James Russo Filmography

Little Red Devil

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, James Russo, Dee Wallace Stone, Jim Lewis

Synopsis: Daniel Baldwin, James Russo, and Dee Wallace Stone star in director Tommy Brunswick's low-budget, high-definition video shocker that finds Old Scratch manifesting himself in a outwardly benign figurine modeled after his likeness. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Ops

Actors: Lance Henriksen, James Russo, Gary Stretch, D.C. Douglas, Jim Hanks, Katherine Randolph

Synopsis: A World War II-era battleship that has been reactivated and redeployed to the Persian Gulf for black-op interrogations has fallen into radio silence, and elite Marine task force, an NCIS investigator, and a pair of scientists is sent to investigate and report back on any abnormalities. Upon Read More

Blackwater Valley Exorcism

Actors: Cameron Daddo, Jeffrey Combs, James Russo

Synopsis: When a troubled priest is beckoned to an isolated ranch in order to exorcise the demons from a possessed girl, the terror that awaits him threatens to consume his very soul in a chilling tale of supernatural horror starring Cameron Daddo and James Russo. When Father James' old flame calls claiming Read More

Broken Trail

Actors: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi

Synopsis: Sideways star Thomas Hayden Church appears alongside Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall in a dramatic mini-series shot in the classic western tradition. The year is 1897. As Print Ritter (Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Church) travel the slow road to reconciliation, they reluctantly Read More

Cut Off

Actors: Amanda Brooks, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Malcolm McDowell, Kurupt

Synopsis: Abruptly cut off from the family fortune by her millionaire tycoon father, a young girl used to the life of luxury sets out on a Bonnie and Clyde style crime spree with her ne'er do well boyfriend in this action film featuring Malcolm McDowell, Anne Archer, and Faye Dunaway. Patricia Barton Read More

Satanic

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Angus Scrimm, James Russo, Annie Sorell

Synopsis: The powers of darkness converge to claim the soul of a young girl who may have made a deal with the devil in director Dan Golden's frightful tale of infernal fear. After a devastating car crash claims the life of her father, amnesiac Michelle wakes up in a hospital with no recollection of the Read More

All In

Actors: Dominique Swain, Michael Madsen, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Russo

Synopsis: A medical student with mounting debts draws on her formidable poker skills in order to stay afloat in this gambling drama starring Dominique Swain and Michael Madsen. As a young girl, Alicia "Ace" Anderson (Swain) frequently accompanied her card shark father (Madsen) to clandestine gambling rooms Read More

The Hit

Actors: Blair Underwood, DeRay Davis, Ernest Harden Jr., James Russo

Machine

Actors: Michael Lazar, Michael Madsen, Neil McDonough, James Russo, Paul Sloan

Synopsis: Beneath the bright lights of Hollywood, the city of Los Angeles is teeming with crime and corruption. Though the majority of people never see the dark side of this city, it still festers just beneath the surface. Michael Madsen, Neal McDonough, and James Russo star in a crime film that isn't Read More

Straight Out of Compton 2

Come as You Are

Synopsis: Chuck Rose's comedy Come as You Are stars Maury Sterling as Craig Dowd, a young man who makes his living by running a pornographic website. Although he has turned his home into his studio, he is ashamed of his profession and is forced to go to great lengths in order to hide what is happening Read More

Target

Synopsis: A sharp-eyed American Special Forces sniper struggles to save his family from a maniacal terrorist after thwarting the terrorist's plan to steal missiles and killing three of his most skilled cronies in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from director William Webb. Convinced that his mission was a Read More

Open Range

Actors: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Kevin Costner stars in and directs the Western Open Range. Robert Duvall stars as Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer who free-grazes cattle. He and Charley Waite (Costner) have been partners for ten years. As the film opens in the 1880s, the pair and their employees -- the beefy, rugged, likable Read More

Paris

Actors: Chad Allen, Bai Ling, James Russo

Synopsis: Jason (Chad Allen, formerly a child actor on TV's St. Elsewhere) is a stoic L.A. cop. As Paris opens, he stumbles down the strip in Las Vegas, obviously in pain, before collapsing. We then see what brought Jason to this dismal state. Back in Los Angeles, his corrupt partner, Leon (James Russo of Donnie Brasco Read More

The Box

Synopsis: Richard Pepin's The Box stars James Russo as Frank Miller, an ex-convict attempting to live on the right side of the law. He works at a coffee shop in Los Angeles and is starting a relationship with his co-worker Marie Evans (Theresa Russell), who has attempted to begin life over after making a Read More

Redemption

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Chris Penn, James Russo

Synopsis: When a fallen cop turns to a life of crime to support both himself and his young son, the choices he makes may lead to deadly consequences in this explosive action effort starring screen veterans Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Chris Penn, Cynthia Rothrock, and James Russo. John Sato (Wilson) has a Read More

Stealing Sinatra

Synopsis: Based on actual events, this crime comedy from Adventures of Pluto Nash director Ron Underwood details the farcical kidnapping of legendary singer Frank Sinatra's eldest son (played by Thomas Ian Nicholas). Desperate to gather the money needed to get their fledgling business off the ground, three Read More

Shattered Lies

Actors: Frank Zagarino, Elizabeth Giordano, James Russo, Martin Kove, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: When a mysterious map surfaces that could lead the owner to $3 million in riches, the race is on between a mysterious drifter, a determined young woman, corrupt cops, career criminals, and even the FBI to get to the prize first in an action-packed thriller with enough twists to keep the viewer Read More

Pendulum

Actors: James Russo

Synopsis: A revered Dallas law professor is brutally murdered and District Attorney -- and possible Senate candidate Edward Mills (James Russo) -- has vowed to find the killer. Meanwhile, the homicide squad is busy trying to stop a serial killer targeting the city's prostitutes. Dallas homicide detective Read More

Double Deception

Actors: Louis Mandylor, James Russo, Rei Kikukawa, Udo Kier

Synopsis: While in a convenience store, professional bodyguard Luke Campbell (Louis Mandylor) turns his back on the lovely woman he's protecting, Lisa Ozaki, only to have her kidnapped in the blink of an eye. A ransom of two million dollars is asked for her return. There is one problem: Lisa wasn't Lisa Read More

The House Next Door

Crew: Producer

Actors: Theresa Russell, James Russo, Sean Young

Synopsis: Young marrieds Lori (A.J. Cook) and Tom (Matthew Harrison III) relocate from Chicago to the country where they end up living next to Carl (James Russo), a right-wing radical who beats his wife, Helen (Theresa Russell). When Tom goes away for a few days, Lori, with the help of best friend, Monica (Sean Young Read More

Sonic Impact

Actors: James Russo, Ice-T, Mel Harris

Synopsis: Terror flies at 30,000 feet in this tense action thriller. Jeremy Barrett (Michael Harris) is a brilliant but unbalanced criminal genius who, while being transported to a penal facility aboard a commercial airliner, breaks free and takes control of the jet, holding the passengers hostage, blowing Read More

Deep Core

Actors: Craig Sheffer, James Russo

Synopsis: Ego-driven industrialist Alan Morrisey (Harry VanGorkum) has paid to develop the ultimate mining machine -- a nearly invincible vehicle that uses laser energy to burrow through anything. But the machine's creator, Brian Goodman (Craig Sheffer), knows that it is too good at what it does and Read More

The Ninth Gate

Actors: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford

Synopsis: An authority on rare books is drawn into a confrontation with the forces of darkness in this thriller directed by Roman Polanski. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a rare book broker who makes his living tracking down valuable items for rich bibliophiles. Corso is hired by Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) Read More

Bittersweet

Actors: Angie Everhart, James Russo, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A young co-ed who previously spent time in prison for a crime she didn't commit plots revenge against her former boyfriend, who is the real culprit, with the help of a policeman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Jimmy Zip

Actors: Brendan Fletcher, Ike Gingrich, Adrienne Frantz, Zia, Jimmy Truong

Synopsis: A boy learns to get by on his wits and comes to depend on the kindness of (relative) strangers in this independent drama. Jimmy (Brendan Fletcher), whose abusive foster father (Ike Gingrich) likes to call him "Jimmy Zip" (that is, "Jimmy Nothing"), is fascinated with fire and sees no good reason Read More

Paper Bullets

Synopsis: Jaded, hard-drinking, burned-out Det. John Rourke (James Russo) finds himself the target of a Los Angeles gang of Asians when he begins investigating mobster Yang (Francois Chan) and his connection to a violent, deadly attack on police during what should have been a secret meeting. Clearly Read More

Detour

Actors: Gary Busey, Jeff Fahey, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A con artist and his friends join an attempt to steal from the local organized crime syndicate, which they discover turns out to be a set up. The group escapes and they hide out at the thief's newly inherited dairy farm. While reconsidering their chosen profession and deciding to become Read More

Laws of Deception

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Amber Smith, Brian Austin Green

Synopsis: In this drama, a lawyer puts his career and life on the line after he falls in love with a dangerous woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Husband's Secret Life

Actors: Maria Conchita Alonso, Anne Archer, James Russo

Synopsis: In this drama, a police officer's widow is shocked to discover that her late spouse's pension is too small to support her. In desperation she overcomes her grief and rage at discovering her husband had a mistress and enlists the other woman's aid in convincing the police department to increase the Read More

Small Time

Synopsis: Three small-time hoods are sent off into the desert to deliver a supply of drugs to a distributor and get the distributor's cash. Only the place of the transaction and the amounts involved are set. They do not know exactly when their counterparts will be sent by the distributor. In the meantime Read More

Under Oath

Actors: Clint Howard, Jack Scalia, James Russo

Synopsis: Two honest men discover how high the stakes can be when they turn against the law in this thriller. Nick Hollit (Jack Scalia) and Ray Ramirez (Eddie Velez) are a pair of police detectives who have played by the rules all their lives, but have little to show for it. Determined to make some big Read More

Love to Kill

Actors: Amy Locane, Rustam Branaman

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable comedy-drama, Moe (Tony Danza) is a gangster who has done quite well for himself as part of a crew dealing illegal automatic weapons. However, Moe, like anyone else, is looking for love, and meets Monica (Elizabeth Barondes), a gun collector who shares a home with her sister Read More

The Postman

Actors: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James Russo

Synopsis: Kevin Costner directed and stars in this adaptation of David Brin's science fiction novel The Postman (1985), first published in 1982 issues of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Costner's return to directing after his Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves(1990) is a futuristic epic depicting the Read More

No Way Home

Actors: Tim Roth, James Russo, Deborah Kara Unger, Bernadette Penotti, Larry Romano

Synopsis: Joey returns to his home in Staten Island and discovers that things changed dramatically while he was in prison. His mother died, and his brother Tommy married. Joey's former flame has also married and had kids. Big brother Tommy takes Joey in, much to the displeasure of his stripper-wife Read More

Donnie Brasco

Actors: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche

Synopsis: This drama about an undercover cop who learns the hidden dangers of working his way inside the mob was based on a true story. Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI agent who is given an assignment to infiltrate the Mafia; calling himself Donnie Brasco, he befriends Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a Read More

Livers Ain't Cheap

Actors: James Russo, Emily Lloyd, Gary Busey, Jeremy Piven, Esai Morales

Synopsis: This action-packed crime drama features one of the more interesting motives in the genre: the crooks plan a $1million caper to pay for a another young crook's liver transplant. The mayhem begins as Dexter is yet again hauled to jail after the police catch him attempting to snatch a purse. There Read More

American Strays

Actors: Luke Perry, Jennifer Tilly, Eric Roberts, John Savage, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A collection of losers, misfits, and outcasts find their lives unexpectedly converging at a diner along a desert highway in this violent and offbeat comedy drama. Dwayne (John Savage) is a strait-laced-looking vacuum cleaner salesman with a bad habit of murdering prospective customers, while Patty Read More

Panther

Actors: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney Vance, Tyrin Turner

Synopsis: This controversial political drama semi-fictionalizes the history of the radical Black Panther Party, an African-American organization that polarized America from 1966-70. Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance) are a pair of Oakland, California, men who form a new political Read More

Condition Red

Actors: James Russo, Cynda Williams, Paul Calderon

Synopsis: In this gritty prison thriller, a passionate prison guard finds himself intimate with a sexy inmate and trouble ensues. The guard, Dan Cappelli, works in a Philadelphia jail. He has a hair-trigger violent temper and after brutally defending a fellow guard who was attacked by an inmate, is Read More

Secretary

Actors: Mel Harris, Sheila Kelley, Barry Bostwick, James Russo, Ray Baker

Synopsis: Anxious for revenge against the corporation that has refused to promote her, an ambitious secretary beguiles a naive stockbroker into helping her enact a deadly plan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Set Up

Actors: Billy Zane, Mia Sara, James Russo, James Coburn

Synopsis: When Charlie Thorpe, an MIT-educated security systems expert and convicted cat-burglar, gets out of prison, he promises himself to go straight. Yet when a psycho he knew from prison kidnaps his girlfriend, he is forced back into the crime game. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Bad Girls

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore, James Russo

Synopsis: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines. They all start out as prostitutes, as Cody (Stowe) shoots a drunken colonel who attempts to molest Anita (Masterson). She is about to be Read More

Dangerous Game

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara, Reilly Murphy

Synopsis: Celebrated indie filmmaker Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel) heads to California to shoot his latest movie, Mother of Mirrors, an examination of a marriage in which the wife pressures her husband to abandon their formerly mutual sex-and-drugs lifestyle and seek the same kind of religious conversion she Read More

Trauma

Actors: Chris Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Laura Johnson

Synopsis: In this suspenseful horror movie, a lovely runaway and a helpful hero go looking for the fearsome "Headhunter," the ghoulish hooded killer who sawed off the heads of her parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

DaVinci's War

Synopsis: In this action drama, Frank DaVinci is out to avenge the murder of his sister. To follow through with his vendetta he enlists the aide of a hired killer and a group of Vietnam Vets. Violence and explosions ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cold Heaven

Actors: Theresa Russell, Mark Harmon, James Russo, Talia Shire, Will Patton

Synopsis: Nicolas Roeg's Cold Heaven (based on a novel by Brian Moore) examines grief and loss and spiritual questions concerning belief and faith. Theresa Russell plays Maria, a woman in deep despair over the death of her husband Alex (Mark Harmon) in a boating accident. When Alex's body disappears from Read More

Intimate Stranger

Actors: Deborah Harry, James Russo, Tim Thomerson, Mel Johnson, Jr., Grace Zabriskie, Paige French

Synopsis: In this thriller, a poor aspiring rock singer earns a steady wage at night working as a phone-sex girl. Trouble comes in the form of a wacko-caller who talks with her on the phone while murdering another woman. Now it seems he's after her. Fortunately a loner cop shows up and enlists her aid in Read More

In the Shadow of a Killer

Synopsis: When a decorated New York City policeman voiced his opposition to an accused cop killer's death sentence, his co-workers ostracized him in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Desperate Rescue

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Clancy Brown, James Russo, Jeff Kober, Lindsey Haun

Synopsis: Like its theatrical-feature precursor Not Without My Daughter, the made-for-TV Desperate Rescue is based on a true story, though it would appear that several liberties have been taken. Mariel Hemingway plays a young mother whose daughter Lindsay Haun is abducted by Andrew Masset, Mariel's Read More

My Own Private Idaho

Actors: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey

Synopsis: Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to Portland, where he has taken up with Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves), who Read More

A Kiss Before Dying

Actors: Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, James Russo, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: This thriller is the second film based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin. Matt Dillon stars as Jonathan Corliss, a lethal schemer from the wrong side of the tracks. Now a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Jonathan has been obsessed since childhood with the fortunes of a company Read More

Illicit Behavior

Actors: Jack Scalia, Joan Severance

Synopsis: Jack Scalia stars as a Hollywood policeman whose wife (Joan Severance) will stop at nothing to claim a $2 million inheritance. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

State of Grace

Actors: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro

Synopsis: This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best Read More

We're No Angels

Actors: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Wallace Shawn, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: In this comedy, escaped prisoners Ned (Robert DeNiro) and Jim (Sean Penn) take refuge in a monastery where they pose as priests to avoid capture. Intending to flee across the Canadian border, the two convicts run into all kinds of unexpected trouble in their new-found priesthood. ~ Iotis Erlewine Read More

La Cintura

Actors: Eleonora Brigliadori, James Russo

Synopsis: American character actor James Russo stars in the Italian melodrama La Cintura (The Belt). Russo's first mistake is to fall in love with Eleanora Brigliadori. His second mistake is to marry her. Experiencing a sexual epiphany on her wedding night, Brigliadori decides that she enjoys being brutally Read More

Freeway

Actors: Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Richard Belzer, Michael Callan

Synopsis: A crazed sniper picks off motorists at random, then taunts the authorities by providing cryptic clues to a radio psychiatrist. Sarah "Sunny" Harper (Darlanne Flugel), the fiancee of one of the victims, tries to piece together the evidence without official help, hopefully to beat the psycho at his Read More

The Blue Iguana

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, James Russo, Pam Gidley, Tovah Feldshuh

Synopsis: In exchange for staying out of jail, down-and-out bounty hunter Vince Holloway (Dylan McDermott) agrees to work for corrupt IRS agents Vera (Tovah Feldshuh) and Strick (Dean Stockwell). Holloway travels to Diablo, a country run by criminals, to intercept a transfer of funds between crooked banker Read More

The Fabulous Fifties

Synopsis: History. A review of the news of the fifties. Reviews: General Douglas MacArthur's retirement speech; President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; the Korean war; the death of Stalin; testing the hydrogen bomb; the Suez Canal crisis; the Cold War; Cuba's Castro. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

China Girl

Actors: James Russo, Sari Chang, Richard Panebianco, David Caruso, Russell Wong

Synopsis: Director Abel Ferrara liberally employs his blackjack intensity in this lunatic gang romance that comes across as a cross between Mean Streets and West Side Story. The New York City street gangs of Chinatown and Little Italy are rattling their sabers and they become drawn when a Chinese restaurant Read More

Extremities

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Diana Scarwid, Alfre Woodard, Sandy Martin

Synopsis: Attacked by a masked assailant, Marjorie (Farrah Fawcett) lives in mortal fear that the unidentified man will strike again -- especially since he knows her address. Sure enough, Joe the attacker (James Russo) breaks into Marjorie's home and subjects her to a night of terror and sexual humiliation. Read More

The Cotton Club

Actors: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience. Mixing historical figures Read More