John Travolta Filmography

The Taking of Pelham 123

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Tony Scott directs this remake of the Walter Matthau-starring thriller from 1978 with this Columbia Pictures production that pits a transit cop (Denzel Washington) against a group of hijackers lead by John Travolta, who take over a subway train in order to rake in a hefty ransom. David Koepp (War of the Worlds Read More

Bolt

Actors: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis: From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Bolt, a tale of a superstar TV pup (voiced by John Travolta) who gets plopped in the middle of America with seemingly no way back to the glam and glitz of Hollywood. Thanks to his starring role on a hit television show, Bolt the pooch has become a household Read More

Hairspray

Actors: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden

Synopsis: Adam Shankman's adaptation of the stage musical Hairspray, itself an adaptation of the non-musical John Waters film of the same name, stars Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad, an overweight high-school student whose only dream is to be on a local Baltimore teen dance program. While her father (Christopher Walken 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

Wild Hogs

Actors: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta

Synopsis: A mismatched group of bored suburbanites longing to escape the stress of their daily lives and embrace the freedom of the open road finds that it takes more than polished chrome and leather jackets to truly experience the biker lifestyle in this revved-up road comedy starring John Travolta, Tim Allen Read More

Brando

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Bailey, Janet Aemisegger, Ellen Adler, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, James Caan, Jane Fonda

Synopsis: As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth, epic-length documentary Brando chronicles in encyclopedic detail (and with a consistently reverent overtone) the life and career of the man widely regarded as the most Read More

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D

Synopsis: Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this documentary. Using newsreel footage, rare NASA photographs, and digitally animated re-creations, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 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

Fat Actress [TV Series]

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Bryan Callen, Rachael Harris, Mark Curry, Michael McDonald

Synopsis: One should not be accused of making slurring remarks if one observes that former Cheers and Veronica's Closet star Kirstie Alley played the title character in the satirical "reality" series Fat Actress. In point of fact, this largely improvised and unscripted half-hour series was created by Alley Read More

A Love Song For Bobby Long

Actors: John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Deborah Kara Unger, Dane Rhodes

Synopsis: Bobby Long (John Travolta) is a washed up former literature professor with a voracious drinking habit. He lives in a rundown house in New Orleans with Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht of The Recruit), his former star pupil, also an alcoholic. Lawson is allegedly writing a novel about Bobby. Their Read More

Ladder 49

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut

Synopsis: An everyday hero recalls his life as he's forced to look death in the eye in this adventure drama. Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) is a young firefighter who is a member of Ladder Company 49, led by Capt. Kennedy (John Travolta), a tough but compassionate man who looks upon his fellow firefighters Read More

The Punisher

Actors: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Roy Scheider, Laura Elena Harring

Synopsis: An ordinary lawman goes outside the law to carry out his own brand of justice in this dark-themed thriller. Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) is an FBI agent who deeply loves his wife and son, but is also strongly devoted to his work. Castle's investigation of a powerful crime cartel leads to a gunfight Read More

Dream Jets

Synopsis: Take to the sky with the rich and famous as you step aboard the most exuberant personal jets ever to grace the clouds in this high flying video that shows just why the skyways of today may be the highways of tomorrow. The celebrity customers of an exclusive design team demand aircraft that are as Read More

Basic

Actors: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt, Taye Diggs

Synopsis: The disappearance of a military leader and the death of four of his men leads two investigators to wade through a morass of deceptions and half-truths in search of the facts in this thriller. Sgt. Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson) is the leader of an elite team of U.S. Army Special Forces operatives Read More

Jets: Altitude & Attitude, Vol. 4 - Blue Angels

Synopsis: The documentary Jets: Altitude & Attitude, Volume 4 - Blue Angels documents the history of the legendary stunt pilot group. Hosted by movie star and pilot John Travolta, the program offers a great deal of footage of the team from throughout their history. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Domestic Disturbance

Actors: John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo, Matt O'Leary, Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Synopsis: John Travolta stars in this thriller as divorced husband and father Frank Morrison, a boat builder concerned about his son Danny (Matthew O'Leary), a troubled 11-year-old who has shown a tendency to lie since his parents broke up. When his ex-wife Susan (Teri Polo) announces that she's getting Read More

Swordfish

Actors: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones

Synopsis: Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel Read More

Lucky Numbers

Actors: John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: While lots of people dream of winning the lottery, one man hatches a more ambitious plan than just buying a ticket and hoping for the best in this satiric comedy. Russ Richards (John Travolta), a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both Read More

Battlefield Earth

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: This big-budget science fiction adventure centers on a final battle between good and evil for control of the world. In the year 3000, Earth is ruled by the Psyclos, a vicious alien race of which Terl (John Travolta) is a member, that has laid waste to the planet, killed the majority of the Read More

The General's Daughter

Actors: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel Von Bargen, Clarence Williams III, James Woods

Synopsis: A murder on a military base unearths a netherworld of corruption in this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille. General Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) is a respected military leader with a flawless reputation; he's due to retire from the Army soon and is headed for a Vice-Presidential Read More

Forever Hollywood

Actors: Sharon Stone, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges, André De Toth

Synopsis: Chief film critic of Variety and director of the acclaimed Visions of Light (1993), Todd McCarthy spins this love letter to tinseltown. Funded in part by the city of Los Angeles, the film charts Hollywood's rapid evolution from a sleepy town to a gleaming center of glamour in the 1950s to its 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 Thin Red Line

Actors: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney

Synopsis: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars Read More

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

Synopsis: For fifty years, Chasen's restaurant and bar was the gathering place for Hollywood's elite, U.S. presidents and royalty. Famed for its paneled ambiance, world-class chili and its legendary Hobo Steak, it was where the rich and powerful were free to orchestrate complex deals, hash out conflicts or Read More

Welcome to Hollywood

Actors: Tony Markes, Adam Rifkin, Angie Everhart, David Andriole, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis: Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional "mockumentary" about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star. Anton Markwell (Tony Markes, who co-directed the film) is the object of Rifkin's inquiring Read More

Primary Colors

Actors: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a Read More

She's So Lovely

Crew: Executive Producer

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

Mad City

Actors: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: Investigative TV journalist Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) suffers setbacks and winds up filing routine reports from Madeline, California. Max and his eager intern Laurie (Mia Kirshner) are doing a story at the local Museum of Natural History when a bigger story erupts. The Museum's director, Mrs. Read More

Face/Off

Actors: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain

Synopsis: The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the agent. Archer's single-minded pursuit of Troy Read More

Broken Arrow

Actors: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: Hong Kong director John Woo's second U.S. film (his first was Hard Target) delivers a number of exciting action sequences but is let down by a credibility-straining plot. John Travolta plays Vic Deakins, an Air Force pilot on what is supposed to be a routine night flight mission with his co-pilot Read More

America's Flying Aces: Blue Angels - 50th Anniversary

Actors: John Travolta

Synopsis: This 44 minute thrill ride documents the high flying theatrics of the United States Navy's jet exhibition team, the Blue Angels. ~ Ed Atkinson, All Movie Guide Read More

Michael

Actors: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: There are angels among us...and they like lots of sugar in their coffee. Vartan Malt (Bob Hoskins) is the editor of a tabloid called the National Mirror that specializes in unlikely stories about celebrities and frankly unbelievable tales about ordinary folks. When Malt gets word that a Read More

Phenomenon

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Jeffrey DeMunn, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Director Jon Turteltaub followed up the hit While You Were Sleeping (1995) with this fantasy similar to Charly (1968) and a film from the previous year, Powder (1994). John Travolta stars as George Malley, a humble mechanic in a rural California town. On his 37th birthday, George celebrates at a 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

White Man's Burden

Actors: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Tom Bower

Synopsis: From director-writer Desmond Nakano comes this unusual role-reversal picture examining racism from a different perspective. Louis Pinnock (John Travolta) is a semi-literate worker in a chocolate candy factory. One day he makes a delivery to the mansion of wealthy Thaddeus Thomas (Harry Belafonte). Read More

Saturday Night Live: John Travolta

Actors: John Travolta, Seal

Synopsis: This 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by John Travolta and features musical guest Seal. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Pulp Fiction

Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious Read More

Look Who's Talking Now

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Lysette Anthony, David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, Danny DeVito, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: This final installment in the Look Who's Talking trilogy is a combination of Make Room For Daddy and The Lady and the Tramp. In the six years since the original Look Who's Talking, Mikey and Julie are now old enough to speak for themselves, so the producers came up with a new gimmick -- talking Read More

Chains of Gold

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Travolta

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable actioner a good-hearted social worker embarks upon a one-man crusade to save Miami teens from getting further involved with a gang of crack dealers. The social worker does this in large part to ease his own guilt at having been responsible for the death of his own son back Read More

Shout

Actors: John Travolta, James Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino

Synopsis: John Travolta stars as a hip music teacher in this old-fashioned pseudo-musical set in 1955, the dawn of the rock n' roll era. Travolta is Jack Cabe, a musician on the run in Texas for murdering a man during a recording session. Attempting to elude the law, Jack takes refuge at the Benedict School Read More

Boris and Natasha

Synopsis: A live-action rendering of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, this time we follow the exploits of the two Cold War "no-goodniks", Boris and Natasha. Sent from their beloved Pottsylvania by their "Fearless Leader", their job is to try to capture a missing time-reversing microchip. Espionage films being Read More

Eyes of an Angel

Actors: Jeffrey DeMunn, John Travolta, Ellie Raab, Tito Larriva

Synopsis: Both enemies and a very special friend follow a young girl and her father in flight from ruthless criminals in this drama. Bobby Allen (John Travolta) is a small-time crook working as a bagman for the mob in Chicago. When circumstances force Bobby to turn against his brother-in-law -- a Read More

Look Who's Talking, Too

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Elias Koteas, Twink Caplan, Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Mel Brooks

Synopsis: Amy Heckerling repeats the successful formula of Look Who's Talking in this sequel, with the addition of John Travolta singing "All Shook Up" to a group of nursery schoolers and Mel Brooks cast as the voice of a toilet. The film begins with James struggling to support his family. He stills wants Read More

Look Who's Talking

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal, Abe Vigoda, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Though its PG-13 rating is well earned, Look Who's Talking has some elements that might appeal to a family audience. Chief among them, of course, is the "talking baby" protagonist. The product of an extramarital affair, infant Mikey (played by several different babies, and given voice by Bruce Willis Read More

The Experts

Actors: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman, James Keach, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: SCTV alumnus Dave Thomas manned the megaphone for the direct-to-video Experts. John Travolta was between career highs when he agreed to appear in this anachronistic cold-war comedy. Travolta and Arye Gross play Travis and Wendell, a couple of vagabonds hired by Soviet spy Cameron Smith (Charles Martin Smith Read More

Twist of Fate

Actors: Ben Cross, Veronica Hamel, John Glover, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: The four-part British miniseries Pursuit, based upon Robert L. Fish's novel of the same name, was first telecast in the United States as the two-part "movie special" Twist of Fate. Bruce Greenwood essayed the leading role of Helmut Von Schraeder, an ex-S.S. officer on the run after conspiring to Read More

The Dumb Waiter

Actors: Tom Conti, John Travolta

Synopsis: Based on the one-act play by Harold Pinter, Robert Altman's The Dumb Waiter is a short made-for-TV movie originally shown on ABC. This absurdist crime story doesn't follow a traditional plot, but it follows the work of two hitmen: Ben (John Travolta) and Gus (Tom Conti). They hang out in the Read More

Perfect

Actors: David Paymer, John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anne de Salvo, Marilu Henner, Laraine Newman, Jann Wenner

Synopsis: Based on a series of Rolling Stone articles by Aaron Latham, this romance was set in the world of L.A.'s hip fitness scene. Rolling Stone reporter Adam Lawrence (John Travolta) comes to L.A. to write a story about a prominent businessman who's been arrested for drug dealing (shades of the John Read More

Olivia Newton-John: Twist of Fate

Synopsis: Enjoy the sounds of Olivia Newton-John's songs with titles such as "Two of a Kind," "Livin' in Desperate Times"and "Take a Chance." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Two of a Kind

Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Beatrice Straight, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John attempt to rekindle the box office sparks of Grease with this screwball fantasy comedy. The tale begins during a golf match in heaven among four angels --Charlie (Charles Durning), Earl (Scatman Crothers), Gonzales (Castulo Guerra), and Ruth (Beatrice Read More

Staying Alive

Actors: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso

Synopsis: Director Sylvester Stallone proves you really can't go home again in Staying Alive, the absurd sequel to Saturday Night Fever. The story finds Tony Manero (Travolta) six years later working as a waiter in a nightclub while he tries to realize his dreams of dancing on Broadway (what tough street Read More

Blow Out

Actors: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's classic art movie Blow-Up (1966) blends suspense and political paranoia when a Philadelphia soundman inadvertently records a murder. Former police technician Jack Terri (John Travolta) makes his living doing sound for slasher flicks. While Read More

Urban Cowboy

Actors: John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: "You a real cowboy?" John Travolta traded disco for a mechanical bull in this adaptation by James Bridges and Aaron Latham of Latham's article on Western nightlife. Texas country boy Bud (Travolta) moves to Houston to work on an oil rig with his Uncle Bob (Barry Corbin), and he swiftly becomes Read More

Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 04

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, John Travolta, Robert Hegyes

Synopsis: The fourth and final season of Welcome Back Kotter opens as capricious remedial-class teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabriel Kaplan) is promoted to vice principal of Buchanan High School, replacing his long-time nemesis Mr. Woodman (John Sylvester White)--who in turn has moved up the food chain to full Read More