Movies starring Harrison Ford

Biography: 
His father was Irish, his mother Russian-Jewish. He was a lackluster student at Maine Township High School in Park Ridge Illinois (no athletic star, never above a C average). After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock, he signed a Hollywood contract with Columbia and later Universal. His roles in movies and TV ( "The "Ironside" (1967)", "Virgi ...  show all 

Air Force One (1997)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Gary Oldman | Glenn Close | Wendy Crewson | Liesel Matthews | Paul Guilfoyle | Xander Berkeley | William H. Macy | Dean Stockwell | Tom Everett | Jürgen Prochnow | Donna Bullock | Michael Ray Miller | Carl Weintraub | Elester Latham
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman star in this thriller about a steadfast U.S. President who has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. Now, Russian neo-nationalists have hijacked Air Force One and the President is faced with a nearly impossible decison: give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country’s dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

Air Force One (1997)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Gary Oldman | Glenn Close | Wendy Crewson | Liesel Matthews | Paul Guilfoyle | Xander Berkeley | William H. Macy | Dean Stockwell | Tom Everett | Jürgen Prochnow | Donna Bullock | Michael Ray Miller | Carl Weintraub | Elester Latham
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman star in this thriller about a steadfast U.S. President who has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. Now, Russian neo-nationalists have hijacked Air Force One and the President is faced with a nearly impossible decison: give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country’s dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Shaw | Harrison Ford | Barbara Bach | Edward Fox | Franco Nero | Carl Weathers | Richard Kiel | Alan Badel | Michael Byrne | Philip Latham | Angus MacInnes | Michael Sheard | Petar Buntic | Leslie Schofield | Anthony Langdon
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler’s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he’ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from its triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team’s plan goes awry in a firestorm of blistering battles, Barnsby and the squad’s hard-driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even more dangerous scheme to attack the Nazi war machine . . . or risk losing the rest of Europe to its awesome, destructive power.

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Willem Dafoe | Anne Archer | Joaquim de Almeida | Henry Czerny | Harris Yulin | Donald Moffat | Miguel Sandoval | Benjamin Bratt | Raymond Cruz | Dean Jones | Thora Birch | Ann Magnuson | Hope Lange | Tom Tammi
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President’s “life long” friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the “victim” of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss’s. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA’s involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it’s sole boss. James Cutter, the President’s National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark’s men subsequently being captured by Cortez’s mercenaries.

Patriot Games (1992)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Anne Archer | Patrick Bergin | Sean Bean | Thora Birch | James Fox | Samuel L. Jackson | Polly Walker | J. E. Freeman | James Earl Jones | Richard Harris | Alex Norton | Hugh Fraser | David Threlfall | Alun Armstrong
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy’s techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family.

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Sam Spruell | Peter Stebbings | Christian Camargo | Roman Podhora | Sam Redford | Steve Nicolson | Liam Neeson | Ravil Issyanov | Tim Woodward | Lex Shrapnel | Shaun Benson | Kristen Holden-Reid | Dmitry Chepovetsky | Christopher Redman | Tygh Runyan
Directors: Kathryn Bigelow
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The story of USSR’s first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine’s crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.

What Lies Beneath (2000)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Michelle Pfeiffer | Diana Scarwid | Joe Morton | James Remar | Miranda Otto | Amber Valletta | Katharine Towne | Victoria Bidewell | Eliott Goretsky | Ray Baker | Wendy Crewson | Sloane Shelton | Tom Dahlgren | Jayson Argento
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman’s stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband’s urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams | Anthony Daniels | Peter Mayhew | Sebastian Shaw | Ian McDiarmid | Frank Oz | James Earl Jones | David Prowse | Alec Guinness | Kenny Baker | Michael Pennington | Kenneth Colley
Directors: Richard Marquand
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The Empire is more than halfway through construction of a new Death Star - almost twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. When completed, it will spell certain doom for Luke Skywalker and the Rebels. Han Solo is a prisoner of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and Princess Leia soon finds herself in the gangster’s hands. Luke Skywalker, aided by C-3PO and R2-D2, makes his way into Jabba’s palace, hoping to secure his friends’ freedom. But the Hutt has no intention of doing so and tries to kill them all. After escaping from Jabba and the sands of Tatooine, they regroup with the Rebel fleet, which is massing for an attack against the new satellite battle station at Endor. Lando Calrissian is pressed into action to lead the Rebel fighter attack, while Han is put in charge of a group of soldiers to take out the shield generator protecting the Death Star. Luke, however, surrenders to Vader’s soldiers on Endor, and is taken in front of Vader’s boss - the Galactic Emperor - on the Death Star for final corruption to the Dark Side of the Force. The fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers ambushes the Rebels, cutting them off. Worse, the new Death Star begins turning its giant laser on the Rebel carriers. It appears that nothing will stop the Empire’s triumph - unless things start to change quickly…

Firewall (2006)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Bettany | Robert Patrick | Harrison Ford | Virginia Madsen | Mary Lynn Rajskub
Directors: Richard Loncraine
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With his family held for ransom, the head security executive for a global bank is commanded to loot his own business for millions in order to ensure his wife and children’s safety. He then faces the demanding task of thwarting the kidnapper’s grand scheme, which makes him look guilty of embezzlement.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Kate Capshaw | Jonathan Ke Quan | Amrish Puri | Roshan Seth | Philip Stone | Roy Chiao | David Yip | Rick Young | Chua Kahjoo | Rex Ngui | Philip Tan | Dan Aykroyd | Dr. Akio Mitamura | Michael Yama
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Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is back in action in the 2nd Indy film. He teams up with a night club singer and a 12 year old named Short Round. They end up in an Indian village, where the people believe evil spirits have taken their children away after a sacred stone was stolen. Indiana agrees to try and retrieve the stone for the villagers.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Peter Cushing | Alec Guinness | Anthony Daniels | Kenny Baker | Peter Mayhew | David Prowse | James Earl Jones | Phil Brown | Shelagh Fraser | Jack Purvis | Alex McCrindle | Eddie Byrne
Directors: George Lucas
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In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the mythical planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations. It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. During a recent battle techical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named The Death Star, have been unearthed by Rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the Rebellion. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized. The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light sabers. The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan - but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the Rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Marlon Brando | Martin Sheen | Frederic Forrest | Laurence Fishburne | Sam Bottoms | Dennis Hopper | Albert Hall | Harrison Ford | G.D. Spradlin | Jerry Ziesmer | Scott Glenn | Bo Byers | James Keane | Kerry Rossall
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Josh Hartnett | Lena Olin | Bruce Greenwood | Isaiah Washington | Lolita Davidovich | Keith David | Master P | Gladys Knight | Lou Diamond Phillips | Meredith Scott Lynn | Tom Todoroff | James MacDonald | Kurupt | André Benjamin
Directors: Ron Shelton
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When not solving murders in Tinseltown, Detective Joe Gavilan and his rookie partner Kasey Calden both moonlight in other fields: Gavilan sells real estate (poorly), and Calden aspires to become an actor (Brando, namely). Assigned to the vicious in-club slaying of a promising young rap act, the two detective delve into the recording industry where they hope to find answers - ideally ones that also come with property buyers or auditions.

The Fugitive (1993)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Tommy Lee Jones | Sela Ward | Julianne Moore | Joe Pantoliano | Andreas Katsulas | Jeroen Krabbé | Daniel Roebuck | L. Scott Caldwell | Tom Wood | Ron Dean | Joseph F. Kosala | Miguel Nino | John Drummond | Tony Fosco
Directors: Andrew Davis
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Based off of a one time 1960’s Mini-Series. (This is not correct. It was a full-blown TV series that ran for four years.) A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to prison, Kimble’s transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble makes up his own investigation to find who really killed his life, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well.