Michael MadsenFilmography

Green Lantern: First Flight

Actors: Christopher Meloni, Victor Garber, Tricia Helfer, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: The creators of Superman: Doomsday, Batman: Gotham Knight, and Wonder Woman reteam to tell the origins of the Green Lantern in this animated DC Comics feature. When Hal Jordan (voice of Christopher Meloni) is recruited to join the Green Lantern corps, he is placed under the direct supervision of Read More

House

Actors: Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Heidi Dippold, Julie Ann Emery, Bill Moseley

Synopsis: Director Robby Henson's psychological thriller House concerns a husband and wife who, attempting to patch up their marriage after the death of their child, decide on a spur of the moment to ignore their regularly scheduled therapy session and set off on a trip. After a car accident incapacitates Read More

Hell Ride

Actors: Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, David Carradine, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Veteran AIP genre star Larry Bishop (son of famed Rat Packer Joey Bishop) directs and stars in this gritty revenge tale concerning a biker gang that rallies to avenge the violent murder of a fellow gang member. An homage to such classic biker films as Chrome and Hot Leather and Angel Unchained Read More

Vice

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson, Mark Boone, Jr.

Synopsis: Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Mykelti Williamson star in director Raul Sanchez Inglis's thriller about a once-respected policeman whose team is targeted for death after a high-profile drug deal goes horribly awry. Detective Max Walker (Madsen) used to be the best cop on the beat, but ever Read More

Boarding Gate

Actors: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin, Joana Preiss, Alex Descas, Kim Gordon

Synopsis: From director Olivier Assayas comes this erotic thriller starring Asia Argento as Sandra, a former prostitute, and Michael Madsen as Miles, her onetime pimp-turned-high-powered businessman. Brought back together after a separation, Sandra and Miles are reunited when Sandra returns to Paris after Read More

A Beautiful Life

Actors: Denise Richards, Jesse Garcia, Dana Delany, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: From director Alejandro Chomski comes this indie drama, adapted from a play by writer Wendy Hammond. The film stars Denise Richards (Wild Things) as an exotic dancer and features supporting contributions from Michael Madsen, Debi Mazar, and Dana Delany. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

Cosmic Radio

Actors: Jonathan Sachar, Irene Bedard, Michael Madsen, Wes Studi, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: The owner of a Idyllwild counter-culture radio station finds his modest business unexpectedly threatened when the daughter of a conservative senator comes to town and sparks a heated political tempest by attempting to undermine a push to clear cut a nearby forest. Now, as the unassuming citizens Read More

Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia

Actors: Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, and Michael Madsen headline first-time feature filmmaker Michael Straininger's story of a successful writer and scholar who falls under the spell of a bewitching seductress on an obsessive quest for immortality. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short story of the Read More

You Might As Well Live

Actors: Joshua Peace, Michael Madsen, Stephen McHattie, Dov Tiefenbach, Kristen Hager

Synopsis: A certified loser sets out to prove that he's "a real somebody" by procuring the three items that his childhood hero claims every winner has in this morbid comedy from writer/director Simon R. Ennis. Hard as he may try, Robert R. Mutt (Joshua Pearce) can never catch an even break; after failing to Read More

Deep Winter

Actors: Eric Lively, Kellan Lutz, Luke Goss, Peyton List, Robert Carradine

Synopsis: A maverick downhill skier and a fearless snowboarder attempt the most daring mountain descent ever captured on film in this snowbound thriller starring Eric Lively, Kellan Lutz, Robert Carradine, and Michael Madsen. Tyler Crowe and Mark Rider may have different means of getting down the mountain Read More

Strength and Honour

Actors: Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain, Michael Rawley

Synopsis: A man who has turned his back on violence must reclaim his skills as a fighter for the sake of his family in this sentimental drama. Sean Kelleher (Michael Madsen) is an amateur boxer who goes too far while sparring with his brother and accidentally kills him; horrified by his actions, Sean Read More

Tooth & Nail

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rachel Miner, Nicole DuPort, Rider Strong, Michael Kelly, Alexandra Barreto, Nicole Dupont

Synopsis: Trapped in an abandoned hospital by a wandering band of savage cannibals, a small group of survivors intent on repopulating a post-apocalyptic world must fight for their lives and the future of the human race. We've run out of gas, and now the civilized world is a fading memory. Still, there are Read More

Hoboken Hollow

Actors: Jason Connery, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Holton, Lin Shaye, Randy Spelling

Synopsis: A man scarred by the horrors of war encounters a new low in human brutality in this extreme horror story. Trevor Lloyd (Jason Connery) is a veteran of the Iraq war who has had a falling out with his wife and has decided to head west to start his life over again. While hitch-hiking through Texas Read More

Crash and Burn

Actors: Erik Palladino, Michael Madsen, David Moscow, Peter Jason, David Groh

Synopsis: Michael Madsen, Erik Palladino, and David Moscow star in director Russell Mulcahy's action thriller about an undercover FBI agent on a mission to infiltrate the treacherous world of "choppers." Special Agent Kevin Hawkins (Palladino) knows that the stakes are high when he ventures into the world Read More

Being Michael Madsen

Actors: Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A movie star who is reeling from the pressures of celebrity tries to show the media just how it feels in this independent satiric comedy. Michael Madsen stars as Michael Madsen, a wildly popular motion picture actor who has started to emotionally buckle under the stress of his fame and success Read More

Buttermilk Sky

Actors: Michael Madsen, David Carradine

Scary Movie 4

Actors: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson

Synopsis: Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair for yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in the latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, this time mocking such frightful blockbusters as Saw, War of the Worlds, The Village, and The Grudge Read More

BloodRayne

Actors: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Billy Zane

Synopsis: The war against the forces of darkness becomes a family affair in this cinematic prequel to the popular video game Bloodrayne. In 16th century Europe, Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley) is an evil ruler who holds more power than any man alive, but he still dreams of having more, and when he's told of three Read More

UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine

Actors: Michael Madsen, Mac Fyfe, Steve Arbuckle, Victoria Nestorowicz, Erin MacKinnon, John Evans, Deanna Dezmari

Synopsis: The gifted Michael Madsen (Crime Story, Reservoir Dogs, Donnie Brasco) stars in the low-budget, direct-to-video exploitationer UKM: Ultimate Killing Machine. The film concerns Waylon and Buddy, two friends who enlist in the armed forces but wind up in a top-secret experimental medical facility. Read More

The Covenant: Brotherhood of Evil

Actors: Edward Furlong, Chandra West, Michael Madsen

Living & Dying

Actors: Edward Furlong, Michael Madsen, Arnold Vosloo, Bai Ling

Synopsis: Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers Read More

The Last Hour

Actors: DMX, Michael Madsen, Kobé, Paul Sorvino, David Carradine

Synopsis: DMX, Michael Madsen, Paul Sorvino, and David Carradine star in first-time feature filmmaker Kobé's thriller concerning a man who is summoned to a remote house in China by his deceased father, only to discover upon arriving that he isn't the only person on the guest list. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

Eyes Front

Actors: Michael Madsen, Christopher Stapleton

Synopsis: Prolific hardcore/punk music video director Darren Doane writes and directs this brutal thriller starring Michael Madsen and Christopher Stapleton as two remorseless killers from disparate backgrounds. One of the two killers is a family man who suddenly snaps, and longs for redemption after Read More

Croc

Actors: Michael Madsen, Peter Tuinstra, Sherry Phungprasert, Elizabeth Healey, Scott Hazell

Synopsis: An enormous crocodile terrorizes a Thai beach resort in this tale of terror in the water starring Michael Madsen. As the local begin to mysteriously disappear and various appendages are found floating in the swamps, the locals offer $5000 to anyone able to capture the beast responsible for all the Read More

All In

Actors: Dominique Swain, Michael Madsen, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Russo

Synopsis: A medical student with mounting debts draws on her formidable poker skills in order to stay afloat in this gambling drama starring Dominique Swain and Michael Madsen. As a young girl, Alicia "Ace" Anderson (Swain) frequently accompanied her card shark father (Madsen) to clandestine gambling rooms Read More

Machine

Actors: Michael Lazar, Michael Madsen, Neil McDonough, James Russo, Paul Sloan

Synopsis: Beneath the bright lights of Hollywood, the city of Los Angeles is teeming with crime and corruption. Though the majority of people never see the dark side of this city, it still festers just beneath the surface. Michael Madsen, Neal McDonough, and James Russo star in a crime film that isn't Read More

Afghan Knights

Actors: Michael Madsen, Steve Bacic, Gary Stretch, Chris Kramer

Synopsis: U.S. military experts engage in a paranormal battle for survival while attempting to rescue a fellow soldier who was left behind in Afghanistan. When Pepper (Steve Bacic) left a man behind in Afghanistan, he didn't realize that decision would linger with him for the rest of his days. Now, Pepper Read More

Sin City

Actors: Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Rosario Dawson

Synopsis: The Eisner Award-winning comic series Sin City comes to life in this live-action feature adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, this violent crime noir paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity Read More

Chasing Ghosts

Actors: Michael Madsen

Synopsis: When a weary detective on the verge of retirement begins receiving ominous messages from a sadistic serial killer determined to stir up the past, the stage is set for a deadly confrontation in an all-star crime drama featuring Michael Madsen, Gary Busey, Meat Loaf, and Michael Rooker. Years on the Read More

The Last Drop

Actors: Billy Zane, Roden Karel, Michael Madsen, Alexander Skarsgård

Synopsis: In the midst of a bold military strike designed to end World War II before Christmas, a skilled team of special operatives are assigned the task of locating a hidden cache of Nazi gold in this tense wartime adventure starring Michael Madsen and Billy Zane. With 35,000 United States troops dropped Read More

L.A. Dicks

Synopsis: A pair of wise cracking cops competes with a group of detectives to see who can become the first to break big in Hollywood. In the City of Angels everyone wants to be a star, even the police. Now, as the competition heats up to find out who will ascend to stardom and who will stick to the street Read More

Tilt [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Madsen, Christopher Bauer, Kristin Lehman, Todd Williams, Don McManus

Synopsis: The nine-episode inaugural season of the ESPN poker drama Tilt was heralded by a preview special, taking viewers behind the scenes of the production and detailing various important plot points (without giving away any significant twists or turns). The series proper, which lasts nine episodes Read More

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino's sprawling homage to action films of both the East and the West reaches its conclusion in this continuation of 2003's ultra-violent Kill Bill Vol. 1. Having dispatched several of her arch-enemies in the first film, The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues in Kill Bill Vol. 2 on her Read More

Renegade

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Eddie Izzard, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: From Jan Kounen, the French director of the violent cult actioner Dobermann, comes this loose adaptation of Jean "Mobius" Giraud's comic series Blueberry. Vincent Cassel stars as Mike Blueberry, a lawman whose past comes back to haunt him when his town is invaded by the nefarious Blount (Michael Madsen Read More

West Memphis Three

Frankenstein

Actors: Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: This made-for-cable Frankenstein was originally intended as the pilot for a weekly series based on Frankenstein: The Prodigal Son, a novel by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. The story is set in modern-day New Orleans, the home of demented scientist Dr. Victor Helios (Thomas Kretschmann). Helios Read More

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Actors: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Julie Dreyfus, David Carradine, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Perhaps the most highly anticipated film of 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 1 marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after a six-year hiatus. Re-teaming the director with Uma Thurman for the first time since 1994's Pulp Fiction, the film was originally the first half of what was to be a Read More

My Boss's Daughter

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Jeffrey Tambor, Andy Richter, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Anarchic comedy veteran David Zucker directs hot young thing of 2003 Ashton Kutcher in the fast-paced romantic comedy My Boss's Daughter. Kutcher plays rookie executive Tom Stansfield, who wants to impress his demanding boss, Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp), and win the heart of said boss' Read More

Action!

Actors: Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Action! is a 90-minute amalgam of choice clips from popular action films, peppered with interviews of the actors and filmmakers involved. Among the blockbusters represented herein are The French Connection, 48 Hours, Alien, Die Hard, Independence Day, Speed, and the "Indiana Jones" trilogy. Read More

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout

Actors: Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Mario Van Peebles, Andrew Bryniarski, Oleg Taktarov

Synopsis: On February 28, 1997, a pair of heavily armed and heavily armored outlaws named Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasarenu, who had previously cut a crooked swath throughout the Los Angeles area as "The High Incident Bandits," botched the robbery of a bank in North Hollywood. The confrontation Read More

Die Another Day

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan makes his fourth appearance as suave super-spy James Bond in this espionage thriller, the 20th film in the official Bond series. While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond finally wins his Read More

The Real Deal

Synopsis: Vince Vassar, an infamous Hollywood producer, thinks that the power he wields is limitless. But when he shuts his employee Sammy out of the multi-million dollar movie deal that Sammy brought him, the scorned assistant decides to eliminate Vince from the deal, and from every future one. Read More

L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve

Actors: Marc Singer, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Charles Durning

Synopsis: A group of dirty cops are forced to cover for one another when a new officer joins the force in this police drama. Captain Ellsworth (Dennis Hopper) has to deal with Sam Steele (Marc Singer), an over-eager new cop who decides to move in on a bank robbery, rather than wait for backup as instructed. Read More

Pressure Point

Actors: Michael Madsen, Jeff Wincott, Michele Scarabelli

Synopsis: Mistaken identity leads a man into a race against the law in this action thriller. Jed Griffin (Michael Madsen) is traveling through Vermont in a motor home with his wife and family when they happen upon Rudy Wicker (Jeff Wincott). Wicker is a desperate criminal whose attempt to rob a bank left Read More

Extreme Honor

Synopsis: Navy SEAL Brascoe (Dan Andersen), is forced out of the service in disgrace after being framed by his partner Cody (Olivier Gruner) regarding a conflict gone wrong. Now a civilian without direction, Brascoe learns that his bad luck hasn't run out yet: His young son is dying from cancer and Brascoe Read More

The Ghost

Actors: Brad Dourif, Richard Hatch, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A rivalry between two career criminals leads to a chase across two continents in this action thriller. Jing (Chung Lai) is a beautiful but deadly Chinese hit woman who, after being abandoned as a child, was adopted by the Tong, the Chinese organized crime syndicate to whom she has sworn lifelong Read More

The Stray

Actors: Michael Madsen, Angie Everhart

Synopsis: A woman's compassion may be her downfall in this suspense drama. Kate (Angie Everhart) is a wealthy woman who runs a successful restaurant and is involved with the rough-edged but well-meaning Ben (Michael Madsen). One day, Kate's car hits Gil (Stefan Lysenko), a homeless man who was crossing the Read More

The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., Jonathan Silverman, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Originally aired on the Showtime cable network, this sequel continues the adventures of two determined postal inspectors as they track down a serial killer who uses mail fraud as a means of hunting down his victims, murdering them, and then stealing their identities. Jonathan Silverman and Louis Gossett, Jr. Read More

High Noon

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most acclaimed Westerns gets a new interpretation in this made-for-TV remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1952 classic. Will Kane (Tom Skerritt), the marshal of the frontier town of Hadleyville, is stepping down to marry his sweetheart Amy (Susanna Thompson) and move on to a less Read More

The Price of Air

Actors: Josh Evans, Charis Michelsen, Michael Madsen, Dick Van Patten, Michelle Phillips

Synopsis: A drug runner finds his life is in danger when he becomes hooked on his own merchandise in this drama. Paul (Josh Evans) is a young hoodlum who falls in with Mr. Ball (Michael Madsen), a crime kingpin marketing a new street drug that he tells Paul is "more addictive than air." With few prospects Read More

42K

Actors: Aaron Bruno, Mike Asman, Drew Stewart, Jon Monroy, Jarod Legsdin

Synopsis: When four dudes find a magical necklace that summons four foxy women looking to have a good time, the sparks fly and the partying begins in this outrageous fantasy comedy co-starring Michael Madsen. With the sexpots on their arms and nasty things on their minds, the guys think they've hit horny Read More

The Primal Instinct

Actors: Michael Madsen, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Celia Xavier

Synopsis: Celia (Celia Xavier), a lovely probation officer, assumes the identity of her sister, Vanessa (Xavier), when footage of Vanessa's death shows up on the Internet. As Celia goes deeper into her investigation she discovers a murky, shameless world of dot.com sex and bondage, of which her sister was a Read More

Vampires Anonymous

Actors: Nicole Forester, Paul Popowich, Steve Monroe, Michelle Stafford, Eddie Kehler

Synopsis: This dark comedy stars Paul Popowich as a handsome vampire named Vic. After sucking his last girlfriend's blood in the back of a '57 Chevy, it becomes clear to Vic that this is no way to live so he joins a 12 step program and vows to give up the vampire lifestyle for good. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Read More

Choke

Actors: Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Things are not going well today for middle-aged businessman Henry (Dennis Hopper). His young daughter (Chelsy Reynolds) has possibly killed a man in a drunken hit-and-run accident and a slimy business cohort (Roy Tate) is pressuring him to take part in yet another shadowy deal that Henry wants no Read More

Fall

Actors: Michael Madsen, Daniel Baldwin, Chad McQueen, Karl Pruner

Synopsis: Daniel Baldwin made his directorial debut with this feature, which blends dark comedy into an action-packed crime thriller. Jeremy (Michael Madsen) is a Mob lieutenant whose brother-in-law (Joe Mantegna) is an FBI agent. When a crackdown on organized crime threatens to put Jeremy behind bars, his Read More

Luck of the Draw

Actors: James Marshall, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: This stylish crime thriller concerns a former criminal trying to set himself on the straight and narrow, until he happens upon a set of bootleg printing plates for $100 bills and soon finds himself a wanted man by both sides of the law. Luck of the Draw (also known as Quicksand), stars William Read More

Sacrifice

Actors: Michael Madsen, Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis: A serial killer with a singularly nasty penchant for peculiar mutilations makes a mistake when his next victim is the daughter of Tyler Pierce $Michael Madsen), a career bank robber who does not let a little thing like being in prison stop him from finding out who the killer is. Pierce escapes Read More

Detour

Actors: Gary Busey, Jeff Fahey, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A con artist and his friends join an attempt to steal from the local organized crime syndicate, which they discover turns out to be a set up. The group escapes and they hide out at the thief's newly inherited dairy farm. While reconsidering their chosen profession and deciding to become Read More

The Florentine

Actors: Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Jeremy Davies, Tom Sizemore, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The regulars at a shot-and-a-beer bar in a decaying working-class town are the focus of Nick Stagliano's drama The Florentine. Michael Madsen plays Whitey, who owns a bar called The Florentine where most of the guys he knows hang out. His sister Molly (Virginia Madsen, Michael's real life sister) Read More

Voodoo Dawn

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A criminal hiding out in a remote area in the Louisiana bayou learns the art of voodoo. His enemies quickly learn of his powers and must battle him before he casts a particularly diabolical curse. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Agent of Death

Actors: Eric Roberts, Bryan Genesse, Ice-T, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, President Fallbrook (John Beck) is doing poorly in the polls a week before he's up for re-election. To boost his popularity, one of his advisors comes up with a plan -- stage a kidnapping, and when the chief executive is released under seemingly heroic circumstances Read More

Species II

Actors: Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In the science-fiction thriller Species (1995), Natasha Hentsridge appeared as the beautiful but deadly Sil, a human-alien DNA combo. In this sequel, Hentsridge portrays Eve, a government experiment concocted to gain an understanding of how to combat future aliens, while Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger Read More

Vengeance Unlimited [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Madsen, Kathleen York, Gregg Henry, Allen Cutler, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: In this TV drama series, the somewhat sinister anti-hero Mr. Chapel (Michael Madsen) is "Mr. Right for those who've been wronged." Working outside the system, Chapel delivers his own brand of justice. When a criminal gets away with it and is declared not guilty, friends and loved ones of victims Read More

Final Reckoning

Trail of a Serial Killer

Actors: Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Chad McQueen

Synopsis: For 10 years, FBI agent Jason Enola has been obsessed with capturing a particularly clever serial killer who surrounds his victims with a series of notes, the only clues to his identity. For the past four years, the killer hadn't murdered anyone, but then the killings start up again, and Enola and Read More

Supreme Sanction

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Michael Madsen, David Dukes, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Donald Faison

Synopsis: A hired killer (Kristy Swanson) joins forces with one of her targets after seeing him with his son, but while this saves one man's life, it also means the one-time killer is now a hunted woman, with operatives of a classified government agency hot on her trail. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Diary of a Serial Killer

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Madsen, Arnold Vosloo, Julia Campbell

Synopsis: An investigative journalist becomes intrigued by a serial killer after looking at the criminal's latest victim. In attempting to see the world through the eyes of the maniacal murderer, the reporter becomes so like him that he finds himself falsely accused of the murders. While he attempts to Read More

Donnie Brasco

Actors: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche

Synopsis: This drama about an undercover cop who learns the hidden dangers of working his way inside the mob was based on a true story. Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI agent who is given an assignment to infiltrate the Mafia; calling himself Donnie Brasco, he befriends Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a Read More

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah, Dayton Callie

Synopsis: In this tough contemporary noir drama, Frankie (Dennis Hopper) is a low-level "mechanic" working for second-rate mobster Sal (Michael Madsen). Frankie dreams of rising into the upper echelons of organized crime and commiting a series of bloody reprisals against those who have wronged him. Read More

The Maker

Actors: Matthew Modine, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Mary-Louise Parker

Synopsis: Tim Hunter, the director of River's Edge, returned with another powerful story of troubled teenagers struggling to find their way out of moral and legal limbo. High school senior Josh Minell (Jonathan Rhys Myers) has strong academic skills, but he spends his nights hanging out with a group of Read More

Catherine's Grove

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Michael Madsen (Species), Maria Conchita Alonso (Predator 2), and Jeff Fahey (The Lawnmower Man) head the cast of this Canadian thriller tracing the downward spiral of denizens inhabiting Miami's alternative music club scene. Long buried family secrets begin to resurface, triggering violent Read More

Love to Kill

Actors: Amy Locane, Rustam Branaman

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable comedy-drama, Moe (Tony Danza) is a gangster who has done quite well for himself as part of a crew dealing illegal automatic weapons. However, Moe, like anyone else, is looking for love, and meets Monica (Elizabeth Barondes), a gun collector who shares a home with her sister Read More

Surface to Air

Actors: Michael Madsen, Chad McQueen, Melanie Shatner

Executive Target

Actors: Michael Madsen, Roy Scheider, Angie Everhart

Synopsis: In this actioner, a genius crook concocts an elaborate scheme for kidnapping the President, but before he can enact it, he must bust a certain racecar driver out of prison. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sender

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Michael Madsen, Robert Vaughn, Dyan Cannon, R. Lee Ermey, Shelli Lether

Synopsis: In this fantasy, a military man contending with his daughter's abduction receives help from a heavenly goddess. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mulholland Falls

Actors: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Four men just barely on the right side of the law step into a web of danger and corruption in this drama. In the early 1950s, Max Hoover (Nick Nolte) is a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who leads what's been dubbed "the hat squad," a group of sharp-dressed cops who are ordered to Read More

The Winner

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Rebecca De Mornay, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: After director Alex Cox alienated the powers that be in Hollywood with Straight to Hell and Walker, his anarchic follow-ups to Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, it would be nearly a decade before he made a film in the United States again. After making the critically acclaimed, underseen Highway Patrolman Read More

Squanderers

Actors: Chad McQueen, Michael Madsen, Corey Feldman, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: This high-speed actioner features real-life champion stock-car racer Chad McQueen as a thief who specializes in stealing luxury cars. His troubles begin on the day he steals a car and ends up in the midst of a ferocious gang war. This leads to his being blackmailed into stealing a particularly Read More

Red Line

Actors: Chad McQueen, Michael Madsen, Corey Feldman, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: Car chases and double-dealing highlight this action-adventure drama. Jim (Chad McQueen) is a struggling race car driver who, after losing sponsorship for his racing team, falls into a life of crime as he struggles to pay off his debts as a mechanic. A brush with auto theft causes Jim to come under Read More

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Actors: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson, Mary Kate Schellhardt

Synopsis: Two unlikely friends -- a boy and a killer whale -- are reunited under potentially dangerous circumstances in this sequel to the successful family adventure Free Willy. Jesse (Jason James Richter) has finally found stability and contentment with his foster parents Glen and Annie Greenwood (Michael Madsen Read More

Species

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge

Synopsis: Fine special effects, eclectic casting, and the freeze-frame-worthy, clothing-free debut of a blonde bombshell made this cheesy science fiction/horror hybrid a cut above its B-grade roots. At a top-secret Utah facility headed up by Dr. Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley), scientists have created "Sil" (Natasha Henstridge Read More

Man with a Gun

Actors: Michael Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Ian Tracey

Synopsis: In this noirish thriller, a world-weary hit-man is assigned by his boss to kill his own lover and steal from her a valuable CD-Rom. When killer Hardin tells evil Rena about the grim assignment from his boss Rushton, she makes a suggestion. Instead of killing her, why don't they shoot her angelic Read More

Final Combination

Actors: Michael Madsen, Lisa Bonet, Gary Stretch, Tim Russ, Damian Chapa

Synopsis: Sex and death are the main themes running through this thriller. Matt Dickson is a former hockey player turned L.A. cop. Since his wife left him he has become a hard-drinking carouser. Dickson is on the trail of Welton, a psychotic boxer, using the names of famous fighters for his aliases has left Read More

Wyatt Earp

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this epic version of the legendary western sheriff-gunslinger's life story stars Kevin Costner as Earp, who lived from 1848 to 1929. Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Earp tries to run away to join the Union Army in the Civil War, but he is turned away because of his Read More

The Getaway

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse

Synopsis: The Getaway, a remake of Sam Peckinpah's excellent escape thriller of the same name, adapted from a story by Jim Thompson, is the story of ill-fated romance on the run. Doc McCoy (Alec Baldwin) is released from a Mexican prison with the help of gangster Jack Benyon (James Woods) who wants Doc's Read More

Season of Change

Actors: Michael Madsen, Nicholle Tom, Jo Anderson, Hoyt Axton

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama follows a 13-year old girl living in Montana during 1946, as she copes with her father's adultery. Sally Mae Parker may be young, but she is not blind. She is quietly aware of the growing tension between her pregnant mother and her father, who recently returned from the Read More

Blue Tiger

Actors: Virginia Madsen, Toru Nakamura, Dean Hallo, Ryo Ishibashi, Sal Lopez

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, a hit man with the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) is in the midst of a public execution of the leader of a rival group when a woman named Gena Hayes (Virginia Madsen) happens by with her son. The child is killed in the crossfire, and Gena is determined to get revenge. About all Read More

Inside Edge

Synopsis: Set in Los Angeles (but filmed in Baja California) this straight-to-video crime thriller centers on hard-boiled maverick cop Richard Montana and his pursuit of the city's most powerful drug lord Mario Gio. Gio decides he's had enough of the troublesome Montana after the cop arrests his right-hand Read More

Money for Nothing

Actors: John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story, dockworker Joey Coyle (John Cusack) finds over $1 million, which fell from an armored car. Instead of returning the money, he embarks on a spending spree unchecked by the wishes of his friend (Michael Rapaport) and hires a crime ring to launder the money. The detective Read More

A House in the Hills

Actors: Michael Madsen, Helen Slater, James Laurenson, Elyssa Davalos, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: A House in the Hills, is an offbeat, unusual film which can't decide if it is a love story or a thriller and ends up being neither. Waitress and aspiring actress Alex (Helen Slater) spends the weekend in a lavish house to study her role for a day-time soap opera. Alex is house-sitting for a Read More

Almost Blue

Actors: Michael Madsen, Lynette Walden, Garrett Morris, Gale Mayron, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Flung into a deep depression following his wife's accidental death, jazzman Morris Poole (Michael Madsen) borders on suicide, punishing himself for the tragedy. They had been in the middle of a violent argument when she accidentally fell from an upper-story window. Eventually he gets involved with Read More

Free Willy

Actors: Jason James Richter, Lori Petty, Jayne Atkinson, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a kid without parents who has bounced from one foster home to another and is living on the streets. One night, he's caught spraying graffiti with his friend Perry (Michael Bacall Read More

Reservoir Dogs

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney

Synopsis: In 1992, Reservoir Dogs transformed Quentin Tarantino practically overnight from an obscure, unproduced screenwriter and part-time actor to the most influential new filmmaker of the 1990s. The story looks at what happens before and after (but not during) a botched jewelry store robbery organized Read More

Far and Away

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock

Synopsis: In this epic Ron Howard film, Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an impoverished 19th-century Irish tenant farmer who has recently lost both his father and his home to the agents of his unscrupulous landlord. On a mission to avenge his family's injustice at the hands of the ruthless land baron Joseph Read More

Straight Talk

Actors: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Jerry Orbach, Michael Madsen, Deirdre O'Connell

Synopsis: Dolly Parton and James Woods as the screen's hottest new romantic team? That's only one of several casting surprises in this romantic comedy. Shirlee Kenyon (Dolly Parton) has had enough of life in her small Arkansas town, not to mention her small-minded Arkansas boyfriend Steve (Michael Madsen). Read More

Trouble Bound

Actors: Michael Madsen, Patricia Arquette, Florence Stanley, Seymour Cassel, Sal Jenco

Synopsis: In this lively crime thriller, luckless ex-con Harry Talbot wins several thousand dollars and a luxury car in a poker game. He is delighted, having no idea that the others let him win because the trunk of the Lincoln contains the remains of Gordo. No, Harry is finally feeling lucky and in his Read More

Fatal Instinct

Actors: Michael Madsen, Laura Johnson, Richard Foronjy

Synopsis: Fatal Attraction plus Basic Instinct equals Fatal Instinct. We're sure the producers would deny this equation, but listen to the plot. A handsome cop investigates a brutal murder, in which a mysterious, erotically inclinded woman is involved. Before long, he falls prey to the woman's Read More

Baby Snatcher

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Veronica Hamel, who'd previously played a detective on the trail of a kidnapped baby, turns kidnapper herself in the made-for-TV The Baby Snatcher. After suffering a miscarriage, Hamel becomes convinced that she will lose her husband's love. Faking a new pregnancy, Hamel allows nine months to Read More

Beyond the Law

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Madsen, Courtney Vance, Rip Torn

Synopsis: An emotionally distraught cop is traumatized by memories of an abusive childhood in which he was forced to kill the uncle who was abusing him. Fired by his corrupt boss, he is recruited to infiltrate a ring of murderous, gun-running bikers, who would kill him in a second if they found out who he Read More

Thelma & Louise

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon play Thelma and Louise, two working-class friends who together have planned a weekend getaway from the men in their lives. Thelma's husband, Darryl (Chris McDonald), is an overbearing oaf, and Louise's boyfriend, Jimmy (Michael Madsen), simply will not commit. Though Read More

The Doors

Actors: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon

Synopsis: Val Kilmer delivers what was considered one of 1991's best performances as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's hallucinatory bio-pic of the seminal 1960s rock group The Doors. Stone cuts a jagged swath through Morrison's life, starting with a childhood memory where Morrison sees an elderly Indian dying Read More

The End of Innocence

Actors: Dyan Cannon, John Heard, George Coe, Lola Mason, Rebecca Schaeffer

Synopsis: Actress Dyan Cannon, whose 1976 directorial debut Number One was nominated for a "best short subject" Academy Award, moves on to feature-length projects with The End of Innocence. In addition to directing, Ms. Cannon wrote the screenplay and played a leading role in this story of a young girl Read More

Montana

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Novelist Larry McMurtry scripted this contemporary western, which examines cattle ranchers Hoyce and Bess Guthrie (Richard Crenna and Gena Rowlands) as they struggle to keep their marriage afloat after a power company offers to buy their land. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Kill Me Again

Actors: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen, Pat Mulligan, Jonathan Gries, Nick Dimitri, Michael Greene

Synopsis: In his film debut, novice director John Dahl (who would later make The Last Seduction), weaves a quirky tale of love, murder and deception. Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer), a seedy private detective is hired by Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), to help her fake her own death in a clever scheme to Read More

Blood Red

Actors: Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn

Synopsis: Siblings Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts appear in this old-fashioned saga about oppressed Sicilian wine-growers in 19th-century California. Giancarlo Giannini stars as Sebastian Collogero, the robust Italian patriarch who is battling with railroad mogul William Bradford Berrigan (Dennis Hopper) to Read More

Iguana

Actors: Everett McGill, Maru Valdivielso, Fabio Testi, Tim Ryan, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: In this drama, a misshapen sailor with the features of a lizard is tormented all his life for his deformities. When he and others are marooned on an island the tables are turned and he rules them with a ruthless hand. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shadows in the Storm

Actors: Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell, James Widdoes

Synopsis: Thelo (Ned Beatty) is a middle-aged librarian who is fired from his job for drinking too much. He sets out for the woods in hopes that getting back to nature will inspire him to write poetry. There he meets Melanie (Mira Sara), who is the embodiment of everything he finds beautiful in women, and Read More

The Killing Time

Actors: Beau Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker, Camelia Kath

Synopsis: A pair of homicidal lovers is forced to match wits with an inventive psychopath who has assumed the identity of a small, coastal-town sheriff's deputy in a film noir tale of the perfect crime gone wrong starring Kiefer Sutherland, Beau Bridges, Joe Don Baker, and Michael Madsen. A mysterious Read More

Our Family Honor

Synopsis: The 1985 TV series Our Family Honor opened to excellent reviews, but the ratings were tepid and the project lasted a mere three months. The series spotlighted two rival New York families: The McKays, three generations of law enforcement officers, and the Danzigs, who are organized-crime Read More

Racing with the Moon

Actors: Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: Sean Penn graduated to full stardom with the 1984 drama Racing with the Moon, even though the film itself hardly set new box office records. Set in the early years of World War II, the film stars Penn as a small-town teen-aged hotshot, six weeks away from being shipped out to fight overseas. In Read More

The Natural

Actors: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a Read More

WarGames

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Read More

Special Bulletin

Synopsis: Advertised as "a realistic depiction of fictional events," the harrowing speculative drama Special Bulletin was shot on videotape and staged as an actual late-breaking news event. The story concerns a group of anti-nuclear activists who take over the waterfront of Charleston, South Carolina. The Read More

One for the Road

Actors: Michael Madsen, Maureen McCarthy

Synopsis: A depressed, alcoholic man is driven further and further towards the edge as unbidden memories of his years as an abused child continue to resurface. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Strip 'N' Run

Synopsis: The L.A. crime underworld is in an uproar as a mob kingpin called The Sheik is pitting gangsters against each other in an attempt to take more power for himself, but one boss called Jimmy D. (Michael Madsen) isn't playing the game-at least not that he knows of. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More