Acting

—		The Making of We Own the Night as Self
—		Untitled Todd Haynes Project as Richard Rent
—		Eddington as Joe
—		The Island
—		Polaris

2024

as Arthur Fleck / Joker

2023		Napoleon as Napoleon Bonaparte
2023		Beau Is Afraid as Beau Wassermann

2021

as Johnny

2020		Joker: Put on a Happy Face as Self
2020		My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2020		Guardians of Life

2019

as Arthur Fleck / Joker

2018		The Sisters Brothers as Charlie Sisters
2018		Lou as Karl
2018		Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot as John Callahan
2018		Dominion as Narrator (voice)
2018		Mary Magdalene as Jesus

2017

as Joe

2015		Unity as Narrator (voice)
2015		Irrational Man as Abe
2015		Chryskylodon Blues as Self

2014		Inherent Vice as Larry "Doc" Sportello
2014		Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project as Self
2014		Her: Love in the Modern Age as Self (archive footage)
2014		Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart as Jimmy Emmett (archive footage)

2013		Her as Theodore Twombly
2013		The Immigrant as Bruno Weiss

2012

as Freddie Quell

2010

as Joaquin Phoenix

2008

as Leonard

2007		We Own the Night as Robert 'Bobby' Green
2007		Reservation Road as Ethan Learner

2006

as Self

2005		Earthlings as Narrator (voice)
2005		Walk the Line as John R. Cash
2005		Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' as Self
2005		Deconstructing 'The Village' as Self

2004		Hotel Rwanda as Jack Daglish
2004		Ladder 49 as Jack Morrison
2004		The Village as Lucius Hunt

2003		Brother Bear as Kenai (voice)
2003		It's All About Love as John
2003		Making 'Signs' as Self / Merrill Hess

2002		Buffalo Soldiers as Ray Elwood
2002		Signs as Merrill Hess

2000		Quills as Abbe du Coulmier
2000		Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport as Self
2000		Gladiator as Emperor Commodus
2000		The Yards as Willie Gutierrez

1999

as Max California

1998		Clay Pigeons as Clay Bidwell
1998		Return to Paradise as Lewis McBride

1997		U Turn as Toby N. Tucker
1997		Inventing the Abbotts as Doug Holt

1995

as Jimmy Emmett

1989

as Garry Buckman-Lampkin

1988

as Drew Blackburn

1987

as Danny

1986

as Max

1985

as Frankie

1984

as Robby Ellsworth

Production

2023		Napoleon … Producer
2023		The End of Medicine … Executive Producer

2022

… Producer

2021

… Executive Producer

2019

… Executive Producer

2017		Across My Land … Executive Producer
2017		What the Health … Executive Producer

2015

… Executive Producer

2010

… Producer

2007

… Producer

Writing

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… Story

2010

… Writer