0 Comments on Joe Pesci
Trending
Top
New
Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci

Joseph Frank “Joe” Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is known for his roles as violent mobsters, funnymen, comic foils and quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, Easy Money, JFK... more

Joseph Frank “Joe” Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is known for his roles as violent mobsters, funnymen, comic foils and quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, Easy Money, JFK, Moonwalker, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lethal Weapon films. In 1990, Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic mobster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, ten years after receiving a nomination in the same category for Raging Bull.

close
Starred In [34]
More Information
GoodFellas
(1990)
Crime, Drama
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
8.7
96%
90
More Information
Once Upon a Time in America
(1984)
Crime, Drama
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Runtime:
229 min
Director:
Sergio Leone
Cast:
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci
8.3
87%
75
More Information
Casino
(1995)
Crime, Drama
In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians pu...
Runtime:
179 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles
8.2
79%
73
More Information
Raging Bull
(1980)
Drama, History
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
8.2
94%
89
More Information
JFK
(1991)
Drama, History, Thriller
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Runtime:
189 min
Director:
Oliver Stone
Cast:
Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
8.0
84%
72
More Information
Home Alone
(1990)
Comedy, Family
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stand...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Chris Columbus
Cast:
Macaulay Culkin, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
7.6
68%
63
More Information
A Bronx Tale
(1993)
Crime, Drama
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Robert De Niro
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks
7.8
97%
80
More Information
My Cousin Vinny
(1992)
Comedy
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Jonathan Lynn
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne
7.6
86%
68
More Information
Lethal Weapon 2
(1989)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Richard Donner
Cast:
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland
7.2
82%
70
More Information
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
(1992)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas eve.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Chris Columbus
Cast:
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Joe Pesci, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Stern
6.8
35%
46
More Information
Lethal Weapon 3
(1992)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole joins as the beautiful yet hardnosed internal affairs sergeant who catches Riggs's eye.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Richard Donner
Cast:
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson
6.7
60%
40
More Information
Lethal Weapon 4
(1998)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
In the combustible action franchise's final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing Ku, who's up to his neck in slave trading and counterfeit currency. With help from gumshoe Leo Getz and smart-aleck rookie cop Lee Butters, Riggs and Murtaugh aim to take down Ku and his...
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Richard Donner
Cast:
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Jet Li
6.6
53%
37
More Information
The Good Shepherd
(2006)
Drama, History, Thriller
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leadin...
Runtime:
167 min
Director:
Robert De Niro
Cast:
Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard, Billy Crudup
6.7
55%
61
More Information
With Honors
(1994)
Comedy, Drama
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Alek Keshishian
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Hamilton
6.7
16%
N/A
More Information
Moonwalker
(1988)
Fantasy, Music
A movie that starts out with the "Man in the Mirror" music video, it then changes to a montage of video clips of Michael's career. Next comes a parody of his Bad video by children, and then Michael is chased by fans in a fantasy sequence. 2 more videos are shown, and then a movie in which Michael plays a hero with magical powers. In it...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Colin Chilvers
Cast:
Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Mick Jagger, Sean Lennon, Kellie Parker
6.1
N/A
N/A
More Information
Easy Money
(1983)
Comedy
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
James Signorelli
Cast:
Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara, Val Avery
6.3
60%
48
More Information
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
(1997)
Comedy, Crime
Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some troublesome rival mobsters are permanently out of the picture. When his bag gets accidentally switched at the airport, Tommy must track down his duffel bag and the 8 heads it ...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Tom Schulman
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Kristy Swanson, George Hamilton, Dyan Cannon, Andy Comeau
5.4
10%
15
More Information
The Public Eye
(1992)
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Howard Franklin
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle, Stanley Tucci, Bryan Travis Smith
6.5
64%
N/A
More Information
Gone Fishin'
(1997)
Comedy, Family
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Christopher Cain
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Willie Nelson
4.9
4%
N/A
More Information
The Super
(1991)
Comedy
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole until he brings it up to liveable standards.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Rod Daniel
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Stacey Travis, Carole Shelley
5.5
N/A
N/A
More Information
Betsy's Wedding
(1990)
Comedy
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wi...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Alan Alda
Cast:
Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Madeline Kahn, Joe Pesci, Catherine O'Hara
5.6
50%
52
More Information
Eureka
(1983)
Action, Drama, Thriller
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Nicolas Roeg
Cast:
Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Mickey Rourke
6.0
N/A
N/A
More Information
Love Ranch
(2010)
Drama
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Taylor Hackford
Cast:
Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Gina Gershon, Bai Ling
5.6
12%
37
More Information
Jimmy Hollywood
(1994)
Comedy
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl frien...
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Barry Levinson
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril
5.3
14%
N/A
More Information
Man on Fire
(1987)
Drama, Thriller
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Elie Chouraqui
Cast:
Scott Glenn, Jade Malle, Joe Pesci, Brooke Adams, Jonathan Pryce
5.9
N/A
N/A
More Information
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
(1982)
Drama
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Jack Hofsiss
Cast:
Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Page
6.5
N/A
N/A
More Information
Family Enforcer
(1976)
Action, Crime, Drama
A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Ralph De Vito
Cast:
Joe Cortese, Lou Criscuolo, Joe Pesci, Bobby Alto, Frank Vincent
5.7
N/A
N/A
More Information
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
(2004)
Documentary
A documentary about the making of Martin Scorsese's gangster classic "Goodfellas".
Runtime:
30 min
Cast:
Barbara De Fina, Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi, Ray Liotta, Irwin Winkler
7.0
N/A
N/A
More Information
All for the Moral Majority!
(1984)
Comedy, Drama
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situat...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Alberto Sordi
Cast:
Dalila Di Lazzaro, Joe Pesci, Alberto Sordi, Giorgia Moll
5.7
N/A
N/A
More Information
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
(1988)
Drama
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude ...
Director:
José María Sánchez
Cast:
Victor Garber, Joe Pesci, Bruno Ganz, Karen Black
7.3
N/A
N/A
More Information
Dear Mr. Wonderful
(1982)
Comedy, Crime
Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.
Runtime:
100 min
5.1
N/A
N/A
More Information
Half Nelson
(1985)
Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would ...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Arthur Allan Seidelman
Cast:
Joe Pesci, Fred Williamson, Victoria Jackson, Bubba Smith, Morgan Brittany
6.0
N/A
N/A
More Information
I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott
(2016)
Documentary, Music
In I GO BACK HOME - JIMMY SCOTT, we meet the German music producer Ralf Kemper, who takes on the journey to produce a record with the almost forgotten jazz icon Jimmy Scott, who is publicly unknown, but in informed quarters perceived to be a musical legend. Ralf wanted to realize this project ever since he had heard Jimmy‘s voice singi...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Yoon-ha Chang
Cast:
Jimmy Scott, David Sanborn, Joe Pesci, Quincy Jones
N/A
N/A
N/A
More Information
The Irishman
(2019)
Crime, Drama, History
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close frie...
Runtime:
209 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel
N/A
N/A
N/A