Movies with Joaquin Phoenix

Reservation Road

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Starring: Antoni Corone, Mark Ruffalo, Mira Sorvino, Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly, John Slattery, Elle Fanning

Directors: Terry George

Country: USA, Germany

Year: 2007

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello - beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever. On a warm September evening, law associate Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old son Lucas are attending a baseball game. Their favorite team, the Red Sox, is playing - and, hopefully, heading for the World Series. Dwight cherishes his time spent with ...

 

Brother Bear

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Starring: Rick Moranis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Greg Proops, Joaquin Phoenix, Harold Gould, D.B. Sweeney, Jeremy Suarez

Directors: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker

Country: USA

Year: 2003

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Long ago, as the Earth was emerging from the Ice Age, there were three brothers. After a bear takes the life of the oldest brother, impulsive youngest brother Kenai kills the bear in revenge, only to be transformed into a bear himself. Denahi, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed Kenai, vows revenge. Now brother hunts brother and Kenai's only hope for survival is to befriend his own worst enemy, a grizzly cub named Koda. Koda main goal is to show Kenai the real meaning of brotherhood.

 

The Master

Genres: Drama

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Ryan Curtis, Price Carson, Mike Howard, Dan Anderson, Sarah Shoshana David, Bruce Goodchild

Directors: Paul Thomas Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 2012

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def

Returning from Navy service in World War II, Freddie Quell drifts through a series of PTSD-driven breakdowns. Finally he stumbles upon a cult which engages in exercises to clear emotions and he becomes deeply involved with them.

 

Ladder 49

Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Morris Chestnut, Billy Burke, John Travolta, Jay Hernandez, Tim Guinee, Robert Patrick

Directors: Jay Russell

Country: USA

Year: 2004

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Assistant Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him.

 

Earthlings

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Persia White

Directors: Shaun Monson

Country: USA

Year: 2007

Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.

 

Clay Pigeons

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Phil Morris, Scott Wilson, Vince Vieluf, Gregory Sporleder

Directors: David Dobkin

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 1998

Clay (as in the title) is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Into this comes a serial killer who befriends Clay, even to murdering the nagging widow for him... but certainly not at Clay's request. But that doesn't matter for the police, as well as for a savvy female FBI agent who sees Clay as their prime suspect. Yet Clay doesn't tell them of his 'friend' who admits to him of his serial killings, primarily because Clay sees himself as somew...

 

The Yards

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: James Caan, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Tony Musante, Ellen Burstyn, Charlize Theron, Victor Argo

Directors: James Gray

Country: USA

Year: 2000

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts. Willie Gutierrez, Leo's best friend, is Frank's bag man and heads a crew of midnight saboteurs who ruin the work of the Puerto Rican-owned firm. Leo needs a job, so Willie pays him to be his back-up. Then things go badly wrong one night, a cop IDs Leo, and everyone now wants him out of the picture. Besides his ailing mom and his cousin...

 

I'm Still Here

Genres: Comedy, Music

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Ben Stiller, Edward James Olmos, David Letterman, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Eddie Rouse

Directors: Casey Affleck

Country: USA

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the documentary follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.

 

Quills

Genres: Romance, Drama, History

Starring: Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Amelia Warner, Geoffrey Rush, Patrick Malahide, Michael Jenn

Directors: Philip Kaufman

Country: Germany, USA, UK

Year: 2000

The infamous writer, The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France, is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylumn. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier, who run's the asylumn, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. Emperor Napolean contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylumn, a man famed for his torturous punishments. It could mean the end of Charanton and possibly the Marquis himself.

 

Parenthood

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Rick Moranis, Joaquin Phoenix, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves, Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Hulce

Directors: Ron Howard

Country: USA

Year: 1989

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

 

Buffalo Soldiers

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Dean Stockwell, Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Ellis, Ed Harris, Anna Paquin, Gabriel Mann

Directors: Gregor Jordan

Country: Germany, UK

Year: 2001

1989. The Berlin Wall is about to fall, and the world is about to be made safe for the new world order. But outside of Stuttgart, West Germany, at Theodore Roosevelt Army Base, Specialist Ray Elwood of the 317th Supply Battalion is about to find his own cold war turn white hot. Elwood's a lovable rogue, a conscript who's managed to turn his military servitude into a blossoming network of black market deals, more out of boredom than ambition. Officially, there's his day job as battalion secretary to the inept but caring Commander Wallace Berman. On the side, there's everything from selling the locals stolen Mop'N'Glo to cooking heroin for the ...

 

The Village

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Starring: Judy Greer, Sigourney Weaver, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Michael Pitt, William Hurt, Celia Weston

Directors: M. Night Shyamalan

Country: USA

Year: 2004

In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods: the townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays true for many years, but when Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from the towns beyond the wood, the pact is challenged. Animal carcasses, devoid of fur, begin to appear around the village, causing the council of elders to fear for the safety of the village, the pact, and so much more.

 

Two Lovers

Genres: Romance, Drama

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Moni Moshonov, Elias Koteas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini, Vinessa Shaw, John Ortiz

Directors: James Gray

Country: USA

Year: 2008

Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fianc

 

It's All About Love

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Penn, Alun Armstrong, Claire Danes, Mark Strong, Geoffrey Hutchings, Margo Martindale

Directors: Thomas Vinterberg

Country: Germany, USA, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden

Year: 2003

The time is out of joint: it's July, 2021, but snow falls in New York City, people freeze in Uganda, gravity has lost its power in parts of Africa, and hearts give out suddenly. John, an academic on his way to Calgary, stops in New York to meet his wife Elena, a world-renowned skater, at the airport for a quick signing of divorce papers. Instead, she sends bodyguards who take John to her hotel where he catches whiffs of a plot that may place her in mortal danger. Can he trust her brother, Michael? Meanwhile, his own brother, Marciello, circles the globe in a plane observing the onset of global winter. Is there a corner of the world where love...

 

8MM

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

Starring: Peter Stormare, Nicolas Cage, Anthony Heald, Chris Bauer, Joaquin Phoenix, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini

Directors: Joel Schumacher

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 1999

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye.

 

To Die For

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Illeana Douglas, Dan Hedaya, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Rispoli, Casey Affleck, Alison Folland

Directors: Gus Van Sant

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1995

Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do ANYTHING to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

 

Return to Paradise

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama

Starring: David Conrad, Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow, David Zayas

Directors: Joseph Ruben

Country: USA

Year: 1998

Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three American guys who meet and hang out one summer at the beach huts of Malaysia. There they enjoy the luxuries of women, rum and hashish. As the summer ends, Tony and Sheriff go back to New York, but Lewis decides to go to Borneo to help save the orangutan. But before he got the chance to leave, he was arrested for possession of the leftover hash and sentenced to death because he was considered to be trafficking. Two years go by and Sheriff and Tony are living their lives peacefully in The Big Apple when Lewis' lawyer tells them the news: three years each if they both go, six years if one goes, Lewis' death if n...

 

Gladiator

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Starring: Spencer Treat Clark, Djimon Hounsou, Tommy Flanagan, John Shrapnel, Joaquin Phoenix, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Russell Crowe

Directors: Ridley Scott

Country: USA, UK

Year: 2000

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

In Gladiator, victorious general Maximus Decimus Meridias has been named keeper of Rome and its empire by dying emperor Marcus Aurelius, so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate. Marcus' neglected and power-hungry son, Commodus, has other ideas, however. Escaping an ordered execution, Maximus hurries back to his home in Spain, too late to save his wife and son from the same order. Taken into slavery and trained as a gladiator by Proximo, Maximus lives only that he might someday take his revenge and fulfill the dying wish of his emperor. The time soon comes when Proximo's troupe is called to Rome to participate in...

 

Walk the Line

Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography

Starring: Larry Bagby, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Dan Beene, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Tyler Hilton

Directors: James Mangold

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 2005

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A woman's love, given reluctantly, saves a man from addiction and self-destruction. Traces the life of Johnny Cash from his boyhood, with the loss of a brother and the loss of his father's affection, to 1968 when his outlaw side and his unhappiness give way to the twin triumphs of his concert at Folsom Prison and June Carter's acceptance of his marriage proposal. Along the way there's his first composition, first recording, first marriage, daughters, being smitten with June, divorce, pills and booze, an empty life, and the Carter family's nursing him back to health. June eases Johnny out of a ring of fire.

 

We Own the Night

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Antoni Corone, Robert Duvall, Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Alex Veadov, Dominic Colon

Directors: James Gray

Country: USA

Year: 2007

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Brooklyn, 1988. Crime is rife, especially drugs and drug violence. A Russian thug is building his heroin trade, while everyone laughs at the cops. Brothers have chosen different paths: Joe has followed his father Bert into New York's Finest; he's a rising star. Bobby, who uses his mother's maiden name, manages a club. Bobby too is on the rise: he has a new girlfriend and a green-light to develop a Manhattan club. Joe and Bert ask him to help with intelligence gathering; he declines. Then, Joe raids Bobby's club to arrest the Russian. From there, things spiral out of control: the Russian puts out a hit on Joe, personal losses mount, and Bobby'...