Cast: John Cassavetes
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Cassavetes. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction Roman Polanski
Cast Mia Farrow · John Cassavetes · Ruth Gordon · Ralph Bellamy
Plot Actor Guy Woodhouse and his wife Rosemary move into a new apartment. In no time they befriend their neighbours, the aging Castevets. Rosemary soon becomes pregnant. But when her obstetrician...
7.7
61K votes
7.7
61K votes
Opening Night
1977 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · Ben Gazzara · John Cassavetes · Joan Blondell
Plot A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Lee Marvin · Charles Bronson · John Cassavetes · Ernest Borgnine
Plot An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment,...
7.7
38K votes
7.7
38K votes
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (TV)
1995 · Documentary · 225 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin Scorsese · Michael Henry Wilson
Cast Martin Scorsese · Frank Capra · John Cassavetes · Philippe Collin
7.7
1K votes
7.7
1K votes
Love Streams
1984 · Movie · 141 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · John Cassavetes · Diahnne Abbott · Seymour Cassel
Plot A quirky character drama about a writer and his sister who struggle to find love despite their personal problems.
7.4
864 votes
7.4
864 votes
Shadows
1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Lelia Goldoni · Ben Carruthers · Anthony Ray · Hugh Hurd
Plot Benny's a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan's beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. His sister Lelia, who looks less African-American than White, is vulnerable and about to...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
The Killers
1964 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Lee Marvin · Angie Dickinson · John Cassavetes · Ronald Reagan
Plot Ernest Hemingway's short story THE KILLERS was turned into two memorable films noir at the beginning and the end of the high period of the genre. The original 1946, directed...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
Minnie and Moskowitz
1971 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · Seymour Cassel · Val Avery · Timothy Carey
Plot Minnie breaks up with her married boyfriend and becomes disillusioned. However, she begins to learn that there is hope for love and romance in a desperate world when she meets...
7.2
884 votes
7.2
884 votes
Cinéastes de notre temps: John Cassavetes (TV)
1969 · Documentary · 60 min. · France
Direction Hubert Knapp · André S. Labarthe
Cast John Cassavetes · Jerry Howard · Gena Rowlands
7.1
24 votes
7.1
24 votes
Mikey and Nicky
1976 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Elaine May
Cast Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · Ned Beatty · Rose Arrick
Plot In the mob you trust no one. Not even your best friend.
7.0
347 votes
7.0
347 votes
Husbands
1970 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Ben Gazzara · Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · Jenny Runacre
Plot A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Edge of the City
1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast John Cassavetes · Sidney Poitier · Jack Warden · Kathleen Maguire
Plot Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes), with a mysterious past, and Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier), an easy-going freight car loader who's growing friendship is threatened by Charles...
6.8
399 votes
6.8
399 votes
Columbo: Étude in Black (TV)
1972 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Colasanto · John Cassavetes · Peter Falk
Cast Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · James Olson · Blythe Danner
Plot An amoral conductor murders the gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
6.7
444 votes
6.7
444 votes
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: You Got to Have Luck (TV)
1956 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevens
Cast John Cassavetes · Marisa Pavan · Lamont Johnson · Ray Teal
Plot During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
6.6
99 votes
6.6
99 votes
Whose Life is It Anyway?
1981 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction John Badham
Cast Richard Dreyfuss · John Cassavetes · Christine Lahti · Bob Balaban
Plot 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...
6.6
461 votes
6.6
461 votes
Crime in the Streets
1956 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast John Cassavetes · James Whitmore · Sal Mineo · Mark Rydell
Plot Social worker tries to befriend local slum gang.
6.6
236 votes
6.6
236 votes
Saddle the Wind
1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Robert Parrish · John Sturges
Cast Robert Taylor · Julie London · John Cassavetes · Donald Crisp
Plot Steve Sinclair (Robert Taylor) is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony (John Cassavetes) arrives on...
6.4
528 votes
6.4
528 votes
Tempest
1982 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Paul Mazursky
Cast John Cassavetes · Gena Rowlands · Vittorio Gassman · Susan Sarandon
Plot A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek...
6.2
186 votes
6.2
186 votes
Machine Gun McCain
1969 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy
Direction Giuliano Montaldo
Cast John Cassavetes · Britt Ekland · Peter Falk · Gabriele Ferzetti
6.0
204 votes
6.0
204 votes
Capone
1975 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Steve Carver
Cast Ben Gazzara · Harry Guardino · Susan Blakely · John Cassavetes
Plot The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the...
5.7
482 votes
5.7
482 votes