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Joe's Apartment

Joe's Apartment is a 1996 American musical comedy directed by John Payson, in which a young man's New York apartment is inhabited by talking, singing cockroaches.

Joe's College Road Trip

Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip is a 2026 Netflix R-rated comedy spinoff of the Madea franchise, written, directed, and produced by Tyler Perry, starring Joe (Perry) taking grandson B.J. (Jermaine Harris) on a cross-country college trip; released February 13, 2026.

Joel Douglas

Joel Douglas (born 1947), American film producer, son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Douglas, brother of Michael Douglas. Co-producer of Romancing the Stone (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile (1985); unit production manager on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Joel Schumacher

Joel Schumacher (1939–2020), American film director, producer, screenwriter, and fashion designer from New York City; directed St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Batman Forever (1995), and Batman & Robin (1997).

Joel Silver

Joel Silver (born 1952, South Orange, New Jersey) is an American film producer behind Commando, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, and The Matrix, founder of Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment, and co-creator of the sport of Ultimate.

Joey Cramer

Joey Cramer (Deleriyes August Joe Fisher Cramer), Canadian actor born 1973 in Vancouver, child star of Flight of the Navigator (1986); also Runaway, Stone Fox; 2016 bank robbery conviction; subject of Life After the Navigator (2020). Not Aerosmith's Joey Kramer.

Joey Stefano

Joey Stefano (Nicholas Anthony Iacona Jr., 1968-1994), American gay adult film star of the early 1990s, famed as a 'power-bottom,' appeared in 58 films, modeled for Madonna's Sex, died of a drug overdose at 26.

Joey Zimmerman

Joey Zimmerman, also credited J. Paul Zimmerman, American actor born 1986 in Albuquerque; child star of Earth 2, Bailey Kipper's P.O.V., and Disney's Halloweentown films as Dylan Piper; distinct from Swiss actor Joey Zimmermann.

Jogi (ಜೋಗಿ)

Jogi (ಜೋಗಿ) is a 2005 Kannada action drama directed by Prem, starring Shivarajkumar as Madesha, a village youth drawn into Bangalore's underworld; a record-setting 2005 Kannada box-office hit with Gurukiran's music.

John Abraham

John Abraham (जॉन अब्राहम), born 1972, is an Indian Hindi-film actor, producer, and former model; debut Jism (2003), breakthrough Dhoom (2004), producer of Vicky Donor; distinct from the 1937-born Malayalam filmmaker of the same name.

John Agar

John Agar was an American film and television actor who began in John Ford's 1940s cavalry Westerns before becoming known for 1950s science fiction films.

John and the Hole

John and the Hole is a 2021 American psychological thriller, Pascual Sisto's directorial debut, written by Nicolás Giacobone from his short story El Pozo, in which 13-year-old John traps his family in a bunker; premiered at Sundance 2021, released by IFC Films.

John Barry (composer)

John Barry Prendergast (1933–2011), York-born English film composer; scored 11 James Bond films and won five Oscars for Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa, and Dances with Wolves.

John Barrymore

John Barrymore, born John Sidney Blyth, was an American stage and screen actor acclaimed for his Broadway Hamlet of 1922 and films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

John Bernecker

John Bernecker (1984-2017) was an American stunt performer with over 90 credits who died falling about 22 feet from a balcony while rehearsing a Walking Dead fight scene; his family won an $8.6 million verdict.

John C. Reilly filmography

John C. Reilly filmography: screen credits of the Chicago-born American actor (born 1965), from Casualties of War (1989) and Paul Thomas Anderson dramas to Chicago, Walk Hard, Wreck-It Ralph, and Stan & Ollie.

John Candy: I Like Me

John Candy: I Like Me is a 2025 Prime Video documentary directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds about comedian John Candy, premiering at TIFF 2025 and titled after his Planes, Trains and Automobiles line.

John Carpenter

John Carpenter (born 1948, Bowling Green, Kentucky) is the American director-composer of Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York, and They Live; since The Ward (2010) he has worked mainly as a musician.

John Carradine

John Carradine (Richmond Reed Carradine, 1906-1988), American character actor of Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath, father of David, Keith, and Robert Carradine, prolific in horror films, never a star.

John Carter (film)

John Carter (2012) is Andrew Stanton's Disney sci-fi film adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, starring Taylor Kitsch; it earned about $284 million worldwide against a $250-307 million budget, causing a $200 million loss.

John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes (1929-1989), American actor and independent filmmaker, husband of Gena Rowlands. Director of Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, and Love Streams, pioneer of American independent cinema.

John Debney

John Debney (born 1956, Glendale, California) is an American film and TV composer, son of Disney producer Louis Debney, known for The Passion of the Christ (Oscar-nominated), Elf, Hocus Pocus, Cutthroat Island, and The Jungle Book (2016), with three Emmy wins.

John Dies at the End (film)

John Dies at the End (2012/2013) is Don Coscarelli's horror-comedy adapting David Wong's novel about Dave and John, dropouts fighting an otherworldly invasion after taking the drug Soy Sauce; Magnet Releasing released it limitedly in January 2013 to mixed reviews.

John Drew Barrymore

John Drew Barrymore (1932–2004), also known as John Barrymore Jr., was an American actor, son of John Barrymore and Dolores Costello and father of Drew Barrymore, whose sporadic film career included While the City Sleeps and High School Confidential.

John Farrow

John Farrow, in full John Villiers Farrow (1904–1963), was an Australian-born Hollywood director of film noir who shared the 1956 Oscar for Around the World in Eighty Days.

John Ford

John Ford (John Martin Feeney, 1894–1973), American film director born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, holder of a record four Best Director Oscars, maker of Stagecoach and The Searchers, Monument Valley westerns, first AFI Life Achievement Award recipient.

John Ford filmography

John Ford filmography: films directed by John Ford (Jack Ford), 1917-1966, over 135 titles including Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers, and the cavalry trilogy; five Academy Awards, none for a Western.

John Franklin (actor)

John Franklin (born 1959, Blue Island, Illinois; birth name John Paul Salapatek) is the American actor who played Isaac in Children of the Corn (1984) and Cousin Itt in The Addams Family films; later a teacher, returning in Hag (2014).

John G. Avildsen

John G. Avildsen (John Guilbert Avildsen, 1935-2017) was an American film director and editor who won the 1977 Oscar for Best Director for Rocky (1976) and directed The Karate Kid (1984) and its first two sequels.

John Getz

John Getz (born 1946, Davenport, Iowa) is an American character actor known for Ray in Blood Simple, Stathis Borans in The Fly and The Fly II, and roles in The Social Network, Zodiac, The Last of Us, and The Pitt.