American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian. The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before...
Starring: Anthony Quinn•Paul Guilfoyle•Susan Ward•Robert Loggia•Jack Nicholson•Max von Sydow•Burt Reynolds•Patrick O'Neal•Talia Shire•Goldie Hawn
Two for the Money is a 2005 American sports-drama film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, and Carly Pope. The film is about the world of sports gambling. It was released on October 7, 2005. This was the first Morgan Creek movie distributed by Universal Pictures since Coupe de Ville in 1...
Starring: Sylvester Stallone•Susan Ward•Paul Sorvino•Al Pacino•Desi Arnaz, Jr.•Anne Archer•Tatum O'Neal•Barbara Carrera•Danny DeVito•Nick Nolte
After the Storm is a 2001 American adventure film starring Benjamin Bratt, Mili Avital, Armand Assante, and Simone-Élise Girard. The story centers around the efforts of a group of people to salvage valuables from a sunken yacht in the Bahamas in 1933 and their schemes to betray and double-cross one another.
Starring: Susan Ward•Robert Foxworth•Gérard Depardieu
The Odyssey is a 1997 American mythology–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, the Odyssey. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the miniseries aired in two parts beginning on May 18, 1997, on NBC. It was filmed in Malta, Turkey, parts of England and many other places around the Mediterranean, where the story ta...
Starring: Denzel Washington•Susan Ward•Eric Roberts•Armand Assante•Terry Funk
Gotti is a 1996 American crime drama television film directed by Robert Harmon and written by Steve Shagan, based in part on the 1996 non-fiction book Gotti: Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain. The film stars Armand Assante in the title role as infamous Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, along with William Forsythe, and Anthony Quinn...
Starring: Sigourney Weaver•Susan Ward
Striptease is a 1996 American black comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Andrew Bergman, and starring Demi Moore, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick and Burt Reynolds. Based on Carl Hiaasen's novel of the same name, the film centers on an FBI secretary-turned-stripper who becomes involved in both a child-custody dispute and co...
Starring: Matt Dillon•William Hurt•Susan Ward•Kristy McNichol•Cynthia Nixon•Timothy Hutton•Cathy Moriarty
Judge Dredd is a 1995 American science fiction action film based on the 2000 AD comics character of the same name. It is directed by Danny Cannon and stars Sylvester Stallone in the title role, a law enforcement officer in the crime-ridden futuristic metropolis of Mega-City One. The film co-stars Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen...
Starring: Kate Nelligan•Kim Basinger•Susan Ward•Sean Young•Nastassja Kinski•Paul Reiser•Demi Moore
Kidnapped is a 1995 TV adventure drama film directed by Ivan Passer and starring Armand Assante as Highlander Alan Breck and Brian McCardie as Lowlander David Balfour. Among the supporting actors are Michael Kitchen and Brian Blessed. The film was based on the 1886 novel Kidnapped by author Robert Louis Stevenson. Christopher Reeve had originally b...
Starring: Susan Ward
Blind Justice is a 1994 American Western television film on HBO directed by Richard Spence and starring Armand Assante, Robert Davi, Elisabeth Shue, Adam Baldwin, and Jack Black. First Nations actor Jimmy Herman appears as a shaman. It was shot entirely in Arizona.
Starring: Susan Ward•Carla Gugino
Trial by Jury is a 1994 American legal thriller film directed by Heywood Gould and starring Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Gabriel Byrne, Armand Assante and William Hurt.
Starring: Susan Ward•Greta Scacchi•Joan Chen•Josh Brolin
Fatal Instinct is a 1993 American sex comedy thriller film directed by Carl Reiner. A parody of the erotic thriller genre, which at the time had reached its commercial peak, as well as being a pastiche of 1940s film noir and psychological thriller genres, in particular Double Indemnity, the film stars Armand Assante as lawyer/cop Ned Ravine who has...
Starring: Susan Ward•Fisher Stevens•Isabella Rossellini•Robert Patrick
1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver. It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples.
Starring: Alec Baldwin•Susan Ward•Maruschka Detmers
Hoffa is a 1992 American biographical crime drama film directed by Danny DeVito and written by David Mamet, based on the life of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Most of the story is told in flashbacks before ending with Hoffa's mysterious disappearance. The story makes no claim to be historically accurate, and in fact is largely fictional. Jack Nicho...
Starring: Ving Rhames•Rene Russo•Susan Ward
The Mambo Kings is a 1992 musical drama film based on the 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. The film was directed and produced by Arne Glimcher, and stars Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty and Maruschka Detmers. Set in the early 1950s, the story follows Cesar (Assante) and Nestor ...
Starring: Charles S. Dutton•Susan Ward•Benjamin Bratt•Ted Levine•Antonio Banderas
The Marrying Man is a 1991 American romantic comedy film, directed by Jerry Rees, written by Neil Simon, and starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. The film opened to poor reviews and did not break out at the box office, with Basinger's performance earning her a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress, where she lost to Sean Young for ...
Starring: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer•Susan Ward•Matthew McConaughey•Jeremy Piven•Carla Gugino•Russell Crowe•Clarence Williams III
Q & A is a 1990 American crime film written and directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a novel by New York State Supreme Court judge Edwin Torres. It stars Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante and Lumet's daughter, Jenny Lumet.
Starring: Pandora Peaks•Mili Avital•Susan Ward•Jaime King•April Telek•Talia Shire
Unfaithfully Yours is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, starring Dudley Moore and Nastassja Kinski and featuring Armand Assante and Albert Brooks. The screenplay was written by Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson, and Robert Klane based on Preston Sturges' screenplay for the 1948 film of the same name. The original music sco...
Starring: Kristy McNichol•Eileen Brennan•Susan Ward•Paul Sorvino
I, the Jury is a 1982 American neo-noir crime thriller film based on the 1947 best-selling detective novel of the same name by Mickey Spillane. The story was previously filmed in 3D in 1953. Larry Cohen wrote the screenplay and was hired to direct, but was replaced when the film's budget was already out of control after one week of shooting. He was...
Starring: Anne Archer•Tatum O'Neal•Susan Ward
Little Darlings is a 1980 American teen comedy-drama film starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol and featuring Armand Assante and Matt Dillon. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. The screenplay was written by Kimi Peck and Dalene Young and the original music score was composed by Charles Fox. The film was marketed with the tagline "Don't let t...
Starring: Barbara Carrera•Susan Ward•Albert Brooks•Robert Foxworth•Dudley Moore
Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, and Harvey Miller, and starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, and Armand Assante.
Starring: Terry Funk•Matt Dillon•Kristy McNichol•Susan Ward
Prophecy is a 1979 American science fiction monster horror-thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and written by David Seltzer. It stars Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire and Armand Assante. Set in the Androscoggin or Ossipee River, the film follows an environmental agent and his wife filing a report on a paper mill in the river, not knowing that ...
Starring: Cynthia Nixon•Nastassja Kinski•Susan Ward
Paradise Alley is a 1978 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. The film tells the story of three Italian American brothers in Hell's Kitchen in the 1940s who become involved in professional wrestling. Kevin Conway, Anne Archer, Joe Spinell, Armand Assante, Lee Canalito, Frank McRae, Joyce Ingalls, and Tom...
Starring: Kim Basinger•Charles S. Dutton•Susan Ward•Terry Funk