Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an American actor. His early credits consist of significant roles in independent film productions such as Parting Glances (1986), Mystery Train (1989), In the Soup (1992), and his breakout role as Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992). Buscemi has appeared in both independent and mainstream films, including Living in Oblivion (1995), Desperado (1995), Con Air (1997), Armageddon (1998), Ghost World (2001), Big Fish (2003), and The Death of Stalin (2017).
Buscemi has often collaborated with the Coen brothers, appearing in Miller’s Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), and The Big Lebowski (1998). He also appeared in supporting or cameo roles in many films with Adam Sandler, including Airheads (1994), Billy Madison (1995), The Wedding Singer (1998), Mr. Deeds (2002), and Hubie Halloween (2020). He provided voice acting roles in the animated films Monsters, Inc. (2001), The Boss Baby (2017), and Transformers One (2024). Buscemi also directed the films Trees Lounge (1996), Animal Factory (2000), and Interview (2007).
Buscemi has also had an extensive career in television, notably starring in the lead role of Enoch “Nucky” Thompson in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). His performance earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe and two nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award. His other television roles include Lonesome Dove (1989), The Sopranos (2004, 2006), 30 Rock (2007–2013), Horace and Pete (2016), and Miracle Workers (2019–2023).
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Steve Buscemi Movies
Discover the best Steve Buscemi movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Steve Buscemi ranked by year and score.
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Wild Horse Nine (2026)
Comedy
Crime
Thriller
Easter Island, 1973. Two intelligence officers arrive under murky circumstances, their exile dressed up as routine reassignment. The island's isolation becomes a pressure cooker where old resentments surface and professional...
Score
-.-
2
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026)
Crime
Thriller
Harry Lehman's obsolete skills have made him a relic in a cashless Manhattan. The aging pickpocket steals to keep his disabled wife afloat, but a careless lift of the wrong...
Score
-.-
3
Klara and the Sun (2026)
Comedy
Drama
Science Fiction
When an artificial companion named Klara arrives in a grieving household, she observes human emotion with patient curiosity rather than programmed responses. Josie, a lonely teenager, finds herself unexpectedly drawn...
Score
-.-
4
Don’t Say Good Luck (2026)
Comedy
Drama
Music
Sophie Birenbaum has finally landed the role she's been dreaming of in her high school's musical production. But as opening night approaches, personal turmoil at home begins to overshadow her...
Score
7.0
5
Animal Farm (2026)
Animation
Comedy
Drama
When the animals of Manor Farm overthrow their human master, they envision a utopia of shared prosperity and mutual respect. Yet power corrupts swiftly. The pigs, claiming superior intellect, consolidate...
Score
6.4
6
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
Comedy
Years have passed since Happy Gilmore shocked the golf world and rode off into comfortable retirement. Now, with a daughter who has inherited his stubborn passion, except hers runs toward...
Score
6.5
7
Transformers One (2024)
Adventure
Animation
Family
Before they became icons of their warring factions, Optimus Prime and Megatron shared an unbreakable bond on Cybertron. This animated prequel traces how two inseparable friends diverged into bitter enemies,...
Score
8.0
8
Hubie Halloween (2020)
Comedy
Horror
Mystery
In Salem, Massachusetts, Hubie Dubois is the town's most ridiculed resident, forever overshadowed by his elaborate Halloween enthusiasm. When genuine supernatural threats begin haunting the holiday season, Hubie's obsessive knowledge...
Score
5.9
9
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Comedy
Drama
Scott's life has been on pause since his father's death in childhood. Now in his mid-twenties, he drifts through Staten Island days smoking weed with his crew and dreaming half-heartedly...
Score
7.0
10
Lean on Pete (2018)
Adventure
Drama
Western
A drifter kid bonds with a worn-out racehorse destined for the killing floor. Rather than accept that fate, Charley steals the animal and hits the road, the two of them...
Score
6.9
11
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Comedy
Drama
History
Stalin's sudden death leaves a vacuum in Soviet power, and his inner circle erupts into vicious competition for control. What unfolds is a darkly comic ballet of ambition, paranoia, and...
Score
7.0
12
Time Out of Mind (2015)
Drama
George wakes up on the street with nothing but the weight of his own failures. An eviction leaves him adrift in New York's sprawl, moving between shelters and back alleys...
Score
5.6
13
Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Comedy
Lenny brings his family back to his hometown, where a reunion with old friends coincides with the chaos of the final school day. As their kids run wild and nostalgia...
Score
6.2
14
Monsters University (2013)
Animation
Comedy
Family
Before Monsters, Inc. became the company we know, Mike Wazowski and Sulley were rival students at Monsters University, separated by ambition and personality. Their unexpected partnership forces them to confront...
Score
7.1
15
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
Comedy
When a washed-up Vegas illusionist loses both his stage partner and his audience to a flashy street performer, he must confront the emptiness behind his sequined persona. Burt Wonderstone's carefully...
Score
5.7
16
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Animation
Comedy
Family
Dracula runs the ultimate monster getaway, a five-star resort where creatures of the night celebrate away from prying human eyes. When his daughter Mavis turns 118, the Count assembles a...
Score
7.0
17
On the Road (2012)
Adventure
Drama
When Dean Moriarty bursts into Sal Paradise's static life with charisma and recklessness, the young writer discovers a partner in restlessness. Together they chase across America in search of something...
Score
5.6
18
Rampart (2011)
Crime
Drama
Dave Brown has been bending the rules of the LAPD for so long he no longer recognizes them as rules at all. Set against the smoldering aftermath of the Rampart...
Score
5.5
19
The Messenger (2009)
Drama
Romance
A battle-hardened sergeant returns from Iraq only to face a different kind of combat: delivering death notifications to military families. Paired with a seasoned captain, he finds himself drawn to...
Score
6.8
20
Delirious (2007)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Les haunts the sidewalks of New York with a camera, chasing celebrities for the kind of fame he can only photograph. When he takes in Toby, a directionless young drifter...
Score
6.4
21
Charlotte’s Web (2006)
Comedy
Family
Fantasy
A young pig faces an uncertain fate as autumn approaches, but discovers an unlikely savior in Charlotte, a clever spider who shares his barn. Through acts of literary brilliance, Charlotte...
Score
6.2
22
Monster House (2006)
Animation
Comedy
Family
When a dilapidated Victorian mansion across the street begins exhibiting signs of sinister life, three resourceful teenagers realize they're not dealing with supernatural rumors but something far more tangible. What...
Score
6.7
23
The Island (2005)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Lincoln Six-Echo lives inside what appears to be a perfectly ordered sanctuary, a sealed world where every meal, every movement, every hope is managed for him. The grand prize for...
Score
6.7
24
Big Fish (2003)
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Edward Bloom has spent a lifetime spinning yarns about his past, each story more elaborate than the last. As illness brings father and son closer, William sifts through decades of...
Score
7.8
25
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Animation
Comedy
Family
In the city of Monstropolis, screams are currency, and Sulley and Mike Wazowski are the best in the business of harvesting them. But when a tiny human girl named Boo...
Score
7.8
26
Ghost World (2001)
Comedy
Drama
Enid and Rebecca share the kind of friendship built on mutual disdain for the world around them, until a cruel joke played on an obsessive vinyl collector backfires in unexpected...
Score
7.1
27
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Action
Adventure
Animation
In a ravaged future Earth overrun by phantom alien entities, scientist Aki Ross is haunted by visions she cannot explain but refuses to ignore. Guided by the elder physicist Dr....
Score
6.2
28
28 Days (2000)
Comedy
Drama
A wedding day drunk driving incident offers Gwen Cummings an ultimatum: prison or treatment. She picks the rehab clinic, convinced this is a formality for someone who simply enjoys a...
Score
6.2
29
Armageddon (1998)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
An asteroid the size of Texas is eighteen days from ending all life on Earth, and NASA's best plan involves a roughneck oil driller named Harry Stamper. He gets to...
Score
6.8
30
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Comedy
Crime
Jeff Lebowski wants nothing more from life than a good bowling lane and a cold White Russian. When a pair of thugs mistake him for a wheelchair-bound millionaire who shares...
Score
7.8
31
Con Air (1997)
Action
Crime
Thriller
Cameron Poe has paid his debt and earned parole, but his journey home takes a sinister turn when the prison transport plane carrying him becomes a airborne battleground. A coalition...
Score
6.8
32
Trees Lounge (1996)
Comedy
Drama
Tommy's life has bottomed out. Unemployed and heartbroken, he drifts through days at Trees Lounge, a dive bar where the other regulars are equally adrift. A gig driving an ice...
Score
6.9
33
Fargo (1996)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Jerry Lundegaard is a desperate man with a foolproof idea: hire two criminals to kidnap his own wife and split the ransom money from his wealthy father-in-law. Naturally, things go...
Score
7.8
34
Desperado (1995)
Action
Crime
Thriller
A guitar case full of guns and a heart full of grief will take El Mariachi deep into the lawless borderlands where a cartel kingpin named Bucho runs everything with...
Score
6.9
35
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Comedy
Caught in the chaos of his shoestring indie production, director Nick Reve navigates a minefield of artistic egos, technical incompetence, and existential dread. His lead actress doubts every line, his...
Score
7.2
36
Billy Madison (1995)
Comedy
At 27, Billy Madison has coasted through life on his father's hotel fortune, doing absolutely nothing to earn it. When the old man threatens to hand the business to a...
Score
6.2
37
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Comedy
Crime
Thriller
Los Angeles low-lifes, fixers, and fighters keep crossing paths in Quentin Tarantino's fractured portrait of crime as everyday routine. A pair of chatty hitmen, a mob boss's restless wife, and...
Score
8.5
38
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Crime
Thriller
When a jewelry store heist goes catastrophically wrong, five color-coded criminals converge on a rendezvous warehouse with no diamonds, one wounded man bleeding out on the floor, and a single...
Score
8.1
39
Barton Fink (1991)
Comedy
Drama
Thriller
Celebrated Manhattan playwright Barton Fink arrives in Los Angeles expecting artistic freedom and finds a sweating, peeling hotel room instead. Hired to write a wrestling picture he has no interest...
Score
7.5
40
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Prohibition-era politics makes for ugly business in an unnamed American city where crime boss Leo O'Bannon rules through patronage and carefully maintained alliances. When his sharp, quietly dangerous advisor Tom...
Score
7.5
41
King of New York (1990)
Crime
Thriller
Frank White walks out of prison with nothing but ambition and a philosophy. Back on the streets of New York, he systematically dismantles every rival operation in his path, funneling...
Score
6.8
42
Mystery Train (1989)
Comedy
Jim Jarmusch corrals five separate narratives into one Memphis night at the Arcade Hotel, where a deadpan clerk and befuddled bellboy preside over colliding strangers. A Japanese couple pilgrimage to...
Score
7.3
Steve Buscemi TV Shows
Browse the ultimate list of Steve Buscemi TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Steve Buscemi.
1
Wednesday (2022)
Comedy
Mystery
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Nevermore Academy is not exactly a warm place, but Wednesday Addams prefers it that way. Expelled from every school that came before, she arrives at this institution for outcasts with...
Score
8.3
2
Miracle Workers (2019)
Comedy
Drama
Each season drops viewers into a different era, where misfits and rebels grapple with timeless human struggles: finding love, questioning belief, defying convention, stepping beyond comfortable boundaries. From heaven's bureaucracy...
Score
6.8
3
Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Crime
Drama
Atlantic City, 1920. The moment Prohibition takes effect, it creates not a dry nation but an extraordinarily wet opportunity. Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson, the city's treasurer, understands this better than anyone....
Score
8.0
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Steve Buscemi?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Steve Buscemi are Wild Horse Nine, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and Klara and the Sun.
How many movies and TV shows has Steve Buscemi starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 45 titles starring Steve Buscemi, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Steve Buscemi worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Steve Buscemi maintains a strong average user rating of 6.9 out of 10 across all tracked titles.