Scarecrow (1973) - Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi

Scarecrow is a road movie with story revolves around odd pair Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi (Al Pacino) and Max Millan (Gene Hackman) who meet on the road in California, and start their relationship during their long trip to Reno, Denver, Detroit, and decide to become business partners to open a car wash once they reach Pittsburgh.Lionel and Max have slightly different background and character. Lionel was a child-like ex-sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see his child who was born while he was at sea, and Max is a brawling, short-tempered...

Revolution (1985) - Tom Dobb

Revolution (1985) is an American historical film which was produced by Irwin Winkler and Goldcrest film (a British studio), directed by Hugh Hudson, and written by Robert Dillon. The film distributed by Warner Bros Pictures.Al Pacino perform New York fur trapper Tom Dobb who has lost his entire family except one young son, Ned Dobb. Tom becomes a participant in the American Revolutionary War in attempts to find and protect Ned, after he is drafted into the Army by Sergeant Major Peasy. His unwilling participation in war in order to protect his...

Heat (1995) - Lt. Vincent Hanna

When Heat was released in December 15, 1995, the film created much hype since it is the first film to ever feature both legendary actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro shared the screen together. Even the advertising material for Heat promoted the film as a De Niro/Pacino "showdown". They both previously starred in The Godfather Part II (1974), but never acting together. The result was great: Heat was well-received by movie critics, as well as commercially success by gaining worldwide gross revenue $187,436,818 for $60,000,000 estimated budget....

The Insider (1999) - Lowell Bergman

A Vanity Fair magazine article by Marie Brenner; "The Man Who Knew Too Much" led Michael Mann to produced and directed The Insider (1994), a film that tells the true story behind the broadcast of a controvertial CBS "60 Minutes" episode on malpractices in the tobacco industry. The episode originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because CBS' parent company Westinghouse and the owner, Laurence Tisch, objected, and was later aired on February 4, 1996.The Insider took a viewpoint through the eyes of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco company...

Bobby Deerfield (1977) - Bobby

Despite released during Pacino's best years in 1970s, Bobby Deerfield (1977) probably the most underrated and forgotten Al Pacino's film throughout his career. For the first time the film was released on DVD on 2008, and the soundtrack has been unavailable for years. The story panned by critics as an over-the-top melodrama with a plodding storyline.Bobby Deerfield based on the novel Heaven Has No Favorites ("Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge") by Erich Maria Remarque. The film is about American Formula One racer Bobby Deerfield (Al Pacino) on the...

Carlito's Way (1993) - Carlito Brigante

Carlito's Way is a fictional story of Puerto-Rican ex-gangster Carlito 'Charlie' Brigante who just released from prison with the help of his lawyer, and pledges to stay away from his past criminal life and lead on to a better life. The film directed by Brian De Palma, with screenplay by David Koepp, based on Judge Edwin Torres' novels After Hours, but took the title from his previous novel, Carlito's Way, to make it not to be confused with Martin Scorsese's film After Hours. Carlito's Way story was similar to Brian De Palma's previous film, Scarface...

Cruising (1980) - Steve Burns

Cruising is a thriller/horror film about New York City serial killer targeting gay men in the 1970s. The film directed by William Friedkin, based on New York Times reporter Gerald Walker's novel of the same name. The story based on the real series of murders of homosexual men that took place between 1962 and 1979 in New York City. Cruising portray a series of gruesome killings, who the killer specifically targeting, slays, and dismembers several gay men through B&D (Bondage and Dominance) and S&M (Sadism and Masochism) scene, and dispose...

Looking for Richard (1996 Documentary Film) - Richard III

Looking for Richard is the first film directed by Al Pacino. He also plays himself and the title character (Richard III). Pacino originally wanted to make a straight film, not a documentary, but he discovered that he wouldn't be able to top Laurence Olivier's 1955 version.As a documentary movie, Looking for Richard is both a performance of scenes of William Shakespeare's Richard III, and an examination of Shakespeare's relevance in popular culture by adding interviews with ordinary people, and in-depth analysis with Shakespeare scholars. In addition,...

Author! Author! (1982) - Ivan Travalian

In Author! Author! Al Pacino plays Ivan Travalian, an Armenian-American Broadway playwright in his struggles to write an original play entitled, English with Tears. Throughout his struggle, Travalian facing any stressful troubles: his wife leaving him, deals with a hopeless second act, and must take care of four children of his wife from her 3 different marriages.Author! Author! directed by Arthur Hiller, and written by Israel Horovitz. This film was Horovitz's second work with Pacino after their first worked in the mid-1960s, The Indian Wants...

The Merchant of Venice (2004) - Shylock

The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy of the same name (believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598). It follows Shakespeare's text very closely, and is the first full-length sound film version in English of Shakespeare's play.The Merchant of Venice story shows a 16th century Venice, where Bassanio wishes to travel to Belmont for a romantic ambition to a wealthy heiress Portia. He then approaches his rich friend Antonio to subsidize his traveling expenses; but Antonio agree only if Bassanio can...

Me, Natalie (1969) - Tony

Me, Natalie was Al Pacino's film debut in a minor supporting role as Tony. The film directed by Fred Coe, and the screenplay written by A. Martin Zweiback, based on original story by Stanley Shapiro. The film stars Patty Duke as Natalie Miller, Elsa Lanchester as Miss Dennison, and James Farentino as David Harris.Natalie Miller was a plain and ugly Brooklyn young girl with bucked teeth and disproportionate large nose. Her father even had plan to bribes a myopic man to marry her, think that his nearsightedness will prevent him from seeing her ugly...

The Godfather Part III (1990) - Don Michael Corleone

The final part and epilogue of the saga after The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), The Godfather Part III is completes the story of Don Michael Corleone, aging mafia boss who tries to legitimize his business to atone for his guilt.Michael has abandoned many of mafia activities, selling the Las Vegas casinos, and leaving the Corleone family's criminal interests in the hands of Joey Zasa, the remaining criminal wing of Corleone family.Michael returned to New York City from Lake Tahoe, restore his reputation via numerous acts of...

Dick Tracy (1990) - Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice

Dick Tracy based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. Al Pacino plays as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, the leading crime cyndicate boss whose aggressively taking over small businesses in the city (for his performance, Pacino received Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor). The film produced and directed by Warren Beatty, who also starred as the main character, Dick Tracy.Dick Tracy film rights were initially owned in 1975 by Michael Laughlin, who gave up his option from Tribune Media Services....

...And Justice for All (1979) - Arthur Kirkland

...And Justice For All, the last four words of the Pledge of Allegiance, were taken as the title for this courtroom drama movie. It directed by Norman Jewison and the screenplay written by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson. ...And Justice For All received two Academy Award nominations for the Best Actor in a Leading role (Pacino) and Best Original Screenplay. Al Pacino plays as Arthur Kirkland, an idealistic defense attorney in Baltimore, forced to defend Henry T. Fleming, a judge who ever has had problems with him in the past. The judge has...

The Recruit (2003) - Walter Burke

The Recruit is a spy movie follows the career of James Clayton, a briliant MIT graduate recruited into the CIA. While at MIT, Clayton develop Sp@rtacus, a computer program which turns computer terminals to which it is networked into its slave - probably similar to the now infamous botnet. Clayton meets Walter Burke. The man who reveals that he is a CIA recruiter, and his familiarity with Clayton's father, who had gone missing when he was young.The Recruit directed by Roger Donaldson, and the screenplay written by Roger Towne, Kurt Wimmer, and Mitch...

Donnie Brasco (1997) - Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero

Donnie Brasco based on the late 1970s real event of FBI undercover agent, Joseph D. Pistone (under the alias name Donnie Brasco) who successfully infilitrates the New York City's Bonanno crime family. Pistone (Johnny Depp) posing as a jewel thief from Florida. He eventually becomes accepted as an associate by the other family members. Pistone befriends Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a low level family member and hit man who having spent 30 years of his life in the Mafia and killing 26 people, but was hopeless about his own future. However,...

Angels in America (2003, HBO miniseries) - Roy Cohn

Angels in America is 6 chapters miniseries (total runtime 352 minutes) adapted from Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play, and directed by Mike Nichols. Kushner adapt his own original text for the screen, in which HBO broadcast the film in various formats.The first three chapters of Angels in America ("Bad News", "In Vitro" and "The Messenger") were initially broadcast on December 7, 2003, followed by the next, final three chapters ("Stop Moving!", "Beyond Nelly" and "Heaven, I'm in Heaven").Angels in America won 5 Golden Globes. Al Pacino...

Scent of a Woman (1992) - Frank Slade

Scent of a Woman was an adaptation from the novel Il buio e il miele (Italian: Darkness and Honey) by Giovanni Arpino, and the 1974 screenplay by Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi (of the Italian movie Profumo di donna, directed by Dino Risi). The film stars Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was directed by Martin Brest, and the screenplay by Bo Goldman. Scent of a Woman tells the story of Charlie Simms, a preparatory school student needing money and takes a job as an assistant to a blind and...

The Panic in Needle Park (1971) - Bobby

The Panic in Needle Park is Al Pacino's second film appearance. The film is a portrayal of heroin addicts life who hang out in "Needle Park" in New York City. The story was adapted from James Mills' series of articles in Life. A tale of love story between Bobby (Al Pacino), a young heroin addict and small-time hustler, and Helen (Kitty Winn), a restless woman who finds Bobby charismatic.The Panic in Needle Park seem more documentary than fictious story. No music was used in the film to set the atmosphere of "real life". Additionally, the entire...

Sea of Love (1989) - Detective Frank Keller

Sea of Love is a thriller about New York detective Frank Keller investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. The first case was a man in Manhattan who shot dead in his bed while listening to a recording of the song "Sea of Love". Keller's clues are a perfect set of fingerprints, a lipstick-smeared cigarette, and a single column ad the dead man placed in a newspaper. The second victim was a man dies in the same manner in Queens. He also had put rhyming ads in the paper. The third...

The Godfather Part II (1974) - Don Michael Corleone

The Godfather Part II is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather (1972) by presents two parallel storylines: the first storyline chronicling the story of the Corleone family under their new chief Don Michael Corleone in their new home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and the second storyline a flashback depicting the rise to power of Vito Corleone, from his childhood in Sicily to his founding of the powerful Corleone family in New York City.The Godfather Part II stars Al Pacino as Don Michael Corleone, Robert Duvall as the family consiglieri Tom Hagen,...

Scarface (1983) - Antonio "Tony" Montana

A film that give Pacino one of his iconic characters as Tony Montana, Cuban immigrant who became notorious drug lord, Scarface directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. Alongside with Al Pacino, the film starring Steven Bauer as Manolo "Manny" Ribera, Michelle Pfeiffer as Elvira Hancock, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Tony's sister, Gina Montana. Brian De Palma's 1983 Scarface is based on Howard Hawks' 1932 film of the same name (but took place in Chicago). The film chronicles Tony Montana's rise from a poor Cuban refugee who...

Any Given Sunday (1999) - Tony D'Amato

Any Given Sunday is a drama film depicting a fictional professional American football team Miami Sharks, and fictional professional football league AFFA (a creative stand-in for the NFL). The film directed by Oliver Stone, who also write the screenplay for the film with Daniel Pyne and John Logan. Any Given Sunday features many Hollywood big stars in the cast, including Al Pacino as Tony D'Amato (the head coach of the Miami Sharks), Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, and legendary NFL players Lawrence Taylor and Jim...

Serpico (1973) - Frank Serpico

Serpico is a crime film based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico. The film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay was written by Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler, and Sidney Kingsley, as an adaptation from a biographical book by author Peter Maas. The film stars Al Pacino as Officer Frank Serpico, John Randolph as Chief Sidney Green, Cornelia Sharpe as Leslie Lane, and Tony Roberts as Bob Blair. Frank Serpico was an eccentric but idealistic New York City police officer in a time when police corruption was rampant. Despite eccentric,...

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Sonny Wortzik

Dog Day Afternoon was inspired by true story of the robbery of a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in 450 Avenue P, at the cross street of East 3rd Street, in Gravesend Brooklyn, New York by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile on August 22, 1972, was published as an article entitled "The Boys in the Bank" by P.F. Kluge in Life Magazine in 1972. The film directed by Sidney Lumet based on screenplay written by Frank Pierson. Dog Day Afternoon tells a story about Sonny Wortzik and his friend Sal Naturile's attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for the...

The Godfather (1972) - Michael Corleone

The Godfather is based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. In the film Al Pacino play Michael Corleone, the youngest son of head of the Corleone family, Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), and later became the next Don.Alongside with Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), Michael is the only college-educated member of the family. Michael initially wants nothing to do with the underworld, so the other mafia families consider him a "civilian" uninvolved in mob business. But a second murder attempt to his father at...