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  • Leo keeps Gandolfini's engagement ring - 27 October 2010
    lissa Leo kept her character's engagement ring from new movie Welcome To The Rileys because she quite liked the idea of playing James Gandolfini's wife.- -The unwed Frozen River star admits she even wears the ring from time to time - because it brings back fond memories o


  • Stewart not intimidated by Gandolfini - 21 October 2010
    -Kristen Stewart had no problems working with James Gandolfini in Welcome To The Rileys - because she had never seen him portray a tough mafia boss in The Sopranos.- -In the new drama, Stewart plays a troubled stripper, Mallory, who is befriended by Gandolfini's lonely ch

James Gandolfini - what members say


  • The Man Who Wasn't There
  • The Man Who Wasn't There review by from Croydon
    Rated - 5.0 stars Noir that sheds light on isolation 25 July 2005
    ...Johanssen (a little rough around the edges compared to Lost in Translation) and James Gandolfini (as hard as you remember him in the Sopranos)....   Read customer review
  • The Last Castle
  • The Last Castle review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Flatters to deceive 12 November 2007
    ...very promising fashion, especially when you see the likes of robert redford and James Gandolfini. however, pretty rapidly, it denigrates into a farce that can probably be descr...   Read customer review
  • The Sopranos - Series 4
  • The Sopranos - Series 4 review by Bullybass from Exeter
    Rated - 5.0 stars The Best So far 21 October 2009
    ...ough you will need to be very observant to see some of the subtle visual jokes. James Gandolfini is superb throughout and surely there is no other actor who can portray the 'ju...   Read customer review

James Gandolfini - filmography


  • Burt Wonderstone (2013)
    Starring: Olivia Wilde,  Jim Carrey,  Steve Carell
    Director: Don Scardino
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sandra Bullock,  John Goodman
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Oskar is convinced that his father (Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 44 members
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  • Violet & Daisy (2011)
    Starring: Saoirse Ronan,  Alexis Bledel,  Danny Trejo
    Director: Geoffrey Fletcher
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When you're a teenager, every new drama feels like a life-or-death situation, but for the anti-heroines of this film, that feeling is not hyperbolic. Violet and Daisy are teenaged assassins. They speak of their work in blunt, grotesque terms, and seem unaffected by it. The pair accepts what they ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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  • Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
    Starring: James Gandolfini,  Melissa Leo,  Kristen Stewart
    Director: Jake Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Trauma transforms us. Years after their teenage daughter's death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. She isolates herself in their immaculate suburban home. He philanders with a local waitress, anesthetizing pain with easy passion. When he loses his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 91 members
    Due for release on 27th February 2012
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  • In the Loop on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Peter Capaldi,  Tom Hollander,  Gina McKee
    Director: Armando Iannucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    IN THE LOOP is a foul-mouthed comedy that draws on non-specific events to create a world that is terrifyingly familiar: The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees that war is a ‘good thing’. US General Miller (James Gandolfini – The Sopranos, The Taking Of Pelham ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 27,196 members
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  • In the Loop - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Peter Capaldi,  Tom Hollander,  Gina McKee
    Director: Armando Iannucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    IN THE LOOP is a foul-mouthed comedy that draws on non-specific events to create a world that is terrifyingly familiar: The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees that war is a ‘good thing’. US General Miller (James Gandolfini – The Sopranos, The Taking Of Pelham ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,795 members
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  • Where the Wild Things Are - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Catherine O'Hara,  Forest Whitaker,  Paul Dano
    Director: Spike Jonze
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The story follows Max, a young boy who wears his wolf suit, behaves badly and is sent to bed without any supper. Once there, he escapes to a forest where he is joined by the monstrous-yet-cuddly wild things for their wild rumpus. Adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 7,302 members
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  • The Taking of Pelham 123 on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  John Travolta,  John Turturro
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A New York City subway dispatcher draws on his extensive knowledge of the subway system in order to outsmart a dangerous criminal mastermind who's hijacked a subway train in this remake of the 1974 thriller inspired by John Godey's best-selling book. Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is drifting ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 48,717 members
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  • The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  John Travolta,  John Turturro
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A New York City subway dispatcher draws on his extensive knowledge of the subway system in order to outsmart a dangerous criminal mastermind who's hijacked a subway train in this remake of the 1974 thriller inspired by John Godey's best-selling book. Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is drifting ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 12,953 members
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  • Where the Wild Things Are on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Catherine O'Hara,  Forest Whitaker,  Paul Dano
    Director: Spike Jonze
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The story follows Max, a young boy who wears his wolf suit, behaves badly and is sent to bed without any supper. Once there, he escapes to a forest where he is joined by the monstrous-yet-cuddly wild things for their wild rumpus. Adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 22,449 members
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  • Lonely Hearts on DVD (2006)
    Starring: John Travolta,  James Gandolfini,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Todd Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true story, two homicide detectives (Travolta and Gandolfini) track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lure their victims through the personals...
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 7,831 members
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  • All The King's Men on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jude Law,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Steven Zaillian
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 9,940 members
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  • All The King's Men - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jude Law,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Steven Zaillian
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 826 members
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  • Surviving Christmas on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ben Affleck,  James Gandolfini,  Christina Applegate
    Director: Mike Mitchell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drew Latham is a wealthy marketing executive who is fed up with spending Christmas alone every year. But the Valco family - parents Tom and Christine, and their two kids Brian and Alicia - who live in Drew's old family home, have each other. When Drew's idea of spending Christmas in Fiji is turned ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 9,145 members
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  • The Last Castle on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  James Gandolfini,  Mark Ruffalo
    Director: Rod Lurie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three-star General Irwin (Robert Redford) was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and a revered hero in the Persian Gulf and Bosnian campaigns. Now, he has been court-martialed for disobeying orders and he is sentenced to serve time at The Castle, a maximum-security military prison run by Colonel Winter (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,909 members
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  • The Mexican on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Julia Roberts,  James Gandolfini
    Director: Gore Verbinski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts have star power to burn in Gore Verbinski's offbeat THE MEXICAN, about the search for a cursed legendary gun. Pitt stars as Jerry Welbach, a small-time loser who is given no choice but to run an errand for a powerful boss (Bob Balaban) who will have him killed if he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 7,568 members
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  • Wildflowers on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Daryl Hannah,  Clea Duvall,  Eric Roberts
    Director: Melissa Painter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cally (DuVall) is a seventeen-year-old tomboy who lives with her out-of-touch father (Arana) aboard a houseboat in the California Bay Area. Her life seems trite and mundane until she's graced by a one-time encounter with an extremely exotic woman named Sabine (Hannah). Cally is taken by the mystery ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 397 members
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  • 8MM on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Chris Bauer,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Two features. In '8MM' Cage plays Tom Welles, a straight-laced surveillance specialist. His innocent, naive world begins to unravel when he is hired by the widow of an industrialist to investigate what she has shockingly discovered in her late husband's safe. It appears to be a snuff film of a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 7,516 members
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  • Fallen on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  John Goodman,  Donald Sutherland
    Director: Gregory Hoblit
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel)witnesses the execution of a demonic serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas). Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to the style of Reese. Co-stars the amazing Donald Sutherland.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 11,127 members
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  • A Civil Action on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Robert Duvall,  Stephen Fry
    Director: Steve Zaillain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious young lawyer, is confronted with the litigation of a lifetime in this unbelievable real-life story. Several families in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts, have suffered the tragic losses of their children to the rare cancer known as leukemia. After having their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,359 member
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  • The Mighty on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Gena Rowlands,  Harry Dean Stanton
    Director: Peter Chelsom
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Touching story of a young physically challenged boy (Kieran Culkin) with a taste for adventure stories who befriends his physically strong but mentally challenged neighbor (Elden Henson) so that they may act out fantastic adventures. The cast also includes Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands, Gillian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 559 members
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  • Dance With The Devil on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Rosie Perez,  James Gandolfini,  Aimee Graham
    Director: Alex De La Iglesia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Perez plays Perdita Durango, a woman on the run who, along with her evil lover Romeo Delorosa, goes across the Mexican/U.S. border in a flash of human sacrifice, black magic, hitmen, and lots of other things normal people go out of their way to avoid. Based on a novel by Barry Gifford, creator of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 105 members
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  • She's So Lovely on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  John Travolta,  Robin Wright Penn
    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 449 members
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  • Perdita Durango (1997)
    Starring: Rosie Perez,  Javier Bardem,  Harley Cross
    Director: Alex De La Iglesia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 732 members
    Not currently released
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  • The Juror on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Demi Moore,  Alec Baldwin,  James Gandolfini
    Director: Brian Gibson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    To set a good example to her son, single mother Annie agrees to serve on a jury in the trial of a powerful mobster. But when the selection procedure takes place she is evaluated by the judge, the attorneys and a member of the Mafia.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 827 members
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  • Get Shorty - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Gene Hackman,  Rene Russo
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who's been sent to L.A. to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), the maker of the stunning flops "Grotesque" and "Slime People." But this is Harry's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • Crimson Tide - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Gene Hackman,  George Dzundza
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Russian rebels gain control of nuclear weapons in the USSR, the United States retaliates by deploying the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine commanded by Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman). Veteran soldier and Naval legend Ramsey selects Lt. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)--a Harvard ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,881 member
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  • Get Shorty on DVD (1995)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Gene Hackman,  Rene Russo
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 13,369 members
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  • Crimson Tide on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Gene Hackman,  George Dzundza
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Russian rebels gain control of nuclear weapons in the USSR, the United States retaliates by deploying the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine commanded by Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman). Veteran soldier and Naval legend Ramsey selects Lt. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)--a Harvard ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 10,991 members
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  • Terminal Velocity on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Nastassja Kinski,  James Gandolfini
    Director: Deran Sarafian
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a parachute school is shut down because a beautiful student's chute fails to open, the hotshot instructor freefalls into a pool of intrigue. He discovers the accident was a set-up and the woman, a former KGB agent on the run from the new Russian Mafia, is alive and well--for now.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,432 member
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  • True Romance - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Christian Slater,  Patricia Arquette,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When inexperienced call girl Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) is paid to seduce comic-book-nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence Worley (Christian Slater), she doesn't expect to fall for him. But these two lost souls seem to be made for each other and quickly pledge their love, marrying at Detroit's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 1,949 member
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James Gandolfini facts

5 most recent films

Burt Wonderstone - 5.0 stars
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 3.0 stars
Violet & Daisy - 5.0 stars
Welcome to the Rileys - 3.5 stars
In the Loop - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Sopranos - Series 6 - Part 2 - 4.5 stars
The Sopranos - Series 6 - Part 1 - 4.5 stars
The Sopranos - Series 1 - 4.5 stars
The Sopranos - Series 3 - 4.5 stars
The Sopranos - Series 5 - 4.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Get Shorty - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 3.0 stars
Violet & Daisy - 5.0 stars
Burt Wonderstone - 5.0 stars
Wildflowers - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Edie Falco - 43 times - show films
Lorraine Bracco - 20 times - show films
Nancy Marchand - 18 times - show films
Michael Imperioli - 15 times - show films
Aida Turturro - 11 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 20 times - show films
John Patterson - 15 times - show films
Allen Coulter - 15 times - show films
David Chase - 13 times - show films
Daniel Attias - 13 times - show films