Sylvester Stallone

Date of Birth: 06 Jul 1946
Country: USA
Biography: Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (pronounced /stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film director. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed include boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo. The Rocky and Rambo franchises, along with several other films, strengthened his reputation as an actor and his box office earnings...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 91 (Actor), 9 (Director), 24 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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In an anthill with millions of inhabitants, Z 4195 is a worker ant. Feeling insignificant in a conformity system, he accidentally meets beautiful Princess Bala, who has a similar problem on the other end of the social scale. In order to meet her again, Z switches sides with his soldier friend Weaver - only to become a hero in the course of events... (imdb)
Sylvester Stallone stars as Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a place everyone calls "Cop Land" -- a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he's long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town's peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action -- and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
A high-tech action drama set in the dangerous, exhilarating world of open-wheel racing, Driven centers on the lives and careers of four drivers chasing the ultimate adrenaline rush. (Warner Brothers)
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible. (imdb)
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)
Using the very latest digital technology to weave 3-D images directly into the Spy Kids' trademark espionage action, Game Over invites audience of all ages to become a part of the larger-than-life excitement on the screen. (Dimension Films)
A cop is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent enemy who is loose in a nonviolent future society.
A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect (imdb)
A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains (imdb)
A mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town's police force, begins a one man war with it (imdb)
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch. (imdb)
When Rocky is defeated by a brutal challenger, Apollo Creed offers to retrain him in order to regain his fighting spirit. (imdb)
When Apollo Creed is killed in a match against a powerful Soviet boxer, Rocky decides to challenge him himself. (imdb)
Reluctantly retired from boxing and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him; As the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy. (imdb)
In a standard comic book dystopian near-future Americans are ensconced in mega-cities which protect them from the desolation of the world outside, and the peace is kept by The Judges. This elite group who upholds "The Law" is police, jury, and executioner all in one. Judge Dredd, the most formidable and revered of the Street Judges, is convicted of the murder of a snooping reporter (imdb)
A woman entices a bomb expert she's involved with into destroying the mafia that killed her family. (imdb)
Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk... (imdb)
A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up... (imdb)
Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety. (imdb)
A tough detective's mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career. (imdb)
As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. (imdb)
John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret... (imdb)
A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points... (imdb)
City cop is on the trail of a serial killer. Loaded with action and violence. Stallone fans will love this Rambo-like movie with Stallone on the chase instead of the run (imdb)
A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes... (imdb)
Stallone plays a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job. He checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials. Soon, he finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one. (imdb)
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman... (imdb)
Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. At the request of his gravely ill ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas. (imdb)
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. (imdb)
Conservative street cop DaSilva reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's "at-home" tactics are very much put to the challenge. (imdb)
Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel Trautman is held hostage in Afghanistan, and its up to Rambo to rescue him. (imdb)
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage. (imdb)
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager. (imdb)
The greatest underdog story of our time is back for one final round. In Rocky Balboa, the former heavyweight champion steps out of retirement and back into the ring, pitting himself against a new rival in a dramatically different era. (MGM)
Concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma. (imdb)
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned. (imdb)
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob. (imdb)
The story of Mel and Edna (Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft), a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building. Mel loses his job, the apartment is robbed, Edna gets a job, Mel loses his mind, Edna loses her job -- to say nothing of the more minor tribulations of nosy neighbors, helpful relatives, and exact bus fares... (imdb)
In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on their track. (imdb)
Vietnam veteran John Rambo has survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Bangkok, where he spends his time salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding him... (imdb)
Director Christopher Bell explores America's win-at-all-cost culture by examining how his two brothers became members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream. (imdb.com)
This is another story of the secret Coast to Coast auto race across America The only rule is, the first to finish is the winner. Naturally, anyone driving 55 isn't going to win. They'll need to drive a little faster than that. Well actually, they will need to drive a LOT faster that 55. (imdb)
A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She's aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love. (imdb)
A country music star must turn an obnoxious New York cabbie into a singer in order to win a bet. (imdb)
Make Your Own Damn Movie! (2005) - Direct-to-Video
Based on the book of the same name, Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Studios team share their wisdom about filmmaking to independent filmmakers everywhere. They make a documentary of the team's visits and have interviews, and there is a behind-the-scenes look at how many famous Hollywood filmmakers who started with Troma make their movies and how Troma has inspired them. (imdb)
Your Studio and You (1995) - Short Film
A parody of 1950s corporate/industrial films, commissioned by Universal Pictures executives after the studio's purchase by Seagrams, and featuring cameos by many stars and directors. (imdb)
Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee. Ironic because the actual director of this movie chose the pseudonym as well. (imdb)
When Lucky Shergill (Aftab Shivdasani) and Kamini (Amrita Arora) decide to get married, Lucky's brother, Viraj (Akshay Kumar), and Kamini's best friend, Simrita (Kareena Kapoor) disapprove. Vijay believes girls are only good for one thing and Simrita believes that men are dogs. She believes that there is no thing as love.
Barney (Sylvester Stallone) leads a ragtag band of hired guns charged with overthrowing a South American despot, a job no official military unit is willing to touch. But once on the ground, the team learns there's more to the mission than they were told. Their next move determines whether they survive -- or are, indeed, expendable.
A sweet film about a tiny village in Serbia that believes that Rocky Balboa will change their destiny and reverse 4,000 years of bad luck.
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. (imdb)
Kitty and Stud are lovers. They enjoy a robust sex-life. Three women come over for a party and Stud services them, one after the other. (imdb)
The animals at one particular zoo decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zookeeper gain the attention of one particular woman. (imdb)
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy. (imdb)
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat. (imdb)
When a structural-security authority finds himself incarcerated in a prison he designed, he has to put his skills to escape and find out who framed him. (imdb)
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match. (imdb)
In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on their track. (imdb)
A documentary on legendary Hollywood insider Shep Gordon, who fell into artist management by chance after moving to LA straight out of college.
Barney and his team, known as "The Expendables", come into conflict with ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables' co-founder, who is determined to destroy the team. (imdb)
A motivational book written by a mysterious man quickly gains popularity, inspiring a group of people that includes a journalist, his editor, a former inmate, a hip-hop mogul, an actor and an undercover cop to re-evaluate their choices and decisions by confronting their fears in hopes of creating more positive lives. (imdb)
The Director's Chair (2014) - TV Series
Director Robert Rodriguez interviews some of the top movie directors. (imdb)
Jackie Chan: My Story (1998) - Direct-to-Video
If you are a fan of Jackie Chan, this documentary is the best you can see on him. It Shows you how great of a man he really is and it also gives you great behind the scenes looks at what he is like at work. He also goes into detail about some of his greatest movies and some of the inspirations in his life. (imdb)
Ratchet and Clank tells the story of two unlikely heroes as they struggle to stop a vile alien named Chairman Drek from destroying every planet in the Solana Galaxy. When the two stumble upon a dangerous weapon capable of destroying entire planets, they must join forces with a team of colorful heroes called The Galactic Rangers in order to save the galaxy. Along the way, they'll learn about heroism, friendship, and the importance of discovering one's own identity. (imdb)
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father,world heavy weight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa. Rocky sees in Adonis the strength and determination he had known in Apollo - the fierce rival who became his closest friend. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Set to the backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' continues the team's adventures as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage. (imdb)
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington. (imdb)
Years after he fought his way out of an inescapable prison, Ray Breslin has organized a new top-notch security force. But when one of his team members goes missing, Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from.
Ultimate Fights from the Movies (2002) - Direct-to-Video
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans two decades. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.
Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, newly crowned light heavyweight champion Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago.
The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug. (imdb)
After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured. Now he and his team must pull off a deadly rescue mission to confront their sadistic foe and save the hostages before time runs out. (themoviedb.org)
Rambo must confront his past and unearth his ruthless combat skills to exact revenge in a final mission.
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic (2020) - Short Film
Over forty years after the release of Rocky (1976), Sylvester Stallone recounts the making of the beloved classic that made him an icon.
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
A young boy learns that a superhero who was thought to have gone missing after an epic battle twenty years ago may in fact still be around.
Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago (2021) - TV Special
A director's cut of Rocky IV, released for the film's 35th anniversary. Removes much of the film's original scenes and replaces them with 38 minutes of previously unseen footage.
Rambo: To Hell and Back (2010) - Direct-to-Video
Structured as a complete production diary of the 42-day shooting schedule, this supplement can be played in its entirety or easily broken down over the course of multiple nights. In essence, this fascinating behind the scenes supplement displays on-set footage of the cast and crew while Stallone provides an enlightening after-the-fact commentary track.
Tulsa King (2022) - TV Series
Follows an Italian mobster faced with the startling task of reestablishing his Italian mafia family in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful (imdb.com).
Arnold (2023) - TV Mini-Series
A 3 part documentary mini series about the life an career of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
An inside look into the fascinating life, career and survival of the most unknown famous entertainer in Hollywood. (imdb)
Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on, the Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. (imdb)
The Family Stallone (2023) - TV Series
Follow legendary actor Sylvester Stallone with his wife and daughters in a direct access to their daily life.
The nearly fifty year prolific career of Sylvester Stallone, who has entertained millions, is seen in retrospective in an intimate look of the actor, writer, director-producer, paralleling with his inspirational life story. (imdb)
An Armored security guard is working with his son transporting millions of dollars between banks when a team of thieves lead by Rook orchestrate a take-over of their truck to seize the riches. Following a violent car chase, Rook soon has the armored truck surrounded and James and Casey find themselves corned onto a decrepit bridge... James will push his skills to the ultimate limit to protect his son's life before his own. (imdb)
Two rogue spies go off-grid, marry, and come under attack at their remote cabin hideaway by various intel agencies seeking a stolen hard drive. (imdb)