Alessandro Nivola — Actor (30)
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Junebug (2005) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Junebug
director: Phil Morrison actor: Amy Adams / Embeth Davidtz …
other title: Hjem, kære hjem! / Junikäfer
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, but she befriends George's wide-eyed and pregnant sister-in-law, Ashley, who is nearing her due date. Through the family, Madeleine gains greater insight into George's character.
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The Eye (2008) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Eye
director: Xavier Palud / David Moreau actor: Jessica Alba / Alessandro Nivola …
other title: O Olho do Mal / The Eye (Visiones) …
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
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Timecode (2000) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Timecode
director: Mike Figgis actor: Xander Berkeley / Golden Brooks …
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering divorce, while Rose's girlfriend secretly spies on her and attempts to sabotage the relationship. The four storylines in the film were each shot in one take and are shown simultaneously, each taking up a quarter of the screen.
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Black Narcissus (2020) [TV] TMDB
Black Narcissus
actor: Gemma Arterton / Alessandro Nivola …
other title: Narciso nero
Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Adaptation of the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.
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The Darwin Awards (2006) [Movie] TMDB
The Darwin Awards
director: Finn Taylor actor: Joseph Fiennes / Winona Ryder …
other title: The Darwin Awards - Suicidi accidentali per menti poco evolute / Darwin Awards: muertes de risa
After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe suspicious and unusual deaths.
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Amsterdam (2022) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Amsterdam
director: David O. Russell actor: Christian Bale / Margot Robbie …
other title: Amesterdão / Ámsterdam
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
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The Many Saints of Newark (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Many Saints of Newark
director: Alan Taylor actor: Alessandro Nivola / Leslie Odom Jr. …
other title: I molti santi del New Jersey / Todos os Santos de Newark …
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.
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Howl (2010) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban Skybridge
Howl
director: Jeffrey Friedman / Rob Epstein actor: Teddy / Todd Rotondi …
other title: Urlo / 嚎叫 …
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
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Boston Strangler (2023) [Movie] NeoDB Douban Min reol WikiData TMDB IMDb
Boston Strangler
director: Matt Ruskin actor: Keira Knightley / Carrie Coon …
other title: Lo strangolatore di Boston / Estrangulador de Boston …
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
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Chimerica (2019) [TV] TMDB
Chimerica
director: Lucy Kirkwood actor: Alessandro Nivola / Sophie Okonedo …
Photojournalist Lee Berger, famous for capturing the image of Tank Man in Tiananmen Square in 1989, sets out on a dangerous journey to find him.
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Disobedience (2018) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Disobedience
director: Sebastián Lelio actor: Rachel Weisz / Rachel McAdams …
other title: Ulydighed / Ungehorsam …
A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.
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A Most Violent Year (2014) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban Skybridge
A Most Violent Year
director: J.C. Chandor actor: Oscar Isaac / Jessica Chastain …
other title: 1981: Indagine a New York / Um Ano Muito Violento …
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
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Ginger & Rosa (2012) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ginger & Rosa
director: Sally Potter actor: Elle Fanning / Alice Englert …
other title: Ginger e Rosa
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
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The Art of Self-Defense (2019) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Art of Self-Defense
director: Riley Stearns actor: Jesse Eisenberg / Alessandro Nivola …
other title: L'arte della difesa personale / A Arte da Autodefesa …
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.