Michael NouriFilmography

Invincible

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli

Synopsis: From the producers of The Rookie and Remember the Titans comes an inspirational sports drama detailing the true story of a down-on-his-luck football fan whose dreams of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the best of the gridiron became a once-in-a-lifetime reality when he took part in an open Read More

Boynton Beach Club

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Brenda Vaccaro, Sally Kellerman, Joseph Bologna, Len Cariou

Synopsis: A handful of men and women "of a certain age" pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman. Jack (Len Cariou) married his high school sweetheart when they were still in their teens, and when she dies Read More

Last Holiday

Actors: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt

Synopsis: A woman learns to love life when she finds out she won't be around long in this comedy. Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives in New Orleans, where she works in the cookware department of an upscale gourmet supply shop. While Georgia carries a torch for Sean (LL Cool J), one of her co-workers, she Read More

The Terminal

Actors: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spielberg revolves around an Eastern European man by the name of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), whose plans of immigrating to New York were hastened by a 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

Klepto

Actors: Meredith Bishop, Jsu Garcia, Leigh Taylor-Young, Michael Nouri, Michael Irby

Synopsis: A thief gains an unlikely fan in a security specialist in this independent comedy. Emily (Meredith Bishop) is a young woman who isn't sure what she wants to do with her life; while she has fuzzy goals of becoming an artist, she's most concerned with convincing her mother (Leigh Taylor-Young) and Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Good Earth

Synopsis: In his final acting appearance, Dennis Weaver is cast as Emmet Rivers, an elderly, eccentric inventor who has spent a good portion of his life trying to create a new water-based energy source. Altruistic angel Gloria (Valerie Bertinelli), employed as research assistant for big-oil magnate Carl Read More

Lovely & Amazing

Actors: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Raven Goodwin, Jake Gyllenhaal

Synopsis: Nicole Holofcener, writer/director of the critically acclaimed Walking and Talking, shifts her focus from New York to Los Angeles for her second feature, Lovely & Amazing. Jane Marks (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies) is a middle-aged woman who's about to undergo liposuction. She has three Read More

Carman: The Champion

Actors: Carman, Michael Nouri, Patricia Manterola, Jed Allan

Synopsis: A feature debut for Emmy-winning TV director Lee Stanley, this film centers around the wheeling and dealing lifestyle of the world of boxing. Christian pop singer Carman stars as Orlando Leone, a former cruiserweight champ who now works as a security guard for a hotel and runs a youth center. One Read More

61*

Actors: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Noted baseball fan Billy Crystal directed this made-for-cable drama set in the summer of 1961, as two of the strongest hitters in the major leagues, Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) and Roger Maris (Barry Pepper), find themselves neck and neck in a battle to break Babe Ruth's long-standing record for Read More

Finding Forrester

Actors: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes

Synopsis: In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive novelist named Forrester (Sean Connery) -- who hasn't written anything since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades earlier -- and Jamal (Rob Brown), a Read More

Touched by an Angel: Buy Me a Rose

Synopsis: Kenny Rogers guest stars as itinerant musician Denny (Kenny Rogers), former boyfriend of a married woman named Ellen Sawyer (Kathy Baker). Feeling neglected by her workaholic husband Greg (Michael Nouri)--who in time-honored sitcom tradition has forgotten their 20th wedding anniversary--Ellen Read More

Second Honeymoon

Synopsis: Married for twenty years, Maggie (Roma Downey) and George (Tim Matheson) have drifted apart and are on the verge of divorce. To prevent this, the couple's kids (and their respective parents) bankroll a second honeymoon vacation on a lush tropical island. But though Maggie and George struggle Read More

Victor/Victoria

Actors: Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York

Synopsis: This filmed stage production of Victor/Victoria came to be through the collaboration of director Blake Edwards and his wife, singer and actress Julie Andrews. Andrews reprises her role as a female pretending to be a male who is impersonating a female, while Edwards once again directs. As with the Read More

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Richard Chamberlain, Lindsay Frost, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: The top-rank performances of Lauren Bacall, Richard Chamberlain and Lindsay Frost elevate the two-part TV biopic Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke from the usual malaise of lurid, voyeuristic trash. As she lies near death in her luxurious mansion, 80-year-old tobacco heiress Doris Duke Read More

This Matter of Marriage

Actors: Leslie Hope, Rick Peters, Sherry Miller

Synopsis: In this romance, a lonely lady architect discovers that if only she would pay attention, true love is as close as the man next door. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Law & Order: Harvest

Synopsis: A young mother is the victim of a drive-by shooting. The ensuing investigation is complicated by a discrepancy in establishing time of death. By the time this matter has been sorted out, the DA's office is presented with two prime perpetrators: the person who fired the gun, and the doctor who Read More

Overkill

Actors: Aaron Norris, Michael Nouri, David Rowe

Synopsis: In this action thriller a murderous land developer hunts a computer whiz and a renegade cop in the dense Central American jungle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

To the Limit

Actors: Anna Nicole Smith, Joey Travolta, John Aprea, David Proval, Branscombe Richmond

Synopsis: Someone is trying to get to West Coast gangster Frank DaVinci in this exploitational actioner. They are doing a good job too. So far, masked murderers have killed his bride and most of his henchmen. One of those gang members killed was the lover of the voluptuous Colette who decides to hide out Read More

Hologram Man

Actors: Joe Lara, Evan Lurie, William Sanderson, John Amos, Michael Nouri

Synopsis: In this sci-fi horror outing a terrorist turns into an unstoppable mass of electromagnetic energy after an attempted prison break goes horribly awry. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Visions of Terror

Actors: Barbara Eden, Michael Nouri, Steven Anthony Jones, Missy Crider, Ted Marcoux

Synopsis: Psychotherapist Jesse Newman is a psychic. When she learns that the criminal who brutally murdered a cop has been captured, she feels distress for according to her visions, the police have the wrong man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

American Yakuza

Synopsis: An American FBI agent infiltrates the notorious Japanese yakuza and is forced to choose between old loyalties and his new bond of blood in this lurid crime thriller starring Viggo Mortensen. The first American ever to be accepted into Japan's treacherous criminal underworld, FBI Agent Nick Davis Read More

Lady in Waiting

Synopsis: A divorced Los Angeles detective is tracking down a psycho serial killer who strangles prostitutes. He becomes a suspect himself when the rich lawyer who represented all the murdered hookers is killed -- and the lawyer just happens to be his ex-wife's husband. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

No Escape, No Return

Actors: Michael Nouri, John Saxon

Synopsis: A ruthless drug lord must be stopped, pronto. Three able-bodied cops go undercover to bring the drug dealer to justice -- or, preferably, to kill him. Once in a while, the bad guys call a halt to the film's bloodshed to allow a sex scene to play itself out. Otherwise, this is essentially cable-TV Read More

Fortunes of War

Synopsis: Blood, sweat, and betrayal in the South East Asian jungles is what drives this action thriller about sleazy Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler (Michael Ironside), who sends Peter Kernan (Matt Salinger) and his wife Johanna (Sam Jenkins) into deepest, darkest Cambodia to deliver "medicine." When the Read More

DaVinci's War

Synopsis: In this action drama, Frank DaVinci is out to avenge the murder of his sister. To follow through with his vendetta he enlists the aide of a hired killer and a group of Vietnam Vets. Violence and explosions ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Captain America

Actors: Matt Salinger, Melinda Dillon, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Michael Nouri

Synopsis: After a scientist creates superhuman warrior Red Skull for the Nazis during WW II, she defects and does the same for the U.S.-- injecting a polio victim to transform him into the titular heroic beefcake. Forty years after a confrontation which left Captain America frozen in Alaska, he is found and Read More

Black Ice

Actors: Michael Ironside, Michael Nouri, Joanna Pacula

Synopsis: Michael Nouri plays a Detroit cabbie whose lifestyle is radically altered when he picks up the lovely Joanna Pacula. She turns out to be on the run from murderer Michael Ironside and now, by extension, so is Nouri. If only he hadn't stopped at the empty apartment of a powerful politician for a Read More

In the Arms of a Killer

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, John Spencer, Michael Nouri

Synopsis: A rookie detective's investigation of a particularly brutal murder takes a personal turn for her when her lover turns out to the their main suspect. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Exclusive

Actors: Suzanne Somers, Michael Nouri, Ed Begley, Jr., Joe Cortese, Scott Bryce

Synopsis: TV journalist (and recovering alcoholic) Marcy Singer (Suzanne Somers) is promised an Exclusive by anonymous phone an caller. Singer is advised to show up at a well-known bar at an appointed time. Once she's arrived, she finds six corpses awaiting her. Investigating, Singer follows the trail of Read More

The Sands of Time

Actors: Deborah Raffin, Michael Nouri, Ramy Zada, Amanda Plummer, Kim Weeks

Synopsis: In this two-part adventure drama based on a thriller by author Sidney Sheldon, three nuns must run for their lives from a cruel colonel. Their flight leads them straight to a renowned Spanish rebel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Changes'

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Michael Nouri, Christie Clark, Renee O'Connor, Christopher Gartin

Synopsis: In this made for TV movie based on Danielle Steele's novel, Cheryl Ladd portrays a successful New York television anchorwoman. When she marries a successful surgeon in Los Angeles, romance becomes difficult with their careers on opposite ends of the country. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Psychic

Synopsis: A young man with ESP is alarmed to discover that his girlfriend is slated to become a serial killer's next victim. When no one believes him, he attempts to stop the killer himself and made-for-cable terror ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Total Exposure

Synopsis: Fashion photographer Andi turns to private eye Dave to help clear her of a murder she claims to have been framed for. Including scantily-dressed models and plots concerning drugs and blackmail, this thriller contains nudity, violence, profanity and sexual situations--though one could never guess Read More

Little Vegas

Actors: Anthony John Denison, Catherine O'Hara, Anne Francis, Michael Nouri, Perry Lang

Synopsis: Anthony John Denison stars as Carmine DeCarlo, a man trying to break free of familial mob ties after his middle-aged lover (Anne Francis) dies. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Shattered Dreams

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Michael Nouri, Georgann Johnson, James Karen, Ken Jenkins

Synopsis: Shattered Dreams is a "based on a true story" TV movie starring Lindsay Wagner and Michael Nouri. Wagner is a Washington DC attorney; Nouri is her husband, also an attorney, but one with a profound violent streak. Suffering constant beatings, Wagner tries to keep up appearances, but after Read More

Project: Alien

Actors: Michael Nouri, Darlanne Fluegel, Maxwell Caulfield, Charles Durning

Synopsis: A journalist (Michael Nouri) investigating an explosion in the sky over Norway begins to suspect it is part of a secret government project when he begins to find evidence of cattle mutilations, strange diseases, and rumors about a top-secret military installation where humanoid-type aliens are Read More

Thieves of Fortune

Synopsis: In order to win the $28 million prize in a fortune hunt, a former Miss Universe must perform incredible feats of physical bravura in this actioner. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story

Actors: Michael Nouri

Synopsis: This is the true story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer (Michael Nouri). At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation. Then in 1977, Charlie is diagnosed as suffering from ALS, a Read More

The Hidden

Actors: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed O'Ross, Clu Gulager, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: A cop discovers that there's something unusual about his new partner in this unusual sci-fi thriller. A seemingly well-mannered stock broker one day snaps, robbing a bank, stealing a Ferrari, and driving straight into a police barricade without any thought for his own safety, and he's mowed down Read More

The Imagemaker

Actors: Michael Nouri, Anne Twomey, Jerry Orbach, Jessica Harper, Farley Granger

Synopsis: In a convoluted story of one man's obsession, widower Roger Blackwell (Michael Nouri) has been a media advisor to countless politicians, probably one too many as it turns out. Blackwell is set on using his experience to make a film about the manipulation of the media by unscrupulous politicos. His Read More

Between Two Women

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Colleen Dewhurst, Michael Nouri, Bridgette Andersen, Daniel Bryan Corkill

Synopsis: The old reliable movie title Between Two Women was activated once more for this made-for-TV film. Farrah Fawcett and Colleen Dewhurst star as, respectively, a domineering ex-opera star and a shy schoolteacher. The ads for the film suggested that Michael Nouri played the apex of a romantic triangle Read More

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Michael Nouri, Jaclyn Smith, Ken Howard

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was the sequel to the ratings-grabbing 1983 miniseries Rage of Angels; both were based on the best-seller by Sidney Sheldon. Jaclyn Smith returns as dynamic New York trial lawyer Jennifer Parker, while Ken Howard likewise reprises his role as Jennifer's married lover Read More

Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords

Actors: Margot Kidder, Roddy McDowall, Michael Nouri, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: This fast-paced, animated action feature zoomed into theaters with characters developed from a popular TV cartoon series. The GoBots can morph into mechanical contrivances like land rovers or spaceships and are divided between good GoBots and evil ones (called Renegades). As these two factions Read More

Spraggue

Spraggue - "Murder for Two"

Synopsis: A doctor with a lousy track record when it comes to cardiac patients rouses the suspicions of a Boston professor whose hobby is detective work. The professor is assisted by his eccentric auntie. The film is an unaired pilot for a failed television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Flashdance

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle Heffner

Synopsis: Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala Read More

Bay City Blues [TV Series]

Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

Synopsis: In this drama, a mother and daughter become rivals for a single man's affections. The mother is a widowed movie star and the daughter is recently divorced. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gangster Wars

Synopsis: This action film follows the childhood alliances of "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and "Bugsy" Siegel and their reign as the kings of the 1920s crime scene. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gangster Chronicles: An American Story

Synopsis: Originally telecast February 12, 1981, Gangster Chronicles was the three-hour opener for the subsequent miniseries. This first installment is a sort of Young Tommy Guns, with youthful, charismatic actors playing some of the more odious criminals of the 20th century. Joe Penny portrays Bugsy Read More

Fun and Games

Synopsis: In Fun and Games, a professional career woman is harassed by her boss, who then rejects her for promotion. The woman then sues her boss for sexual harassment ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

World of Dracula

Synopsis: In this horror movie, taken from the Cliff-Hangers TV series, college students learn about their professor's dark secret. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Loves of Dracula

Synopsis: A vampire chases after a woman who is the daughter of one of his former loves. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Contract on Cherry Street

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Verna Bloom, Harry Guardino, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Contract on Cherry Street represented Frank Sinatra's TV movie debut--an event deemed worthy of a TV Guide cover story. Sinatra plays NYPD veteran Deputy Inspector Frank Hovannes, in charge of a special unit set up to battle organized crime. The murder of Hovannes' partner, coupled with Read More