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John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American actor, writer, and director known for his roles in the films Barton Fink (1991), Quiz Show (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He has appeared in over sixty films, and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler, and Spike Lee.
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The True Adventures of Wolfboy (2019)
As: Mr. Silk
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
Directed by: Martin Krejčí
Stars: Chris Messina | Chloë Sevigny | John Turturro | Eve Hewson | Jaeden Lieberher
Gloria Bell (2019)
As: Arnold
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Sean Astin | John Turturro | Michael Cera | Alanna Ubach | Julianne Moore
Going Places (2017)
As: Jesus Quintana
A spin-off of The Big Lebowski centered on bowler Jesus Quintana.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: John Turturro
Stars: John Turturro | Susan Sarandon | Bobby Cannavale | Audrey Tautou | Sônia Braga
Landline (2017)
As: Alan Jacobs
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Gillian Robespierre
Stars: John Turturro | Edie Falco | Jay Duplass | Jenny Slate | Abby Quinn
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
As: Seymour Simmons
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: Michael Bay
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Josh Duhamel | Mark Wahlberg | Anthony Hopkins | Laura Haddock
Frank Serpico (2017)
As: Himself
As an NYPD officer in the late 60s and early 70s, Frank Serpico blew the whistle on the corruption and payoffs running rampant in the department, was shot in the face during a drug arrest, and most famously became the subject of Sidney Lumet’s classic film SERPICO. Forty-plus years later, Serpico talks about his Southern Italian roots and upbringing, his time as an undercover officer, and his post-NYPD ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Antonino D'Ambrosio
Stars: John Turturro | Frank Serpico | Stanislao Pugliese | Janet Panetta
Hands of Stone (2016)
As: Frankie Carbo
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Stars: Robert De Niro | Ellen Barkin | Rubén Blades | Edgar Ramírez | Jurnee Smollett
The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
As: Abner Doubleday
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Stars: Terry Crews | Danny Trejo | Steve Buscemi | Taylor Lautner | Adam Sandler
Mia Madre (2015)
As: Barry Huggins
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Nanni Moretti
Stars: John Turturro | Pietro Ragusa | Margherita Buy | Nanni Moretti | Antonio Zavatteri
Keepers of the Covenant: Making Exodus: Gods and Kings (2015)
As: Himself
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Featured in the Deluxe Edition Blu-ray set.
Runtime: 153 min.
Directed by: Charles de Lauzirika
Stars: Christian Bale | Joel Edgerton | Ridley Scott | Peter Chiang | Alberto Iglesias
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
As: Sethos I
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Christian Bale | Ben Mendelsohn | John Turturro | Aaron Paul | Joel Edgerton
Rio, Eu Te Amo (2014)
As: Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Guillermo Arriaga | Fernando Meirelles | José Padilha | Vicente Amorim | Stephan Elliott | Im Sang-soo | Nadine Labaki | Carlos Saldanha | Paolo Sorrentino | John Turturro | Andrucha Waddington | César Charlone
Stars: Basil Hoffman | Vincent Cassel | Emily Mortimer | Fernanda Montenegro | Eduardo Sterblitch
God's Pocket (2014)
As: Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: John Slattery
Stars: Eddie Marsan | Richard Jenkins | John Turturro | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Christina Hendricks
Gods Behaving Badly (2013)
As: Hades
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Marc Turtletaub
Stars: John Turturro | Rosie Perez | Christopher Walken | Sharon Stone | Alicia Silverstone
Fading Gigolo (2013)
As: Fioravante
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Turturro
Stars: John Turturro | Liev Schreiber | Woody Allen | Vanessa Paradis | Sharon Stone
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)
As: Himself
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains in the spotlight at eighty-seven years old. Join the uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner both on and off stage in this revealing documentary. With interviews from Tina Fey, Nathan Lane, Hal Prince and others, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me blends rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité to reach beyond Stritch’s brassy exterior, revealing a ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Chiemi Karasawa
Stars: Tina Fey | James Gandolfini | Cherry Jones | Nathan Lane | Elaine Stritch
Somewhere Tonight (2011)
As: Leroy
1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight) is an urban fable that tells the story of two lonely New Yorkers trying to find companionship over an adult chat phone line. John Turturro plays Wooly, a simple, curiously odd bike messenger hoping to hear a bit of 'spicy' talk from Patti (Katherine Borowitz), an agoraphobic shut-in. Although each is not what the other hopes they will be, together they prove that wisps ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Michael Di Jiacomo
Stars: John Turturro | Max Casella | Lynn Cohen | Elizabeth Marvel
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
As: Simmons
Sam Witwicky takes his first tenuous steps into adulthood while remaining a reluctant human ally of Autobot-leader Optimus Prime. The film centers around the space race between the USSR and the USA, suggesting there was a hidden Transformers role in it all that remains one of the planet's most dangerous secrets.
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: Michael Bay
Stars: Josh Duhamel | John Malkovich | Ken Jeong | Shia LaBeouf | Frances McDormand
Cars 2 (2011)
As: Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: John Lasseter
Stars: Michael Caine | Owen Wilson | John Turturro | Emily Mortimer | Larry the Cable Guy
The Nutcracker (2010)
As: The Rat King
Set in 1920's Vienna, this is the tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Stars: Charlie Rowe | John Turturro | Elle Fanning | Frances de la Tour | Nathan Lane
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy (2009)
John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Roman Paska
Stars: Donatella Finocchiaro | John Turturro | Mimmo Cuticchio | Andrea Camilleri
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
As: Agent Simmons
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Michael Bay
Stars: Megan Fox | Rainn Wilson | Josh Duhamel | Shia LaBeouf | Tyrese Gibson
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
As: Camonetti
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Tony Scott
Stars: John Turturro | Denzel Washington | Victor Gojcaj | John Travolta | Luis Guzmán
What Just Happened (2008)
As: Dick Bell
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive changes to a movie starring Sean Penn, while another chief won't greenlight a project unless star Bruce Willis shaves his beard. Meanwhile, Ben tries ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Stars: Robin Wright | Stanley Tucci | Robert De Niro | Bruce Willis | Sean Penn
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
As: Detective Antonio Ri
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Runtime: 160 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: John Turturro | Michael Ealy | Laz Alonso | Derek Luke | Valentina Cervi
You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2008)
As: The Phantom
An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Stars: John Turturro | Adam Sandler | Emmanuelle Chriqui | Lainie Kazan | Nick Swardson
Christmas Story (2007)
As: Iisakki (English version, voice)
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon ...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Juha Wuolijoki
Stars: John Turturro | Mikko Leppilampi | Hannu-Pekka Björkman | Minna Haapkylä | Mikko Kouki
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
As: Jim
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Noah Baumbach
Stars: John Turturro | Nicole Kidman | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Jack Black | Zain Pais
Transformers (2007)
As: Agent Simmons
Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Michael Bay
Stars: Megan Fox | Josh Duhamel | Rachael Taylor | Shia LaBeouf | Tyrese Gibson
Brando (2007)
As: Himself
The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
Runtime: 165 min.
Directed by: Mimi Freedman | Leslie Greif
Stars: John Turturro | Marlon Brando | John Travolta | Al Pacino | Sean Penn
Slipstream (2007)
As: Harvey Brickman
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Anthony Hopkins
Stars: Michael Clarke Duncan | Anthony Hopkins | Lana Antonova | Stella Arroyave | Lindsay Barth
The Good Shepherd (2006)
As: Raymond Brocco
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
Runtime: 167 min.
Directed by: Robert De Niro
Stars: Matt Damon | Robert De Niro | Tammy Blanchard | Angelina Jolie | Alec Baldwin
A Few Days in September (2006)
As: William Pound
1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Santiago Amigorena
Stars: Nick Nolte | John Turturro | Sara Forestier | Juliette Binoche | Tom Riley
Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
As: Vanzetti (Voice)
SACCO AND VANZETTI is an 80-minute-long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Peter Miller
Stars: John Turturro | Tony Shalhoub | Henry Fonda
Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
As: Male Dancer & Singer
Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: John Turturro
Stars: Kate Winslet | Susan Sarandon | Steve Buscemi | Mandy Moore | James Gandolfini
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005)
As: Son
An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father.
Runtime: 28 min.
Directed by: John Canemaker
Stars: John Turturro | Eli Wallach
She Hate Me (2004)
As: Don Angelo Bonasera
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Bai Ling | Anthony Mackie | Kerry Washington | John Turturro | Woody Harrelson
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)
As: Himself
A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.
Runtime: 55 min.
Directed by: Roberto Andò
Stars: John Turturro | Martin Scorsese | Giuseppe Tornatore | Francesco Rosi
2BPerfectlyHonest (2004)
As: Sal / Roberto
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has a son, is forced to consider the unthinkable - getting a real job.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Randel Cole
Stars: Michael Badalucco | Andrew McCarthy | John Turturro | Aida Turturro | Adam Trese
Secret Window (2004)
As: John Shooter
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: David Koepp
Stars: Charles S. Dutton | Timothy Hutton | John Turturro | Maria Bello | Johnny Depp
Secret Passage (2004)
As: Paolo Zane
Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Ademir Kenović
Stars: John Turturro | Katherine Borowitz | Tara Fitzgerald | Anton Rodgers | Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Opopomoz (2003)
As: Voice
It's Christmas Eve in Naples. Little Rocco feels increasingly jealous due to the imminent birth of a baby brother. Three little devils sent to earth by Satan promise Rocco that if he will stop baby Jesus from being born, by saying the magic word OPOPOMOZ and thereby entering an elaborate Nativity scene his father built, then his brother will never be born and he will remain an only child.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Enzo D'Alò
Stars: John Turturro
Anger Management (2003)
As: Chuck
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell. But when Buddy steps up his aggressive treatment by moving in, Dave goes from mild to wild as the unorthodox treatment wreaks havoc with his life.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Peter Segal
Stars: Adam Sandler | Marisa Tomei | Luis Guzmán | Jack Nicholson | January Jones
Fear X (2003)
As: Harry
When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | John Turturro | Stephen Eric McIntyre | William Allen Young | Gene Davis
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
As: Himself
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of some of the most representative figures of the American culture itself. This medley of voices has given origin to a journey throughout the whole United States, from California to Colorado, from Virginia to Minnesota, passing by New York and Los ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Luciano Barcaroli | Carlo Shalom Hintermann | Gerardo Panichi | Daniele Villa
Stars: Jim Caviezel | Ben Chaplin | Penelope Allen | Sergei Bodrov | Bob Codyk
Mr. Deeds (2002)
As: Emilio Lopez
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Steven Brill
Stars: John Turturro | Peter Gallagher | Adam Sandler | Allen Covert | Winona Ryder
Collateral Damage (2002)
As: Sean Amstrong
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Stars: Elias Koteas | John Turturro | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Cliff Curtis | Francesca Neri
Monday Night Mayhem (2002)
As: Howard Cosell
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith (Brad Beyer), along with Keith Jackson (Shuler Hensley), and the combative Howard Cosell (John Turturro) as commentators for the broadcasts, ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
Stars: John Turturro | John Heard | Shuler Hensley | Kevin Anderson | Brad Beyer
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
As: Walker
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Jill Sprecher
Stars: John Turturro | Amy Irving | Alan Arkin | Matthew McConaughey | Clea DuVall
The Man Who Cried (2001)
As: Dante Dominio
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Sally Potter
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Harry Dean Stanton | John Turturro | Johnny Depp | Christina Ricci
Monkeybone (2001)
As: Monkeybone (voice)
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser) into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Henry Selick
Stars: John Turturro | Giancarlo Esposito | Bridget Fonda | Brendan Fraser | Chris Kattan
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
As: Pete Hogwallop
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Joel Coen
Stars: George Clooney | John Turturro | John Goodman | Tim Blake Nelson | Holly Hunter
The Luzhin Defence (2000)
As: Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Marleen Gorris
Stars: Stuart Wilson | Geraldine James | Emily Watson | John Turturro | Fabio Sartor
Company Man (2000)
As: Crocker Johnson
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Peter Askin | Douglas McGrath
Stars: John Turturro | Alan Cumming | Anthony LaPaglia | Douglas McGrath | Denis Leary
Two Thousand and None (2000)
As: Benjamin Kasparian
A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression, explodes into life.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Arto Paragamian
Stars: Carl Alacchi | John Turturro | Julian Richings | Katherine Borowitz | Oleg Kisseliov
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
As: Aldo Silvano
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Tim Robbins
Stars: Hank Azaria | Bill Murray | John Cusack | Joan Cusack | Rubén Blades
Illuminata (1999)
As: Tuccio
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: John Turturro
Stars: John Turturro | Susan Sarandon | Rufus Sewell | Beverly D'Angelo | Christopher Walken
Summer of Sam (1999)
As: Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Mira Sorvino | Adrien Brody | John Leguizamo | Michael Rispoli | Jennifer Esposito
Rounders (1998)
As: Joey Knish
A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: John Dahl
Stars: Edward Norton | Matt Damon | John Turturro | Gretchen Mol | Goran Visnjic
He Got Game (1998)
As: Coach Billy Sunday
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Rosario Dawson | Denzel Washington | Jill Kelly | Hill Harper | Ray Allen
All Revved Up (1998)
As: Johnny Candellano
A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in ripping off his customers. Soon, she has two eager young men, her lizard-loving neighbour and his friend, on her side to help her exact revenge on the sleazy mechanic, who is the leader of a stolen car ring.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Brandon Cole
Stars: Will Patton | John Turturro | Olek Krupa | Lili Taylor | Richard Bright
The Big Lebowski (1998)
As: Jesus Quintana
Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Joel Coen
Stars: Steve Buscemi | Jeff Bridges | Julianne Moore | John Goodman | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998)
As: Tuxedo Man
While looking for paradise, a cab driver suddenly falls in love.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Michael Di Jiacomo
Stars: John Turturro | Tim Roth | Mickey Rooney | Mili Avital | Rod Steiger
Lesser Prophets (1997)
As: Leon
The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his brother, now a suicide, had lost to them
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: William DeVizia
Stars: Michael Badalucco | John Turturro | Scott Glenn | Jimmy Smits | Elizabeth Perkins
The Truce (1997)
As: Primo Levi
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Massimo Ghini | John Turturro | Roberto Citran | Rade Serbedzija | Andy Luotto
Grace of My Heart (1996)
As: Joel Millner
An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry and a bad marriage, to her final triumph in realizing her dream to record her own hit album.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Allison Anders
Stars: John Turturro | Matt Dillon | Illeana Douglas | Bridget Fonda | Eric Stoltz
Box of Moonlight (1996)
As: Al Fountain
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Tom DiCillo
Stars: John Turturro | Catherine Keener | Sam Rockwell | Dermot Mulroney | Lisa Blount
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1996)
As: Disco Bean
While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Sam Henry Kass
Stars: Holt McCallany | Michael Badalucco | Steve Buscemi | Nicholas Turturro | Ray Mancini
Girl 6 (1996)
As: Murray - the Agent
Girl 6 is a 1996 American film by director Spike Lee about a phone sex operator. Theresa Randle played the title character, and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay. The soundtrack is composed entirely of songs written by Prince. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Directors Quentin Tarantino and Ron Silver make cameo appearances as ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Theresa Randle | Spike Lee | Jenifer Lewis | Isaiah Washington | Debi Mazar
Sugartime (1995)
As: Sam Giancana
The true story of a love affair between mob boss Sam Giancana and singer Phyllis McGuire.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: John N. Smith
Stars: Elias Koteas | John Turturro | Mary-Louise Parker | Maury Chaykin | Louis Del Grande
Clockers (1995)
As: Det. Larry Mazilli
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: John Turturro | Harvey Keitel | Mekhi Phifer | Delroy Lindo | Isaiah Washington
Unstrung Heroes (1995)
As: Sid Lidz
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd Weiser
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Diane Keaton
Stars: John Turturro | Andie MacDowell | Maury Chaykin | Michael Richards | Nathan Watt
Search and Destroy (1995)
As: Ron
A satire about desperate hustling, pop philosophy and big money.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: David Salle
Stars: John Turturro | Martin Scorsese | Ethan Hawke | Christopher Walken | Rosanna Arquette
Quiz Show (1994)
As: Herbie Stempel
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Robert Redford
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | John Turturro | Paul Scofield | David Paymer | Rob Morrow
Being Human (1994)
As: Lucinnius
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Stars: Robin Williams | Robert Carlyle | Maudie Johnson | Max Johnson | Irvine Allen
Fearless (1993)
As: Dr. Bill Perlman
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Stars: John Turturro | Rosie Perez | Jeff Bridges | Isabella Rossellini | Tom Hulce
Mac (1992)
As: Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli
Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers and leads their family after their beloved father dies. Their father was a builder and his sons continue in this family trade. At first, they work for Polowski, who does shoddy work and cheats on his jobs. When the brothers can no longer take being employed by such an angry vitriolic boss who takes no pride in his work, they set up their own ...
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: John Turturro
Stars: Michael Badalucco | John Turturro | Steven Randazzo | Carl Capotorto
Brain Donors (1992)
As: Roland T. Flakfizer
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Stars: John Turturro | Mel Smith | Bob Nelson | Teri Copley | George de la Peña
Barton Fink (1991)
As: Barton Fink
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Joel Coen
Stars: John Turturro | Michael Lerner | John Goodman | Tony Shalhoub | Judy Davis
Jungle Fever (1991)
As: Pauline Carbone
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: John Turturro | Samuel L. Jackson | Wesley Snipes | Ossie Davis | Annabella Sciorra
Miller's Crossing (1990)
As: Bernie Bernbaum
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Joel Coen
Stars: John Turturro | Steve Buscemi | Albert Finney | Gabriel Byrne | Marcia Gay Harden
State of Grace (1990)
As: Nick
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Phil Joanou
Stars: Gary Oldman | Ed Harris | Robin Wright | John Turturro | Sean Penn
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
As: Moe Flatbush
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: John Turturro | Giancarlo Esposito | Denzel Washington | Wesley Snipes | Spike Lee
Catchfire (1990)
As: Pinella
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Dennis Hopper
Stars: John Turturro | Dennis Hopper | Dean Stockwell | Jodie Foster | Vincent Price
Men of Respect (1990)
As: Mike Battaglia
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: William Reilly
Stars: Dennis Farina | John Turturro | Katherine Borowitz | Peter Boyle | Rod Steiger
Do the Right Thing (1989)
As: Pino
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Danny Aiello | Giancarlo Esposito | Richard Edson | Ossie Davis | Ruby Dee
Five Corners (1987)
As: Heinz
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Tony Bill
Stars: Tim Robbins | John Turturro | Todd Graff | Jodie Foster | Michael R. Howard
The Sicilian (1987)
As: Pisciotta
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Michael Cimino
Stars: Terence Stamp | John Turturro | Christopher Lambert | Joss Ackland | Richard Bauer
The Color of Money (1986)
As: Julian
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: John Turturro | Tom Cruise | Paul Newman | Helen Shaver | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Off Beat (1986)
As: Neil Pepper
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Michael Dinner
Stars: John Turturro | Joe Mantegna | Judge Reinhold | Meg Tilly | Cleavant Derricks
Gung Ho (1986)
As: Willie
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Ron Howard
Stars: Mimi Rogers | John Turturro | Michael Keaton | George Wendt | Gedde Watanabe
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
As: TV Writer
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Michael Caine | Woody Allen | Barbara Hershey | Mia Farrow | Carrie Fisher
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
As: Carl Cody
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: William Friedkin
Stars: Willem Dafoe | John Pankow | John Turturro | William Petersen | Debra Feuer
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
As: Ray
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Susan Seidelman
Stars: Aidan Quinn | Mark Blum | Rosanna Arquette | Robert Joy | Madonna
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
As: Ted from Pinky's
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: Matt Dillon | Martha Gehman | Richard Crenna | Molly McCarthy | Héctor Elizondo
Exterminator 2 (1984)
As: Guy #1
The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Mark Buntzman
Stars: Mario Van Peebles | John Turturro | Frankie Faison | Deborah Geffner | Robert Ginty