James GandolfiniFilmography

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli

Synopsis: A New York City subway dispatcher draws on his extensive knowledge of the subway system in order to outsmart a dangerous criminal mastermind who's hijacked a subway train in this remake of the 1974 thriller inspired by John Godey's best-selling book. Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is drifting Read More

In the Loop

Actors: Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rasche, Gina McKee

Synopsis: The run-up to war makes for curious rivalries and uneasy alliances in this political satire from director and co-screenwriter Armando Iannucci. Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) is a minor minister of international development with the British government who, in the midst of a radio interview, casually Read More

Sexual Healing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jesse L. Martin, James Gandolfini

Welcome to the Rileys

Actors: Melissa Leo, James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart

Synopsis: Their relationship steadily deteriorating in the eight years following their daughter's untimely death, a married couple unable to break the cycle of grief gets a second shot at love thanks to a scrappy, underage prostitute in this family drama starring James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo, and Kristen Read More

NFL: America's Game - 2007 New York Giants - Super Bowl XLII

Actors: James Gandolfini

ABCD Camp

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Friday Night Lights screenwriter David Aaron Cohen pens this made for cable sports drama exploring the career of sneaker magnate Sonny Vaccaro (played in the film by Sopranos star James Gandolfini), who rose to infamy in the sports world after signing Michael Jordan to a million-dollar Nike Read More

Romance & Cigarettes

Actors: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale

Synopsis: Actor and filmmaker John Turturro wrote and directed this emotionally resonant blend of music and drama. Nick Murder (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who has been married for years to Kitty (Susan Sarandon), who works as a seamstress and is the mother of Nick's three daughters. While Nick loves Read More

Lonely Hearts

Actors: John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Scott Caan, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Todd Robinson's Lonely Hearts features John Travolta and James Gandolfini as Elmer C. Robinson and Charles Hildebrandt, a pair of homicide detectives who are on the trail of lovers on a crime spree. The evil duo of Ray Fernandez (Jared Leto) and Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) take advantage of elderly Read More

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Sopranos star James Gandolfini pulls double duty as executive producer and host of a documentary concerning wounded U.S. veterans of the Iraq War. Originally aired on HBO, Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq finds ten American GIs detailing their narrow brushes with death on the desert battlefield. Read More

All the King's Men

Actors: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo

Synopsis: The legacy of a populist Southern politician whose lofty ambitions for the future leave him open to corruption and scandal is detailed as author Robert Penn Warren's thinly veiled portrait of Depression-era Louisiana governor Huey Long comes to the screen -- again -- this time courtesy of director Read More

The Sopranos: Season 06

Actors: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese

Synopsis: HBO split the sixth and final season of its serial mafia drama The Sopranos into two halves, spaced 10 months apart: the first half (episodes 1-12) aired from mid-March through early June of 2006; a hiatus followed between episodes 12 and 13, before the series picked up again for its final nine Read More

Be Cool

Actors: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin

Synopsis: Underworld hipster Chili Palmer is back in the entertainment business in this sequel to the 1995 hit Get Shorty, which like the first film is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (once again played by John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade Read More

Surviving Christmas

Actors: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Mitchell, Surviving Christmas finds Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) uneager to spend another lonely Christmas in his own home. Longing for holidays past, Drew travels to his childhood home intending to relive the experience of a family Christmas -- unfortunately, his family no longer Read More

The Sopranos: Season 05

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand, Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Synopsis: To those viewers who thought that the surfeit of violence during the fourth season of HBO's The Sopranos would have expunged all mayhem from season five, we have but one thing to say: "Fuggetabouddit!" As usual, much of the trouble is sparked by the sort of domestic issues that in any other family Read More

Sopranos Unauthorized: A Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

Synopsis: John Fiore is your host for this behind-the-scenes look at one of the most acclaimed and ground-breaking television shows of the new millennium, The Sopranos. Sopranos Unauthorized: Shooting Sites Uncovered takes viewers on a guided tour of the real-life New Jersey locations where some of the Read More

Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music

Synopsis: While John Lennon may have been one of Liverpool's most famous sons, New York was the city he called home in the last ten years of his life, and he often spoke of his love for the Big Apple. Lennon was also a man who wrote eloquently about loss, pain, and the importance of overcoming adversity Read More

The Sopranos: Season 04

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: Sixteen months after the end of The Sopranos' third season, Season Four gets under way. And if you think THIS is a long hiatus, "Fuggeddabouddit"--wait until we get to Season Six! New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano finally has an excuse to whack the troublesome Ralphie Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano, who Read More

The Man Who Wasn't There

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub

Synopsis: Set in a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There stars Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane, a humble barber who suspects his hard-hearted and hard-drinking wife Doris (Frances McDormand) of having an affair with her boss (James Gandolfini). When Read More

The Last Castle

Actors: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo, Clifton Collins, Jr.

Synopsis: Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini Read More

The Mexican

Actors: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, J.K. Simmons

Synopsis: A clumsy criminal is put in a position where he not only has to save his own skin, but that of his girlfriend in this comedy with strong undercurrents of romance. Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) is a low-level Mafia "mechanic" whose ineptitude is countered by frequent (but unpredictable) bursts of dumb Read More

Down to Earth

Actors: Chris Rock, Regina King, Chazz Palminteri, Eugene Levy, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: Comic Chris Rock co-scripted and stars in this remake of 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which was also remade with Warren Beatty in 1978 as Heaven Can Wait. Comedian Lance Barton (Rock) is struggling to get his career off the ground when he dies in an untimely bus accident; arriving at the Pearly Read More

The Sopranos: Season 03

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Being head of the Northern New Jersey branch of the DiMeo crime family is no bed of roses for Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) in Season Three of HBO's The Sopranos. Tony's headaches begin early on with the dangerously unstable, sexually deviant and recklessly profane Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Read More

The Sopranos: Season 02

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: New Jersey Mafia boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) continues maintaining the facade of being a respectable suburban husband and father while operating a vast criminal organization from the confines of the Bada-Bing Club during Season Two of The Sopranos. Now that the treacherous Uncle Junior Read More

8MM

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Anthony Heald, Catherine Keener

Synopsis: Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) is a surveillance expert on the rise. He's living the American dream with a wife, Amy (Catherine Keener), infant daughter, and a house in the suburbs of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After the completion of an assignment for a U.S. Senator, Welles is summoned to the house of Read More

The Sopranos: Season 01

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: The first season of The Sopranos finds lifelong "organization man" Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) taking over from Jackie Aprile Sr., terminally ill boss of the northern New Jersey branch of the DiMeo crime family. Tony's promotion is met with mixed reactions from his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) Read More

A Civil Action

Actors: Kathy Bates, John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek

Synopsis: Directed by Schindler's List screenwriter Steve Zaillian, this courtroom drama is based on a true story and non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr. The case revolves around an incident in 1979 in East Woburn, MA, where two drinking wells supplying water to the town were found to be contaminated with Read More

The Mighty

Actors: Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he Read More

Fallen

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) narrates, taking the audience back to "the time I almost died." This sets a flashback in motion, beginning at the prison cell of Read More

Night Falls on Manhattan

Actors: Andy Garcia, Lena Olin, Richard Dreyfuss, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley. When a carefully-planned bust of drug dealer Jordan Washington (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) goes sour, a shootout between Washington and officers from three precincts Read More

She's So Lovely

Actors: Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta

Synopsis: Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely (originally and more appropriately titled She's De Lovely in honor of the Cole Porter composition central to the movie) stars real-life couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn as Read More

Dance with the Devil

Actors: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is Read More

Gun: Columbus Day

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, James Gandolfini, Peter Horton

Synopsis: This is the first episode in the anthology drama series that deals with the unexpected effects a gun can have on people's lives. Walter (James Gandolfini) buys a gun to protect his family, unaware that his wife (Rosanna Arquette) is having an affair -- or that the former owner of the gun wants it Read More

12 Angry Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Courtney Vance, George C. Scott, Mykelti Williamson, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Synopsis: A jury argues a case in a stuffy room on a hot summer's day. Eleven say "guilty!" But one holdout (Jack Lemmon) is convinced of the defendant's innocence and stubbornly argues "reasonable doubt." This tense courtroom drama is a remake of Sidney Lumet's 1957 favorite and was produced for the Read More

The Juror

Actors: Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Heche, James Gandolfini, Lindsay Crouse

Synopsis: A woman serving on the jury of an anti-Mafia trial must protect herself and her young son from a psychopathic gangster in this thriller. Demi Moore stars as Annie Laird, a single mother and artist who readily agrees to do her civic duty on the jury in the trial of a major organized crime figure. Read More

The New World

Actors: Sarah Grappin, James Gandolfini, Alicia Silverstone

Synopsis: A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in this amiable French melodrama set in Orleans where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed. The film opens with the solemn vow between young Patrick and Marie-Jose that they will both head to the US when they grow up. The children are Read More

Crimson Tide

Actors: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Two leaders with different philosophies about battle and leadership wage war with each other in this tense military thriller. Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) is the commanding officer of a nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Alabama. Ramsey is a distinguished veteran near the end of his career, and he Read More

Get Shorty

Actors: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to Read More

Angie

Actors: Geena Davis, Stephen Rea, James Gandolfini, Aida Turturro, Philip Bosco, Jenny O'Hara

Synopsis: Angie is the study of a believable Italian-American woman who takes an honest look at herself and sees she's on a predictable path that will soon include an altar and a baby carriage. "There's gotta' be more!" she feels, and she's one gal with courage enough to find the answer. Geena Davis stars Read More

Terminal Velocity

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock

Synopsis: Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his booze-babes-and-planes shenanigans hardly prepare him for an international plot that pits Brodie and a mysterious KGB agent against a post-Cold War Russian villain called Kerr (Chris Read More

Money for Nothing

Actors: John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story, dockworker Joey Coyle (John Cusack) finds over $1 million, which fell from an armored car. Instead of returning the money, he embarks on a spending spree unchecked by the wishes of his friend (Michael Rapaport) and hires a crime ring to launder the money. The detective Read More

True Romance

Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba Read More

Italian Movie

Actors: James Gandolfini, Rita Moreno, Caprice Benedetti

Synopsis: The 1993 made-for-cable feature Italian Movie was released to home video in 2002 due to the presence of actor James Gandolfini from the popular HBO original program The Sopranos. This comedy drama stars Michael Dellafemina as pizzeria owner Leonardo and Caprice Benedetti as his materialistic wife Read More

Mr. Wonderful

Actors: Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt, Vincent D'Onofrio

Synopsis: A young man (Matt Dillon) is trying to go in with his friends on a bowling-alley investment, but finds that his finances are too strapped to attempt the venture. To curb his outlays, he begins arranging a marriage for his ex-wife (Annabella Sciorra) so he can end the alimony payments which keep Read More

A Stranger Among Us

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan, Lee Richardson

Synopsis: When a Jewish jeweler is found dead and his store is missing more than one million dollars in diamonds, a New York police detective (Melanie Griffith) goes undercover in a community of Hasidic Jews to find the criminal. Once she is immersed in the community, she falls in love with one of the most Read More