Last summer, actor Harrison Ford celebrated his 77th birthday. Yes, this is not an anniversary or an occasion, but does it really need a reason to recall the best films with his participation? We have collected outstanding 10 paintings, but in fact there are much more, since the filmography of this talented person is impressive.
We present you the rating of the top 10 best films featuring Harrison Ford: a list of memorable films with your favorite actor in the title role.
10. Aircraft of the President (1997)
Action of 1997, or thriller (whatever), filmed by Wolfgang Petersen. At Rotten Tomatoes "President airplane»Has an approval rating of 76% based on 55 reviews, with an average score of 6.99 / 10.
Peter Travers from Rolling Stone awarded the film 3.5 / 4 stars, calling it “excellent,” and concluded: “This film does not offend the public. It was created by a filmmaker who lives with thrills and packs them into every frame. Welcome to something rare during rude commercialism».
The plot is simple: the plane with the first person of the United States is captured, but on board, fortunately for the president, there is a war veteran performed by Ford, who will be able to deal with the terrorists.
9. Good morning (2010)
2010 American comedy, shot by Roger Michell and written by Alyn Broche McKenna. In the foreground of the film "Good morning"Stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum.
The plot revolves around the young and loyal morning television producer Becky Fuller, who was hired as an executive producer on a long morning show on the once-famous but currently disastrous network in New York.
In an effort to keep the show on air, she hires a former journalist and news presenter who does not approve of the joint broadcasting and is generally quite nasty.
8. Star Wars (1977)
This is the first part of the original trilogy "Star wars", Which was retroactively made the fourth episode, although it came out first.
The film began the career of Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. Ford, after working on the film, told Daily Mirror that Star Wars created it and said: “I think the big luck in my career is that I got into this franchise».
7. Games of the Patriots (1992)
American spy thriller directed by Phillip Noyce based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. "Patriot Games"- the continuation of the 1990 film" Hunt for Red October ", but with different actors: Harrison Ford starring Jack Ryan and Anne Archer as his wife. James Earl Jones repeats his role as Admiral James Greer. The cast also includes Sean Bean, Samuel L. Jackson, James Fox and Richard Harris.
CIA retired analyst Jack Ryan on vacation with his family in London. They witness a terrorist attack on Lord William Holmes, the Minister of State for Northern Ireland. Ryan intervenes and gets injured, but he kills one of the attackers, Patrick Miller, while his older brother Sean Miller sees this.
The rest of the attackers flee as Sean is detained by the police. During recovery, Ryan is called to testify in court against Miller, who is part of a cell of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. This finally changes the life of the protagonist, drawing him into dangerous adventures.
6. Witness (1985)
“Witness”- Neo-Noir romantic thriller directed by Peter Weir. Starring Harrison Ford, McGillis, Danny Glover, Joseph Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Patti LuPone and Viggo Mortensen.
The screenplay of William Kelly, Pamela Wallace and Earl Wallace is dedicated to a detective protecting the young Amish, as the boy witnesses the murder in Philadelphia.
5. K-19 (2002)
In 1961, the Soviet Union launched a nuclear submarine with a nuclear installation. K-19 under the command of captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) and assistant Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson). He was allegedly appointed due to the political ties of his wife, as well as Polenin’s desire to demonstrate the morale and safety of the crew before Soviet pride.
Having discovered that the reactor officer is drunk and sleeps on duty, Vostrikov dismisses him, having received Vadim Radchenko (Petr Sarsgaard), who has just come from the academy, to replace him. Failure accompanies the launch: the medical officer was killed by a truck and replaced by the chief medical officer of the command, who never went to sea, and the first bottle of champagne did not crash on board. However, the trouble on this has just begun.
4. What hides the lie (2000)
2000 American horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. After her daughter Caitlin goes to college, Vermont housewife Claire Spencer begins to notice a bad relationship between her new neighbors, Mary and Warren Fer. Claire Norman's husband, an experienced scientist and professor, does not share her concern.
After several days of Mary's absence, Claire suspects that Warren may have killed her. Claire sees the image of a woman swimming in the lake, and discovers a key in the ventilation hole in her house, after which Claire finds a bathtub filled with hot water and with the inscription on the mirror: "You know." Who knows what will become clear only after watching the movie “What hides the lie».
3. The Fugitive (1993)
Dr. Richard Kimble, a renowned Chicago surgeon, comes home and finds his wife Helen mortally wounded. Kimble fights the killer, but he runs away. Lack of evidence of hacking, Helen's lucrative life insurance policy and misunderstood 911 call lead to Kimble illegally convicted of first-degree murder and subsequent death sentence.
When transported to a death row by bus, his cellmates try to escape. The pandemonium sends the bus to the ravine on the way of the oncoming train, but Kimble saves the guard, and he escapes. Now fugitive the goal is to find the wife’s killer, take revenge and justify himself.
2. Blade Runner (1982)
The iconic 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peeples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young. "Blade runner"Is largely based on the novel by Philip C. Dick," Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? " (1968).
The film takes place in the future, in the dystopia of Los Angeles in 2019. Here, powerful corporations created synthetic humans, known as replicants, to work on extraterrestrial colonies. When a fugitive from the Nexus-6 group of replicants led by Roy Betty (Hower) runs away back to Earth, policeman Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to track them down.
1. Indiana Jones (1981)
In the first episode of the franchise "Indiana Jones"Starred Harrison Ford as an archaeologist who fights with a group of Nazis looking for the Ark of the Covenant. After Star Wars, he has long been a star, but this franchise has taken his career to a new level. He starred with Karen Allen in the role of the former lover of Indiana.
The production was based at Elstree Studios, England, but filming also took place in France, Tunisia, Hawaii and California from June to September 1980.
The film became the highest grossing in 1981 and remains one of the highest grossing so far (adjusted for inflation).