Best Henry Silva movies
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TOP 25: The Silence of the Hams
Original Title: Il silenzio dei prosciutti
Henry Silva as: Police Chief
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Release: 1994
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.
TOP 24: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Henry Silva as: Agon
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy
Release: 1986
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
TOP 23: The End of Violence
Henry Silva as: Juan Emilio
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1997
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
TOP 22: Cannonball Run II
Henry Silva as: Slim
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release: 1984
The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
TOP 21: Wrong Is Right
Henry Silva as: Rafeeq
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1982
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
TOP 20: Alligator
Henry Silva as: Brock
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 1980
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
TOP 19: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Henry Silva as: Kane
Genre: Science Fiction, TV Movie
Release: 1979
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis.
TOP 18: Code of Silence
Henry Silva as: Luis Comacho
Genre: Action, Crime
Release: 1985
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
TOP 17: Dick Tracy
Henry Silva as: Influence
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1990
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
TOP 16: Sharky's Machine
Henry Silva as: Billy Score
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Thriller
Release: 1981
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
TOP 15: The Bravados
Henry Silva as: Lujan
Genre: Drama, Action, Western
Release: 1958
Jim is a rancher and a widower, and he rides into Rio Arriba, where four men are awaiting execution. He wants to see the hanging, but the town has issued instructions to only allow the hangman to enter. They have never had an execution before, so they have brought in a man from outside town to do the job.
TOP 14: Above the Law
Henry Silva as: Kurt Zagon
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 1988
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.
TOP 13: Amazon Women on the Moon
Henry Silva as: Himself
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
Release: 1987
Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.
TOP 12: Virus
Original Title: 復活の日
Henry Silva as: General Garland
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Release: 1980
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
TOP 11: Cinderfella
Henry Silva as: Maximilian
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Family
Release: 1960
When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away for his nasty step-family, Maximilian and Rupert attempt to find a treasure Fella's father has supposedly hidden on the estate. Hoping to restore her dwindling fortunes, the stepmother plans a fancy ball in honor of the visiting Princess Charmein whom she hopes will marry Rupert. Eventually, Fella's Fairy Godfather shows up to convince him that he has a shot at winning the Princess himself.
TOP 10: Ocean's Eleven
Henry Silva as: Roger Corneal
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music, Thriller
Release: 1960
Ocean's 11 is the 'Rat-Pack' comedy about robber Danny Ocean and his gang's attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas.
TOP 9: Viva Zapata!
Henry Silva as: Hernandez
Genre: History, Western
Release: 1952
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century.
TOP 8: Almost Human
Original Title: Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare
Henry Silva as: Commissario Walter Grandi
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1974
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
TOP 7: The Boss
Original Title: Il boss
Henry Silva as: Nick Lanzetta
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1973
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.
TOP 6: The Outsider
Original Title: Le marginal
Henry Silva as: Sauveur Meccacci
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1983
In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord (Henry Silva) who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal. Stunts (performed by Belmondo) and chase scenes on land and water enliven the story, but the scenes with Belmondo's love interest are rather marginal themselves.
TOP 5: The Italian Connection
Original Title: La mala ordina
Henry Silva as: Dave Catania
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Release: 1972
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
TOP 4: The Tall T
Henry Silva as: Chink
Genre: Thriller, Western
Release: 1957
Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers fall into the hands of a trio of outlaws headed by a man named Usher. When Usher learns that Doretta is the daughter of a rich copper-mine owner, he decides to hold her for ransom. Tension builds over the next 24 hours as Usher awaits a response to his demands and as a romantic attachment grows between Brennan and Doretta.
TOP 3: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Henry Silva as: Ray Vargo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1999
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
TOP 2: Ocean's Eleven
Henry Silva as: Boxing Spectator
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Release: 2001
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.
TOP 1: The Manchurian Candidate
Henry Silva as: Chunjin
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 1962
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.