Big Trouble 2002  PG-13, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Omar Epps, Stanley Tucci, Dennis Farina, Ben Foster, Janeane Garofalo, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore, Johnny Knoxville
A great cast highlights this comedy based on humor columnist Dave Barry's first novel. Set in Miami, the lives of a variety of types–gunrunners, FBI agents, hippies, school kids, thugs, and even a family dog (high on psychedelic toad saliva)–fade in and out of each others' lives.
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 Black Hawk Down 2001   R, 144 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Sam Shepard, Gabriel Casseus, Ewen Bremner, Kim Coates, Ron Eldard, Hugh Dancy, Ioan Gruffudd, Tom Guiry, Charlie Hofheimer, Danny Hoch
This film is based on the true story of 100 U.S. soldiers who were dropped into Somalia to capture two lieutenants of a warlord. Their planned one-hour kidnapping raid turns out to be an ambush during which two of the Black Hawk helicopters are shot down in what is now known as 1993's bloody Battle of Mogadishu. Oscars were received for Best Sound and Editing; Ridley Scott was nominated for Best Director.
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Blue Steel 1990  R, 102 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Pena, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Kevin Dunn, Matt Craven, Richard Jenkins, Mary Mara, Mike Starr, Tom Sizemore, Skipp Lynch, Chris Walker, Mike Hodge
Policewoman Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) kills a holdup man on her first assignment. Her gun is picked up by mentally unbalanced Wall Street broker Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) who then uses it to commit murders throughout the city with the rookie's name engraved on the bullets. The two become involved, and he makes it appear that she is the mass murderer.
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 Bringing Out the Dead 1999 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, Mary Beth Hurt, Cliff Curtis, Nestor Serrano, Aida Turturro, Sonja Sohn, Arthur J. Nascarella, Cynthia Roman, Afemo Omilami, Cullen O. Johnson
Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) is a burned-out paramedic working in Gotham's Hell's Kitchen. After five years on the job, Frank finds himself hallucinating about two women: 18-year-old Rose (Cynthia Roman), who he was unable to save and for whom he wants redemption, and Mary Burke (Patricia Arquette) whose father, a heart attack victim, Frank was unable to resuscitate. Through it all, the unrelenting chaos of answering emergency calls continues to take its toll.
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 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Carl Franklin
Cast: Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin, Lisa Nicole Carson, Mel Winkler, Terry Kinney, Albert Hall, Jernard Burks, Beau Starr, David Wolos-Fonteno, Scott Lincoln, John Roselius, Steven Randazzo
This is the film adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel about a Black man, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins" (Denzel Washington), who takes on the job of amateur detective after losing his job in Los Angeles during the late 1940s. De Witt Albright (Tom Sizemore) offers "Easy" money to find a White woman, Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), who was engaged to mayoral candidate Todd Carter (Terry Kinney). As he searches for Daphne, "Easy" finds himself not only in a racist world but surrounded by blackmail and murder as well and must rely on help from his friend Mouse (Don Cheadle) to find Daphne and, finally, to even save his own life.
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Dreamcatcher 2003  R, 136 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Timothy Olyphant, Donnie Wahlberg, Mike Holecamp, Reece Thompson, Campbell Lane, Ingrid Kavelaars
While enjoying a hunting trip in the Maine woods, four friends (Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, and Timothy Olyphant) run into alien life forms and a military operation, headed by Col. Abraham Kurtz (Morgan Freeman), who has quarantined the area in an effort to destroy the aliens.
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Flight of the Intruder 1991  R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Milius
Cast: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Sizemore, Dann Florek, Ving Rhames, J. Kenneth Campbell, Madison Mason
During peace talks for the Vietnam War, U.S. Navy carrier pilots are given mundane bombing missions that undermine morale.
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The Florentine 1999 R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Nick Stagliano
Cast: Jeremy Davies, Virginia Madsen, Luke Perry, Mary Stuart Masterson, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Hal Holbrook, Tom Sizemore, James Belushi, Lillo Brancato, Maeve Quinlan, Robert Downs, Burt Young, Chris Barnes, Jill Hennessy
Whitey (Michael Madsen) owns a Pennsylvania bar where losers–Robbie (Chris Penn), Truby (Jeremy Davies), Smitty (Hal Holbrook), and Frankie (Luke Perry)–come together and brood over their sad lots in life. Whitey is deeply in debt to loan shark Joe McCullough (Burt Young) who is being distracted by Whitey's friend Robbie, but there are more problems as well. His pal Frankie has lost the cash Whitey had planned to use for his sister Molly's (Virginia Madsen) wedding, and now her ex-boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) has returned, and more problems rise to the fore. But, Smitty just may prove to be the unlikely hero in this sad state of affairs, and Smitty just might save the day.
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Guilty by Suspicion 1991 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irwin Winkler
Cast: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker, Martin Scorsese, Brad Sullivan, Gailard Sartain, Stuart Margolin, Chris Cooper, Luke Edwards, Ben Piazza, Tom Sizemore, Roxann Dawson, Robin Gammell
America's 1950s witch-hunt for Communists is the focus of this movie about the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigation of creative forces in Hollywood's film industry.
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Heart and Souls 1993 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ron Underwood
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Alfre Woodard, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore, David Paymer, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Calvert, Janet MacLachlan, Richard Portnow
Four people killed in an accident 34 years ago come back as angels in order to find their peace on Earth. They inhabit yuppie Thomas Reilly (Robert Downey Jr.) who was born at the time of their accident. Downey is great in his role in a film that is very watchable, especially if you like sentimental fantasies.
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 Heat 1995  R, 165 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Diane Venora, Ashley Judd, Amy Brenneman, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Piven, Hank Azaria, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Dennis Haysbert, Natalie Portman, William Fichtner
Any film that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro both agree to perform in is guaranteed good movie fare. In this story, L.A. Police Detective Vincent Hanna (Pacino) becomes obsessed with the criminal activities of Neil McCauley (De Niro) and his gang of thieves. The climax is a riveting gunfight between cops and robbers across city streets in L.A.–do NOT miss this one.
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Hustle 2004 TV, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Dash Mihok, Melissa DiMarco, Sarain Boylan, Paulino Nunes, Paul Fauteux, Carlos Diaz, Joe Bostick, Edie Inksetter, George DiCenzo, David Macniven, Alex Karzis
The downhill tumble of baseball legend Pete Rose is the subject of this made-for-TV film featuring Tom Sizemore as Pete Rose struggling with his gambling addiction.
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Lock Up 1989 R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Flynn
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore, Frank McRae, William Allen Young, Larry Romano, Jordan Lund, John Lilla, Dean Duval, Jerry Strivelli, David Anthony Marshall, Kurek Ashley
Prison Warden Drumgoole (Donald Sutherland) had refused to give prisoner Frank Leone (Sylvester Stallone) a weekend pass to visit his dying father when Frank escaped and told the media about Drumgoole's evil treatment of prisoners. Frank is now back in prison serving the last six months of his sentence, and Warden Drumgoole is determined to exact revenge on Leone for ruining his "good" name.
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 Natural Born Killers 1994 R, 120 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Sizemore, Edie McClurg, Balthazar Getty, Joe Grifasi, Russell Means, Everett Quinton, Jared Harris, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Lanny Flaherty, O-Lan Jones
Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) and his girlfriend Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis) embark on a killing spree. Abused as children, they begin the killings with the murder of Mallory's parents (Rodney Dangerfield and Edie McClurg) and continue as they travel across Route 666 just for the fun of it. Media reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.) covers their story, and they make sure they are credited for their long list of victims. When Mickey and Mallory are finally arrested, they have become folk heroes in this story satirizing television's tabloid journalism.
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 Paparazzi 2004 PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul Abascal
Cast: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Hollander, Kevin Gage, Blake Michael Bryan, Tom Sizemore, Andrea Baker, Jordan Baker, Joe Basile, Lauren Birkell
When actions of persistent paparazzi nearly cost movie star Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) his life, Bo exacts revenge–focusing on ringleader Rex Harper (Tom Sizemore).
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 Passenger 57 1992 R, 83 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher, Bruce Greenwood, Robert Hooks, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael Horse, Ernie Lively, Marc Macaulay, Duchess Tomasello, Joel Fogel, William Edward Roberts, James Short, Jane McPherson
FBI agents are escorting a dangerous criminal (Bruce Payne) when he and his cohorts skyjack the plane on which they are riding and kill the agents. John Cutter (Wesley Snipes), an airline security agent, is aboard and must defuse the terrorist situation.
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 Pearl Harbor 2001 PG-13, 184 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alec Baldwin, William Lee Scott, Greg Zola, Catherine Kellner, Ewen Bremner, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Dan Aykroyd
Best friends Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett)–two parts of a romantic triangle–go off to join the war in this love story. Devoting a total of 40 out of 184 minutes to the attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath hardly does justice to the Japanese bombing that killed 3,000 Americans and rallied U.S. citizens into an all-out effort to win World War II. For a much better focus on Pearl Harbor, watch Richard Fleischer's "Tora! Tora! Tora!" An Academy Award was received for Best Sound Editing, and the film was nominated for three other awards.
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Play It to the Bone 1999 R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ron Shelton
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson, Lolita Davidovich, Tom Sizemore, Lucy Liu, Robert Wagner, Richard Masur, Willie Garson, Cylk Cozart, Kevin Costner
Boxing promoters Hank Goody (Robert Wagner) and Joe Domino (Tom Sizemore) offer boxers Caesar (Antonio Banderas) and Vince (Woody Harrelson) the chance of a lifetime. If they can get from L.A. to Las Vegas, they will not only fight the undercard match for Mike Tyson's "Fight of the Century," they will be paid $100,000 and a title shot for the winner as well. They have no funds for the trip, but Caesar's girlfriend, Grace (Lolita Davidovich), comes to their rescue and offers to drive them in her well-worn 1972 Olds.
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The Relic 1997 R, 110 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, James Whitmore, Linda Hunt, Clayton Rohner, Chi Muoi Lo, Audra Lindley, Thomas Ryan, Robert Lesser, Diane Robin, Lewis Van Bergen, Constance Towers, Francis X. McCarthy, John Kapelos, Tico Wells
Two large crates arrive at the Field Museum in Chicago where Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) works. It is not long before a monster is on the loose at the museum's opening-night gala, and corpses are discovered all over the museum. Margo and Chicago police officer Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore) work together to investigate the gruesome murders and trace them to a monster of South American origin that has found its way, along with the crates, into the museum.
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Rude Awakening 1989  R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Greenwalt, Aaron Russo
Cast: Eric Roberts, Cheech Marin, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Louise Lasser, Cliff De Young, Dion Anderson, Peter Boyden, Michael Luciano, Ed Fry, Cindy Williams, Buck Henry, Tom Sizemore, Andrea Martin, Rae Dawn Chong
In the 1960s, draft-dodging hippies Jesus Monteya (Cheech Marin) and Fred (Eric Roberts) flee the country and hide out in the Central American jungles. They return to New York City in the late 1990s and find their old friends Sammy (Robert Carradine) and Petra (Julie Hagerty). But, Sammy and Petra have now become rich yuppies, and life in America is not what Jesus and Fred expected after their idealistic youthful years.
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 Saving Private Ryan 1998 R, 170 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Max Martini, Dylan Bruno, Joerg Stadler
Steven Spielberg directed this great film depicting war for what it really is. The story involves a World War II drama in which three brothers are killed in action, and the remaining brother is trapped (it is not known whether he is dead or alive) behind enemy lines. Eight comrades, led by Capt. John H. Miller (Tom Hanks), set off on the dangerous mission of finding that fourth brother, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), and sending him home and out of harm's way. Spielberg won his second Director Oscar, and nominations included Best Picture and Actor (Tom Hanks). In all, the film won five Oscars and was nominated for six others.
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Strange Days 1995 R, 145 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Edson, Glenn Plummer, Josef Sommer, Todd Graff
Set at the end of 1999, this is the story of an ex-cop (Ralph Fiennes) who has sunk to selling virtual-reality clips of other peoples' sex and violence to those who trade real life experiences for voyeurism.
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Striking Distance 1993 R, 101 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Cast: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Timothy Busfield, John Mahoney, Tom Atkins, Robert Gould, Andre Braugher, Mike Hodge, Jodi Long, Roscoe Orman, Gareth Williams
Through a series of events, Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) has been kicked off the Pittsburgh Police force, has lost his close circle of coworkers, and is now part of the Pittsburgh River Rescue Police. There is a serial killer on the loose, and Hardy is sure that the killer is a member of the police force. Without authorization, Hardy teams up with Jo Christman (Sarah Jessica Parker) and sets out to trap the killer.
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Ticker 2001 R, 92 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Albert Pyun
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Jaime Pressly, Nas, Rosanda "Chilli" Thomas, Peter Greene, Kevin Gage, Michael Halsey, Norbert Weisser, Joe Spano, Ice-T
Terrorists led by Swann (Dennis Hopper) conduct a series of bombings, and two cops (Tom Sizemore and Steven Seagal) are hot on the trail. Explosions are frequent in this lame action flick.
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Where Sleeping Dogs Lie 1992 R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Charles Finch
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Charles Finch, Sharon Stone, Tom Sizemore, Ron Karabatsos, Mary Woronov, Joan Chen, Kristen Hocking, Brett Cullen, David Q. Combs
Bruce (Dylan McDermott) fails as a writer and as a real estate agent. When he is evicted from his apartment, he takes up residence in a creepy old mansion that he is to sell and takes in boarders to make ends meet. He discovers that the mansion was the scene of a series of unsolved murders several years previously, which gives him an idea: chronicle the history of the murders in a first-hand account for a book, "Diary of a Murderer." The installments become a sensation, but when one boarder desires to provide input, and the input is very precise on the murders, Bruce becomes suspicious.
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Witness Protection 1999 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Shawn Hatosy, Forest Whitaker, Skye McCole Bartusiak, William Sadler, Jim Metzler, Greg Pitts, Leon Russom, Joanna Merlin, Harrison Young, Daniel Zacapa, Greg Lipari, Randy Thompson, Byron Minns
After a failed assassination attempt on his life, South Boston mobster Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore) applies for the Federal Witness Relocation Program. This means that he, his wife Cindy (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and children Sean and Suzie (Shawn Hatosy and Skye McCole Bartusiak) must assume new identities and move to Seattle. They realize very quickly that those things are easier said than done.
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| 1. Big Trouble (2002)
2. Black Hawk Down (2001)
3. Blue Steel (1990)
4. Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
5. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
6. Dreamcatcher (2003)
7. Flight of the Intruder (1991)
8. The Florentine (1999)
9. Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
10. Heart and Souls (1993)
11. Heat (1995)
12. Hustle (2004)
13. Lock Up (1989)
14. Natural Born Killers (1994)
15. Paparazzi (2004)
16. Passenger 57 (1992)
17. Pearl Harbor (2001)
18. Play It to the Bone (1999)
19. Red Planet (2000)
20. The Relic (1997)
21. Rude Awakening (1989)
22. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
23. Strange Days (1995)
24. Striking Distance (1993)
25. Ticker (2001)
26. Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992)
27. Witness Protection (1999)
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