Giovanni Ribisi
Actor
- X-Files, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (1995)
- Dir. R.W. Goodwin, Rob Bowman, Kim Manners
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Jack Black…
- The third series keeps close to the high standards of season two, continuing to develop the conspiracy themes. Both Cancer Man and Skinner start to…
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty…
- Welcome to Lynchland. Where picket fences surround troubled, violent, sexual twisted souls who converse in awkwardly measured rhythms.
David Lynch…
- Suburbia (1997)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn…
- Dir. Linklater returns to his favourite milieu – the teen angst movie – only this time working from someone else's material, a play by…
- Postman, The (1998)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate…
- The postie, Kevin Costner, delivers another clutch of post–apocalyptic improbabilities a la WATERWORLD. Again playing Man From Nowhere, here he…
- Mod Squad, The (1999)
- Dir. Scott Silver
Feat. Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps
- In LA Clubland Claire Danes and fellow teen–delinquents Giovanni Ribisi and Omar Epps, are pressed into a crime–fighting role, proceeding…
- It's the Rage (1999)
- Dir. James D. Stern
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise…
- This caustic, precocious black comedy/satire of America's obsession with guns is a roundelay of violent and volatile confrontations that eventually…
- Boiler Room (2000)
- Dir. Ben Younger
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel…
- Bullish morality–tale set in the stockmarket boom–world of 1990s America, where the hi–tech stock–bubble was hyped by…
- Gift, The (2000)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi…
- Rivalling THE SIXTH SENSE among latterday supernatural thrillers and with a pedigree to boast of, this eerie tale of smalltown ghosts and secrets is…
- Shot in the Heart (2001)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Elias Koteas, Giovanni Ribisi, Eric Bogosian
- Interesting slant on the Gary Gilmore case – an infamous US murderer and subject of a Norman Mailer book –this sets Gilmore (Koteas) against his…
- Heaven (2002)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi
- An art–thriller worked from a script by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski which follows the enigmatic trail of recently widowed and vengeful Cate…
- Basic (2003)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen…
- Slick jungle thriller kept interesting by a far from basic storyline involving US troops on a training mission in Panama.
When the squad runs into…
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
- A coolly romantic and engaging tale of a “brief encounter” between two Americans stranded in Tokyo – a movie–star in midlife crisis…
- Masked and Anonymous (2003)
- Dir. Larry Charles
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Bob Dylan…
- In a near–apocalyptic future America, a popular singer (Bob Dylan) sets out on a nationwide tour to revive his career before heading into a…
- I Love Your Work (2003)
- Dir. Adam Goldberg
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson…
- A puffy–eyed Ribisi plays a Hollywood actor who is unsettled, then repelled by the onerous trappings of fame, and retreats into a dangerous…
- Love's Brother (2004)
- Dir. Jan Sardi
Feat. Adam Garcia, Giovanni Ribisi, Barry Otto…
- The screenwriter of SHINE, makes an earnest debut with this romantic drama set in 1950s Victoria and the attempts of two Italian–Australian…
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
- Dir. Kerry Conran
Feat. Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie…
- Ambitious futuristic 'boys own' adventure sets up a scenario in which giant robots are attacking Earth in a 1930s retro–futuristic world of…
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
- Dir. Jason Moore
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto…
- Workmanlike remake of the 1965 Aldrich near–classic, in which a plainload of oilworkers crashland in the desert (here the Gobi), leaving them…
- Big White, The (2005)
- Dir. Mark Mylod
Feat. Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi…
- Black farce set in snowy Alaska around travel–agent Robin Williams who is struggling to help his ailing wife and seizes a dubious opportunity…
- Dead Girl, The (2006)
- Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Feat. Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Rose Byrne…
- A superb ensemble cast give rich life to this exceptional drama that interlinks the unsettling stories of five women connected to the discovery of a…
- Perfect Stranger (2007)
- Dir. James Foley
Feat. Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi
- Halle Berry stakes out a murder suspect (Willis) via online social networks and chatroom espionage in this lurid tech–oriented thriller.…
- Avatar (2009)
- Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver…
- James Cameron’s record–shattering 3D epic is a woozy mix of allegory and special effects (developed at Wellington's Weta studios), set on a…
- Middle Men (2009)
- Dir. George Gallo
Feat. Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht…
- Darkly funny drama looks at the unsavoury mix of characters who kicked off the internet porn revolution in the mid–nineties. Stylishly done in…
- Rum Diary, The (2011)
- Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard…
- Johnny Depp returns to the world of Hunter S. Thompson in this adaptation of the Gonzo journalist's "lost" autobiographical novel of the same name,…
- Columbus Circle (2012)
- Dir. George Gallo
Feat. Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Jason Lee…
- Selma Blair plays an agoraphobic heiress whose apartment building becomes the subject of a homicide investigation in this tense psychological…
- Contraband (2012)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale…
- A solid, down–and–dirty outing for burly Mark Wahlberg, here playing a former smuggler who heads to Panama to score millions of dollars…
- Ted (2012)
- Dir. Seth MacFarlane
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Mila Kunis…
- The man–child comedy reaches its apotheosis with Seth MacFarlane's unsurprisingly vulgar film debut. Mark Wahlberg plays opposite his teddy…
- Gangster Squad (2013)
- Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin…
- This straight–shooting, bang–a–minute gangster flick scores as both an entertaining throwback to 40s–era crime fighting, and…
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
- Dir. Seth MacFarlane
Feat. Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried…
- Seth MacFarlane directs and stars in this rambunctious western spoof about a cowardly farmer who falls for the wife of a notorious gun–slinger.
- Playing It Cool (A Many Splintered Thing) (2014)
- Dir. Justin Reardon
Feat. Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Aubrey Plaza…
- Romantic comedy with a lovestruck author entering into a platonic relationship with a woman who's already engaged to someone else.
- Selma (2014)
- Dir. Ava DuVernay
Feat. David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth…
- Stirring chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
- Results (2015)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Guy Pearce, Kevin Corrigan, Cobie Smulders…
- An unorthodox take on the romantic comedy has Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders as personal trainers' whose personal lives are upended by the actions of…
- Ted 2 (2015)
- Dir. Seth MacFarlane
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried…
- More gross–out shenanigans from the mind of Seth MacFarlane. This time out the titular teddy bear wants to adopt a child, only the law stands…
- Meadowland (2015)
- Dir. Reed Morano
Feat. Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Juno Temple…
- Well–acted, very downbeat drama about a couple struggling to cope with the disappearance – and likely murder – of their young son.