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…
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Lavish with magnificent visual icing, this version of Roald Dahl's classic childrens' story is a pretty tasty updating of the story of young Charlie…
- Corpse Bride (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) (2005)
- Dir. Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson
- An animated tour–de–force from dir. Burton which fuses spindley puppetry and subtle CGI for its mythic tale of a sallow young bridegroom…
- Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley…
- Smash sequel–equal, which replicates the swashbuckling wit, quirkiness and visual excitement of its predecessor, again following the…
- 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…
- Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End (2007)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom…
- Blockbuster third installment in the ever–popular swashbuckling franchise finds Johnny Depp and crew having to sail off the edge of the map and…
- Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman…
- Johnny Depp is centre stage once again for dir. Tim Burton in this fiendish screen rendition of Stephen Sondheim's twisted musical about a…
- Public Enemies (2009)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale…
- Michael Mann transposes the cops–and–robbers psychology of HEAT to depression–era America in this ambitious, if at times inadequate…
- Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The (2009)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Andrew Garfield…
- Firing on all imaginative cylinders, dir. Terry Gilliam delivers what is possibly his magnum opus – an original, mind–bending fantasy…
- Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Dir. Tim Burton goes down the rabbit hole in this feverish retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic tale told with his customary visual brio.
Bonham…
- Tourist, The (2010)
- Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Feat. Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany…
- Vacationing in Venice, Johnny Depp is drawn into the web of a beautiful woman (Angelina Jolie) in this intriguing international thriller from the…
- Rango (2011)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin…
- Johnny Depp slithers his way through this lively and often brilliant animated western, voicing a lizard who winds up as the sheriff of a lawless…
- Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides (2011)
- Dir. Rob Marshall
Feat. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane…
- Johnny Depp returns with more limb–flailing shenanigans in this fourth installment of the increasingly tired franchise. This time Sparrow…
- Rum Diary, The (2011)
- Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard…
- Johnny Depp returns to the world of Hunter S. Thompson in this adaptation of the Gonzo journalist's "lost" autobiographical novel of the same name,…
- Dark Shadows (2012)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Tim Burton directs Johnny Depp (for the eight time) in the cult role of Barnabas Collins, a 200–year–old vampire who reawakens in the…
- Lone Ranger, The (2013)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner…
- Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer bring TV western heroes Tonto and the Lone Ranger to the big screen in this splashy, rumble–and–rumble…
- Transcendence (2014)
- Dir. Wally Pfister
Feat. Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany…
- Johnny Depp plays an innovator in the field of artificial intelligence whose consciousness is absorbed into a computer mainframe. The directorial…
- Into the Woods (2014)
- Dir. Rob Marshall
Feat. Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine…
- Stephen Sondheim's exuberant musical gets the gleaming big screen treatment from dir. Rob Marshall (CHICAGO, NINE), with Meryl Streep as the witch…
- Tusk (2014)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment…
- Gleefully ludicrous Kevin Smith directed horror comedy following the fate of an unfortunate podcaster who discovers his next guest has a bizarre…
- Mortdecai (2015)
- Dir. David Koepp
Feat. Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor…
- Caper comedy with Johnny Depp as a debonair art dealer racing to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost Nazi gold.
- Black Mass (2015)
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson…
- True crime yarn with Johnny Depp disappearing into the role of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger, who became an FBI informant in order to take down a…
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
- Dir. James Bobin
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Effects heavy sequel to Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND has Alice returning to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travelling back in time to help…
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler…
- This 1920's period fantasy adventure is the first in the HARRY POTTER universe to be adapted for the screen by J. K. Rowling herself. Eddie Redmayne…
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
- Dir. Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg
Feat. Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites…
- Johnny Depp reprises his role as anarchic pirate Jack Sparrow in the fourth sequel of the swashbuckling fantasy franchise.
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe…
- Adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie, in the capable hands of director Kenneth Branagh, who also stars as Hercule Poirot, the renowned…
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler…
- Second installment in the Fantastic Beasts film series, following Newt Scamander and Albus Dumbledore as they go up against the dark wizard Gellert…
- Richard Says Goodbye (Professor, the) (2018)
- Dir. Wayne Roberts
Feat. Johnny Depp, Danny Huston, Rosemarie DeWitt…
- Johnny Depp is well cast as an (unintentionally?) insufferable college professor who, after finding out he has six months to live, transforms into a…