Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Dangerous Woman, A (1994)
- Dir. Steven Gyllenhaal
Feat. Debra Winger, Gabriel Byrne, Barbara Hershey…
- Debra Winger gives her most impressive performance yet as a simple woman whose compulsive honesty wins her few friends. Reminiscent of the plays of…
- October Sky (1999)
- Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Homer H Hickam Jnr, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern…
- Based on the memoirs of former NASA rocket–scientist Homer H. Hickam Jnr, who had the ambition to flourish beyond his roots in West Virginia…
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- Dir. Richard Kelly
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore…
- Admired by critics and an ardent fanbase for its originality and eclecticism, this quirky teen fantasy is arguably a slick patchwork of other movie…
- Lovely and Amazing (2001)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- Rewarding indie drama – seasoned with touches of painful comedy – that observes the troubles between three sisters waiting for their…
- Moonlight Mile (2002)
- Dir. Brad Silberling
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon…
- A remarkably quirky weepie, that coats its tale of Jake Gyllenhaal’s grieving and re–adjustment to life in 1973 after his fiance’s…
- Good Girl, The (2002)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly…
- Quirky, downbeat comedy about people stuck with dead end lives in small–town America adds a string to the bow of acting challenges for starlet…
- Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dash Mihok…
- Another disaster–spectacle revival from the makers of "Independence Day" that sees scientist Dennis Quaid trying in vain to warn the world of…
- Jarhead (2005)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
- An arresting and grimly ironic vision of the 1991 Gulf War, based on the memoir of ex–marine Anthony Swofford, and depicting the experiences of…
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams…
- A 'cause celebre' of recent cinema, this epic romantic drama is set around the terse and smouldering long–term love affair between two cowboys…
- Proof (2005)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- An elegant adaptation of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, with Gwyneth Paltrow reprising her London stage role as the grieving…
- 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…
- Rendition (2007)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard…
- Frenetic thriller by dir. of TSOTSI concerns Witherspoon's desperate search for her husband after he goes missing on an international flight,…
- Brothers (2009)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire…
- Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire star in this remake of Susanne Bier's wrenching Danish drama, about two sibling's lives torn apart by war.
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley…
- Jake Gyllenhaal flexes his pecs in this extravagant adaptation of the popular 'Arabian adventure' video game.
- Love and Other Drugs (2010)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Judy Greer…
- Winning romance with a charismatic pharmaceutical salesman falling for a free–spirited woman with a tragic secret.
- Source Code (2011)
- Dir. Duncan Jones
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga…
- The dir. of MOON helms this smart sci–fi thriller, about a soldier (Gyllenhaal) thrust ‘neurologically’ into the shoes of a dead eyewitness…
- End of Watch (2012)
- Dir. David Ayer
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick…
- David Ayer, writer of TRAINING DAY, gives us another bracing cautionary tale of Los Angeles law enforcement, here following the good police work of…
- Prisoners (2013)
- Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis…
- The dir. of INCENDIES crafts another tense, eye–opening thriller in this tale of a family man who turns vigilante after his daughter is…
- Enemy (2013)
- Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon…
- The dir. of PRISONERS and INCENDIES explores the dilemma of a man who seeks out his doppelganger after glimpsing him in a movie. An unsettling…
- Nightcrawler (2014)
- Dir. Dan Gilroy
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton…
- A nervy and quite brilliant satire with Jake Gyllenhaal unforgettable as a petty thief who muscles into the world of crime journalism, shooting…
- Accidental Love (Nailed) (2015)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener…
- Political satire written by Kristin Gore (Al's daughter) about a small town waitress who gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing…
- Southpaw (2015)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker…
- Jake Gyllenhaal gets in the ring in this downbeat boxing drama as a former champ struggling to get his life back on track after losing his wife in a…
- Everest (2015)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- This lavishly mounted account of the ill–fated climbing expedition that claimed the life of New Zealand mountaineer Rob Hall is especially…
- Nocturnal Animals (2016)
- Dir. Tom Ford
Feat. Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon…
- Renowned fashion designer Tom Ford follows his film debut A SINGLE MAN with this highly intriguing neo–noir tale about a wealthy art gallery…
- Life (2017)
- Dir. Daniel Espinosa
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson…
- Claustrophobic white knuckle horror where a team of scientists on an international space station discover that the biological sample they took from…
- Stronger (2017)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson…
- The inspirational real–life story starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, a 27–year–old working class man who tragically lost both…
- Wildlife (2018)
- Dir. Paul Dano
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould…
- Actor Paul Dano makes an impressive directorial debut with this adaptation of the novel by Richard Ford. Set in Montana in the fall of 1960, a child…
- Sisters Brothers, The (2018)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play a couple of fraternal assassins who hunt down a gold prospector in 1850s Oregon in this richly satisfying and…
- Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
- Dir. Jon Watts
Feat. Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- Marvel–lous sequel to the hugely successful reboot 'Spider–Man: Homecoming', this follows the events of 'Avengers: Endgame', with Peter…
- Ambulance (2022)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez
- Propulsive action thriller directed by Michael Bay about a desperate veteran (Yahya Abdul–Mateen II) who turns to his adoptive brother and…