Biography
Aaron Ryder is an American film producer. Early in his career, he was an executive producer of Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000) and Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko (2001), and also produced Nolan's The Prestige (2006). Ryder was one of the founding members of FilmNation Entertainment. During his time at FilmNation, he produced Mud (2012), House at the End of the Street (2012), The Founder (2016), Pieces of a Woman (2020), and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021). In 2016, Ryder produced Denis Vi...
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All of You
2025
Producer
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk...

Dumb Money
2023
Producer
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of...

To Catch a Killer
2023
Producer
Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a mass m...

Bruiser
2022
Producer
During summer break, 14-year-old Darious explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm his strict father and a b...

The Good House
2022
Producer
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts ...

Reminiscence
2021
Producer
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offe...

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
2021
Producer
Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.

Pieces of a Woman
2020
Producer
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones...

Greyhound
2020
Executive Producer
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines...

The Lodge
2020
Producer
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, G...

Life Itself
2018
Producer
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create rev...

Ideal Home
2018
Producer
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.

Kill Switch
2017
Executive Producer
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.

The Sense of an Ending
2017
Executive Producer
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
2017
as Self
A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters ...

The Founder
2016
Producer
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California....

Arrival
2016
Producer
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are ...

Premature
2014
Producer
On the most important day of his young life, a high school senior is forced to relive his failed attempt at losing his virginity over and over again, ...

Transcendence
2014
Producer
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them...

Mud
2013
Producer
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family an...

House at the End of the Street
2012
Producer
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter be...

The Raven
2012
Producer
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in t...

Red Dog
2011
Executive Producer
The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

My One and Only
2009
Producer
A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take...

Hamlet 2
2008
Producer
Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical ...

The TV Set
2007
Producer
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network e...

The Return
2006
Producer
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-...

The Prestige
2006
Producer
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy wit...

The Amateurs
2006
Producer
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams...

Wrong Turn
2003
Executive Producer
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunt...

Wish You Were Dead
2002
Executive Producer
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.

The Mexican
2001
Executive Producer
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique ...

Donnie Darko
2001
Executive Producer
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series ...

Memento
2000
Executive Producer
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the f...
Tuna Melt
N/A
Producer
After a breakup, a hitman unexpectedly meets the love of his life soon after he completes a job.
Alien Legion
N/A
Producer
Torie Montroc is the young son of an interstellar businessman who, rather than pick up the corporate torch, enrolls as a grunt in the Alien Legion, al...
Proxy
N/A
Producer
A woman miraculously reawakens after a medical trauma to discover her consciousness has been embedded into a bio-synthetic body.

At the Sea
N/A
Producer
After a long rehabilitation, Laura returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind...

Onslaught
N/A
Producer
A mother living in a trailer park tries to protect her loved ones from a threat that has escaped from a secret military base, while mercenaries try to...

Death of Robin Hood
N/A
Producer
A darker reimagining of the classic Robin Hood tale, which will see the character as a battleworn loner grappling with his past after a life of crime ...

Best Served Cold
N/A
Producer
The story of the legendary mercenary Monza Murcatto, the betrayal that ostracizes her, and her ensuing quest for revenge that will forever change a na...
Office Romance
N/A
Producer
Jackie, President and CEO of Air Cruz, runs a tight ship in her business, including a rigid anti-fraternization policy for all her employees. When a n...

I Love Boosters
N/A
Producer
A ring of enterprising boosters (aka shoplifters, equal opportunists) take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven.
Butcher & Blackbird
N/A
Producer
Two serial killers who hunt other murderers forge an unexpected connection while vying for supremacy in their grisly game.