10 Best Charles Bronson Movies According To IMDb
10 Best Charles Bronson Movies, According To IMDb
Charles Bronson was the quintessential Hollywood tough guy. Across his decades-long career, he had many acclaimed movies with impressive IMDb scores.
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There are no movie stars like Charles Bronson today. In his heyday, Bronson was a uniquely badass on-screen presence. Along with Lee Marvin and Jason Statham, Bronson is one of Hollywood’s only authentic tough guys. In the ‘70s, he became the face of vigilante justice in action cinema.
Bronson worked with such legendary directors as Sergio Leone, Robert Aldrich, Walter Hill, and J. Lee Thompson across a wide variety of genres. Over the course of his decades-long acting career, Bronson played war heroes, western outlaws, vigilantes, and morally ambiguous cops.
10 Death Wish – 7.0
This movie might not take the top spot, but it’s the movie that’s most likely to pop into a moviegoer’s head when they think of Charles Bronson. The role of Paul Kersey, an architect who takes the law into his own hands when his wife and daughter are attacked by a street gang, reinvented Bronson’s on-screen persona as a hard-as-nails vigilante.
Directed by Michael Winner, Death Wish was wildly controversial for its perceived advocacy of vigilantism, but its box office success led to a trend of vigilante thrillers throughout the 1970s.
9 Vera Cruz – 7.1
Set during the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, Robert Aldrich’s Vera Cruz follows a band of American antiheroes who take on the task of escorting a countess to Vera Cruz on behalf of Emperor Maximilian.
While Bronson was a dependable leading man by the ‘70s, Vera Cruz was released back in the ‘50s when he played bit parts in other actors’ starring vehicles. This one stars Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, and Cesar Romero (best known as the Joker opposite Adam West’s Batman).
8 Jubal – 7.1
Starring Glenn Ford, Rod Steiger, and Valerie French, Jubal is a western romantic drama about sexual politics. Bronson has a supporting role as Reb Haislipp, the only ally of Ford’s titular Jubal Troop.
This movie was in very safe hands with Delmer Daves, the director of such classic westerns as Broken Arrow and the original 3:10 to Yuma. Jubal has since been released on DVD and Blu-ray as part of the Criterion Collection.
7 House Of Wax – 7.1
André De Toth’s House of Wax is an early example of a 3D horror movie. The owner of a wax museum survives the building being burned down and seeks gruesome revenge.
This movie revitalized the career of Vincent Price, who became a B-movie legend with roles in horror films like The Masque of the Red Death and The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
6 Hard Times – 7.3
Walter Hill’s action-packed directorial debut Hard Times stars Bronson as Chaney, a drifter in the Great Depression, scraping an illegal living as a bare-knuckle boxer. He teams up with a hustler played by James Coburn to make ends meet and the two end up in New Orleans.
This is a classic example of an action-driven narrative. Chaney effortlessly beats down every competitor until he encounters a tough-as-nails fighter who could be his equal.
5 Crime Wave – 7.3
Bronson reunited with House of Wax director André De Toth for the film noir Crime Wave, but he was credited under his birth name as “Charles Buchinsky.”
Like many film noirs, Crime Wave tells the story of a convict trying to go straight and live a legitimate life as he’s slowly drawn back into the criminal underworld.
4 The Magnificent Seven – 7.7
Directed by John Sturges, The Magnificent Seven is famously a western reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai in which Mexican peasants hire seven gunfighters to defend their town from bandits.
The titular group of gunslingers is made up of a star-studded ensemble cast including Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, and of course, Charles Bronson.
3 The Dirty Dozen – 7.7
Another Robert Aldrich movie, The Dirty Dozen is a classic World War II antihero story about the U.S. Army enlisting a bunch of convicted murderers to go on a mass assassination mission of German officers that they aren’t expected to survive.
Starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and John Cassavetes alongside Bronson, The Dirty Dozen is one of the quintessential entries in the guys-on-a-mission war caper subgenre.
2 The Great Escape – 8.2
John Sturges also worked with Bronson on The Great Escape, the epic World War II tale of a bunch of Allied P.O.W.s teaming up to break out of a German prison camp.
Once again, Bronson joins a star-studded ensemble cast, appearing alongside Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. Bronson plays the P.O.W. who digs the tunnels for their escape.
1 Once Upon A Time In The West – 8.5
Arguably Sergio Leone’s masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West is a love letter to the western genre. Leone and his co-writers stitched together all the classic moments from the western canon into a cohesive plot, then draped their uniquely operatic cinematic vision over it.
Bronson stars as “Harmonica,” a mysterious gunslinger in the vein of Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” from the Dollars trilogy. Harmonica is named after the harmonica he plays when he kills people. Opposite Bronson, Henry Fonda plays radically against type as the sadistic villain he has a grudge against.
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