Direction: Emile Ardolino

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Emile Ardolino. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Peter Medak · Gilbert Cates · Graeme Clifford · Robert Iscove

Cast Shelley Duvall · John Achorn · Patrick DeSantis · David McCharen

Plot TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials,...

6.4

119 votes

6.4

119 votes

Dirty Dancing

1987 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Jennifer Grey · Patrick Swayze · Jerry Orbach · Cynthia Rhodes

Plot Summer of 1963. Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor...

6.1

74K votes

6.1

74K votes

Rumpelstiltskin (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)

1982 · Movie · 40 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Ned Beatty · Shelley Duvall · Bud Cort · Paul Dooley

Plot The King (Roseanne's Ned Beatty) gives the Miller's Daughter a choice:she can either spin straw into gold and become his Queen, or she can die. She picks the first one,...

5.7

179 votes

5.7

179 votes

Chances Are

1989 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Cybill Shepherd · Robert Downey Jr. · Mary Stuart Masterson

Plot Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex...

5.5

3K votes

5.5

3K votes

The Nutcracker

1993 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Macaulay Culkin · Darci Kistler · Damian Woetzel · Kyra Nichols

Plot On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie (Cohen) falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become...

4.9

68 votes

4.9

68 votes

Sister Act

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Whoopi Goldberg · Maggie Smith · Harvey Keitel · Bill Nunn

Plot A lounge singer, specializing in the enthusiastic performance of Motown classics, has to hightail it out of Reno when she witnesses her gangster boyfriend icing an unfortunate stool pigeon. The...

4.9

20K votes

4.9

20K votes

Three Men and a Little Lady

1990 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Tom Selleck · Steve Guttenberg · Ted Danson · Nancy Travis

Plot Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson - three carefree bachelors turned doting dads - delighted audiences in the #1 box office smash Three Men And A Baby! Now this...

4.3

5K votes

4.3

5K votes

Gipsy (TV)

1993 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Bette Midler · Peter Riegert · Cynthia Gibb · Ed Asner

Plot Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.

Not rated

Not rated

Alice at the Palace (TV)

1982 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Meryl Streep · Betty Aberlin · Debbie Allen · Stuart Baker-Bergen

Plot Young Alice falls down a rabbit hole and meets a variety of fantastic creatures.

Not rated

Not rated

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'

1983 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Emile Ardolino

Plot This documentary shows Jacques D'Amboise teaching school children in New York City to dance - both at school and at the National Dance Institute (of which Jacques D'Amboise was the...

Not rated

Not rated