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  • Leon
  • Leon review by A customer from Scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Leon starring Jean Reno 28 April 2006
    ... help but like. Strong performances from all including a young Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello and not forgetting Leon's best friend the plant.Highly Recommended 5 stars ...   Read customer review
  • Two Days In The Valley
  • Two Days In The Valley review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Harlem Nights
  • Harlem Nights review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ...a (Della Reese) in the foot. The talented supporting players include Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello and Jasmine Guy. ...   Read customer review

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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,253 member
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  • Gangland (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...
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 68 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 63 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 30 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.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,874 member
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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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 279 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 87 members
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  • Two Days In The Valley on DVD (1996)
    Starring: James Spader,  Teri Hatcher,  Lawrence Tierney
    Director: John Herzfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    L.A.'s much-vilified San Fernando Valley is the setting for the chaotic goings-on in this multi-plotted comedic thriller featuring a murderous insurance scam perpetrated by sadistic double-crossers, a bumbling, love-struck hit man, a kidnapped, gallstone-suffering art dealer, a washed-up, suicidal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,537 member
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  • Leon - Blu-ray (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 »
    4.5 stars out of 5 88% from 5,144 members
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  • Leon on DVD (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...
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 92,025 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,585 member
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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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 184 members
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  • Hudson Hawk on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Donald Burton,  Bruce Willis,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Michael Lehmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This light-hearted action comedy tells the story of the world's greatest cat burglar, Hudson Hawk. Officially retired, Hawk is forced back into the business by the evil Mayflowers who, in an effort to blackmail him into stealing three works by Leonardo Da Vinci, kidnap his best friend.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,878 members
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  • Jacob's Ladder - Blu-ray (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 835 members
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,745 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,237 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...
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 115 members
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  • Do The Right Thing on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  Giancarlo Esposito,  Spike Lee
    Director: Spike Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A local black community is unhappy that their community is effectively being run by whites. As the heat rises on a hot summer's day in Brooklyn, so the racial tension, which has so far lay dormant under the surface, begins to rise.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,239 members
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  • The January Man on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Susan Sarandon,  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
    Director: Pat O'Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An underrated film penned by Oscar winner (Moonstruck) John Patrick Shanley about a modern day Sherlock Holmes asked by his policeman brother to discover a serial killer's identity before he strikes again. His romance with the Mayor's daughter has a touch of poetry that lifts the film above formula.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 747 members
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  • Moonstruck on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Cher,  Nicolas Cage,  Vincent Gardenia
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) lives. First, Loretta agrees to marry a man she does not love, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), simply because he knows how to propose properly. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,049 members
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  • Radio Days on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Diane Keaton,  Josh Mostel,  Dianne Wiest
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,892 members
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  • The Purple Rose Of Cairo on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Van Johnson,  Milo O'Shea,  Michael Tucker
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Lonely Depression-era waitress Cecilia (Farrow) is hopelessly addicted to Hollywood movies. Spellbound by her new favorite, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Cecilia is astonished when the leading man (Daniels) suddenly walks off the screen to meet her. Wooed by his charm, Cecilia finds herself falling for ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,440 members
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  • The Stuff on DVD (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...
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 339 members
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  • The Fort Apache Bronx (1981)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Pam Grier,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Murphy (Paul Newman) is a street cop in the tough borough of the Bronx -- known to its denizens as "Fort Apache." While Murphy tries to treat the people on his beat with dignity, he can't seem to convince his superiors that brutality isn't a cure for society's ills. After witnessing a fellow cop (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 24 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 14 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 - 3.5 stars
City Hall - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Leon - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Leon - 4.0 stars
Radio Days - 3.5 stars
Jacob's Ladder - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Do The Right Thing - 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
Brooklyn Lobster - 3.0 stars
Mario Puzo's The Last Don - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Harvey Keitel - 3 times - show films
Cher - 3 times - show films
Tim Robbins - 3 times - show films
Dianne Wiest - 2 times - show films
Jean Reno - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Adrian Lyne - 2 times - show films
Norman Jewison - 2 times - show films
Woody Allen - 2 times - show films
John Herzfeld - 2 times - show films
Luc Besson - 2 times - show films