Mickey Rourke
Actor | Writer
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 Golden Globe award and a BAFTA award, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for his work in the film The Wrestler. He appears as the main villain Whiplash in Iron Man 2 along with Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, and Sam Rockwell and is also well known for playing Marv in Sin City.
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
As: The Projectionist
At a forgotten, haunted bijou, a group of strangers have assembled to watch a series of macabre vignettes unspooled by the mysterious Projectionist. Like the best anthology films, the stories' tones range from truly deep, dark, psychological, demented horror to ones with a lighter, satirical spin. Witness a ghost story that will chill you to the bone; an exorcism story guaranteed to make your head spin; a B&W descent into ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Mick Garris | Alejandro Brugués | Joe Dante | Ryûhei Kitamura | David Slade
Stars: Mickey Rourke
Weaponized (2016)
As: Professor Clarence Peterson
A damaged homicide detective (Johnny Messner) must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a "robotic virus" that he believes will destroy the terrorist cell that murdered his son, but at an unimaginable cost.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Timothy Woodward Jr.
Stars: Tom Sizemore | Mickey Rourke | Taylor Cole | Johnny Messner | Jon Foo
Blunt Force Trauma (2015)
As: Zorringer
Follows the journey of John and Colt, gunfighters and sometime lovers, on parallel but very different journeys through an underground dueling culture.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Ken Sanzel
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Freida Pinto | Ryan Kwanten | Maruia Shelton | Carolina Gómez
Ashby (2015)
As: Ashby Holt
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Tony McNamara
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Nat Wolff | Emma Roberts | Sarah Silverman | Adam Aalderks
Skin Traffik (2015)
As: Vogel
After his last assignment ended with the death of an innocent woman, a hitman's new job in London is compromised when he is overcome with guilt, and ends up helping a desperate woman who is caught up in a human trafficking operation.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Ara Paiaya
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Daryl Hannah | Eric Roberts | Michael Madsen | Dominique Swain
Hollywood Banker (2014)
As: himself
How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but could not prevent it all from crashing down, when ambition of others turned into greed.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Rozemyn Afman
Stars: Frans J. Afman | Dino De Laurentiis | Oliver Stone | Paul Verhoeven | Kevin Costner
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
As: Marv
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez | Frank Miller
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Jessica Alba | Josh Brolin | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Rosario Dawson
Dead in Tombstone (2013)
As: Lucifer
An outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez is shot in the back and killed whilst attempting to free his half-brother from a small-town prison. Making a deal with the devil, Hernandez returns from the dead to take his revenge.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Roel Reiné
Stars: Danny Trejo | Mickey Rourke | Anthony Michael Hall | Dina Meyer | Richard Dillane
Generation Iron (2013)
As: Narrator
Generation Iron - examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders in the sport as they train to compete in the world's most premiere bodybuilding stage - Mr. Olympia.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Vlad Yudin
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Michael Jai White | Lou Ferrigno | Mike Katz | Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Good Son (2013)
As: Himself
The outcome of the 1982 WBC Lightweight title bout between Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and Duk Koo Kim is examined.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jesse James Miller
Stars: Ray Mancini | Mickey Rourke | Ed O'Neill | Mark Kriegel | Kim Ji-wan
Java Heat (2013)
As: Malik
An American in Indonesia teams up with a Muslim cop to track down a terrorist.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Conor Allyn
Stars: Kellan Lutz | Mickey Rourke | Ario Bayu | Tio Pakusadewo | Atiqah Hasiholan
Black November (2012)
As: Tom Hudson
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an American oil executive and demands that his corporation end the destruction and pollution. Inspired by true events, Black November is the gripping story of how a community rises ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jeta Amata
Stars: Razaaq Adoti | Sarah Wayne Callies | Mickey Rourke | Kim Basinger | Anne Heche
The Courier (2012)
As: Maxwell
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Hany Abu-Assad
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Josie Ho | Til Schweiger | Miguel Ferrer | Lili Taylor
Sunset Strip (2012)
As: Himself
A documentary on the famous Los Angeles street.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Hans Fjellestad
Stars: Slash | Alice Cooper | Paris Hilton | Mickey Rourke | Dan Aykroyd
I Am Bruce Lee (2012)
As: Himself
Bruce Lee is universally recognized as the pioneer who elevated martial arts in film to an art form, and this documentary will reveal why Bruce Lee's flame burns brighter now than the day he died over three decades ago. The greatest martial artists, athletes, actors, directors, and producers in the entertainment business today will share their feelings about the one who started it all. We will interview the people whose ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Pete McCormack
Stars: Bruce Lee | Linda Lee Cadwell | Shannon Lee | Dan Inosanto | Diana Lee Inosanto
Immortals (2011)
As: King Hyperion
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Tarsem Singh
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Kellan Lutz | Isabel Lucas | Henry Cavill | Luke Evans
Passion Play (2010)
As: Nate
An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Mitch Glazer
Stars: Megan Fox | Mickey Rourke | Bill Murray | Rhys Ifans | Kelly Lynch
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' (2010)
As: Himself
Sylvester Stallone's 90-minute video diary, covering the making of "The Expendables".
Runtime: 88 min.
Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Jason Statham | Jet Li | Terry Crews | Randy Couture
The Expendables (2010)
As: Tool
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Jason Statham | Dolph Lundgren | Bruce Willis | Arnold Schwarzenegger
Iron Man 2 (2010)
As: Ivan Vanko / Whiplash
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Stars: Robert Downey Jr. | Gwyneth Paltrow | Don Cheadle | Scarlett Johansson | Mickey Rourke
13 (2010)
As: Jefferson
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Géla Babluani
Stars: Jason Statham | Alexander Skarsgård | Gaby Hoffmann | Emmanuelle Chriqui | Mickey Rourke
Killshot (2008)
As: Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: John Madden
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Diane Lane | Thomas Jane | Rosario Dawson | Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The Informers (2008)
As: Peter
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Gregor Jordan
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton | Kim Basinger | Mickey Rourke | Winona Ryder | Jon Foster
The Wrestler (2008)
As: Randy "Ram" Robinson
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Marisa Tomei | Evan Rachel Wood | Mark Margolis | Todd Barry
Stormbreaker (2006)
As: Darrius Sayle
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Geoffrey Sax
Stars: Alex Pettyfer | Sarah Bolger | Ewan McGregor | Robbie Coltrane | Stephen Fry
Domino (2005)
As: Ed Mosbey
The daughter of actor, Laurence Harvey turns away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Tony Scott
Stars: Keira Knightley | Mickey Rourke | Edgar Ramírez | Delroy Lindo | Mo'Nique
Sin City (2005)
As: Marv
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Frank Miller | Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Bruce Willis | Mickey Rourke | Jessica Alba | Clive Owen | Devon Aoki
Man on Fire (2004)
As: Jordan
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Runtime: 146 min.
Directed by: Tony Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington | Dakota Fanning | Radha Mitchell | Christopher Walken | Marc Anthony
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
As: Billy
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Antonio Banderas | Salma Hayek | Johnny Depp | Eva Mendes | Mickey Rourke
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
As: Edmund
Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Larry Charles
Stars: Bob Dylan | Jeff Bridges | Penélope Cruz | John Goodman | Jessica Lange
Spun (2002)
As: The Cook
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Jonas Åkerlund
Stars: Jason Schwartzman | Mickey Rourke | Brittany Murphy | John Leguizamo | Chloe Hunter
Picture Claire (2001)
As: Eddie
After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who killed a local gangster and happens to live in the same building as Claire's boyfriend. The police pursue a bewildered Claire while a gang of criminals chases after Lily.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Bruce McDonald
Stars: Juliette Lewis | Gina Gershon | Mickey Rourke | Callum Keith Rennie | Camilla Rutherford
They Crawl (2001)
As: Tiny Frakes
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: John Allardice
Stars: Daniel Cosgrove | Tamara Davies | Dennis Boutsikaris | Ken Lerner | William Keane
The Pledge (2001)
As: Jim Olstad
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Sean Penn
Stars: Jack Nicholson | Aaron Eckhart | Helen Mirren | Robin Wright | Vanessa Redgrave
The Hire: The Follow (2001)
The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way to tail someone. As he follows her he begins to fear what he might learn of her apparently tragic life. He discovers the wife is fleeing the country and returning to her mother's, and that she's been given a black eye, likely by her husband. He returns the money for the ...
Runtime: 8 min.
Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Stars: Forest Whitaker | Mickey Rourke | Clive Owen | Adriana Lima
Animal Factory (2000)
As: Jan the Actress
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Steve Buscemi
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Edward Furlong | Danny Trejo | Mark Boone Junior | Seymour Cassel
Get Carter (2000)
As: Cyrus Paice
Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Stephen T. Kay
Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Miranda Richardson | Rachael Leigh Cook | Mickey Rourke | Johnny Strong
Shades (1999)
As: Paul S. Sullivan
Shades is a film about (imaginary) Belgian serial killer Freddy Lebecq which producer Max Vogel, a former lawyer, is determined to make into an internationally co-produced, relatively big budget-production Hollywood style, with a director from the States. To that end he cuts deals with and often behind the backs of just about everybody, including Lebeq -who has the book rights-, his lawyer who hopes to use proceeds donated to ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Erik Van Looy
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Eugene Bervoets | Andrew Howard | Mireille Leveque | Mike Verdrengh
Out in Fifty (1999)
As: Jack Bracken
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: BoJesse Christopher | Scott Anthony Leet
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Scott Anthony Leet | Nina Ofenböck | Peter Greene | Nikki Bokal
Exit in Red (1999)
As: Ed Altman
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more trouble when he begins an affair with the rich and beautiful Ally Mercer (Annabel Schofield), who has her own reasons for becoming involved with Ed. Soon Ally's other lover, the volatile Nick, is caught in the intrigue, which results in murder, betrayal and numerous shady dealings.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Yurek Bogayevicz
Stars: Anthony Michael Hall | Mickey Rourke | Annabel Schofield | Carré Otis
Shergar (1999)
As: Gavin O'Rourke
Shergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbread and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time, is kidnapped by IRA terrorists and held for a $2 million ransom. Can a young stable boy save Shergar's life... and his own before it's too late?
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Dennis C. Lewiston
Stars: Alan Barker | Billy Boyle | Stephen Brennan | Gary Cady | Denny Cain
Thursday (1998)
As: Kasarov
Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey's past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell breaks loose!
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Skip Woods
Stars: Thomas Jane | Paula Marshall | Aaron Eckhart | James Le Gros | Paulina Porizkova
Point Blank (1998)
As: Rudy Ray
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Matt Earl Beesley
Stars: Werner Schreyer | Michael Wright | Danny Trejo | Paul Ben-Victor | Kevin Gage
Buffalo '66 (1998)
As: The Bookie
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Vincent Gallo
Stars: Vincent Gallo | Christina Ricci | Ben Gazzara | Anjelica Huston | Rosanna Arquette
The Rainmaker (1997)
As: Bruiser Stone
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Matt Damon | Danny DeVito | Jon Voight | Claire Danes | Mary Kay Place
Another 9 1/2 Weeks (1997)
As: John Gray
John flies over to Paris to find out his girlfriend Elizabeth. He finds a mysterious fashion designer named Lea and her assistant Claire, and it turns out that Lea was Elizabeth's friend in Paris. Lea says to John that Elizabeth married and moved away. The passion starts to appear between John and Lea, when Lea's business partner Vittorio tells John another version of Elizabeth's fate.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Anne Goursaud
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Agathe de La Fontaine | Angie Everhart | Steven Berkoff | Dougray Scott
Double Team (1997)
As: Stavros
He's a one-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world. They Don't Play by the Rules. You're either on their side...or in their way. America's top counter-terrorist usually works alone...this time he's got company.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Tsui Hark
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Dennis Rodman | Mickey Rourke | Paul Freeman | Valéria Cavalli
Bullet (1996)
As: Butch 'Bullet' Stein
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Julien Temple
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Frank Senger | Adrien Brody | John Enos III | Tupac Amaru Shakur
Fall Time (1995)
As: Florence
Three young men decide to plan a mock kidnapping, but everything goes wrong because a real bank robbery was already planned by two other guys.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Paul Warner
Stars: Stephen Baldwin | Mickey Rourke | Sheryl Lee | David Arquette | Steve Alden
F.T.W. (1994)
As: Frank T. Wells
A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a few acres of freedom on the rodeo circuit. Scarlett Stuart, a wild beautiful woman on the run from a bank robbery gone desperately wrong. Together they will explore their own personal vision of the American Dream.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michael Karbelnikoff
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Aaron Neville | Peter Berg | Lori Singer | Rodney A. Grant
The Last Outlaw (1993)
As: Graff
The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff (Rourke) had once been a heroic and staunch supporter of the southern cause, but after losing his family he became cold hearted and ruthless. His second in command is Eustis (Mulroney), whom Graff has trained on the strategies of leadership and combat command.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Geoff Murphy
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Dermot Mulroney | Ted Levine | John C. McGinley | Steve Buscemi
White Sands (1992)
As: Gorman Lennox
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Mickey Rourke | Samuel L. Jackson | M. Emmet Walsh
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
As: Harley Davidson
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Simon Wincer
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Don Johnson | Chelsea Field | Daniel Baldwin | Giancarlo Esposito
Desperate Hours (1990)
As: Michael Bosworth
A criminal holds a wealthy family hostage.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Michael Cimino
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Anthony Hopkins | Mimi Rogers | Lindsay Crouse | Kelly Lynch
Wild Orchid (1990)
As: James Wheeler
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Zalman King
Stars: Jacqueline Bisset | Carré Otis | Mickey Rourke | Assumpta Serna | Bruce Greenwood
Johnny Handsome (1989)
As: Johnny Handsome
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Walter Hill
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Ellen Barkin | Morgan Freeman | Forest Whitaker | Elizabeth McGovern
Francesco (1989)
As: Francesco
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty. He seeks the Pope's blessing, and he endures persecution at the hands ...
Runtime: 157 min.
Directed by: Liliana Cavani
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Helena Bonham Carter | Andréa Ferréol | Nikolaus Dutsch | Peter Berling
Homeboy (1988)
As: Johnny Walker
Johnny Walker is a cowboy and a boxer. He is very shy and a bit of a fool. He is in love with Ruby, but he cannot tell her. He is also a bit old to keep on boxing, but its the only thing he does well.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Michael Seresin
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Christopher Walken | Jon Polito | Debra Feuer | Thomas Quinn
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
As: Martin Fallon
Jack Higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt-ridden IRA bomber forced into "one last job"
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Mike Hodges
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Bob Hoskins | Alan Bates | Sammi Davis | Christopher Fulford
Barfly (1987)
As: Henry Chinaski
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Faye Dunaway | Alice Krige | Jack Nance | J.C. Quinn
Angel Heart (1987)
As: Harry Angel
The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Alan Parker
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Robert De Niro | Lisa Bonet | Charlotte Rampling | Stocker Fontelieu
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
As: John
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Kim Basinger | Margaret Whitton | David Margulies | Christine Baranski
Year of the Dragon (1985)
As: Capt. Stanley White
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences ...
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Michael Cimino
Stars: Mickey Rourke | John Lone | Ariane | Leonard Termo | Raymond J. Barry
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
As: Charlie
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Stars: Eric Roberts | Mickey Rourke | Daryl Hannah | Geraldine Page | Kenneth McMillan
Rumble Fish (1983)
As: The Motorcycle Boy
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Matt Dillon | Mickey Rourke | Diane Lane | Dennis Hopper | Diana Scarwid
Eureka (1983)
As: Aurelio D'Amato
An Alaskan gold prospector (Gene Hackman) lives in luxury with his family on an island gangsters want.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Gene Hackman | Theresa Russell | Rutger Hauer | Mickey Rourke | Ed Lauter
Diner (1982)
As: Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Stars: Steve Guttenberg | Daniel Stern | Mickey Rourke | Kevin Bacon | Tim Daly
Body Heat (1981)
As: Teddy Lewis
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Stars: William Hurt | Kathleen Turner | Richard Crenna | Ted Danson | J.A. Preston
Heaven's Gate (1980)
As: Nick Ray
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion (Christopher Walken), a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert). As the ...
Runtime: 325 min.
Directed by: Michael Cimino
Stars: Kris Kristofferson | Christopher Walken | John Hurt | Isabelle Huppert | Sam Waterston
Fade to Black (1980)
As: Richie
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Vernon Zimmerman
Stars: Dennis Christopher | Tim Thomerson | Gwynne Gilford | Norman Burton | Linda Kerridge
Act Of Love (1980)
As: Joseph Cybulkowski
A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left guilt-ridden. Seeing his brother struggle with his new life of limited mobility and function, the young man finds his own life weighed down by his thoughts and feelings about the accident. Motivated by his emotions and the suffering of his brother, the young man performs an "act of love" which creates more chaos for him.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Jud Taylor
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Ron Howard
City in Fear (1980)
As: Tony Pate
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Alan Smithee | Jud Taylor
Stars: David Janssen | Robert Vaughn | Perry King | Mickey Rourke | William Prince
1941 (1979)
As: Reese
It's been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up chasing a Japanese sub planning to attack LA.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Dan Aykroyd | Ned Beatty | John Belushi | Lorraine Gary | Murray Hamilton
The Mob Priest ()
As: Jared McKendry
Father Frank returns home hoping to put his painful war experiences behind him but a tragic circumstance makes him face his true legacy. This is revealed to him by Monsignor Trovato, a stigmatist, and patriarch of a secret society.
Directed by: Gavin Rapp
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Luke Goss | Robert Davi | James Russo | Danny A. Abeckaser
Merchandise ()
As: Patrick
A small-town attorney is thrust into the spotlight after she kills two home invaders in self-defense, reviving violent memories of her captivity as a sex slave years earlier and setting off deadly repercussions for her family.
Directed by: Christian Sesma
Stars: James Russo | Mickey Rourke | Cree Kelly