Joaquin Phoenix films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 38 films on Boxlist

Known for Her, Gladiator and The Master.

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Starring Joaquin Phoenix

Her
2013 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system...
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Gladiator
2000 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the...
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The Master
2012 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World...
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Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Featuring interviews with filmmakers and industry legends, discover the origins and evolution of The Joker, and learn why The Clown Prince of Crime is universally hailed as the greatest comic-book supervillain of all time.
Hotel Rwanda
2004 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand...
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Parenthood
1989 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the...
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Inherent Vice
2014 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
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Walk the Line
2005 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
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To Die For
1995 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with...
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You Were Never Really Here
2017 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
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Earthlings
2005 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.
C'mon C'mon
2021 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
A documentary filmmaker whose latest project involves gifted children bonds with his smart-yet-sensitive nephew, whose father struggles with bipolar disorder and is in the grips of a manic episode.
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Signs
2002 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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The Sisters Brothers
2018 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
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Eddington
2025 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
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Beau Is Afraid
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.
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Joker
2019 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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Showbiz Kids
2020 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
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Two Lovers
2008 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
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The Immigrant
2013 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
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Quills
2000 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of...
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Napoleon
2023 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
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Buffalo Soldiers
2002 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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The Village
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
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We Own the Night
2007 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
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The Yards
2000 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the...
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U Turn
1997 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After...
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Irrational Man
2015 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
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Brother Bear
2003 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of...
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I'm Still Here
2010 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets...
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SpaceCamp
1986 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into...
Reservation Road
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.
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Ladder 49
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him...
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Mary Magdalene
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
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Inventing the Abbotts
1997 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply...
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Joker: Folie à Deux
2024 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.
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8MM
1999 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to...
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