Cast: Ron Silver
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ron Silver. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 53
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