Sean Penn
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- It's All About Love (2003)
- Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn…
- A wacky, overambitious, though not unendearing flop for dir. Vinterberg (FESTEN), in which young couple Danes and Phoenix attempt to resolve the…
- Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004)
- Dir. Niels Mueller
Feat. Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts…
- The ghost of 'Travis Bickle' (TAXI DRIVER) pervades this accomplished diatribe on the contentious era of Richard Nixon's administration – a…
- Interpreter, The (2005)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener…
- A topical thriller embroiled in the thorny issues of African politics (with obvious allusions to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), this is a slick,…
- All The King's Men (2006)
- Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins…
- A heavyweight, if not entirely functional adaptation Robert Penn Warren's political novel about a failed idealist turned corrupt, powermongering…
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2006)
- Dir. Tom Thurman
Feat. Gary Busey, John Cusack, Benicio Del Toro…
- Definitive documentary about the life and death of the late, great gonzo himself, Hunter S. Thompson.
Visuals draw heavily on clips, including…
- Into the Wild (2007)
- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt…
- With his trademark earnestness, Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book about a 22–year–old who dropped out of society in the…
- Milk (2008)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin…
- Saying it proud but not too loud, this dramatized biopic of the first openly–elected gay official fittingly tributes the legacy of San…
- What Just Happened (2008)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis…
- Robert De Niro is in late–career–best form in this amiable showbiz satire that captures two weeks in the life of a frustrated film…
- Fair Game (2010)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Tom McCarthy…
- A smart, ground level conspiracy thriller based on the true story of an undercover CIA operative (Watts) whose identity was suspiciously leaked after…
- Tree of Life, The (2011)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
- Terrence Malick’s astonishing Cannes–winning epic, centred ostensibly on the life of a Midwestern family in the 50s (presided over by a gruff…
- This Must Be the Place (2011)
- Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch…
- Sean Penn is all affectation as a retired, depressed glam rocker who sets off on an American road trip in search of a Nazi war criminal in this…
- Gangster Squad (2013)
- Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin…
- This straight–shooting, bang–a–minute gangster flick scores as both an entertaining throwback to 40s–era crime fighting, and…
- Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The (2013)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Kathryn Hahn…
- Ben Stiller directs and stars in this splashy adaptation of James Thurber's short story about a meek proofreader who finds solace and empowerment in…
- Gunman, The (2015)
- Dir. Pierre Morel
Feat. Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca…
- Sean Penn stars as a sniper on a mercenary assassination team, who kills a Congolese minister, but his shot forces him into hiding.
- Angry Birds Movie, The (2016)
- Dir. Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly
Feat. Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride…
- The video game franchise gets a surprisingly decent cinematic treatment. Set on an island populated by happy, flightless birds visited by mysterious…
- Professor and the Madman, The (2019)
- Dir. P. B. Shemran
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer…
- Biographical drama set in London in 1879, where a professor (Mel Gibson) compiling the first Oxford England Dictionary receives a submission of over…
- Licorice Pizza (2021)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn…
- Celebrated auteur Paul Thomas Anderson amusingly runs through the fads of the 1970s while loosely following the relationship between a precocious…