Mark Ruffalo Filmography

Sympathy for Delicious

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Christopher Thornton

Synopsis: Mark Ruffalo stars and directs his first feature with Sympathy for Delicious, a drama about a crippled DJ (actor/writer Chris Thornton) in modern-day Los Angeles who discovers that he has the power to heal everyone but himself. James Franco co-stars in the Corner Stone Entertainment. ~ Jeremy Read More

The Brothers Bloom

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Maximilian Schell, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: When the younger of two notorious sibling con artists announces a plan to go legit, his brother implores him to carry out one last swindle in the eagerly anticipated sophomore feature from Brick writer/director Rian Johnson. Tired of a life on the run, a confidence man who has dedicated his life Read More

Blindness

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura

Synopsis: The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles joins forces with Canadian writer/director/actor Don McKellar to bring Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago's 1995 novel to the big screen in this large-scale philosophical thriller. An epidemic of blindness pushes society to the breaking Read More

Chicago 10

Synopsis: The Kid Stays in the Picture director Brett Morgen turns his unique eye toward the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in this 2006 documentary. Using a star-studded voice cast along with a blend of archival footage and animation, Morgen tells the story of the eight demonstrators who were Read More

Margaret

Actors: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick

What Doesn't Kill You

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet

Reservation Road

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, Mira Sorvino, Elle Fanning

Synopsis: The lingering weight of tragedy threatens to pull two men under following a harrowing hit-and-run accident in a quiet revenge drama directed by Terry George and starting Mark Ruffalo and Joaquin Phoenix. When his son is killed in an unsolved hit-and-run accident, a grieving father (Phoenix) spends Read More

Zodiac

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox

Synopsis: The true story behind the murders that many crime scholars believe to be the most perplexing series of unsolved crimes in modern history comes to the screen in chilling detail as Fight Club and Seven director David Fincher steps behind the camera to tell the mysterious tale of the infamous Zodiac Read More

All the King's Men

Actors: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo

Synopsis: The legacy of a populist Southern politician whose lofty ambitions for the future leave him open to corruption and scandal is detailed as author Robert Penn Warren's thinly veiled portrait of Depression-era Louisiana governor Huey Long comes to the screen -- again -- this time courtesy of director Read More

Rumor Has It...

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins, Mena Suvari

Synopsis: A woman discovers that a part of her family history may be more complicated -- and more famous -- than she ever imagined in this comedy. Thirtysomething Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston), who has spent most of her adult life in New York City, is flying home to California with her long time Read More

Just Like Heaven

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Waters, Ben Shenkman, Jon Heder, Ivana Milicevic

Synopsis: A couple who live on different sides of the divide of life and death discover just how many boundaries love can cross in this romantic comic fantasy. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a hardworking and dedicated medical resident who, after 20 hours on duty, is heading home when she falls asleep at Read More

We Don't Live Here Anymore

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts

Synopsis: Two marriages and four lives are brought to a crossroads by infidelity in this drama, based on a pair of short stories by author Andre Dubus. Jack (Mark Ruffalo) is a college professor whose marriage to Terry (Laura Dern) has been going through a rough patch. Beyond the tensions over Terry's Read More

Collateral

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg

Synopsis: A taxi driver is unexpectedly taken on the ride of his life in this stylish thriller from acclaimed director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an Read More

13 Going on 30

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Jenna (Shana Dowdeswell) has had enough with the trials of adolescence. In addition to being saddled with a devoted-but-nerdy best friend, Matt (Sean Marquette), she falls victim to one of the dangers of playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with the coolest kids in school: being Read More

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Actors: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: The second feature from director Michel Gondry (Human Nature) finds the filmmaker reteaming with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman for this off-the-wall romantic comedy. Jim Carrey stars as Joel Barish, a man who is informed that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their Read More

In the Cut

Actors: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh

Synopsis: Jane Campion directs the erotic thriller In the Cut, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Susanna Moore. Set in New York City during the summertime, the film is centered on Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a middle-class English teacher in the midst of researching a book project about colloquial Read More

My Life Without Me

Actors: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: Isabel Coixet's Mi Vida Sin Me (My Life Without Me) is a tale of a woman dying before her time. Sarah Polley plays Ann, a 24-year-old mother of two. Ann is married to Don (Scott Speedman), and they live near Ann's mother (Deborah Harry), who is bitter about the fact that Ann's father is serving a Read More

XX/XY

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Kathleen Robertson, Maya Stange, Petra Wright, Kel O'Neill

Synopsis: A man finds himself having to decide between one of two women -- not once, but twice -- in this independent drama. In 1993, Coles (Mark Ruffalo) is a film student at Sarah Lawrence where he meets two fellow undergrads, Thea (Kathleen Robertson) and Sam (Maya Stange). Coles and Sam come together Read More

View from the Top

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen, Christina Applegate, Mike Myers

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto directs this comic look at the world of flight attendants starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a small town Nevada woman who dreams of seeing the world by becoming a first class international stewardess. Lacking the requisite poise and class, Donna finds a mentor in Read More

Windtalkers

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Loosely based on a real-life operation during World War II, this action-adventure from director John Woo stars Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders, a Marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the Solomon Islands during an ambush he believes was deadlier than necessary due to his indecision. Read More

The Last Castle

Actors: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo, Clifton Collins, Jr.

Synopsis: Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini Read More

You Can Count On Me

Actors: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, Matthew Broderick, Jon Tenney

Synopsis: Kenneth Lonergan, the co-screenwriter for Analyze This (1999), makes his directorial debut with this sensitive portrait of a pair of grown siblings. Sammy and Terry Prescott (Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo) were orphaned as children after their parents were killed in a car accident. Since then, the Read More

Committed

Actors: Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic, Patricia Velasquez

Synopsis: Heather Graham stars in this indie exploration of love and marital commitment directed by Lisa Krueger. A hardcore believer in the sanctity of marriage, plucky Joline (Graham) is stunned when her husband Carl (Luke Wilson) abruptly dumps her, leaving only a vaguely-worded note to explain himself. Read More

The Beat [TV Series]

Actors: Heather Burns, Lea DeLaria, Poppy Montgomery, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: Mark Ruffalo and Derek Cecil star in this gritty police drama, produced by Barry Levinson, about men who pound the streets and struggle with their inner demons. Officer Zane Marinelli (Ruffalo) is a conflicted womanizer who keeps company with Beatrice (Heather Burns), a psychotically unstable Read More

Ride With the Devil

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, James Caviezel

Synopsis: A complex tale of uneasy alliances along the Kansas/Missouri border during the Civil War, Ride with the Devil concerns Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich), a proud son of the South ready to fight for the Confederate cause after his father is killed by Union troops. Chiles's best friend, Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire Read More

Life/Drawing

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Beth Ulrich, Alan Gelfant, Anne-Marie Johnson, Mary Coleston

Synopsis: Can a would-be artist find happiness with a woman who has never heard of Jackson Pollock? That's the dilemma facing Alex (Mark Ruffalo), whose life is finally going just the way he'd like; he's scored a one-man show at an upscale gallery, and is sharing an apartment with a beautiful model named Read More

A Fish in the Bathtub

Actors: Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Mark Ruffalo

Synopsis: After four decades in show business, the husband and wife comedy team of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara finally make their big-screen debut together in this story about a marriage on its last legs. Sam (Stiller) and Molly (Meara) have been married for over 40 years. Their children are grown and Read More

The Last Big Thing

Synopsis: Dan Zukovic wrote and directed the L.A. social satire The Last Big Thing. He also stars in the film as Simon Geist, a self-styled intellectual, cultural critic, and agent provocateur . Simon is spewing his bile about the millennial decline of popular culture to the oblivious patrons of a Read More

Safe Men

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Paul Giamatti, Michael Schmidt, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: A case of mistaken identity forces a pair of lounge singers to pose as safecrackers in this farce. Sam (Sam Rockwell) and Eddie (Steve Zahn) are hapless musicians; Frank (Mark Ruffalo) and Mitchell (Josh Pais) are expert safecrackers. But when local Jewish gangster Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner Read More

On the 2nd Day of Christmas

Synopsis: Christmas Eve is just like any other work day for pickpocket Trish Tracy (Mary Stuart Masterson) and her niece Patsy (Lauren Suzanne Pratt). With a store full of suckers ripe for plucking, Trish and Patsy work the crowd, amassing quite a fortune before they're caught by sharp-eyed (and Read More

The Destiny of Marty Fine

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A has-been fighter finds himself extorted into becoming a hitman to save himself in this crime drama. The mess began while the opportunistic Marty was trying to convince a mobster to participate in his latest quick money scam. The would-be investor is suddenly shot and killed. Marty sees it all Read More

The Dentist

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Linda Hoffman, Molly Hagan, Ken Foree, Virginya Keehne

Synopsis: In this spoofy horror outing from veteran genre director Brian Yuzna, L.A. Law vet Corbin Bernsen plays Dr. Feinstone, an anal-retentive Beverly Hills dentist with an amusement park of an office replete with Planet Hollywood-worthy, themed exam rooms, piped-in opera music, and a crisp, efficient Read More

Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance

Synopsis: The same haunted mirror that bedeviled people in the first film is back. This time it is used to help a crook steal a young girl's rightful inheritance. Low-budget chills. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Gift from Heaven

Actors: Sharon Farrell, Gigi Rice, David Steen, Sarah Trigger, Gene Lythgow

Synopsis: This Southern Gothic drama of a deeply troubled family was written by leading man David Steen, who adapted the screenplay from his own play. Ma Samuals (Sharon Farrell) lives in a poor section of rural North Carolina during the 1970s. Her slightly retarded son Charlie (Steen) was the product of an Read More

Due South: A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Diego Chambers, Elizabeth Lennie, Natalie Radford

Synopsis: Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) become temporary daddies when someone leaves a baby in the back of Ray's car. Following the trail of clues, the two lawmen determine that the child has been sold to a black-market adoption racket. Though he is all for turning the kid over to the proper Read More