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Jamesy Boy (2014)
Jamesy Boy is a 2014 American biographical crime drama film directed by Trevor White and written by White and Lane Shadgett. The film stars Spencer Lofranco, Mary-Louise Parker, Taissa Farmiga, Ving Rhames, and James Woods. It tells the true story of ex-convict James Burns. The film was released in North America on January 3, 2014 through video on ...
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Whoopi Goldberg•Richard Widmark•Charlton Heston•Jack Lemmon•Rod Steiger•Leslie Nielsen•Dennis Hopper•Tuesday Weld
Officer Down (2013)
Officer Down is a 2013 American action film directed by Brian A. Miller. Stephen Dorff plays a corrupt cop who seeks redemption.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Michael Trotter•Christopher Plummer•Shirley Knight•Maximilian Schell•Ann-Margret•Edward Asner•Robert Duvall•Clifton Davis•Gene Hackman
White House Down (2013)
White House Down is a 2013 American political action thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by James Vanderbilt. In the film, a divorced US Capitol Police officer attempts to rescue both his daughter and the President of the United States when a destructive terrorist assault occurs in the White House. The film stars Channing Tatum, J...
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Donald Sutherland•Jon Voight•Lesley Ann Warren•Harvey Keitel•Alan King•Susan Clark
Jobs (2013)
Jobs is a 2013 American biographical drama film based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001. It is directed by Joshua Michael Stern, written by Matt Whiteley, and produced by Stern and Mark Hulme. Steve Jobs is portrayed by Ashton Kutcher, with Josh Gad as Apple Computer's co-fo...
Starring: Robert De Niro•Taissa Farmiga•Bill Pullman•John Hurt•Tim McIntire•Michael Murphy•Harris Yulin•Jeff Bridges•Louis Gossett Jr.•Tom Skerritt
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Too Big to Fail is a 2011 American biographical drama television film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Peter Gould, based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's 2009 non-fiction book Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves. The film aired on HBO on May 23, 2011. It received 11 ...
Starring: Jodie Foster•Taissa Farmiga•Sada Thompson•Paul Sorvino•Al Pacino•Geneviève Bujold•Bill Pullman•Patricia Joyce•James Woods•Madeline Kahn
Straw Dogs (2011)
Straw Dogs is a 2011 American action thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. It stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•John Savage•Danny Aiello•Clifton Davis•Charles Durning•Melanie Griffith•Jennifer Warren
An American Carol (2008)
An American Carol is a 2008 American satirical comedy film directed by David Zucker and written by Zucker, Myrna Sokoloff and Lewis Friedman. Using the framework of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film follows liberal filmmaker Michael Malone as he is visited by three spirits to teach him the importance of Independence Day. The...
Starring: Danny DeVito•John Travolta•James Cromwell•John Heard•Taissa Farmiga•Denzel Washington•Laraine Newman•Richard Farnsworth•Mary Steenburgen•Eric Roberts
Surf's Up (2007)
Surf's Up is a 2007 American computer-animated mockumentary produced by Sony Pictures Animation. It was directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck from a screenplay they co-wrote with Don Rhymer and Chris Jenkins, based on a story by Jenkins and Christian Darren. The film stars the voices of Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, and J...
Starring: Dennis Quaid•Taissa Farmiga•Sigourney Weaver•Michael O'Keefe•JoBeth Williams•Ted Danson•Robert Hays•William Hurt•Ed Harris•David Morse
Be Cool (2005)
Be Cool is a 2005 American crime-comedy film based on Elmore Leonard's 1999 novel of the same name and the sequel to Leonard's 1990 novel Get Shorty about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the music industry. This was Robert Pastorelli's final film, as he died one year before its theatrical release.
Starring: Cynthia Nixon•Taissa Farmiga•Dolly Parton•J. T. Walsh•Elizabeth McGovern•Joe Pesci•Griffin Dunne•Kathleen Turner•Sharon Stone•Madeleine Stowe
This Girl's Life (2003)
This Girl's Life is a 2003 film written and directed by Ash and produced by Ash alongside Daniel M. Berger. Rob Weston serves as executive producer. The story concerns the life of Moon, a porn star played by Juliette Marquis. The film also stars James Woods, Michael Rapaport, Rosario Dawson, Cheyenne Silver and Kip Pardue.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Rachel Ward•Gary Coleman
John Q (2002)
John Q. is a 2002 American thriller drama film starring Denzel Washington, with co-stars Robert Duvall, Kimberly Elise, Anne Heche, James Woods, and Ray Liotta, lastly directed by Nick Cassavetes. The film tells the story of John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and who finds out he is unable to r...
Starring: Sean Young•Taissa Farmiga•Henry Thomas•Drew Barrymore•Teresa Ganzel
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American live action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Rob Minkoff and starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and Jonathan Lipnicki, and the voices of Michael J. Fox as Stuart Little and Nathan Lane as Snowbell the Cat. Although a sequel to the 1999 film Stuart Little, the plot bears more resemblance to the original no...
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•John C. McGinley•Spencer Lofranco•David Alan Grier•Deborah Harry•Victoria Tennant•John Getz•Dan Hedaya
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and the most expensive video game-inspired film until the release of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2010. The film stars the...
Starring: Bob Hoskins•Taissa Farmiga•William Forsythe•Kate Bosworth•Whoopi Goldberg•Geena Davis•Robert Davi
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 American biographical film based on the autobiography of the same name by Beverly Donofrio, about a woman who overcame difficulties, including being a teen mother, and who later earned a master's degree. The movie's narrative spans the years 1961 to 1985. It stars Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, and J...
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Mary Stuart Masterson•Victoria Tennant•Jennifer Tilly
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Any Given Sunday is a 1999 American sports drama film directed by Oliver Stone depicting a fictional professional American football team. The film features an ensemble cast, including Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Ann-Margret, Lauren Holly, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Bill Bellamy,...
Starring: Robert Downey Jr.•Lukas Haas•Stephen Lang•Lauren Holly•Taissa Farmiga•Joan Allen•Steve Buscemi•Bill Pullman•Alec Baldwin•Seth Green
The General's Daughter (1999)
The General's Daughter is a 1999 American mystery thriller film directed by Simon West from a screenplay co-written by Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson DeMille. It stars John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III, and James Woods. The plot concerns th...
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•J. T. Walsh•Dermot Mulroney•Robert Sean Leonard•Mercedes Ruehl•Kelsey Grammer
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American psychological drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, A. J. Cook and Josh Hartnett. The film also features Scott Glenn, Michael Paré and Danny DeVito in minor roles, with voice narration by Giovanni Ribisi.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Aerosmith•Heather Graham•Oliver Platt•Ving Rhames
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Another Day in Paradise is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Larry Clark, and starring James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner. Set in the 1970s, its plot follows a teenage drug addict who, along with his girlfriend, are taken in by a middle-aged couple. The pair persuade the teenagers to help them co...
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•John C. McGinley•Lolita Davidovich•Thomas Ian Griffith•Annabella Sciorra
Vampires (1998)
Vampires is a 1998 American neo-Western action horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and starring James Woods. It was adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley.
Starring: Kevin Pollak•Taissa Farmiga•Angela Bassett•Ron Eldard•Nathan Lane
Contact (1997)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. It also ...
Starring: Delroy Lindo•Luis Guzman•Penny Marshall•Taissa Farmiga•Kevin Dunn•Philip Seymour Hoffman•Sheryl Lee
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The plot is based on the true story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Diedrich Bader•Kate Bosworth
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995) is an American drama film written and directed by Tim Metcalfe. It is loosely adapted from a book of the same title, on the life of American serial killer Carl Panzram, who was active in the early 20th century and executed in 1930. It uses some passages drawn from his own writings near the end of his life.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Kevin Sorbo
Casino (1995)
Casino is a 1995 American epic crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Barbara De Fina and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on the 1995 nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay along with Scorsese. It stars Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles...
Starring: Robert Pastorelli•Kirsten Dunst•Anne Heche•Taissa Farmiga•Brittany Murphy•Dominic Purcell•Natasha Gregson Wagner
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial is a film made for television that originally aired on HBO on May 20, 1995. Indictment is based on the true story of the McMartin preschool trial.
Starring: Richard Jenkins•David Hyde Pierce•Taissa Farmiga•Vincent Kartheiser•Jamie Foxx•James Marsden
Nixon (1995)
Nixon is a 1995 American epic historical drama film directed by Oliver Stone, produced by Clayton Townsend, Stone, and Andrew G. Vajna. The film was written by Stone, Christopher Wilkinson, and Stephen J. Rievele, with significant contributions from "project consultants" Christopher Scheer and Robert Scheer. The film tells the story of the politica...
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard•Hugh Laurie•Taissa Farmiga•Walton Goggins•Elden Henson•Zooey Deschanel•Jonathan Lipnicki•Courtnee Draper•A. J. Cook•Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Getaway (1994)
The Getaway is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. The screenplay was written by Walter Hill and Amy Holden Jones, based on Jim Thompson’s 1958 novel of the same name. The film stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, with Michael Madsen, James Woods, and Jennifer Tilly in supporting roles.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Kip Pardue•Peri Gilpin•David Boreanaz•Kate Bosworth•Shia LaBeouf•Juliette Marquis
The Specialist (1994)
The Specialist is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, and Rod Steiger. It is loosely based on "The Specialist" series of novels by John Shirley. The film met with negative critical response, but became a box office success, and Gloria Estefan's version...
Starring: Kelly Slater•Johnny Messner•Taissa Farmiga•Oleg Taktarov•Dominic Purcell
Diggstown (1992)
Diggstown, is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Steven McKay, based on the 1978 novel The Diggstown Ringers by Leonard Wise. It stars James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Heather Graham, Oliver Platt and Randall "Tex" Cobb.
Starring: Channing Tatum•Laz Alonso•Taissa Farmiga•Willa Holland•Jason Clarke
Straight Talk (1992)
Straight Talk is a 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Barnet Kellman and starring Dolly Parton, Jerry Orbach, Griffin Dunne and James Woods.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Soulja Boy•Ben Rosenfield
The Hard Way (1991)
The Hard Way is a 1991 American buddy cop comedy film directed by John Badham, starring Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang, and Annabella Sciorra. LL Cool J played his first fictional character in the picture, which for this reason has been referred to as his acting debut.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Spencer Lofranco•Michael Trotter•Rosa Salazar•Jimmy "Taboo" Gomez•Jane Greer•Richard Widmark
Immediate Family (1989)
Immediate Family is a 1989 drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It stars Glenn Close and James Woods as a married childless couple who want a baby. They decide to adopt from a pregnant teenage girl played by Mary Stuart Masterson who later gets second thoughts.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Jack Lemmon•Tuesday Weld•James Garner
My Name is Bill W. (1989)
My Name Is Bill W. is a 1989 CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, starring James Woods, JoBeth Williams and James Garner. William G. Borchert, who wrote the film script for television, based it on the true story of William Griffith Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith, the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymo...
Starring: Christopher Plummer•Taissa Farmiga•Gene Hackman
True Believer (1989)
True Believer is a 1989 American courtroom drama written by Wesley Strick, directed by Joseph Ruben, and starring James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, and Kurtwood Smith.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Susan Clark
The Boost (1988)
The Boost is a 1988 American drama film directed by Harold Becker and based on the book Ludes: A Ballad of the Drug and the Dream by Ben Stein. It stars James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos, Steven Hill, June Chandler and Amanda Blake.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Alex Karras
Cop (1988)
Cop is a 1988 American neo-noir crime suspense film written and directed by James B. Harris, starring James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren and Charles Durning. It is based on the 1984 book Blood on the Moon, by James Ellroy. Harris and Woods co-produced the film, a first for their careers.
Starring: Robert De Niro•Taissa Farmiga•Tim McIntire
Best Seller (1987)
Best Seller is a 1987 American neo-noir crime thriller film written by Larry Cohen, directed by John Flynn and starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy. The film tells the story of Cleve (Woods), a career hitman, who wants to turn his life story into a book written by Dennis Meechum (Dennehy), a veteran police officer and best-selling author
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Michael Murphy•Harris Yulin
Salvador (1986)
Salvador is a 1986 American war drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. It stars James Woods as Richard Boyle, alongside Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy and Elpidia Carrillo, with John Savage and Cynthia Gibb in supporting roles. Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Boyle.
Starring: Geneviève Bujold•Taissa Farmiga•Dorian Harewood•Patricia Joyce
Cat's Eye (1985)
Cat's Eye is a 1985 American anthology horror thriller film directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King. It comprises three stories, "Quitters, Inc.", "The Ledge", and "General". The first two are adaptations of short stories in King's 1978 Night Shift collection, and the third is unique to the film. The three stories are connected only by...
Starring: Kirsten Dunst•Taissa Farmiga•Kay Lenz•Mary Stuart Masterson
Against All Odds (1984)
Against All Odds is a 1984 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. A remake of Out of the Past (1947), a film in which Greer played the femme fatale, this film's plot is about an aging American ...
Starring: John Savage•Danny Aiello•Charles Durning•Dennis Quaid•Taissa Farmiga•Jennifer Warren•Brian Dennehy
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 epic crime film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The film is an Italian–American venture produced by The Ladd Company, Embassy International Pictures, PSO Enterprises, and Rafran Cinematografica, and distributed by Warner Bros. Based on Harry...
Starring: Treat Williams•Anne Heche•Taissa Farmiga•Sigourney Weaver•JoBeth Williams•Ted Danson•Brittany Murphy•Robert Hays•Elizabeth McGovern
Videodrome (1983)
Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films. Layers of deception and mind-control conspir...
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Rachel Ward
Fast-Walking (1982)
Fast-Walking is a 1982 American prison drama film directed, produced, and written by James B. Harris, based on Ernest Brawley's 1974 novel The Rap. The film stars James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz, Robert Hooks, and M. Emmet Walsh.
Starring: Sean Young•Taissa Farmiga•James Belushi
Eyewitness (1981)
Eyewitness is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It stars William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, and James Woods. The story involves a television news reporter and a janitor who team to solve a murder.
Starring: Glenn Close•Taissa Farmiga•Deborah Harry•Al Pacino
The Onion Field (1979)
The Onion Field is a 1979 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Harold Becker and written by Joseph Wambaugh, based on his 1973 true crime book of the same name. The film stars John Savage, James Woods and Franklyn Seales, as well as Ted Danson in his film debut.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga•Dorian Harewood•Jennifer Connelly
Alex and the Gypsy (1976)
Alex & the Gypsy is a 1976 American comedy film directed by John Korty and written by Lawrence B. Marcus. The film stars Jack Lemmon, Geneviève Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt and Titos Vandis. The film was released on October 3, 1976, by 20th Century Fox.
Starring: William Forsythe•Kevin Dillon•Taissa Farmiga
Night Moves (1975)
Night Moves is a 1975 American neo-noir film directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, with supporting performances from Melanie Griffith and James Woods. Its plot follows a Los Angeles private investigator who uncovers a series of sinister events while searching for the missing teenage daughter of a former m...
Starring: Mary Stuart Masterson•Victoria Tennant•Robert Downey Jr.•Taissa Farmiga•John C. McGinley•Luis Guzman
The Visitors (1972)
The Visitors is a 1972 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Patrick McVey. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Kazan used an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, and Lang's subsequent book Casualties of War, as a jumping-off point for this film.
Starring: Penny Marshall•Patricia Joyce•Taissa Farmiga