Cast: Ron Silver

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ron Silver. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Silkwood

1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Meryl Streep · Kurt Russell · Cher · Craig T. Nelson

Synopsis Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Kane & Abel (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Movie · 240 min. · United States

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Peter Strauss · Sam Neill · Ron Silver · David Dukes

Synopsis Kane and Abel are born on the same day the same year on each side of the Atlantic. William Kane is born in one of the richest families of Boston and grows up to be a banker on Wall Street....

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

Ali

2001 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Michael Mann

Cast Will Smith · Jon Voight · Jamie Foxx · Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis Muhammad Ali thrilled the world with his ground-breaking boxing victories in the '60s and '70s. But the man behind the legend is grappling with a tumultuous romantic life, his deeply held religious beliefs and the pressures of staying on top....

6.4

26K votes

6.4

26K votes

Reversal of Fortune

1990 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Barbet Schroeder

Cast Jeremy Irons · Glenn Close · Ron Silver · Annabella Sciorra

Synopsis Dershowitz (Ron Silver) is hired by Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) to defend him against charges that he attempted to murder his wife, Sunny (Glenn Close), who lies in a coma. As Dershowitz, aided by his eager law students, scrambles...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

The Entity

1982 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Barbara Hershey · Ron Silver · David Labiosa · George Coe

Synopsis A single mother (Barbara Hershey) sees her normal, everyday life crumble when she repeatedly gets attacked and raped by an unseen spirit. She turns to a psychologist for help (Ron Silver) but he thinks it’s all in her head. The...

6.3

5K votes

6.3

5K votes

Find Me Guilty

2006 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Vin Diesel · Ron Silver · Alex Rocco · Peter Dinklage

Synopsis Find Me Guilty (2006) is a courtroom drama based on a true story. The film follows Jackie DiNorscio, a charismatic mobster who chooses to defend himself during a lengthy trial against the Lucchese crime family. Despite his lack of legal...

6.2

6K votes

6.2

6K votes

Enemies: a Love story

1989 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Paul Mazursky

Cast Ron Silver · Anjelica Huston · Lena Olin · Malgorzata Zajaczkowska

Synopsis A post-Holocaust Jew, living in Coney Island, can't choose between three women--his current wife (who hid him during the war), his tempestuous lover, and his reappearing pre-war wife he presumed dead. This dark comedy, adapted from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel...

6.1

213 votes

6.1

213 votes

Garbo Talks

1984 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Anne Bancroft · Ron Silver · Carrie Fisher · Catherine Hicks

Synopsis Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won't cross a picket line for her son's wedding. She also loves Garbo films: when she learns she...

5.8

151 votes

5.8

151 votes

Mr. Saturday Night

1992 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Billy Crystal

Cast Billy Crystal · David Paymer · Julie Warner · Helen Hunt

Synopsis Billy Crystal co-wrote, directed, and starred in this ambitious 1992 comedy-drama about an aged comedian named Buddy Young Jr., whose foul attitude and poor judgment have a strongly negative effect on his career and the people who care for him...

5.7

162 votes

5.7

162 votes

Heat Vision and Jack (TV)

1999 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Ben Stiller

Cast Jack Black · Owen Wilson · Ron Silver · Christine Taylor

Synopsis As the result of a NASA miscalculation, Astronaut Jack Austin flew to close to the sun, the rays expanding his mind and making him the smartest man on the planet. Now he and his talking motorcycle (who contains the mind...

5.6

29 votes

5.6

29 votes

Blue Steel

1990 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Kathryn Bigelow

Cast Jamie Lee Curtis · Ron Silver · Clancy Brown · Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis Rookie female cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) kills an armed robber, but is suspended from the force when the gunman's weapon is not found. Actually, the weapon has fallen into the hands of a psychotic killer (Ron Silver) who...

5.4

2K votes

5.4

2K votes

The Arrival

1996 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction David Twohy

Cast Charlie Sheen · Lindsay Crouse · Teri Polo · Ron Silver

Synopsis Zane ('Charlie Sheen' ), a young, mild-mannered astronomer discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal. After being fired from his organization for reporting this to his superior, he takes a chance on discovering the truth: that his workplace is not quite what...

4.9

4K votes

4.9

4K votes

Married to It

1991 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Beau Bridges · Stockard Channing · Cybill Shepherd · Robert Sean Leonard

Synopsis Tale of three different couples (Yuppies, Hippies, and Society Folk) who find some common ground and become friends after being assigned to the same school project. Their lives are turned upside down by divorce, indictment, and sex but their friendship...

4.9

97 votes

4.9

97 votes

Veronica's Closet (TV Series)

1997 · Series · 22 min. · United States

Direction David Crane · Marta Kauffman · Robert Berlinger · Alan Rafkin

Cast Kirstie Alley · Dan Cortese · Wallace Langham · Daryl Mitchell

Synopsis TV Series (1997-2000). 3 Seasons. 66 Episodes. The show starred Kirstie Alley as Veronica Chase, the head of her own lingerie company (the show's title is a play on Victoria's Secret). As the country’s leading romance expert and owner of...

4.8

1K votes

4.8

1K votes

Best Friends

1982 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Burt Reynolds · Goldie Hawn · Jessica Tandy · Barnard Hughes

Synopsis When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best...

4.8

213 votes

4.8

213 votes

Timecop

1994 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Jean-Claude Van Damme · Mia Sara · Ron Silver · Bruce McGill

Synopsis An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

4.6

9K votes

4.6

9K votes

Lovesick

1983 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Brickman

Cast Dudley Moore · Elizabeth McGovern · Alec Guinness · John Huston

Synopsis Saul, a married psychiatrist, becomes romantically obsessed with Chloe, one of his patients who already devastated one psychoanalyst. Although the venerable spirit of Sigmund Freud himself appears to give him advice on how to handle it, Saul continues on his...

4.5

29 votes

4.5

29 votes

Semi-Tough

1977 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Michael Ritchie

Cast Burt Reynolds · Kris Kristofferson · Jill Clayburgh · Robert Preston

Synopsis A comedy about two football players and their mutual girlfriend. Includes many spoofs and parodies about various self-help groups and personal self-improvement seminars that were wildly popular during the 1970's.

4.5

37 votes

4.5

37 votes

Skeletons (TV)

1997 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction David DeCoteau

Cast Ron Silver · James Coburn · Christopher Plummer · Dee Wallace

Synopsis A heart attack moves Pulitzer winning journalist Peter Crane (Ron Silver) to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay...

4.5

78 votes

4.5

78 votes

Girl 6

1996 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Theresa Randle · Isaiah Washington · Spike Lee · John Turturro

Synopsis This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her screen tests with 'QT'. Out of work and desperate for...

4.4

636 votes

4.4

636 votes