Anastasia (1997)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Mystery | Romance
The only surviving child of the Russian Royal Family hooks up with two con men while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
Starring: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Martian Child (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Family
A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Starring: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt
Director: Menno Meyjes
Grace Is Gone (2007)
Drama
Suddenly and unexpectedly widowed when his wife, Grace, is killed on the battlefield, Stanley cannot bring himself to share the devastating news with his two young daughters. In lieu of speaking to them immediately about their mother's death, Stanley internalizes his devastation and takes the girls on a road trip while he attempts to sort through a myriad of conflicted and tumultuous internal feelings about the war itself and contemplates how to break the shattering news. Inevitably, the road trip will end with Grace's funeral.
Starring: John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler, Susan Messing, Shélan O'Keefe
Director: James C. Strouse
True Colors (1991)
Drama
"True Colors" tells of two male law school student who are best friends with contrasting integrity which leads to conflict. Spader plays straight man to Cusack's fast-track-to-success character who uses manipulation and ruthlessness on his way to a congressional seat.
Starring: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark, Dina Merrill
Director: Herbert Ross
The Prince (2014)
Action | Thriller
A retired assassin is drawn back into the life he gave up when his daughter is kidnapped. To rescue her, he must confront his former rival.
Starring: Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Curtis Jackson, Jason Patric, Rain, Jessica Lowndes
Director: Brian A Miller
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Drama
Recently released from a sanatorium, the enigmatic daughter of a wealthy Los Angeles psychiatrist becomes a personal assistant to one of her estranged father's clients, a famous actress.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Sarah Gadon, Olivia Williams
Director: David Cronenberg
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
A cartographer known only as The Mapmaker comes to the Canadian Arctic in 1965 to revise a set of maps that had been made 30 years before. He meets Avik, an aged half cast Inuit man, who says he was involved in the making of the old maps and that it had changed his life. The story he then tells is the basis for the rest of the film.
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud, John Cusack, Jeanne Moreau, Patrick Bergin
Director: Vincent Ward
Grand Piano (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Kerry Bishé, John Cusack, Tamsin Egerton, Allen Leech, Don McManus
Director: Eugenio Mira
Adult World (2013)
Comedy
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Starring: Emma Roberts, Evan Peters, John Cusack
Director: Scott Coffey
The Butler (2013)
Biography | Drama
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Starring: John Cusack, Forest Whitaker, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Robin Williams, Minka Kelly
Director: Lee Daniels
City Hall (1996)
Drama | Thriller
A young boy dies from a stray bullet during a shootout between a cop and mob family member who had previously been supiciously given probabtion, only to break its terms. New York's Deputy Mayor, Kevin Calhoun starts digging for information.
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau
Director: Harold Becker
Max (2002)
Drama | War
Munich, 1918. German-Jew Max Rothman has returned to much of his pre-war life which includes to his wife Nina and their two children, to his mistress Liselore von Peltz, and to his work as an art dealer. He has however not returned to being an aspiring painter as he lost his dominant right arm during the war. He is approached by an aspiring painter, a thirty-year old Austrian war veteran named Adolf Hitler, who wants him to show his works. Although he doesn't think the paintings are all that original and he doesn't really like Hitler as a person, Rothman takes Hitler under his wings if only because of their camaraderie of being war veterans, and knowing that Hitler had nothing and no one to come back to after the war unlike himself. Rothman believes that Hitler has promise if only he can find his original artistic point of view. In part out of need for money, Hitler, on the urging of Captain Karl Mayr, agrees to work for the army as a political spokesman in anti-Semitic propaganda. Slowly, Hitler's view becomes a holistic one of a new world, where he begins to meld his art and politics. Rothman becomes excited about Hitler's artistic viewpoint, despite its anti-Semitic bent. The question becomes if the sentiments behind the view will take over its artistic merit.
Starring: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Ulrich Thomsen
Director: Menno Meyjes
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Biography | Crime | Thriller
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Katherine LaNasa, Gia Mantegna
Director: Scott Walker
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Crime | Thriller
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Katherine LaNasa, Gia Mantegna
Director: Scott Walker
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The Numbers Station (2013)
Action | Thriller
When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a young female code announcer, code resources and remote station they are assigned to. After an ambush and one phone call later, it becomes a complicated fight for their survival.
Starring: Malin Akerman, John Cusack, Liam Cunningham, Hannah Murray, Lucy Griffiths, Joey Ansah, Richard Brake
Director: Kasper Barfoed
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Comedy | Romance
Sarah Nolan, a recently divorced thirty-something year old, has a family that just can't help getting involved in her personal life, or lack there of. After her sister puts her profile on PerfectMatch.com, this preschool teacher goes on a number of outrageous and hilarious dates. But will she be able to find the one, who must love dogs?
Starring: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney, Stockard Channing, Ali Hillis
Director: Gary David Goldberg
The Factory (2012)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Detective Mike Fletcher, a rugged and obsessive police officer, and his partner Kelsey Walker, are on the trail of a serial killer who prowls the streets targeting young streetwalkers. When his teenage daughter disappears, Fletcher discovers that the killer has kidnapped her after mistaking her for a prostitute. Fletcher's obsession goes into overdrive when he drops all professional restraint to get the killer and save his daughter.
Starring: John Cusack, Dallas Roberts, Jennifer Carpenter, Mae Whitman, Ksenia Solo, Cindy Sampson
Director: Morgan O'Neill
The Paperboy (2012)
Thriller
A sexy thriller based on the New York Times best seller by Pete Dexter. Lured by imploring letters from the beautiful siren Charlotte (Nicole Kidman), handsome, hard-nosed reporter Ward James (Matthew McConaughey) and his partner, Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo), return to Ward's hometown of Lately, Florida, to investigate the seemingly unjust imprisonment of Charlotte's lover, alligator hunter Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack)
Starring: Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, David Oyelowo, Scott Glenn
Director: Lee Daniels
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Comedy | Romance
It's Samantha Baker's sweet sixteen birthday and no one in her family remembers the occasion. She's a typical teen, enduring creepy freshman, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the Big Blonde on campus who stands between her and the boy of her dreams.
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Anthony Michael Hall, Gedde Watanabe, Blanche Baker, John Cusack
Director: John Hughes
The Grifters (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A small-time con man tries to avoid getting involved in big-time crime.
Starring: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
Director: Stephen Frears
