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- The Usual Suspects. Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri. 90 votes. In this masterfully crafted crime thriller, Benicio Del Toro delivers an enthralling performance as Fred Fenster, a member of a lineup of criminals who find themselves ensnared in a complex web of deception and intrigue.
- Traffic. Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro. 82 votes. Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed drama Traffic delves into the dark underbelly of the international drug trade, with Benicio Del Toro delivering a powerful performance as Javier Rodriguez, a conflicted Mexican police officer caught in the crossfire between warring cartels and corrupt officials.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko. 83 votes. Terry Gilliam's hallucinatory adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's cult classic novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sees Benicio Del Toro inhabiting the role of Dr. Gonzo, a drug-fueled attorney accompanying his journalist friend, played by Johnny Depp, on a wild and surreal adventure through Sin City.
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced. 32 votes. Building upon the gripping foundation laid by its predecessor Sicario, Day of the Soldado sees Benicio Del Toro reprising his role as enigmatic hitman Alejandro Gillick in this tense thriller centered around an escalating drug war at the U.S.-
- Sicario (2015) 92%
- Traffic (2000) 93%
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) 91%
- Guardians of The Galaxy (2014) 92%
- The Usual Suspects (1995) 87%
- Fearless (1993) 84%
- 21 Grams (2003) 81%
- Swimming with Sharks (1994) 76%
- The Funeral (1996) 80%
- The Pledge (2001) 78%
(Photo by Richard Foreman Jr./Lionsgate) Some pretty powerful films have been made about the international drug trade — look no further than Traffic, right next door to this entry, for proof — and at this point, if you’re going to throw your cinematic hat in the ring, you’d better be prepared to add a singular statement to the genre. Director Denis...
(Photo by USA Films courtesy Everett Collection) One of the more darkly ambitious films to make its way through the studio system over the 20 years, Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic looks at the human cost of the drug trade by following seemingly unconnected stories that slowly converge. In Mexico, a police officer (Benicio Del Toro, who won an Oscar fo...
(Photo by Jonathan Olley/Walt Disney Studios) Decades after Randall from Clerks argued that the Star Wars Empire couldn’t have solidified its rule without the work of countless grunts, wage slaves, and dispassionate bureaucrats who were only trying to make a living, the saga got around to echoing that point explicitly — and doing so with an assist ...
Over the course of his career, Benicio del Toro has yoinked the spotlight from numerous above-the-title stars in all sorts of ways, from the flashy to the subtle — and although his tenure as the Collector in the Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn’t allowed him to (ahem) collect much screentime with appearances in Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Infinit...
(Photo by Gramercy courtesy Everett Collection) The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, but the greatest one Kevin Spacey might have pulled was scoring the role of Roger “Verbal” Kint, the palsied small-time hood whose post-heist interrogation frames the twisty goings-on of Bryan Singer’s neo-noir ‘90s cla...
(Photo by Warner Bros. courtesy Everett Collection) Cheating death sounds like an incredible gift — but what do you do after you’ve accepted you’re about to die and walked away from the experience? As Peter Weir’s Fearless powerfully argues, that second lease on life can sometimes be harder to come to grips with than we might imagine — especially i...
(Photo by Focus Features courtesy Everett Collection) The second installment in writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Trilogy of Death,” 21 Gramswrings some outstanding performances (not to mention plenty of tears) out of an outstanding cast in service of a gripping — albeit harrowing — tale. Using a handful of seemingly disparate plot thr...
(Photo by Lionsgate) One of two critically acclaimed releases that saw Benicio Del Toro sharing screentime with Kevin Spacey in 1995, Swimming with Sharks revolves around Spacey’s Buddy Ackerman, a bottomlessly selfish studio executive haranguing the naive film-school graduate (Frank Whaley) who unwittingly agrees to enter a waking nightmare when h...
(Photo by October Films courtesy Everett Collection) With Abel Ferrara behind the camera, an ensemble cast led by Christopher Walken and Chris Penn, and a storyline revolving around occasionally grisly gang violence, The Funeralshould rank among the quintessential indie dramas of the ’90s. It’s mostly escaped the spotlight since its release, but ev...
(Photo by Warner Bros. courtesy Everett Collection) Few who watched Sean Penn’s timeless turn as the affably bewildered stoner Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High could have guessed he’d grow up to favor dark dramas — or that when he eventually started directing features of his own, they’d include the sort of harrowing descent into the dar...
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2. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. 1992 2h PG-13. 4.4 (3.2K) Rate. Genoese navigator overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the East Indies. Director John Glen Stars Marlon Brando Tom Selleck Georges Corraface.
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- 'Sicario' (2015) Director: Dienis Villeneuve. Sicario showed just how menacing Del Toro could be in the role of an anti-hero. He stars as Alejandro, a former Mexican attorney who becomes a bounty hunter after his family is killed in a violent incident.
- '21 Grams' (2003) Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu. The 2003 drama 21 Grams is a heartbreaking exploration of a tragic situation from multiple perspectives.
- 'Traffic' (2000) Director: Steven Soderbergh. Steven Soderbergh's 2000 crime drama Traffic serves as one of the most definitive films about the war on drugs.
- 'The Usual Suspects' (1995) Director: Bryan Singer. Although The Usual Suspects' shocking ending ensures the film's legacy, the last-minute reveal only works because the film builds up perfectly to the moment.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1999) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is such a bizarre movie that it could only be made by director Terry Gilliam. In this adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, del Toro’s Dr. Gonzo and Johnny Depp’s Raoul Duke are on a drug-fueled trip to Las Vegas, ostensibly for work reasons.
- Traffic (2000) Although del Toro was not the leading actor in Steven Soderberg’s Traffic, this turned out to be one of the most important movies in his career.
- 21 Grams (2003) Director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams is all out of order, but that was an intentional choice so that the stories of Jack Jordan (del Toro), Cristina Peck (Naomi Watts), and Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) could unfold in a nonlinear fashion.
- Che (2008) In certain circles, Ernesto “Che” Guevara (del Toro) is a beloved revolutionary figure. To others, he was a Marxist terrorist. Director Steven Soderbergh definitely seemed to take the former view when he helmed Che, which reunited him with del Toro in a massive two-part bio film about Guevara’s life.
Oct 16, 2019 · Here are Benicio Del Toro's best films, according to Rotten Tomatoes. 21 Grams (80%) Alejandro González Iñárritu is known for his powerful and beautiful films like Birdman and The Revenant. 21 Grams is a film that helped to launch his career in Hollywood in the story of three very different people who are brought together by a shared tragedy.
View on Amazon. 2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” is a 1998 dark comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, and stars Benicio Del Toro in a lead role as Dr. Gonzo, the eccentric and drug-addled sidekick of journalist Raoul Duke, played by Johnny Depp.
