Best Mark Margolis movies
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TOP 25: Arthur
Mark Margolis as: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1981
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
TOP 24: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Mark Margolis as: Mr. Shickadance
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Release: 1994
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
TOP 23: Jakob the Liar
Mark Margolis as: Fajngold
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 1999
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
TOP 22: Absolute Power
Mark Margolis as: Red Brandsford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Release: 1997
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of The United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
TOP 21: The Cotton Club
Mark Margolis as: Charlie Workman (uncredited)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1984
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
TOP 20: Stay
Mark Margolis as: Bookstore Owner
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Release: 2005
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
TOP 19: Hannibal
Mark Margolis as: Perfume Expert
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror
Release: 2001
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
TOP 18: The Girl Next Door
Mark Margolis as: Homeless Man Hit By Car
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Horror
Release: 2007
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.
TOP 17: The Thomas Crown Affair
Mark Margolis as: Heinrich Knutzhorn
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Release: 1999
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
TOP 16: Going in Style
Mark Margolis as: Prison Guard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Release: 1979
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
TOP 15: Short Eyes
Mark Margolis as: Mr. Morrison
Genre: Drama
Release: 1977
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
TOP 14: Defiance
Mark Margolis as: Jewish Elder
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Release: 2008
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
TOP 13: The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Mark Margolis as: Unhappy Guy on Plane (uncredited)
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1976
Inspired by My Fair Lady, this interpretation of Pygmalion is about a sexologist who attempts to transform Misty from a hooker into sensuous instrument of passion. Misty's big test is to seduce a homosexual artist, but during her training the relationship between Misty and her doctor grows.
TOP 12: Dressed to Kill
Mark Margolis as: Patient at Bellvue Hospital (uncredited)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Release: 1980
When Liz Blake, a prostitute, sees a mysterious woman brutally slay homemaker Kate Miller, she finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police think Liz is the murderer, the real killer wants to silence the crime's only witness.
TOP 11: The Fountain
Mark Margolis as: Father Avila
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction, Romance
Release: 2006
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
TOP 10: Diner
Mark Margolis as: Earl Mager
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1982
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
TOP 9: Abe
Mark Margolis as: Benjamin
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 2020
The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe. Just Abe.
TOP 8: Pi
Mark Margolis as: Sol Robeson
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1998
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
TOP 7: Gone Baby Gone
Mark Margolis as: Leon Trett
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2007
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
TOP 6: Dinner Rush
Mark Margolis as: Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller
Release: 2000
One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile takeover from a pair of gangsters, to whom his sous-chef is in debt. Further, Louis has an argument with his son, the star chef, whose culinary creativity has brought success to the business.
TOP 5: The Wrestler
Mark Margolis as: Lenny
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2008
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
TOP 4: Glory
Mark Margolis as: 10th Connecticut Soldier
Genre: Drama, History, War
Release: 1989
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
TOP 3: Black Swan
Mark Margolis as: Mr. Fithian / Patron
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Release: 2010
A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.
TOP 2: Requiem for a Dream
Mark Margolis as: Mr. Rabinowitz
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2000
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
TOP 1: Scarface
Mark Margolis as: Shadow
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1983
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.