The Bag Man / Motel (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A criminal bides his time at a seedy motel, waiting for his boss after killing several men and making away with a mystery bag.
Starring: John Cusack, Rebecca Da Costa, Robert De Niro, Crispin Glover, Dominic Purcell, Sticky Fingaz
Director: David Grovic
Pursuit (2022)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker who's trying to save his kidnapped wife from a drug cartel. When Calloway escapes from police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense cop to reclaim his prisoner.
Starring: John Cusack, Emile Hirsch, William Katt, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow
Director: Brian Skiba
Pushing Tin (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A feud develops between two air traffic controllers: one cocky and determined while the other is restrained and laidback, which inevitably affects their lives.
Starring: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Jake Weber, Kurt Fuller
Director: Mike Newell
One Crazy Summer (1986)
Comedy | Romance
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Starring: John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Tom Villard, Matt Mulhern, Jeremy Piven
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Money for Nothing (1993)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
An unemployed man finds a money bag of $1.2 million after it dropped off an armored car.
Starring: John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Maury Chaykin
Director: Ramón Menéndez
Never Grow Old / Where We'll Never Grow Old (2019)
Drama | Western
An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.
Starring: John Cusack, Emile Hirsch, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Reid, Déborah François, Blake Berris
Director: Ivan Kavanagh
River Runs Red (2018)
Thriller
When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers (Luke Hemsworth/Gianni Capaldi) and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.
Starring: Taye Diggs, John Cusack, George Lopez, Luke Hemsworth, Gianni Capaldi, Briana Evigan, RJ Mitte, Steven Berrebi, Jaqueline Fleming, Jennifer Tao
Director: Wes Miller
Distorted (2018)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A 32-year-old woman suffering from bipolar disorder comes to suspect the proprietor of the state-of-the-art ''smart apartment'' she and her husband just moved into is using the building's residents as unwitting guinea pigs for a ''synthetic telepathy'' brainwashing plot with dire global ramifications.
Starring: Christina Ricci, John Cusack, Brendan Fletcher, Vicellous Shannon, Nicole Anthony, Oliver Rice
Director: Rob W. King
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Biography | Drama | History | War
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, John C. McGinley
Director: Roland Joffé
Singularity (2017)
Sci-Fi
In 2020, Elias van Dorne, CEO of VA Industries, the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention–Kronos, a super computer designed to end all wars. When Kronos goes online, it quickly determines that mankind, itself, is the biggest threat to world peace and launches a worldwide robot attack to rid the world of the "infection" of man. Ninety-seven years later, a small band of humans remain alive but on the run from the robot army. A teenage boy, Andrew and a teenage girl, Calia, form an unlikely alliance to reach a new world, where it is rumored mankind exists without fear of robot persecution. But does this world actually exist? And will they live long enough to find out?
Starring: Carmen Argenziano, John Cusack, Eileen Grubba, Julian Schaffner, Jeannine Wacker
Director: Robert Kouba
Blood Money / Misfortune (2017)
Thriller
Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other. A modern re-telling of TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE.
Starring: John Cusack, Ellar Coltrane, Willa Fitzgerald, Jacob Artist
Director: Lucky McKee
Arsenal / Philly Fury (2017)
Crime | Thriller
A Southern mobster attempts to rescue his kidnapped brother.
Starring: Adrian Grenier, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage
Director: Steven C. Miller
Cell (2016)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, John Cusack, Stacy Keach, Owen Teague, Wilbur Fitzgerald
Director: Tod Williams
Reclaim (2014)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When the newly-adopted daughter of American couple Steven and Shannon goes missing while the family is abroad, they quickly discover that all is not what it seems with the adoption agency – and find themselves in a fight for their lives when they encounter Benjamin and Reigert, the culprits behind a high-stakes human-trafficking ring. To expose the truth and save their daughter, they will have to risk everything…including their lives.
Starring: John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Rachelle Lefevre, Jacki Weaver, Luis Guzmán, Briana Roy
Director: Alan White
Chi-Raq (2015)
Drama
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Starring: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack
Director: Spike Lee
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Eight Men Out (1988)
Drama | History | Sport
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Starring: John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen
Director: John Sayles
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Comedy
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Starring: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne
Director: Woody Allen
Love & Mercy (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson, from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
Starring: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald
Director: Bill Pohlad
Love & Mercy (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson, from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
Starring: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald
Director: Bill Pohlad
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Dragon Blade / Tian jiang xiong shi (2015)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Set in China during the Han dynasty (206-220 AD), Dragon Blade follows Huo An, an official framed and enslaved for a crime he didn't commit. Soon thereafter, however, he meets Roman soldier in Cusack's Lucius and the pair begin to form an unlikely alliance.
Starring: John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Jackie Chan, Sharni Vinson
Director: Daniel Lee
