Movies starring Heath Ledger

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Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The

If I was a teacher and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was a student's paper, I would give it an "incomplete." After all, how can one assess a project whose nature was irrevocably altered when the lead actor died? Whatever vision director Ter...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, ...
I'm Not There

Few figures in 20th century music are more deserving of the label "enigma" than Bob Dylan. Reclusive, frequently misunderstood, and never pigeonholed into a niche, Dylan has remained a mercurial figure for the entirety of his long career. So when...

Run Time: 2:15
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, ...
Dark Knight, The

Consequences. In real life, these ramifications emanate from every action like ripples from a stone thrown into a pond. Often in movies, especially those that feature characters who don't play by the rules, such penalties are suspended. However,...

Run Time: 2:30
U.S. Release Date: 2008-07-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, ...
Brokeback Mountain

Longing is such a potent element of the human experience that it has formed the fabric of numerous stirring motion pictures. Brokeback Mountain is one such movie - a tale of love and loss, of unrealized dreams, and of lives wasted by denying passi...

Run Time: 2:15
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, ...
Candy

Candy is an Australian film that also offers a dose of familiarity. It's one of those drugs-are-hell movies that follows the time-tested path of watching two generally likable characters embark upon the road to self-destruction that results when re...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2006-11-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Drugs, Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Neil Armfield
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush
Casanova

What happens when movie producers cross Three's Company with Masterpiece Theater? The result would be similar to what Touchstone Pictures has provided with Casanova, a farcical romantic comedy period piece. It's worth noting that producing a farc...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Oliver Platt, ...
Lords of Dogtown

Watching Lords of Dogtown, I momentarily became nostalgic for the summer of 1977, when I would ride my skateboard down my inclined driveway, then see if I could make the sharp turn onto the sidewalk without wiping out. But nostalgia is hardly a re...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Drugs, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, ...
Monsters Ball

Monster's Ball is a powerful and poignant motion picture not about racism and redemption, as one might initially suppose, but about one of the most urgent and universal of human needs - that of finding solace for pain and loneliness. Though it has...

Run Time: 1:51
U.S. Release Date: 2001-12-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, ...
10 Things I Hate about You

Never has the teen movie genre been more active than it is today. Seemingly every weekend, there's a new entry, and the solid box office performance assures that there will be many more to come. A trend with recent teen films has been to recycle ...

Run Time: 1:38
U.S. Release Date: 1999-03-31
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Gil Junger
Cast: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph-Gordon Levitt, ...