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Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor whose latest work is that of Detective Lieutenant Gene Hunt on ABC's crime drama Life on Mars. He is widely known for the "tough-guy" characters he portrays and for his memorable roles from Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction,...
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay by Robert Getchell focuses on the adventures of a thirtysomething widow and her pre-teen son as they journey across the American Southwest to...
Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous "bad lieutenant". The screenplay was co-written by actress-model Zoë Tamerlis Lund (credited as Zoë Lund). She also played a small role in...
Bad Timing
Bad Timing is a 1980 film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas. The title of this movie was also used by musician Jim O'Rourke for his album Bad Timing.
In Vienna, a young American woman in her twenties (Russell) is rushed to the...
Be Cool
Be Cool is a 2005 American comedy film which was adapted from a 1999 novel. The book was the sequel to the 1990 novel Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (itself adapted into a hit 1995 film) about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the film industry....
Blue Collar
Blue Collar is the 1978 directorial debut of screenwriter Paul Schrader. This drama (with minimal comic elements) stars Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto.
Both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class...
Buffalo Bill and the Indians
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is a 1976 revisionist Western directed by Robert Altman and based on the play Indians by Arthur Kopit. It stars Paul Newman as William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, along with Geraldine...
Bugsy
Bugsy is a 1991 film which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth and Bill Graham.
The movie was written by James Toback from research...
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Clockers
Clockers is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Spike Lee. The screenplay, written by Lee and Richard Price, is based on Price's novel of the same name. The film stars Mekhi Phifer in his first role and was filmed In Gowanus Projects in Brooklyn,...
Cop Land
Cop Land is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by James Mangold with an ensemble cast featuring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Robert Patrick, Peter Berg, and Michael Rapaport.
The film takes place in the...
Dreaming of Julia
Dreaming of Julia (Cuba Libre) is a 2003 film directed by Juan Gerard. The debut film by the director, the story is based on Gerard's childhood life in Cuba. The film was released as Cuban Blood in the US.
Set in Cuba in 1958, the last year of...
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 action/horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The movie stars George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino and Juliette Lewis.
The film opens with fugitive bank robbers and...
Full Tilt Boogie
Full Tilt Boogie is a 1997 documentary directed by Sarah Kelly. It chronicles the production of the 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn. It features extensive interviews with the cast and crew covering a variety of topics related to the film.
Holy Smoke!
Holy Smoke! is a 1999 Australian drama film directed by Jane Campion, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Anna. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was shown at the New York Film Festival and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival...
Little Nicky
Little Nicky is a 2000 comedy film directed by Steven Brill. It stars Adam Sandler as Nicky, one of Satan's three sons. It is the first Happy Madison film released with a PG-13 rating by the MPAA.
The movie begins with a peeper (Jon Lovitz) sitting...
Mean Streets
Mean Streets is a 1973 drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin. The film stars Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and David Proval. It was released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973. De Niro won the National...
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (1994) is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic...
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Red Dragon
Red Dragon is a 2002 thriller film, based on the novel of the same name written by Thomas Harris and featuring psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The film was directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Tally, who also wrote the...
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 crime film that is the debut film of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It portrays what happens before and after a botched jewel heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast with Harvey Keitel,...
Saturn 3
Saturn 3 is a 1980 science fiction film starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. Direction is credited to Stanley Donen but the project was conceived by John Barry who was due to direct until a dispute with Douglas led to him being...
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle,...
The Duellists
The Duellists is a 1977 film, which was Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. The basis of the screen play is the Joseph Conrad short story The Duel (U.S. title: Point of...
The January Man
The January Man is a 1989 comedy/thriller film. It was directed by Pat O'Connor from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley. The film stars Kevin Kline as Nick Starkey, a smart ex-New York City police detective who is lured back into service by his...
The Piano
The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute female pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam...
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road movie which breaks with tradition by featuring two female leads. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled home lives...
Three Seasons
Three Seasons (Vietnamese title: Ba Mùa) is an American Vietnamese language movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Ho Chi Minh City in the early days of New Vietnam. It is a poetic film that tries to paint a picture of the...
Two Evil Eyes
Two Evil Eyes (Italian: Due occhi diabolici) is a 1990 portmanteau horror film written and directed by the Italian Dario Argento and the American George A. Romero. The two had previously worked together on the immensely popular Dawn of the Dead in...
U-571
U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in...
Ulysses' Gaze
Ulysses' Gaze (Greek: Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995) is a film directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The actor Gian Maria Volonté died during the filming of this movie. He was replaced by Erland Josephson.
An exiled Greek filmmaker is...
Welcome to L.A.
Welcome to L.A. is a 1976 film directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Keith Carradine.
The theme of romantic despair and shallowness is displayed utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around songwriter...
Who's That Knocking at My Door
Who's That Knocking at My Door, originally titled I Call First, is Martin Scorsese's first feature film. Exploring themes of Catholic guilt similar to those in his later film Mean Streets, the story follows Italian-American J.R. (Harvey Keitel) as...
National Treasure
National Treasure is a 2004 adventure film from Walt Disney Pictures written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is the first film in the...
Taking Sides
Taking Sides is a 1995 play by British playwright Ronald Harwood, about the post-War U.S. denazification investigation of the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler on charges of having served the Nazi regime. Harwood drew inter alia on a...
Mortal Thoughts
Mortal Thoughts is a mystery film thriller film released in 1991. The film is based on the story of a woman, who is interrogated by the police about the death of her friend's husband. It was directed by Alan Rudolph and stars Demi Moore, Bruce...
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Mother, Jugs & Speed is a 1976 black comedy film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Bill Cosby (Mother), Raquel Welch (Jugs) and Harvey Keitel (Speed) as employees of an independent ambulance service trying to survive in Los Angeles.
The F+B...
Monkey Trouble
Monkey Trouble is a 1994 family film directed by Franco Amurri starring Thora Birch.
Eva Gregory (Thora Birch) is a 9 year old girl who longs for a pet she can call her own. However, her mother, Amy, (Mimi Rogers) does not think she is responsible...
Falling in Love
Falling in Love is a 1984 romantic film starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep. It was written by Michael Cristofer and directed by Ulu Grosbard. Its plot is based on (or inspired by) the 1945 British film Brief Encounter.
While shopping in New...
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) is an award-winning documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now.
The title is derived from the source material for Apocalypse Now, the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness. Using...
Lulu on the Bridge
Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 romantic mystery drama film directed by author Paul Auster. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
A saxophone player (Harvey Keitel) is shot and loses a lung, forcing him to...
Head Above Water
Head Above Water is a 1996 comedy thriller film directed by Jim Wilson and starring Cameron Diaz as the young and effervescent Nathalie. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA.The film is the American remake of Hodet over vannet by Norwegian film director...
The Two Jakes
The Two Jakes is a 1990 American mystery film, and a sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown.
Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, it also features Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Richard Farnsworth, Frederic Forrest, Pia Gronning, David...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 2004 drama film directed by Mary McGuckian and featuring an ensemble cast of American and international actors. It is based on Thornton Wilder's novel of the same name. The film was released in 2004 in Spain and 2005...
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (titled National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets on the DVD/Blu-ray release) is a 2007 adventure film and is the sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure. It was directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Jerry...
Fingers
Fingers is a 1978 drama film directed by James Toback. It features Harvey Keitel as a pianist who also works for his loan shark father as a "collector". He is a conflicted soul, torn between his art, his loyalty to his father, his sexuality, and his...
Dangerous Game
Dangerous Game (also known as Snake Eyes) is a 1993 film directed by Abel Ferrara starring Madonna, Harvey Keitel and James Russo.
The film opened in US theaters on November 19, 1993 and was trashed by critics. It found a few fans, however: Slant...
Blue in the Face
Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster. It stars Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Giancarlo Esposito, Roseanne Barr, Michael J. Fox,Lily Tomlin, Mira Sorvino, Lou Reed, Mel Gorham,Jim Jarmusch,and Malik Yoba.
Blue in the...
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The Grey Zone
The Grey Zone is a 2001 film directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli.
The...
Death Watch
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 French science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It based on the novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton, also known as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe.
Much of the filming took...
Falling in Love
Falling in Love is a 1984 American romantic-drama film starring Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro and directed by Ulu Grosbard. Its plot is based on (or inspired by) the 1945 British film Brief Encounter.
Two married strangers meet randomly, become...
Copkiller
Copkiller is a 1983 thriller film directed by Roberto Faenza, starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon. It was adapted from Hugh Fleetwood's novel The Order of Death.
The Border
The Border is a 1982 film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jack Nicholson as Charlie Smith, Warren Oates (in one of his final film roles) as Red and Harvey Keitel as Cat.
The movie is set in Texas. Smith takes a job as a US Border Patrol...
FairyTale: A True Story
FairyTale: A True Story is a 1997 film from Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies.
Early 20th Century England was a time and place ripe for believing, both in scientific advancements such as electric light and...
Wise Guys
Wise Guys is a 1986 feature film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo. A comedy revolving around two small-time mobsters from Newark, New Jersey, it also features Harvey Keitel, Lou Albano and Frank Vincent.
Italian...
Ginostra
Ginostra is 2002 crime fiction film written and directed by Manuel Pradal, starring Harvey Keitel (Matt Benson), Andie MacDowell (Jessie). The story is about an FBI officer (Harvey Keitel) investigating the murder of a would-be informant, attempts...
Presence of Mind
Presence of Mind is a 1999 feature film. The film based on the story The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
A woman is hired to watch over two recently orphaned children, Flora and her brother Miles (played by 12yo Nilo Mur).
The woman starts seeing...
Point of No Return
Point of No Return, known as The Assassin in some markets, is a 1993 film directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda. It is a remake of Luc Besson's 1990 film Nikita.
Maggie Hayward (Bridget Fonda) is a drug addict found guilty of murdering...
Imaginary Crimes
Imaginary Crimes is a 1994 film starring Harvey Keitel and Fairuza Balk, telling the story of Ray Weiler (Keitel), a widowed hustler trying to raise two daughters in 1962 Portland, Oregon.
His eldest daughter Sonya (Balk) is a gifted student and...
The Pick-up Artist
The Pick-up Artist is a 1987 American film written and directed by James Toback. This romantic comedy starred Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA.
Randy Jensen (Ringwald) is a smart, independent tour guide who beats...
City of Industry
City of Industry is a 1996 crime film starring Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff and Timothy Hutton. Set mostly in Los Angeles, it was directed by John Irvin and written by Ken Solarz. The movie also features some of the earlier appearances of actresses...
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the controversial 1960 novel of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis. It stars Willem Dafoe as Jesus Christ, Harvey Keitel as Judas Iscariot, Barbara...
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That Night in Varennes
That Night in Varennes (French: La Nuit de Varennes) is a 1982 French and Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is based on a novel by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a fictional meeting between Restif de la Bretonne, Giacomo...
