Michael ImperioliFilmography

The Hungry Ghosts

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Sopranos star Michael Imperioli makes his feature directorial debut with this drama about a divorced couple (Steve Schirripa and Sharon Angela) that must work together to keep their troubled son off the streets. Meanwhile, a pair of ex-lovers (Nick Sandow and Aunjanue Ellis, cautiously navigate a Read More

Life on Mars [TV Series]

Actors: Jason O'Mara, Harvey Keitel, Gretchen Mol, Jonathan Murphy, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: A 21st Century New York City detective finds himself experiencing a surreal blast from the past when he's struck by a speeding car and transported back to 1973 in this ABC series inspired by the popular British television series of the same name. 2008: Detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) is in hot Read More

Stóra Planid

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Petur Johann Sigfusson, Eggert Thorleifsson, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Benedikt Erlingsson, Stefan Schaefer

Synopsis: A small time crook improves his status with the help of a delusional old man in this comedy from Iceland. David (Petur Johann Sigfusson) is an aspiring poet whose work is informed by the tragic death of his brother when they were both children. However, like most poets David can't support himself Read More

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

Actors: David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli, Sophie Auster, Paul Auster, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: A successful American novelist who has retreated into the country following the publication of his most recent book meets a most mysterious muse in director/screenwriter Paul Auster's elliptic psychological drama. His latest novel an instant success, famous author Martin Frost (David Thewlis) Read More

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Ellen Burstyn, Scott Cohen, Samantha Mathis, Vadim Imperioli

Synopsis: Emmy Award-winner Michael Imperioli and Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn headline this made for television adaptation of author and radio personality Mitch Albom's bestselling book about a suicidal ex-baseball player who finds redemption after being granted one more day with his dearly departed Read More

The Sopranos: Season 06

Actors: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese

Synopsis: HBO split the sixth and final season of its serial mafia drama The Sopranos into two halves, spaced 10 months apart: the first half (episodes 1-12) aired from mid-March through early June of 2006; a hiatus followed between episodes 12 and 13, before the series picked up again for its final nine Read More

Shark Tale

Actors: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patriarch of a family of sharks who lord over a bustling aquatic community based along a massive underwater reef. Don Lino has two sons, Frankie (voice of Michael Imperioli Read More

My Baby's Daddy

Actors: Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli, Method Man, John Amos

Synopsis: Three lazy pals find they're facing fatherhood simultaneously in this light-hearted comedy co-written by star Eddie Griffin. Lonnie (Griffin), G. (Anthony Anderson), and Dominick (Michael Imperioli) live stress-free lives with Lonnie's trash-talking Uncle Virgil (John Amos). But when all three Read More

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Actors: Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, Dagmara Dominczyk, Steve Grayhm, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Mitch Albom wrote the screenplay for this made-for-television adaptation of his best-selling story, which offers a novel perspective on life, death, and the meaning of our existence. Eddie (Jon Voight) is an elderly maintenance man who has spent most of his life keeping the rides at an amusement Read More

The Sopranos: Season 05

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand, Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Synopsis: To those viewers who thought that the surfeit of violence during the fourth season of HBO's The Sopranos would have expunged all mayhem from season five, we have but one thing to say: "Fuggetabouddit!" As usual, much of the trouble is sparked by the sort of domestic issues that in any other family Read More

High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Michael Nouri, Renee Faia, Joe La Due, Steven R. Schirripa

Synopsis: The true story of one of the most gifted card players in history provides the basis for this hard-hitting drama. Stu Ungar (Michael Imperioli) was barely in his teens when he first discovered his talent for playing cards, especially poker and gin rummy. His father, a nightclub owner and small-time Read More

Love in the Time of Money

Actors: Vera Farmiga, Domenick Lombardozzi, Malcolm Gets, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Like La Ronde, Peter Mattei's debut film Love in the Time of Money consists of a series of conversational duets that ultimately returns to the person who started the entire chain of events. Starting with prostitute Greta (Vera Farmiga) and disgruntled trick Eddie (Domenick Lombardozzi), the story Read More

The Sopranos: Season 04

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: Sixteen months after the end of The Sopranos' third season, Season Four gets under way. And if you think THIS is a long hiatus, "Fuggeddabouddit"--wait until we get to Season Six! New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano finally has an excuse to whack the troublesome Ralphie Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano, who Read More

Too Tired To Die

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Mira Sorvino, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Imperioli, Geno Lechner

Synopsis: South Korean-born Wonsuk Chin, a NYC resident for eight years, made his directorial debut with this hip comedy, shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. With numerous cinematic references and allusions (Bergman, Godard, Woo, Hartley), the tale begins with a black-and-white silent sequence Read More

The Sopranos: Season 03

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Being head of the Northern New Jersey branch of the DiMeo crime family is no bed of roses for Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) in Season Three of HBO's The Sopranos. Tony's headaches begin early on with the dangerously unstable, sexually deviant and recklessly profane Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Read More

On the Run

Actors: Michael Imperioli, John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Nick Sandow, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: An ordinary guy with a crooked friend discovers no good deed goes unpunished in the comedy On The Run. Albert (Michael Imperioli) is having a quiet evening at home when he gets a call from his old pal Louie (John Ventimigila), whom he hasn't heard from in years. There's a good reason for this Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Campbell Scott, Blair Brown, Jamey Sheridan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lisa Gay Hamilton

Synopsis: Campbell Scott is both star and co-director of this elaborate (albeit economically produced) four-hour TV version of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The film is based on Scott's earlier theatrical production of the same play, with several of the same actors repeating Read More

The Sopranos: Season 02

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: New Jersey Mafia boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) continues maintaining the facade of being a respectable suburban husband and father while operating a vast criminal organization from the confines of the Bada-Bing Club during Season Two of The Sopranos. Now that the treacherous Uncle Junior Read More

Summer of Sam

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz) held New York City in terror as he went on a killing spree, periodically writing letters to New York's media in which he took full responsibility for the murders and made clear that he intended to kill Read More

The Sopranos: Season 01

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: The first season of The Sopranos finds lifelong "organization man" Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) taking over from Jackie Aprile Sr., terminally ill boss of the northern New Jersey branch of the DiMeo crime family. Tony's promotion is met with mixed reactions from his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) Read More

Witness to the Mob

Actors: Nicholas Turturro, Tom Sizemore, Debi Mazar, Abe Vigoda, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The key figure in this two-part TV mob miniseries is Mafia snitch Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (Nicholas Turturro). Gravano ratted on John Gotti (Tom Sizemore), who manipulated the 1985 murder of mob boss Paul Castellano (Abe Vigoda). Gravano is seen rising in the mob ranks through various Read More

The Deli

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Judith Malina, Debi Mazar, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, David Johansen

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hard-luck gambler learns a new commandment: Honor Thy Mother's Lottery Winnings. Johnny Amico (Mike Starr) runs a delicatessen in New York City; regarded as a nice guy by his friends and regular customers, he has a weakness for gambling and is usually in debt. Johnny is Read More

Office Killer

Actors: Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Barbara Sukowa, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Photographer Cindy Sherman, who often uses motifs from exploitation films in her work, pays witty tribute to slasher films in this satiric horror-comedy. Dorine Douglas (Carol Kane) has spent 16 years at the bottom of the totem pole as a copy editor for Constant Consumer magazine when, due Read More

River Made to Drown In

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Michael Imperioli, James Duval, Ute Lemper

Synopsis: Richard Chamberlain plays a dying man trying to tie together the loose ends of his past in this melodrama. Thaddeus (Chamberlain) is in the last stages of AIDS, and he's determined to live out his final days in the company of old friends. First on the list is Allen (Michael Imperioli), an artist Read More

Law & Order: Atonement

Synopsis: Among the stolen loot recovered from a purse snatcher is a handbag belonging to a missing model. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) pursue the likelihood that the woman is not only missing, but dead. Though the purse thief is quickly dismissed as a suspect, the Read More

Last Man Standing

Actors: Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, Michael Imperioli, Alexandra Powers, David Patrick Kelly

Synopsis: The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the Read More

Girl 6

Actors: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Jenifer Lewis, Debi Mazar

Synopsis: Spike Lee directed this comedy-drama about a woman who falls into a career in phone sex. An African-American woman (Theresa Randle) who aspires to a career as an actress endures a number of dispiriting jobs (handing out leaflets and working as a coat check girl) before reaching the end of her rope Read More

I Shot Andy Warhol

Actors: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Dorff

Synopsis: The true story of Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who became notorious after shooting art world icon Andy Warhol, is portrayed in this fact-based drama. In an attempt to present a fair assessment of her actions, writer-director Mary Harron focuses on Solanas' troubled life, from her Read More

Girls Town

Actors: Lili Taylor, Anna Grace, Bruklin Harris, Aunjanue Ellis, Ramya Pratt

Synopsis: When one of their friends commits suicide, three young women learn to stand up for themselves and strike back against male-dominated society in this drama. Patti (Lili Taylor), Emma (Anna Grace), Angela (Bruklin Harris), and Nikki (Aunjanue Ellis) are four teenage girls who attend the same high Read More

Under the Bridge

Synopsis: This independent film is about four homeless people in Brooklyn, and how they manage to get by from day to day. At the beginning, it depicts the lives of Sammy, his heroin-addicted girlfriend and his crack-addict brother. Sammy's brother and girlfriend raise money by selling their bodies for sex. Read More

Trees Lounge

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Mark Boone, Jr., Chloë Sevigny, Michael Buscemi, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Character actor Steve Buscemi made his debut as a writer and director with this seriocomic tale of a guy who is going through something but doesn't know just what it is. Tommy is a 31-year-old auto mechanic who lost his last job after "borrowing" 1,500 dollars from the cash register and heading to Read More

Sweet Nothing

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Mira Sorvino, Paul Calderon, Billie Neal, Brian Tarantina

Synopsis: This unflinching and straightforward look at a middle-class man's descent into drug addiction was based on the diaries of an addict named Angel. Found in a Bronx apartment, the diaries were made into a film by screenwriter Lee Drysdale and director Gary Winick. Angel (Michael Imperioli) is a Wall Read More

The Basketball Diaries

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jimmy Papiris, Nick Gaetani, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Alexander Gaberman, Ben Jorgensen, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, Akiko Ashley

Synopsis: Very loosely based on the memoir of the same name, The Basketball Diaries transposes the late '60s adolescence of writer/artist Jim Carroll to some unspecified time period at least 15 years later, further confusing the timeframe with three decades of rock music, some by Carroll himself. Jim Read More

The Addiction

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

Bad Boys

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Former video director Michael Bay had his first big hit with this action comedy, which also returned producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson to the big-budget, high-violence movies that they successfully churned out in the '80s. Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are Read More

Dead Presidents

Actors: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez

Synopsis: Albert Hughes and his brother Allen Hughes followed their striking debut Menace II Society with this ambitious look at the social and political lives of the African-American community in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is a young man coming of age in the Bronx in 1968. Read More

Flirt

Actors: Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Dwight Ewell, Geno Lechner, Dominik Bender, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story three times. But while the basic narrative remains the same -- a congenital flirt must decide whether or not to Read More

Clockers

Actors: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David

Synopsis: Based on Richard Price's grim best-seller, and directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay co-written with Price, Clockers takes the structure of a police procedural to build a chilling portrait of despair, hope, and the unanswered problem of black-on-black crime in an urban housing project. The Read More

Hand Gun

Actors: Treat Williams, Seymour Cassel, Paul Schulze, Toby Huss, Angel Caban

Synopsis: Two estranged brothers discover that family secrets can have a high value on the wrong side of the law in this crime drama. Jack McCallister (Seymour Cassel) is an aging career criminal whose luck is about to give out; Jack and his henchmen are ambushed by police in the midst of a major robbery Read More

Men Lie

Actors: Doug DeLuca, Ellia Thompson, Frank Vincent, Garry Blackwood, Catherine Landherr

Synopsis: The subject of this urban comedy could be "Two-timing men, and the women that despise them" as it presents the scathing opinions of women observing an adulterous misogynist in action. The adulterer in question is Scott who swears fealty to his beloved fiance, but then goes out and chases anything Read More

NYPD Blue: Dead and Gone

Synopsis: Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) comes to the rescue when a fellow cop dies -- and not in the line of duty -- in the apartment of Andy's prostitute friend Lois (Shannon Cochran). Lesniak (Justine Miceli) is harassed on the job by her former boyfriend -- also a cop. And in the midst of investigating Read More

Scenes from the New World

Actors: Michael Ralph, David Chan

Synopsis: The old man who owns a small suburban Queens apartment house wants to reserve it for Chinese tenants, but his grandson and his Latina girlfriend are more interested in breaking down such barriers rather than maintaining them. They seek out a desireable mix of people to share the place with them Read More

Amateur

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, Damian Young, Chuck Montgomery

Synopsis: Hal Hartley's fourth feature is a significant break from the quirky romantic comedy territory of his previous work -- though all of the deadpan idiosyncracies which make him such a singular filmmaker remain intact, here he tries his hand at the thriller genre, a move yielding typically Read More

Postcards from America

Actors: James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe, Michael Imperioli, Michael Ringer

Synopsis: This avant garde film is based on two angry autobiographical books by David Wojnarowicz: Close to the Knives and Memories That Smell Like Gasoline. Wojnarowicz, a noted performance artist, died of AIDS . The film examines three sides of his life. The first looks at his suburban childhood and the Read More

Joey Breaker

Actors: Richard Edson, Cedella Marley, Fred Fondren, Erik King, Gina Gershon

Synopsis: Richard Edson stars as the title character, a New York talent agent who takes little interest in the world outside of the entertainment industry. Then he falls for Cyan (Cedella Marley), a Jamaican waitress working to put herself through nursing school. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Night We Never Met

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Justine Bateman

Synopsis: Two people fall in love without meeting -- and discover a wealth of complications when they try to get together -- in this romantic comedy. Even though he's about to be married, Brian McVeigh (Kevin Anderson) doesn't want to give up his old apartment, where he can swill beer, scarf pizza, and be Read More

Household Saints

Actors: Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lili Taylor, Judith Malina, Michael Rispoli

Synopsis: Household Saints is a leisurely-paced portrait of three different generations of working-class, New York-based, Italian women. Carmela Santangelo (Judith Malina) is an elderly immigrant whose son (Vincent D'Onofrio) wins a wife, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman), during a pinochle game. The Read More

Malcolm X

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape of the letter X. When the film's narrative Read More

Fathers and Sons

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Rory Cochrane, Ellen Greene, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After his wife dies, Max Fish (Jeff Goldblum) trades in his directing career for the life of a New Jersey bookstore owner. As Max struggles to overcome his drinking problem, his moody son Ed (Rory Cochrane) tries out a drug scene of his own, and the two try to work out their changing Read More

Jungle Fever

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Anthony Quinn, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the repercussions of an interracial affair upon two very distinct communities. Wesley Snipes is Flipper, a happily married and successful architect, and Annabella Sciorra is Read More

GoodFellas

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish Read More

Lean on Me

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume, Beverly Todd, Lynne Thigpen, Jermaine Hopkins

Synopsis: After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987) and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in a major motion picture. Freeman is real-life high school principal Read More

Alexa

Actors: Christine Moore, Kirk Baily, Ruth Collins, Joseph P. Giardina

Synopsis: If wealthy men keep giving her the luxurious lifestyle that she has grown accustomed to, Alexa will give them any pleasures of the flesh that they care to experience. But she has to come to grips with her true feelings about her ways when she agrees to let playwright Tony explore the depths of her Read More