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Harvey Keitel has 61 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 4 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Taxi Driver.
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Reservoir Dogs
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

The Irishman
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Netflix · Included

Thelma & Louise
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%MGM+ · Included

Fatima
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Painted Bird
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%AMC+ · Included

The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024 · Mini · Actor
Top 31%Peacock · Included

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Dir. Jane Campion · With Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Dir. Wayne Wang · With Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos · With Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern

Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, Kris Kristofferson

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Dir. Brett Ratner · With Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Dir. Marco Pontecorvo · With Harvey Keitel, Sonia Braga, Goran Višnjić

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
Dir. Václav Marhoul · With Petr Kotlár, Nina Šunevič, Alla Sokolova

The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.
Dir. Heather Morris · With Jonah Hauer-King, Anna Próchniak, Jonas Nay
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Dir. Abel Ferrara · With Harvey Keitel, Peggy Gormley, Stella Keitel

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Dir. Dario Argento, George A. Romero · With Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada

A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun. But when the greedy owner threatens to close the shop for good and turn it into a trendy vegetarian restaurant, the neighborhood proves they'll do just about anything to save their favorite hangout.
Dir. Paul Auster, Wayne Wang · With Harvey Keitel, Mel Gorham, Victor Argo

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Dir. James Mangold · With Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.
Dir. Charles Sturridge · With Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Paul McGann

A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back into a life he tried to put behind him.
Dir. Jonathan Sobol · With Ron Perlman, Elias Koteas, Harvey Keitel

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.
Dir. Nicolas Roeg · With Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel
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