11 movies starring Jake Gyllenhaal

In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

A soldier named Coulter mystically finds himself in the body of an unknown man who died in a train accident. Coulter is forced to relive someone else's death over and over again until he realizes who the instigator of the disaster is.

Earth is moving steadily towards a global ecological catastrophe: in one part of the world all life is dying of drought, in another part, the raging water element is demolishing cities.

The proximity of the catastrophe forces a climate scientist, trying to find a way to stop the global warming, to go in search of his missing son to New York, which has entered a new ice age...

The film is set during the Gulf War. The Marine Anthony Swofford is a descendant of the military. After a course of training in a special camp, he is sent to the Middle East, where hostilities are taking place. With a sniper rifle in his hands and a heavy backpack on his shoulders, he has to make a difficult journey through the desert, where there is no escape from the unbearable heat and Iraqi soldiers who at any moment may appear on the horizon.

Two brothers... They are so different from each other. The older one, Sam, is a brave officer, a loving husband and father. The younger one, Tommy, is a ranger, like he's walking on a razor's edge. Going to volunteer for the war in Afghanistan, Sam asks Tommy to take care of the children and his wife Grace. As time passes, the family receives the news that Sam has died. Tommy comforts Grace as best he can. Slowly, feelings flare up between them.

Susan has a luxurious life in Los Angeles, a wonderful husband, and her own gallery. But one day she receives an unexpected package from her ex-husband - he would like to meet, but first he asks to read his new novel. Susan has no idea that as soon as she opens the manuscript, she will return to a past she thought was safely concealed under the cover of night.

In 1990s Pittsburgh, a medicine peddler starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from Parkinson's disease.

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Keller Dover faces every parent's biggest nightmare: his six-year-old daughter is missing along with her friend. Time flies, the girls don't return, and panic reaches its peak. The only clue is a dilapidated van that was parked on their street when the girls were playing in the yard. Detective Lockey, leading the investigation, arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but the police soon have to let him go for lack of evidence. The police delay, and the distraught father takes matters into his own hands. But how far is Keller willing to go to find the girls?

A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

Two robbers steal an ambulance after their heist goes awry.

Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends, and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.

When a terrorist bombing in North Africa kills 19 incl. an American, an Egyptian chemical engineer flying from South Africa to his wife in USA, is arrested upon arriving USA. He disappears. His wife asks senator for help.

A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.

A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.

A successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. With the help of a customer service rep and her young son, he starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.

Donnie Darko doesn't get along too well with his family, his teachers, and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events.

A satire set in the contemporary art world scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.

Billy Hope (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) is the undisputed light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He is unbeaten over a career of 43 fights. He is happily married to beautiful Maureen (Rachel McAdams) and has a young daughter, Leila (Oona Laurence). His life seems perfect, but then, during a fracas with a rival boxer, his wife is shot and killed. They had known each other since they were 12 years old, and now the bottom has fallen out of his world. The death of his wife sends Billy into a downward spiral, resulting in him being barred from professional boxing for a year, the loss of his house and almost all his possessions and, most painfully, the loss of his daughter to the custody of Social Services. In order to gain back his daughter and restart his life, he seeks out a particular trainer, Tick Wills (Forest Whitaker). Now he is starting his life again, at the bottom.

A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.

Based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, This movie revolves around the colorfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed), who's being pursued across one thousand miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco, California by the notorious assassins Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix). Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.

During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.