Movies with James Woods
John Q
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Denzel Washington, Laura Harring, Anne Heche, David Thornton, James Woods, Kevin Connolly, Stephanie Moore
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
Videodrome
Genres: Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Starring: Deborah Harry, Jack Creley, Leslie Carlson, James Woods, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Lynne Gorman
Directors: David Cronenberg
Country: Canada
Year: 1983
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show--he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.
Coma
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Geena Davis, James Rebhorn, Michael Weston, Burgess Jenkins, James Woods, Joe Morton
Directors: Robin Cook, John J. McLaughlin
Country: USA
Year: 2012
A young medical student discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table.
Straw Dogs
Genres: Thriller
Starring: Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Drew Powell, Dominic Purcell, Laz Alonso, James Woods, Walton Goggins
Directors: Rod Lurie
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
Vampires
Genres: Action, Thriller, Fantasy
Starring: Mark Boone Junior, Maximilian Schell, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tim Guinee, James Woods, Gregory Sierra, Thomas Ian Griffith
Directors: John Carpenter
Country: USA, Japan
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The church has long known that vampires exist. However, it is discovered that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find the crucifix.
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Mark Camacho, John Bourgeois, James Woods, Alan Fawcett, Michelle Nolden, Penelope Ann Miller, Maxim Roy
Directors: Robert Dornhelm
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Biographic movie of the witty, overachieving, hot-tempered Rudy Giuliani, spaning from his rising days as a New York district attorney in the early 1980's to his marriage to part-time actress Donna Hanover, to his candicies for mayor of New York City and his controversial methods to tackle the city's crime and urban problems, as well as his romance with his assistant Cristyne Lategano which lead to the failure of his marriage, to his battle with prostate cancer, all leading up to the terrible day of September 11, 2001 which Guiliani himself narrowly escaped death after suicide terrorists hijacked and crashed two passenger airliners into the t...
Against All Odds
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Saul Rubinek, Richard Widmark, Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, Dorian Harewood, James Woods, Swoosie Kurtz
Directors: Taylor Hackford
Country: USA
Year: 1984
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Terry Brogan, an aging football player in L.A., is cut early in the season; he needs money, so he takes a job from a shady friend of his, Jake Wise, to track down Wise's girlfriend, Jessie, who's somewhere in Mexico. She's also the daughter of a very wealthy land developer, who owns Terry's team. He heads for Cozumel, finds Jessie, and promptly falls in love with her. He thinks it's mutual, then without warning, she heads back to L.A. and Jake. What's going on with her, and what's the connection between Jake's hold on Jessie and the various politicians, lawyers, and environmentalists who seem to be converging on some sort of land deal? Terry ...
The Specialist
Genres: Action, Thriller
Starring: Eric Roberts, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, Rod Steiger, James Woods, Tony Munafo, Chase Randolph
Directors: Luis Llosa
Country: USA, Peru
Year: 1994
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Ray Quick is a former CIA explosives expert turned bomber-for-hire living in Miami, Florida. Ray's latest client is a beautiful woman named May Munro, May hires Ray to assassinate Miami mobsters who murdered her parents when she was a child. Agreeing, Ray eliminates the three mobsters one-by-one and blows them up. But things go from bad to worse, one of the mobsters Ray has killed is Tomas Leon, the son of Miami crime boss Joe Leon and Ned Trent, a vicious and crooked Ex CIA agent (Ray's former college) is working for the Miami mob and was Tomas's bodyguard, has been assigned by Joe to find the bomber-for-hire who killed his son and his two e...
Vampires aka John Carpenter's Vampires
Genres: Action, Thriller, Fantasy
Starring: Mark Boone Junior, Maximilian Schell, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tim Guinee, James Woods, Gregory Sierra, Thomas Ian Griffith
Directors: John Carpenter
Country: USA, Japan
Year: 1998
The church has long known that vampires exist. However, it is discovered that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find the crucifix.
Stuart Little 2
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Starring: Marc John Jefferies, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Steve Zahn
Directors: Rob Minkoff
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Stuart's mother is being over-protective of him, especially when he narrowly escapes injury in a soccer game. His big brother George has also made a new friend, Will, so Stuart is feeing lonely. Stuart rescues a canary, Margalo, from a falcon; she moves in with the Littles. One day, Margalo is nowhere to be found, so Stuart and Snowbell set out across the city to find her while George covers for Stuart (the first time he's had to lie).
Too Big to Fail
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Ben Livingston, John Heard, Cynthia Nixon, William Hurt, Kathy Baker, Edward Asner
Directors: Curtis Hanson
Country: USA
Year: 2011
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonder...
The Virgin Suicides
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Danny DeVito, Josh Hartnett, Kathleen Turner, Scott Glenn, James Woods, A.J. Cook
Directors: Sofia Coppola
Country: USA
Year: 1999
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent American suburb in the '70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters.
Straight Talk
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Michael Madsen, Jerry Orbach, Griffin Dunne, Deirdre O'Connell, Philip Bosco, Jay Thomas, Charles Fleischer
Directors: Barnet Kellman
Country: USA
Year: 1992
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
Cat's Eye
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Alan King, James Rebhorn, James Naughton, Robert Hays, James Woods, Candy Clark
Directors: Lewis Teague
Country: USA
Year: 1985
Three horror-thriller tales revolve around a mysterious stray cat which is attempting to find a little girl in trouble. In "Quitters, Inc.": the cat is picked up by a shady New York "doctor" who uses experimental techniques to get people to quit smoking. His latest client is a man named Morrison, who learns he'll suffer some terrible consequences if he tries to cheat. In "The Ledge": the cat is picked up by Cressner, a shady Atlantic City millionaire who forces tennis pro Norris (his wife's lover), to walk a narrow ledge around his high-rise penthouse apartment. In "The General": the cat arrives in Wilmington, North Carolina, where it is foun...
Be Cool
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Starring: Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson, Danny DeVito, John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, James Woods
Directors: F. Gary Gray
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
In this sequel to "Get Shorty", Chili Palmer is tired of the movie production business after being forced to make a useless sequel starring Martin Weir. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking a talent that the producer had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with a sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian mafia and a suburban rap-mogul producer & his thugs led by his bumbling relative. All turns out well when it is determined that the dead producer's w...
Cop
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Wynne, Raymond J. Barry, Annie McEnroe, James Woods, Charles Durning, Charles Haid
Directors: James B. Harris
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Lloyd Hopkins, a hard-boiled American police detective is on the trail of a mass murderer who is victimizing women in Los Angeles. The pursuit leads him through a world that has become his own natural habitat - a nasty world of crime, drugs, prostitution and male hustlers where "innocence kills" and continued exposure corrupts. Paradoxically, it's also a world of love, secret admirers, romantic feminist poets and modern chivalry. And for the viewer, it's the background for an exciting, suspense movie.
Ghosts of Mississippi
Genres: Drama
Starring: Alec Baldwin, William H. Macy, Virginia Madsen, Craig T. Nelson, Jerry Levine, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg
Directors: Rob Reiner
Country: USA
Year: 1996
Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith (Woods), of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It begins with the murder and the events surrounding the two initial trials which both ended in a hung jury. The movie then covers District Attorney, Bobby DeLaughters (Baldwin) transformation and alliance with Myrlie Evers (Goldberg), wife of Medgar Evers, of the, as he becomes more involved with bringing Beckwith to trial for the third time 30 years later. Some of the characters are played by the actual participants in this story.
Once Upon a Time in America
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Joe Pesci, Robert Harper, Treat Williams, Robert De Niro, Darlanne Fluegel, William Forsythe, Burt Young
Directors: Sergio Leone
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 1984
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
The Getaway (1994)
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Michael Madsen, Alec Baldwin, Richard Farnsworth, Royce D. Applegate, Jennifer Tilly, David Morse, Kim Basinger
Directors: Roger Donaldson
Country: USA, Japan
Year: 1994
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.
Nixon
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: E.G. Marshall, J.T. Walsh, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Anthony Hopkins
Directors: Oliver Stone
Country: USA
Year: 1995
Available Quality: iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma, Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, sei...