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Robert Downey Jr.
Robert John Downey, Jr. (born April 4, 1965), is an American actor, film producer, and musician. Downey made his screen debut at the age of five when he appeared in one of his father's films, and has worked consistently in film and television ever since. During the 1980s, he had roles in a series...
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1969
1969 is a 1988 drama film starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, and Winona Ryder. It was written and directed by Ernest Thompson. The original music score is composed by Michael Small.
In 1969, two best friends, Ralph Karr (Robert Downey Jr...
A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology...
Air America
Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots, during the Vietnam War, flying missions in Laos. The protagonists discover their planes are used by...
Back to School
Back to School is a 1986 comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, William Zabka, Sam Kinison, and Robert Downey, Jr., based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr..
The plot centers on a wealthy but uneducated...
Chaplin
Chaplin is a 1992 British biographical film about the life of English comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, and Anthony Hopkins. It also features...
Eros
Eros is a 2004 portmanteau film consisting of three short films: Wong Kar-wai's The Hand, Steven Soderbergh's Equilibrium and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Dangerous Thread of Things.
In North America, critical response for Eros was very mixed. ...
Firstborn
Firstborn is a 1984 drama film starring Teri Garr, Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Corey Haim (in his film debut), Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr..
Jake Livingston has always been the man of the Livingston home since his parents were...
Game 6
Game 6 is a 2005 American film directed by Michael Hoffman, first presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and released in the United States in 2006. The film depicts the events of 25 October 1986 in the life of Nicky Rogan, specifically the...
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005 film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of...
Heart and Souls
Heart and Souls is a 1993 fantasy/comedy film about the souls of four deceased people who are trapped on earth and can only be seen by a single living human being who is recruited to help them take care of their unfinished business. The movie was...
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Jodie Foster and produced by Peggy Rajski and Jodie Foster. The screenplay was by W. D. Richter based on the short story by Chris Radant. The music score was by Mark Isham and the...
Johnny Be Good
Johnny Be Good is a 1988 comedy film, directed by film editor Bud S. Smith, in his only film in the director's chair. It stars Anthony Michael Hall as the main character Johnny Walker, Robert Downey Jr., Steve James, Jennifer Tilly and Uma Thurman....
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 crime/black comedy film, which engages many conventions of the classic film noir genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. It is based, in part, on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by Brett Halliday. The cast includes...
Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero is a 1987 film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. It stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas for the first time since Thanksgiving, when he found out that his...
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 crime film directed by Oliver Stone about a pair of mass murderers and the media coverage given to them. It stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, along with Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Sizemore, and...
One Night Stand
One Night Stand is a 1997 drama film by British director Mike Figgis. The first draft of the screenplay was written by Joe Eszterhas, who had his name removed from the project following Figgis' rewrite.
Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in...
Richard III
Richard III is a 1995 drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dame Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West....
Soapdish
Soapdish is a 1991 comedy film which tells a backstage story of the cast and crew of a popular fictional television soap opera. It stars Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg,...
The Gingerbread Man
The Gingerbread Man is a 1998 legal thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on a discarded John Grisham manuscript. The film stars Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, and Robert Duvall.
Divorced...
The Shaggy Dog
The Shaggy Dog is a 2006 remake of the 1959 film of the same name. It was rated PG by the MPAA for some mild rude humor.
Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) is a deputy district attorney, whom viewers see prosecuting activists who have broken into and...
The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective is a 2003 film based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, a work by Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson.
Suffering from the skin disease psoriasis and a crippling arthritis, detective novelist Dan Dark...
True Believer
True Believer is a 1989 courtroom drama directed by Joseph Ruben and released by Columbia Pictures.
The film stars James Woods as burnt-out attorney Eddie Dodd, who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Robert Downey Jr. plays...
U.S. Marshals
U.S. Marshals is a 1998 action thriller film, and a spiritual sequel to The Fugitive. The storyline of U.S. Marshals does not feature the character Dr. Richard Kimble, and the part of main protagonist has been passed onto Samuel Gerard and his team...
Zodiac
Zodiac is a 2007 American film directed by David Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction book of the same name. The Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. joint production stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey, Jr..
Zodiac...
Weird Science
Weird Science is a 1985 American teen film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. The film's producer Joel Silver acquired film rights to the pre-Comics Code Authority 1950s EC...
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 American action satire comedy film directed and produced by Ben Stiller. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr. as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated writer and...
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Gothika
Gothika tells the store of Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry),
a dedicated and successful criminal psychologist who awakens to find herself a
patient in her own mental institution with no memory of the murder she's
apparently committed. She soon learns...
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Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 American comedy drama film directed by Jon Poll. The screenplay by Gustin Nash focuses on a teenager who begins to dispense therapeutic advice and prescription drugs to the student body at his new high school in order to...
In Dreams
In Dreams is a psychological thriller directed by Neil Jordan, released in 1999. The film has a running time of 1 hour and 40 minutes.
In Dreams has the distinction of being the last film Robert Downey, Jr. completed before being sent to Corcoran...
Danger Zone
Danger Zone is a 1997 movie directed by Allan Eastman and starring Billy Zane and Robert Downey Jr.
Black and White
Black and White is a 1999 film directed by James Toback, starring Jared Leto, Scott Caan, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, Robert Downey Jr., Allan Houston and a number of rap musicians, namely members of the Wu-Tang Clan (Raekwon, Method Man,...
Friends and Lovers
Friends & Lovers is a 1999 American romantic-drama film directed and co-written by George Haas about a group of twentysomethings on a ski trip. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Claudia Schiffer and Robert Downey, Jr..
As Christmas season approaches, Ian is...
The Pick-up Artist
The Pick-up Artist is a 1987 American film written and directed by James Toback. This romantic comedy starred Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA.
Randy Jensen (Ringwald) is a smart, independent tour guide who beats...
Only You
Only You is a 1994 film starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr.,Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida and Fisher Stevens which was directed by Norman Jewison.
Faith Corvatch (Tomei) believes that she is destined to be with a man named Damon Bradley after...
Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys is a 2000 feature film based on the 1995 novel of the same title by Michael Chabon. Directed by Curtis Hanson, it stars Michael Douglas as professor Grady Tripp, a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university...
Tuff Turf
Tuff Turf is a 1985 American drama film starring James Spader and Kim Richards. The film was released in the United States on January 11, 1985.
Morgan (Spader) is a troubled teenager from Connecticut who relocates to Los Angeles with his brother and...
The Soloist
The Soloist is a 2009 drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez. The film is based on a true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a...
Restoration
Restoration is a 1995 film adapted by Rupert Walters from the novel by Rose Tremain. It was directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker, Meg Ryan, Ian McKellen, Ian McDiarmid and Hugh Grant.
A...
Fur
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (also known simply as Fur) is a 2006 film starring Nicole Kidman as iconic American photographer Diane Arbus, who was known for her strange, disturbing images.
For the film, director Steven Shainberg, best...
Chances Are
Chances Are is a 1989 romantic comedy film written by Perry & Randy Howze and directed by Emile Ardolino. Starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre....
Two Girls and a Guy
Two Girls and a Guy is a film produced in 1998 by Edward R. Pressman and Chris Hanley. The director was James Toback, who also wrote the screenplay.
The film opens with Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and Carla Bennett (Heather Graham) waiting in front...
Rented Lips
Rented Lips is a 1988 feature film. The movie was filmed in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, California.
In this comedy film, a pair of naive documentarians find themselves in over their heads when they agree to finish an "art film" for the head of a...
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree is a television Christmas special that first aired in 1995. The special stars Robert Downey, Jr., Leslie Nielsen, and Stockard Channing. It also features Kermit the Frog as a narrator and various other muppets created...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 crime/drama film written and directed by Dito Montiel and based on his memoir of the same name.
Dito (Robert Downey Jr.) is a boy growing up in Astoria, New York. All around him, his friends end up...
Hugo Pool
Hugo Pool is a 1997 film directed by Robert Downey Sr..
The Last Party
The Last Party is a documentary film co-written by and starring Robert Downey, Jr. Interviews and commentary cover moments of history during the 1992 presidential campaigns and investigate the issues of the day with Downey's particular brand of off...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American film starring Robert Downey, Jr., Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson and Shia LaBeouf. It is based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in...
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional character of the same name. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert...
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Too Much Sun
Too Much Sun is a 1991 documentary directed by Robert Downey Sr.. It was filmed in Beverly Hills, California, USA and Los Angeles, California, USA,. This was Howard Duff's final film.
In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest...
The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. It is directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner/the Hulk. It is not a sequel to Hulk (2003), but rather a reboot that...
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Iron Man II
Iron Man 2 is an upcoming 2010 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name from Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures. It is the sequel to 2008's Iron Man, and the second film in a planned trilogy. Directed by Jon...
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That's Adequate
That's Adequate is a 1989 mockumentary documenting a fictional Hollywood studio, Adequate Film Studios. Narrated and hosted by Tony Randall, the film features an all-star cast including James Coco, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, and...
Short Cuts
Short Cuts is a 1993 drama film directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. Substituting a Los Angeles setting for the Pacific Northwest...
Due Date
Due Date is an upcoming road trip/comedy film directed by Todd Phillips and starring Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, RZA, Joel W. Gonzales, and Jamie Foxx. Filming has started in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Albuquerque, New...
Greaser's Palace
Greaser's Palace is a 1972 American film directed by Robert Downey Sr. A parable based on the life of Christ, it is full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.
