Biography: Joaquin Phoenix |

Staying true to his last name, Joaquin Phoenix has made a career out of making a couple of films, disappearing, and then reappearing from the ashes to rise upward toward greater glory. The actor, who began his career under the name of "Leaf," lived... more
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Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow Isabella Rossellini   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Romantic Drama 
Length: 100min
A depressed young man moves back in with his parents and finds his life turned upside down as he struggles to choose between the beautiful daughter of a close family friend and the scintillating but volatile next-door neighbor whose passion helps to...

Cast: Robert Duvall   
Tags: Period Film Drama Crime Drama 
Length: 117min
Set against the backdrop of the bloody battle waged between New York City cops and the Russian mafia in the 1980s, director James Gray's period drama tells the tale of an emerging club manager whose family ties to law enforcement make him a target for...

Cast: Reese Witherspoon James Mangold   
Tags: Romantic Drama Musical Drama Biopic Drama 
Length: 136min
James Mangold's Walk the Line tells the life story of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), focusing primarily on the long courtship he had with June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). The film is structured as an extended flashback opening...

Cast: Jennifer Connelly Mira Sorvino   
Tags: Psychological Drama Crime Thriller Drama 
Length: 102min
The lingering weight of tragedy threatens to pull two men under following a harrowing hit-and-run accident in a quiet revenge drama directed by Terry George and starting Mark Ruffalo and Joaquin Phoenix. When his son is killed in an unsolved...

Cast: Nick Nolte Jean Reno Joaquin Phoenix   
Tags: Political Drama Docudrama Drama 
Length: 121min
Hotel Rwanda tackles one of the most horrifically ugly events in recent history, when the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis (who had been given power by the...

Cast: William Hurt Adrien Brody Sigourney Weaver   
Tags: Psychological Thriller Rural Drama Thriller 
Length: 109min
M. Night Shyamalan, the creative mind behind The Sixth Sense and Signs, wrote and directed this characteristically atmospheric hriller. The rustic village of Covington is a small town in rural Pennsylvania that is home to 60 souls. The citizens of...

Cast: Mel Gibson   
Tags: Alien Film Science Fiction Thriller 
Length: 106min
Following the smash hit The Sixth Sense (1999) and the under-performing follow-up Unbreakable (2000), directing phenom M. Night Shyamalan returns to the summer box office landscape that served as the backdrop for his cinematic breakthrough. In Signs,...

Cast: Sean Penn   
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Science Fiction Psychological Sci-Fi 
Length: 105min
An estranged couple are brought back together as they run for their lives in a future world where science as well as emotions have gone haywire in this sci-fi drama from director Thomas Vinterberg. In the year 2021, the world seems to have become a...

Cast: John Travolta   
Tags: Family Drama Drama Melodrama 
Length: 114min
An everyday hero recalls his life as he's forced to look death in the eye in this adventure drama. Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) is a young firefighter who is a member of Ladder Company 49, led by Capt. Kennedy (John Travolta), a tough but...

Cast: Dave Thomas Rick Moranis   
Tags: Family Animal Picture 
Length: 85min
In the Disney-animated adventure Brother Bear, Joaquin Phoenix provides the voice of Kenai, a young Native American boy whose brother, Sitka (voice of D.B. Sweeney), is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. With revenge in mind, Kenai sets out...
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