Movies: Joe Spinell

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun....

Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this proposed pilot for a new TV series....

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate....

A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring....

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created....

A private eye hired to kill a man's wife warns her instead and then finds both are impostors....

Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process....

A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women....

A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are looking ...

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created....

Tongue-in-cheek account of a private eye hired to find a young porn actress....

A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends....

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss....

When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death....

Karate experts attempt to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by a mother and her two psycho sons....

A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy....

A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy....

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son....

The Joe Spinell Story is a An outstanding and eye-opening documentary, made in 2001 for the Anchor Bay DVD release of Maniac (1980). His most notable roles were as mafioso Willi Cicci in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, and as loan shark Tony...

A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, an...