Results for : Paul Sorvino

When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.

Director: Zack Bernbaum

Genres: Drama , Crime

Actors: Stéfano Gallo, Paul Sorvino, Robert Knepper, Kate Trotter, Jessica Sipos

Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving, Lorenzo is offered a short-term position as coach for an American-style football team by the team's manager, Giulio Fellini (Maurizio Nichetti). As the young American immerses himself in his new duties, he makes the acquaintance of Paola Angelini (Violante Placido) and the two begin a friendship that quickly blossoms into something more. In between spending time with Paola and working with the team, Lorenzo also begins investigating his own family's history and learns the reason for his grandfather's departure from Italy, as well as why his grandfather never returned to visit. As Lorenzo begins to forge an identity for himself in Italy -- not to mention strong romantic attachments to Paola -- he must eventually decide whether or not to return to the States.

Director: Frank Ciota

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Actors: Eddie Malavarca, Maurizio Nichetti, Violante Placido, Nathaniel Marston, Anthony DeSando

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

Director: John Stockwell

Genres: Drama , TV Movie

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino, Luke Edwards, Blake Heron

A legendary poker playing outlaw, Triggerman, arrives to town for the wildest gambling tournament this side of the west. As the tournament begins he'll get caught up in a violent showdown as bandits try to cheat their way to the finals. With his hand on the trigger this outlaw won't let anything come between him and his winning hand.

Director: Terence Hill

Genres: Action , Thriller , Western

Actors: Terence Hill, Clare Carey, Maria P. Petruolo, Fabrizio Bucci, Evgeniya Chernyshova

A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.

Director: John Pasquin

Genres: Drama , Thriller , TV Movie

Actors: Victoria Principal, Paul Sorvino, Eli Rich, Jonathan Banks, Danielle Harris

"Immigrant" is the coming of age story of Daanyik, a nine year-old Russian boy, whose family immigrates to the United States in the late nineteen-seventies to pursue the American Dream. Daanyik's childhood of pencil drawings and toy soldier battles in Moscow is interrupted overnight as he is hurled into the harsh reality of adulthood in New York City. Upon losing his father Deema, Daanyik and his mother, Meela, are left poor, alone and helpless in a foreign land. Out of desperation for survival, Meela begins a relationship with Tolik, an abusive man that may have had a hand in Deema's death. Daanyik finds himself trapped in a precarious web of torment brought on by his new stepfather, a lecherous Rabbi and a neighborhood bully. Drawing becomes his only source of comfort and catharsis. As his battles grow fiercer, Daanyik, at the tender age of nine, is left to overcome insurmountable odds to save himself and his mother from complete destruction.

Director: Barry Shurchin

Genres: Drama

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Paul Sorvino, Andrew Divoff, Michael Lerner, Angela Gots

A play-it-safe guy must search for his wife's missing cat, bringing him face-to-face with the colorful, wacky, and sometimes, the more dangerous element of his neighborhood, forcing him to confront his fears and rethink his M.O.

Director: Anthony Tarsitano

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Sean Young, Gina Gershon, Ralph Macchio, Jeff Kober, David Zayas

A movie about a dysfunctional family of vampires and witches, it is mostly focused on the two children who are hybrids.

Director: Tony Randel

Genres: Family , Adventure , Comedy

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Carolyn Hennesy, Mojean Aria, Philip Willingham, Anne Leighton

A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.

Director: Greg Yaitanes

Genres: Action , Comedy

Actors: Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Maury Chaykin, Bob Balaban, Burt Young

Anthony Caruso, an old friend of Perry Mason, comes to Denver on the request of Dee Morrison. She's married to famed photographer David Morrison, who wants to shoot a photo featuring his former models. The tricky thing is that all of his former models are also his former wives. But Dee knows Anthony can convince them to do it which he does. And David shoots them. Later Dee catches David it what appears to be in an inappropriate situation with his assistant. They have an argument and she leaves. Later David is found dead and she's arrested and Anthony defends her. And he suspects it could have been one of the wives

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Genres: Drama , Thriller , Mystery , Crime , TV Movie

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Barbara Hale, William R. Moses

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

Director: John G. Avildsen

Genres: Comedy , Crime , Mystery

Actors: Allen Garfield, Pamela Gruen, Devin Goldenberg, Jackson Beck, Marcia Jean Kurtz

A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.

Director: Robert McCaskill

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Tara Westwood, Carlo Fiorletta, Paul Sorvino, Richard Kind, Michael Cerveris

When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.

Director: Nick Lyon

Genres: Thriller

Actors: Marlee Matlin, James Denton, Christina DeRosa, Jamie Kennedy, Paul Sorvino

A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.

Director: Martin Guigui

Genres: Drama

Actors: William Forsythe, Joe Mantegna, Paul Sorvino, Natasha Henstridge, Penelope Ann Miller

The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.

Director: Joseph Bologna

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Lainie Kazan, Paul Sorvino, Connie Stevens, Abe Vigoda

Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice, at a cheap motel before continuing on to visit their ailing mother. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. Or worse. Jake and Sandra's romance is soon driven by chance acts of crime and kindness, all governed by the flip of a coin - at least until Sandra mysteriously disappears and Jake unwittingly picks up her suspicious sister, Alice ...

Director: Paul Chart

Genres: Action , Thriller

Actors: Amanda Plummer, Robert Forster, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Paul Sorvino

"Bullets Over Hollywood" delves into America's fascination with gangsters and features historical perspective, analysis, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and details about the connection between real-life hoods and their cinematic alter egos. The documentary chronicles films such as the _American Mutoscope & Biograph [us]_ film _Musketeers of Pig Alley, The (1912)_ (the 1912 film directed by D.W. Griffith that began it all), 1930's and '40s classics including "Little Caesar," "The Public Enemy," "The Roaring Twenties," "The Petrified Forest" and "High Sierra," to such modern tales as "The Godfather," "Scarface," "Goodfellas," "Donnie Brasco," "Casino," "A Bronx Tale," "Carlito's Way," "Once Upon a Time in America" and many more. The special takes a look at television with shows such as "The Sopranos" and "Growing Up Gotti," all part of America's parallel fascination with fictional and real-life gangsters.

Director: Elaina Archer

Genres: Documentary

Actors: James Caan, Roger Corman, Brian De Palma, Michael Madsen, Chazz Palminteri

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

Director: Warren Beatty

Genres: Romance , Comedy , Drama

Actors: Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.

Director: Oliver Stone

Genres: History , Drama

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage

Director: S.V. Krishna Reddy

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Jonathan Bennett, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Nadia Bjorlin, Elliott Gould, Lainie Kazan

Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the help of his mechanic/mentor, he attempts to save his girl and stop the Nazis as 'The Rocketeer'.

Director: Joe Johnston

Genres: Action , Adventure , Science Fiction , Family

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Sorvino

Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.

Director: Wayne Kramer

Genres: Drama , Romance

Actors: William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello, Shawn Hatosy, Paul Sorvino

An alcoholic theater owner needs to put together a successful musical in order to pay off his mob debt, but problems arise when the wise guys want to cast their friends in the production.

Director: Brian Herzlinger

Genres: Music

Actors: Joe Piscopo, Paul Sorvino, Erika Christensen, Erich Bergen, Michael Paré

Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.

Director: John Shepphird

Genres: TV Movie , Action , Science Fiction

Actors: Jack Scalia, Jeremy Luc, Joseph Russo, Daniel Booko, Alex Mauriello

Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.

Director: Blake Edwards

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, María Conchita Alonso

An aspiring opera singer from Harlem teams up with a charismatic busker and a kindhearted hustler to share his voice with the world, and teaches his two newfound friends the importance of taking your destiny into your own hands. Anton (Gabriel Casseus) lives in Harlem with his aunt. He dreams of moving to Italy and becoming a famous opera singer, and though he's been blessed with a magnificent singing voice, his passion has made him an outsider in his neighborhood. Running away from home, Anton meets passionate street pianist Matthew (Christian Carmago) and together the two begin drawing large, appreciate crowds on the street. Working the crowd as they do their thing is Wes (Damon Wayans), whose natural charm always gets the cash flowing. And while life on the streets is never easy, Anton, Matthew, and Wes soon discover that by following their dreams, they may find a means of transforming their lives forever.

Director: William Jennings

Genres: Drama , Music

Actors: Damon Wayans, Gabriel Casseus, Christian Camargo, Malik Yoba, Paul Sorvino

A white cop apprehends, then murders, a Black purse thief in the street. A Black film student witnesses the murder and begins surveilling the cop in his everyday life. Based on the novel "Shoot It" by Paul Tyner; filmed in Kansas City.

Director: Dennis McGuire

Genres: Drama , Crime

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Eric Laneuville, Paul Sorvino, Earl Hindman, Earl Hindman

Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a retirement home. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to convince a mysterious nurse that they are her long-lost father.

Director: Howard Weiner

Genres: Drama , Comedy

Actors: Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino, Maria Dizzia, Pamela Dubin, Molly Bettencourt

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (1887-1920), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant (1885-1936).

Director: Warren Beatty

Genres: Drama , History , Romance

Actors: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosiński, Jack Nicholson

Mickey Ryan falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control. With his life turned upside down, Mickey tries valiantly to resolve his issues but hooks up with the wrong people who blind him with anger and hate.

Director: Frank D'Angelo

Genres: Drama

Actors: Frank D'Angelo, Michael Paré, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Paul Sorvino

Les Bingham takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie has a new love in life. What he doesn't know is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer. When Katie's sister Sally arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction.

Director: Norman Panama

Genres: Romance , Comedy

Actors: Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal, Robert Alda

Miller's Tale is a personal journey into the life of playwright and actor Jason Miller and his relationship with his hometown, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Best known for his performance as Father Karras in The Exorcist, Miller experienced a brief but brilliant period of national acclaim, then curiously abandoned Hollywood to return to his hometown. After Miller died in a local bar Scranton, at the age of 62, filmmaker and fellow Scranton native Rebecca Marshall Ferris set out with her camera to find out why did this exceptional playwright, who achieved such phenomenal early success, never write a Broadway play again? And what happened to Miller in Hollywood that would make him run away from a promising acting career?

Director: Rebecca Marshall

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Bruce Dern, William Friedkin, Stacy Keach, Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino

A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society.

Director: William Friedkin

Genres: Thriller , Crime

Actors: Al Pacino, Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox, Don Scardino

Lucifer incites Heaven’s wrath by dispatching train cars of condemned souls a-crashin’ through the pearly gates. As God plots to put an end to the rebellious deeds, a fable is told, and the midway gets set for a fateful reunion between God’s Agent and Hell’s Painted Doll, promising to make sinner and saint alike scream Alleluia!

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman

Genres: Horror

Actors: Terrance Zdunich, Paul Sorvino, Marc Senter, Emilie Autumn, Nivek Ogre

A man who has been dead and cryogenically preserved for ten years is miraculously revived, but with chillingly unexpected results.

Director: Wes Craven

Genres: Thriller , Science Fiction , Horror , TV Movie

Actors: Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson, Dick O'Neill, Paul Sorvino

In a world parallel to ours, things and people have supernatural powers. Witches exist, they are beautiful and attractive and try to do their 'work' to the fullest.

Director: Giovanni Veronesi

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Teo Mammucari, Paul Sorvino, Emmanuelle Seigner, Daniele Liotti, Anna Valle

Released from federal prison after 20 years due to his ailing health, a formerly powerful New York mobster moves back home and attempts to reconnect with former life in this poignant Sopranos-esque character study.

Director: David Rodriguez

Genres: Drama , Comedy

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Rapaport, Renee Props

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Genres: Documentary

Actors: Barbara De Fina, Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi, Ray Liotta, Irwin Winkler

Does time exist when nothing changes? That is the question for the picturesque Village of Rockwell, where time has frozen. Nobody gets sick; nobody ages, and nobody dies due to a tragic bus crash that took the lives of the 1977 undefeated Rockwell High School Basketball Team.

Director: David Sabbath

Genres: Drama

Actors: Ella Rae Peck, Lucas Salvagno, Robert Prescott, Peter Vack, Jason Jay Crabtree

Lance Valenteen (David Boreanaz) makes a living as "Mr. Fix It," a man who gets hired by men that have just recently been dumped by their girlfriend. Lance dates the guys' ex-girlfriend and becomes the worst date possible, sending the girl back into her ex-boyfriends arms. But when Lance gets hired by Bill Smith (Pat Healy) to get Sophia Fiori (Alana De La Garza) back, Lance, for the first time, starts falling for one of his marks.

Director: Darin Ferriola

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: David Boreanaz, Alana de la Garza, Scoot McNairy, Pat Healy, Paul Sorvino

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

Director: Brett Ratner

Genres: Action , Comedy

Actors: Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Paul Sorvino, Elise Neal

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Director: Carl Reiner

Genres: Fantasy , Comedy

Actors: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy

By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan - and those who can’t fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman

Genres: Horror , Music , Science Fiction

Actors: Alexa PenaVega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton

A beautiful woman decides to play a prank on a random man from the street by kidnapping him at gunpoint to her house. After forcing him to strip, she sends him on his way naked. He reports the incident to the authorities, but they either don't believe him, or, if they do, can't understand why he would consider it a crime - a reaction he also gets from his friends and family.

Director: Cy Howard

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Michael Learned, Bob Dishy, Adam Arkin, Eddie Barth

Kyle (Markiss McFadden), one of the many orphans raised in an orphanage by Father Antonio (Paul Sorvino) is an assassin who is sent on missions; from God. For years Father Antonio led these boys to believe they are killing in the name of God. Kyle was one of the best executioners of Father Antonio’s men. After placing a bomb in a little coffee shop to execute the owner a little boy Matthew (Aiden Wind) and his mother walks in the restaurant just seconds before the explosion. Kyle decided to save both of them but unfortunately he was only able to save the little boy. A reluctant Kyle takes him in and keeps him hidden for seven days. Through a very complex relationship Kyle discovers a different side in him he didn’t know existed. With all the fights, bullets flying, and explosions it's going to be harder than he thought keeping Matthew safe. But with the help of Kyle's beautiful neighbor Tara (Mischa Barton) it just might be possible.

Director: Moziko Wind

Genres: Action

Actors: Markiss McFadden, Paul Sorvino, Mischa Barton, Robert Miano, Eric Roberts