Johnny Depp
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp…
- The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
- 21 Jump Street (TV Series) (1987-1991)
- Feat. Johnny Depp, Frederic Forrest, Peter DeLuise…
- Iconic, lightly–rendered youth thriller series, in which four young–looking undercover cops infiltrate high schools to expose various…
- Cry-Baby (Cry baby) (1990)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell…
- Another stylish, camp classic from the infamous director who made Divine a cult sensation. Depp heads a super cast in a tribute to the juvenile…
- Edward Scissorhands (1991)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price
- This inspired contemporary fairy–tale posits Johnny Depp as a boy endowed with sharp appendages, a mixed blessing when it comes to fitting into…
- Arizona Dream (1991)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor
- A young Inuit dreamer is called to Arizona for his uncle's wedding, where he is bewitched by a neurotic mother–daughter team.
An eccentric…
- Benny and Joon (1992)
- Dir. Jeremiah Chechik
Feat. Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
- Another quirky outing in American suburbia with Depp a Chaplin–esque loner who befriends Masterson, the 'mental' sister of an…
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio…
- An off–beat delight that's quirky take on tin–pot America is never at the expense of its truthfulness or poignancy.
The ballad of the…
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker…
- Tim Burton, the eccentric visionary behind EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, PEE–WEE and BATMAN finds a soul mate in recounting the life of the world's…
- Dead Man (1995)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Lance Henriksen
- A unique meditation on the mystique of the Wild West, branded with the distinctive marks of dir. Jarmusch's dilatory tempo and playful eccentricity.…
- Nick of Time (1995)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken
- Johnny Depp strives for action–hero big time with this cliff–hanger played out in real time.
Randomly singled out of a crowd, he must…
- Don Juan DeMarco (1995)
- Dir. Jeremy Leven
Feat. Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway
- A delightful, dreamy romantic drama and wry comic fantasy rolled into one that has Johnny Depp perfectly cast as a misfit who believes he is the…
- Donnie Brasco (1997)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen…
- Riveting, true–life tale of an FBI agent's perilous infiltration of the New York Mafia in the 70s. A knife–edge dramatic tension is…
- Brave, The (1998)
- Dir. Johnny Depp
Feat. Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando
- Johnny Depp's much–derided directorial debut is an over–ambitious epic look at a desperate character who sells himself into snuff movies.…
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro
- Wildly hallucinatory version of Hunter S. Thompson's counter–culture novel, does away with the ersatz social satire but thankfully hits the…
- Astronaut's Wife, The (1999)
- Dir. Rand Ravich
Feat. Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron
- In orbit, Astronaut Johnny Depp goes offline for several minutes; back on the ground wife Charlize Theron finds him subtly changed for the…
- Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken…
- The oft–filmed short story 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is fashioned by illustrious iconoclast Tim Burton as the goriest, most…
- L.A. Without a Map (1999)
- Dir. Mika Kaurismaki
Feat. David Tennant, Vincent Gallo, Julie Delpy…
- A young Scottish undertaker (Tennant) follows an aspiring American actress back to La–la land, where he competes with the shallow excesses and…
- Source, The (1999)
- Dir. Chuck Workman
Feat. Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Dennis Hopper
- Superb chronicle of the ‘Beat’ movement and the work of its founding fathers – Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs – and their…
- Ninth Gate, The (2000)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin…
- An unscrupulous book dealer (Johnny Depp) is sent to Europe by a mysterious tycoon (Frank Langella) to recover an authentic, elusive (and of course,…
- Chocolat (2000)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin…
- Light and fluffy ‘food–comedy’ of international mien in which, after a shaky start, Juliette Binoche gets into the heart of an crusty…
- Before Night Falls (2000)
- Dir. Julian Schnabel
Feat. Javier Bardem, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp
- The life and times of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) told as a florid visual collage – dream, memory and history merging on the…
- Man Who Cried, The (2001)
- Dir. Sally Potter
Feat. Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro…
- Typically eclectic affair from the dir. of ORLANDO and THE TANGO LESSON, composing a sweeping historical romance of early 20th century Europe with…
- Blow (2001)
- Dir. Ted Demme
Feat. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ray Liotta…
- ‘Cocaine biopic’ of Pablo Escobar’s American partner, George Jung (Johnny Depp), who graduated from low–level…
- From Hell (2001)
- Dir. Hughes Brothers
Feat. Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
- Johnny Depp goes Goth again, this time buttoned–up in Victorian garb, as a drug–afflicted cockney detective hired to sniff out legendary…
- Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- Dir. Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Feat. Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort
- A cautionary fable of filmmaking in the mould of HEARTS OF DARKNESS, concerning director Terry Gilliam’s (BRAZIL) attempt to film a version of…
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush…
- A terrific, tongue–in–cheek action romp set in the pirate days of the Caribbean, with Johnny Depp leading the charge as a madcap, slyly…
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek…
- The final 'installment' in dir. Rodriguez' violent Mexican trilogy (see EL MARIACHI and DESPERADO), with Banderas again the loner in a dusty town,…
- Secret Window (2004)
- Dir. David Koepp
Feat. Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton…
- Coming off the back of a messy divorce, novelist Depp moves to an isolated lakeside house where he must contend with accusations of plagarism by an…
- Finding Neverland (2004)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie…
- Impressive journey into the private life of Edwardian 'Peter Pan'–creator JM Barrie (played by Depp), and the unique circumstances in which he…
- Libertine, The (2004)
- Dir. Laurence Dunmore
Feat. Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich…
- Bustling rendition of the life of the debauched playwright John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, who filled his days and nights in inglorious…