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Mickey Rourke has 51 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Man on Fire.
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Iron Man 2
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Disney+ · Included

I Am Bruce Lee
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

Buffalo '66
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

The Rainmaker
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Paramount+ · Included

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Prime Video · Included

The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Prime Video · Included

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller · With Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
Dir. Darren Aronofsky · With Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood

During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan · With William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna

A former Los Angeles drug dealer moves far away to Texas, making a new life for himself as a married architect in the suburbs. His old crime partner unexpectedly shows up with heroin and gangster business, attracting a slew of violent unsavory characters.
Dir. Skip Woods · With Thomas Jane, Paula Marshall, Aaron Eckhart

With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark 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, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.
Dir. Jon Favreau · With Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle

In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane

Bruce Lee is universally recognized as the pioneer who elevated martial arts in film to an art form, and this documentary will reveal why Bruce Lee's flame burns brighter now than the day he died over three decades ago. The greatest martial artists, athletes, actors, directors, and producers in the entertainment business today will share their feelings about the one who started it all. We will interview the people whose lives, careers, and belief systems were forever altered by the legendary "Father of Martial Arts Cinema". Rarely seen archival footage and classic photos will punctuate the personal testimonials. Prepare to be inspired.
Dir. Pete McCormack · With Bruce Lee, Linda Lee Cadwell, Shannon Lee

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
Dir. Barbet Schroeder · With Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Dir. Vincent Gallo · With Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara

Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane

Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Danny DeVito

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez · With Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke

Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150,000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah

It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
Dir. Simon Wincer · With Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, Cheech Marin

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Dir. Julien Temple · With Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur, Adrien Brody
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
Dir. Mick Garris, Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, Ryuhei Kitamura, David Slade · With Mickey Rourke, Sarah Elizabeth Withers, Elizabeth Reaser

Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.
Dir. Jonas Åkerlund · With Jason Schwartzman, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
Dir. Christian Sesma · With Ryan Kwanten, Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney

A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
Dir. Sean Penn · With Jack Nicholson, Helen Mirren, Aaron Eckhart
Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.
Dir. Jose Magan · With Mickey Rourke, Bai Ling, Joaquim de Almeida
A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she'd imagined.
Dir. Chad Faust · With Bella Thorne, Mickey Rourke, Glen Gould

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
Dir. Steve Buscemi · With Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo

Generation Iron - examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders in the sport as they train to compete in the world's most premiere bodybuilding stage - Mr. Olympia.
Dir. Vlad Yudin · With Mickey Rourke, Michael Jai White, Lou Ferrigno

The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramírez

Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
Dir. Tarsem Singh · With Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff
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