Joe Delia Filmography

Bought & Sold

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rafael Sardina, David Margulies, Joe Grifasi, Marjan Neshat, Frank Harts

Synopsis: Directed by Michael Tolajian, Bought & Sold is set in New Jersey, where aspiring deejay Ray Ray (Rafael Sardina) agrees to spy on a pawnshop proprietor who supposedly owes his new boss, "Chunks" (Joe Grifasi), money. They get more than they bargain for, however, when the proprietor, Kutty (David Margulies Read More

Fever

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Henry Thomas, David Patrick O'Hara, Bill Duke, Teri Hatcher, Sandor Tecsy

Synopsis: An alienated young man begins to question his own sanity in the wake of a horrible crime in the psychological thriller Fever. Nick Parker (Henry Thomas) is an aspiring artist who spends his evenings working on paintings and teaches art at the local YMCA to make ends meet. Nick has an apartment in Read More

The Tao of Steve

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kimo Wills, Nina Jaroslaw, Donal Logue, Greer Goodman

Synopsis: Jenniphr Goodman makes her directorial debut with this film about an overweight slacker who has an unusual ability to attract the ladies. The film opens in Santa Fe with portly Don Juan Dex (Donal Logue) at his college reunion. Two of his school day conquests comment about how much weight Dex has Read More

No Looking Back

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lauren Holly, Edward Burns, Jon Bon Jovi, Blythe Danner, Jennifer Esposito

Synopsis: Writer-director-actor Edward Burns (The Brothers McMullen, She's the One) looks at small-town ex-lovers in this low-key, blue-collar drama with atmospheric, muted-color cinematography by Emmy-winner Frank Prinzi (Northern Exposure). To the tune of Sheryl Crow's "Home", Charlie (Burns) returns to Read More

The Substitute 2: School's Out

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Treat Williams, B.D. Wong, Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.

Synopsis: In this action movie an ex-mercenary poses as a teacher and enters a tough urban school so he can exact revenge upon his brother's killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Drunks

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Calista Flockhart, Spalding Gray, George Martin

Synopsis: An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting brings together a disparate group of people struggling with addiction to drugs and liquor in this film based on Gary Lennon's play "Blackout." Jim (Richard Lewis) is in a bad mood as he sits in on an AA meeting in the basement of a church in New York City; he's Read More

The Blackout

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Matthew Modine, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, Sarah Lassez

Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this typically edgy look at an actor whose abuse of alcohol and drugs takes an unexpected toll. Matty (Matthew Modine) is an actor whose career is on the fast track; however, he's not able to handle the pressures of life in Hollywood, so he heads to Miami to Read More

The Funeral

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo, Isabella Rossellini, Annabella Sciorra, Benicio Del Toro

Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this dark, emotional tale of life among the criminal underworld, set in the late 1930s. The Tempio Brothers -- Ray (Christopher Walken), Chez (Chris Penn), and Johnny (Vincent Gallo) -- work with the mob; Ray is the cool and methodical type, Chez is an angry man Read More

Twilight Highway

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Well off the beaten path in the New Jersey industrial wastelands sits the ramshackle Bayview Motel. Among the guests are Jimmy and Gene, two Ohio boys heading for New York City. An automobile breakdown forces them to stay at the Bayview. Later Lenny the owner sees to it that only two more guests Read More

The Addiction

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon

Synopsis: Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral "Art" film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and Read More

The Enemy Within

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards, Jr., Josef Sommer

Synopsis: An attempt to overthrow the President of the United States is the subject of this made-for-cable conspiracy-thriller. Forest Whitaker stars as Colonel Mackenzie Casey, a loyal member of President Foster's (Sam Waterston) inner circle. When Casey discovers a plot by his superior (Jason Robards) to Read More

Dangerous Game

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Body Snatchers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Billy Wirth, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers is the third screen version of Jack Finney's cold war science fiction novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Marty Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) is moving with her father, stepmother, and stepbrother to a military base where her father will investigate possible Read More

Bad Lieutenant

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Tamerlis, Anthony Ruggiero, Victoria Bastel, Eddie Daniels

Synopsis: If police lieutenant Harvey Keitel's life could get any more sordid, he could probably sell tickets. The least of his vices is gambling, which has gotten him in Dutch with the mob. He abuses his body with drugs and his soul with hookers, and now he's turned to exploiting teenage girls for sex. Keitel Read More

King of New York

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes

Synopsis: The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made Read More

Caged Fury

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Erik Estrada, Richie Barathy, Roxanna Michaels, Paul L. Smith, James Hong

Synopsis: Prison chicks provide the basis for this exploitation film. The tale centers on two young women, one a naive, star-struck midwestern girl, and the other a savvy hitcher, who head for Tinseltown in search of stardom only to find themselves appearing in a soft-core porno flick. Unfortunately they Read More

War of the Worlds: Season 02

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jared Martin, Lynda Mason Green, Adrian Paul, Denis Forest, Catherine Disher

Synopsis: After a moderately successful first season in syndication, the H.G. Wells-based science fiction series War of the Worlds returns for a second season with several radical changes in place--and not merely the new title, War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion. As we shall see, the series has abruptly Read More

Freeway

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

War of the Worlds: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jared Martin, Lynda Mason Green, Philip Akin, Richard Chaves

Synopsis: Season One of the lavishly produced sci-fi series War of the Worlds begins with a two-hour pilot episode, establishing the fact that the Earth had first been visited by aliens from the planet Mortax in 1938, and that the two planets waged a violent war in 1953, with the Earth emerging triumphant Read More

China Girl

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Ms. 45

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Zoe Tamerlis, Steve Singer, Jack Thibeau, Peter Yellen, Darlene Stuto

Synopsis: Undeservedly thrashed by mainstream critics in its initial theatrical run, this stylish urban thriller from quirky director Abel Ferrara has since developed a modest cult following. The late Zoe Tamerlis stars as Thana, a mute seamstress in New York's Garment District who is raped by two different Read More

Driller Killer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jimmy Laine, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Bob de Frank, Harry Schultz, Peter Yellen

Synopsis: Iconoclastic filmmaker Abel Ferrara made his directorial debut with this gory but fascinating horror tale about a troubled artist (played by Jimmy Laine, aka Abel Ferrara). Haunted by bizarre hallucinations and the fear he'll end up a wino like his father, the artist eventually snaps and begins Read More