Gus Van Sant

Inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.

Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, who skilfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. 

Nicole Kidman delivers a BAFTA-nominated performance in this sly 1995 media thriller from Gus Van Sant (Elephant) as a woman willing to go to dangerous lengths to achieve her goal of being a big television personality.

The discovery of an illicit love affair leads two young Angelenos on a violent, sexually charged tour through the dark side of human nature.

Matt Damon and director Gus Van Sant team up again (after 1997's Good Will Hunting) for this drama about the conflict that emerges when a natural gas company wants to tap into a small town's natural resources.

Independent filmmaking legend Gus Van Sant's third film, and the one that launched him to acclaim, starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix as two friends on a roadtrip from Idaho to Italy. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry plays.

Gus Van Sant (Milk) directs fellow Oscar nominees Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara in this uplifting biopic.

Two teenagers plan a school shooting in Gus Van Sant's Palme d'Or winner at Cannes 2003, loosely based on the Columbine high school massacre.

Gus Van Sant (Goodwill Hunting, Elephant) drama with Sean Connery playing a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who mentors a young high school basketball star (newcomer Rob Brown), after recognising his exceptional talent with the pen.

Academy Award-winning drama written by and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, directed by Gus Van Sant. Follows a mathematically gifted janitor at MIT who lacks the proper direction to escape his blue-collar life. Also stars Robin Williams and Minnie Driver.

The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by rival politician Dan White. Starring Sean Penn as Milk. Directed by Gus Van Sant.

16-year-old Alex deals with a crushing burden of guilt after he accidentally kills a security guard.

Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's classic. A young female embezzler (Anne Heche) arrives at the Bates Motel, run by weirdo Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn) which has terrible secrets of its own. Bernard Herrmann's musical score is reused as well, though with a new arrangement by Danny Elfman.

Outcast romance from director Gus Van Sant (Elephant) starring Alice in Wonderland and newcomer Henry Hopper...

A suicidal American (Matthew McConaughey) befriends a Japanese man (Ken Watanabe) lost in Japan's Suicide Forest in this American drama directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk).