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Steve Buscemi has 71 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Reservoir Dogs.
Recurring themes

A Whole Life Ahead
2008
Comedy · Drama

Rudo & Cursi
2008
Comedy · Drama

Intermission
2003
Comedy · Crime

The Parade
2011
Comedy · Drama

Calendar Girls
2003
Drama · Comedy

Find Me Guilty
2006
Comedy · Crime

Eulogy
2004
Comedy · Drama

Young People Fucking
2007
Comedy · Drama

Reservoir Dogs
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

The Big Lebowski
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Fargo
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Wednesday
2022 · Series · Actor
Top 3%Netflix · Included

Monsters, Inc.
2001 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

Transformers One
2024 · Movie · Voice
Top 8%Prime Video · Included

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

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.
Dir. Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · With Jenna Ortega, Steve Buscemi, Emma Myers

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
Dir. Pete Docter · With John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs

The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
Dir. Josh Cooley · With Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Joaquim de Almeida

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Dir. Terence Winter · With Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Dir. Joel Coen · With Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
Dir. Terry Zwigoff · With Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi

An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.
Dir. James Hanlon, Gédéon Naudet, Jules Naudet · With Tony Benatatos, Jamal Braithwaite, Joseph Casaliggi

When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
Dir. Armando Iannucci · With Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor

Low-budget independent filmmaker Nick Reve tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious beret-wearing director of photography, and lousy catering.
Dir. Tom DiCillo · With Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With David Jensen, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
Dir. Judd Apatow · With Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Dir. Abel Ferrara · With Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne

An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou

Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.
Dir. Spike Jonze · With Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch

A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
With Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Dir. Florian Gallenberger · With Ulrich Tukur, Dagmar Manzel, Steve Buscemi
Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.
Dir. Andrew Haigh · With Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Dir. Steve Buscemi · With Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny, Carol Kane

The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar.
Dir. Louis C.K. · With Louis C.K., Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco

Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge.
Dir. Tom DiCillo · With Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Bruno Podalydès · With Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe

as Bellingham (segment ‘Lot 249’)
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A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Dir. John Harrison · With Debbie Harry, Matthew Lawrence, David Forrester
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