Screenplay: Gus Van Sant
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Gus Van Sant. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Drugstore Cowboy
1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Matt Dillon · Kelly Lynch · James Legros · Heather Graham
Plot Bob (Matt Dillon) is an energetic junkie who leads his wife (Kelly Lynch) and another couple on a reckless spree of drugstore robberies, for drugs. When he has a brush...
7.0
7K votes
7.0
7K votes
Paranoid Park
2007 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Gabe Nevins · Taylor Momsen · Jake Miller · Daniel Liu
Plot An unsolved murder at Portland's infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral odyssey in which he must not only deal...
6.8
7K votes
6.8
7K votes
My Own Private Idaho
1991 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast River Phoenix · Keanu Reeves · James Russo · William Richert
Plot River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in Gus Van Sant’s haunting tale of two young sreet hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him,...
6.7
16K votes
6.7
16K votes
Elephant
2003 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Alex Frost · Eric Deulen · John Robinson · Elias McConnell
Plot An American high school on what appears to be an ordinary day. For each of the students we meet, high school is a different experience: stimulating, friendly, traumatic, lonely, hard....
6.5
46K votes
6.5
46K votes
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Joaquin Phoenix · Rooney Mara · Jonah Hill · Jack Black
Plot On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring...
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
To Each His Cinema
2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion
Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani
Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
Mala noche (Bad Night)
1985 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Tim Streeter · Doug Cooeyate · Ray Monge · Nyla McCarthy
Plot Gus Van Sant's first feature, shot on grainy, black-and-white 16 mm on an unassuming budget of $25,000, reflects themes developed in his later work: a focus on outsiders living on...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
The Discipline of D.E. (S)
1982 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Frank Birney · David Worden · Ken Shapiro
Plot Gus Van Sant's early short film about "The Discipline of D.E.," which is an extremely efficient way of doing things.
6.0
163 votes
6.0
163 votes
Gerry
2002 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Casey Affleck · Matt Damon
Plot Two guys named Gerry (Damon and Affleck) are stranded in the desert during a hiking expedition. Improvisation and dehydration follow.
5.8
6K votes
5.8
6K votes
Last Days
2005 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Michael Pitt · Lukas Haas · Asia Argento · Scott Patrick Green
Plot An introspective musician who is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations, and a mounting feeling of isolation lives his final hours.
5.0
6K votes
5.0
6K votes
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1993 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Uma Thurman · Keanu Reeves · Angie Dickinson · John Hurt
Plot Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess'...
4.2
774 votes
4.2
774 votes
4.1
30 votes
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The Happy Organ (S)
1971 · Movie · 19 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
Cast Evie Weitzer · Nick Weitzer
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1/2 of a Telephone Conversation (S)
1973 · Movie · 4 min. · United States
Direction Gus Van Sant
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