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Johnny Depp
John Depp II - born 9 June 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky - is bold and beautiful, and - these days, at least - he makes films that make him happy.
After cropping up in A Nightmare on Elm Street and Platoon, things really took off in 1987 with 21 Jump Street. Four seasons of the US cop show made Depp a poster-boy sex symbol - a tag he hated and began dismantling immediately.
The double-whammy of Edward Scissorhands and Cry Baby established his fondness for the weird and wonderful, and the 12 years from 1990 only continued this trend.
Then came Captain Jack Sparrow. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has rightly made Depp a huge superstar, but he's still all about vivid variety.
An unfussy but totally committed actor, he has a peculiarly British sense of humour (which meant he once championed The Fast Show to a room of bewildered American mates), and currently lives in Paris with long-term belle Vanessa Paradis and their two children.
And he's soon to be Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street...
Wise words: "Sure, I find it touching, honestly, but awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says: 'I love Captain Jack Sparrow' ... That's real magic for me."
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Johnny Depp - news / articles
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Depp 'pocketing £21 million' for fourth Pirates -
17 November 2009
-Johnny Depp has reportedly signed a whopping £21 million pay deal to star in the fourth instalment of the Pirates Of The Caribbean film franchise.-
-The movie hunk has proved popular in his role as eccentric high seas character Captain Jack Sparrow - the first
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Depp's departure rumours 'unfounded' -
30 September 2009
-Movie bosses have blasted reports Johnny Depp is set to abandon ship - he isn't quitting the Pirates Of The Caribbean film franchise.-
-The actor sparked speculation he'll be replaced in his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in future instalments after telling the Los An
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Depp tackles vampires -
17 August 2009
-Johnny Depp is bidding to take his favourite childhood TV show, vampire thriller Dark Shadows, to the big screen.
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-Depp and regular collaborator, director Tim Burton, hope to turn the '60s series - about a man struck down with a vampire curse - into a movie franch
Johnny Depp - what members say
Johnny Depp - filmography
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The Rum Diary
(2010)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Bruce Robinson
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Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.
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73%
from 6 members
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Public Enemies
(2009)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard
Director: Michael Mann
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*This title is currently unavailable for rental.*
Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43', director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a sprawling historical crime drama that follows the ..read more »
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69%
from 979 members
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Public Enemies - BLU-RAY Version
(2009)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard
Director: Michael Mann
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*This title is currently unavailable for rental.*
Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43', director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a sprawling historical crime drama that follows the ..read more »
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60%
from 51 members
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The Libertine
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton
Director: Laurence Dunmore
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An antidote to the sunny period pieces adopted from Jane Austen, which feature impeccably coiffed aristocracy engage in the witty banter of drawing room dramas and culminate in a most delightful denouement, 'The Libertine' highlights the underbelly of the Britocracy of centuries past. Adapted from ..read more »
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53%
from 27,456 members
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Secret Window - BLU-RAY Version
(2004)
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton
Director: David Koepp
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Based on a Stephen King novella, the psychological thriller SECRET WINDOW is reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock film. Eccentric author Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) finds his life spiralling out of control. With a drinking problem and a cigarette habit he can't shake, Mort can barely function when his ..read more »
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61%
from 1,364 member
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Finding Neverland
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
Director: Marc Forster
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It all begins as successful Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie watches his latest play open to a ho-hum reaction among the polite society of Edwardian England. A literary genius of his times but bored by the same old themes, Barrie is clearly in need of some serious inspiration. Unexpectedly, he finds ..read more »
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67%
from 82,468 members
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Secret Window
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton
Director: David Koepp
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Based on a Stephen King novella, the psychological thriller SECRET WINDOW is reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock film. Eccentric author Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) finds his life spiralling out of control. With a drinking problem and a cigarette habit he can't shake, Mort can barely function when his ..read more »
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57%
from 32,663 members
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Once Upon A Time In Mexico
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp
Director: Robert Rodriguez
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With ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez follows the further adventures of El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), the guitar-and-gunslinging hero who has been leading a quiet life, but longs to get revenge for the murder of his love (Salma Hayek). When quirky CIA agent Sands (Johnny ..read more »
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59%
from 25,531 members
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Lost In La Mancha
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Terry Gilliam, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp
Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
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Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with an ..read more »
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61%
from 5,154 members
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Blow - BLU-RAY Version
(2001)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz
Director: Ted Demme
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George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother (Rachel Griffiths). So he sets off for California to live on the beach, where he finds he can make a living selling drugs. Soon George's drug dealing business ..read more »
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72%
from 274 members
Not available for rental
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From Hell
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
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FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this ..read more »
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64%
from 13,142 members
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From Hell - BLU-RAY Version
(2001)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Director: Albert Hughes
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FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this ..read more »
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64%
from 780 members
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Blow
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz
Director: Ted Demme
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George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother (Rachel Griffiths). So he sets off for California to live on the beach, where he finds he can make a living selling drugs. Soon George's drug dealing business ..read more »
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69%
from 13,753 members
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The Man Who Cried
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Christina Ricci, John Turturro
Director: Sally Potter
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Set in 1927, this is the story of a young Jewish girl who was sent from Russia to England where she was adopted by a family who re-named her Suzie. When Suzie reaches adulthood she sets off for a new life in Paris where she works with an opera company. Her happiness is short-lived and she is forced ..read more »
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58%
from 3,309 members
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Before Night Falls
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano
Director: Julian Schnabel
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The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual ..read more »
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61%
from 4,672 members
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Chocolat
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Carrie-Anne Moss
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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Lasse Hallstrom's CHOCOLAT is set in the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong north wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette ..read more »
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70%
from 35,478 members
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The Astronaut's Wife
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton
Director: Rand Ravitch
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In this psychological thriller, NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost (Depp) and his wife Jillian's (Theron) lives are propelled into utter dismay upon Spencer's return home from a space mission that lost contact with Earth for two minutes. What happened during those frightening 120 seconds in space will ..read more »
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53%
from 4,481 members
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Sleepy Hollow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always ..read more »
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70%
from 23,854 members
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The Ninth Gate
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Frank Langella
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte (THE CLUB DUMAS) and coscripted by director Roman Polanski, THE NINTH GATE was Polanski's first feature after a long break following the release of 1995's DEATH AND THE MAIDEN--in between, there was an aborted project that faltered when designated star John ..read more »
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62%
from 8,280 members
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Sleepy Hollow - BLU-RAY Version
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always ..read more »
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72%
from 377 members
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Cameron Diaz
Director: Terry Gilliam
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is a whirlwind of a movie, a wacky, drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock & roll soundtrack featuring everything from Wayne Newton and Tom Jones to Combustible Edison and Dead Kennedys. Journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) heads to Las Vegas to cover a ..read more »
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64%
from 17,965 members
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Donnie Brasco
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen
Director: Mike Newell
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Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI who ingratiates himself into the Mafia pecking order by posing as "jewel man" Donnie Brasco. He finds his loyalties divided when Lefty Ruggiero, a jaded hit man, takes him on as a protege and places real trust in him. The two men form a friendship--and a ..read more »
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72%
from 21,770 members
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The Brave
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Marshall Bell
Director: Johnny Depp
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Johnny Depp writes, directs and stars in this tense drama about a man racing to save his own life. Depp plays Raphael, whose family are struggling to make ends meet and defy poverty. He seeks a more secure future for his family when he meets the sinister McCarthy (Brando) who offers him $30000 to ..read more »
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52%
from 2,720 members
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Don Juan De Marco
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway
Director: Jeremy Leven
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Dr Jack Mickler, ten days before his retirement, takes on his last case as a psychiatrist. The case is that of Don Juan, who has seduced more than a thousand women, and starts Dr Mickler re-evaluating his own life...
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64%
from 4,661 members
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Nick Of Time
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton
Director: John Badham
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Watch now: £2.49
In John Badham's NICK OF TIME, Johnny Depp stars as Gene Watson, a mild-mannered, widowed accountant, and the father of six-year-old Lynn (Courtney Chase). While in Los Angeles's Union Station, they are abducted by a mysterious couple posing as police officers, Mr. Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms...read more »
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59%
from 4,118 members
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Dead Man
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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William Blake (Johnny Depp) set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events, he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the ..read more »
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65%
from 4,489 members
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Arizona Dream
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis
Director: Emir Kusturica
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A romantic comedy about the adventures of an innocent dreamer in the weird landscape of the American West. Caught between childhood and adulthood he finds himself back in his hometown where he becomes involved with a wealthy widow and her stepdaughter.
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56%
from 2,292 members
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Ed Wood
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: Tim Burton
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A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time," Tim Burton's ED WOOD is nevertheless a delightful, zany, and ultimately moving film. Wood was the auteur behind GLEN OR GLENDA
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66%
from 13,645 members
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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Lasse Hallstrom directs this beautifully photographed, critically acclaimed drama about small-town life and the contraints that a young man's family responsibilities put on his independence. The screenplay is written by Peter Hedges who also wrote the novel of the same name.Bizarre, whimsical, and ..read more »
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72%
from 14,448 members
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Benny And Joon
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
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Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), a mentally disturbed young woman, lives with her older (and over-protective) brother, Benny (Aidan Quinn). He puts up with the untenable situation because of his love for her and his dislike of institutions. Just when their relationship reaches a point where things ..read more »
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65%
from 11,631 members
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Edward Scissorhands
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's ..read more »
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74%
from 24,297 members
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Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robert Englund, Yaphet Kotto, Lisa Zane
Director: Rachel Talalay
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Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the evil dreamstalker, returns to lure his daughter back to his side. This time he may have met his match in his own child, but not before he enjoys some fiendish games of his own. The film features cameos by Johnny Depp and other familiar faces.
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53%
from 3,879 members
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Edward Scissorhands - BLU-RAY Version
(1991)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's ..read more »
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76%
from 1,573 member
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Cry Baby
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell
Director: John Waters
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Cult director John Waters goes mainstream -- sort of -- in this send-up of 1950s teen melodramas. Heart-throb Johnny Depp stars in the title role as a glamorous delinquent who heads a gang of hoods known as the Drapes. Trouble starts when Cry-Baby falls for a squeaky clean blonde from a rival group,..read more »
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64%
from 4,206 members
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Platoon
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger
Director: Oliver Stone
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In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw ..read more »
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from 30,146 members
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Private Resort
(1985)
Starring: Rob Morrow, Johnny Depp
Director: George Bowers
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Johnny Depp and Rob Morrow star as two sex-starved teens out for the adventure of their lives in this outrageous Spring Break comedy filled with sand, surf and skin!
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58%
from 36 members
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 1
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Ronee Blakley
Director: Wes Craven
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A hellish, razor-fingered monster enters the dreams of the teenage residents of a bucolic town and systematically slaughters them in their sleep--until one courageous young woman does battle with the predatory fiend. An excellent, surprisingly surrealistic genre entry from the master, Wes Craven.
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68%
from 11,177 members
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21 Jump Street - First Season
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Johnny Depp, Peter DeLuise, Frederic Forrest
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Johnny Depp stars as Tom Hanson, a baby-faced rookie cop assigned to the Jump Street unit, an elite division of the police force specialising in the undercover infiltration of high schools in order to fight and prevent juvenile crime. Hanson soon learns that teenagers are equally at threat from ..read more »
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from 1,241 member
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Breakfast with Hunter
Starring: John Cusack, Benicio Del Toro, Johnny Depp
Director: Wayne Ewing
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Breakfast with Hunter is a feature length documentary starring the infamous outlaw journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. The film chronicles Dr. Thompson's successful attempt to avoid being placed in the system - jail and/or rehabilitation - by rogue Aspen City cops that conspired to bust him for ..read more »
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68%
from 23 members
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21 Jump Street - Fifth Series
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Johnny Depp, Peter De Luise, Dustin Nguyen
Director: Peter DeLuise
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Created by legendary television producer Stephen J. Cannell (THE A-TEAM, HUNTER), 21 JUMP STREET took a MOD SQUAD-like premise and used it to explore complex issues facing teenagers and young adults. A group of young police officers is chosen to join a specialized team to go undercover in high ..read more »
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from 79 members
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Spongebob Squarepants And The Big Wave
on DVD
Starring: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Johnny Depp
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SpongeBob and his pals find themselves stranded on Tropical Island after being swept away by a giant wave. While trying to find their way back home, they meet the infamous surf guru Jack Kahuna Laguna (voiced by Johnny Depp) who tells them that the only way to get back to Bikini Bottom is to surf ..read more »
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from 66 members
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21 Jump Street - Third Season
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Johnny Depp, Dustin Nguyen, Peter De Luise
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Contains all 20 episodes - including the unforgettable two part cliffhanger finale in which Hanson wages a one-man war against the street gang that shot Loki - featuring such guest stars as: Bridget Fonda, Dom DeLuise, Mario Van Peebles and Kelly Hu
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Johnny Depp - watch online
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Nick of Time
to Watch Now
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton
Director: John Badham
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 88 minutes
The clock is ticking for Johnny Depp in Nick Of Time, a twist-filled, race-against-time thriller directed by John Badham (Drop Zone, Saturday Night Fever). And indeed it is a race, filmed in "real time" so that onscreen events unfold minute by nail-biting minute as they would in real life. No ..read more »
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from 25 members
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Johnny Depp facts
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Donnie Brasco 4 February 2004
...Brasco centers around the true story of FBI Agent, Joseph D. Pistone, played by Johnny Depp, who infiltrates the mafia of New York, by befriending Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggeri...
Comedy, horror and romance all in one film! 1 January 2005
