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Visionary filmmaker Paul Greengrass is one of the most accomplished directors of his generation.
Greengrass basically reinvented the modern action movie with his 'Bourne Identity' sequels starring Matt Damon including 'The Bourne Supremacy', 'The Bourne Ultimatum', and 'Jason Bourne'. Since then, he has directed such acclaimed films as 'United 93', 'Captain Phillips', 'News of the World', and 'The Lost Bus'.
His latest movie, 'The Uprising' starring Andrew Garfield, opens in theaters on September 10th.
In honor of the new film, Moviefone is ranking every movie Paul Greengrass has ever directed from worst to best, including his latest.
Let's begin!
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13. 'Resurrected' (1989)
A Falklands War soldier (Tom Bell) missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
12. '22 July' (2018)
On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik (Anders Danielsen Lie) murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.
11. 'The Theory of Flight' (1999)
Richard (Kenneth Branagh) is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to meet Jane (Helena Bonham Carter), a young woman dying of motor neuron disease. After they strike up a friendship, Jane asks Richard to help fulfill her deepest wish: to lose her virginity before her death.
10. 'The Lost Bus' (2025)
A determined father (Matthew McConaughey) risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher (America Ferrera) and her students from a raging wildfire.
9. 'Bloody Sunday' (2002)
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
8. 'Jason Bourne' (2016)
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA (Matt Damon) is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
7. 'Green Zone' (2010)
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
6. 'The Uprising' (2026)
Andrew Garfield stars as the leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II (Woody Norman). Set against the true events of the Uprising that helped inspire the legend of Robin Hood, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice.
5. 'United 93' (2006)
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
4. 'News of the World' (2020)
A Texan (Tom Hanks) traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl (Helena Zengel) who was kidnapped.
3. 'The Bourne Ultimatum' (2007)
Bourne (Matt Damon) is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
2. 'Captain Phillips' (2013)
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
1. 'The Bourne Supremacy' (2004)
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Matt Damon) and Marie (Franka Potente) have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
