Pierce Brosnan has long been one of Hollywood’s charming leading men. First making audiences swoon as the dashing detective in Remington Steele, and then, as James Bond in 1995’s GoldenEye. Over four Bond movies, Brosnan redefined the spy archetype with grit, elegance, and wit.
But Brosnan’s career has never been confined to martinis and spy adventures. He’s played romantic leads and singing leads, and morally ambiguous politicians. Most recently, he has taken a bleaker turn in MobLand, the gritty Paramount+ crime series where Brosnan plays a Southern crime boss. If watching the show has got you in the mood for revisiting Brosnan movies, Netflix has you covered. We rounded up every Pierce Brosnan movie currently on Netflix and ranked them by their Rotten Tomatoes scores.
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‘The Out-Laws’ (2023) – RT 19%
Criminally Silly, Occasionally Charming
The Out-Laws follows Owen Browning, a bank manager preparing to marry his yoga-instructor fiancée, Parker. Parker’s estranged parents, Billy and Lilly McDermott (Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin), kill those plans when they show up at the wedding. The family bonds over skydiving, tattoos, and heavy drinking while Owen’s bank is robbed by the infamous “Ghost Bandits.”
The movie is a madcap mixture of slapstick, action hijinks, and family dysfunction. Brosnan, cast as the grizzled ex-criminal, brings surprising intensity and dry wit that boost the material, especially when he intimidates Adam DeVine’s Owen, with Barkin matching his energy through sarcasm. The humor is all over the place, and some jokes land. In contrast, others fall flat, but despite its 19% Rotten Tomatoes rating, The Out-Laws isn’t entirely unwatchable. It wants to be everything from a heist thriller to a raunchy comedy, and ends up being a mildly entertaining mood-lifter.
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‘Black Adam’ (2022) – RT 39%
Brosnan Shines in a Mediocre Movie
Black Adam resurrects Teth-Adam (Dwayne Johnson) after five thousand years imprisoned, unleashing a entity whose brand of justice has no interest in mercy. Standing against him is the Justice Society of America, and among them is Kent Nelson, better known as Doctor Fate, a sorcerer who can see the future and knows exactly how his own ends. Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, and Quintessa Swindell round out the team, with Jaume Collet-Serra directing.
The film is a mess of competing tones and CGI sludge, which the 39% Tomatometer reflects fairly enough, and the DC universe it was meant to launch was scrapped within a year. What survives it is Brosnan, who plays Doctor Fate with a fatigued grace that suggests a whole character history the script never bothers to write, and every scene he shares with Hodge’s Hawkman lands better than anything involving the title character. If you watch this one, watch it for him.
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‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’ (2020) – RT 63%
Campy, Fun, and Surprisingly Moving
A gleefully absurd musical comedy, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga centers on Lars Erickssong (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit Ericksdóttir (Rachel McAdams), two childhood friends from the small Icelandic town of Húsavík, who are united via their shared dream of winning the Eurovision Song Contest. Their band, Fire Saga, is known locally for offbeat performances and crowd-pleasing nonsense. But when an accident eliminates the other Icelandic participants, Lars and Sigrit enter the international spotlight.
Brosnan plays Erick Erickssong, Lars’ disapproving father. His role is small but memorable, spent mostly scoffing at Lars’ musical ambitions and delivering judgmental one-liners. Eurovision captures the spirit of the real competition, but reviews are mixed: some found it uneven and overlong, while others were thrilled by the musical numbers. Silly fun worth a watch if you don’t expect too much.
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‘Riverdance: The Animated Adventure’ (2021) – RT 67%
Celebration of Irish Culture and Heritage
Set in a lovely Irish coastal village, Riverdance: The Animated Adventure follows young Keegan, whose world shatters after the death of his beloved grandfather, a lighthouse keeper and Riverdance enthusiast. Struggling with grief, Keegan stumbles into an enchanted realm with his Spanish friend Moya and meets a herd of Megaloceros Giganteus, who teach them the true meaning of Riverdance.
Directed by Dave Rosenbaum and Eamonn Butler, this animated adventure is gorgeous to look at, with lush Irish landscapes and fluid dance sequences that pay homage to the stage show, plus a score from Bill Whelan, who composed the first production. Brosnan voices Patrick, the grandfather, in a warm, steady, quietly poignant performance that carries real emotional power in the early sequences despite his limited screen time. The 67% score comes from a small pool of just six reviews, most praising the animation and music.
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‘The Thursday Murder Club’ (2025) – RT 77%
Cozy Crime With a Stacked Cast
Based on Richard Osman’s bestselling novel, The Thursday Murder Club follows four irrepressible retirees at the Coopers Chase retirement village who meet weekly to solve cold cases for fun. Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley), Joyce (Celia Imrie), and Ron (Brosnan). When a property developer turns up dead, the hobby becomes a real investigation. Chris Columbus directs, with Steven Spielberg producing.
The film is a cozy contemporary whodunit, with a 77% Tomatometer score. Brosnan is the surprise here, playing thoroughly against type as a gruff, working-class Londoner in a role that looked like miscasting on an announcement and turned into the performance people came away talking about. David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Richard E. Grant, and Naomi Ackie fill out a supporting cast that is almost comically overqualified.
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‘Fast Charlie’ (2023) – RT 84%
Brosnan’s Best Late-Career Showcase
In Fast Charlie, Brosnan plays Charlie Swift, a New Orleans fixer with a problem: the target he just whacked is missing his head, and he can’t get paid until the body is identified. He enlists the victim’s ex-wife, Marcie Kramer (Morena Baccarin), and the two end up on an unpredictable, dangerous quest. Phillip Noyce directs.
This is the highest-rated Brosnan film on Netflix, with the consensus that it’s a slick, watchable thriller that engages despite a standard story. Brosnan is having a genuinely great time here, playing an aging hitman with the ageless charm he’s always had, and the film’s real surprise is the understated love story running beneath all the violence. Caan’s presence gives the whole thing an elegiac quality nobody planned for, and at 90 minutes it never overstays.
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