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John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer. Over the last 30 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in well-received films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, Burn After Reading, RED, and Warm Bodies, as well as producing numerous films, including Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Malkovich attended exclusively Illinois schools throughout his childhood and into adulthood, building a community of like-minded performers such as Joan Allen, Gary Sinise and Glenne Headly, all of whom co-founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1976. After appearing in numerous stage productions, Malkovich began acting in feature films in the late 1970s, garnering critical acclaim for his numerous dramatic and comedic roles in ... Show more...
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer. Over the last 30 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in well-received films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, Burn After Reading, RED, and Warm Bodies, as well as producing numerous films, including Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Malkovich attended exclusively Illinois schools throughout his childhood and into adulthood, building a community of like-minded performers such as Joan Allen, Gary Sinise and Glenne Headly, all of whom co-founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1976. After appearing in numerous stage productions, Malkovich began acting in feature films in the late 1970s, garnering critical acclaim for his numerous dramatic and comedic roles in films such as Dangerous Liasions, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, and Burn After Reading. In keeping with his renaissance-man image, he created his own fashion company, Mrs. Mudd, in 2002. Malkovich continues to act, direct and produce numerous movies per year, and is considered one of the most influential voices in modern cinema. Show less...
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A Winter's Journey (2022)
As: Leiermann
Bavaria, 1812. A lovelorn young poet banished from society is forced to wander across mountains, ice and snow, on a dangerous journey which will either lead him to death or to a new life.
Directed by: Alex Helfrecht
Stars: John Malkovich | Gaspard Ulliel | Charles Berling | Martina Gedeck | Gabriella Moran
Eve (2019)
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
Directed by: Tate Taylor
Stars: Colin Farrell | John Malkovich | Jessica Chastain | Common | Diana Silvers
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
As: Piers
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal | Tom Sturridge | Rene Russo | Toni Collette | Zawe Ashton
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
As: Judge Edward Cowart
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Joe Berlinger | Joe Berlinger
Stars: John Malkovich | Kaya Scodelario | Zac Efron | Lily Collins | Jeffrey Donovan
Mile 22 (2018)
As: Bishop
A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Peter Berg
Stars: John Malkovich | Mark Wahlberg | Lauren Cohan | Iko Uwais | Ronda Jean Rousey
Bird Box (2018)
When a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your life. Facing the unknown, Malorie finds love, hope and a new beginning only for it to unravel. Now she must flee with her two children down a treacherous river to the one place left that may offer sanctuary. But to survive, they'll have to undertake the perilous two-day journey blindfolded.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Stars: John Malkovich | Sandra Bullock | Sarah Paulson | Rosa Salazar | Trevante Rhodes
Supercon (2018)
As: Sid Newberry
A ragtag group of former TV stars and comic book artists who make their living working at conventions decide to steal the loot from a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Zak Knutson
Stars: Clancy Brown | Mike Epps | John Malkovich | Ryan Kwanten | Maggie Grace
Casanova Gene (2018)
A person enters the frame dressed up as a bird. In a dressing room, John Malkovich sheds the costume of Casanova. A young woman's skirt is just as orange as the beak of a zebra finch singing in a cage. White lilies stand at the foot of a statue of the Virgin Mary, red roses in front of the window of an SM studio. There the quiet game of submission in exchange for money, in a museum an embrace, a poem ...
Runtime: 67 min.
Directed by: Luise Donschen
Stars: John Malkovich | Wolfgang Forstmeier | Elija Pott | Undine de Rivière | Lumi Lausas
Valley of the Gods (2018)
As: Wes Tauros
A mix of fantasy and sci-fi, VALLEY OF THE GODS entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America.
Directed by: Lech Majewski
Stars: John Rhys-Davies | Charlotte Rampling | John Malkovich | Josh Hartnett | Bérénice Marlohe
Bullet Head (2017)
As: Walker
A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Paul Solet
Stars: Adrien Brody | John Malkovich | Antonio Banderas | Rory Culkin | Ori Pfeffer
The Wilde Wedding (2017)
As: Laurence
After a whirlwind courtship, retired movie star Eve Wilde prepares to marry her fourth husband, the renowned English writer Harold Alcott. Sparks soon begin to fly when Eve's first ex and other guests arrive at her estate for a weekend get-together.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Damian Harris
Stars: John Malkovich | Patrick Stewart | Glenn Close | Minnie Driver | Grace Van Patten
I Love You, Daddy (2017)
As: Leslie Goodwin
When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Louis C.K.
Stars: John Malkovich | Chloë Grace Moretz | Rose Byrne | Louis C.K. | Charlie Day
About Love. Adults Only (2017)
The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Rezo Gigineishvili | Pavel Ruminov | Natalya Merkulova | Alexey Chupov | Evgeniy Shelyakin | Nigina Sayfullaeva | Anna Melikyan
Stars: John Malkovich | Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė | Viktoriya Isakova | Maksim Matveev | Fyodor Bondarchuk
Unlocked (2017)
As: Bob Hunter
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised. Running for her life, she turns to a former soldier ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Michael Apted
Stars: Orlando Bloom | John Malkovich | Michael Douglas | Toni Collette | Noomi Rapace
Dominion (2016)
As: Dr. Felton
The last days of the poet Dylan Thomas as he dreams and drinks.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Steven Bernstein
Stars: Rhys Ifans | John Malkovich | Tony Hale | Romola Garai | Rodrigo Santoro
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
As: Vidrine
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Peter Berg
Stars: Kurt Russell | Gina Rodriguez | John Malkovich | Mark Wahlberg | Dylan O'Brien
Zoolander 2 (2016)
As: Chazz Spencer
Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Ben Stiller
Stars: Kristen Wiig | Owen Wilson | Will Ferrell | Ben Stiller | Penélope Cruz
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
As: Dave (voice)
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Simon J. Smith | Eric Darnell
Stars: Tom McGrath | Christopher Knights | John Malkovich | Conrad Vernon | Chris Miller
The Casanova Variations (2014)
As: Giacomo
Two stories about the greatest seducer of all time, Giacomo Casanova.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Michael Sturminger
Stars: Maria João Bastos | John Malkovich | Fanny Ardant | Veronica Ferres | Victória Guerra
Cut Bank (2014)
As: Sheriff Vogel
25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Matt Shakman
Stars: John Malkovich | Liam Hemsworth | Teresa Palmer | Bruce Dern | Billy Bob Thornton
Jack Unterweger - der charmante Serienkiller (2014)
"He was attractive, cultivated, very sensitive, very empathetic". Lawyer Astrid Wagner's first impression when meeting the serial killer Jack Unterweger. As a young law student she had close contact with him: "It was a nice feeling to be needed." On June 28, 1994 Unterweger is convicted for the murder of nine prostitutes. Six hours later, he hangs himself in his cell. Twenty years ...
Runtime: 15 min.
Directed by: Péter Nagy
Stars: Jack Unterweger | Bianca Mrak | Ernst Geiger | Astrid Wagner | Reinhard Haller
Noseland (2014)
A humorous ode to the world of classical music and some of its star musicians.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Aleksey Igudesman
Stars: John Malkovich | Roger Moore | Julian Rachlin | Aleksey Igudesman
Cesar Chavez (2014)
As: Bogdanovitch
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Diego Luna
Stars: Gabriel Mann | America Ferrera | Rosario Dawson | Jacob Vargas | Michael Peña
RED 2 (2013)
As: Marvin Boggs
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Dean Parisot
Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Helen Mirren | Bruce Willis | John Malkovich | Anthony Hopkins
Ecstasy (2013)
As: Vinny
Director/photographer Sandro once again enlists John Malkovich for his latest short film “Ecstasy.” The latest piece is a gritty vignette featuring the beloved actor as the feral character Vinny. With Sandro’s camera playing a two-way mirror, the viewer witnesses an unsettling one-on-one moment with Vinny spouting vicious invective to his own craggy visage, leering and mugging in a filthy ...
Directed by: Sandro
Stars: John Malkovich
Siberian Education (2013)
As: Grandfather Kuzya
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Gabriele Salvatores
Stars: Peter Stormare | John Malkovich | Eleanor Tomlinson | Arnas Fedaravicius | Vilius Tumalavicius
Warm Bodies (2013)
As: Colonel Grigio
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Levine
Stars: Rob Corddry | Teresa Palmer | Nicholas Hoult | Dave Franco | Analeigh Tipton
Lines of Wellington (2012)
As: General Wellington
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Runtime: 151 min.
Directed by: Valeria Sarmiento
Stars: Carloto Cotta | John Malkovich | Marisa Paredes | Nuno Lopes | Soraia Chaves
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
As: Bruce Brazos
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
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story (2011)
As: Himself
Directed by: Kai Christiansen
Stars: Carla Laemmle | Peter Bogdanovich | John Malkovich | Howard Shore
RED (2010)
As: Marvin Boggs
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Stars: Karl Urban | Helen Mirren | Bruce Willis | Mary-Louise Parker | John Malkovich
Secretariat (2010)
As: Lucien Laurin
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Randall Wallace
Stars: John Malkovich | Diane Lane | Dylan Walsh | Scott Glenn | Fred Dalton Thompson
Drunkboat (2010)
As: Mort
After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he remembers in Chicago. His sister Eileen lives in their family home now with her sixteen year old son, Abe. Her older son Moo, the now missing nephew, ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Bob Meyer
Stars: Dana Delany | John Malkovich | John Goodman
Jonah Hex (2010)
As: Turnbull
Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child. Megan Fox plays a prostitute as well as Jonah Hex's love interst in the film.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Jimmy Hayward
Stars: Megan Fox | John Malkovich | Will Arnett | Josh Brolin | Michael Fassbender
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010)
As: Jack Unterweger
In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to reading and writing, eventually earning literary respect both inside and outside the penitentiary. In 1984, his autobiography "Fegefeuer" (Purgatory) became a bestseller.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Matthias Leutzendorff | Michael Sturminger
Stars: John Malkovich | Laura Aikin | Aleksandra Zamojska | Kirsten Blaise | Bernarda Bobro
Saturday Night (2010)
As: Himself
With unprecedented access to the behind the scenes process of the writers, actors and producers, Franco and his crew document what it takes to create one full episode of Saturday Night Live.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: James Franco
Stars: Will Forte | John Malkovich | Bill Hader | James Franco | Fred Armisen
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas (2009)
Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublemaker "Gilly," and others. The special also features favorite holiday-themed sketches from SNL's 35-year history.
Stars: John Malkovich | James Franco | Justin Timberlake | Alec Baldwin | Hugh Laurie
La traversée du désir (2009)
As: Himself
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
Runtime: 71 min.
Directed by: Arielle Dombasle
Stars: Pierre Arditi | Fanny Ardant | Arielle Dombasle | Michel Houellebecq | Jean-Jacques Annaud
Gardens of the Night (2008)
As: Michael
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Damian Harris
Stars: John Malkovich | Ryan Simpkins | Tom Arnold | Kevin Zegers | Gillian Jacobs
Afterwards (2008)
As: Joseph Kay
Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die. Though he doesn't believe the doctor, events in Nathan's life slowly make him think he's not long for this world.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Gilles Bourdos
Stars: John Malkovich | Romain Duris | Pascale Bussières | Evangeline Lilly | Reece Thompson
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies (2008)
As: Narrator
A substantial part of life is claimed by boredom. Beauty, love, work.. sometimes it just isn't worth getting out of bed. A girl in a strawberry pie factory, a stressed desert nomad, a Wall street stockbroker, the last living WW2 female spy, a painter who paints Time for 42 years, the first school shooter in history who wounded eleven children and killed two adults because: 'I don't like Mondays', are the ...
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Coco Schrijber
Stars: John Malkovich
Music at the Sea (2008)
As: Himself
In the year 2001 the acclaimed violin vituoso Julian Rachlin founded a festival of chamber music in Dubrovnik. He introduced a new and successful concept of gathering some of the most famous world musicians and letting them play the music that they personally enjoy. In 2008 the austrian filmmaker Georg Riha joined the festival to cinematically accompany the star violinist: Masterly, as usual, and ...
Runtime: 28 min.
Directed by: Georg Riha
Stars: Frank Hoffmann | John Megill | Julian Rachlin | Mischa Maisky | Janine Jansen
Burn After Reading (2008)
As: Osborne Cox
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo doofuses and those in their orbit.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Stars: Brad Pitt | George Clooney | John Malkovich | Tilda Swinton | Frances McDormand
Disgrace (2008)
As: David Lurie
Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Steve Jacobs
Stars: John Malkovich | Eriq Ebouaney | Antoinette Engel | Natalie Becker | Thandi Sebe
Mutant Chronicles (2008)
As: Constantine
It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporations. During one such battle the seal is broken and awakens an ancient and deadly machine that was once defeated thousands of years ago. The order that awaited it's return must now lead a small group of soldiers to destroy it once and for all.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Simon Hunter
Stars: Thomas Jane | Ron Perlman | Sean Pertwee | Benno Fürmann | Devon Aoki
Changeling (2008)
As: Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: John Malkovich | Angelina Jolie | Amy Ryan | Geoff Pierson | Jeffrey Donovan
In Tranzit (2008)
As: Pavlov
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this drama stars Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich and Vera Farmiga in a bitter game of cat and mouse and a battle between hate and humanity, mercy and revenge.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Tom Roberts
Stars: John Malkovich | Daniel Brühl | Vera Farmiga | Thomas Kretschmann | Natalie Press
The Great Buck Howard (2008)
As: Buck Howard
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Sean McGinly
Stars: John Malkovich | Emily Blunt | Steve Zahn | Colin Hanks | Ricky Jay
Beowulf (2007)
As: Unferth
6th-century Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the manlike ogre Grendel, a descendant of Cain.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Robin Wright | Ray Winstone | John Malkovich | Angelina Jolie | Anthony Hopkins
Klimt (2007)
As: Gustav Klimt
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Raúl Ruiz
Stars: John Malkovich | Stephen Dillane | Veronica Ferres | Saffron Burrows | Nikolai Kinski
Eragon (2006)
As: Kung Galbatorix
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Stefen Fangmeier
Stars: Djimon Hounsou | Sienna Guillory | Robert Carlyle | Jeremy Irons | Ed Speleers
Art School Confidential (2006)
As: Professor Sandiford
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Terry Zwigoff
Stars: John Malkovich | Max Minghella | Matt Keeslar | Jim Broadbent | Sophia Myles
The Call (2006)
As: Exorcist
Pirelli Film's first promotional short, starring John Malcovich and Naomi Campbell.
Runtime: 11 min.
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Stars: John Malkovich | Stefano Abbati | Naomi Campbell | Riccardo Francia | David Johnston
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
As: Humma Kavula
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Garth Jennings
Stars: Sam Rockwell | John Malkovich | Zooey Deschanel | Martin Freeman | Yasiin Bey
Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story (2005)
As: Alan Conway
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Brian W. Cook
Stars: John Malkovich | Linda Bassett | Lynda Baron | Sam Redford | Tom Allen
The Libertine (2004)
As: Charles II
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Laurence Dunmore
Stars: Rosamund Pike | John Malkovich | Johnny Depp | Paul Ritter | Samantha Morton
A Talking Picture (2003)
As: Comandante John Walesa
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Catherine Deneuve | John Malkovich | Stefania Sandrelli | Leonor Silveira | Filipa de Almeida
Johnny English (2003)
As: Pascal Sauvage, the Greedy Frenchman
Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Peter Howitt
Stars: John Malkovich | Natalie Imbruglia | Rowan Atkinson | Ben Miller | Tasha de Vasconcelos
Ripley's Game (2002)
As: Tom Ripley
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Liliana Cavani
Stars: Ray Winstone | John Malkovich | Hanns Zischler | Paolo Paoloni | Uwe Mansshardt
Knockaround Guys (2001)
As: Teddy Deserve
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Brian Koppelman | David Levien
Stars: Barry Pepper | Vin Diesel | John Malkovich | Andy Davoli | Seth Green
Les âmes fortes (2001)
As: Monsieur Numance
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Raúl Ruiz
Stars: John Malkovich | Charles Berling | Arielle Dombasle | Frédéric Diefenthal | Laetitia Casta
I'm Going Home (2001)
As: John Crawford
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Catherine Deneuve | John Malkovich | Michel Piccoli | Antoine Chappey | Leonor Baldaque
Hotel (2001)
As: Omar Jonnson
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary prima donna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the call girl and the Hollywood producer all managing to become part of the madness.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Mike Figgis
Stars: Danny Huston | Rhys Ifans | Mark Strong | Salma Hayek | Max Beesley
Ladies Room (2000)
As: Roberto
In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Gabriella Cristiani
Stars: Molly Parker | John Malkovich | Greta Scacchi | Lorraine Bracco | Veronica Ferres
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
As: F. W. Murnau
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: E. Elias Merhige
Stars: Catherine McCormack | Willem Dafoe | Cary Elwes | John Malkovich | Udo Kier
RKO 281 (1999)
As: Herman Mankiewicz
A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
Stars: John Malkovich | Liev Schreiber | James Cromwell | Melanie Griffith | Brenda Blethyn
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
As: Charles VII
In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. Following her mission to reclaim god's dimished kingdom - through her amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Runtime: 158 min.
Directed by: Luc Besson
Stars: Vincent Cassel | John Malkovich | Milla Jovovich | Faye Dunaway | Dustin Hoffman
Being John Malkovich (1999)
As: John Horatio Malkovich
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it’s mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Stars: Catherine Keener | John Malkovich | John Cusack | Cameron Diaz | Charlie Sheen
Time Regained (1999)
As: Le Baron de Charlus
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with ...
Runtime: 169 min.
Directed by: Raúl Ruiz
Stars: Catherine Deneuve | Pascal Greggory | John Malkovich | Emmanuelle Béart | Vincent Pérez
Rounders (1998)
As: Teddy KGB
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
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
As: Athos
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Randall Wallace
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Gérard Depardieu | John Malkovich | Gabriel Byrne | Jeremy Irons
Con Air (1997)
As: Cyrus Grissom
When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching his every move is the just-released Cameron Poe, who'd rather reunite with his family.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Simon West
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Ving Rhames | John Malkovich | John Cusack | Nick Chinlund
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
As: Gilbert Osmond
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent ...
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Jane Campion
Stars: Christian Bale | Nicole Kidman | Mary-Louise Parker | John Malkovich | Barbara Hershey
Mulholland Falls (1996)
As: General Thomas Timms
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Nick Nolte | Michael Madsen | Chazz Palminteri | Chris Penn | Melanie Griffith
Mary Reilly (1996)
As: Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: John Malkovich | Michael Gambon | Julia Roberts | Glenn Close | George Cole
Cannes Man (1996)
As: Himself
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Richard Martini
Stars: Lloyd Kaufman | Seymour Cassel | Luana Anders | Francesco Quinn | Rebecca Broussard
Der Unhold (1996)
As: Abel Tiffauges
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: John Malkovich | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Agnès Soral | Gottfried John | Volker Spengler
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
As: il regista
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Wim Wenders | Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Sophie Marceau | John Malkovich | Irène Jacob | Fanny Ardant | Chiara Caselli
The Convent (1995)
As: Michael
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Catherine Deneuve | John Malkovich | Leonor Silveira | Luís Miguel Cintra
Heart of Darkness (1994)
As: Kurtz
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Tim Roth | John Malkovich | James Fox | Isaach De Bankolé | Morten Faldaas
In the Line of Fire (1993)
As: Mitch Leary
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: John Malkovich | Gary Cole | Rene Russo | Dylan McDermott | Clint Eastwood
Jennifer 8 (1992)
As: Agent St. Anne
A big city cop from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Bruce Robinson
Stars: Kathy Baker | Graham Beckel | Uma Thurman | Lance Henriksen | Andy García
Of Mice and Men (1992)
As: Lennie Small
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Gary Sinise
Stars: Gary Sinise | John Malkovich | Casey Siemaszko | Sherilyn Fenn | Ray Walston
Shadows and Fog (1991)
As: Clown
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: John Cusack | Kathy Bates | Woody Allen | Mia Farrow | Jodie Foster
The Object of Beauty (1991)
As: Jake Bartholomew
A valuable piece of art is stolen from a couple.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: John Malkovich | Andie MacDowell | Joss Ackland | Lolita Davidovich | Rudi Davies
Queens Logic (1991)
As: Eliot
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new found maturity and discover what Queens Logic is all about. This comedy takes a look at friendship, loyalty, and love.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Steve Rash
Stars: John Malkovich | Kevin Bacon | Joe Mantegna | Jamie Lee Curtis | Linda Fiorentino
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
As: Port Moresby
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: John Malkovich | Timothy Spall | Campbell Scott | Debra Winger | Jill Bennett
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
As: Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned in this love triangle drama.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Keanu Reeves | John Malkovich | Swoosie Kurtz | Michelle Pfeiffer | Glenn Close
Miles from Home (1988)
As: Barry Maxwell
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Gary Sinise
Stars: Helen Hunt | Brian Dennehy | Richard Gere | Penelope Ann Miller | Kevin Anderson
Empire of the Sun (1987)
As: Basie
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of ...
Runtime: 153 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Christian Bale | Miranda Richardson | Ben Stiller | John Malkovich | Nigel Havers
Santabear's High Flying Adventure (1987)
As: Santa Claus
Santabear's High Flying Adventure was a Christmas Special in 1987.
Runtime: 23 min.
Directed by: Michael Sporn | Robert Marianetti
Stars: John Malkovich | Kelly McGillis
The Glass Menagerie (1987)
As: Tom Wingfield
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Paul Newman
Stars: John Malkovich | Karen Allen | James Naughton | Joanne Woodward
Making Mr. Right (1987)
As: Ulysses / Dr. Jeff Peters
A reclusive scientist builds a robot that looks exactly like him to go on a long term space mission. Since the scientist seems to lack all human emotion he is unable to program them into his android and an eccentric woman is hired to "educate" the robot on human behavior. In the end she falls in love ... but is the robot or the Dr. Mr Right?
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Susan Seidelman
Stars: John Malkovich | Glenne Headly | Ann Magnuson | Polly Bergen | Ben Masters
Death of a Salesman (1985)
As: Biff Loman
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: John Malkovich | Stephen Lang | Charles Durning | Dustin Hoffman | Kate Reid
Eleni (1985)
As: Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Peter Yates
Stars: Ronald Pickup | John Malkovich | Linda Hunt | Kate Nelligan | Oliver Cotton
The Killing Fields (1984)
As: Alan 'Al' Rockoff, Photographer
The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Stars: John Malkovich | Craig T. Nelson | Haing S. Ngor | Sam Waterston | Athol Fugard
Places in the Heart (1984)
As: Mr. Will
In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Benton
Stars: Ed Harris | Sally Field | Danny Glover | John Malkovich | Lindsay Crouse
Arkansas ()
Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Clark Duke
Stars: Vivica A. Fox | John Malkovich | Liam Hemsworth | Vince Vaughn | Clark Duke
100 Years ()
As: Hero
100 Years is an "upcoming" science fiction film written by John Malkovich and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Advertised in 2015 with the tagline "The Movie You Will Never See", it is due to be released on November 18, 2115. Pending release, the film is being kept in a high-tech safe behind bulletproof glass that will open automatically on November 18, 2115, the day of the film's premiere. One ...
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Marko Zaror | John Malkovich | Shuya Chang
El Tonto ()
A mute simpleton gets off a bus in Los Angeles and by happenstance suddenly rises through the Hollywood scene to become a celebrity, only to then lose it all.
Directed by: Charlie Day
Stars: John Malkovich | Jason Sudeikis | Edie Falco | Kate Beckinsale | Charlie Day