11 Movies Starring Diane Venora

Wolfen

Wolfen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-07-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (6176 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Whitley Strieber (based on the novel by)

David Eyre (screen story)

Michael Wadleigh (screen story)

David Eyre (screenplay)

Michael Wadleigh (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A city cop is assigned to solve a bizarre set of violent murders where it appears that the victoms were killed by animals. In his pursuit he learns of an Indian legend about wolf spirits.

F/X

F/X

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-02-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (12504 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Mandel

Cast:

Writer:

Robert T. Megginson

Gregory Fleeman

Fullplot:

A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double crosses him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.

Bird

Bird

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-09-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

161 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (8535 Reviews)

Director:

Clint Eastwood

Fullplot:

Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

The Jackal

The Jackal

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-11-14

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (83141 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Kenneth Ross (earlier screenplay Day of the Jackal)

Chuck Pfarrer (screen story)

Chuck Pfarrer (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the United States FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires "The Jackal" -- an elusive, nasty assassin -- to kill FBI Director Donald Brown. Present at the shooting of Murad's brother were FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian militia. Nearly no one has ever seen The Jackal, save for Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper. Upon learning that the Director Brown is a target, Preston and Koslova enlist the services of the reluctant Mulqueen to track down the Jackal before he can assassinate Brown.

The 13th Warrior

The 13th Warrior

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-08-27

Languages:

English, Latin, Swedish, Norse, Old, Danish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (97229 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Crichton (novel)

William Wisher Jr. (screenplay)

Warren Lewis (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In AD 922, Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North. Ibn Fadlan is appalled by the Vikings customs-- their wanton sexuality, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. And then he learns the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that slaughters the Vikings and devours their flesh.

The Insider

The Insider

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-05

Languages:

English, Japanese, Arabic, Persian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

157 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (125768 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Marie Brenner (article)

Eric Roth

Michael Mann

Fullplot:

Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth out?

The Insider

The Insider

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-05

Languages:

English, Japanese, Arabic, Persian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

157 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (125965 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Marie Brenner (article)

Eric Roth

Michael Mann

Fullplot:

Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth out?

The Insider

The Insider

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-05

Languages:

English, Japanese, Arabic, Persian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

157 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (125965 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Marie Brenner (article)

Eric Roth

Michael Mann

Fullplot:

Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth out?

Hamlet

Hamlet

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-06-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(7744 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

William Shakespeare (play)

Michael Almereyda (screen adaptation)

Fullplot:

New York, 2000. A specter in the guise of the newly-dead CEO of Denmark Corporation appears to Hamlet, tells of murder most foul, demands revenge, and identifies the killer as Claudius, the new head of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and now step-father. Hamlet must determine if the ghost is truly his father, and if Claudius did the deed. To buy time, Hamlet feigns madness; to catch his uncle's conscience, he invites him to watch a film he's made that shows a tale of murder. Finally convinced of Claudius's guilt, Hamlet must avenge his father. Claudius now knows Hamlet is a threat and even uses Ophelia, Hamlet's love, in his own plots against the young man. Murder will out?

Childless

Childless

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-04-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (32 Reviews)

Director:

Charlie Levi

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Katherine is a typical teenager. Today's her funeral. The four adults in her life have a lot on their mind - and it's not all about Katherine either. With a frankness that's strikingly disarming as well as frequently self-serving, the grown-ups struggle with being... well... grown-up.

The Ministers

The Ministers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-10-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.5 (1151 Reviews)

Director:

Franc. Reyes

Genres:

Crime

Fullplot:

In New York, Detective Alberto Santana comes with his partner Joseph Bruno to meet his wife Gina and his daughter Celeste to celebrate her eighteenth birthday. Out of the blue, Alberto is shot in his head on the sidewalk by a man wearing a hood that delivers a religious message from the Lord. Many years later, Celeste is a detective of the New York Police Department and partner of Joe Bruno. When the crooks Alden and Jeff Kane, who had torched their buildings to receive the insurance, are released from prison, they are executed by two criminals in the same modus operandi of detective Santana, and the police department concludes that they are the same killers. Lieutenant Diaz assigns Detective Manso and Detective Demarco from narcotics to investigate the case, for the deception of Celeste. Then the drug dealer Chino and his gang are executed in Manhattan's Lower East Side by the killers Dante and his deformed and deranged twin brother Perfecto, and Lieutenant Diaz teams up Joe and Celeste with Manso and Demarco. Meanwhile, Dante meets Celeste in the church and they date first and have a love affair. When Perfecto decides to kill Joe, Dante argues with him but the dysfunctional brother does not listen to him.

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