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  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Rosemary's Baby review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 4.0 stars They don't make babies like they used to! 5 June 2009
    ...that provided the excellent supporting cast which honed the whole performance. John Cassavetes, fresh from 'The Dirty Dozen' played the treacherous husband Guy and Charles Gr...   Read customer review
  • Mikey And Nicky
  • Mikey And Nicky review by A customer from Whitstable, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars I'd recommend this 27 November 2004
    ...It was really great. Peter Falk and John Cassavetes was each phenomenal in his role. I felt as though I'd been a part of the night portrayed; the thing is so believable. Wh...   Read customer review
  • The Fury
  • The Fury review by from scotland
    Rated - 3.0 stars typical de palma 11 November 2005
    ...seldom noticed...in fact a few years later Cronenberg would pinch the exploding John Cassavetes scene. Anyway its pretty stupid yes but fairly enjoyable nontheless ... DePalma...   Read customer review

John Cassavetes - filmography


  • She's So Lovely on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tito Larriva,  John Travolta,  Nina Barry
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely (originally and more appropriately titled She's De Lovely in honor of the Cole Porter composition central to the movie) stars real-life couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn as ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 472 members
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  • Big Trouble on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Beverly D'Angelo,  Alan Arkin
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Riotous farce from directer John Cassavetes. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin reunite as a wacky pair of insurance swindlers. Beverly D'Angelo aids and abets the inspired lunacy. The trouble and the laughs start when insurance man Leonard Hoffman (Arkin) decides to send his three sons to Yale. To raise ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 129 members
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  • Tempest (1982)
    Starring: Molly Ringwald,  Susan Sarandon,  Gena Rowlands
    Director: Paul Mazursky
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This modernistic fantasy-drama, is about a New York architect Phillip (John Cassavetes), who is fedup with city living. He takes his wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands), an actress, and their daughter, Miranda (Molly Ringwald in her debut), to Greece to a barren island. There he meets a singer and a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • The Incubus (1981)
    Starring: John Cassavetes,  John Ireland,  Kerrie Keane
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on the terrifying novel by Ray Russell, John Hough's powerful rendering of a small town gripped in a wave of evil and fear, from which none will survive. Only one man has the secret of this extra-terrestrial nightmare. He alone knows the INCUBUS - the evil, the destruction, the carnage that ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 83 members
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  • Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  John Cassavetes,  Kenneth McMillan
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Ken Harrison is an artist that makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he make friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 10 members
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  • Gloria on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Juan Adames,  Gena Rowlands
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gloria, the quintessential "tough-talkin' dame" -- complete with time in prison and ties to the mob -- has put those days behind her, now living a quiet, solitary life. That changes when the Mafia marks her neighbors for death and Gloria is asked to care for their young son, Phil. She reluctantly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 618 members
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  • The Fury on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  John Cassavetes,  Charles Durning
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Kirk Douglas plays Peter Sandza, a Secret Service agent whose son Robin has psychic powers. Whilst holidaying with Robin and fellow agent Childress (John Cassavetes) they are attacked by what seems to be a gang of terrorist and Robin is kidnapped. However, when Sandzer discovers that the attack was ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 816 members
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  • Opening Night on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Gena Rowlands,  John Cassavetes,  Ben Gazzara
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Opening Night, ageing Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) begins rehearsals for her role in a play about a middle aged woman living in denial at the onset of her autumn years. A series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten preparations and when Myrtle witnesses the accidental ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 734 members
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  • Opening Night - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: Gena Rowlands,  John Cassavetes,  Ben Gazzara
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Opening Night, ageing Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) begins rehearsals for her role in a play about a middle aged woman living in denial at the onset of her autumn years. A series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten preparations and when Myrtle witnesses the accidental ..read more »
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  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
    Starring: Ben Gazzara,  Timothy Carey
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ben Gazarra (Dogville) plays Cosmo Vitelli in crime thriller The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Cosmo owns a run down LA strip club called The Crazy Horse West and is in danger of losing his beloved club when he gambles away $23,000 one night. The mob offer to clear him of his debt if he agrees to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,088 member
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  • Mikey And Nicky on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  John Cassavetes,  Ned Beatty
    Director: Elaine May
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When he hears that the mob have a contract out on him, smalltime hood Nicky (John Cassavetes) calls his old friend Mikey (Peter Falk) and asks for help. The two go on the run, but cracks begin to appear in their friendship and it becomes apparent that one of them has betrayed the other. Written and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 208 members
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  • Two Minute Warning (1976)
    Starring: John Cassavetes,  David Janssen,  Martin Balsam
    Director: Larry Peerce
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    1970s disaster thriller starring Charlton Heston and John Cassavetes. A psychopath armed with a hunting rifle goes on a sniping spree. When the sniper's two-minute warning shots ring out at a crowded football stadium, panic erupts among the 91,000 sports fans present. Heston plays the police ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 135 members
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  • Capone on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Ben Gazzara,  John Cassavetes,  Harry Guardino
    Director: Steve Carver
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Roger Corman produced this violent version of the life of America's most notorious gangster, Al Capone (Ben Gazarra), which features footage from Corman's own 1967 movie 'The St. Valentine's Day Massacre'. Capone's rise from humbling beginnings to become Chicago's mobster king prefaces his downfall ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 169 members
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  • Columbo - Series 2 (4 discs) on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Martin Landau,  John Cassavetes,  Peter Falk
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Complete second series of the popular 1970s American detective drama, following the investigations of the deceptively disheveled cop Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk), who always asks 'just one more thing' before getting his man. In 'Etude in Black', John Cassavetes guest stars as a conductor who is about ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 1,068 member
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  • Minnie And Moskowitz on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Val Avery,  Timothy Carey,  Gena Rowlands
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Romantic comedy from filmmaker John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel. After two destructive relationships, Minnie (Rowlands) agrees to go on a blind date with Zelmo Swift (Val Avery), who becomes enraged when he is later rejected. Car park attendant Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 73 members
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  • Husbands (1970)
    Starring: Ben Gazzara,  Peter Falk,  John Cassavetes
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The quiet, simple family lives of Gus, Harry and Archie (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) are shattered when their best friend, Stuart, has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Now facing their mortality, the three men fall into their own midlife crises. First by spending their days playing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7 members
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  • Rosemary's Baby on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Ruth Gordon,  John Cassavetes,  Tony Curtis
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 11,124 members
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  • Faces on DVD (1968)
    Starring: John Marley,  Gena Rowlands,  Lynn Carlin
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 829 members
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  • Faces - Blu-ray (1968)
    Starring: John Marley,  Gena Rowlands,  Lynn Carlin
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 24 members
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  • The Dirty Dozen on DVD (1967)
    Starring: John Cassavetes,  Jim Brown,  Robert Ryan
    Director: Robert Aldrich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,928 members
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  • The Killers (1964)
    Starring: Angie Dickinson,  Ava Gardner,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: Don Siegel,  Robert Siodmak
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 98 members
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  • A Child Is Waiting on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Bruce Ritchey,  Paul Stewart,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Drama starring Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland. Psychologist Dr Matthew Clark (Lancaster) runs a controversial boarding school for children with learning difficulties, known for its no-nonsense, tough love approach. When Clark recruits former concert pianist Jean Hansen (Garland) as the school's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 84 members
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  • The Killers on DVD (1946)
    Starring: John Cassavetes,  Burt Lancaster,  Edmond O'Brien
    Director: Don Siegel,  Robert Siodmak
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After boxer Swede (Burt Lancaster) is gunned down by a pair of contract killers, insurance investigator Jim Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) sets about piecing together the motives behind the murder. Swede's story is revealed in flashback - how he became involved in the crime world of Big Jim Colfax (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 514 members
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John Cassavetes facts

5 most recent films

She's So Lovely - 2.5 stars
Big Trouble - 2.0 stars
Tempest - 3.0 stars
The Incubus - 2.0 stars
Whose Life Is It Anyway? - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Columbo - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
The Killers - 3.5 stars
A Woman Under The Influence - 3.5 stars
The Dirty Dozen - 3.5 stars
The Killers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Opening Night - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Brass Target - 1.5 stars
Edge of the City - 2.0 stars
Tempest - 3.0 stars
Faces - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gena Rowlands - 15 times - show films
Peter Falk - 11 times - show films
Ben Gazzara - 8 times - show films
Martin Landau - 5 times - show films
Ray Milland - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alfred Hitchcock - 7 times - show films
none - 5 times - show films
Robert Siodmak - 3 times - show films
Don Siegel - 3 times - show films
John Hough - 3 times - show films