Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith
Date of Birth: 09 Aug 1957
Country: USA
Biography: Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 film Working Girl. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 55 (Actor)
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Cecil B. DeMented
In Baltimore, guerrilla filmmaker Cecil B. Demented leads a band of cinema revolutionaries who kidnap Honey Whitlock, a bitchy and aging movie star of big-budget froth. Cecil wants her in his movie, a screed against Hollywood they film during blitzkrieg attacks on a multiplex, a Maryland Film Commission press conference, and the set of a "Forrest Gump" sequel. He insists on celibacy; the cast and crew channel sexual energy into the production... (imdb)
Celebrity
Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. After divorcing his wife Robin, Lee gets to meet a lot folks of the rich and / or beautiful, partly through journalism, partly because he has a script to offer. But life among those from out-of-this-world is hard, and his putative success always results in defeat. Meanwhile Robin meets a very desirable TV-producer and takes the first steps in the world of celebrities herself. (imdb)
Crazy in Alabama
Two unusual stories meet and intertwine in Crazy in Alabama, a poignant and captivating comedy-drama set in Los Angeles and the Deep South during the height of the civil rights era.
+4
Lolita
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, who will prove to be too mature for her age... (imdb)
+9
Shade
The hand is quicker than the eye in LA's underground gambling scene, hustlers get hustled and fortunes ride on every deal. Three small-time grifters devise a plan to beat the ultimate card mechanic - The Dean. But a seat at The Dean's table doesn't come cheap. (RKO Pictures)
Stuart Little 2
Stuart's mother is being over-protective of him, especially when he narrowly escapes injury in a soccer game. His big brother George has also made a new friend, Will, so Stuart is feeing lonely. Stuart rescues a canary, Margalo, from a falcon; she moves in with the Littles. One day, Margalo is nowhere to be found, so Stuart and Snowbell set out across the city to find her while George covers for Stuart (the first time he's had to lie). (imdb)
Working Girl
Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss. (imdb)
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Body Double
Jake comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie... (imdb)
Something Wild
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up. (imdb)
+9
Stormy Monday
Brendan takes a job as janitor for Finney, who runs a jazz nightclub in the Northern English city of Newcastle... (imdb)
+5
Another Day in Paradise
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong leading to dissent, violence and murder. (imdb)
+3
Night Moves
Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case... (imdb)
+3
Now and Then
Four 12-year-old girls grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970. (imdb)
+3
Paradise
Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson (at the time married to each other) play Lily and Ben Reed, a young couple torn apart by a family tragedy... (imdb)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car... (imdb)
+4
Cherry 2000
In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose... (imdb)
+8
Shining Through
Ed Leland is an American spymaster who needs to spy on a high level German Army officer during World War II. Because of her pastry-baking skills, he decides to send in his secretary, Linda Voss. (imdb)
+2
Milk Money
Young Frank and his pals get an idea for the ultimate in excitement. They decide to pool their savings, bicycle to the nearby Big City, and hire some woman of the streets to strip for them. (imdb)
Mulholland Falls
In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman. (imdb)
Roar
Ravening jungle beasts assemble in flocks to invade an otherwise quiet home where they chase humans up and down stairways and from one room to another.
Pacific Heights
A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords. (imdb)
+13
Smile
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy? (imdb)
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit," a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train... (imdb)
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Nobody\
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life. (imdb)
+9
RKO 281
RKO 281 (1999) - TV Movie
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film... (imdb)
Fear City
In New York City, a psycho killer is stalking and randomly slashing and killing strippers working in various nightclubs... (imdb)
A Stranger Among Us
In this attempt to revisit the success of Witness in which a cop goes Amish, we here have a cop go undercover among the Hasidic Jews of New York City. But in this one, Melanie Griffith is bravely (if stupidly) cast as tough New York cop Emily Edith. When a brutal murder occurs among the Hasidic Jews and looks like an inside job, she goes undercover to find the culprit. (imdb)
The Milagro Beanfield War
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs... (imdb)
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Born Yesterday
A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. Soon it becomes apparent to the reporter that she isn't so stupid after all, and things become more complicated as she begins questioning the papers her sugar daddy keeps getting her to sign, and the reporter begins falling in love with her. (imdb)
The Drowning Pool
Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her hellion of a daughter. What is more, he finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants her property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared. (IMDb)
Two Much
A young galarist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother. (imdb)
Tempo
Jenny, a young American woman, moves to Paris and gets involved with Jack, who is seemingly the man of her dreams. However, he has a lot to hide and Jenny quickly gets entangled his dangerous lifestyle. (imdb)
Tart
After her only friend is expelled from their private school in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Cat Storm wants to get close to a boy she is attracted to and recreate herself with new friends. But her new friends are unreliable, her boyfriend is troubled, her parents are cold and indifferent, and she increasingly finds herself unloved by anyone. (imdb)
+4
Shadow of Doubt
After the daughter of a prominent businessman is brutally murdered, high profile defense attorney Kitt Devereux takes the case of the accused murderer
All the Way
Struggling music promoter Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton) needs to find an act that will change his luck, so he heads to L.A. to persuade Frank Sinatra's handler to give him a shot at promoting Sinatra's Australian tour. Rod gets his chance, but when his journalist girlfriend, Hilary (Portia de Rossi), starts asking Ol' Blue Eyes and gal pal Barbara Marx (Melanie Griffith) too many questions, the partnership sours and Sinatra lands in a heap of trouble.
Forever Lulu
When his mentally ill former lover Lulu (Melanie Griffith) tracks him down and claims they have a son together, unhappily married screenwriter Ben (Patrick Swayze) climbs in her car for a cross-country road trip to meet his progeny for the first time. Along the way, Lulu tries to reignite their romance, and Ben's psychiatrist wife (Penelope Ann Miller) flies out to intercept them and win back her husband.
+7
Underground Aces
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants. (imdb)
Joyride
3 teenagers drive to Alaska looking to make money as salmon fishers, after being robbed and beaten, they find themselves turning to a life of crime...
Sammy\
A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years traveling the world while it is being changed by global warming. (imdb)
In the Spirit
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them. Melanie Griffith also shows up briefly as a hooker as the two hide out acting as hookers. (imdb)
Buffalo Girls
Wild. Untamed. Legendary. Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' rugged cowgirl, is searching not only for her long-lost daughter, but the Wild West she once knew. Jane traverses plains, mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems: Dora, the vivacious, gold-hearted madam who's been her one true friend all along. (imdb)
Ha-Gan
An old man tends his garden under the threat of encroaching urbanization. In wanders a beautiful tourist, dazed and naked after a sexual assault, and he mistakes her for an angel. (imdb)
One on One
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. (imdb)
+5
Yellow
A young substitute teacher escapes from her drudging everyday life by fantasizing bizarre parallel realities, in this wildly inventive and visually dazzling head-trip from director Nick Cassavetes. (tiff.net)
Dark Tourist
A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man's dark hobby and his even darker mind. (imdb)
+6
Autómata
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity. (imdb)
+9
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Like its first breast cancer-themed installment, Call Me Crazy aka Five 2/Five More will feature five short films featuring A-list talent both in front and behind the camera. The sequel will address mental illness. Directors include Laura Dern, Bonnie Hunt, Ashley Judd and Bryce Dallas Howard. (imdb)
+2
Dino Time
Three kids who travel back in time to 65 million years ago, where they are taken in by a dinosaur. (imdb)
Dabka
In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them. (imdb)
+9
The Disaster Artist
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Tommy Wiseau's The Room (2003). (imdb)
+4
JL Ranch
A veteran rancher and former sheriff, forced to face some federal bureaucracy when an old enemy-cum-millionaire alleges he doesn't actually own his beloved family ranch in a small Texas town.
The High Note
A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
+5
The Day of the Director
A short promotional film documenting the making of Arthur Penn's "Night Moves" (1975)
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
This documentary is about the 1981 movie "Roar," which combined actors and numerous lions, tigers and other wild cats. Members of the original cast and crew speak about their experiences while filming this movie. (imdb)
Twins
Twins (2005) - TV Series
This situation comedy centers around fraternal twins who have nothing in common as they deal with their wacky mother, whose marriage is falling apart. (imdb)