Biography: James Russo |
Manhattan-born character actor and former professional gravedigger James Russo has been showing up in hard-bitten film supporting roles since 1981, and has worked alongside some of Hollywood's most prolific actors, including Al Pacino, Kevin Costner,
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Cast: Nicolas Roeg
Tags: Psychological Drama Supernatural Thriller Thriller
Length: 103min
Nicolas Roeg's Cold Heaven (based on a novel by Brian Moore) examines grief and loss and spiritual questions concerning belief and faith. Theresa Russell plays Maria, a woman in deep despair over the death of her husband Alex (Mark Harmon) in a...
Length: 100min
Like its theatrical-feature precursor Not Without My Daughter, the made-for-TV Desperate Rescue is based on a true story, though it would appear that several liberties have been taken. Mariel Hemingway plays a young mother whose daughter Lindsay Haun...
Tags: Erotic Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: min
American character actor James Russo stars in the Italian melodrama La Cintura (The Belt). Russo's first mistake is to fall in love with Eleanora Brigliadori. His second mistake is to marry her. Experiencing a sexual epiphany on her wedding night,...
Cast: Jessica Harper Tovah Feldshuh Dean Stockwell Dylan McDermott
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 88min
In exchange for staying out of jail, down-and-out bounty hunter Vince Holloway (Dylan McDermott) agrees to work for corrupt IRS agents Vera (Tovah Feldshuh) and Strick (Dean Stockwell). Holloway travels to Diablo, a country run by criminals, to...
Cast: Max von Sydow Diane Ladd
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 93min
This thriller is the second film based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin. Matt Dillon stars as Jonathan Corliss, a lethal schemer from the wrong side of the tracks. Now a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Jonathan has been obsessed...
Cast: Alfre Woodard Diana Scarwid
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Thriller
Length: 95min
Attacked by a masked assailant, Marjorie (Farrah Fawcett) lives in mortal fear that the unidentified man will strike again -- especially since he knows her address. Sure enough, Joe the attacker (James Russo) breaks into Marjorie's home and subjects...
Cast: Darlanne Fluegel
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Docudrama
Length: 91min
A crazed sniper picks off motorists at random, then taunts the authorities by providing cryptic clues to a radio psychiatrist. Sarah "Sunny" Harper (Darlanne Flugel), the fiancee of one of the victims, tries to piece together the evidence without...
Cast: Keanu Reeves Gus Van Sant River Phoenix William Shakespeare
Tags: Road Movie Gay & Lesbian Films Buddy Film Drama
Length: 105min
Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to Portland, where he has...
Tags: Drama Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Detective Film
Length: 90min
Scott B and Beth B, successful makers of short, experimental films made The Vortex an attempt at a "camp" film with a pessimistic "noirish" atmosphere. The detective Lunch (Lydia Lunch, a popular underground musician and poet) investigates a band of...
Cast: James Russo David Caruso Abel Ferrara
Tags: Urban Drama Romance Thriller Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 90min
Director Abel Ferrara liberally employs his blackjack intensity in this lunatic gang romance that comes across as a cross between Mean Streets and West Side Story. The New York City street gangs of Chinatown and Little Italy are rattling their sabers...
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