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  • Rourke and Basinger to reunite for new movie - 10 February 2012
    -Mickey Rourke is set to reunite with his Nine 1/2 Weeks co-star Kim Basinger for a new political thriller.-The actors, who starred in the raunchy 1986 drama together, will team up again for Black November, with Rourke playing an unscrupulous oil company boss whose fi


  • Rourke brought to tears by Basinger letter - 18 April 2009
    -Mickey Rourke teared up when he received a heartfelt letter from his 9 Weeks co-star Kim Basinger, expressing how much she loved THE WRESTLER.- -The movie star admits the note from his old friend meant as much to him as winning accolades for the film.- - He recalls,

Kim Basinger - what members say


  • L.A. Confidential
  • L.A. Confidential review by A customer from Hull
    Rated - 4.0 stars As good as the book 20 September 2003
    ...t waiting for him to say, 'That'll do pig.' He will always be the farmer to me. Kim Basinger was good and she looked the part but I felt like any actress with her look coul...   Read customer review
  • Never Say Never Again
  • Never Say Never Again review by A customer from Birmingham, England.
    Rated - 3.0 stars What Never? Well Hardly Ever! 27 July 2004
    ...gh a rather predictable ending that evened things up for the latest Bond girl - Kim Basinger. (Worth watching if only for her!) Not one of the best, but watchable non-the-l...   Read customer review
  • The Natural
  • The Natural review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars A pleasant interlude 27 October 2005
    ...n out quite as expected. Robert Redford is gorgeous and a young Glenn Close and Kim Basinger also add some class. No sex, violence or swearing, which makes a nice change. S...   Read customer review

Kim Basinger - filmography


  • Charlie St. Cloud - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Zac Efron,  Kim Basinger,  Amanda Crew
    Director: Burr Steers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A young man forms a unique connection to the afterlife after surviving the tragic car accident that claimed his younger brother in this supernatural drama starring Zac Efron, based on the best-selling book by author Ben Sherwood. Charlie St. Cloud, Efron, is an experienced sailor from the Pacific ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 71% from 61 members
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  • Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
    Starring: Zac Efron,  Kim Basinger,  Amanda Crew
    Director: Burr Steers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Charlie St. Cloud is a young man overcome by grief at the death of his younger brother. So much so that he takes a job as caretaker of the cemetery in which his brother is buried. Charlie has a special lasting bond with his brother though, as he can see him. Charlie meets up with his brother (Sam) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 75% from 317 members
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  • The Informers on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Billy Bob Thornton,  Kim Basinger,  Winona Ryder
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Focusing on the Los Angeles of the early 1980s, "The Informers" balances a vast array of characters that represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting all these ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 3,266 members
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  • The Informers - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Chris Isaak,  Mickey Rourke,  Lou Taylor Pucci
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The first film based on a book by postmodern transgressor Bret Easton Ellis to also count the author's name among its screenwriting credits, THE INFORMERS is lit with a cold, cologne-commercial sheen not unlike the one that charged AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) with a sensation of sharp disconnect. But ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 527 members
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  • While She Was Out on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Craig Sheffer,  Lukas Haas
    Director: Susan Montford
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A typical suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What started off as a quick trip to the mall has ended in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,417 members
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  • While She Was Out - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Craig Sheffer,  Lukas Haas
    Director: Susan Montford
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    A typical suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What started off as a quick trip to the mall has ended in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 27 members
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  • The Sentinel on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Eva Longoria,  Michael Douglas,  Kiefer Sutherland
    Director: Clark Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Special Agent Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is convinced that a Neo-Nazi aryan disciple has managed to infiltrate the White House. When a White House agent is murdered, Garrison is framed and blackmailed over an affair with the First Lady Sarah Bellentine. He is relieved of his duties, but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 38,213 members
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  • Even Money (2006)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Forest Whitaker,  Nick Cannon
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Gambling: Carolyn, a novelist, is losing her family's savings at the slots; she's befriended by a close-up magician who dreams of making it big. A murdered bookie has the cops focused on Victor, who fronts for the mysterious, never-seen Ivan. Augie and Murph, two other bookies ply their partnership,..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 2 members
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  • Cellular (2004)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Chris Evans,  Eric Christian Olsen
    Director: David R Ellis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A random wrong number on his cell phone sends a young man into a high-stakes race against time to save a woman's life. With no knowledge of Jessica Martin other than her hushed, panicked voice on the other end of hte tenuous cell phone connection, Ryan is quickly thrown into a world of deception ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 32,873 members
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  • 8 Mile on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Eminem,  Mekhi Phifer,  Brittany Murphy
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) makes his big screen debut with 8 MILE, a bracing drama directed by the increasingly audacious Curtis Hanson. Set in 1995 in the bleak, urban battle zone of Detroit, the film follows the struggles of a young man desperate to make a better ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 12,887 members
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  • People I Know on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Kim Basinger,  Tea Leoni
    Director: Daniel Algrant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Al Pacino transforms himself into former all-star publicist Eli Wurman in Dan Algrant's PEOPLE I KNOW. Wurman is a southern-born one-time mover and shaker who is at the end of his rope--and his career. His last major client, Cary Launer (Ryan O'Neal), is an Oscar-winning actor who has Wurman clean ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 2,809 members
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  • 8 Mile - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Eminem,  Mekhi Phifer,  Brittany Murphy
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) makes his big screen debut with 8 MILE, a bracing drama directed by the increasingly audacious Curtis Hanson. Set in 1995 in the bleak, urban battle zone of Detroit, the film follows the struggles of a young man desperate to make a better ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 835 members
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  • I Dreamed Of Africa (2000)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Vincent Perez,  Daniel Craig
    Director: Hugh Hudson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the book of the same name, I DREAMED OF AFRICA is the true story of Kuki Gallman (Kim Basinger), a wealthy Italian socialite whose life changes abruptly after a near fatal car crash. Vowing to appreciate her life more deeply, she agrees to marry Paolo Gallman (Vincent Perez), a man she ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 639 members
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  • Bless The Child on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Jimmy Smits,  Holliston Coleman
    Director: Charles Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Maggie O'Connor (Kim Basinger) is an ordinary single woman whose life is turned upside down by the sudden appearance of her long-lost sister Jenna, a drug addict who drops off her newborn daughter and disappears again. Maggie adopts the girl, Cody, as her own and raises her, forming a close mother-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,973 member
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  • L.A. Confidential on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  Russell Crowe,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Curtis Hanson captures the duality of 1950s Los Angeles in this striking film noir adaptation of James Ellroy's novel. The City of Angels might be sunny, inviting, and glamorous to the rest of the world, but it's also filled with corrupt cops, elegant hookers, murder cover-ups, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 58,058 members
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  • Pret A Porter on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Tim Robbins,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,585 member
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  • The Getaway (1994)
    Starring: Alec Baldwin,  Kim Basinger,  Michael Madsen
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star in the highly charged remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic action-thriller. In a world where dishonour is commonplace, master thief Doc McCoy (Baldwin) is the exception. He lives by a code of ethics and stands by his word. His wife and partner in crime, Carol (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 189 members
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  • The Real McCoy on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Val Kilmer,  Terence Stamp
    Director: Russell Mulcahy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Karen McCoy, an expert burglar, has just been released from prison and is determined to go straight. However, her ex-husband won't let her see her young son and her parole officer and former employer are enticing her to do one more bank robbery...
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 326 members
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  • Wayne's World 2 on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Mike Myers,  Dana Carvey,  Christopher Walken
    Director: Stephen Surjik
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) return in this sequel to the 1992 pop-culture time capsule WAYNE'S WORLD. The boys still have their Aurora, Illinois, cable access show, Wayne is still dating Cassandra (Tia Carrere) and Garth has even found love in the form of Honey Hornee (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 10,444 members
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  • Final Analysis on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Kim Basinger,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Phil Joanou
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in San Francisco, this story pits a smart and determined psychiatrist against two beautiful, inscrutable, supremely strong willed and potentially dangerous sisters. The resulting triangle explodes in murder, a trial and double-crosses.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 699 members
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  • Cool World (1992)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Brad Pitt,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This blend of live-action and animation was director Ralph Bakshi's answer to WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. The story follows two humans who encounter Cool World--a parallel universe where cartoons actually exist--and tangle with the seductive Holli Would (Kim Basinger), an ambitious animated bombshell ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 861 members
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  • The Marrying Man on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Alec Baldwin,  Robert Loggia
    Director: Jerry Rees
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A lothario visits Las Vegas with his friends to celebrate his engagement. While there he falls in love with a sultry singer -- who just happens to be Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend! Siegel catches the two together, and as punishment, forces the couple to get married. The duo quickly divorce, but they ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 151 members
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  • Batman - Blu-ray (1989)
    Starring: Tra,  Michael Keaton,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Tim Burton's BATMAN, inspired by Frank Miller's graphic novel THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, is a Gothic, Wagnerian treatment of the Batman mythos that explains the origins of Batman (Michael Keaton) and his nemesis, the maniacal Joker (a ripe Jack Nicholson).Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 2,585 members
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  • Batman on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Jack Nicholson,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Tim Burton's BATMAN is a Gothic, Wagnerian treatment of the Batman mythos that explains the origins of Batman (Michael Keaton) and his nemesis, the maniacal Joker (a ripe Jack Nicholson).Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for criminals, held in the corrupt grip of crime boss Carl Grissom (the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 14,290 members
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  • My Stepmother Is An Alien on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Kim Basinger,  Jon Lovitz
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Celeste, a sexy extra-terrestrial spy, is assigned to seduce astro-physicist Steve Mills and enlist his aid in saving her planet. When Mills' 13 year-old daughter catches her new stepmother making a snack of some batteries, Celeste's mission is suddenly in great danger.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 980 members
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  • Nadine on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Jeff Bridges,  Rip Torn
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When Nadine accidentally comes into possession of property map worth millions, Vernon (Bridges), her financially strapped husband, comes up with a plan to make a killing. Unfortunately so does BufordPope (Rip Torn), an unscrupulous businessman who'll stop at nothing to get the map. So as Vernon's ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 64 members
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  • Blind Date on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Kim Basinger,  William Daniels
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Expecting to impress his associates with his dazzling, soft-spoken blind date, Walter takes her to a high-powered corporate dinner. After drinking 'one too many' she reduces the restaurant and Walter's career to a shambles. Her weird ex-boyfriend also helps to ruin Walter's car and his life.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,379 member
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  • No Mercy on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Kim Basinger,  Jeroen Krabbe
    Director: Richard Pearce
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A single-minded cop in search of his partner's killer undertakes a grueling investigation, which leads him into the murky Louisiana criminal underworld and brings him close to a mysterious blonde woman who may hold the answer to the mystery.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 429 members
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  • 9.1/2 Weeks on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Mickey Rourke,  Margaret Whitton
    Director: Adrian Lyne
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Erotic drama story of a female art dealer and her fantastic but terrifying love affair with a handsome and wealthy broker. She is looking for love but at the end of the nine and a half weeks she realises that he has just been using her...
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 5,134 members
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  • Fool For Love on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Sam Shepard,  Kim Basinger,  Randy Quaid
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dramatic story of the complex, passionate relationship between a cowboy drifter and his long-time love. Set in barren New Mexico, in the neon-lit confines of the seedy El Royale motel.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 110 members
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  • The Natural on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Robert Duvall,  Glenn Close
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,562 member
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  • Elvis Has Left The Building on DVD
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  John Corbett,  Sean Astin
    Director: Joel Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Joel Zwick follows the massive success 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' with this quirky comedy about a woman plagued by an Elvis curse. Harmony (Kim Basinger) had an encounter early in life with the young Elvis, and can't seem to shake his influence. Now a Pink Lady selling cosmetics door-to-door, she ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 2,230 members
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Kim Basinger facts

5 most recent films

Charlie St. Cloud - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Charlie St. Cloud - 3.5 stars
The Informers - 2.0 stars
The Informers - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
While She Was Out - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

L.A. Confidential - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Batman - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
L.A. Confidential - 3.5 stars
Charlie St. Cloud - 3.5 stars
Batman - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Even Money - 2.0 stars
While She Was Out - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Informers - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
The Informers - 2.0 stars
People I Know - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jerry Hall - 3 times - show films
Luis Chávez - 3 times - show films
Jack Palance - 3 times - show films
Jon Foster - 3 times - show films
Craig Sheffer - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Curtis Hanson - 4 times - show films
Susan Montford - 3 times - show films
Tim Burton - 3 times - show films
Gregor Jordan - 2 times - show films
Guillermo Arriaga Jordan - 2 times - show films