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  • Two Days In The Valley
  • Two Days In The Valley review by from London
    Rated - 3 stars Interesting idea - but over before it gets going 7 December 2004
    ...I was drawn to the amazing cast list for this film. James Spader, Danny Aiello and Jeff Daniels put in some great, if brief, performances. The film uses multiple apparentl...  
  • Harlem Nights
  • Harlem Nights review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ...a (Della Reese) in the foot. The talented supporting players include Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello and Jasmine Guy. ...  
  • 29th Street
  • 29th Street review by from Northumberland
    Rated - 5 stars Danny Aiello is a god 26 June 2005
    ...rd that springs to mind about htis "hidden gem". Having been a great admirer of Danny Aiello for years this film just confirms what I already knew that the man has to be on...  

Danny Aiello - filmography


  • Dinner Rush on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Edoardo Ballerini,  Danny Aiello,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Bob Giraldi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bob Giraldi, award-winning director of commercials and music videos (Michael Jackson's "Beat It"), uses his own restaurant--Gigino's Trattoria--as the starting point for his debut feature, DINNER RUSH. The film is about one lively night at a trendy restaurant in the TriBeCa area of New York City. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,147 member
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  • Gangland on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  William Forsythe,  Polly Draper
    Director: Danny Aiello
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Vincent Dianni has worked for the Mob as one of the foot soldiers for a long time. When he decides that enough is enough the Mafia bosses send a protege to take him out...
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 64 members
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  • Prince Of Central Park on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  Kathleen Turner,  Cathy Moriarty
    Director: John Leekley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After his mother dies and he is placed in the care of an abusive foster mother, twelve-year-old J.J. Somerled (Frankie Nasso) runs away--literally--from a difficult past, taking only his electronic keyboard with him, and begins living in New York City's Central Park. Making music and enjoying the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 56 members
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  • Mario Puzo's The Last Don (1997)
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  Joe Mantegna,  Daryl Hannah
    Director: Graeme Clifford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Sprawling Mario Puzo novel about an Italian family of gangsters. Headed by Don Domenico Clericuzio (Aiello), the family executes a rival gang on the night of the Don's daughter's wedding, including her new husband, the son of his rival. Unfortunately the daughter (Alley) gets pregnant and the ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 23 members
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  • Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Rik Mayall,  Jane Horrocks,  Danny Aiello
    Director: John Henderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The ever-manic Rik Mayall stars as Marty Starr, the unscrupulous manager of fading pop legend Marla Dorland, nee Mavis Davis (Jane Horrocks). Heavily in debt to local mobster Mr. Rathbone (Danny Aiello), Marty hatches a scheme to make a killing off his protegee--quite literally. Knowing that a pop ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 247 members
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  • Mojave Moon on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Angelina Jolie,  Danny Aiello,  Anne Archer
    Director: Kevin Dowling
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danny Aiello stars as Al McCord, a nice guy who stumbles into a weekend of wacky intrigue when he impulsively gives Ellie (Angelina Jolie) a ride from Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert. Al never expects Ellie to fall in love with him, nor does he expect to fall for her mother Julie (Anne Archer)! ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 25 members
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  • City Hall on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  John Cusack,  Bridget Fonda
    Director: Harold Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this urban thriller the accidental shooting of a six-year-old during an altercation between cops and a drug dealer shakes a New York City mayor's office to its core, as the resulting investigation unveils the seamy truths behind political power-brokering and backroom deals.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,637 member
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  • Leon - BLU-RAY Version (1994)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Natalie Portman,  Jean Reno
    Director: Luc Besson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    French director Luc Besson tackles his first American movie in this unusual tale of Leon (Jean Reno), a stoic assassin who develops a reluctant relationship with an orphaned 12-year-old girl (Natalie Portman, in an excellent debut performance). When a corrupt DEA official (Gary Oldman) murders the ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 91% from 668 members
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  • Leon (1994)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Jean Reno,  Natalie Portman
    Director: Luc Besson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A murder on the streets of New York leads to a deadly game of cat and mouse while an orphaned twelve-year-old girl becomes caught in the middle...
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 81% from 77,411 members
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  • Pret A Porter on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Tim Robbins,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,329 member
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  • Hudson Hawk on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Richard E. Grant,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Michael Lehmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) has done his time. The infamous cat burglar is released from prison and plans to pursue an honest life. Some of his cronies, however, feel differently and coerce him back into a life of crime. With his best friend, Tommy Five-Tune (Danny Aiello), in tow, Hawk finds ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,907 members
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  • 29th Street on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  Anthony La Paglia,  Lainie Kazan
    Director: George Gallo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danny Aiello stars as Frank Pesce Jr, a lucky man who appears to ward off all the bad luck that comes his way. Despite his deprived background and penchant for getting into sticky situations, he manages to become New York's first ever lottery winner.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 175 members
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  • Jacob's Ladder - BLU-RAY Version (1990)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Elizabeth Pena,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Adrian Lyne
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER moves in time and space between Vietnam and New York with hallucinatory force. Something bad happened on the Mekong Delta, on October 6, 1971, and it is still affecting war veteran Jacob (Tim Robbins) in Brooklyn as he attempts to live a normal life with coworker and ..read more »
    Rate this: 5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
    Due for release on 1st March 2010
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  • Jacob's Ladder on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Elizabeth Pena,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Adrian Lyne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER moves in time and space between Vietnam and New York with hallucinatory force. Something bad happened on the Mekong Delta, on October 6, 1971, and it is still affecting war veteran Jacob (Tim Robbins) in Brooklyn as he attempts to live a normal life with coworker and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,726 members
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  • Harlem Nights on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Richard Pryor,  Jasmine Guy
    Director: Eddie Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) became Quick's (Eddie Murphy) adopted father when an adolescent Quick saved his life. Twenty-five years later, in 1938, Ray runs the most popular club in Harlem, with Quick as his right-hand man. Before long, Bugsy, a white mobster (Michael Lerner) comes knocking for a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,111 member
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  • The Preppie Murder on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  William Baldwin,  Lara Flynn Boyle
    Director: John Herzfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When eighteen-year-old Jennifer Levin is strangled to death in New York's Central Park her boyfriend, Robert, confesses to the crime saying it occurred during a 'rough sex' session which Jennifer had initiated. Jennifer's family believe otherwise...
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 96 members
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  • Moonstruck on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Cher,  Nicolas Cage,  Vincent Gardenia
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this glowingly atmospheric comedy, a young Italian-American woman, bitter after having been widowed by a speeding bus, makes a practical decision to marry a longtime friend for stability and security, even though her feelings for him are tepid at best. But when she falls in love with her fiance'..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,400 members
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  • Radio Days on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Dianne Wiest,  Julie Kavner,  Michael Tucker
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    RADIO DAYS is Woody Allen's charming, nostalgic, very funny love letter to growing up in 1940s Brooklyn during the golden age of radio. The setting is the close-knit working-class neighborhood of Rockaway, New York, where a warm, crazy, sprawling Jewish family lives, sharing their happiness as well ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,356 members
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  • The Stuff (1985)
    Starring: Michael Moriarty,  Paul Sorvino,  Scott Bloom
    Director: Larry Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Soon after being introduced a new ice-cream-like product becomes very popular. But, unfortunately, people who eat it are turned into walking zombies. Two brave young businessmen struggle to save all mankind from this monstrous dessert...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 61 members
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  • Brooklyn Lobster on DVD
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  Jane Curtin
    Director: Kevin Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a true story, BROOKLYN LOBSTER centres on a single New York family as they struggle with a failing family business. When the bank threatens to foreclose on his small lobster shop, Frank Giorgio (Danny Aiello) does all he can to save it. A landmark in the community, Giorgio's Lobster Farm ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 9 members
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Danny Aiello facts

5 most recent films

Dinner Rush - 3.0 stars
Gangland - 1.5 stars
Prince Of Central Park - 2.5 stars
Mario Puzo's The Last Don - 4.0 stars
Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Leon - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Leon - 4.0 stars
Do The Right Thing - 3.5 stars
Radio Days - 3.5 stars
Jacob's Ladder - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cinema Collection - Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 - 1.5 stars
Wilbur Falls - 2.0 stars
Power Of Attorney - 2.0 stars
Mojave Moon - 2.5 stars
Brooklyn Lobster - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Harvey Keitel - 3 times - show films
Tim Robbins - 3 times - show films
Richard E. Grant - 2 times - show films
Michael Hogan - 2 times - show films
Natalie Portman - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Adrian Lyne - 2 times - show films
Woody Allen - 2 times - show films
John Herzfeld - 2 times - show films
Luc Besson - 2 times - show films
Stephen Kessle - 1 times - show films