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…
- Moby Dick (2010)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Ethan Hawke, William Hurt, Charlie Cox…
- Herman Melville's classic adventure gets another worthy adaptation this with William Hurt as the self–destructive Captain Ahab. Solid made for…
- Woman in the Fifth, The (2011)
- Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas
- Intriguing, if ultimately baffling Parisian thriller about a struggling American writer (Ethan Hawke) who embarks on a passionate affair with an…
- Sinister (2012)
- Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Vincent D'Onofrio…
- Ethan Hawke plays a crime writer who moves into the house of a grisly crime scene and stumbles upon a cache of 8mm snuff footage in the attic,…
- Purge, The (2013)
- Dir. James DeMonaco
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey
- In the near future, the moral fibre of a family is tested when their house is invaded by a stranger on the night of the 'purge', an annual…
- Before Midnight (2013)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Ariane Labed…
- In sunny Greece, long–time lovers Jesse and Céline reunite almost two decades after their first meeting in this wistful sequel to BEFORE…
- Predestination (2014)
- Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor
- Ethan Hawke plays a Temporal Agent in pursuit of an elusive criminal across time in this loopy yet engaging indentity–crisis thriller based on…
- Boyhood (2014)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane
- Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, this entirely unique project bares witness to an 8–year–old boy literally matures on screen…
- Cymbeline (Anarchy) (2014)
- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich…
- After their edgy version of Hamlet (2000), Ethan Hawke and director Michael Almereyda re–team for one of Shakespeare's lesser–known…
- Good Kill (2014)
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz…
- Andrew Niccol (GATTACA) writes and directs this thought–provoking drama with Ethan Hawke as a drone pilot beginning to question the ethics of…
- Ten Thousand Saints (10,000 Saints) (2015)
- Dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Ethan Hawke, Hailee Steinfeld…
- Teen drama set in the straight–edge punk scene in 1980's New York follows a young man as he struggles to reconnect with his drug–dealing…
- Regression, The (2015)
- Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Ethan Hawke, David Thewlis, Emma Watson…
- Chilly horror with a detective and a psychoanalyst uncovering evidence of a satanic cult while investigating the rape of a young woman.
- Maggie's Plan (2015)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore…
- Witty showcase for the talents of Greta Gerwig, here playing a woman who's plans to have a baby on her own are derailed when she becomes involved…
- Seymour: An Introduction (2015)
- Dir. Ethan Hawke
- Award–winning documentary on the life and career of classical pianist Seymour Bernstein, who abandoned fame as a performer in favour of a…
- Born To Be Blue (2015)
- Dir. Robert Budreau
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo
- Impressionistic biopic re–imaging Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s, with Ethan Hawke playing the jazz legend who battled heroin…
- Phenom, The (2016)
- Dir. Noah Buschel
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Paul Giamatti, Johnny Simmons…
- Understated baseball drama about a rookie pitcher struggling to come to terms with his abusive father and his sudden and potentially disastorous loss…
- Magnificent Seven, The (2016)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke…
- Denzel Washington headlines this solid remake of the classic western charged with defending a small town from a corrupt industrialist.
- In a Valley of Violence (2016)
- Dir. Ti West
Feat. Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Taissa Farmiga…
- Horror auteur Ti West lends his slow–burn, off–beat sensibility to the Western genre that may not be to conventional taste. Ethan Hawke…
- Maudie (2016)
- Dir. Aisling Walsh
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Sally Hawkins, Kari Matchett…
- An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the…
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Ethan Hawke…
- Expensive and extravagant space opera set in the 28th Century, where a team of special operatives investigate a dark force that threatens peace in…
- First Reformed (2017)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric The Entertainer
- Ethan Hawke plays a 46–year old pastor of a historic First Reformed church in upstate New York whose existential troubles span questions of…
- Juliet, Naked (2018)
- Dir. Jesse Peretz
Feat. Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Dowd
- Romantic comedy from the pen of Nick Hornby, exploring indie music superfandom, with a professor who idolises an obscure 90's alt–rocker (Ethan…
- Stockholm (2018)
- Dir. Robert Budreau
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong
- Serviceable crime thriller taking some entertaining liberties with the true story of the 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm, often…
- Truth, The (2019)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke…
- Dazzling modern family drama from master auteur Kore–eda Hirokazu (SHOPLIFTERS), pairing French screen icons Catherine Deneuve and Juliette…
- Tesla (2020)
- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Ebon Moss-Bacharach…
- Distinctive biopic about the life and work of visionary inventor Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke), including his uneasy relationship with fellow inventor,…
- Northman, The (2022)
- Dir. Robert Eggers
Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy…
- An action–filled epic from Robert Eggers (THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE WITCH) that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s…
- Black Phone, The (2022)
- Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Ethan Hawke
- The phone is dead. And it’s ringing. Director Scott Derrickson (“Sinister”) returns to his terror roots and partners again with both Ethan…