List Of The Top 12 Adrien Brody Movies:
#12 Predators (2010)
Adrien Brody plays Royce, an American mercenary.
“He’s someone who’s done everything in his power to shed emotional attachment to things,” Adrien said about the character. He went on to say: “It is an awesome reboot of the action franchise.”
#11 Peaky Blinders
In 2017, Brody performed in 6 episodes of the TV show Peaky Blinders as New York mob boss Luca Changretta.
“A character like that was something that I’d been wanting to play for many years,” Brody told EW.
Adrien Brody attends the “Manodrome” photocall during the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin 2023 – @Getty
#10 The Experiment
The Experiment, a morality play about how power begets violence, comes from writer/director Paul T. Scheuring. It is a remake of the 2001 German film Das Experiment. The German film is also based on the real-life 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.
Adrien portrayed Travis, a man who agrees to participate in a study as a prisoner.
#9 The Grand Budapest Hotel
In 2014, Adrien played Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis in The Grand Budapest Hotel, a comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson. It premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
Adrien Brody and his mother, photographer Sylvia Plachy attend the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 – @Getty
Ralph Fiennes also starred as Monsieur Gustave H.
“It’s probably one of my favorite films of Wes’ all time,” he stated about The Grand Budapest Hotel. “Full of wonderful moments, and the experience of making it was really special. It’s really kind of a timeless movie.”
#8 King Kong
In 2005, he starred in King Kong as screenwriter Jack Driscoll.
Adrien Brody and his partner Georgina Chapman arrive at the “Manodrome” premiere during the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin – @Getty
“Kong shot for nine months over the space of a year,” he told Games Radar in an exclusive interview. “I got to work with a really brilliant filmmaker [Peter Jackson] on a very creative, collaborative film.”
He previously turned down a chance to work with Jackson in The Lord of the Rings. “I don’t know what part I would have been right for, but it was some Hobbit-like character,” he later admitted.
#7 The Darjeeling Limited
In The Darjeeling Limited, three brothers, played by Jason Schwartzman, Brody, and Owen Wilson, get together 12 months after their dad’s funeral. The cast also includes Bill Murray, Irrfan Khan, Camilla Rutherford, Natalie Portman, Wallace Wolodarsky, and Waris Ahluwalia.
“An odd, flawed, but nonetheless beautifully handmade object,” film critic A. O. Scott wrote in The NY Times about The Darjeeling Limited.
Adrien Brody is seen on February 28, 2013 in Los Angeles – @Getty
#6 Midnight in Paris
In Midnight in Paris, he performed as Salvador Dalí. The film was directed by Woody Allen and premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Midnight in Paris grossed $151 million worldwide on a $17 million budget.
#5 The Village
The Village is a gothic tale of monsters in the woods. The thriller was directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
“Part of what attracted me to The Village was that it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues,” the New York native explained. He added, “It was the first time in ages that I was without my cell phone.”
Adrien Brody suprises presenter Halle Berry with a kiss after he won the Oscar – @Getty
#4 Detachment
Brody stars in Detachment as the substitute teacher Henry Barthes, who adapts to the lifestyle of substitute teaching. Henry eventually becomes a role model to his students.
The film can be read as an indictment of the public school system. Detachment is too grim to become a more commercial hit.
“He is incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable, so I didn’t need to do research in terms of watching other teachers in a classroom,” Adrien said about his character in an interview with Vanity Fair.
#3 The Brutalist
The film tells the story of Hungarian immigrant and Holocaust survivor László Tóth. It was notably made for less than $10 million and made over $50 million worldwide.
Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman with FIJI Water at The 40th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2025 – @Getty
The Brutalist was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, and Adrien won the Oscar for Best Actor for a second time in his career.
“The wonderful thing is, it’s an opportunity for me to honour my ancestral struggles,” Brody revealed. “It’s taken me two decades to find something of this caliber, and for that I’m grateful.”
#2 The Jacket
Adrien plays Jack Starks, a war veteran who is locked up in a mental institution. The screenplay is based on a story by Marc Rocco and Tom Bleecker. The Jacket is a film that’s worth a look when you’re feeling a little bit existential.
#1 The Pianist
He played Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s 2002 film The Pianist.
Adrien Brody attends the “Based On A True Story” screening during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival – @Getty
The Pianist received a 13-minute standing ovation when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2003, Brody won an Oscar for his performance in The Pianist. He was 29 years old when he won. He set a new Oscar record as the youngest Best Actor winner.
For the role, he took on a near-starvation diet.
“I definitely had an eating disorder for at least a year,” Brody told Variety.
“It’s a great story that I lost all this weight for this role [30 pounds and brought his weight to just 129 pounds] and learned to play Chopin and all that stuff.” He added, ‘That was a physical transformation that was necessary for storytelling.”
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