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Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and screenwriter who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films.
Trained as a boxer in his early years, Rourke had a short stint as a professional boxer in the 1990s. He won a 2009...
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The Informers
The Informers is a 2009 American ensemble film drama written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and directed by Gregor Jordan. The film is based on Ellis' 1994 collection of short stories of the same name. The film, which is set amidst the...
Angel Heart
Angel Heart is a 1987 mystery-thriller film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet. The film is adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg, and is generally faithful to the...
Animal Factory
Animal Factory is a film about life in prison, set in San Quentin and directed by actor Steve Buscemi. It was made in 2000.
Edward Furlong plays a young man named Ron Decker, who is sent to prison for drug possession, and Willem Dafoe is veteran con...
Barfly
Barfly is a 1987 film which is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles, California. The screenplay by Bukowski was commissioned by the French film director Barbet Schroeder – it...
Buffalo '66
Buffalo ’66 is a 1998 film, and is writer/director Vincent Gallo's semi-autobiographical full-length motion picture debut. Gallo and Christina Ricci star in the lead roles and the supporting cast includes Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Ben Gazzara...
Desperate Hours
Desperate Hours is a 1990 film, a remake of the 1955 Humphrey Bogart crime drama of the same name, which was in turn based on the novel by Joseph Hayes. Desperate Hours stars Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Kelly Lynch, Lindsay Crouse...
Diner
Diner is a 1982 comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon, Tin Men, and Liberty Heights constitutes his series of "Baltimore films". Diner is the first film Levinson directed. His screenplay was nominated for...
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Domino
Domino is a 2005 action film directed by Tony Scott; inspired by the story of Domino Harvey, the English daughter of stage and screen actor Laurence Harvey, who became a bounty hunter working in Los Angeles. The film is dedicated to Domino Harvey,...
Double Team
Double Team is a 1997 film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark (in his American directorial debut) and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman and Mickey Rourke. Van Damme plays counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn, who is assigned to...
F.T.W.
F.T.W. (aka Last Ride) is a 1994 film about Frank T. Wells, an ex-con rodeo rider who becomes involved with a woman who's a bank robber on the run.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is a 1991 action film, starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson. The film was written by Don Michael Paul and directed by Simon Wincer.
The film was a critical and financial failure, earning only $7,000,000 at the...
Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 western movie based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. The film's production was plagued by cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about...
Man on Fire
Man on Fire is a 2004 US film based on the novel by A. J. Quinnell. The story follows Creasy, an ex-CIA operative who takes revenge on a gang that kidnapped the child he was hired to protect. The film was directed by Tony Scott and starred Denzel...
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a 2003 action film written, edited and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the final film in the "Mariachi Trilogy", which also includes El Mariachi and Desperado. Antonio Banderas reprises his role as El Mariachi. The...
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film centers on the relationship between the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey...
Sin City 2
Sin City 2 is the 2010 sequel to Sin City starring Jessica Alba, and Rachel Weisz.
In the dark bowels of Sin City, Dwight plans to have his vengeance against the woman who betrayed him. Ava Lord, while Nancy is trying to cope with Hartigan's death....
Spun
Spun is a 2002 independent movie directed by Jonas Åkerlund. This is Åkerlund's début as a film director after being better known for his work on music videos. The film was shot in 22 days.
The film’s title is a reference to the slang term for the...
Stormbreaker
Stormbreaker is a 2006 spy film based on Anthony Horowitz's novel of the same name, the first novel in the Alex Rider series. It stars newcomer Alex Pettyfer as the teenage spy alongside actors Mickey Rourke and Ewan McGregor. In the United States,...
The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 American film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young. Page earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her two-scene role in...
Thursday
Thursday is a 1998 American movie written and directed by Skip Woods.
Casey Wells (Thomas Jane) has cleaned up his life. He is now a married architect and is looking to adopt a child with his wife when Nick (Aaron Eckhart), an old partner from his...
Wild Orchid
Wild Orchid is the title of a 1990 erotic film starring Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis, Jacqueline Bisset, Bruce Greenwood, and Assumpta Serna. It was directed by Zalman King, from the screenplay by King and Patricia Louisiana Knopp.
Emily (Otis), a...
Get Carter
Get Carter is the 2000 remake of the 1971 crime film of the same name, starring Sylvester Stallone in the title role. The film also features Miranda Richardson, Rachel Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, Rhona Mitra. Michael Caine, who starred...
Homeboy
Homeboy is a 1988 drama film, directed by Michael Seresin. It was written by and stars Mickey Rourke in the role of self-destructive cowboy/boxer Johnny Walker. Christopher Walken also stars as Walker's slightly corrupt promoter, who encourages him...
Body Heat
Body Heat is a 1981 neo-noir film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It stars William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston and Mickey Rourke. It may be cited as an example of postmodern pastiche, as its sets are an...
Bullet
Bullet is a 1996 crime drama film directed by Julien Temple and starring Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur, John Enos III, Ted Levine and Adrien Brody. The screenplay was written by Rourke and Bruce Rubenstein. The film was released a month after Shakur's...
Fade to Black
Fade to Black is a 1980 slasher film starring Dennis Christopher, Eve Brent Ashe, and Linda Kerridge. Mickey Rourke also features in a small role. The film was nominated for many Saturn Awards, and Eve Brent Ashe won one for Best Supporting Actress....
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon is a 1985 film directed by Michael Cimino, starring Mickey Rourke, Ariane Koizumi and John Lone. The screenplay was written by Cimino and Oliver Stone, and was adapted from the novel by Robert Daley.
Mickey Rourke plays Stanley...
9½ Weeks
9½ Weeks is a 1986 erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The film is based on the novella of the same title by Elizabeth McNeill.
The film was not a major success commercially in the United States,...
White Sands
White Sands is a 1992 motion picture directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros.. The movie is about a small U.S. southwestern town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the...
Eureka
Eureka (1983), directed by Nicolas Roeg, is the story of Klondike prospector, Jack McCann (Hackman) who strikes it rich, yet ends up fearing that his daughter Tracy (Theresa Russell) and his son-in-law (Rutger Hauer) are scheming to take his wealth...
A Prayer for the Dying
A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke,Liam Neeson Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates. The film is based on the Jack Higgins novel of...
The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker is a 1997 American motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Damon. It is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.
Rudy Baylor is a graduate of. the Memphis State University Law School. Unlike...
BMW films
The BMW film series, The Hire was a series of eight short films (averaging about ten minutes each) produced for the Internet in 2001 and 2002. A form of branded content, all eight films featured popular filmmakers from across the globe, starred...
Johnny Handsome
Johnny Handsome is an 1989 American crime-drama film directed by Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin and Morgan Freeman. The film was written by Ken Friedman, from the novel by John Godey.
A career criminal who has been deformed...
The Wrestler
The Wrestler is a 2008 drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, and Ernest Miller. Production began in January 2008, and the film premiered at the 2008 Venice...
Killshot
Killshot is a 2009 thriller film based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. The film is directed by John Madden and stars Diane Lane and Thomas Jane as a couple who, despite being in a witness protection program, are confronted by...
Love in Paris
Love in Paris is a romance/drama film released in 1997, a sequel to 1986's 9½ Weeks. In the United States, it was in fact released under the title Another 9½ Weeks. It stars Mickey Rourke, who reprises his original role as John Gray. The film,...
Out in Fifty
Out in Fifty is a 1999 independent film directed and written by Bojesse Christopher and Scott Leet, which also stars in this film together with actor Mickey Rourke. Film also stars Peter Greene, Ed Lauter, Balthazar Getty, James Avery and Christina...
Picture Claire
Picture Claire is a 2001 thriller film directed by Bruce McDonald of a screenplay by Semi Challas. The film stars Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Callum Keith Rennie, Kelly Harms, Camilla Rutherford, Peter Stebbings, and Mickey Rourke. The film...
Francesco
Francesco is a 1989 docu-drama relating in flashback St. Francis of Assisi's evolution from rich man's son to religious humanitarian and finally to full-fledged saint. The film was based on Herman Hesse's Francis of Assisi, which director Liliana...
Shades
Shades is a 1999 Belgian film directed by Erik Van Looy and written by Looy, Paul Breuls and Guy Lee Thys. The story is loosely inspired on the Belgian murderer Freddy Horion and his escape from prison in 1982.
Music for the film was composed by...
Masked and Anonymous
Masked and Anonymous is a 2003 film written and directed by Larry Charles. It was co-written by and stars iconic rock legend Bob Dylan alongside a star-heavy cast, including John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Penélope Cruz, Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke and...
13
Not to be confused with Thirteen (film).
13 is an upcoming English-language remake of the 2005 French film 13 Tzameti. The film is directed and written by Géla Babluani, who directed and wrote the original film.
A naive young man assumes a dead man...
The Expendables
The Expendables is an upcoming 2010 ensemble action film written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. Filming began on March 28, 2009 in Brazil, New Orleans, and Los Angeles and is expected to be released on August 20, 2010. The film pays tribute to...
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Iron Man II
Iron Man 2 is an upcoming 2010 superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics fictional character Iron Man. The film is directed by Jon Favreau, with Robert Downey Jr. reprising the title role. The film is to be released on May 7, 2010.
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