Joe Russo

Joe Russo

1971-07-18 Cleveland, Ohio, USA 55 Credits

Biography

Joe Russo (born July 18, 1971) is an American filmmaker with his brother, Anthony Russo, collectively known as the Russo brothers (/ˈruːsoʊ/ ROO-soh). They direct most of their work together. They are best known for directing four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War(2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Endgame grossed over $2.798 billion worldwide, briefly becoming the highest-grossing...

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Avengers: Secret Wars

Avengers: Secret Wars

2027

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

An upcoming film in Phase 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the finale of The Multiverse Saga. Plot TBA.

Avengers: Doomsday

Avengers: Doomsday

2026

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

The Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, and X-Men all fight against Doctor Doom. Plot TBA.

The Legend of Ochi

The Legend of Ochi

2025

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri di...

Something's More Than One Thing

Something's More Than One Thing

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

To save their relationship, a young couple dive down a rabbit hole of conflicting internet advice.

The Electric State

The Electric State

2025

as Skeevy Bot (voice)

6.5
Acting

An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.

The Electric State

The Electric State

2025

Producer, Director

6.5
Producing Directing

An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.

Modern Masters: SS Rajamouli

Modern Masters: SS Rajamouli

2024

as Self

8.0
Acting

Highlights Rajamouli’s influence on Indian and international cinema, with interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

The Progeny

The Progeny

2023

Thanks

7.0

A stranger warns a young man about the perils of time. A short film created for AGBO's "No Sleep 'Till Film Fest 2023".

All Fun and Games

All Fun and Games

2023

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

A group of Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where ther...

Extraction 2

Extraction 2

2023

Writer, Original Story, Producer

7.4
Writing Producing

Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangst...

The Gray Man

The Gray Man

2022

as CIA DDO Fine

6.9
Acting

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head...

The Gray Man

The Gray Man

2022

Screenplay, Director, Producer

6.9
Writing Directing Producing

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head...

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

Producer

7.8
Producing

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could...

Cherry

Cherry

2021

as Restaurant Owner

7.3
Acting

Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life...

Cherry

Cherry

2021

Director, Producer

7.3
Directing Producing

Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life...

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

2020

as Self - Co-Director, Avengers: Infinity War & Avengers: Endgame

8.1
Acting

A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy.

Relic

Relic

2020

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered ...

Extraction

Extraction

2020

Original Story, Screenplay, Producer

7.3
Writing Producing

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son...

21 Bridges

21 Bridges

2019

Producer

6.8
Producing

An embattled NYPD detective, is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the ...

Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction

Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction

2019

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

The remarkable true story of three animal species rescued from the brink of extinction: California’s enchanting Channel Island Fox, China’s fabled Gol...

Mosul

Mosul

2019

Producer

6.7
Producing

When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWA...

Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame

2019

as Grieving Man

8.2
Acting

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini...

Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame

2019

Director

8.2
Directing

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini...

Dizzy Pursuit

Dizzy Pursuit

2018

Executive Producer

Producing

A young couple receives unwanted visits from family members while trying to cast their independent feature film.

Assassination Nation

Assassination Nation

2018

Producer

6.3
Producing

After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four...

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Infinity War

2018

Director

8.2
Directing

As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from ...

Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War

2016

as Dr. Broussard

7.4
Acting

Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarize...

Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War

2016

Director

7.4
Directing

Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarize...

A Merry Friggin' Christmas

A Merry Friggin' Christmas

2014

Producer

5.4
Producing

Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hi...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

2014

as Dr. Fine

7.7
Acting

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adju...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

2014

Director

7.7
Directing

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adju...

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

2014

as Self

6.9
Acting

A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel...

Ghost Phone

Ghost Phone

2013

Production Consultant

6.0

William Pierce (Nelson Franklin) is a practical, rational man who suddenly finds himself face to face with the paranormal when he starts receiving pho...

The Arrested Development Documentary Project

The Arrested Development Documentary Project

2013

as Self

5.7
Acting

Featuring interviews from major cast and crew members, along with 200 fans from across the country, this documentary tells the whole story of this ama...

Leader of the Pack

Leader of the Pack

2012

Executive Producer

2.0
Producing

A dark comedy that takes place in suburban America. Doug has landed his dream gig - he is about to join the Venture Scouts (a Boy-Scout-like organizat...

Carfuckers

2008

Director

3.0
Directing

A film about what really happens during those long waits at the garage and the 'truth' about why men 'love' cars.

No. 6

No. 6

2007

Executive Producer

2.0
Producing

A mysterious man seeks redemption from his dangerous past in a young Ukrainian sex slave and their startling shared discovery.

Crashing

Crashing

2007

Executive Producer

4.6
Producing

It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer'...

You, Me and Dupree

You, Me and Dupree

2006

as Personnel Manager

5.6
Acting

After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, becomes a barfly and attaches himself to the newlywed...

You, Me and Dupree

You, Me and Dupree

2006

Director

5.6
Directing

After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, becomes a barfly and attaches himself to the newlywed...

Welcome to Collinwood

Welcome to Collinwood

2002

Director, Screenplay

6.1
Directing Writing

Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

The Kiss

The Kiss

2001

Director, Writer, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

With his radio blaring Three Dog Night's "Never Been to Spain," a shirtless man lounges on the hood of his sporty car; he smokes a cigarette as he str...

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

2000

Associate Producer

6.5
Producing
Pieces

Pieces

1997

Acting

Cops and crooks hound three brothers operating a wig clinic as a front for illegal activity.

Pieces

Pieces

1997

Writer, Director, Producer

Writing Directing Producing

Cops and crooks hound three brothers operating a wig clinic as a front for illegal activity.

The Bluff

N/A

Producer

Producing

Set in the 19th-century Caribbean, a former female pirate must protect her family when the mysterious sins of her past catch up to her. 

SuperFudge

N/A

Producer

Producing

Twelve-year-old Peter Hatcher almost has it all — two boomer parents, a perfect though slightly odorous turtle, his very own bedroom in a cramped Manh...

Past Midnight

N/A

Producer

Producing

A vigilante superhero film.

Gods Unknown

N/A

Producer

Producing

Set in Central Africa, a burgeoning political-religious movement spearheaded by a warlord rumoured to possess supernatural powers is said to be gainin...

Down Under Cover

N/A

Producer

Producing

A detective teams up with a lone wolf cop to investigate a string of robberies where the prime suspects are a group of male erotic dancers from Austra...

Exit West

Exit West

N/A

Producer

Producing

A young refugee couple from a war-torn country hears rumours that there are doors in the city they live that serve as portals to other destinations.

Untitled Cambridge Antalytica Project

N/A

Producer

Producing

Centered around Christopher Wylie, the pink-haired data consultant who hatched the idea of Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that illegally h...

Saigon Bodyguards

N/A

Producer

Producing

Two pals, one a straight arrow and the other a doof, who try to find a corporate heir who got kidnapped right under their noses.

Untitled FBI Wedding Sting Film

N/A

Producer

Producing

A mismatched partner of two undercover FBI agents with radically different styles is forced to pretend to cohabitate. Initially, they detest one anoth...

The Whisper Man

N/A

Producer

Producing

When his 8-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discov...