John Stockwell Filmography

The L Word: Lez Girls

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bette's secret workplace romance may spell trouble for her. Meanwhile, Alice breaks things off with Phyllis, and Angus gets caught with his pants down. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

The L Word: Literary License to Kill

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While Bette faces the fact that Jodi may be moving out east, Tasha finds her military career and sexual identity clashing. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

Turistas

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett

Synopsis: John Stockwell's thriller Turistas begins when vacationers end up stranded in a little Brazilian village after a bus accident wipes out their transportation. Although many in the group are experienced when it comes to unusual travel destinations, none of them are able to get a handle on this Read More

Into the Blue

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott

Synopsis: Greed turns an idyllic vacation into a nightmare in this action drama. Jared Cole (Paul Walker) makes his living salvaging wreckage from ships off the coast of the Bahamas. He shares a rattle-trap trailer home with his girlfriend, Samantha "Sam" Nicholson (Jessica Alba), a shark expert who works Read More

Blue Crush

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake

Synopsis: Move over, Gidget -- a new breed of female surfers with style, guts and attitude hit the screen in this feature, which combines romance with a sports drama. Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) is a young woman living in Hawaii who has been surfing since she was a little girl, and over the past year has Read More

Rock Star

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Timothy Olyphant, Jason Flemyng, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor-turned-writer/director John Stockwell. Mark Wahlberg stars as Chris Cole, a wannabe rock star who works by day as a copy machine repairman Read More

crazy/beautiful

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Lucinda Jenney, Taryn Manning

Synopsis: The Romeo and Juliet story has been modernized to a high school setting previously, but this romance from director John Stockwell turns the tale inside out. Jay Hernandez stars as Carlos Nunez, a poor but athletically gifted Latino teenager who endures a two-hour bus ride every day from East L.A. Read More

Cheaters

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: Moral hypocrisy and the woes of America's public schools and educational system are the focus of Cheaters, which is based on a real-life 1995 cheating scandal at a Chicago high school. In a working class area of the city, teacher Dr. Gerald Plecki (Jeff Daniels) is desperate for his students to Read More

Stag

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, John Stockwell, Kevin Dillon, Taylor Dayne, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: A group of ten men come together for a bachelor party that goes horribly wrong in this made-for-TV drama. Mario Van Peebles and John Stockwell star as old friends Michael and Victor, both of them successful, well-off young professionals. The latter is about to be married, so Michael throws him a Read More

Breast Men

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Schwimmer, Chris Cooper, Emily Procter, Matt Frewer, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This docudrama recaps the history of silicone breast implants, beginning in 1962 when idealistic Houston medical resident Kevin Saunders (David Schwimmer) gets an idea after seeing how women pad their bras. After he shares his notion with cosmetic pro Dr. William Larson (Chris Cooper), the two Read More

The Nurse

Actors: Lisa Zane, Michael Fairman, John Stockwell, Janet Gunn

Synopsis: A young employee of a large corporation (William R. Moses) finds out that a fellow employee has been stealing money from the company. He informs his superiors of the man's embezzlement, which results in the embezzler killing his wife and his son, then shooting himself. The embezzler's daughter, a Read More

I Shot a Man in Vegas

Actors: John Stockwell, Janeane Garofalo, Brian Drillinger, Noelle Lippman, David Cubitt

Synopsis: The events leading up to a young man's death are chronicled in this gritty drama. It all begins during a night of youthful carousing. Johnny is a Vegas hustler and just before the event, he and his good friend Grant begin fighting in a blind alley. One has a two-by-four and the other a gun. Read More

Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Born to Ride

Actors: Teri Polo, John Stamos, John Stockwell

Synopsis: TV star John Stamos makes a game transition to the big screen in Born to Ride. Stamos plays a motorcycle whiz, who in 1939 is assigned to motorize a US cavalry troop. His irreverence and slovenliness makes Stamos a pariah to his superior officer John Stockwell -- and just to complicate matters Read More

The Eyes of the Panther

Synopsis: This film first debuted as an episode of the television anthology Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics. Based on a story by Ambrose Bierce, it tells of how the spirit of a wild panther continually plagues a young woman (Daphne Zuniga). ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Undercover

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: David Neidorf, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Corbin, David Harris, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: When a police officer is killed while investigating the drug trade at a South Carolina high school, his partner, Sheffield (David Neidorf), decides to get even. With the help of officers La Rue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Sgt. Irwin Lee (Barry Corbin), Sheffield goes undercover to discover the Read More

Billionaire Boys Club

Actors: Judd Nelson, Ron Silver

Synopsis: Billionaire Boys Club is the two-part TV adaptation of a book by Sue Horton (unpublished at the time of the film's first telecast). In flashback form, the story recounts the murder of Beverly Hills con artist Ron Levin (Ron Silver). The culprit is yuppie Joe Hunt (Judd Nelson), a sharp young Read More

Radioactive Dreams

Actors: John Stockwell, Michael Dudikoff, Lisa Blount, George Kennedy, Don Murray

Synopsis: This comedy is set 15 years after the final nuclear holocaust and centers upon two fellows who have been stuck in their fathers' elaborate bomb shelter since the bombs began to fall. They had plenty of food, clothing (from the 1940s), and necessities, but their only entertainment was a huge set of Read More

Top Gun

Actors: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer) for the coveted "Top Gun" award. When not so occupied, Mitchell carries on a romance with civilian consultant Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly McGillis Read More

Dangerously Close

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Stockwell, J. Eddie Peck, Carey Lowell, Bradford Bancroft, Don Michael Paul

Synopsis: This action drama is set in an affluent, conservative neighborhood seeking protection for its high school students. A company known as "The Sentinels" is hired to guarantee security at the school. However, the men in this company are more Nazi than Himmler, and they are soon bullying and abusing Read More

City Limits

Actors: Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall, Rae Dawn Chong, Robby Benson

Synopsis: This bleak post-apocalyptic science fiction actioner substitutes a plague instead of a bomb as the reason for civilization's demise but the result is the same -- grizzly motorcycle gangs with a ton of gasoline to burn. In City Limits the older generation has been wiped out by the plague, and the Read More

My Science Project

Actors: John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy, a high school hood, Michael Harlan, procrastinates on his science project until the day before it is due. Hastily seeking to rectify his predicament, the youth begins scouring an abandoned military dump and runs across a strange looking machine with a large crystal orb. He Read More

Inside the CIA: On Company Business, Part 2 - Assassination

Synopsis: This second program of a three-part series closely examines the American Central Intelligence Agency's alleged attempts to gain control over foreign government. It reviews evidence that the CIA has taken part in assassination attempts, with special attention paid to the problems in Iran and Read More

Inside the CIA: On Company Business, Part 3 - Subversion

Synopsis: This final installment of the three-part series provides an in-depth study of the Central Intelligence Agency's tools for destabilizing foreign governments. It gives critical attention to tactics employed by the CIA, including the planting of misinformation in foreign news sources. Questions are Read More

Quarterback Princess

Actors: Helen Hunt, Don Murray, John Stockwell, Barbara Babcock, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: This fact-based youth-oriented drama chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who stands tall in the face of sexist traditionalism and fights for her right to play on the varsity football team. Not only does she succeed, she also manages to become the homecoming queen. ~ Sandra Read More

Christine

Actors: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford

Synopsis: Director John Carpenter returns to the suburban landscape he explored so chillingly in Halloween (1978) with this lean, stripped-down adaptation of the Stephen King best-seller about a haunted car with a devilishly bad attitude and the teen underdog who falls head-over-heels for her Read More

Eddie and the Cruisers

Actors: Tom Berenger, Michael Paré, Joe Pantoliano, Helen Schneider

Synopsis: In the early 1960's, Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) and his band The Cruisers enjoyed a brief fling with success, but their career came to a halt when Eddie's badly damaged car was discovered in an accident on a bridge. However, Eddie's body was never found, and years later, a reissue of the group's Read More

Losin' It

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, Shelley Long, John P. Navin, Jr.

Synopsis: There is hardly any variation on the stereotyped teens-and-sex movie in this story about four high school seniors who travel to Mexico to find a brothel and have something to brag about when they get back home. Among the four is the sensitive Woody (Tom Cruise) who is not sure he wants this trip Read More

So Fine

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: Trying to recreate the screwball comedy success of his collaborations with Peter Bogdanovitch, actor Ryan O'Neal headlined this sporadically funny mixture of light farce and social satire. O'Neal stars as Bobby, an intellectual English professor who leaves his job when his father Jack (Jack Read More