James Woods — Actor (46)
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The Boys (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Boys
director: Glenn Jordan actor: James Woods / John Lithgow …
other title: Un par de colegas
When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, a chain-smoker. As Walter fights cancer he tries to put his affairs in order by teaching writing to prison inmates, talking to his son and ex-wife, and getting his partner to quit smoking.
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The Boost (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Boost
director: Harold Becker actor: James Woods / Sean Young …
other title: Cocaina / Der Preis des Erfolges …
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed "boost". What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity as Lenny tries to regain control of his life, all the while needing that extra "boost".
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Badge of the Assassin (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Badge of the Assassin
director: Mel Damski actor: James Woods / Yaphet Kotto …
other title: Il sigillo dell'assassino / Das As im Ärmel …
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
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Split Image (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Split Image
director: Ted Kotcheff actor: Michael O'Keefe / Karen Allen …
other title: Punto debole / Das Idol …
An impressionable young man finds himself enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
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Next Door (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Next Door
director: Tony Bill actor: James Woods / Randy Quaid …
other title: Vicini troppo vicini / Next Door - Zur Hölle mit den Nachbarn …
Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
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Straight Talk (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Straight Talk
director: Barnet Kellman actor: Dolly Parton / James Woods …
other title: Linea diretta - Un'occasione unica / Sag's offen, Shirlee …
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.
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Best Seller (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Best Seller
director: John Flynn actor: James Woods / Brian Dennehy …
other title: Pacto Fatal / Bestseller …
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
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Eyewitness (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Eyewitness
director: Peter Yates actor: William Hurt / Sigourney Weaver …
other title: Uno scomodo testimone / Der Augenzeuge …
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
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Against All Odds (1984) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Against All Odds
director: Taylor Hackford actor: Jeff Bridges / Rachel Ward …
other title: Due vite in gioco / Farlig impuls …
Having been cut from his professional football team, down-and-out athlete Terry Brogan is in desperate need of money. Crooked nightclub owner and bookie Jake Wise offers Terry a hefty sum to go to Mexico and find his girlfriend, Jessie Wyler. Terry cannot turn the offer down. When Terry locates Jessie, the two fall in love. Terry reports that he failed to find her, but Jake sends someone else. Terry and Jessie's love must endure unexpected twists.
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Diggstown (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Diggstown
director: Michael Ritchie actor: James Woods / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: La notte dell'imbroglio / Midnight Sting …
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.
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The Onion Field (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Onion Field
director: Harold Becker actor: John Savage / James Woods …
other title: Il campo di cipolle / Crime em Campo de Cebolas …
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
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The Gambler (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Gambler
director: Karel Reisz actor: James Caan / Paul Sorvino …
other title: 40.000 dollari per non morire / Spieler ohne Skrupel …
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
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The Visitors (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Visitors
director: Elia Kazan actor: Patrick McVey / Patricia Joyce …
other title: I visitatori / Die Besucher …
Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are old acquaintances of Bill; a few years back, in Vietnam, they were in the same platoon. They also became opposed parties in a court martial - for a reason that Bill never explained to Martha. What happened in Vietnam, and what is the reason for the presence of Mike and Tony ?
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Hickey & Boggs (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hickey & Boggs
director: Robert Culp actor: Bill Cosby / Robert Culp …
other title: La morte arriva con la valigia bianca / Magnum Heat …
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | Al Hickey (Cosby) & Frank Boggs (Culp) are two jaded private investigators who get hired to find a missing woman and quickly find themselves submerged in a world of murder and untruths.
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Salvador (1986) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Salvador
director: Oliver Stone actor: James Woods / Jim Belushi …
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
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True Crime (1999) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB
True Crime
director: Clint Eastwood actor: Clint Eastwood / 艾赛亚·华盛顿 …
other title: 迫切的任务 / 真实罪行 …
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.