Ethan Hawke
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
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…