Joaquin Phoenix

With his third feature film, James Gray proves why he has emerged as one of the most important American directors of the new generation, with yet another thrillingly slow-moving gangster drama that wins you over with its atmosphere and excellent cast. — A man works as a manager in a Brooklyn club controlled by the Russian mafia, unbeknownst to anyone that his father and brother are high-ranking police officers. Soon, however, he will be forced to choose sides. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2007

James Gray freely adapts Dostoyevsky's White Nights to take place on the streets of New York and creates a complex and sensitive romantic drama, which was in the Official Competition at Cannes 2008 and is lead by Joaquin Phoenix's sensational performance. — A man returns to his childhood home in Brooklyn after a suicide attempt. As he recovers, a mysterious and beautiful neighbour with various problems and a tender girl, daughter of the man who will buy the family business, put him in deep emotional dilemmas about how he feels, what he wants and what he should do. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2008

Before putting on the Joker mask, Joaquin Phoenix was the updated and stylized version of the Scorsese Taxi Driver, in Lynne Ramsay's hallucinatory film that hides a lot more behind the revenge story portrayed. — A traumatized veteran unafraid of violence tracks down missing girls for a living, when a missing girl makes him realize he is on a rescue mission. Corruption and revenge in a vortex of violence that can lead to his redemption. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017 Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) | Cannes Film Festival | 2017 Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

Aided by another excellent performance by Joaquin Phoenix, Gus Van Sant is searching for the light inside the darkness, and turns cartoonist John Callahan’s tortured life into an ode to the cathartic power of creation. — After the car accident that nearly took his life, the last thing John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) wants to do is quit drinking. When he reluctantly begins treatment - with the encouragement of his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and charismatic supporter (Jonah Hill) - Callahan discovers a new talent: drawing bold, irreverent cartoons for newspapers that eventually become popular across the country and give him a new zest for life. — Official Selection | Berlin International Film Festival | 2018

After the horror gems "Hereditary" and "Midsommar", Ari Aster directs his most ambitious film, a surreal adventure influenced by Tolkien, The Odyssey and Charlie Kaufman, where the most frightening obstacles are the ones that lie within us. — Beau is a man full of anxieties and obsessions who embarks on an adventurous odyssey to reach his parents' home after the sudden death of his mother. Along the way he will be called upon to confront his greatest fears. — Nomination for Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) | Golden Globes | 2024