Benicio Del Toro

Benicio Del Toro
Date of Birth: 19 Feb 1967
Country: USA
Biography: Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez, better known as Benicio del Toro, is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. His awards include the Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG Award and BAFTA Award. He is known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects, Javier Rodríguez in Traffic (his Oscar-winning role), Jack 'Jackie Boy' Rafferty in Sin City, Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Franky Four Fingers in Snatch, Che Guevara in Che...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 55 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Excess Baggage
An offbeat adventure about a poor little rich girl and the car thief who steals her heart. (Sony)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
When a writing assignment lands journalist Raoul Duke and sidekick Dr. Gonzo in Las Vegas, they decide to make it the ultimate business trip. But before long, business is forgotten and trip has become the key word. Fueled by a suitcase full of mind-bending pharmaceuticals, Duke and Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of the craziest characters ever.
The Hunted
An FBI deep-woods tracker captures a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans. (imdb)
The Pledge
Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson stars as Jerry Black, a Nevada homicide detective who volunteers for one final investigation on the eve of his retirement. He offers his expertise at a compromised crime scene and ends up making a promise to the young victim's mother that will change his life forever. (Warner Brothers)
Sin City
Four tales of crime focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie; a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake; a cop who risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile; and a hitman looking to make a little cash.
Snatch
Guy Ritchie's highly anticipated comedy features a colorful ensemble cast in a rollicking ride through London's gangster world, its bustling diamond district and a rowdy gypsy camp. (Columbia Tristar)
Traffic
Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger. (USA Films)
The Usual Suspects
Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them is guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze? (imdb)
The Way of the Gun
A twisting crime drama about two cold-blooded career criminals who kidnap a surrogate mother and find themselves in an escalating cycle of guns and mayhem. (Artisan Entertainment)
21 Grams
They say we all lose 21 grams at the moment of our death.
The Indian Runner
Sean Penn wrote and directs this poignant drama inspired by Bruce Springsteen's song "Highway Patrolman." When small-town deputy sheriff Joe Roberts (David Morse) takes in his troubled Vietnam vet brother, Frank (Viggo Mortensen), things get very rocky. Joe is determined to help Frank make a new life with his pregnant girlfriend, Dorothy (Patricia Arquette), but Frank's simmering anger threatens to ruin everything.
China Moon
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. (imdb)
Fearless
San Francisco architect Max Klein (Jeff Bridges) miraculously survives a plane crash and emerges a changed man. When Max's bizarre behavior alienates his wife (Isabella Rossellini) and son, airline psychiatrist Bill Perlman (John Turturro) puts Max in touch with guilt-ridden fellow crash survivor Carla Rodrigo (Rosie Perez), who lost her 2-year-old in the disaster. Working together, can Max and Carla find their way back to emotional equilibrium?
Basquiat
Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. (imdb)
Money for Nothing
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run.
Licence to Kill
James Bond leaves Her Majesty's Secret Service to stop an evil drug lord and avenge his best friend, Felix Leiter.
Swimming with Sharks
A young, naive Hollywood studio assistant finally turns the tables on his incredibly abusive producer boss. (imdb)
The Fan
An all star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of a down on his luck salesman. (imdb)
Big Top Pee-wee
Inferior but nevertheless enjoyable sequel to Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, with a better cast. This time, Pee-Wee finds himself involved with a circus who become held up in a storm in his home town. However, the local community are hostile to the freakish traveling band. (imdb)
Huevos de oro
Benito González works construction in Melilla and dreams big - of building the tallest building in Benidorm, a great phallic symbol of power, González Towers... (imdb)
Breakfast with Hunter
A documentary on the infamous gonzo journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. (imdb)
The Funeral
New York City, the 1930s. A powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses. Against this turbulent backdrop, the family's three street-hardened brothers and the women they love are about to be plunged into a deadly confrontation with their enemies, with each other, and with their own dark heritage of violence, madness and murder. (imdb)
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal\
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa. (imdb)
Things We Lost in the Fire
Audrey Burke's life has been shattered by the sudden death of her husband. In grief, she turns to one of his lifelong friends, Jerry Sunborne, a former lawyer who is on a serious downward spiral. Together they work to repair their lives. (DreamWorks Pictures)
Shine a Light
Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary band. (imdb)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus boldly chooses another path to the Indies, and discovers a whole new continent, and a whole new people.
Che: Part Two
In 1965, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. After arriving in La Paz, Bolivia late in 1966, by 1967, Che with several Cuban volunteers, have raised a small guerrilla army to take on the militarist Bolivian movement.
Joyride
A motel in an out-of-the-way little town, a mysterious woman calling herself Ms. Smith comes to stay. J.T., the son of the motel's owner steals her car in an attempt to liven up his dull life and to impress Tanya, a hotel guest who flirts with him and wants to be a model. Ms. Smith is a professional killer, and J.T. thinks he can make things work to his advantage when the they find a corpse in the trunk of the stolen vehicle. (IMDb)
Che: Part One
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. (imdb)
The Wolfman
Based on the 1941 classic, this werewolf-themed horror film set in Victorian England centers on Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), an American man who, upon a visit to London, gets bitten by a werewolf. Talbot had come to England to make amends with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), but after a moonlight transformation leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh, family harmony is the least of his worries.
Stones in Exile
In the spring of 1971 the Rolling Stones reluctantly departed the UK to take up residence in France
Somewhere
A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government. (imdb)
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
The definitive life story about Jamaican musical legend Lee 'Scratch' Perry. (imdb)
Savages
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend. (imdb)
Cannes Man
The Cannes Film Festival. It's where deals get made, producers get laid, and stars get paid. It's where all the movie industry meets to buy and sell all the movies on the planet. And it's where the art of the deal can be filled with more laughs than the deal itself. Sy Lerner is the quintessential movie producer, when he makes a bet that he can take any kid off the street and turn him into a superstar overnight using the universal language of the festival: hype. He meets Frank Rhinoslavsky and t (imdb)
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Del Toro plays Jimmy Picard, a member of the Blackfoot tribe, who fought in France. When he arrives back in the US, suffering from migraines and sudden losses of sight and hearing, Jimmy is misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Baffled doctors consult a maverick French anthropologist and analyst George Devereux (Amalric) and the two men become friends. (timeout.com)
And the Oscar Goes To...
An original documentary that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Awards and Oscar-winning films through the eyes of Hollywood insiders. (TCM)
Guardians of the Galaxy
In the far reaches of space, an American pilot named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the villainous Ronan. (imdb)
Inherent Vice
In Los Angeles in 1970, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. (imdb)
Escobar: Paradise Lost
In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then he meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar. (imdb)
Sicario
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit. (imdb)
A Perfect Day
A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone. (imdb)
The Little Prince
A pilot crashes in the desert and meets a little boy from a distant planet. (imdb)
Fallen Angels
Anthology of noir dramas.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
A follow-up to the 2015 film, 'Sicario', which centers around the escalating war against drugs along the border of the United States and Mexico. (imdb)
Escape at Dannemora
An employee at a prison in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape. (imdb)
Take Flight - The New York Times
The year's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick. (imdb)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Dora, a teenage explorer, leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold.
The French Dispatch
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch" magazine. (imdb)
No Sudden Move
A group of criminals that are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways. (imdb)
Reptile
A hardened small-town detective uncovers a complex web of deception as he digs for the truth behind the brutal murder of a young real estate agent. (Netflix)
The Phoenician Scheme
The story of a family and a family business.