Giancarlo Esposito

Coda (2020)

As: Paul

A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.

Directed by: Claude Lalonde

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Katie Holmes | Patrick Stewart

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Four African-American vets return to Vietnam, searching for the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure.

Directed by: Spike Lee

Stars: Jean Reno | Delroy Lindo | Chadwick Boseman | Jonathan Majors | Paul Walter Hauser

Stargirl (2020)

As: Archie Brubaker

A quirky, homeschooled teenager shakes things up at her uptight high school in Arizona.

Directed by: Julia Hart

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Darby Stanchfield | Karan Brar | Graham Verchere | Grace VanderWaal

Line of Duty (2019)

As: Tom Volk

Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Steven C. Miller

Stars: Aaron Eckhart | Giancarlo Esposito | Ben McKenzie | Jessica Lu | Courtney Eaton

Stuck (2019)

As: Lloyd

A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Michael Berry

Stars: Amy Madigan | Giancarlo Esposito | Ashanti | Omar Chaparro | Arden Cho

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

As: Jorge

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

Runtime: 143 min.

Directed by: Wes Ball

Stars: Kaya Scodelario | Rosa Salazar | Dylan O'Brien | Ki Hong Lee | Thomas Brodie-Sangster

The Long Home (2018)

Rural Tennessee in the 1940's: a young man unwittingly goes to work building a honky-tonk for the charismatically diabolical bootlegger who murdered his father ten years earlier and runs into conflict when he falls for the young woman the bootlegger is grooming to be a prostitute.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: James Franco

Stars: James Franco | Robin Lord Taylor | Josh Hutcherson | Ashton Kutcher | Josh Hartnett

Okja (2017)

As: Frank Dawson

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Bong Joon-ho

Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal | Paul Dano | Tilda Swinton | Lily Collins | Ahn Seo-hyun

Unacknowledged (2017)

As: Narrator

An exploration of the Alien presence on Earth and the reality of suppressed free energy technology.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Michael Mazzola

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Steven M. Greer

This Is Your Death (2017)

As: Mason Washington

An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Giancarlo Esposito

Stars: Sarah Wayne Callies | Giancarlo Esposito | Josh Duhamel | Famke Janssen | Caitlin Fitzgerald

On Meditation (2016)

As: Himself

Peter Matthiessen, David Lynch, and Russell Simmons see among the many celebrity devotees interviewed in this case of Zen Buddhist meditation.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Rebecca Dreyfus

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | David Lynch | Russell Simmons | Peter Matthiessen

Money Monster (2016)

As: Captain Marcus Powell

Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Jodie Foster

Stars: George Clooney | Julia Roberts | Dominic West | Jack O'Connell | Caitriona Balfe

The Jungle Book (2016)

As: Akela (voice)

A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Jon Favreau

Stars: Bill Murray | Ben Kingsley | Idris Elba | Scarlett Johansson | Neel Sethi

The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare (2016)

As: Il Boss

Three life-long friends struggle with an early middle-age crisis as they start to try to get a job for the first time. An ironic quest to avoid becoming an adult and accept responsibilities.

Runtime: 83 min.

Directed by: Luca Vecchi

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Luca Vecchi | Matteo Corradini | Luigi Di Capua | Mattia Coluccia

The Hebrew Hammer vs. Hitler (2015)

As: Angry Slave

The Mensch in black is back. The Hebrew Hammer comes out of retirement to prevent a time-traveling Hitler from erasing Jewish history.

Directed by: Jonathan Kesselman

Stars: Judy Greer | Giancarlo Esposito | Richard Kind | Dave Foley | Fran Kranz

Maze Runner: Scorch Trials (2015)

As: Jorge

Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

Runtime: 131 min.

Directed by: Wes Ball

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Kaya Scodelario | Aidan Gillen | Dylan O'Brien | Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Brothers In Law (2015)

As: Congressman Frank McClaren

Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd: a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger's best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of unfortunate events. As Roger tries to take a stand amidst outrageous ...

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Osmany Rodriguez | Matt Villines

Stars: Bill Pullman | Rita Wilson | Taran Killam | David Wain | Rachael Harris

Poker Night (2014)

As: Bernard

When you become a detective in Warsaw Indiana - you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business. They tell you stories about their time on the job - their successes and failures. When new Detective Stan Jeter leaves the game, he is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement. Using the stories he heard at Poker Night, he must match wits against his captor - ...

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Greg Francis

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Ron Perlman | Corey Large | Titus Welliver | Beau Mirchoff

Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)

As: Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)

Based on the hit video game series, Batman must find a bomb planted by the Joker while dealing with a mysterious team of villains called, The Suicide Squad.

Runtime: 76 min.

Directed by: Jay Oliva | Ethan Spaulding

Stars: Hynden Walch | Matthew Gray Gubler | Neal McDonough | Kevin Conroy | Troy Baker

Son of Batman (2014)

As: Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Batman learns that he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son with Talia al Ghul named Damian Wayne who is secretly being raised by Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins. When Ra's al Ghul apparently dies after a battle with Deathstroke, Batman must work to stop his long-lost son from taking revenge and guiding him to a righteous path, in addition to the chance for the pair to truly acknowledging ...

Runtime: 74 min.

Directed by: Ethan Spaulding

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Thomas Gibson | Morena Baccarin | Jason O'Mara | Stuart Allan

Requiem For The Big East (2014)

As: Narrator

Documentary about the Big East. 30 for 30 Present: Requiem For The Big East chronicles the meteoric ascension of the Big East conference, and how in less than a decade, it became the most successful college basketball league in America.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Ezra Edelman

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Jim Boeheim | John Thompson | Lou Carnesecca | Ed Pinckney

Timms Valley (2013)

As: Pruit Normings

A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and livelihoods of its citizens are intertwined with the fate of the town's biggest employer, Timms Industrial Piping. When the company's founder and CEO goes missing in a plane crash, the lives of the characters are turned upside down. Shot in stop-motion animation with baby dolls repurposed as an array ...

Runtime: 22 min.

Directed by: Steve Conrad

Stars: Hank Azaria | Elizabeth Banks | Maria Bamford | Dana DeLorenzo | Lance Barber

They Die by Dawn (2013)

Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.

Runtime: 51 min.

Directed by: Jeymes Samuel

Stars: Rosario Dawson | Giancarlo Esposito | Jesse Williams | Kelly Hu | Michael Kenneth Williams

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal (2013)

As: Himself

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Stephen Vittoria

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Ruby Dee | Peter Coyote | Mumia Abu-Jamal | Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter

Over/Under (2013)

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Bronwen Hughes

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Caroline Dhavernas | Steven Pasquale | Anthony Carrigan | Sasha Sloan

Alex Cross (2012)

As: Daramus Holiday

After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Rob Cohen

Stars: Jean Reno | Rachel Nichols | Giancarlo Esposito | Tyler Perry | Matthew Fox

Certainty (2011)

As: Father Heery

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Peter Askin

Stars: Tammy Blanchard | Giancarlo Esposito | Adelaide Clemens | Kristen Connolly | Tom Lipinski

S.W.A.T.: Firefight (2011)

As: Inspector Hollander

Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officer, Lt. Paul Cutler, is sent to train the Detroit S.W.A.T. team on new anti-terrorism and homeland security techniques. Cutler has a hard time settling into his assignment as he locks horns with his new captain and encounters resistance from the team he must lead. Cutler begins to adjust to his new assignment, starting a budding romance with police psychologist Kim Byers along the ...

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Benny Boom

Stars: Gabriel Macht | Giancarlo Esposito | Robert Patrick | Kristanna Loken | Carly Pope

Rabbit Hole (2010)

As: Auggie

Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: John Cameron Mitchell

Stars: Aaron Eckhart | Nicole Kidman | Dianne Wiest | Miles Teller | Tammy Blanchard

Gospel Hill (2008)

As: Dr. Palmer

Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Giancarlo Esposito

Stars: Danny Glover | Giancarlo Esposito | Taylor Kitsch | Angela Bassett | Julia Stiles

Feel The Noise (2007)

As: Roberto Vega

After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his step-brother Javi to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true ...

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Alejandro Chomski

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Melonie Diaz | Rosa Arredondo | Luis Cruz | Omarion

The Box (2007)

As: Det. Dwayne Burkhalter

A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: AJ Kparr

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Yul Vazquez | Gabrielle Union | Anjelah Johnson-Reyes | A.J. Buckley

Rain (2006)

As: Ken Arnold

Rain (Brooklyn Sudano), a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her daughter, Rain's mother secretly contacts Rain's biological mother, and Rain learns the truth of her parentage: She is the daughter of a white socialite. Sent to live with her wealthy grandmother (Faye Dunaway), Rain adjusts to boarding ...

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Craig DiBona

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Faye Dunaway | Khandi Alexander | Robert Loggia | Jerrika Hinton

Hate Crime (2006)

As: Detective Esposito

Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Tommy Stovall

Stars: Chad Donella | Bruce Davison | Brian J. Smith | Cindy Pickett | Seth Peterson

Sherrybaby (2006)

As: Parole Officer Hernandez

After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Laurie Collyer

Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Danny Trejo | Brad William Henke | Michelle Hurst | Sandra Rodríguez

Last Holiday (2006)

As: Senator Dillings

After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Wayne Wang

Stars: Timothy Hutton | Alicia Witt | Giancarlo Esposito | Queen Latifah | LL Cool J

Derailed (2005)

As: Detective Church

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Mikael Håfström

Stars: Vincent Cassel | Jennifer Aniston | Clive Owen | Melissa George | Addison Timlin

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)

As: Little Jeff

Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Michael Bregman

Stars: Mario Van Peebles | Jay Hernandez | Luis Guzmán | Michael Kelly | Sean Combs

Back in the Day (2005)

As: Benson Cooper

A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: James Hunter

Stars: Ving Rhames | Lahmard J. Tate | Joe Morton | Tia Carrere | Ja Rule

Chupacabra Terror (2005)

As: Dr. Peña

Cryptozoologist Doctor Peña traps the legendary Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean Island to make his name in the scientific community. When he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship Regent Queen, commanded by Captain Randolph, the monster breaks out of the cargo hold and makes a smorgasbord out of the passengers and crew.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: John Shepphird

Stars: John Rhys-Davies | Dylan Neal | Chelan Simmons | Giancarlo Esposito | Paula Shaw

A Killer Within (2004)

As: Vargas

Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered and his son unconscious in critical condition at the hospital. Now, fingered as a suspect by the police, Addison must race to find the real killer and prove his ...

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Brad Keller

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | C. Thomas Howell | Dedee Pfeiffer | Sean Young | Ben Browder

Noise (2004)

As: Hank

Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff), a young divorced woman and recovering alcoholic, moves into a Manhattan apartment that seems a bit too secluded to be true. It is: Upstairs lives Charlotte Bancroft (Ally Sheedy), a woman with a wall of obliviousness who can turn even an 'apology' into a guilt trip, Charlotte persists in making Joyce's nighttime hours a living hell. As the torture continues, Joyce starts to ...

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Tony Spiridakis

Stars: Dov Davidoff | Julia Barnett | Ted Bardy | Sarah Bloom | Michelle Carano

Blind Horizon (2003)

As: J.C. Reynolds

Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Michael Haussman

Stars: Gil Bellows | Val Kilmer | Sam Shepard | Amy Smart | Neve Campbell

Ash Tuesday (2003)

As: Karl

After September 11th, six Lower Manhattan residents must deal with pain on their own. Yet in doing so, they find that their lives are inexplicably linked. "Ash Tuesday" examines the loneliness inherent in New York life, but it does so with a refreshing wit and humor that will leave you smiling.

Runtime: 83 min.

Directed by: Jim Hershleder

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Janeane Garofalo | Nicole Hansen | Tony Goldwyn | Tony Spiridakis

Ali (2001)

As: Cassius Clay, Sr.

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

Runtime: 157 min.

Directed by: Michael Mann

Stars: Mario Van Peebles | Jamie Foxx | Ron Silver | Will Smith | Jon Voight

Monkeybone (2001)

As: Hypnos

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

Piñero (2001)

As: Miguel Algarin

"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy ...

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Leon Ichaso

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Benjamin Bratt | Talisa Soto | Nelson Vasquez

Homicide: The Movie (2000)

As: Mike Giardello

Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Jean de Segonzac

Stars: Daniel Baldwin | Andre Braugher | Ned Beatty | Reed Diamond | Richard Belzer

Josephine (2000)

As: Spike

Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Rajko Grlić

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Miroslav Vladyka | Maria Schrader | Marina Anna Eich | Sophie Adell

Thirst (1998)

As: Dr. Lawrence Carver

A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Bill L. Norton

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Adam Arkin | Joely Fisher | Ken Jenkins | Phyllis Lyons

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (1998)

As: Chaz Villanueva

A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Jeff Freilich

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Scott Glenn | Kathryn Erbe | Courtney B. Vance | Robin Tunney

Phoenix (1998)

As: Louie

Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Danny Cannon

Stars: Daniel Baldwin | Ray Liotta | Anjelica Huston | Anthony LaPaglia | Jeremy Piven

Twilight (1998)

As: Reuben Escobar

A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Robert Benton

Stars: Stockard Channing | Susan Sarandon | Paul Newman | Reese Witherspoon | Gene Hackman

Stardust (1998)

As: Mr. Peavey

A scientist finds his newest invention; a microchip that infuses inanimate objects with human qualities co-opted by the company he works for, which wants to capitalize on his findings. Knowing his creation can be used for evil purposes, he stashes it away, but his 11-year-old son, Charlie (Jared Robbins), finds it and implants it into a vacuum cleaner he calls Stardust. Will he manage ...

Directed by: Charles F. Cirgenski

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Olek Krupa | Amanda Donohoe | Jared Robbins | Anthony Hamilton II

Trouble on the Corner (1997)

As: Darryl

Jeff Steward, a psychologist, takes good care of his patients mostly living in the same apartment. One day a piece of the bathroom ceiling collapses so he can watch the woman living in the upper apartment taking a bath. This causes total disorder of his normal life and he starts mixing the patients' psychoses up with his own.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Alan Madison

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Edie Falco | Charles Busch | Tony Goldwyn | Anna Levine

Five Desperate Hours (1997)

As: Joseph Grange

Joseph Grange (Giancarlo Esposito), an unstable fugitive from the law, bursts into the home of suburban housewife Claire Ballard (Sharon Lawrence), and an intense hostage drama begins. Desperate to save her life, Claire initiates a dialogue with Grange as a trigger-happy SWAT team waits outside poised to storm the house. Claire, herself the product of a troubled past, begins to identify ...

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Dan Lerner

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Rocky Carroll | Daniel Hugh Kelly | Sharon Lawrence

Nothing to Lose (1997)

As: Charlie Dunt

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Steve Oedekerk

Stars: Tim Robbins | John C. McGinley | Kelly Preston | Irma P. Hall | Martin Lawrence

Big City Blues (1997)

As: Georgie

A collection of characters threaten to cross paths, unknowingly, during a night in the big city. The film focuses on two hit men (Reynolds and Forsythe) who are bound to collide with Cates, a beautiful prostitute.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Clive Fleury

Stars: William Forsythe | Giancarlo Esposito | Burt Reynolds | Arye Gross | Georgina Cates

The Tomorrow Man (1996)

As: Jonathan Driscoll

The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a great rocket-disaster. As he wants to prohibit this, a mad scientist is in his way. But there are more problems: He has to act as a human. Computer-expert Jonathan Driscoll becomes his mentor and tries to help and repair him.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Bill D'Elia

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Julian Sands | Ray Baker | Craig Wasson | Obba Babatundé

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

As: David Matthews (Uncredited)

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Forest Whitaker

Stars: Loretta Devine | Lela Rochon | Gregory Hines | Angela Bassett | Whitney Houston

Blue in the Face (1995)

As: Tommy Finelli

Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.

Runtime: 83 min.

Directed by: Paul Auster | Wayne Wang

Stars: Harvey Keitel | Lou Reed | Michael J. Fox | Roseanne Barr | Lily Tomlin

The Keeper (1995)

As: Paul Lamont

Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have ...

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Joe Brewster

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Ron Brice | Isaach De Bankolé | Regina Taylor | O.L. Duke

The Usual Suspects (1995)

As: FBI Agent Jack Baer

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost ...

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Stars: Kevin Spacey | Stephen Baldwin | Kevin Pollak | Chazz Palminteri | Gabriel Byrne

Smoke (1995)

As: Tommy

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Wayne Wang | Paul Auster

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | William Hurt | Harvey Keitel | Stephen Gevedon | José Zúñiga

Klash (1995)

As: Stoney

Reggae music is featured in this romantic thriller set in Jamaica. Stoney (Giancarlo Esposito), a photojournalist, is assigned by a U.S. music magazine to cover a battle of the bands in Jamaica. There he becomes involved with the seductive Blossom (Jasmine Guy) who works for Mr. Lee (Lucien Chen), a crime boss. Lee is planning to rob the concert box office. Blossom tries to convince Stoney to ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Bill Parker

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | Jasmine Guy | Carl Bradshaw | Stafford Ashani | Paul Campbell

Fresh (1994)

As: Esteban

Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore - he wants revenge.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Boaz Yakin

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | Giancarlo Esposito | Sean Nelson | N'Bushe Wright | Ron Brice

Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)

As: Autobiography Reading (voice)

The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the ...

Runtime: 52 min.

Directed by: John Akomfrah

Stars: Darrick Harris | Edward George | Danny Carter | Martin Boothe | Byron O. Hurlock

Amos & Andrew (1993)

As: The Reverend Fenton Brunch

When Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson), a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) a deal.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: E. Max Frye

Stars: Nicolas Cage | Michael Lerner | Samuel L. Jackson | Dabney Coleman | Margaret Colin

Malcolm X (1992)

As: Thomas Hayer

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Runtime: 202 min.

Directed by: Spike Lee

Stars: Denzel Washington | Delroy Lindo | Albert Hall | Angela Bassett | Al Freeman, Jr.

Bob Roberts (1992)

As: Bugs Raplin

Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Tim Robbins

Stars: Tim Robbins | Giancarlo Esposito | David Strathairn | Alan Rickman | James Spader

Night on Earth (1991)

As: YoYo

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Stars: Winona Ryder | Gena Rowlands | Lisanne Falk | Alan Randolph Scott | Anthony Portillo

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

As: Jimmy Jiles

It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Simon Wincer

Stars: Don Johnson | Daniel Baldwin | Mickey Rourke | Giancarlo Esposito | Chelsea Field

Mo' Better Blues (1990)

As: Left Hand Lacey (Piano)

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

King of New York (1990)

As: Lance

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Abel Ferrara

Stars: Laurence Fishburne | Wesley Snipes | Christopher Walken | Victor Argo | David Caruso

Do the Right Thing (1989)

As: Buggin Out

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

School Daze (1988)

As: Julian

In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the opponent.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Spike Lee

Stars: Laurence Fishburne | Samuel L. Jackson | Giancarlo Esposito | Tisha Campbell-Martin | Ossie Davis

Heartbeat (1987)

As: Gang Member #1

A surrealistic journey into the experiences and reflections of a documentary filmmaker as he evaluates the people and places that have made up his life. Alternatively, a 65 minute feature made up of songs from Don Johnson's record of the same name.

Runtime: 65 min.

Directed by: John Nicolella

Stars: Don Johnson | Giancarlo Esposito | Lori Singer | Sandahl Bergman | Paul Shaffer

Sweet Lorraine (1987)

As: Howie

Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Steve Gomer

Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | John Bedford Lloyd | Trini Alvarado | Maureen Stapleton | Lee Richardson

Maximum Overdrive (1986)

As: Videoplayer

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Stephen King

Stars: Yeardley Smith | Emilio Estevez | Pat Hingle | Laura Harrington | John Short

Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

As: Street Vendor

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 Cotton Club (1984)

As: Bumpy Hood

The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.

Runtime: 127 min.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: Bob Hoskins | Diane Lane | Richard Gere | Gregory Hines | Lonette McKee

Go Tell It On The Mountain (1984)

As: Elisha

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celbrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Stan Lathan

Stars: Ving Rhames | Alfre Woodard | Paul Winfield | Olivia Cole | CCH Pounder

Trading Places (1983)

As: Cellmate #2

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: John Landis

Stars: Eddie Murphy | Dan Aykroyd | Jamie Lee Curtis | Don Ameche | Ralph Bellamy

Taps (1981)

As: Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce

Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Runtime: 126 min.

Directed by: Harold Becker

Stars: Timothy Hutton | Tom Cruise | Sean Penn | George C. Scott | Ronny Cox

Running (1979)

As: Puerto Rican Teenager

An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Steven Hilliard Stern

Stars: Michael Douglas | Eugene Levy | Susan Anspach | Lawrence Dane | Trudy Young