21 Movies Starring Vincent D'Onofrio

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-07-10

Languages:

English, Vietnamese

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (430145 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Gustav Hasford (novel)

Stanley Kubrick (screenplay)

Michael Herr (screenplay)

Gustav Hasford (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

Mystic Pizza

Mystic Pizza

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-10-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (16814 Reviews)

Director:

Donald Petrie

Cast:

Writer:

Amy Holden Jones (story)

Amy Holden Jones (screenplay)

Perry Howze (screenplay)

Randy Howze (screenplay)

Alfred Uhry (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sisters Kat and Daisy work along with Jojo at the pizza parlour in Mystic, Connecticut. Kat, shortly off to Yale, finds herself drawn to a local architect she is babysitting for, while her more tearaway sister starts dating a guy from the money side of the tracks. Jojo leaves her man at the altar; she loves him but shies away from commitment. Meanwhile the fame of the pizza continues to spread; it seems to contain something almost ..... mystic.

Dying Young

Dying Young

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-06-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (10948 Reviews)

Director:

Joel Schumacher

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Marti Leimbach (novel)

Richard Friedenberg (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

Household Saints

Household Saints

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-09-15

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (738 Reviews)

Director:

Nancy Savoca

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Francine Prose (novel)

Richard Guay (screenplay)

Nancy Savoca (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.

Stuart Saves His Family

Stuart Saves His Family

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-04-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (2242 Reviews)

Director:

Harold Ramis

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Al Franken (screenplay)

Al Franken (book)

Fullplot:

Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices. He loses his Public Access Cable Television Show, must beg his manipulative overbearing boss for his job back, rehabilitate his alcoholic father and drug abuser brother, and support his over-weight mother and sister in their lack of ability in handling their relationships with their husbands. Stuart is supported by his 12 step sponsors as a he regresses back to his negative behaviors each time he faces these challenges.

The Whole Wide World

The Whole Wide World

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-12-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (2830 Reviews)

Director:

Dan Ireland

Cast:

Writer:

Novalyne Price Ellis (memoir One Who Walked Alone)

Michael Scott Myers (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Texas in the 1930s, young schoolteacher Novalyne Price meets a handsome, eccentric, interesting young man named Robert Howard. He's a successful writer - of the pulp stories of 'Conan the Barbarian'; she's an aspiring one. A friendship develops into a sort of courtship. Based on a memoir by Novalyne Price.

Men in Black

Men in Black

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-07-02

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (363455 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedySci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Lowell Cunningham (comic)

Ed Solomon (screen story)

Ed Solomon (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based off of the comic book. Unbeknownst to other people, there is a private agency code named MiB. This agency is some kind of extra terrestrial surveillance corporation. Then, one of the agency's finest men only going by the name "K", is recruiting for a new addition to the agency. He has chosen James Edwards of the N.Y.P.D. Then, one day, a flying saucer crashes into Earth. This was an alien a part of the "Bug" race. He takes the body of a farmer and heads to New York. He is searching for a super energy source called "The Galaxy". Now, Agents J and K must stop the bug before it can escape with the galaxy.

The Thirteenth Floor

The Thirteenth Floor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-05-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(46919 Reviews)

Director:

Josef Rusnak

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel F. Galouye (book)

Josef Rusnak (screenplay)

Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in the computer generated parallel world his company has created (which looks like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions). Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine...

Claire Dolan

Claire Dolan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-11-18

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

USA, France

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1094 Reviews)

Director:

Lodge Kerrigan

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Claire Dolan is an Irish immigrant, working as a Manhattan call girl, paying off a debt she owes her pimp, Roland Cain. She's almost without affect, much like the sterile, glass-and-concrete high-rises where she lives and works. Violence lurks just below the surface. Cain can be menacing as are men who approach her. When her mother dies, Claire tries to escape the life, moving to Newark, visiting a cousin, working as a manicurist, realizing that she wants to have a baby, and going out a couple of times with a cabby. But Cain finds her and insists on payment, so she returns to Manhattan. The cabby wants to help: can Claire leave prostitution and find happiness in motherhood?

Impostor

Impostor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-01-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (19198 Reviews)

Director:

Gary Fleder

Cast:

Writer:

Philip K. Dick (short story "The Impostor")

Scott Rosenberg (adaptation)

Caroline Case (screenplay)

Ehren Kruger (screenplay)

David Twohy (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Originally a 30 minute portion for an anthology film, Impostor was retooled into a full length feature film. Based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name, it follows the lead character Spencer Olham's quest to regain his identity after being suspected as an alien android, in an future Earth at war with aliens that use the androids as bombs to destroy their enemies homeworlds.

Steal This Movie

Steal This Movie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-06-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (2020 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Anita Hoffman (book)

Abbie Hoffman (book)

Marty Jezer (book)

Bruce Graham (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interviews Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?

Happy Accidents

Happy Accidents

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-09-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (8167 Reviews)

Director:

Brad Anderson

Fullplot:

Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he's sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. But, as Ruby tells her therapist about Sam, in flashbacks we see someone not quite of this world. In fact, Sam informs Ruby that he's from the future, 2470 to be exact. Ruby's sure he's delusional, but most of the time she wants to keep him - and maybe fix him. Although he seems sane, maybe Sam hasn't told her the real story: what's he up to, and who is Chrystie Delancey?

The Salton Sea

The Salton Sea

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-05-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (25644 Reviews)

Director:

D.J. Caruso

Fullplot:

After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dealer Pooh-Bear.

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-06-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (11725 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Care

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Chris Fuhrman (book)

Jeff Stockwell (screenplay)

Michael Petroni (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In mid-1970s Savannah, two bright but rebellious boys, Francis Doyle and Tim Sullivan, fight boredom, hormones and harsh teachers as they struggle to find something meaningful beyond the walls of their parish school. Francis, an exceptional artist whose imaginative forays into a fictional universe of good and evil fill his notebooks with comic-book imagery, creates a netherworld of superhero alter egos for the two boys. When the ultra-strict Sister Assumpta seizes their artwork one day, the boys embark upon an obsessed trail of revenge that ultimately changes their lives.

Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-10-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (18286 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Mills

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Walter Kirn (novel)

Mike Mills

Fullplot:

Justin is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star. The only person who's aware of Justin's problem is his father, manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn't going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin's dentist, a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school's psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin's problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher. Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction.

Jurassic World

Jurassic World

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-06-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, China

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (252556 Reviews)

Director:

Colin Trevorrow

Cast:

Writer:

Rick Jaffa (screenplay)

Amanda Silver (screenplay)

Colin Trevorrow (screenplay)

Derek Connolly (screenplay)

Rick Jaffa (story)

Amanda Silver (story)

Michael Crichton (characters)

Fullplot:

22 years after the original Jurassic Park failed, the new park (also known as Jurassic World) is open for business. After years of studying genetics the scientists on the park genetically engineer a new breed of dinosaur. When everything goes horribly wrong, will our heroes make it off the island?

Little New York

Little New York

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-08-05

Languages:

English, French, Italian, American Sign Language

Countries:

France, USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (4490 Reviews)

Director:

James DeMonaco

Fullplot:

In Staten Island, New York, Parmie Tarzo is a powerful mobster boss. The family man Sully Halverson is septic tank cleaner married with Mary Halverson and they are trying to have a baby. The deaf and dumb Jasper "Jas" Sabiano is the slicer of deli meat in a market and also works for Parmie Tarzo slicing the bodies of his victims. Jas likes Sully and expects to win the horse races. One day, Sully that is not a bright man decides to heist the house of Parmie Tarzo, expecting to artificially inseminate Mary with a better sperm than his in an expensive clinic. Meanwhile Jas wins the horse race and there is an attempt on Tarzo's life and he finds that his gangsters have planned it. The lives of the three residents are entwined with tragic consequences.

The Narrows

The Narrows

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-04-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1310 Reviews)

Director:

Franèois Velle

Cast:

Writer:

Tatiana Blackington (screenplay)

Tim McLoughlin (novel)

Fullplot:

A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. This compelling coming-of-age story combines suspense, murder and loyalty. Based on Tim McLoughlin's novel "Heart of the Old Country."

The New Tenants

The New Tenants

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

Denmark, USA

Runtime:

20 min

Rated:

TV-14

IMDB Ratings:

(849 Reviews)

Director:

Joachim Back

Genres:

ShortDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Anders Thomas Jensen (original screenplay "De Nye Lejere")

David Rakoff (adaptation)

Fullplot:

A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might just be the worst moving day ever. Their new apartment reveals its terrifying history in a film that is by turns funny, frightening, and unexpectedly romantic.

Fire with Fire

Fire with Fire

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-11-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (19063 Reviews)

Director:

David Barrett

Fullplot:

After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son, firefighter Jeremy Coleman barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals. When his new identity becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get his life back and save the lives of those he loves.

Chained

Chained

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-07-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (10873 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Damian O'Donnell (based on a screenplay by)

Jennifer Chambers Lynch (screenplay)

Fullplot:

This movie is about A cab driver called Bob (Vincent D'Onofrio) who picks up women and takes them to his house where he kills them. But on this one day he picks up a woman and her 9 year old son Tim. Bob then makes Tim live in the house with him all while he keeps killing women. Tim grows up there, watching, seeing all that happens. Bob wants to make him his protègè. Will Tim carry on the legacy?

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