Joe Dallesandro Filmography

Beefcake

Actors: Daniel MacIvor, Thomas Cawood, Jaime Robertson, Joshua Peace, Carroll Godsman, Orest E. Ulan, Glen Deveau, Jonathan Torrens, Andrew Hiller, Jack Griffin Mazeika

Synopsis: This portrait of the man who brought nude male flesh into the American mainstream combines present-day interviews, archival footage, and semi-fictionalized dramatization into a cinematic hybrid. Photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer (Daniel MacIvor) founded the Athletic Model Guild, or AMG, in Los Read More

The Limey

Actors: Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Barry Newman, Nicky Katt

Synopsis: Two actors best known for their work in the late 1960s, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, star in The Limey, a drama in which a recently released felon contemplates the gulf between aging criminals like himself and their modern counterparts. Wilson (Stamp) is a British career criminal who has been Read More

L.A. Without a Map

Actors: David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Cameron Bancroft

Synopsis: Mika Kaurismaki directed this British-French-Finnish romantic comedy adapted from Richard Rayner's autobiographical novel about a series of Hollywood misadventures. Vacationing in the North of England, aspiring Los Angeles actress Barbara (Vinessa Shaw) stops briefly in a village where she meets Read More

Theodore Rex

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau, Bud Cort, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg headlines this youth-oriented comedy fantasy set in a near future where scientists for some reason have genetically resurrect dinosaurs. This time, the revitalized reptiles are intelligent and equipped with humanoid articulatory tracts so they can speak. They also wear shoes. Read More

Sugar Hill

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams III, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright play druglord brothers who have a mob-like crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Through flashbacks, we see how Roemello Skuggs (Snipes) and Raynathan Skuggs (Wright) entered the drug culture, with Raynathan helping his mother inject heroin. She died Read More

Guncrazy

Actors: Drew Barrymore, James LeGros, Billy Drago, Rodney Harvey, Joe Dallesandro, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Not so much a remake of Joseph H. Lewis's 1949 film noir classic as a variation on its themes, Guncrazy stars Drew Barrymore as Anita, a teenage girl who was born in a trailer park on the wrong side of the tracks and has been fighting a losing battle with respectability ever since. Anita was Read More

Bad Love

Actors: Tom Sizemore, Pam Gidley, Jennifer O'Neill, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Lenny (Tom Sizemore) is the kind of man who simply cannot get through the day without messing up, or suffering some amazing piece of bad luck. As a consequence, he has lost every one of the jobs his uncle has set him up with. That's how he loses his job as a gas station attendant: he leaves the Read More

Almost an Angel

Actors: Paul Hogan, Elias Koteas, Linda Kozlowski, Charlton Heston, Doreen Lang

Synopsis: Australian star Paul Hogan just couldn't seem to come up with a hit comparable to his 1986 international hit Crocodile Dundee. Hogan's Almost an Angel was a nice try, but no cigar. The star plays a lifelong thief who suffers a potentially fatal accident. While "in limbo", Hogan is visited by God Read More

Cry-Baby

Actors: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake

Synopsis: John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a Read More

Private War

Actors: Martin Hewitt, Joe Dallesandro, Kimberly Beck, George Shannon

Synopsis: A former Vietnam war hero becomes a drill instructor. Members of his squad begin dying from questionable accidents, and one of the soldiers discovers that the brutal DI makes his own rules. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Operation Paratrooper

Double Revenge

Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Joe Dallesandro, Theresa Saldana, Nancy Everhard, Richard Rust

Synopsis: In this film, a bereaved man wants to exact his revenge from the bank robber who was responsible for his wife's untimely death. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hollywood Detective

Synopsis: Telly Savalas stars as the washed-up star of a Kojak-like TV series who agrees to investigate a real-life kidnapping case. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Sunset

Actors: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy star Tom Mix Read More

Critical Condition

Actors: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Rubén Blades, Joe Mantegna, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: When a small-time businessman (Richard Pryor) needs a loan, he goes to a loan shark and ends up in jail on false pretenses. After feigning madness to get out, he is tossed into the mental ward of a hospital. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

Merry-Go-Round

Actors: Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro, Françoise Prevost, Maurice Garrel

Killer Nun

Actors: Anita Ekberg, Paola Morra, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato

Synopsis: Giulio Berruti's unusual cult horror film casts former sex symbol Anita Ekberg as Sister Gertrude, a nun working in a mental institution. Gertrude is clearly insane, and takes a great deal of morphine for her self-diagnosed cancer. She goes to town and picks up men, seduces a younger nun (Paola Read More

Tapage Nocturne

Actors: Dominique Laffin, Marie-Helene Breillat, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Joe Dallesandro

Synopsis: A completely routine drama involving sexual situations and rough characters, this story directed and written by Catherine Breillat looks at the liaison between Solange (Dominique Laffin) and Bruno (Bertrand Bonvoisin). Solange is the female version of a womanizing film director who is confident Read More

Un Cuore Semplice

Actors: Adriana Asti, Joe Dallesandro, Alida Valli, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant girl whose life seems marked by grand tragedy, but whose heart is simple and uncomplicated enough not only to endure, but even to attain serenity in the face of her manifold frustrations. Her only Read More

L'Ultima Volta

La Marge

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Joe Dallesandro, Mireille Audibert, André Falcon

Synopsis: Sigismond (Joe Dallesandro) is a man lost in an erotic haze which clouds his judgment. Early in the film, it is evident that the man has a physically passionate relationship with his wife, with whom he has a son. While on a business trip to Paris, he comes under the spell of a famous, beautiful Read More

Il Tempo degli Assassini

Synopsis: The lives of many are in the hands of Italian Police Commissioner Castroni, who is challenged by four young terrorists who are wreaking havoc upon the entire community. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fango Bollente

Calore in Provincia

Flesh for Frankenstein

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique Van Vooren, Arno Juerging, Srdjan Zelenovic

Synopsis: Incest, necrophilia, and Joe Dallesandro? It must be Andy Warhol. Warhol did indeed co-produce this 1973 schlock spectacular -- originally presented in 3D -- that was directed by Factory fave Paul Morrissey. Starring Udo Kier in the role of "Ze Baron," Flesh for Frankenstein is a horror story for Read More

L'Ambizioso

Black Moon

Actors: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro

Synopsis: In Louis Malle's apocalyptic fantasy Black Moon, Lily (Cathryn Harrison, granddaughter of Rex) drives down a lonesome road, and soon finds herself in a alternate world full of non sequiturs and bizarre characters. At times, this looks like a David Lynch film, what with an old woman conversing with Read More

Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus

Actors: Jane Birkin, Joe Dallesandro, Hugues Quester, René Kolldehoff, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Two men are driving a refuse truck to a dump site and stop for a hamburger. Krassky (Joe Dallesandro), one of the two, strikes an acquaintance with Johnny (Jane Birkin), the girl who works in the restaurant. They swiftly become lovers. However, Krassky is basically a homosexual, and must Read More

The Seeds of Evil

Actors: Katharine Houghton, Joe Dallesandro, Rita Gam, James Congdon

Synopsis: A strange gardener who can turn into a tree can also create people-killing posies. He does just that, and sends the fatal flowers to a woman who has caught his interest. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Blood for Dracula

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Arno Juerging

Synopsis: The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose participation pretty much ended with the use of his name), this film is slightly superior to its higher-profile predecessor, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Direction is credited to Warhol Read More

Heat

Actors: Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro

Synopsis: Heat is one of the more mainstream films produced by Andy Warhol's "Factory" and directed by Paul Morrissey. It is something of a send-up of Sunset Boulevard, with male beauty Joe Dallesandro in the William Holden part. In the film, Dallessandro seeks to advance his career by bedding anyone who is Read More

Trash

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Jane Forth, Michael Sklar, Geri Miller

Synopsis: This Andy Warhol production finds Joe Dallesandro as Joe, a lice-ridden impotent junkie who lives with Holly (Holly Woodlawn) in a Lower East Side slum in New York. Holly is a transvestite who spends time collecting trash, going to the Fillmore East, and cruising for sex. Joe is only interested in Read More

Flesh

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, John Christian, Barry Brown, Candy Darling

Synopsis: Flesh was filmmaker Paul Morrissey's first production for Andy Warhol. The story concerns a bisexual hustler (Joe Dallesandro) who does tricks so that he can pay for his wife's lover's abortion. The film made headlines when it was confiscated by the police during one of its earliest showings in Read More

Loves of Ondine

Actors: Ondine, Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Pepper Davis

Synopsis: This characteristically offbeat, but tedious, Andy Warhol film was finished just before Warhol was seriously wounded by a gunshot wound inflicted by one of his disgruntled followers. It was released soon after Warhol's recovery. Though the film tends to be a muddled, haphazard collection of Read More

Lonesome Cowboys

Actors: Viva, Taylor Mead

Synopsis: This experimental western from cult icon Andy Warhol concerns nine people in a ghost town looking for love. A truly twisted improvisational comedy should have emerged, but Taylor Mead's shrill screeching and some annoying in-camera editing results in a fairly grating experience. Ramona Alvarez (Viva Read More