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Faces (1968)
7.7/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel
Cassavetes rivetting and personal study of a crumbling marriage with John Marley as a salesman who finds comfort in the arms of prostitute Gena Rowlan... Read more
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie: Director's Cut (1978)
7.5/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Morgan Woodward, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey
Gritty and compelling John Cassevetes film. A proud Los Angeles strip club owner whose gambling debts get out of control, would rather take the option... Read more
A Child is Waiting (1963)
7.3/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Gena Rowlands, Judy Garland, Steven Hill
Featuring Judy Garland's last dramatic performance, here as a teacher at an institution for mentally-disabled children. She can't contain her own urge... Read more
Gloria (1980)
7.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
John Cassavettes creates a powerful, tension-filled story about an ex-gun moll and showgirl on the run from the mob protecting the son of neighbours w... Read more
A Woman Under the Influence (1975)
8.2/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes
Unquestionably one of the greatest films of the 1970s, John Cassavetes' masterpiece centres on a dysfunctional Los Angeles family, and the perverse, h... Read more
Husbands (Blu-ray) (1970)
7.4/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara
After the death of a common friend, three married men leave their lives together, seeking pleasure and freedom and ultimately leaving for London. Read more
Gloria (Blu-ray) (1980)
7.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
John Cassavettes creates a powerful, tension-filled story about an ex-gun moll and showgirl on the run from the mob protecting the son of neighbours w... Read more
Opening Night (1977)
8.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Joan Blondell
An unstable, ageing Broadway actress starring in a new play reaches emotional breaking point when a devoted fan dies on the opening night. Superbly ac... Read more
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
7.5/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Morgan Woodward, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey
Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint; he loves his girls and he loves his job. Trouble is, however, he also loves to gamble and this has res... Read more
Shadows (1959)
7.4/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd, Anthony Ray
John Cassavetes' stunning directorial debut, starring Leila Goldoni as a light-skinned black woman whose romance with a white man (Anthony Ray) is thr... Read more
John Cassavetes: Five Films - Shadows / Faces / A Woman Under the Influence / The Killing of a Chinese Bookie / Opening Night / A Constant Forge (2013)
7.5/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Hugh Hurd, Lelia Goldoni, Anthony Ray
John Cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of American independent film, but that doesn’t begin to get at the generosity of his art... Read more