Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

出生 : 1958-04-26, Copenhagen, Denmark

略歴

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2011) and the prequel series Better Call Saul (2017–2022). For this role he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Esposito's other television roles include Federal Agent Mike Giardello in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street (1998–1999), Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror in the ABC supernatural drama series Once Upon a Time (2011–2017), Tom Neville in the NBC science fiction series Revolution (2012–2014), Dr. Edward Ruskins in the Netflix comedy-drama series Dear White People (2017–present), Stan Edgar in the Amazon Prime Video superhero drama series The Boys (2019–present), and Moff Gideon in the Disney+ space western drama series The Mandalorian (2019–present), the lattermost of which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also portrayed American Baptist pastor and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the TV series Godfather of Harlem (2019–present). Esposito also portrays Antón Castillo, the main antagonist of the video game Far Cry 6, released in 2021. He is also known for his appearances in several Spike Lee films, such as School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), and Malcolm X (1992). Esposito's other major films include Taps (1981), King of New York (1990), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), Fresh (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Ali (2001), Last Holiday (2006), Gospel Hill (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Money Monster (2016), Okja (2017), Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and Stargirl (2020).

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参加作品

Abigail
Lambert
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
ミュータント・タートルズ:ミュータント・パニック!
Baxter Stockman (voice)
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
Kaleidoscope
Leo Pap
Spanning 25 years, the show follows a crew of masterful thieves who work to unlock a seemingly unbreakable vault for the biggest payday in history.
Series Adjourned: Saying Goodbye to Saul
Self
A bonus feature to Better Call Saul: Season 6
Euphoria
Taxi Driver
Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt creates elaborately staged films that investigate the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an allegory for societal and individual behaviors. With the multi-channel film installation Euphoria he continues this examination by exploring capitalism, colonialism, and the influential effects of unlimited economic growth in society.
Bonnie
Self
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
The Rock and the Guac
Dialogue Coach
Tired of the verbal abuse of fans, Nikocado decides to go to the world of Minecraft and take revenge on The Rock, what follows will shock you, Waltuh.
Beauty
Beauty's Father
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
DuckTales: The Last Adventure!
Phantom Blot (voice)
The future of adventuring hangs in the balance as the Duck family uncovers earth-shattering secrets in a final standoff with the Fiendish Organization for World Larceny (F.O.W.L.).
Unpregnant
Bob
A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
For NYC
Noel Ashman and Damon Dash direct a collection of favorite quotes from high profile artists, recorded on their smart phones, in their homes during quarantine to give Nyc a boost in these hard times and to raise money for NYC residents struggling with the covid19 pandemic.
スターガール
Archie Brubaker
リオ・ボーロック(グレアム・ヴァーシェール)はマイカ・ハイスクールに通うごく普通の高校生。学校でそこそこの成績の彼は、マーチングバンドの一員であり、目立たないように生活してきた。しかしスターガール・キャラウェイ(グレース・ヴァンダーウォール)に出会ったことで彼の人生は変化する。自信に満ちたこの興味深い転校生はウクレレを弾き、周囲の目を引く。彼女は日常生活の中から不思議な力を見つけ出し、何気ない仕草で人々を感動させる。彼女の風変わりな人柄はリオや他の生徒を惹きつけ、リオはそんな彼女に夢中になるが、しかしあっという間に彼女は無視や冷笑の的となる。
Coda
Paul
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
ライブリポート
Tom Volk
Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.
Stuck
Lloyd
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
The Nagano Tapes
Self - Narrator
Five Rings Films presents the inspiring story of how Czech Republic won gold at the first Olympics to feature professionals from the NHL.
メイズ・ランナー 最期の迷宮
Jorge
巨大迷宮から脱出するために3年もの歳月を費やしたトーマスと仲間たちだったが、謎は深まるばかり。捕らわれた仲間ミンホを救い出すため、そして自分たちが閉じ込められた理由を突き止めるために、彼らは決死の覚悟で伝説の迷宮に逆侵入することを決意する。そんな彼らの前に、謎の組織「WCKD」が立ちはだかる。
The Show
Producer
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
The Show
Director
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
The Show
Mason Washington
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
オクジャ/okja
Frank Dawson
韓国の山間の家で暮らす少女ミジャは、大きな動物オクジャの面倒を見ながら平穏な毎日を送っている。優しい心を持つオクジャは、ミジャにとって親友ともいえる大切な存在だった。ところがある日、多国籍企業ミランド社がオクジャをニューヨークに連れ去ってしまう。自己顕示欲の強いミランド社CEOルーシー・ミランドが、ある壮大な計画のためにオクジャを利用しようとしているのだ。オクジャを救うため、具体的な方策もないままニューヨークへと旅立つミジャだった。
Unacknowledged
Narrator
An exploration of the Alien presence on Earth and the reality of suppressed free energy technology.
PAYDAY THE MOVIE
The Dentist
Payday the web series, e3 trailers, dlc trailers and crime fest trailers edited into a movie
Brother Nature
Congressman Frank McClaren
Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd: a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger's best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of unfortunate events. As Roger tries to take a stand amidst outrageous fishing excursions, propulsive water jetpacks and American history-themed musicals, he realizes that being a part of a new family may be more difficult than he'd thought.
On Meditation
Self
Peter Matthiessen, David Lynch, and Russell Simmons see among the many celebrity devotees interviewed in this case of Zen Buddhist meditation.
マネーモンスター
Captain Powell
リー・ゲイツが司会を務め、その巧みな話術で株価予想や視聴者への助言を行う高視聴率財テク番組「マネーモンスター」。番組ディレクターのパティの指示を聞かず、アドリブ全開でリーが生放送に臨む中、拳銃を手にした男カイルがスタジオに乱入してくる。彼は番組の株式情報によって財産を全て失くしたと憤慨し、リーを人質に番組をジャック。さらに放送中に自分を陥れた株取引のからくりを白日のもとにさらすようパティに迫るが……。<<監督としても高い評価を得ているジョディ・フォスターがメガホンを取ったサスペンス。拳銃を手にした男による財テク番組占拠事件の行方と、その裏に隠された驚がくの真実を活写していく。ジョージ・クルーニー、ジュリア・ロバーツ、ジャック・オコンネルらが顔をそろえる。>>
ジャングル・ブック
Akela (voice)
モーグリは、生まれて間もなくジャングルに取り残されてしまう。黒ヒョウのバギーラから母オオカミのラクシャに託された彼は、愛情に包まれながら自然の厳しさと生き抜くための知恵と術を学んでいく。やがて少年となって動物たちと幸せな日々を過ごしていたモーグリは、人間に恨みを抱くトラのシア・カーンと出会う。シア・カーンから人間である自分の存在が、ジャングルやそこに住む動物たちの脅威になると言われる。
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
Il Boss
Three life-long friends struggle with an early middle-age crisis as they start to try to get a job for the first time. An ironic quest to avoid becoming an adult and accept responsibilities.
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Self (archive footage)
A documentary short taking a look at the popular independent Enzian movie theater in Maitland, Florida.
メイズ・ランナー2:砂漠の迷宮
Jorge
多くの犠牲を払いながら巨大迷路を脱出したトーマスたちは、同じように別の迷路を生き延びた若者たちが収容された施設へと運ばれた。つかの間の休息を過ごすトーマスたちだが、やがて彼らはこの施設の恐るべき実態を知り、彼らを迷路に送り込んだ黒幕である組織WCKD(ウィケッド)の存在に気付く。危険を察知したトーマスたちは仲間とともに脱出、だが施設の外には、組織が“第2ステージ”と呼ぶ砂漠の迷宮が広がっていた。
Better Call Saul
Gus Fring
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
Poker Night
Bernard
When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best detectives at Poker Night, then match wits against his captor.
バットマン:アサルト・オン・アーカム
Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)
Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.
Son of Batman
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group known as The League of Assassins.
Requiem For The Big East
Narrator
Documentary about the Big East. 30 for 30 Present: Requiem For The Big East chronicles the meteoric ascension of the Big East conference, and how in less than a decade, it became the most successful college basketball league in America.
Timms Valley
Pruit Normings
A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and livelihoods of its citizens are intertwined with the fate of the town's biggest employer, Timms Industrial Piping. When the company's founder and CEO goes missing in a plane crash, the lives of the characters are turned upside down. Shot in stop-motion animation with baby dolls repurposed as an array of adult characters, and modeled on 1980s primetime soaps like Dynasty.
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Self
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.
They Die by Dawn
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Over/Under
バーニング・クロス
Daramus Holiday
刑事アレックス・クロスは、犯罪心理学の専門家。連続殺人鬼を逮捕すべく捜査を行うが、その魔の手は自身にも迫る。原作は、ジェームズ・パターソンの人気小説。
Certainty
Father Heery
In the big city, a loving young couple Deb and Dom planning to get ready to marry seek guidance from the Catholic Church, which only brings out the true life problems they may encounter with each other and their friends. A sobering real life scenario on how religion can affect couples future together.
S.W.A.T. 闇の標的
Inspector Hollander
ある事件をきっかけに復讐のターゲットとしてつけ狙われ、決死の攻防を繰り広げていく警察特殊部隊の激闘を描く、クライム・アクション「S.W.A.T.」の続編。
ラビット・ホール
Auggie
幼い息子を事故で失ったコーベット夫婦。思い出を大切にしつつ前へ進もうとするハウイーと、亡き息子の幻影に心を乱されるベッカ。同じ傷みを共有しつつ、その関係は少しずつ綻びをみせて……。ニコール・キッドマンらの熱演が光る、感動の人間ドラマ。
PoliWood
Self
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
Chelsea on the Rocks
Tip
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
Gospel Hill
Director
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
Gospel Hill
Dr. Palmer
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
Feel The Noise
Roberto Vega
After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his step-brother Javi to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true to themselves and each other, while overcoming obstacles in love, greed and pride, all culminating in an explosive performance at New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
The Box
Dwayne Burkhalter
A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.
Sherrybaby
Parole Officer Hernandez
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.
Rain
Ken Arnold
Rain, a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her daughter, Rain's mother secretly contacts Rain's biological mother, and Rain learns the truth of her parentage: She is the daughter of a white socialite. Sent to live with her wealthy grandmother, Rain adjusts to boarding school life, where her musical talents flourish.
ラスト・ホリデイ
Senator Dillings
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.
すべてはその朝始まった
Detective Church
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Little Jeff
Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for the rules of the street. (FILMAFFINITY)
Back in the Day
Benson Cooper
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
Chupacabra Terror
Dr. Peña
Cryptozoologist Doctor Peña traps the legendary Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean Island to make his name in the scientific community. When he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship Regent Queen, commanded by Captain Randolph, the monster breaks out of the cargo hold and makes a smorgasbord out of the passengers and crew.
Hate Crime
Detective Esposito
Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.
ゲット・ア・ライフ
Captain Pierce
最愛の息子を殺された父は犯人への判決を受け入れられず、自ら正義を執行しようと決意。報復を誓う父はわざと罪を犯し、犯人が服役する刑務所に自ら身を投じる。
A Killer Within
Vargas
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered and his son unconscious in critical condition at the hospital. Now, fingered as a suspect by the police, Addison must race to find the real killer and prove his innocence before it's too late.
Noise
Hank
Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff), a young divorced woman and recovering alcoholic, moves into a Manhattan apartment that seems a bit too secluded to be true. It is: Upstairs lives Charlotte Bancroft (Ally Sheedy), a woman with a wall of obliviousness who can turn even an 'apology' into a guilt trip, Charlotte persists in making Joyce's nighttime hours a living hell. As the torture continues, Joyce starts to lose her grip on her job, her health and her sanity. It's a heck of a price to pay for having your own place.
Blind Horizon
J.C. Reynolds
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
Ash Tuesday
Karl
After September 11th, six Lower Manhattan residents must deal with pain on their own. Yet in doing so, they find that their lives are inexplicably linked. "Ash Tuesday" examines the loneliness inherent in New York life, but it does so with a refreshing wit and humor that will leave you smiling.
ALI アリ
Cassius Clay, Sr.
相手を挑発する仕草や言動、ベトナム戦争の徴兵拒否……。リングの外でも数多くの伝説を残した男、モハメド・アリ。彼の生き様を描いた人間ドラマ。ウィル・スミスが真実を求め闘うアリを好演。
モンキーボーン
Hypnos
売れっ子アニメーターのスチュは、人気キャラ“モンキーボーン”の生みの親。だが仕事には辟易していた。そんな彼が、ある日事故に遭遇。昏睡状態から覚めると、空想の産物であるはずのモンキーボーンが現れる。
Piñero
Miguel Algarin
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
Homicide: The Movie
Mike Giardello
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Josephine
Spike
Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.
Thirst
Dr. Lawrence Carver
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Chaz Villanueva
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.
Phoenix
Louie
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Twilight
Reuben Escobar
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Stardust
Mr. Peavey
A scientist finds his newest invention; a microchip that infuses inanimate objects with human qualities co-opted by the company he works for, which wants to capitalize on his findings. Knowing his creation can be used for evil purposes, he stashes it away, but his 11-year-old son, Charlie (Jared Robbins), finds it and implants it into a vacuum cleaner he calls Stardust. Will he manage to elude his dad's greedy bosses?
Trouble on the Corner
Darryl
Jeff Steward, a psychologist, takes good care of his patients mostly living in the same apartment. One day a piece of the bathroom ceiling collapses so he can watch the woman living in the upper apartment taking a bath. This causes total disorder of his normal life and he starts mixing the patients' psychoses up with his own.
Five Desperate Hours
Joseph Grange
Joseph Grange (Giancarlo Esposito), an unstable fugitive from the law, bursts into the home of suburban housewife Claire Ballard (Sharon Lawrence), and an intense hostage drama begins. Desperate to save her life, Claire initiates a dialogue with Grange as a trigger-happy SWAT team waits outside poised to storm the house. Claire, herself the product of a troubled past, begins to identify with the tormented Grange and, over five tension-filled hours, victim and captor forge an unlikely bond.
ナッシング・トゥ・ルーズ
Charlie Dunt
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
Big City Blues
Georgie
Two hit men, a call girl, and a gay couple become entangled in a web of violence. In the course of one night, they just narrowly miss each other.
Mylène Farmer: California
Short film release
The Tomorrow Man
Jonathan Driscoll
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a great rocket-disaster. As he wants to prohibit this, a mad scientist is in his way. But there are more problems: He has to act as a human. Computer-expert Jonathan Driscoll becomes his mentor and tries to help and repair him.
Waiting to Exhale
David Matthews
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Reckless
Host Tim Timko
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
The Keeper
Paul Lamont
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have unforeseen consequences.
Blue in the Face
Tommy Finelli
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
ユージュアル・サスペクツ
FBI Agent Jack Baer
船舶の炎上事故を調べていた捜査官クラインは尋問していたヴァーバルから奇妙な話を聞かされる。6週間前に銃器強奪事件の容疑者として集められた5人が、釈放後、協力して宝石強奪を決行。ブツをさばくためにLAの故買屋と接触した5人は、そこで新たなヤマを依頼されるが、宝石と聞かされていた獲物は麻薬で、トラブルから相手を射殺してしまう。そして恐慌状態の彼らの前に、伝説のギャング“カイザー・ソゼ”の右腕と名乗る弁護士が現れたというのだ。
スモーク
Tommy
アメリカを代表する作家ポール・オースターが書き下ろした原作を基に、男たちの中に隠された哀しいロマンティシズムを描いた都会の物語。14年間毎朝同じ時刻に店の前で写真を撮り続けている煙草屋の店長オーギー、彼の馴染みの客で突然の事故により出産まもない妻を失って以来ペンを持てずにいる作家のポール、彼が車に跳ねられそうになった所を助けた黒人少年ラシードの3人を軸に、ブルックリンのとある煙草屋に集まる男達女達の日常を、過去と現在を、嘘と本当を巧みに交差させながら進んでゆく。
Klash
Stoney
Reggae music is featured in this romantic thriller set in Jamaica. Stoney (Giancarlo Esposito), a photojournalist, is assigned by a U.S. music magazine to cover a battle of the bands in Jamaica. There he becomes involved with the seductive Blossom (Jasmine Guy) who works for Mr. Lee (Lucien Chen), a crime boss. Lee is planning to rob the concert box office. Blossom tries to convince Stoney to help her steal the money from Lee and escape to another island paradise. Interspersed amongst the action are many clips of the reggae bands as they musically battle it out.
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
Self
A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.
フレッシュ
Esteban
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants revenge.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Autobiography Reading (voice)
The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.
Amos & Andrew
The Reverend Fenton Brunch
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
Mood Indigo
Arthur Sistrunk
Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally murdered by a patient, and a lady lawyer who enlists his help in solving a baffling crime.
マルコムX
Thomas Hayer
才人スパイク・リー監督が、自身も尊敬する、近代アメリカきっての偉大な思想家であり、キング牧師と並ぶ黒人解放運動のリーダー、マルコムXの生涯を描いた伝記的作品。物語は、マルコムがチンピラだった頃から始まる。若くして窃盗罪で服役し、刑務所の中でイスラム教に改宗、出所ののち彼は、イライジャ・ムハマットの下でブラック・モスレムきっての白人を敵対視する煽動家となる。やがて組織に疑問を感じ、多人種共存の道を探ってメッカを巡礼、そしてあらゆる人種の真の友愛を悟って帰国。そしてアメリカ黒人の解放運動を今までになかった新しい理念によって大きく展開しようとした矢先の1965年2月21日、ハーレムのオーデュボン・ボールルームでの講演中に13発の銃弾を浴びて射殺されるまでの、壮絶な軌跡を克明に追う。原作は、マルコムXが著わし「ROOTS/ルーツ」のアレックス・ヘイリーがまとめた『マルコムX自伝』。D・ワシントンのパワフルな芝居とテンポの良い演出が、この長尺を一気に見せる。
ボブ★ロバーツ/陰謀が生んだ英雄
Bugs Raplin
アメリカ上院議員選挙に立候補した人気歌手“ボブ・ロバーツ”の姿を、ドキュメンタリーの形式を借りて描いたユニークな作品。アメリカ上院議員選挙に立候補したボブは、その人気と豊富な資金力をバックに選挙戦の台風の眼となる。表のクリーンなイメージの一方で、当選するためには手段を選ばない側面も。その結果、ボブは選挙戦を有利に進めるが……。
ナイト・オン・ザ・プラネット
YoYo
地球という星の、ロサンゼルス、ニューヨーク、パリ、ローマ、ヘルシンキという5つの都市で、5人のタクシー・ドライバーが乗客を乗せた。同じ夜にそれぞれに繰り広げられる5つの物語。本作はジャームッシュの作品に共通して見られる奇妙な可笑しさ、卓越したセンスが冴える会話に加え、背景に広がる空しさに満ちた荒涼感は健在であり、その独自の雰囲気で好き嫌いがハッキリと二分される彼の作品にしては割りと門戸が広く、様々な人が楽しめる作品に仕上がっている。特に、ニューヨークが舞台の話と、ロベルト・ベニーニ主演によるパリの話がお勧め。
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Jimmy Jiles
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
Mo' Better Blues
Left Hand Lacey (Piano)
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
キング・オブ・ニューヨーク
Lance
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Self
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
ドゥ・ザ・ライト・シング
Buggin Out
ブルックリンの黒人街の夏を舞台に、さまざまなタイプの人々をリアルに描く。やがて街中が暴動へ至って……。都会の人権対立をパワフルに描いた、スパイク・リー監督の代表作。
School Daze
Julian 'Dean Big Brother Almighty' Eaves
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Heartbeat
Gang Member #1
A surrealistic journey into the experiences and reflections of a documentary filmmaker as he evaluates the people and places that have made up his life. Alternatively, a 65 minute feature made up of songs from Don Johnson's record of the same name.
Sweet Lorraine
Howie
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
地獄のデビル・トラック
Videoplayer
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
Roanoak
Simon Fernandes
The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North Carolina, and the conflicts that ensued between the two diverse cultures before this early settlement mysteriously vanished.
Rockabye
Marcus
A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the bus in New York City on her way to Vermont, and reluctantly accepts the help of a hard-nosed reporter in tracking him down after being given the runaround from the police.
マドンナのスーザンを探して
Street Vendor
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
Finnegan Begin Again
Intruder
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
コットンクラブ
Bumpy Hood
20年代、ハーレムのクラブではエリントン楽団の留守にキャブ・キャロウェイが人気を博し、ニコラス兄弟が華麗なタップを披露していた……。マフィアの抗争をジャズに乗せて鮮やかに描く。
The Brother from Another Planet
Man Being Arrested (uncredited)
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Elisha
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
大逆転
Cellmate #2
フィラルデフィア。一方は、大会社の経営陣のひとりとして手腕を見せるエリートで金持ち青年ルイス・ウィンソープ。もう一方は、サギまがいの事をやりながら生きている貧しい黒人青年ビリー・バレンタイン。そんな彼らの知らない所で、ウィンソープの会社の会長である2人組が、ある賭けを企んでいた。この2人の環境を入れ換えるとどうなるかという賭けである。そして、何にも知らない二人はお互いの環境が入れ替わってしまう。
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Julio
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.
Taps
Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
The Gentleman Bandit
Jamie
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Running
Puerto Rican Teenager
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
Tutti a squola
The upright prof. Filippo Bottini Said Pippo is an "old-fashioned" teacher in a Roman school. He would like a Heart book-style school but clashes with the harsh reality of modern teaching and in particular with the turmoil of the seventies: strikes, occupations, armed students, feminist colleagues. Overwhelmed by events, he will find himself more and more in the maelstrom of the post-1968 protest until he becomes a drug courier. He will be arrested and incarcerated, but thanks to the release on bail provided by his colleague Lalla, with whom he had in the meantime started a relationship, he will be able to redeem himself.
Megalopolis
An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.
The Electric State
Marshall
In a retro-futuristic past, orphaned teenager Michelle traverses the American West with an eccentric drifter and a sweet but mysterious robot in search of her younger brother.
BrBa
Gustavo Fring
Walter White, a chemistry teacher learns he's dying, so he takes up a new career as a meth producer in hopes of earning enough money to take care of his family.
The Long Home
Rural Tennessee in the 1940's: a young man unwittingly goes to work building a honky-tonk for the charismatically diabolical bootlegger who murdered his father ten years earlier and runs into conflict when he falls for the young woman the bootlegger is grooming to be a prostitute. NOTE: 2020-08-31 According to Wikipedia, The Long Home was tentatively expected to be released in 2017, and in November of that year, the sales rights to the movie were acquired by Great Point Media. However, it has yet to be released in any format as of 2022.