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Best Michael Imperioli movies

We present our ranking of the best Michael Imperioli movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Michael Imperioli.

TOP 25: Girl 6

Michael Imperioli as: Scary Caller #30
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1996
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.


TOP 24: The Wannabe

Michael Imperioli as: Alphonse
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama
Release: 2015
Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.

TOP 23: Office Killer

Michael Imperioli as: Daniel Birch
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
Release: 1997
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.


TOP 22: Oldboy

Michael Imperioli as: Chucky
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Action
Release: 2013
An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.


TOP 21: Primal

Michael Imperioli as: Paul Freed
Genre: Action
Release: 2019
A big-game hunter for zoos books passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar – along with a political assassin being extradited to the U.S in secret. Two days into the journey, the assassin escapes and releases the captive animals, throwing the ship into chaos.

TOP 20: Shark Tale

Michael Imperioli as: Frankie (voice)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family
Release: 2004
Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.


TOP 19: I Shot Andy Warhol

Michael Imperioli as: Ondine
Genre: Drama
Release: 1996
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.


TOP 18: Cantinflas

Michael Imperioli as: Michael Todd
Genre: Drama
Release: 2014
Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. Together they won the Oscar for Best Picture.

TOP 17: Last Man Standing

Michael Imperioli as: Giorgio Carmonte
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Release: 1996
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.


TOP 16: Jungle Fever

Michael Imperioli as: James Tucci
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1991
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.


TOP 15: The Addiction

Michael Imperioli as: Missionary
Genre: Drama, Horror
Release: 1995
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

TOP 14: Summer of Sam

Michael Imperioli as: Midnite
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance
Release: 1999
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.


TOP 13: Dead Presidents

Michael Imperioli as: D'ambrosio
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Release: 1995
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!


TOP 12: Amateur

Michael Imperioli as: Doorman at Club
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1994
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.


TOP 11: Bad Boys

Michael Imperioli as: Jojo
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1995
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

TOP 10: The Many Saints of Newark

Michael Imperioli as: Christopher Moltisanti (voice)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2021
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.


TOP 9: The Call

Michael Imperioli as: Alan Denado
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 2013
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.


TOP 8: Trees Lounge

Michael Imperioli as: George
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1996
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.


TOP 7: Clockers

Michael Imperioli as: Detective Jo-Jo
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Release: 1995
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. Det. 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.


TOP 6: The Lovely Bones

Michael Imperioli as: Len Fenerman
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Release: 2009
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

TOP 5: One Night in Miami...

Michael Imperioli as: Angelo Dundee
Genre: Drama
Release: 2020
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.


TOP 4: Lean On Me

Michael Imperioli as: George
Genre: Drama
Release: 1989
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.


TOP 3: The Basketball Diaries

Michael Imperioli as: Bobby
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 1995
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.


TOP 2: The Last Full Measure

Michael Imperioli as: Jay Ford
Genre: War, Drama
Release: 2020
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.


TOP 1: GoodFellas

Michael Imperioli as: Spider
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 1990
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

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