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Mickey Rourke
a very misunderstood man, who started life as a boxer then turned to film but his hate for authority made him a difficult choice for producers to work with, his outspoken ways made enemies and eventually got him banned from the uk, he went on to marry carrie otis his co star in the steamy film Wild Orchid, but she had problems and through his intense almost obsessive love for her violence reared, sinking into depression and a self hate he moved back to the world of boxing, but no longer as fit as previously got injured on various counts and ended up having plastic surgery on his face, which many feel was too extensive and not a good job, moving back into acting mickey is trying to re-build his life after carrie who by his own admission he will always love. Ever a ladies man age has not slowed him and his love of attractive woman continues, if only a front to hide his insecurities about himself
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Mickey Rourke - news / articles
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Rourke still involved with Thomas biopic -
28 March 2012
-Gay rugby star Gareth Thomas insists Mickey Rourke is still keen to tackle the lead role his upcoming movie biopic despite rumours the Hollywood actor was struggling with the stunt training.-The Wrestler star has thrown himself into researching his role as the Welshma
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Rourke pulls out of Thomas biopic -
25 March 2012
-Mickey Rourke has dropped out of playing gay rugby star Gareth Thomas in a new biopic after struggling with stunt training for the movie.-The Wrestler star signed up to tell the true story of Britain's first openly gay rugby player and threw himself into researching
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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 fir
Mickey Rourke - what members say
review by from FARNBOROUGH
11 February 2004
review by from East Sussex
Breathtakingly iconic 5 June 2004
review by from West Sussex
If you want to watch this movie ... 16 June 2004
Mickey Rourke - filmography
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I Am Bruce Lee
(2011)
Starring: Dana White, Ed O'Neill, Kobe Bryant
Director: Pete McCormack
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I Am Bruce Lee' tells the amazing story of one of the most iconic human beings ever to enter the public consciousness. Voted as one of the most important people of the 20th century in Time Magazine's Time 100, as well as one of the Greatest Pop Culture Icons by People Magazine, Bruce Lee continues ..read more »
 
73%
from 6 members
Due for release on 23rd July 2012
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I Am Bruce Lee - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Dana White, Ed O'Neill, Kobe Bryant
Director: Pete McCormack
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I Am Bruce Lee' tells the amazing story of one of the most iconic human beings ever to enter the public consciousness. Voted as one of the most important people of the 20th century in Time Magazine's Time 100, as well as one of the Greatest Pop Culture Icons by People Magazine, Bruce Lee continues ..read more »
60%
from 2 members
Due for release on 23rd July 2012
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Immortals
(2011)
Starring: Henry Cavill, Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke
Director: Tarsem Singh
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In "Immortals," the ruthless King Hyperion leads his bloodthirsty army on a murderous rampage across Greece to find a deadly weapon that will destroy humanity. A mortal chosen by Zeus named Theseus must lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake.
59%
from 501 members
Not available for rental
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Immortals - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Henry Cavill, Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke
Director: Tarsem Singh
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A brave young stonemason assembles a fierce band of warriors to prevent an evil king from acquiring the artifact that will permit him to rule the world in this epic mythological fantasy from visionary filmmaker Tarsem Singh. King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) is a brutal tyrant on a bloody mission to ..read more »
62%
from 106 members
Not available for rental
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13
(2010)
Starring: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke
Director: Gela Babluani
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A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
53%
from 70 members
Currently unavailable
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The Courier
(2010)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Til Schweiger
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Certificate: 
A COURIER's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) life is turned upside down and starts spinning out of control after he is hired to deliver a mysterious package deep into the underworld to a very dangerous man who is notoriously hard to find.
47%
from 8 members
Due for release on 4th June 2012
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Iron Man 2 - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson
Director: Jon Favreau
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With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper ..read more »
70%
from 18,247 members
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Iron Man 2
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson
Director: Jon Favreau
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With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper ..read more »
69%
from 49,712 members
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The Expendables
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Sylvester Stallone stars as Barney Ross, leader of The Expendables, a tight knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a ..read more »
60%
from 33,739 members
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The Informers
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder
Director: Gregor Jordan
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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 »
41%
from 3,266 members
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Killshot
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Thomas Jane
Director: John Madden
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When a husband and wife witness a shakedown, they discover that the Witness Protection Program is no match for a pair of ruthless killers who want them dead.
55%
from 225 members
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The Wrestler
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Ernest Miller, Marisa Tomei
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
The wrestler is the story of retired professional wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, making his way through the independent circuit, trying to get back in the game for one final showdown with his former rival.
71%
from 56,674 members
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The Informers - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Chris Isaak, Mickey Rourke, Lou Taylor Pucci
Director: Gregor Jordan
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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 »
39%
from 528 members
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The Wrestler - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Ernest
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Darren Aronofsky directs this searing drama about a past-his-prime wrestler who tries to regain his earlier fame. Mickey Rourke (ANGEL HEART, SIN CITY) continues a career revival of his own as the fighter, while Oscar winner Marisa Tomei (IN THE BEDROOM, MY COUSIN VINNY) and Evan Rachel Wood (..read more »
72%
from 11,948 members
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Stormbreaker
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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Alex Rider is a 14-year-old orphan who has been unwittingly trained all his life by his uncle with the skills to become a secret agent -- scuba diving, mountaineering, martial arts and so on. When his guardian, an MI6 agent, is killed, Rider learns the truth and finds himself forced against his ..read more »
60%
from 28,115 members
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Stormbreaker - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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Based on the first in the series of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider novels, STORMBREAKER tells the story of a teenager who is enlisted by MI6 in order to save the world. This action-packed blockbuster features a star-making turn from Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider; a pint-sized super spy to rival James ..read more »
52%
from 384 members
Currently unavailable
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Sin City - Recut, Extended, Unrated Ver...
(2005)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba
Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarant
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Comic artist genius Frank Miller and Desperado director Robert Rodriguez combine to bring Miller's searing, stylised vision of a torn, twisted city - and the people within it. Told in three chapters and definitely not for the faint of heart...
Recut, Extended, Unrated Version Includes:
Kill 'Em ..read more »
76%
from 3,263 members
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Domino - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez
Director: Tony Scott
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The already larger-than-life story of Domino Harvey, a former Ford model turned bounty hunter, takes on mythological proportions in Tony Scott's (TRUE ROMANCE, MAN ON FIRE) fast-paced action thriller. Unfolding in a non-linear fashion as a bloodied Domino (Kiera Knightley) is interrogated by iron-..read more »
54%
from 574 members
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Domino
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez
Director: Tony Scott
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The already larger-than-life story of Domino Harvey, a former Ford model turned bounty hunter, takes on mythological proportions in Tony Scott's (TRUE ROMANCE, MAN ON FIRE) fast-paced action thriller. Unfolding in a non-linear fashion as a bloodied Domino (Kiera Knightley) is interrogated by iron-..read more »
53%
from 41,577 members
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Sin City - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2005)
Starring: Dev, Devon Aok, Bruce Willis
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarant
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Comic artist genius Frank Miller and Desperado director Robert Rodriguez combine to bring Miller's searing, stylised vision of a torn, twisted city - and the people within it. Told in three chapters and definitely not for the faint of heart...
77%
from 2,207 members
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Man On Fire
(2004)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony
Director: Tony Scott
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Remorseful former mercenary-turned-bodyguard Creasy (Denzel Washington) is hired by a wealthy family to protect their 10-year-old daughter, Pita (Dakota Fanning), from a rash of Mexico City kidnappings. But when the child he befriends is kidnapped while under his watch, Creasy - aided by his only ..read more »
73%
from 89,899 members
Not currently released
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Man On Fire - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony
Director: Tony Scott
Certificate:
Remorseful former mercenary-turned-bodyguard Creasy (Denzel Washington) is hired by a wealthy family to protect their 10-year-old daughter, Pita (Dakota Fanning), from a rash of Mexico City kidnappings. But when the child he befriends is kidnapped while under his watch, Creasy - aided by his only ..read more »
80%
from 4,553 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 »
59%
from 27,802 members
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Masked And Anonymous
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Bob Dylan
Director: Larry Charles
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In a fictional America caught up in a civil war that is tearing the nation apart, a benefit concert is being organized. A traveling troubadour named Jack Fate (Bob Dylan) is sprung from jail by his scheming former manager (John Goodman) to headline a concert with the expectations to bring peace to ..read more »
42%
from 1,733 member
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The Pledge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Mirren, Michael O'Keefe
Director: Sean Penn
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Director Sean Penn's (THE INDIAN RUNNER, THE CROSSING GUARD) third film features Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black, a retired detective whose final case ultimately causes his slow descent into madness. In the midst of his retirement party, Black decides to join Detective Stan Krolak (Aaron Eckhart) on ..read more »
63%
from 3,487 members
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Get Carter
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook
Director: Stephen Kay
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Jack Carter's brother is dead. And Jack (Sylvester Stallone) wants to know why. A Las Vegas mob enforcer, he carefully packs his guns and sets off for Seattle by train. At the funeral, he discovers his brother was full of alcohol when he died in a car accident. But according to his niece, Doreen (..read more »
49%
from 1,861 member
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Animal Factory
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Seymour Cassel
Director: Steve Buscemi
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Set in San Quentin jail, ANIMAL FACTORY is a bleak prison drama where Edward Furlong plays young Ron a middle-class petty dope dealer who, in this hard violent environment, is befriended and protected by Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe in a strong chilling performance) a long term convict. Ron's ..read more »
50%
from 5,611 members
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Shades
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Jan Decleir, Andrew Howard
Director: Erik Van Looy
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Director Paul Sullivan (Mickey Rourke) wanted to look behind the eyes of pure evil by filming a biographical picture about Belgian mass murderer Freddy Lebecq (Jan Decleir). But when documentation becomes exploitation, actor Dylan Cole (Andrew Howard) attempts to humanise the reviled man's life ..read more »
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from 60 members
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Point Blank
(1997)
Starring: Werner Schreyer, Michael Wright, Danny Trejo
Director: Matt Earl Beesley
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The most dangerous criminals in Texas have broken loose and they are heavily armed - and they have hostages. Only one cop is brave enough to negotiate with them. And he isn't willing to lose the bargain.
55%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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John Grisham's The Rainmaker
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Matt Damon, Danny De Vito, Claire Danes
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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John Grisham's novel comes to life in Francis Ford Coppola's courtroom drama pitting the little guy against a large corporation. Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), an inexperienced Memphis lawyer, and his legal sidekick, Deck Schifflet (Danny DeVito), defend a leukemia victim against an insurance company ..read more »
69%
from 6,697 members
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Exit In Red
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Annabel Schofield, Anthony Michael Hall
Director: Yurek Bogayevicz
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Mickey Rourke plays a psychiatrist with a limited history of patient success who barely survives being implicated in the suicide of a disturbed woman in his care. He hopes for a fresh start with a new practice in Palm Springs, but inexorably, the cycle of violence and betrayal repeats itself when a ..read more »
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from 90 members
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Bullet
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur, Ted Levine
Director: Julien Temple
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Bullet is thrust back into the underground world of New York and immediately rips off two customers of his former prison rival. War is declared and everyone is about to become a victim of the brutal society that accepts violence as the norm and fear as a way of life.
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from 530 members
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F.T.W.
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Lori Singer, Brion James
Director: Michael Karbelnikoff
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F.T.W: A love story revovling around the violent worlds of a wild and beautiful young woman who is unable to give up her criminal past and a rodeo cowboy just out of prison and trying to fit back into a society he didn't belong to in the beginning.
NO CODE OF CONDUCT: A renegade cop who helps to ..read more »
42%
from 103 members
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The Last Outlaw
(1993)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine
Director: Geoff Murphy
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In the company of thieves, no one can trust another. When an outlaw (Mickey Rourke) is betrayed, he goes out for bloody revenge. This made-for-TV Western also features Dermot Mulroney, Steve Buscemi, John C. McGinley, and others.
53%
from 219 members
Currently unavailable
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Wild Orchid
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, Carre Otis
Director: Zalman King
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In WILD ORCHID, Emily (Carre Otis), a beautiful young attorney, undergoes a sexual awakening after traveling to Rio de Janeiro. She takes a job as the assistant to Claudia (Jacqueline Bisset), a no-nonsense, extremely successful businesswoman. As part of her duties, Emily must travel with her boss ..read more »
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from 981 members
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Homeboy
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Debra Feuer
Director: Michael Seresin
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Johnny Walker (Mickey Rourke) is a "punch-drunk" boxer. He's a bit old to keep on boxing but it's the only thing that he does well. He's in love with Ruby (Debra Feuer) but is too shy to tell her. Johnny meets Wesley (Christopher Walken), a smooth-talking wise-guy who is torn between greed and his ..read more »
57%
from 127 members
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Johnny Handsome
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Lance Henriksen
Director: Walter Hill
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A small-time criminal with a disfigured face takes the rap of a soured robbery. In jail, he receives a new face and is granted parole. He begins an honest life, but his old partners show up to spoil his plans, except he has plans too - of revenge.
56%
from 411 members
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Angel Heart
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Director: Alan Parker
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In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany ..read more »
65%
from 9,777 members
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Angel Heart - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Director: Alan Parker
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In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany ..read more »
70%
from 756 members
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9.1/2 Weeks
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Margaret Whitton
Director: Adrian Lyne
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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...
53%
from 5,135 members
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Year Of The Dragon
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane
Director: Michael Cimino
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Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven's Gate, director Michael Cimino turned to this fast-paced actioner set in an authentic (back lot) Chinatown. This thriller stars a rogue Polish-American cop (Mickey Rourke) out to not only keep Chinatown safe for the ..read more »
61%
from 547 members
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The Pope Of Greenwich Village
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
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THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE tells the gritty story of Charlie (Mickey Rourke) and his cousin Paulie (Eric Roberts), two down-on-their-luck small-time hoods out to make a score in New York's Little Italy. When their plan goes bad, they find themselves in trouble with the local mob, as well as the ..read more »
57%
from 376 members
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Rumble Fish - Blu-ray
(1983)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Vincent Spano, Diana Scarwid
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola directed this beautiful black-and-white version of S.E. Hinton's popular youth novel. RUMBLE FISH explores the relationship between a young street thug, Rusty James (Matt Dillon), and his older brother, the legendary Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). When Motorcycle Boy comes ..read more »
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from 1 member
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Rumble Fish
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in ..read more »
65%
from 3,976 members
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Body Heat
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Watch now: £2.49
Academy Award winner William Hurt stars with Kathleen Turner in a taut story of lust, greed and murder set in a steamy South Florida town. When libidinous but not-very-smart attorney Ned Racine (Hurt) begins an affair with Matty Walker (Turner), the beautiful, young wife of an unscrupulous tycoon, ..read more »
58%
from 2,471 members
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Fade To Black
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Tim Thomerson, Norman Burton
Director: Vernon Zimmerman
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An interesting, introspective variant on the '80s slasher formula, this low-key psychological thriller details the troubled life of obsessed movie junkie Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher), whose love of old movies extends far beyond his job at a film distributor's warehouse and endless late-night ..read more »
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from 252 members
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Mickey Rourke facts
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...Great Film Noir, Absorbing atmosphere. Mickey Rourke is great in this and his scene's with De Niro are terrific. Watch closely and stay with it, you probably need to watch i...
