Stephen Payne

Acting

Stephen Payne

Acting credits

Detachment poster
7.6

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Detachment

2011

Inside Llewyn Davis poster
7.2

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

Inside Llewyn Davis

2013

Compliance poster
6.3

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.

Compliance

2012

Rent poster
6.8

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

Rent

2005

No Mercy poster
5.8

An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.

No Mercy

1986

River of Fundament poster
5.9

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

River of Fundament

2014

A Late Quartet poster
6.7

When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last — only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.

A Late Quartet

2012

Hell's Kitchen poster
5.1

Newly released from jail, an ex-gang member asks a former contender to teach him to box.

Hell's Kitchen

1998

Why Stop Now? poster
5.4

When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.

Why Stop Now?

2012

The Cake Eaters poster
5.5

The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.

The Cake Eaters

2007

Where God Left His Shoes poster
6.8

When Frank, Angela, and their two children are evicted from their New York City apartment, they have no choice but to move into a homeless shelter. After a few difficult months, good news comes their way on Christmas Eve: a nearby housing project has an apartment available immediately-however, Frank needs a job on the books in order to qualify

Where God Left His Shoes

2007

Animal Room poster
5.8

Cynical and intelligent Arnold Mosk, a known drug user, is put into a disciplinary program at his high school meant for the seriously disturbed where he becomes the main target of the psychopathic Doug Van Housen and his gang.

Animal Room

1995

Bluebird poster
5.7

On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.

Bluebird

2014

Shoot First And Pray You Live poster
3.8

Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father

Shoot First And Pray You Live

2008

The Undiscovered Country poster
1.0

A young woman investigates her mother's secret past — by following her ghost.

The Undiscovered Country

2019

Nadja Yet poster
7.0

Nadja Yet is a story of obsessive teen love, adapted from Turgenev, and starred Jenny Wright.

Nadja Yet

1983