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...

Max

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

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...

Max

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

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.

Max

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

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