11 Movies Starring Vincent Gallo

Palookaville

Palookaville

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-10-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (2118 Reviews)

Director:

Alan Taylor

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Fullplot:

Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetance as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.

Buffalo '66

Buffalo '66

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-06-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (34328 Reviews)

Director:

Vincent Gallo

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Vincent Gallo (story)

Vincent Gallo (screenplay)

Alison Bagnall (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same).

Trouble Every Day

Trouble Every Day

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-07-11

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Germany, Japan

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (4702 Reviews)

Director:

Claire Denis

Cast:

Writer:

Claire Denis

Jean-Pol Fargeau

Fullplot:

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane's mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor''s wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband imprisons her by day in their home. It is Shane's chance encounter with this woman that triggers an event so cataclysmic and shocking it might just lead him to rediscover the tranquility he seeks to restore for himself and his new bride.

Trouble Every Day

Trouble Every Day

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-07-11

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Germany, Japan

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (4732 Reviews)

Director:

Claire Denis

Cast:

Writer:

Claire Denis

Jean-Pol Fargeau

Fullplot:

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane's mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor''s wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband imprisons her by day in their home. It is Shane's chance encounter with this woman that triggers an event so cataclysmic and shocking it might just lead him to rediscover the tranquility he seeks to restore for himself and his new bride.

Stranded

Stranded

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-04-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (2147 Reviews)

Director:

Marèa Lidèn

Genres:

DramaSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Juan Miguel Aguilera (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A seven-man crew of international specialists formed by Commander Andre Vishniac; engineer Luca Baglioni; doctor Jenny Johnson; astrobiologist Fidel Rodrigo; pilot Susana Sènchez; geologist Herbert Sagan; and pilot Lowell travels to Mars to explore the planet. On the arrival, Lowell stays in orbit in the mothership while the crew lands on Mars. However their spacecraft crashes on the planet and Vishniac breaks his neck. They learn that they are stranded in Mars and Lowell returns to Earth to bring a rescue team. Soon Luca calculates the oxygen, water and supplies and concludes that there are enough for only two of them survive until an eventual rescue team comes to Mars twenty six months later. They decide that the engineer Luca and doctor Jenny should be the ones to stay in the spacecraft due to their specialties. Susan, Rodrigo and Sagan wear their spacesuits to explore the planet and die. But while there is life, there is hope.

The Brown Bunny

The Brown Bunny

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Japan

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(10896 Reviews)

Director:

Vincent Gallo

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

After racing in New Hampshire, the lonely motorcycle racer Bud Clay drives his van in a five-day journey to California for the next race. Along his trip, he meets fan, lonely women, prostitutes, but he leaves them since he is actually looking for the woman he loves, Daisy. He goes to her house and leaves a note telling where he is lodged. Out of the blue, Daisy appears in his hotel room and soon he learns why he cannot find her.

Tetro

Tetro

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-06-26

Languages:

English, Spanish, French

Countries:

USA, Argentina, Spain, Italy

Runtime:

127 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (10185 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Mauricio Kartun (verse "Fausta")

Francis Ford Coppola

Fullplot:

The week of his 18th birthday, Bennie, who's a waiter on a cruise ship, has a layover in Buenos Aires. He seeks out his older brother, Tetro, whom he hasn't seen in years. Tetro, who lives with Miranda, is a burned-out case; he's hot and cold toward his brother, introducing him as a "friend," refusing to talk about their family, telling Bennie not to tell Miranda who their father is. Thoughts of their father cast a shadow over both brothers. Who is he, and what past has Tetro left behind? Bennie finds pages of Tetro's unfinished novel, and he pushes both to know his own history and to become a part of his brother's life again. What can come of Bennie's pushing?

Tetro

Tetro

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-06-26

Languages:

English, Spanish, French

Countries:

USA, Argentina, Spain, Italy

Runtime:

127 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (10176 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Mauricio Kartun (verse "Fausta")

Francis Ford Coppola

Fullplot:

The week of his 18th birthday, Bennie, who's a waiter on a cruise ship, has a layover in Buenos Aires. He seeks out his older brother, Tetro, whom he hasn't seen in years. Tetro, who lives with Miranda, is a burned-out case; he's hot and cold toward his brother, introducing him as a "friend," refusing to talk about their family, telling Bennie not to tell Miranda who their father is. Thoughts of their father cast a shadow over both brothers. Who is he, and what past has Tetro left behind? Bennie finds pages of Tetro's unfinished novel, and he pushes both to know his own history and to become a part of his brother's life again. What can come of Bennie's pushing?

Metropia

Metropia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

Sweden, Denmark, Norway

Runtime:

86 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (5769 Reviews)

Director:

Tarik Saleh

Cast:

Writer:

Fredrik Edin (idea)

Fredrik Edin (screenplay)

Martin Hultman (idea)

Stig Larsson (screenplay)

Tarik Saleh (idea)

Tarik Saleh (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.

Essential Killing

Essential Killing

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-10-22

Languages:

English, Polish, Arabic

Countries:

Poland, Norway, Ireland, Hungary, France

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (6100 Reviews)

Genres:

ThrillerWar

Cast:

Writer:

Jerzy Skolimowski (screenplay)

Ewa Piaskowska (screenplay)

James McManus (additional writing)

Fullplot:

A Taliban member who lives in Afghanistan is taken captive by the Americans after killing an American soldier and two contractors. He is transferred to Europe for interrogation but manages to escape from his captors and becomes an escaped convict on a continent he does not know.

The Legend of Kaspar Hauser

The Legend of Kaspar Hauser

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-06-13

Languages:

Italian, English, French

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (672 Reviews)

Director:

Davide Manuli

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Giuseppe Genna (additional material)

Davide Manuli

Fullplot:

Arrived on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community. To get rid of the blond intruder, she seeks the assistance of Pusher, a criminal with whom he has a relationship, who knows how to get rid of the "enemy". Too bad he did not reckon with the Sheriff, a DJ who considers Kaspar as the new Messiah.

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