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It is not so easy to choose the most interesting films with Stallone, because there are dozens of films in his filmography, on which more than one generation has grown up. Some iconic series, like “Rambo” and “Rocky”, continue to this day. Therefore, it was difficult to choose, but we still managed.
We present you a complete list of films starring Sylvester Stallone: a rating of the 10 best films with the participation of a talented actor (action, drama and comedy).
10 Creed (2015)
The plot of the sports dramaKrid“Tells about the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed – Adonis, who was raised by Creed’s wife, although he is not her own. Tired of work, Adonis decides to quit everything and do boxing not just for the soul, but professionally, in the dream of becoming a champion like his father. To do this, he goes to Philadelphia to Rocky Balboa, Apollo’s best friend and rival. The Italian stallion was left all alone, having buried Polly, so, although reluctantly, he nevertheless agrees to become the guy’s trainer.
Directed by Ryan Coogler and written by Coogler himself and Aaron Covington, the film received critical acclaim, calling it the best Rocky series in years. No wonder it was chosen by the National Film Council as one of the top ten films of 2015.
Stallone was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his first nomination since the original film. It also won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe for the same nomination.
9. Oscar (1991)
In film “Oscar” starred Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Ornella Muti, Tim Curry and Chazz Palminteri, and the main “trick” of the picture – Stallone is trying to play a comedic role. It’s not perfect, but overall it’s pretty good.
In the prologue, gangster Angelo “Snaps” Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) promises his dying father (Kirk Douglas) that he will give up his life of crime and become a law-abiding citizen. A month later, Snaps is preparing to meet with several prominent bankers, as he hopes to donate a large amount of money and join the bank’s board of trustees, thus getting an honest job, as promised to his father.
Anthony Rossano (Vincent Spano), Angelo’s young good-natured accountant, arrives at the mansion and tells his boss that he is in love and asks for a 250% pay raise. He then reveals that his fiancee is actually the boss’s daughter. Snaps is furious as he doesn’t want his daughter to marry Anthony and goes to talk to his daughter Lisa. From this moment the most interesting begins, because Lisa announces her pregnancy, but not from Anthony, but from the driver. It will be difficult for the gangster to understand this situation, but he will manage. With irony and humor.
8. Flight to Victory (1981)
This American sports-military drama was directed by John Huston and starred Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow. Movie “Flight to victoryreceived a lot of attention upon release, as it also featured professional football players Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deina, Paul Van Himst, Mike Summerbee, Hallvar Thoresen, Werner Roth and even the legendary Pelé. The film also featured many Ipswich Town players including John Wark, Russell Osman, Laurie Sivell, Robin Turner and Kevin O’Callaghan.
In the story, a football team of Allied prisoners of war, coached and led by English captain John Colby (Michael Caine), a professional footballer from West Ham United, agree to play an exhibition match against the Germans. Not only victory is at stake, but also life, because the Nazis do not want to disgrace themselves and lose to a handful of prisoners.
7. Tango and Cash (1989)
Lieutenants Raymond Tango and Gabriel Cash are considered two of the best cops in Los Angeles. They are opposites in almost every way and constantly compete, as both consider themselves the best.
Against their will, they will have to work together when the boss of the drug cartel sets them up, hanging murder on a couple.
«Tango and Cash“- this is the rare case when Stallone plays not so much a tough guy as an intellectual.
6. Turyaga (1989)
Frank Leone, an experienced mechanic in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a model prisoner and near the end of his sentence at Norwood, a maximum security prison. He sometimes spends time outside of prison in his garage, fixing cars, playing football and hanging out with his girlfriend Melissa.
One night, as he sleeps in his cell, the guards arrive and forcibly take Leone to a brutal maximum security prison run by Chief Drumgool. Drumgool explains to him that he set this up in retaliation for a past incident in which Leone escaped from Drumgool’s previous post of Treadmore Prison and told the press about how Drumgool treated his prisoners. Now the ruthless jailer wants to make Leone’s life hell in his “tyurage».
5. Rock climber (1993)
Action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner. The film follows Gabe (played by Stallone, who co-wrote the script), a mountaineer who becomes embroiled in a robbery of a US Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains.
The film earned $255 million worldwide, although it was initially a success”rock climberFew believed.
4. Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Seven years after his discharge, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo travels on foot to visit an old comrade, only to learn that his friend has died of cancer. Rambo continues to travel and wanders into the small town of Hope in Washington, where he is intercepted by city sheriff Will Thistle, who considers Rambo an unwanted person in “his” city. When John asks for directions to the diner, Teasle kicks him out of town and tells him not to come back. When Rambo does return, the sheriff arrests him on charges of vagrancy, resisting arrest, and carrying bladed weapons.
At the precinct, the cops taunt him, evoking memories of the torture he endured during his captivity in Vietnam, so John escapes by beating up the officers. He hides in the mountains, alone and without supplies, and the entire state police are hunting him. However, this small army of Rambo does not frighten at all, since it was not he who shed the first blood.
3. Destroyer (1993)
Film “Destroyertells the story of two men: an evil crime boss and a risky cop. Cryogenically frozen in 1996, they are reanimated in 2032 to find that the bulk of society has changed and all crime has apparently been eliminated.
There have been no murders for many years and the police do not even know how to catch real criminals, so the bandit from the 90s in the new world manages to quickly terrify everyone. Only a policeman from the same time knows how to stop him.
2. Cops (1997)
American neo-noir police drama tells about corruption and permissiveness in the ranks of officers. Written and directed by James Mangold perfectly portrayed the danger posed by werewolves in uniform, and the lead actor Sylvester Stallone did an excellent job of portraying a man who decided to defy lawlessness.
Also in “policemenstarred such stars as Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro.
1. Rocky (1976)
In 1975, world heavyweight boxing champion Apollo Creed announces plans to hold a title fight in Philadelphia to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States. However, five weeks after the fight, he is informed that his opponent is out due to a hand injury. Creed decides to make things right by giving a local amateur boxer a chance to challenge him.
Creed chooses Rocky Balboa, who fights mostly in small gyms and works as a fundraiser for a local loan shark. Thus begins the greatest boxing saga in the history of world cinema.