Ethan Hawke
Director, Actor
Explorers, The (1985)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix
- Imaginative space adventure film also has enormous fun at the expense of American popular culture. Among the explorers are a very baby–faced…
Dad (1989)
- Dir. Gary David Goldberg
Feat. Ted Danson, Jack Lemmon, Ethan Hawke…
- Ted Danson returns home to find his father (Jack Lemmon) has physically and emotionally deteriorated.
Dead Poet's Society (1989)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke…
- Robin Williams is perfect as an a maverick English teacher at a private high–school for boys, where his passion for poetry profoundly…
White Fang (1991)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel…
- Magnificent Disney adventure based on Jack London's novel. An ambitious young gold prospector treks into the Alaskan frontier where he discovers and…
Mystery Date (1991)
- Dir. Jonathan Wacks
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara…
- A big–haired Ethan Hawke stars in this zany teen comedy as a love struck teen whose older brother sets him up with the girl next door.
Alive (1992)
- Dir. Frank Marshall
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton…
- Full–throttle true–story dramatisation of the rugby team who were forced to fight the horrors of Mother Nature after their plane crashed…
Midnight Clear, A (1992)
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross…
- A provocative, suspenseful anti–war parable about a fresh–faced American platoon assigned to an abandoned chateau near the German border…
Waterland (1992)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Lena Headey…
- Jeremy Irons plays a history teacher in America who recounts his own suppressed coming of age to his cynical students. Adapted from Graham Swift's…
Reality Bites (1994)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller
- This 'Gen X' movie works as romantic comedy but falls short of its mandate to be a mouthpiece for contemporary youth. Redeemed by the…
Before Sunrise (1995)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
- Young tourists American Ethan Hawke and French Julie Delpy, meet by chance on a train in Europe and spend the following twelve hours…
Four Rules, The (Search and Destroy) (1995)
- Dir. David Salle
Feat. Griffin Dunne, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken…
- Smalltime shark Griffin Dunne's obsession with self–help philosophy leads him into some tense encounters with Dennis Hopper and Christopher…
Gattaca (1997)
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman
- The big league writer/directing debut of ex–pat Wellingtonian and former London adman Niccol, is a highly intriguing thriller about the scary…
Great Expectations (1998)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft…
- Bold revamp of the Charles Dickens classic traces the inter–twining fortunes of Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, orphans linked via a murky…
Newton Boys, The (1998)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich…
- Former indie–darling, Richard Linklater (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED), chronicles the 1920s bankrobbing true exploits of the four brothers,…
Snow Falling On Cedars (1998)
- Dir. Scott Hicks
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, Max von Sydow
- The seemingly perfect conjunction of David Guterson's best–selling novel and dir. Hicks (SHINE), results in a technically magnificent, but…
Hamlet (2000)
- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Bill Murray…
- Setting Shakespeare’s play in the contemporary corporate world, the dir. of NADJA brings a fresh slant to the classic despite low–budget…
Training Day (2001)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Snoop Dogg…
- Denzel Washington luxuriates in an Oscar–winning performance as a slimeball LA cop, who casually metes out brutal street–justice at every…
Tape (2001)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Robert Sean Leonard
- Three school friends reunite for an evening of reminiscence and recrimination, in this tense, coiled drama filmed in ‘fly on the wall’ style by…
Taking Lives (2004)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland…
- Expert FBI 'profiler' Jolie is recruited onto a case in deepest Canada involving a serial killer who murders blonde–haired men then assumes…
Before Sunset (2004)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
- Taking up some nine years after their characters met in BEFORE SUNRISE, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, now in their mid–thirties, reacquaint…
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
- Dir. Jean-François Richet
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Drea De Matteo…
- Effective update of John Carpenter's 1970s classic in which high–impact action and a fairly convincing raw tenseness carry the wellworn tale of…
Lord Of War (2005)
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan…
- A thoughtful though heavy–handed thriller about an intelligently amoral Ukrainian–American (Cage), who dedicates himself to the world…
Fast Food Nation (2006)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke…
- A grave, caustic expose of industry malpractice and greed in the fast food business, told from the dramatic perspective of multiple characters…
Hottest State, The (2006)
- Dir. Ethan Hawke
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Mark Webber, Laura Linney…
- A young Texan actor on the make in NYC obsesses about his ex, post their heady trip to Mexico, in this drama of youthful narcissism and lurve.…
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney…
- Intense tragi–thriller centred around a pair of hapless brothers (Hoffman and Hawke) who face devastating family consequences after a botched…
What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
- Dir. Brian Goodman
Feat. Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet…
- A grubby, unpretentious thriller hatched amongst the urban boondocks of South Boston, in which two suffering, longtime friends (Ruffalo and Hawke)…
Daybreakers (2009)
- Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill…
- Inventive take on the vampire genre has a world populated with the fanged undead facing a food shortage with the human population rapidly dwindling.…
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke…
- The dir. of TRAINING DAY spins this heavy–handed multi–narrative around three burnt out NYC cops at the end of their tether. Posturing…
New York, I Love You (2009)
- Dir. Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen…
- Not to be mistaken as a cynical American remake of PARIS, JE'TAIME, this – on the contrary – naturally extends the short–story…
Staten Island (Little New York) (2009)
- Dir. James DeMonaco
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel…
- Ethan Hawke plays a blue collar New Yorker whose plan to fleece a mob boss of his dirty money comes unstuck when a deaf–mute hitman enters the…