Jon Polito
24 titles
Filmography
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Stiffs
(2010)Three old-school Wise Guys in Boston get involved in a murders-for-hire scheme that helps one of them stay in business with his busy funeral home.

Fire with Fire
(1986)A girl at an expensive Catholic boarding school falls in love with a boy at a nearby parole camp.

Homeboy
(1988)A small-time boxer with a brain injury falls for a cute carnival owner, but also befriends a shady character, who aims to use him for a big score.

Money Play$
(1998)An ex-gambler and a hooker looking for a career change are brought together when a customer with an overstuffed money belt drops dead at a brothel.

Black Mask 2: City of Masks
(2002)Superhuman Black Mask tries to stop a group planning on launching a DNA bomb that will turn a city's population into super-powered mutants.

Masters of Horror
The biggest names in the horror film genre, including John Carpenter, Dario Argento, and Takashi Miike unite to create this series of horror films.
Invasion
An alien virus alters a man's personality and appearance, and threatens to destroy the world. From a book by Robin Cook.

The Clairvoyant
(1982)After a Jane Doe is found dead in the Hudson River, more serial murders occur that only a beautiful art student can use her psychic vision to stop.

Leather Jackets
(1992)Leather-jacketed Elwes and friends rip off and murder a Vietnamese mob bagman, whose associates vow vengeance. A devastating human drama about love, friendship and the pain of growing up in a world gone wild. Leather Jackets explores the fragile relationship between three friends desperate to make sense of their lives before a brutal act of violence rips them apart.

The Man Who Wasn't There
(2001)The Coen Brothers direct this dark and twisted film noir tale about a seemingly simple barber (Billy Bob Thornton) who turns to blackmail and revenge to escape his dull life.

Fluke
(1995)An overworked and neglectful businessman dies in a car accident, only to be reincarnated as a dog. Will he finally bring his family joy?

The Freshman
(1990)A college boy gets caught up in a strange caper involving endangered species after he's taken under the wing of a Godfather-lookalike mob boss.
Haeckel's Tale
(2006)It is a time when the laws of science battle the secrets of magic, and medical student Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil) believes the power of life, death, and resurrection lies in his arrogant hands. But on a journey to visit his gravely ill father, he finds shelter in the home of an older man and his seductive young wife (Leela Savasta) who cannot be fulfilled by mortal hungers. Somewhere in the darkness of a nearby necropolis, a defiant necromancer (Jon Polito of BARTON FINK, MILLER'S CROSSING) will now summon them all to an orgy of the undead and unleash the ultimate depravity for those who do not heed the warning of Haeckel's Tale. Directed by John McNaughton in association with horror legend George A. Romero, this startling mix of erotic desire and gut-ripping horror is adapted by series creator/executive producer Mick Garris from the short story by Clive Barker.

From the Head
(2011)1995. Shoes is a bathroom attendant at an NYC strip club. His small world consists of tiled walls, a slick routine, drunks stumbling through, big tips, long shifts, and free shots. On the night of his 3rd anniversary working the bathroom, he yearns for answers about his future while shaking down guests for tips as they come to complain, to dream aloud, and to spill secrets in his porcelain office.

The Maestro
(2018)The story of aspiring film composer Jerry Herst, who moved to Hollywood to study with the revered composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

The Shrink Is In
(2001)A young neurotic woman doing court-ordered community service concocts a scheme to impersonate her psychiatrist to win the heart of a patient.

Alone in the Neon Jungle
(1988)Assigned to clean up Pittsburgh's most corrupt and demoralized precinct, a by-the-books police captain is greeted with suspicion and hostility.

Mimic 2
(2001)Scientists engineered a species of bug to "mimic" and destroy plague-spreading roaches - but they soon evolved to mimic their next prey...humans! They were all thought to be dead, but after another terrifying metamorphosis, the mutant bugs are back!

Girls in Prison
(1994)Aggie is a sweet young songstress having a hard time making it in the sleazy music biz - though it's not nearly as hard as the time she'll have to do for a murder she didn't commit.

Highlander
(1986)A murdered 1536 Scottish swordsman is reborn in 1986 New York City to duel other immortals in a cosmic game that will leave only one with his head.