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Josh Pais
Actor 62 years old

Josh Pais

New York City, New York, USA

Josh Pais (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor of film and television. He has appeared in many Hollywood films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in which he both was in the costume and was the voice) as Raphael, Music of the Heart, Scream 3, It Runs in the Family,... Read full bio →

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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Mary Bronstein 2025 1h 53m

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton 2019 2h 25m 6.6

New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind…

Joker

Joker

Todd Phillips 2019 2h 2m 6.9

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Going in Style

Going in Style

Zach Braff 2017 1h 36m 5.8

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

I Saw the Light

I Saw the Light

Marc Abraham 2015 2h 3m 6.0

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.

That Awkward Moment

That Awkward Moment

Tom Gormican 2014 1h 34m 5.6

Three best friends find themselves where we've all been - at that confusing moment in every dating relationship when you have to decide "So...where is this going?"

5 Flights Up

5 Flights Up

Richard Loncraine 2014 1h 32m 7.0

A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.

Syrup

Syrup

Aram Rappaport 2013 1h 30m

A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's novel.

Arbitrage

Arbitrage

Nicholas Jarecki 2012 1h 47m 6.1

A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

Detachment

Detachment

Tony Kaye 2011 1h 38m 7.4

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students as seen through the eyes of a substitute teacher.

Please Give

Please Give

Nicole Holofcener 2010 1h 30m 6.0

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

Tim Blake Nelson 2009 1h 44m 5.9

An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.

Gentlemen Broncos

Gentlemen Broncos

Jared Hess 2009 1h 29m 6.0

A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

Adventureland

Adventureland

Greg Mottola 2009 1h 47m 7.5

A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

Charlie Kaufman 2008 2h 4m 7.4

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Assassination of a High School President

Assassination of a High School President

Brett Simon 2008 1h 34m 5.0

High School. Four of the most important years of your life. But it isn't always dances and keg parties and sucking face in your parents' mini-van. Sometimes it's ugly and hard and complicated. As complicated as a conspiracy to overthrow the president

Year of the Dog

Year of the Dog

Mike White 2007 1h 37m

A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.

Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

Paul Soter 2007 1h 34m 7.5

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.

Teeth

Teeth

Mitchell Lichtenstein 2007 1h 34m 5.7

Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty

Sidney Lumet 2006 2h 5m 6.7

Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

Little Manhattan

Little Manhattan

Mark Levin 2005 1h 30m 7.3

Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan, until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life actually into his karate class. But, before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not being going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life, love and girls.

Confess

Confess

Stefan C. Schaefer 2005 1h 30m

A young ex-hacker, disgruntled with his life, lashes back at those deemed responsible, uploading unfavorable video footage of them on the internet.

The Station Agent

The Station Agent

Tom McCarthy 2003 1h 28m 7.9

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

Phone Booth

Phone Booth

Joel Schumacher 2002 1h 21m 7.4

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

Scotland, Pa.

Scotland, Pa.

Billy Morrissette 2001 1h 44m

In a modernized retelling of "MacBeth" set in 1970s suburban Pennsylvania, Joe McBeth, an unambitious hamburger stand employee, is driven to success by his scheming wife.

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

Ron Howard 2001 2h 15m 7.9

In this Oscar crowning work, director Ron Howard puts the magnified glass on mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash. With respect to Hollywood conformity the film details the life of a paranoid schizophrenic genius which caused the film much critique.

Scream 3

Scream 3

Wes Craven 2000 1h 56m 5.6

In the final instalment to this trilogy, a murdering spree begins to happen again. This time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, Stab 3. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.

Music of the Heart

Music of the Heart

Wes Craven 1999 2h 4m 7.0

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

Safe men

Safe men

John Hamburg 1998 1h 28m

Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues.

Rounders

Rounders

John Dahl 1998 2h 1m 7.9

A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

A Civil Action

A Civil Action

Steven Zaillian 1998 1h 55m 6.2

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to "get rid of" a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything - including his career and his clients' goals, in order to continue the case against all odds.

I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport

Herb Gardner 1996 2h 15m 6.0

Two old men - a white former radical, and a black retired janitor - strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Steve Barron 1990 1h 33m 6.1

A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in Ninjutsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

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