Elias Koteas
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Gardens of Stone (1987)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones…
- Downbeat story of a frustrated soldier appointed to guard the US military cemetery during the Vietnam war.
- Tucker: a Man and His Dream (1988)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau…
- Jeff Bridges portrays Preston Tucker, who dreamed of building the car of the future, but was crushed by the big three auto–makers in the 1940s.
- Adjuster, The (1991)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin
- Eliptical and seductive fifth feature from one of cinema's most original talents. Two 'adjusters' – an insurance assessor, and his wife, a film…
- Exotica (1994)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, Mia Kirshner
- Canadian dir. Atom Egoyan consummates his voyeuristic obsessions to a creative zenith with a critical masterpiece that aims straight at the most…
- Sugartime (1995)
- Dir. John N. Smith
Feat. John Turturro, Mary-Louise Parker, Elias Koteas…
- Charts the infamous, real–life romance between Chicago mobster Sam Giancana (John Turturro) and whitebread songstress Phyllis McGuire…
- Prophecy, The (1996)
- Dir. Gregory Widen
Feat. Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Elias Koteas…
- Christopher Walken plays the Archangel Gabriel(!), spreading terror on earth on behalf of a private vendetta in heaven. X–FILES fans should…
- Crash (1996)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger…
- Auteur David Cronenberg's latest vision is an anti–fable about accident victims James Spader and Holly Hunter, who become sexually obsessed…
- Thin Red Line, The (1998)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Elias Koteas…
- A studiously arthouse rendition of WWII, isolating a crucial battle of the Pacific campaign (Guadacanal) as a minutely observed microcosm of humanity…
- Lost Souls (2000)
- Dir. Janusz Kaminski
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt…
- Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin are the souls in question of this devil thriller, in which, in his 33rd year, the Anti–Christ has his previously…
- Harrison's Flowers (2000)
- Dir. Elie Chouraqui
Feat. Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Adrien Brody…
- Andie MacDowell searches for her photojournalist husband (David Strathairn), presumed dead in the 1991 Serbian siege of Vukovar, with the aid of…
- Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Tilly…
- Revealing the mixed–up lives of those who work at an L.A. stripclub, this well–meaning drama was written chiefly through the…
- 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…
- Collateral Damage (2001)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Cliff Curtis
- Overtaken by the events of September 11, 2001, (the cinema release was delayed 6 months) this terrorist thriller has…
- Novocaine (2001)
- Dir. David Atkins
Feat. Steve Martin, Laura Dern, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Dentist Steve Martin is singled out for bad luck in this noir black comedy, that conflates Coen Bros–type weird mishaps, great casting and a…
- Ararat (2002)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Arsinee Khanjian, Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer…
- A challenging dramatic meditation on the 'forgotten' genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by Turkey during WWI, moulded into an epic of history and…
- Shooter (2007)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Danny Glover…
- Mark Wahlberg plays a military sniper recruited to prevent an presidential assassination in this political thriller for a generation of George…
- Two Lovers (2008)
- Dir. James Gray
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw…
- Joaquin Phoenix (in reputedly his final film) re–teams with dir. James Gray for this acutely observed ‘anti–romance’, about a bipolar…
- I Come with the Rain (2008)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Elias Koteas, Tran Nu Yen-Khe…
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung revives the humid, squalored atmosphere of his acclaimed CYCLO with this stylish, heavy–handed international noir. Josh…
- Defendor (2009)
- Dir. Peter Stebbings
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Kat Dennings…
- Woody Harrelson stars as a mild mannered construction worker by day and homemade superhero by night, vowing vengeance on the villainous 'Captain…
- Fourth Kind, The (2009)
- Dir. Olatunde Osunsanmi
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton…
- Jittery alien abduction flick has Jovovich as an Alaskan psychotherapist whose hypnotised patients claim alien abduction.
'Documentary' footage…
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley…
- Martin Scorsese’s latest is an intensely atmospheric, if overly confounding psychological thriller, set on a remote island which is home to shadowy…
- Killer Inside Me, The (2010)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba…
- Casey Affleck disturbs as a psychotic small town sheriff struggling to cover his bloody tracks in this grim, stylish neo–noir.
Adroitly…
- Let Me In (2010)
- Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins…
- Justifiable American remake elevates the style and menace of the Swedish vampire hit with special attention paid to the relationship between a…
- Dream House (2011)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz…
- Less haunted house movie than emotionally fraught character drama, this somewhat trashy if competently delivered thriller centres on a family man…
- A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (2011)
- Dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson
Feat. John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris…
- Harold and Kumar's ethnic stoner bromance continues into the holiday season, here reuniting to track down the perfect tree on the eve of…
- Last Days on Mars, The (2013)
- Dir. Ruairi Robinson
Feat. Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai…
- An inaugural manned mission to Mars comes unstuck following an encounter with a potential new life–form in this tense sci–fi expedition…