John Malkovich — Actor (75)
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A Talking Picture (2003) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Um Filme Falado
director: Manoel de Oliveira actor: Leonor Silveira / Filipa de Almeida …
other title: Un film parlato / Um Filme Falado …
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
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True West (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
True West
director: Allan A. Goldstein actor: John Malkovich / Gary Sinise …
A screenwriter gets conned out of selling a script to a Hollywood producer by his brother, who pitches his own idea for a movie. This video recording of the 1982 Steppenwolf Theatre Company production was later broadcast by PBS.
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The Object of Beauty (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Object of Beauty
director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg actor: John Malkovich / Andie MacDowell …
other title: Attenti al ladro! / Object of Beauty - Verliebt, verwöhnt und abgebrannt …
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
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Queens Logic (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Queens Logic
director: Steve Rash actor: Kevin Bacon / Jamie Lee Curtis …
other title: Sognando Manhattan / Geboren in Queens …
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new found maturity and discover what Queens Logic is all about. This comedy takes a look at friendship, loyalty, and love.
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Time Regained (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Le Temps retrouvé
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Catherine Deneuve / Emmanuelle Béart …
other title: Il tempo ritrovato / Die wiedergefundene Zeit …
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
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Klimt (2006) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Klimt
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: John Malkovich / Veronica Ferres …
Auf dem Sterbebett blickt der berühmte Jugendstil-Maler Gustav Klimt in Gesellschaft des jungen Künstlers Egon Schiele noch einmal auf sein ebenso ausschweifendes wie faszinierendes Leben zurück.
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Making Mr. Right (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Making Mr. Right
director: Susan Seidelman actor: John Malkovich / Ann Magnuson …
other title: Cercasi l'uomo giusto / Making Mr. Right - Ein Mann à la Carte …
When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.
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Eleni (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Eleni
director: Peter Yates actor: Kate Nelligan / John Malkovich …
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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The Great Buck Howard (2008) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Great Buck Howard
director: Sean McGinly actor: John Malkovich / Emily Blunt …
other title: A Mente que Mente / Der große Buck Howard …
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.
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A Wedding (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Wedding
director: Robert Altman actor: Desi Arnaz Jr. / Carol Burnett …
other title: Un matrimonio / Eine Hochzeit …
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
director: Mark Pellington / Jonathan Demme … actor: David Byrne / Neneh Cherry …
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole Porter.
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Seneca (2023) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes
director: Robert Schwentke actor: John Malkovich / Geraldine Chaplin …
other title: Séneca / Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes …
Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him, conspiracies threaten his power. By all means Nero tries to defend his despotic claim of sovereignty. The famous philosopher Seneca has been Nero's teacher, mentor and close advisor since childhood, he is significantly involved in his ascent. Nevertheless, Nero gets weary of Seneca and Nero uses a foiled attack on his life to falsely accuse Seneca of being an accomplice.
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Fool's Paradise (2023) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Fool's Paradise
director: Charlie Day actor: Charlie Day / Ken Jeong …
other title: El Tonto
A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
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The Libertine (2004) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
The Libertine
director: Laurence Dunmore actor: Johnny Depp / Samantha Morton …
other title: O Libertino / The Libertine - Sex, Drugs & Rococo …
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
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Jonah Hex (2010) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Jonah Hex
director: Jimmy Hayward actor: Josh Brolin / John Malkovich …
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child.