When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.

Baked in Brooklyn

2016

English

5.4

♡ 74

34%

Action

brooklyn, new york city

Rory Rooney Director

Mark Feuerstein as Businessman

Joe Grifasi as David's Dad

Alexandra Daddario as Kate

Jeff Lima as Kid #2

A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of his dreams. With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clienteles, and the growing threats of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he is in way over his head.

Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream

2014

English

7.5

♡ 11

Action

a midsummer night's dream

Comedy

woman director

Julie Taymor Director

Max Casella as Nick Bottom

Joe Grifasi as Peter Quince

Kathryn Hunter as Puck

Sophia Lillis as Rude Elemental

A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

Dark Matter

2007

English

6.0

♡ 17

41%

Shi-Zheng Chen Director

Aidan Quinn as Jacob Reiser

Meryl Streep as Joanna Silver

Joe Grifasi as Professor Colby

Erick Avari as Professor R.K. Gazda

Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.

Bad Medicine

1985

English

4.7

♡ 3

27%

Action

Comedy

Harvey Miller Director

Joe Grifasi as Gómez

Candi Milo as María Morales

Taylor Negron as Pepe the Cab Driver

Gilbert Gottfried as Tony Sandoval

Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But then he gets a chance to study medicine abroad in a small Latin American dictatorship governed by the dictator Ramon Madera who has a big interest in how the medical students behave.

Me to Play

2021

English

8.0

♡ 1

60%

Jim Bernfield Director

John Christopher Jones as Self / Clov

Byron Jennings as Self / Nagg

Carolyn McCormick as Self / Nell

Joe Grifasi as Self / Theatrical Director

As their bodies give way to Parkinson's disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett's "Endgame," the play that posits, "there's nothing funnier than unhappiness."

The American Side

2016

English

4.8

♡ 2

79%

Jenna Ricker Director

Matthew Broderick as Borden Chase

Camilla Belle as Emily Chase

Stephen Henderson as Stickney

Joe Grifasi as The Serb

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.

Slow Burn

2005

English

5.7

♡ 3

9%

Wayne Beach Director

Fisher Stevens as Alan Turlock

Joe Grifasi as Desk Sgt. Drown

Ray Liotta as Ford Cole

Jolene Blalock as Nora Timmer

A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.

F/X

1986

English

6.7

♡ 26

88%

Robert Mandel Director

Ed Crowley as Ballistics expert

Diane Venora as Ellen Keith

Joe Grifasi as Mickey

Angela Bassett as TV reporter

A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.

The Deer Hunter

1978

English

8.1

♡ 148

86%

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

Michael Cimino Director

Joe Grifasi as Bandleader

Meryl Streep as Linda

Robert De Niro as Michael

Christopher Walken as Nick

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

Matewan

1987

English

7.9

♡ 13

94%

93%

Action

appalachia

based on a true story

John Sayles Director

Bob Gunton as C.E. Lively

Mary McDonnell as Elma Radnor

Joe Grifasi as Fausto

Chris Cooper as Joe Kenehan

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

On the Yard

1978

English

6.0

♡ 6

Drama

Raphael D. Silver Director

John Heard as Juleson

James Remar as Larson

Joe Grifasi as Morris

Mike Kellin as Red

Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.

The Other Me

2000

English

5.9

♡ 9

46%

based on novel or book

Manny Coto Director

Alison Pill as Allana Browning

Joe Grifasi as Conrad

Sarah Gadon as Heather

Andrew Lawrence as Will Browning / Twoie

When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely get an A. So he buys some Ocean Pups, unhatched sea creatures that will look spectacular, but he hasn't bargained for the cloning agent that the unscrupulous manufacturers have put in the kit. Next thing he knows there's another him.

Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed

2006

English

7.7

♡ 3

Paul Miller Director

Lewis Black as Self

Joe Grifasi as Uncle Sam

Lewis Black stars in his second HBO solo special, an all-new hour of frenetic, take-no-prisoners stand-up comedy, taped before a live audience at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC. Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed features Black's opinions and insights into such issues as the State of the Union, abortion, frozen embryos, defecation habits, fossils, bad language, FEMA and, of course, Dick Cheney's aim.