Robert Downey Jnr.
Actor
Films to Rent
- Tuff Turf (1985)
- Dir. Fritz Kiersch
Feat. James Spader, Robert Downey Jnr., Claudette Nevins
- High school turf wars commence in this posturing 80s melodrama, about a pretty boy (Spader) who takes on a gang of hoodlums in order to win the girl…
- Mussolini - The Untold Story (1985)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. George C. Scott, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Based on the memoirs of his eldest son this memorable mini–series begins with Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 and follows his political and…
- Weird Science (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Le Brock, Bill Paxton…
- Two computer nerds generate their fantasy woman in the form of Kelly Le Brock. Innocuous teen fun.
- Back to School (1986)
- Dir. Alan Metter
Feat. Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Keith Gordon…
- The finest comedy to feature the loveably crass Rodney Dangerfield, here playing a millionaire who returns to university to set an example for his…
- Less Than Zero (1987)
- Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Robert Downey Jnr., Jami Gertz…
- A slick, rather thin adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ cult–novel set among the bored, coke–snorting youth of 1980s upper–crust…
- Pick-Up Artist, The (Pickup Artist) (1987)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper…
- Serial womanizer Downey gets more than he bargained for when he falls for mobster's daughter Ringwald. Teen sex comedy is more thorny than horny with…
- 1969 (1988)
- Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Keifer Sutherland and Winona Ryder lead a brat–pack of sensitive anti–war youths in the summer of '69.
- Johnny Be Good (1988)
- Dir. Bud Smith
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jnr., Uma Thurman…
- Woeful comedy with a miscast Hall as a talented high school football player enjoying the perks and pitfalls of college celebrity.
- Soapdish (1991)
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Sally Field…
- Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Sally Field and Robert Downey Jnr. grace this malicious and frantic farce about life on and behind the set of a daytime…
- Chaplin (1992)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Hopkins
- A reverent yet captivating biopic of comic genius Charlie Chaplin, boasting an uncanny central performance from Robert Downey Jnr. Commendably…
- Only You (1994)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Marisa Tomei
- Roberty Downey Jnr. plays an infatuated man who assumes a false identity to win the affections of star–crossed lover Marisa Tomei. The pair's…
- Home for the Holidays (1995)
- Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jnr., Anne Bancroft…
- Holly Hunter returns to her family for a holiday get–together and finds a mixture of romance and family conflicts amid some bright, eccentric…
- Restoration (1995)
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Sam Neill, Meg Ryan…
- Golden–age English past is again revisited, to when debauched King Charles II was re–throned and decadence reigned. Robert Downey Jnr,…
- Richard III (1996)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Transposed to a fascist 1930s Britain, Shakespeare's classic tale of power politics easily renews its timeless appeal. Ian McKellen commands every…
- Hugo Pool (1996)
- Dir. Robert Downey Snr.
Feat. Alyssa Milano, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Comedy of quirks with Alyssa Milano, here still battling TV child–stardom, playing a hapless pool–cleaner who maintains the backyard…
- Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner
- Robert Downey Jr's first post–prison–term film was this one–location drama about two women discovering they share the same snaky…
- Gingerbread Man, The (1998)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Duvall…
- Script by the courtroom–obsessed John Grisham is here assigned to auteurist Robert Altman (THE PLAYER, SHORT CUTS), who manages to…
- Black and White (1999)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Brooke Shields, Wu Tang Clan…
- Risk–taking ensemble drama from the maverick dir. of TWO GUYS AND A GIRL and FINGERS, set in a Manhattan where rich white kids clash with the…
- Wonder Boys (2000)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jnr., Tobey Maguire…
- A rumpled Michael Douglas plays an academic professor and successful author who's terminally unfinished second novel is symptomatic of midlife…
- Singing Detective, The (2003)
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robin Wright, Jeremy Northam…
- A not unthoughtful remake of Dennis Potter's iconic 1980s TV Series, in which a psoriasis–afflicted crime writer hallucinates mystery plots and…
- Gothika (2004)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jnr., Penelope Cruz…
- A stylish, foreboding, though ultimately secondhand suspenser which has a psychiatrist (Berry) waking up in her own mental asylum after the slaying…
- Good Night, and Good Luck (2004)
- Dir. George Clooney
Feat. George Clooney, Robert Downey Jnr., Patricia Clarkson…
- An astutely–judged freezeframe of an important symbolic moment in 20th century American history, when CBS television presenter Edward Murrow…
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
- Dir. Shane Black
Feat. Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jnr., Corbin Bernsen…
- Reflexively vulgar and enjoyably vicious, this comic–thriller has fumbling thief Downey Jnr. by chance winning an audition for a film part,…
- Game 6 (2005)
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Griffin Dunne…
- Nicely balanced dramedy about a fretful playwright with a new work opening on Broadway who chooses to instead focus his anxiety on his beloved Red…
- Shaggy Dog, The (2006)
- Dir. Brian Robbins
Feat. Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jnr., Kristin Davis…
- Dishevelled and inane comedy, sees family man Tim Allen accidentally bitten by a 300–year old pooch (smuggled by commandos out of Tibet) and…
- Scanner Darkly, A (2006)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jnr., Woody Harrelson…
- Richard Linklater’s latest ‘rotoscope’ animation adapts Philip K. Dick's sci–fi novel into a dystopian proxy for the near future, where…
- Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A (2006)
- Dir. Dito Montiel
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri…
- A ‘Mean Streets’ memoir of growing up rough in the eighties, this accomplished feature debut evokes its boys–in–the–hood…
- Fur (2006)
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jnr.
- Taking fictional liberties with the real–life character of revered New York photographer Diane Arbus, the dir. of SECRETARY fashions another…
- Zodiac (2007)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards…
- Intense, painstaking thriller from the dir. of SEVEN magnifies San Francisco's unsolved ‘Zodiac’ killings with obsessive compulsion and…
- Lucky You (2007)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall…
- Eric Bana plays an expert card shark – and artful dodger of relationship commitment – determined to conquer the World Series of…