From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Aaron "Joe" Carnahan (born May 9, 1969) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his films Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, Narc, Smokin' Aces and The A-Team. He is the brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan.
Hurricane winds capsize a fishing boat 70 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Four friends find themselves in icy water, and a strong storm prevents rescuers from even getting close to those in distress. The crew faces an extreme test of teamwork and endurance with one goal - to defeat the elements... and themselves.
Release Date: 2025-05-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
Release Date: 2021-09-09
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 791
A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.
Release Date: 2021-02-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Customer at the Chinese Restaurant (uncredited)
Vote Count: 1658
Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.
Release Date: 2020-01-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 8349
With an honest job and a loving wife, Nick Brenner believed he had safely escaped his violent, criminal history. But his old crew hasn't forgotten about him or the money he stole, and when they take what Nick now values the most - his wife - he has nothing left to lose. Confronted by the town sheriff, who is also his father-in-law, Nick must decide if he will stay on his new path or indulge in his need for revenge and force his enemies to pay for what they have done.
Release Date: 2019-07-19
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 74
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Release Date: 2019-07-12
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 545
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Release Date: 2019-05-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 79
Actor and fight enthusiast Frank Grillo travels the world, immersing himself in different fight cultures to understand their traditions and motivations.
Release Date: 2018-10-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 16
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
Release Date: 2018-03-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2584
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
Release Date: 2017-10-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 635
Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job - protecting her nation, serving her president and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.
Release Date: 2014-11-17
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 69
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
Release Date: 2014-10-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 657
A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition - seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema - a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.
Release Date: 2014-08-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 9
Follows Catherine Jensen, a recently promoted homicide detective who enlists the help of Thomas Schaeffer, a forensic psychologist, to track down serial killers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother.
Release Date: 2014-03-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 34
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
Release Date: 2013-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 3218
Every great London crime boss has a tragic beginning. This is Marcus' story.
Release Date: 2012-04-26
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 1
Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. But a brutal storm causes their plane to crash in the frozen wilderness, and only eight men, including Ottway, survive. As they trek southward toward civilization and safety, Ottway and his companions must battle mortal injuries, the icy elements, and a pack of hungry wolves.
Release Date: 2012-01-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3856
A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.
Release Date: 2010-06-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Mike "The Operator"
Vote Count: 4662
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
Release Date: 2010-01-19
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 276
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
Release Date: 2009-11-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1727
No director-composer collaboration has been more seminal to motion pictures than the partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. In this documentary we examine the long and sometimes painful partnership that produced unforgettable musical scores for such films as Vertigo, Psycho, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Release Date: 2008-10-07
Character: Self
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
Release Date: 2008-09-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 881
An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madsen, 'Hal Holbrook', John Milius, 'Shane Black' and John Badham.
Release Date: 2008-07-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 4
Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films.
Release Date: 2008-07-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
An unflinching look at the ongoing debate on violence in movies and its effect on the audience.
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Release Date: 2006-12-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1672
A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has influenced their work. Jon Favreau, Allan and Albert Hughes, Joe Carnahan, Richard Linklater, Antoine Fuqua and Frank Darabont are interviewed about the film.
Release Date: 2004-08-17
Character: Self
The Driver drives a wounded diplomat, who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by a bullet, causing a display on it to begin counting down, and it to leak an unknown fluid from the bullet hole. The Driver manages to destroy his pursuers, but refuses to proceed without knowing the contents of the damaged briefcase. It is revealed that the diplomat guards a human heart for a peacekeeper, whose life is needed for the continued freedom of the people. The case is delivered, and the tyrant is forced to give up his attempt to take the country by force. The Driver leaves for another mission.
Release Date: 2002-11-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 66
When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.
Release Date: 2002-01-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 523
Charlie and his best friend Jimmy are making a film and dream of becoming big-time Hollywood directors. When Charlie’s father finds an old ventriloquist’s doll named Felix among his late mother’s belongings, Charlie and Jimmy cast the doll as the creepy antagonist. Through a chain of increasingly sinister and disturbing events the family discovers that Felix has a mind of his own and it’s up to Charlie and Jimmy to rid their family of an ominous force.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
An estranged husband and wife with a bounty on their heads who must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer – a unit of shadow ops that has been sent to kill them.
Department: Directing
Job: Director
To keep their struggling used-car dealership from closing, salesmen Sid and Bob agree to let a vintage 1963 Pontiac LeMans sit on their lot for two days in return for $250,000. Warned that the vehicle has been associated with many deaths already, Sid and Bob are soon pursued by hitman Mr. Reich and FBI Agent Jared, among others. As violence surrounds them, Sid talks his partner into stealing the car for a $500,000 ransom.
Release Date: 1998-10-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Sid French
Vote Count: 17
Trust among a group of Miami cops begins to fray upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything is called into question — including who they can rely on.
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
A short Universal promo regarding the works of Alfred Hitchcock.
Release Date: 2009-11-24
Character: Self
Alfred Hitchcock often referred to his style of film making as "pure cinema" — using camera movement, editing, music and sound to tell stories that would be impossible in any other medium. This in-depth documentary allows directors such as William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro to examine the power and mastery of Hitchcock's cinematic style.
Release Date: 2008-10-07
Character: Self
Films beget films. Filmmakers influence other filmmakers constantly. But the most influential filmmaker of all time is Alfred Hitchcock.
Release Date: 2008-10-07
Character: Self
Vote Count: 3
Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Character: Self
Vote Count: 3
Federal Prosecutor John Robson lives in Sherman Oaks with his young family. He is driven, brilliant and intuitive. Robson is fiercely certain that there is a link between all the crime factions in L.A., and that there is one overlord whose capture will topple them all. Despite losing support from the FBI, despite the nagging doubt of his assistant prosecutor, Diana Palos, and despite the mounting pressure from his wife to spend more time with their family, Robson won't back down from his conviction and set the wheels in motion, not for the first time, to try to get to the top via one of the middlemen, Lucas Reynosa. Before he can close the deal with Reynosa, however, Robson is brutally beaten, shot in the head, thrown into the river and left for dead - but manages to reach a phone for help and winds up in a hospital, where, after being in a coma for three months and learning that his family has been killed, he emerges, a new man with an old agenda: Eddie Pray.
Release Date: 2006-03-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
BMW Films presents "The Hire", a series of nine short films produced for the Internet in 2001 and 2002, with a ninth short film following in 2016. A form of branded content, all nine short films feature popular filmmakers from across the globe, star Clive Owen as the "Driver", and highlight the performance aspects of various BMW automobiles.
Release Date: 2001-04-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 17
A rambuctious ride thru American culture. The nouveau-riche meet The Prince of Darkness in this outlandish fable for the politically incorrect.A family's holiday weekend is turned upside-down in this wicked comedy from filmmaker Leon Corcos
Release Date: 1996-01-28
Department: Production
Job: Co-Producer
Vote Count: 1
Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.
Release Date: 1995-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
After his father is killed by a Mexican drug cartel, a man runs a successful political campaign to clean up his area, though doing so will require staying one step ahead of the people who want him gone.
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Character: Self