccer team, if he can only fight off the town’s soccer moms (Zeta-Jones, Thurman, Greer).
His attempts to become an adult are met with challenges from the attractive football moms who pursue him at every turn.
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.
Dane Jensen is a hard-driven headhunter who's gearing up for the professional battle of his life.
The franchise is running out of steam; there’s too much going on and the central bond is obscured.
The Vanishing
- Directed by: Kristoffer Nyholm
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Connor Swindells
A fictionalised version of the true story of the disappearance of the keepers of Flannan Isles lighthouse in 1900, with James (Buter), Thomas (Mullan) and Donald (Swindells) competing for a stash of stolen gold.
Derivative and silly but thoroughly enjoyable, 'Gamer' is modern exploitation filmmaking at its low…
Law Abiding Citizen
- Directed by: F Gary Gray
- Written by: Kurt Wimmer
- Cast: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby, Regina Hall
Messily attempting to juggle crowd-pleasing retribution with cheap pot shots, this tale of one man's fight against the corrupt judiciary system and the ambitious attorney (Foxx) that set free his wife's murderer is undermined by a dubious morality and an unpleasant glorification of violence.
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Films: Gerard Butler
Den of Thieves 2
- Directed by: Christian Gudegast
- Cast: Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evin Ahmad, Salvatore Esposito, Meadow Williams, Swen Temmel
Big Nick is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie, who is embroiled in the treacherous world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world's largest diamond exchange.
How to Train Your Dragon
- Directed by: Dean DeBlois
- Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, Murray McArthur
This breathtaking live-action reimagining of the first film in the beloved animated saga, brings the epic adventures of Viking Hiccup and Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon, to life with jaw-dropping realism.
A formulaic redemption story in which the characters lack dimensions and the outcome is predictable.
Coriolanus
- Directed by: Ralph Fiennes
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, Paul Jesson
- UK release: 20 January 2012
Coriolanus (Fiennes) is a valiant Roman soldier whose contempt for the masses causes him to fall victim to the city's scheming politicians.
Together, Hiccup and Toothless discover the true meaning of friendship, courage, and destiny as they navigate a…
Plane
- Directed by: Jean-François Richet
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An
- UK release: 27 January 2023
When a pilot is forced to land to avoid a terrifying storm, he finds himself in a war zone.
Night Has Fallen
- Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
- Cast: Gerard Butler
Another film in the …Has Fallen series.
Copshop
- Directed by: Joe Carnahan
- Cast: Frank Grillo, Gerard Butler, Toby Huss
A con artist finds himself trapped in a police station, hunted by an assassin.
Angel Has Fallen
- Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Piper Perabo
- UK release: 21 August 2019
Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerald Butler) evades his own agency as he attempts to find out who framed him for trying to murder the US President.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
- Directed by: Dean DeBlois
- Cast: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Kit Harington, Justin Rupple, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, F.
Murray Abraham, Gerard Butler
- UK release: 1 February 2019
Hiccup (voiced by Baruchel) is now a chief with growing responsibilities, while Toothless the dragon is in love; but then dragon hunter Grimmel (Abraham) is determined to spoil people’s fun. If you add a FanClub membership during your Fandango movie ticket purchase, your two free tickets will be delivered instantly at checkout.