Joe Lisi
Also Known As: Joe Lissi , Captain Joe Lisi
Biography: Joe Lisi (born September 9, 1950), also credited as Joe Lissi, is an American television actor. He appeared in the NBC television show Third Watch as NYPD Lieutenant Swersky from 2000 to 2005. He also appeared on the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Craig Lennon, a parole officer and briefly appeared in the 1995 comedy/crime film The Jerky Boys: The Movie as a construction worker.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 09, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Safe Passage
Overview: Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her children is involved in an explosion while on duty in the Middle East, Mag must rexamine everything she cherishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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Quiz Show
Overview: Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
Genres: History Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-25
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Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace
Overview: Both sides of the law hunt Costabile 'Gus' Farace for slaying a federal drug agent in 1989 New York.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-24
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Traces of Red
Overview: Jack, a Palm Beach detective, becomes involved in a case of multiple murders. All the women can be linked to Jack in some way. Jack and his partner have no leads, but numerous suspects. The murders continue, along with anonymous letters from the killer.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-13
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Overview: Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living with his new family for years, Hank announces that he's getting a sex change operation. The family deserts Hank, with Jessica going her own way and Sebastian staying with his mom. But Joan becomes an alcoholic, so Sebastian moves back in with Hank — now Henrietta — who turns out to be far more supportive than anyone else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Criminal Justice
Overview: A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused is offered a deal if he pleads guilty. Is he as innocent as the victim? Is the justice system guiltier than both?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-08
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Code of Ethics
Overview: The administrator of a medical company is forced to match wits with a serial killer, who targets people who commit insurance fraud with the State's Medicaid system.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-07
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Taxi
Overview: A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-06
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High School Narc
Overview: 22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner-city high school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-04
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15 Minutes
Overview: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Forever, Lulu
Overview: When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a famous writer. After a brief stint at a mundane job, Elaine falls on hard times and also becomes intrigued by a mysterious stranger named Lulu. Before long, Elaine gets roped into situations involving theft, murder and the mob. Can the beleaguered expatriate with big dreams turn her life around and steer clear of crime and chaos?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-13
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Beatbox
Overview: A talented musician, about to trade his dreams for a safe career in his girlfriend's family business, finds his voice, but loses the girl, when a mysterious record label owner introduced him to a group of Brooklyn beatboxers.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-15
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Man on a Ledge
Overview: An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-13
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Joe's War
Overview: After two tours of duty, Joe's life unravels as he waits for PTSD treatment.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-17
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Marvin's Room
Overview: A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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The Jerky Boys
Overview: When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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Kiss of Death
Overview: Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened. The job is for Little Junior Brown, a violent and powerful villain. When things go wrong, Jimmy is left to do the time, and his whole life is turned upside-down, but if that wasn't enough, the cops won't leave Jimmy alone when he gets out... They want Little Junior Brown.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Summer of Sam
Overview: During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-28
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For Love of the Game
Overview: A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Yinz
Overview: The lives of three upper class teenagers are turned upside down by an unexpected murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-05
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Synecdoche, New York
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Who's the Man?
Overview: Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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The Yards
Overview: In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-27
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Overview: A female prosecutor notices a woman in a plastic surgeon's waiting room who looks strikingly like a girl who was murdered more than ten years earlier. An investigation into the plastic surgeon grows more bizarre by the minute, as the prosecutor unravels a ten year old mystery involving betrayal and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-26
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Overview: Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-13
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Out of the Darkness
Overview: A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked New York in the 70s.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-12
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Come See the Paradise
Overview: In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Triangle Fire
Overview: The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-01
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Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
Overview: A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-15
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Happiness
Overview: The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-11
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Searching for Bobby D
Overview: Four young filmmakers raise money for their project by telling potential investors that DeNiro is on board. Now they have to find him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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