| | Gladiator (2000)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $187.67M Lead Role: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, | Director: Ridley Scott, When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
| | Joker (2019)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $335.45M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, | Director: Todd Phillips, In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker. |
| | Her (2013)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $25.56M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara, | Director: Spike Jonze, A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need. |
| | Hotel Rwanda (2004)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $23.47M Lead Role: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali, | Director: Terry George, Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. |
| | Walk the Line (2005)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $119.52M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, | Director: James Mangold, A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. |
| | The Master (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $16.38M Lead Role: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader. |
| | You Were Never Really Here (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Dante Pereira-Olson, Larry Canady, Vinicius Damasceno, | Director: Lynne Ramsay, A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening. |
| | To Die For (1995)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $21.20M Lead Role: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, | Director: Gus Van Sant, A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive. |
| | Inherent Vice (2014)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $8.09M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. |
| | The Sisters Brothers (2018)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $3.10M Lead Role: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, | Director: Jacques Audiard, In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers. |
| | Signs (2002)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $227.97M Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, | Director: M. Night Shyamalan, A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come. |
| | Two Lovers (2008)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $3.15M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce, | Director: James Gray, A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor. |
| | Quills (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $7.06M Lead Role: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, | Director: Philip Kaufman, In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor. |
| | The Immigrant (2013)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 77 | Earnings: $1.98M Lead Role: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk, | Director: James Gray, 1921. An innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island. |
| | We Own the Night (2007)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $28.56M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Danny Hoch, | Director: James Gray, A New York City nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men. |
| | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $1.44M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, | Director: Gus Van Sant, On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life. |
| | The Village (2004)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 44 | Earnings: $114.20M Lead Role: Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, | Director: M. Night Shyamalan, A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village. |
| | Buffalo Soldiers (2001)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: $0.35M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, | Director: Gregor Jordan, A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall. |
| | Irrational Man (2015)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 53 | Earnings: $4.03M Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Joe Stapleton, | Director: Woody Allen, A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act. |
| | Return to Paradise (1998)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 54 | Earnings: $8.29M Lead Role: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, | Director: Joseph Ruben, Two friends must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession. |
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