Biography
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. During the star of the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), before portraying leading roles in films like The Motorcycle Boy in Rumble Fish (1983), Charlie Moran in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Captain Stanley White in Year of the Dragon and John Gray in 9½ Wee...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
2025
as Self
Chronicles Michael, an acclaimed actor blacklisted by Hollywood for most of his career, exploring his life and struggles within the industry's system.

Devil's Play
2025
as Reverend Beau Jackson
Iva, a troubled teenager trapped between an abusive stepfather and a distant, deaf mother, finds unexpected salvation in a mysterious boy claiming to ...

Like Tears in Rain
2024
as Self
His entire life, the charismatic actor Rutger Hauer kept the outside world at a distance. His inner circle included only a small group of people, amon...

Faye
2024
as Self
Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her ...

Not Another Church Movie
2024
as Devil
Taylor Pherry is given a mission from God Himself: to tell his family's stories and inspire his community. What he doesn't know is that the Devil has ...

Jade
2024
as Tork
Jade presents the story of a woman who comes between a powerful businessman and a gang leader in their search for a hard drive that could damage the o...

Murder at Hollow Creek
2024
as Ruslan Petrovic
A disbarred lawyer and his eccentric brother attempt to pull off the robbery of a lifetime but find themselves in a dangerous game of cat and mouse wi...

Chuck Zito: An American Story
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Follows multi-talented and versatile Chuck Zito: Boxer, martial arts expert, bodyguard, stunt man, actor, and ex-president of the New York Hells Angel...

Mad Props
2024
as Self
A handsome nerd journeys the globe to turn the conventional art world on its head, set to prove to historians and critics alike that movie props are a...

21 Rubies
2023
as Mickey Mandovanis
When a political turmoil brings a Romanian prosecutor into the spotlight, she is offered the position of attorney general.

The Palace
2023
as Bill Crush
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

Murder Motel
2023
as Dino
Tonya, an African American trans woman has journeyed cross-country from her small Mississippi hometown to California in pursuit of her dream to be an ...

Sly
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.

Hunt Club
2023
as Virgil
Follows a group of male hunters who regularly lure women to their island with the chance to win 100K in a hunt, only to discover that they are the hun...

Section 8
2022
as Earl Atherton
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.

WarHunt
2022
as Major Johnson
1945. A U.S. military cargo plane loses control and violently crashes behind enemy lines in the middle of the German black forest. Major Johnson sends...

The Commando
2022
as Johnny
An elite DEA agent returns home after a failed mission when his family makes an unexpected discovery in their house – a stash of money worth $3 millio...

The Commando
2022
Executive Producer
An elite DEA agent returns home after a failed mission when his family makes an unexpected discovery in their house – a stash of money worth $3 millio...

Man of God
2021
as Paralyzed Man
Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he ...

Take Back
2021
as Patrick / Jack
Zara and Brian are living the perfect small town life when a mysterious stranger from Zara's secret past kidnaps their daughter and now they must race...

Take Back
2021
Executive Producer
Zara and Brian are living the perfect small town life when a mysterious stranger from Zara's secret past kidnaps their daughter and now they must race...

Adverse
2021
as Kaden
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.

Bisping
2021
as Self
After a tumultuous decade-long career filled with injuries and missed opportunities, 38-year-old UFC middleweight Michael Bisping finally got his due,...

Girl
2020
as Sheriff
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 sea...

Belmondo l'influenceur
2020
as Self

The Legion
2020
as Corbulo
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 s...

Berlin, I Love You
2019
as Jim
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.

Night Walk
2019
as Gary
Modern day Romeo and Juliet, star crossed lovers are torn apart by cultural tensions between the East and the West. Sarah takes her American boyfriend...

Tiger
2018
as Frank Donovan
A practicing Sikh is banned by the boxing commission for refusing to back down from his religious beliefs. Through racial profiling and stereotypical ...

Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers
2018
as Self - The Narrator (voice)
Area 51, flying saucers from another world - and the program to create a fierce technology. Bob Lazar remains the singular most famous and controversi...

Nightmare Cinema
2018
as The Projectionist
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 ...

Nightmare Cinema
2018
Co-Executive Producer
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 ...

Weaponized
2016
as Professor Clarence Peterson
A damaged homicide detective (Johnny Messner) must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a "robotic virus" that he believes will destroy the terro...

House of Time
2016
Thanks
Robert d'Eglantine invites his friends to spend a few days in an old country house where he proposes them to embark on a daring adventure with a surpr...

Blunt Force Trauma
2015
as Zorringer
Follows the journey of John and Colt, gunfighters and sometime lovers, on parallel but very different journeys through an underground dueling culture.

War Pigs
2015
as Major A.J. Redding
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.

Ashby
2015
as Ashby Holt
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That ne...

A Hitman in London
2015
as Vogel
After his last assignment ended with the death of an innocent woman, a hitman's new job in London is compromised when he is overcome with guilt, and e...

Hollywood Banker
2014
as Self
How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but cou...

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
as Marv
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

Dead in Tombstone
2013
as Lucifer
An outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez is shot in the back and killed whilst attempting to free his half-brother from a small-town prison. Making a deal w...

Generation Iron
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Generation Iron - examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders...

The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini
2013
as Self
The outcome of the 1982 WBC Lightweight title bout between Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and Duk Koo Kim is examined.

Java Heat
2013
as Malik
An American in Indonesia teams up with a Muslim cop to track down a terrorist.

Black November
2012
as Tom Hudson
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from bei...

The Courier
2012
as Maxwell
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.

Sunset Strip
2012
as Self
A documentary on the famous Los Angeles street.

I Am Bruce Lee
2012
as Self
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 ...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Immortals
2011
as King Hyperion
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...

Passion Play
2011
as Nate
An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
2010
as Self
Sylvester Stallone's 90-minute video diary, covering the making of "The Expendables".

One Night in Vegas
2010
as Self
On the evening of Sept. 7, 1996, Mike Tyson, the WBC heavyweight champion, attempted to take Bruce Seldon’s WBA title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. A...

The Expendables
2010
as Tool
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons special...

Iron Man 2
2010
as Ivan Vanko
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 p...

13
2010
as Jefferson
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 be...

42nd Street: River to River
2009
as Self
An impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most infamous streets: Manhattan's 42nd Street. Likened to a DNA strip of New York City, the...
Within the Ring
2009
as Self
The making of The Wrester (2008).

WWE WrestleMania XXV
2009
as Self
WrestleMania XXV was the twenty-fifth annual WrestleMania PPV. It was presented by the National Guard and took place on April 5, 2009 at Reliant Stadi...

La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

Killshot
2008
as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking...

The Informers
2008
as Peter
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly ...
Hyung
2008
as Jack
A New Short Film by Taejoon Lee

The Wrestler
2008
as Randy
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 bru...

Stormbreaker
2006
as Darrius Sayle
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed....

Domino
2005
as Ed Mosbey
The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
2005
as Self
A documentary on the making of the 2004 film "Man on Fire," mixing movie clips, behind-the-scenes shots and interviews of cast and crew. The program c...

Sin City
2005
as Marv
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 ...

Man on Fire
2004
as Jordan Kalfus
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 eventual...

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003
as Billy Chambers
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 ...

Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Edmund
A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on ...

Spun
2003
as The Cook
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nik...

Picture Claire
2001
as Eddie
Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to v...

The Follow
2001
as Husband
The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way t...

They Crawl
2001
as Tiny Frakes
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's broth...

The Pledge
2001
as Jim Olstad
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

Animal Factory
2000
as Jan the Actress
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 deale...

Get Carter
2000
as Cyrus Paice
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes...

Shades
1999
as Paul S. Sullivan
In this film within a film, a Belgian serial killer escapes prison and finds that a filmmaker is making a movie about his life. A maverick director, ...

Out in Fifty
1999
as Jack Bracken
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.

Shergar
1999
as Gavin O'Rourke
Shergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbread and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time, is kidnapped by IRA terrorists and held for a $2 mill...

Thursday
1998
as Kasarov
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 u...

Thicker Than Blood
1998
as Father Frank Larkin
Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where mo...

Point Blank
1998
as Rudy Ray
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapee...

Buffalo '66
1998
as The Bookie
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 ...

The Rainmaker
1997
as Bruiser Stone
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in...

Exit in Red
1997
as Ed Altman
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more troub...

Another 9 1/2 Weeks
1997
as John Gray
Despondent at losing his lover, a man wanders the streets of Paris and has an affair with her kinky friend.

Double Team
1997
as Stavros
A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and ...

Bullet
1996
as Butch 'Bullet' Stein
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.

Bullet
1996
Writer, Music Supervisor
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.

Fall Time
1995
as Florence
Three young men decide to plan a mock kidnapping, but everything goes wrong because a real bank robbery was already planned by two other guys.

F.T.W.
1994
as Frank T. Wells
A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a fe...

Meet Mickey Rourke
1994
as Self
A Brett Ratner Film presented by Maysles Films, Inc.

The Last Outlaw
1993
as Graff
The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff, had once been a heroic and staunch su...

White Sands
1992
as Gorman Lennox
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigat...

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
as Harley Davidson
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 t...

Desperate Hours
1990
as Michael Bosworth
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Wild Orchid
1989
as James Wheeler
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.

Johnny Handsome
1989
as Johnny Handsome
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 straig...

Francesco
1989
as Francesco
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a priv...

Homeboy
1988
as Johnny Walker
Johnny Walker is a cowboy and a boxer. He is very shy and a bit of a fool. He is in love with Ruby, but he cannot tell her. He is also a bit old to ke...

Homeboy
1988
Screenplay
Johnny Walker is a cowboy and a boxer. He is very shy and a bit of a fool. He is in love with Ruby, but he cannot tell her. He is also a bit old to ke...

A Prayer for the Dying
1987
as Martin Fallon
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his f...

Barfly
1987
as Henry Chinaski
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...

Angel Heart
1987
as Harry Angel
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-...

Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
as John
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life,...

Year of the Dragon
1985
as Stanley White
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...

The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
as Charlie
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. Th...

Rumble Fish
1983
as The Motorcycle Boy
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare w...

Eureka
1983
as Aurelio D'Amato
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife,...

Diner
1982
as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating deta...

Body Heat
1981
as Teddy Lewis
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Heaven's Gate
1980
as Nick Ray
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished imm...

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
as John Rideout
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the pro...

Fade to Black
1980
as Richie
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookal...

Act of Love
1980
as Joseph Cybulkowski
A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left guilt-ridden. Seeing his brother struggle with his new life...

City in Fear
1980
as Tony Pate
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page On...

1941
1979
as Reese
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Love in the Hamptons
1976
as Swede
Mickey Rourke stars in his first film role as a young waiter in the Hamptons, who finds love with a cocktail waitress as she struggles to support her ...
Hollywood Heist
N/A
An agent trying to land an actor tells the story of a movie producer and a fading movie star, as they race against time and defy famous actors, drug l...
Bring the Law
N/A
as Gargos
A disgraced LA cop is chosen to lead a task force against a local crime syndicate and uncovers a conspiracy of corruption in his own department.
The Mob Priest
N/A
as Jared McKendry
Father Frank returns home hoping to put his painful war experiences behind him but a tragic circumstance makes him face his true legacy. This is revea...
Merchandise
N/A
as Patrick
A small-town attorney is thrust into the spotlight after she kills two home invaders in self-defense, reviving violent memories of her captivity as a ...
She's Still Here
N/A
as Father Scott
Tormented by the vengeful spirit of his deceased wife, a desperate widower enlists the aide of his ghost-hunting nephew to decipher the haunting’s mea...
The Roaring Game
N/A
High school janitor Rickey loses everything when his girlfriend, Kelly, is selected to play hockey for Team USA and compete in the World Games. To win...
A Walking Miracle
N/A
as Jack
The story of recovery of a young man after having a car crash that left him in a coma.