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Birthdate: April 4, 1965
Robert Downey Jr.
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1970s
No Reviews
1
1980s
1.7558
10
1990s
2.7113
24
2000s
2.8366
25
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.8680
2.8680
Robert Downey Jr. Movie Rankings
1
3.3865In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter 'Edward R. Murrow (I)' (qv) and his producer 'Fred W. ...more about Good Night
DVD from $5.17
(16 sellers)
2
3.1690A serial killer walks the streets of San Francisco in the mid 1970s. Perplexed by his seemingly random attacks and cryptic messages four detectives become obsessed with catching the killer. ...more about Zodiac
DVD from $4.95
(13 sellers)
3
3.1378Robert Downey Jr. stars as Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who builds a high-tech suit of armor to escape captivity in Iron Man. ...more about Iron Man
- Not Available on DVD
4
3.1196
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. ...more about Short Cuts
DVD from $27.95
(9 sellers)
5
3.0852
William Shakespeare's classic play is brought into the present with the setting as Great Britian in the 1930s. ...more about Richard III
DVD from $6.62
(12 sellers)
6
3.0158
Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor (McDormand) pregnant. ...more about Wonder Boys
DVD from $3.90
(10 sellers)
7
3.0136
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. ...more about Tropic Thunder
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.9787
A petty thief (Downey) posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl (Monaghan) and a detective (Kilmer) who's been training him for ...more about Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
- Satellite Awards - Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
DVD from $9.20
(11 sellers)
9
2.9654
Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. ...more about Bowfinger
DVD from $3.92
(15 sellers)
10
2.8897
The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. ...more about Natural Born Killers
DVD from $7.65
(11 sellers)
11
2.8426
Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. ...more about Gingerbread Man
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
12
2.8120
"A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in the future. ...more about Scanner Darkly
DVD from $11.00
(14 sellers)
13
2.7844
An aspiring young doctor, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel is invited to join the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. ...more about Restoration
DVD from $7.51
(10 sellers)
14
2.7220
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. ...more about Home for the Holidays
DVD from $6.32
(12 sellers)
15
2.7183
When a prisoner transport plane carrying Deputy Sam Gerard as an escort crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan helps him rescue some trapped prisoners and then escapes himself. Gerard and his crack team of U.S. ...more about U.S. Marshals
DVD from $2.87
(12 sellers)
16
2.7023
The title says it all. ...more about Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
DVD from $63.95
(10 sellers)
17
2.6960
A petty thief (Downey) posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl (Monaghan) and a detective (Kilmer) who's been training him ...more about Kiss Kiss
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.6597
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS is based around a young boy growing up in Queens, New York. ...more about Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
DVD from $9.59
(12 sellers)
19
2.6429
Claire Cooper dreams strange things from time to time. One night, she dreams about a little girl being taken away by a stranger, right in her neighbourhood. ...more about In Dreams
DVD from $6.53
(7 sellers)
20
2.6335
Destiny. Faith (Marisa Tomei) believes that two soul-mates can be united if they find each other. From the Ouija board, she has found the name of her missing half, and it is D-A-M-O-N B-R-A-D-L-E-Y. ...more about Only You
DVD from $7.99
(11 sellers)
21
2.6247
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. ...more about Air America
DVD from $4.02
(12 sellers)
22
2.5990
This movie is about four people who die in a bus crash and have to take care of some stuff they didn't before they died. At the same moment they died, a baby is born. They are stuck to him forever. ...more about Heart and Souls
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $5.95
(10 sellers)
23
2.5782
Set in New York City, Black and White features several losely related stories centering on a pair of documentary filmmakers, Sam and her husband Terry, in following a group of caucasian teens, Raven, Charlie, Will, Marty, Wren and others who try to fit ...more about Black and White
DVD from $21.99
(2 sellers)
24
2.4981
While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark (Downey Jr.) reworks his first book in his head. ...more about Singing Detective
Actor Awards
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
DVD from $8.97
(7 sellers)
25
2.4909
The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formitive years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlie's life, work, and loves are followed. ...more about Chaplin
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $9.99
(6 sellers)
26
2.4581
Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner (Alyssa Milano stars as Hugo Dugay) who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease. ...more about Hugo Pool
DVD from $8.29
(9 sellers)
27
2.4546
Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college. ...more about Back to School
DVD from $9.99
(10 sellers)
28
2.4386
Clay, an eighteen-year-old freshman, comes back from his first term at a college in New Hampshire to spend his Christmas vacation with his broken-up wealthy family in Los Angeles. ...more about Less Than Zero
DVD from $7.15
(10 sellers)
29
2.3927
A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her. ...more about Gothika
DVD from $2.87
(18 sellers)
30
2.3845
Los-Angeles commercials director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with AIDS in New York. There he meets Karen, they are attracted to each other and after they meet later that day at the concert, they have a passionate night. ...more about One Night Stand
DVD from $4.70
(7 sellers)
32
2.2807
The Outsider, a feature-length documentary from first-time writer/director Nicholas Jarecki, is a film about film, specifically, the power of film to create, to move, and to endure. ...more about Outsider
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.2626
A rich kid (Yelchin) becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school. ...more about Charlie Bartlett
DVD from $18.85
(3 sellers)
34
2.2215
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. ...more about True Believer
DVD from $10.23
(10 sellers)
35
2.1340
Tim Allen transforms from family dad to family dog and back again in this fresh update of the Disney comedy classic The Shaggy Dog. ...more about Shaggy Dog
DVD from $9.59
(13 sellers)
36
2.1181
Celeste Talbert has been the queen of the soaps for over two decades. Montana Moorehead needs to get her out of her way before she can move on and begins her program to get her to leave. ...more about Soapdish
DVD from $9.23
(8 sellers)
37
2.0837
A biopic about the life of photographer Diane Arbus, considered one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly bold artists of the 20th century. ...more about Fur
- Not Available on DVD
38
2.0514
Written by acclaimed writer Don DeLillo, Game 6 is an intelligent, witty, unsettling tale of one man’s encounter with his demons, his passions and his infatuation with failure. ...more about Game 6
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.9542
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. ...more about Chances Are
DVD from $3.92
(10 sellers)
41
1.9506
A searing, comedic and exhilarating look at race, sex and hip hop in the melting pot that is Manhattan at the turn of the 21st century. ...more about Black and White
- Not Available on DVD
42
1.6405
Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than ...more about Last Party 2000
DVD from $9.59
(7 sellers)
43
1.5843
In 1966 New Jersey, Jill Rosen, a frustrated high schooler, is intrigued by an enigmatic new student known only as the Sheik. Sheik is an Italian whose primary interests are his car, Frank Sinatra, and Jill. ...more about Baby It's You
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.2830
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts. ...more about Luck
DVD from $25.57
(10 sellers)
46
1.2317
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. ...more about Friends & Lovers
DVD from $9.99
(6 sellers)
47
1.2023
Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the onset of the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken in their opposition to the war. ...more about 1969
DVD from $7.99
(8 sellers)
48
1.0776
American mining expert, Rick Morgan, is the only hope to find a missing shipment of toxic waste that could kill. There are other powers-at-be that have very different plans for the cargo. ...more about Danger Zone
- Not Available on DVD
49
0.8017
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. ...more about Johnny Be Good
DVD from $5.42
(11 sellers)
50
0.4748
Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with it. ...more about Firstborn
- Not Available on DVD
52
Caesar is a would-be rock star. But for now, he works at a pencil eraser factory. Soon he falls in love with the owner's daughter. In order to get her, he bets with the old man that he can make a hundred thousand dollars in six months. ...more about Hail Caesar
DVD from $7.03
(4 sellers)
53
An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and "Requiem For A Dream." Hubert Selby Jr. ...more about Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
- Not Available on DVD
56
"Moment To Moment" (also known as "Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos") is an experimental, ludicrous, plotless, absurd, surreal comedy. Impossible to understand, which is seemingly intentional. ...more about Moment to Moment
- Not Available on DVD
57
A documentary filmmaker, who has spent the last 15 years making films like "Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend," is finally given the chance to make the documentary on Indian farming he has always wanted to. The catch? He must simultaneously direct a porn film. ...more about Rented Lips
- Not Available on DVD
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