John Sayles

John Sayles

September 28, 1950 · 75 years old

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist.

Known For

30 titles
1
The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008 · 1h 36m · Movie

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

6.5
2
The Howling

The Howling

1981 · 1h 31m · Movie

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

6.5
3
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

2019 · 1h 38m · Movie

A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.

5.6
4
Lone Star

Lone Star

1996 · 2h 15m · Movie

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

7.4
5
Piranha

Piranha

1978 · 1h 34m · Movie

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

5.9
6
Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out

1988 · 1h 59m · Movie

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

7.2
7
In the Electric Mist

In the Electric Mist

2009 · 1h 57m · Movie

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

6.1
8
Alligator

Alligator

1980 · 1h 31m · Movie

A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered ...

6.1
9
Gridlock'd

Gridlock'd

1997 · 1h 31m · Movie

Two friends try to kick their drug addiction after a friend dies from an overdose, when they try to enroll in a detox program, things quickly go wrong.

6.9
10
Matinee

Matinee

1993 · 1h 39m · Movie

The teenage son of a navy sailor newly stationed in Key West gets some excitement with his friends when a small-time film producer comes to town to premiere a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

6.9
11
Girlfight

Girlfight

2000 · 1h 50m · Movie

Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.

6.7
12
Battle Beyond the Stars

Battle Beyond the Stars

1980 · 1h 44m · Movie

A farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from dark forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching beyond the stars begins here.

5.5
13
Matewan

Matewan

1987 · 2h 15m · Movie

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community in 1920 West Virginia, brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

7.9
14
The Brother from Another Planet

The Brother from Another Planet

1984 · 1h 48m · Movie

A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.

6.7
15
Men of War

Men of War

1994 · 1h 42m · Movie

A former Special Ops soldier leads a group of mercenaries to an island in the South China Sea: their mission is obtain the rights to the unusual treasure that the island beholds.

5.6
16
Sunshine State

Sunshine State

2002 · 2h 21m · Movie

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

6.8
17
City of Hope

City of Hope

1991 · 2h 9m · Movie

An intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.

7.2
18
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

2011 · 1h 35m · Movie

A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.

7.6
19
The Challenge

The Challenge

1982 · 1h 48m · Movie

A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

6.2
20
Lianna

Lianna

1983 · 1h 50m · Movie

A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.

6.9
21
Breaking In

Breaking In

1989 · 1h 34m · Movie

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

6.1
22
The Lady in Red

The Lady in Red

1979 · 1h 33m · Movie

After being in the wrong place at the wrong time, a naïve farm girl moves to Chicago, where she becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime abetted by John Dillinger.

6.3
23
Wild Thing

Wild Thing

1987 · 1h 32m · Movie

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

5.2
24
Amigo

Amigo

2011 · 2h 4m · Movie

A fictional account of events during the Philippine-American War.

6.4
25
Little Saints

Little Saints

1999 · 1h 45m · Movie

When St. Jude appears to her to tell her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza goes on a search to find her daughter.

6.6
26
Texas Red

Texas Red

2021 · 1h 23m · Movie

Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the story of Texas Red, an African-American man who was hunted by hundreds through the Winter wilderness of Mississippi.

4.0
27
The Umbrella

The Umbrella

2016 · 1h 33m · Movie

A man uses an imaginary umbrella to protect himself against against life; until he is convinced to use a real umbrella.

6.8
28
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time- Vol. 2 Horror and Sci-Fi

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time- Vol. 2 Horror and Sci-Fi

2020 · 1h 23m · Movie

The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sc

7.0
29
Algren

Algren

2021 · 1h 26m · Movie

Charts the rise and fall of Nelson Algren, a writer whose transgressions, compassion and thirst for justice pushed him to become a champion of America's underclass and one of the 20th century's most consequential literary voices.

7.0
30
The Gray House

The Gray House

2024 · TV Show

It centers on the three women who General Ulysses S. Grant credited as helping the North win the Civil War.

4.3