Movies directed by Peter Weir Gallipoli (1981) 110 mins Adventure , Drama, War I'm a bit lost having watched "Gallipoli", not something I like to admit, but it is not the movie I was anticipating because whilst a war movie the actual war element is only the third act, before that we have 2 acts of male ... The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) 115 mins Drama "The Year of Living Dangerously" is the sort of movie which for a long time I have steered clear off, not because it sounded something I wouldn't enjoy but it is set in a county and era I have no connection to. Is that import... Witness (1985) 112 mins Drama, Romance, Thriller A young boy is a witness to a murder and when he identifies the murderer as being a narcotics cop the boy, his mother and the detective in charge of the case must go into hiding. That doesn't sound the most original of ideas ... The Mosquito Coast (1986) 117 mins Adventure , Drama, Thriller The saying goes that there are two sides to every story and there are certainly two sides to the story at the heart of "The Mosquito Coast". There is the first side which is all about a man who having grown tired of the way A... Dead Poets Society (1989) 128 mins Drama In "Dead Poets Society" the character John Keating proclaims "Words and ideas can change the world" you could add to that so do movies. Released back in 1989 "Dead Poets Society" could easily be classified as another one of t... Green Card (1990) 107 mins Comedy, Drama, Romance It is said that writer and director Peter Weir wrote "Green Card" with Gérard Depardieu in mind as he desperately wanted to work with the French star and it shows. This movie is for the most very typical, a predictable... The Truman Show (1998) 112 mins Comedy, Drama, Fantasy I'll be honest; I really disliked "The Truman Show" when it was released in 1998, maybe because it wasn't like anything else that Jim Carrey had done before or maybe because I just didn't get it. But a few years later and hav... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 138 mins Action , Adventure , Drama Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Russell Crowe stars as Captain Jack Aubrey of the H.M.S. Surprise who is hunting down a French vessel... The Way Back (2010) 133 mins Adventure , Drama "The Way Back" starts by telling us about 3 men who arrived in India having walked 4,000 miles after escaping a Russian Gulag in Siberia. That comes from Slavomir Rawicz's novel which is reportedly based on a true story but t... * This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Peter Weir as one of the directors. 1 pages / 9 reviews Simple list of Peter Weir movies