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Last summer, actor Harrison Ford celebrated his 77th birthday. Yes, this is not an anniversary and not a reason, but do you really need a reason to remember the best films with his participation? We have collected 10 outstanding films, but in fact there are many more, since the filmography of this talented person is impressive.
We present you the rating of the top 10 best films with the participation of Harrison Ford: a list of memorable films with your favorite actor in the title role.
10 President’s Plane (1997)
Action 1997, or thriller (anyone), filmed by Wolfgang Petersen. On Rotten Tomatoes”Aircraft Presidenthas a 76% approval rating based on 55 reviews, with an average score of 6,99/10.
Peter Travers of 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 cinematographer who lives for thrills and packs them into every frame. Welcome to something rare in a time of rough commercialism».
The plot is simple: the plane with the first person of the United States is hijacked, but, fortunately for the president, a war veteran played by Ford is on board, who can deal with the terrorists.
9. Good Morning (2010)
2010 American comedy film directed by Roger Michell and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. In the foreground of the filmGood morning» stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum.
The plot revolves around a young and dedicated morning television producer, Becky Fuller, who has been hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show on a once-famous but now failed New York City network.
In an effort to keep the show on the air, she hires a former journalist and news anchor who disapproves of co-hosting the show and generally has a rather nasty temper.
8. Star Wars (1977)
This is the first part of the original trilogyStar Wars”, which was retroactively made the fourth episode, although it came out first.
The film launched the careers of Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. Ford, after working on the film, told the Daily Mirror that Star Wars created it and said, “I think the biggest blessing in my career is that I got into this franchise.».
7. Patriot Games (1992)
American spy thriller directed by Phillip Noyce based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. “Patriot Gamesis a sequel to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, but with different actors: Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan and Ann Archer as his wife. James Earl Jones reprises his role as Admiral James Greer. The cast also includes Sean Bean, Samuel L. Jackson, James Fox and Richard Harris.
Retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan is on holiday with his family in London. They witness a terrorist attack on Lord William Holmes, Minister of State for Northern Ireland. Ryan intervenes and is injured, but he kills one of his attackers, Patrick Miller, while his older brother Sean Miller sees it.
The rest of the attackers flee as Sean is apprehended by the police. While recovering, Ryan is called to testify in court against Miller, who is part of a Provisional Irish Republican Army cell. This finally changes the life of the protagonist, drawing him into dangerous adventures.
6. Witness (1985)
“Witnessis a neo-noir romantic thriller directed by Peter Weir. Starring Harrison Ford, McGillis, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Patti LuPone and Viggo Mortensen.
Written by William Kelly, Pamela Wallace and Earl Wallace, the detective defends a young Amish as the boy witnesses a murder in Philadelphia.
5. K-19 (2002)
In 1961, the Soviet Union launched a nuclear submarine K-19 under the command of Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) and assistant Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson). He was allegedly appointed due to his wife’s political connections, as well as Polenin’s desire to demonstrate the morale and safety of the crew to Soviet pride.
Finding out that the reactor officer is drunk and sleeping on duty, Vostrikov fires him, getting Vadim Radchenko (Peter Sarsgaard), who is fresh from the academy, to replace him. Failure follows the launch: a medical officer is killed by a truck and replaced by the command’s chief medical officer, who never went to sea, and the first bottle of champagne did not break on board. However, the trouble was only just beginning.
4. What lies behind (2000)
2000 American horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. After her daughter Caitlin leaves for college, Vermont housewife Claire Spencer begins to notice the bad relationship between her new neighbors, Mary and Warren Fehr. Claire’s husband Norman, an accomplished scientist and professor, does not share her concerns.
After several days of Mary’s absence, Claire suspects that Warren may have killed her. Claire sees a picture of a woman floating in a lake and discovers a key in an air vent in her house, whereupon Claire finds a tub filled with hot water and with “You Know” written on the mirror. Who knows what will become clear only after watching the film.What lies behind».
3. The Fugitive (1993)
Dr. Richard Kimble, a famous Chicago surgeon, comes home to find his wife Helen mortally wounded. Kimble fights the assassin, but the assassin escapes. Lack of break-in evidence, Helen’s lucrative life insurance policy, and a misunderstood 911 call lead to Kimble’s wrongful conviction for first-degree murder and subsequent death sentence.
While being transported to death row by bus, his cellmates attempt to escape. The Pandemonium sends the bus into a ravine in the path of an oncoming train, but Kimble is saved by the guards while he escapes. Now fugitive the goal is to find the killer of his wife, take revenge and justify himself.
2. Blade Runner (1982)
1982 cult science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young. “Blade Runneris loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968).
The film is set in the future, in a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019. Here, powerful corporations have created synthetic humans known as replicants to work on off-world colonies. When a fugitive from a group of Nexus-6 replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, police officer Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.
1. Indiana Jones (1981)
In the first episode of the franchiseIndiana Jones“starred Harrison Ford as an archaeologist who fights 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 the next level. He co-stars with Karen Allen as Indiana’s ex-lover.
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 film in 1981 and remains one of the highest-grossing films ever since (adjusted for inflation).