MRQE Ranks: Oliver Stone's Best to Worst Movies

1

Platoon (1986)

Cast: John McGinley, Richard Edson, Kevin Dillon, Reggie Johnson, Keith David, Johnny Depp, Tom Berenger, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Oliver Stone

Synopsis: Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of ba... [MORE]

2

JFK (1991)

Cast: Joe Pesci, Tommy Jones, Jay Sanders, Michael Rooker, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Grubbs, John Candy, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Brian Doyle Murray, Sally Kirkland, Beata Pozniak, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tony Plana, Tomas Milian, Jim Garrison, Jay O. Sanders, Kevin Costner, Ed Asner, Gary Oldman, Sissy Spacek

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Jim Marrs, Jim Garrison, Oliver Stone

Synopsis: This acclaimed Oliver Stone drama presents the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorn... [MORE]

3

Nixon (1995)

Cast: E.G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J.T. Walsh, James Woods, Brian Bedford, Kevin Dunn, Fyvush Finkel, Annabeth Gish, Tony Goldwyn, Larry Hagman, Edward Herrmann, Madeline Kahn, Saul Rubinek, Tony Lo Bianco, Corey Carrier, Tom Bower, David Gray, Tony Plana, Dan Hedaya, John Cunningham, John McGinley, John Diehl, Powers Boothe, Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Joan Allen

Director: Oliver Stone

Synopsis: This film is a biographical examination of former U.S. President Richard Nixon (Anthony Hopkins). The non-chronological narrative explores Nixon's ... [MORE]

4

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Cast: Raymond Barry, Bryan Larkin, Jerry Levine, Josh Evans, Jamie Talisman, Anne Bobby, Frank Whaley, John Getz, David Warshofsky, Corkey Ford, Rocky Carroll, Tony Frank, Jayne Haynes, Cordelia Gonzalez, Willem Dafoe, Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Kyra Sedgwick

Director: Oliver Stone

Synopsis: In the mid 1960s, suburban New York teenager Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) enlists in the Marines, fulfilling what he sees as his patriotic duty. During h... [MORE]

5

Wall Street (1987)

Cast: Sean Young, Sylvia Miles, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, John McGinley, Saul Rubinek, Franklin Cover, James Karen, Richard Dysart, Josh Mostel, Millie Perkins, Annie McEnroe, Monique Van Vooren, Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Terence Stamp

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone

Synopsis: On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admir... [MORE]

6

World Trade Center (2006)

Cast: Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Turturro, William Mapother, Jude Ciccolella, Donna Murphy, Brad Henke, Patti D'Arbanville, Kurt Caceres, Nick Damici, Lucia Brawley, Danny Nucci, Gary Stretch, Maria Bello, Michael Peña, Nicolas Cage, Stephen Dorff, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Andrea Berloff

Synopsis: Two Port Authority officers, Sgt. John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Officer Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), become trapped in the rubble of the World ... [MORE]

7

Heaven & Earth (1993)

Cast: Tommy Jones, Debbie Reynolds, Dustin Nguyen, Conchata Ferrell, Vivian Wu, Dale Dye, Liem Whatley, Robert Burke, Michael Chan, Timothy Carhart, Tim Guinee, Catherine Ai, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones

Director: Uli Lommel, Oliver Stone

Synopsis: Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South... [MORE]

8

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Cast: Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Tommy Jones, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Russell Means, Edie McClurg, Balthazar Getty, Joe Grifasi, O-Lan Jones

Director: Oliver Stone

Synopsis: Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led ... [MORE]

9

The Doors (1991)

Cast: Michael Madsen, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Wincott, Dennis Burkley, Josh Evans, Paul Williams, Christina Fulton, Crispin Glover, Billy Idol, Charlie Spradling, Frank Whaley, Kyle MacLachlan, Meg Ryan, Kevin Dillon, Val Kilmer

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Oliver Stone, J. Johnson

Synopsis: After a psychedelic experience in the California desert, Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer), lead singer of The Doors, and his bandmates begin performing in... [MORE]

10

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, Austin Pendleton, John Bedford Lloyd, Vanessa Ferlito, John Mailer, Jason Clarke, Eli Wallach, Josh Brolin, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Allan Loeb, Stephen Schiff

Synopsis: Following a long prison term for insider trading, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once command... [MORE]

11

Any Given Sunday (1999)

Cast: LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor, Charlton Heston, Ann-margret Null, Aaron Eckhart, John McGinley, Lauren Holly, Lela Rochon, Bill Bellamy, James Karen, Gianni Russo, Elizabeth Berkley, Andrew Bryniarski, Duane Martin, Clifton Davis, John Daniel, Patrick O'Hara, Jerry A. Sharp, Marty Wright, Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid

Director: Oliver Stone

Synopsis: Four years ago, DAmato's (Al Pacino) Miami Sharks were at the top. Now, his team is struggling with three consecutive losses, sliding attendance, a... [MORE]

12

Savages (2012)

Cast: Shea Whigham, Joel David Moore, Joaquín Cosio, Antonio Jaramillo, Alexander Wraith, Anthony Cutolo, Ali Wong, Mía Maestro, Taylor Kitsch, Salma Hayek, Aaron Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Blake Lively, John Travolta, Emile Hirsch, Uma Thurman, Demián Bichir

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Oliver Stone

Synopsis: California entrepreneurs Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) run a lucrative business raising marijuana and share a one-of-a-kind love wit... [MORE]

13

W. (2008/I)

Cast: Toby Jones, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott Glenn, Ioan Gruffudd, Noah Wyle, Bruce McGill, Stacy Keach, Dennis Boutsikaris, Michael Gaston, Brent Sexton, Paul Rae, Rob Corddry, Marley Shelton, Jason Ritter, Colin Hanks, Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell, Josh Brolin, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Stanley Weiser

Synopsis: Flashbacks to key events in his life reveal the rise of George W. Bush from ne'er-do-well party boy and son of privilege to president of the United... [MORE]

14

U Turn (1997)

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Thornton, Jon Voight, Abraham Benrubi, Julie Haggerty, Bo Hopkins, Valery Nikolaev, Ilia Volokh, Aida Linares, Laurie Metcalf, Liv Tyler, Nick Nolte, Claire Danes, Powers Boothe, Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: John Ridley

Synopsis: A two-bit criminal (Sean Penn) meets an attractive woman (Jennifer Lopez) and her spouse (Nick Nolte), each of whom wants him to murder the other. [MORE]

15

South of the Border (2009)

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Tariq Ali, Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot

Synopsis: Filmmaker Oliver Stone interviews Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Brazil's Lula da Silva and other leaders, in an examination of social and political move... [MORE]

16

Alexander (2004)

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Brian Blessed, Tim Pigott-Smith, Connor Paolo, Gary Stretch, John Kavanagh, Nick Dunning, Marie Meyer, Elliot Cowan, Joseph Morgan, Ian Beattie, Denis Conway, Neil Jackson, Rory McCann, Raz Degan, Annelise Hesme, Feodor Atkine, Jonathan Rhys-meyers, Garrett Lombard, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie, Colin Farrell

Director: Oliver Stone

Synopsis: The story is an epic that is as daring and ambitious as its subject, a relentless conqueror who by the age of 32 had amassed the greatest empire th... [MORE]