Movies by Ethan Hawke
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Sinister (2012)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, James Ransone …
Directed by: Scott Derrickson
After moving to a new town, a true-crime writer discovers a cache of videotapes depicting brutal murders that took place in the very house he just bought. As he tries to solve the mystery…
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The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig …
Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski
When Yankee scribe Tom Ricks moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter, he quickly finds the City of Lights to be a special and miserable place. Robbed and broke, Tom slowly climbs out of…
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Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Three cops -- a burned-out veteran, a narcotics officer with questionable ethics and an undercover detective -- find themselves hurtling toward the same crime scene on one fatal night in this…
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Daybreakers (2009)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill …
Directed by: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Earth's population is up against a vicious plague that's transforming everyone into vampires and draining the world of an increasingly precious resource: blood. As the human race…
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Staten Island (2009)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel …
Directed by: James DeMonaco
As Staten Island mobster Parmie draws the media's attention to an environmental issue, septic-tank cleaner Sully prepares to rob the gangster's safe, and deli worker Jasper carves…
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Chelsea on the Rocks (2008)
Cast: Vito Acconci, Adam Goldberg, Donald Baechler …
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
As Hotel Chelsea, a New York City Bohemian treasure, faces a makeover at the hands of a new management company, filmmaker Abel Ferrara salutes the building's raucous past and formidable…
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What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet …
Directed by: Brian Goodman
Low-level hoods Brian and Paulie have been best friends since childhood, but when Brian leaves prison after a five-year stretch, he's determined to go straight despite Paulie's…
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New York, I Love You (2008)
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Natalie Portman, Justin Bartha …
Directed by: Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Natalie Portman …
In the city that never sleeps, love abounds 24/7. At the café, in the park, on the subway, on the corner, you never know where love will find you. Some of the greatest directors present…
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
The perfect crime goes horribly wrong for brothers Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke) when they botch a robbery of their parents' jewelry store in this wrenching drama…
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Fast Food Nation (2006)
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Patricia Arquette …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater's fictional tale (inspired by Eric Schlosser's 2001 nonfiction book of the same name) critiques the junk-food juggernaut that's arguably responsible for…
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The Hottest State (2006)
Cast: Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Ethan Hawke
Struggling actor William Harding falls for a beautiful musician named Sarah, who's initially indifferent to their affair. Hoping to make a connection, William continues to pursue her and…
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Jean-François Richet
With nothing more than a bare-bones operation to back him up, a Detroit detective takes on an army of deadly criminals who've thrown down the gauntlet and are openly hunting down a…
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Lord of War (2005)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto …
Directed by: Andrew Niccol
Looking to break away from his dead-end life, a Ukrainian immigrant goes from two-bit thug to international arms dealer -- closing his eyes to the repercussions of who purchases the weapons.…
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Taking Lives (2004)
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland …
Directed by: D.J. Caruso
FBI profiler Illeana Scott is recruited to assist the police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims. Her most promising lead is a museum…
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Before Sunset (2004)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke reprises his role as Jesse, a traveling American who fell for a sweet French girl named Celine (Julie Delpy) while he was backpacking through Europe, in this sequel to the 1995…
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Corso: The Last Beat (2004)
Cast: Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs …
Directed by: Gustave Reininger
William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Ethan Hawke and Patti Smith appear in this biographical documentary about beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001), whose unstable…
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Training Day (2001)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Eva Mendes …
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Staying on the right side of the law becomes an occupational challenge for rookie cop Jake Hoyt when he's partnered with narcotics agent Alonzo Harris, a veteran detective whom Hoyt…
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Tape (2001)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
After 10 years apart, three friends (Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman) reunite in a motel room to play out the unresolved drama of their final high school days. As layers of…
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Waking Life (2001)
Cast: Wiley Wiggins, Peter Atherton, Steve Brudniak …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Director Richard Linklater's mesmerizing animated film follows a young man (Wiley Wiggins) as he floats in and out of philosophical discussions with a succession of eccentrics and…
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The Jimmy Show (2001)
Cast: Frank Whaley, Carla Gugino, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Frank Whaley
The Jimmy Show tells the story of a failed New Jersey inventor, Jimmy O'Brien (Frank Whaley), who works at a grocery store to support his wife (Carla Gugino), daughter and…
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Hamlet (2000)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard …
Directed by: Michael Almereyda
The President of the Denmark Corporation has recently been found dead, and his wife has re-married the man suspected of the murder. Nobody is suffering more than her son Hamlet -- who is not…
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Joe the King (1999)
Cast: Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Frank Whaley
Surly, 14-year-old Joe Henry (Noah Fleiss) exists in a fog, shell-shocked from a lifetime in a violent household. So, it comes as no shock when Joe resorts to petty -- but escalating --…
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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, James Cromwell …
Directed by: Scott Hicks
When a fisherman is found drowned, suspicion falls on Japanese-American Kazou Miyamoto (Rick Yune). Local reporter Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke) may hold the key to proving Miyamoto's…
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The Velocity of Gary (1999)
Cast: Danny Arroyo, Salma Hayek, Vincent D'Onofrio …
Directed by: Dan Ireland
Though they're rivals for the love of a bisexual porn star named Valentino, an aimless hustler and a volcanic waitress must find a way to set aside their differences as Valentino…
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The Newton Boys (1998)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Four Texan brothers (Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey and Skeet Ulrich) ignite a crime spree in the 1920s, robbing more than 200 banks across the nation -- without…
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Great Expectations (1998)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert De Niro …
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
In this Americanized version of Charles Dickens's classic novel, set in 1990s New York instead of 1860s England, humble, young Finn (Ethan Hawke) develops a lifelong crush on Estella…
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Gattaca (1997)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law …
Directed by: Andrew Niccol
With one eye on his lifelong dream of working in outer space, a genetically flawed but determined "In-Valid" (Ethan Hawke) hires a DNA broker (Tony Shalhoub) to help him obtain more desirable…
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Before Sunrise (1995)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
This intoxicating film from director Richard Linklater stars Ethan Hawke as an American backpacker who strikes up a conversation with a lovely fellow traveler (Julie Delpy) on the train to…
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Search and Destroy (1995)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Griffin Dunne, Illeana Douglas …
Directed by: David Salle
Director David Salle's quirky satire stars Griffin Dunne as Martin Mirkheim, a wannabe movie producer determined to turn a book by self-help expert Luther Waxling (Dennis Hopper) into a…
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Reality Bites (1994)
Cast: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller …
Directed by: Ben Stiller
In this irreverent romantic comedy, a small circle of Gen-X friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment as…
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Alive (1993)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton …
Directed by: Frank Marshall
Ethan Hawke and Josh Hamilton star in the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashes in the Andes mountains. During their epic struggle to survive, the 35 athletes were stranded…
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A Midnight Clear (1992)
Cast: Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross …
Directed by: Keith Gordon
In 1944 France, an American intelligence squad locates a German platoon that prefers to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from…
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Waterland (1992)
Cast: John Heard, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack …
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Jeremy Irons stars as despondent history teacher Tom Crick in this moody drama helmed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. With Crick's wife (Sinéad Cusack) teetering on the edge of madness, he…
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Rich in Love (1992)
Cast: Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe …
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
When Helen (Jill Clayburgh) leaves her retired husband (Albert Finney), their teenage daughter, Lucille (Kathryn Erbe), drops out of high school to take care of her depressed father and their…
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White Fang (1991)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Seymour Cassel …
Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Set in Alaska during the Gold Rush, this adventure tale follows Jack Conroy, a young man who's just arrived to work his late father's claim. En route to the dig, Jack spies the wild…
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Mystery Date (1991)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara …
Directed by: Jonathan Wacks
Tom (Ethan Hawke) has a crush on the stunning girl next door (Teri Polo), but he's too shy to make a move -- so, his suave older brother Craig (Brian McNamara) pretends to be him and…
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Peter Weir
Oscar nominee Robin Williams stars as John Keating, an unconventional teacher who inspires students through poetry. When the school fires him, his devastated students rally behind him,…
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Dad (1989)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis …
Directed by: Gary David Goldberg
Family bonds are revived after a father is diagnosed with cancer in this bittersweet drama. Dutiful son John (Ted Danson) cares for his aging father, Jake (Jack Lemmon), but not without…
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Explorers (1985)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Bobby Fite …
Directed by: Joe Dante
Dreaming of space travel, teenage science whiz Ben Crandall and his best friend Wolfgang create an interplanetary spacecraft in a homemade laboratory. It isn't long before the two pals…
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The Hottest State (2006)
Cast: Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Ethan Hawke
Struggling actor William Harding falls for a beautiful musician named Sarah, who's initially indifferent to their affair. Hoping to make a connection, William continues to pursue her and…
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Chelsea Walls (2001)
Cast: Kevin Corrigan, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio …
Directed by: Ethan Hawke
Featuring a high-profile cast and set within the confines of New York City's famed Chelsea Hotel, this indie omnibus follows a day in the lives of five creative souls struggling with…