Alessandro Nivola

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Dir. John Woo · With John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn · With Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

Dir. Brady Corbet · With Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce

Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.

Dir. Riley Stearns · With Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.

Dir. Patricia Rozema · With Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola

Kraven Kravinoff's complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

Dir. J.C. Chandor · With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger

On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, but she befriends George's wide-eyed and pregnant sister-in-law, Ashley, who is nearing her due date. Through the family, Madeleine gains greater insight into George's character.

Dir. Phil Morrison · With Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Ben McKenzie

New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.

Dir. Sebastián Lelio · With Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola

A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.

Dir. David O. Russell · With Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.

Dir. Gideon Raff · With Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

Dir. Danny Cannon · With Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel

Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.

Dir. Matt Ruskin · With Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

Dir. Barry Levinson · With Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hank Azaria

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Dir. J.C. Chandor · With Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

Dir. Lynne Ramsay · With Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Ekaterina Samsonov

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.

Dir. Jim Strouse · With John Cusack, Alessandro Nivola, Gracie Bednarczyk

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

Dir. Joe Johnston · With Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni

Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.

Dir. Alan Taylor · With Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael Gandolfini

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Dane DeHaan

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.

Dir. David O. Russell · With Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

Dir. Lisa Cholodenko · With Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.

Dir. Sally Potter · With Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks

Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Adaptation of the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.

With Gemma Arterton, Alessandro Nivola, Aisling Franciosi

Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.

Dir. Mike Barker · With Alessandro Nivola, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin

When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.

Dir. Pieter Jan Brugge · With Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe

Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

Dir. Xavier Palud, David Moreau · With Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey

When the manager of an Italian restaurant chain wins the opportunity to attend the franchise’s educational immersion program in Italy, what she thought would be a romantic getaway devolves into chaos and catastrophe.

Dir. Jeff Baena · With Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Alessandro Nivola