Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With John Ortiz

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, Dann Florek

Votes: 124,779

2. Law & Order (1990– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

New York's finest police detectives and prosecutors fight to make the city a safer place. With integrity as the guiding force from investigation to verdict, the teams weigh every perspective in their commitment to finding justice.

Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, Sam Waterston

Votes: 44,535

3. Will Trent (2023– )

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama

Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.

Stars: Ramón Rodríguez, Erika Christensen, Iantha Richardson, Jake McLaughlin

Votes: 17,215

4. American Fiction (2023)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama

A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.

Director: Cord Jefferson | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander

Votes: 74,713

5. The Fallout (2021)

R | 96 min | Drama

High schooler Vada navigates the emotional fallout she experiences in the wake of a school tragedy. Relationships with her family, friends and view of the world are forever altered.

Director: Megan Park | Stars: Jenna Ortega, Maddie Ziegler, Niles Fitch, Will Ropp

Votes: 33,656

6. The Handmaid's Tale (2017– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, O-T Fagbenle

Votes: 257,812

7. Kong: Skull Island (2017)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After the Vietnam war, a team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong and must fight to escape a primal Eden.

Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly

Votes: 348,050 | Gross: $168.05M

8. CSI: Miami (2002–2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An elite unit, led by an ex-homicide cop, which is linked to the Miami-Dade Police Department, uses all possible resources and skills at their disposal to solve complex crimes in cross-cultural Miami.

Stars: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Rex Linn

Votes: 61,176

9. Medium (2005–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Suburban mom Allison DuBois attempts to balance family life with solving mysteries using her special gift. The dead send her visions of their deaths or other crimes while she sleeps.

Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 31,106

10. American Gangster (2007)

R | 157 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin

Votes: 452,365 | Gross: $130.16M

11. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver

Votes: 742,545 | Gross: $132.09M

12. Better Things (2016–2022)

TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy, Drama

An actress raises her three daughters while juggling the pressures of working in Hollywood and being a single parent.

Stars: Pamela Adlon, Mikey Madison, Hannah Riley, Olivia Edward

Votes: 18,018

13. Fast & Furious (2009)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Brian O'Conner, back working for the FBI in Los Angeles, teams up with Dominic Toretto to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation.

Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster

Votes: 311,073 | Gross: $155.06M

14. Bumblebee (I) (2018)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. On the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, Charlie Watson discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken.

Director: Travis Knight | Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Jason Drucker

Votes: 188,382 | Gross: $127.20M

15. Poolman (2023)

100 min | Comedy, Mystery

Darren Barrenman is an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.

Director: Chris Pine | Stars: Chris Pine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito

Votes: 135

16. Furious 6 (2013)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets sidetracked with facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.

Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez

Votes: 416,746 | Gross: $238.68M

17. Carlito's Way (1993)

R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo

Votes: 232,286 | Gross: $36.95M

18. Ad Astra (2019)

PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland

Votes: 260,376 | Gross: $50.19M

19. Pride and Glory (2008)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A 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.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Noah Emmerich, Jon Voight

Votes: 63,260 | Gross: $15.71M

20. Public Enemies (2009)

R | 140 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke

Votes: 318,498 | Gross: $97.10M

21. Touched by an Angel (1994–2003)

TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Three angels are sent to Earth to tell depressed and troubled people that God loves them and hasn't forgotten them.

Stars: Roma Downey, Della Reese, John Dye, Valerie Bertinelli

Votes: 8,005

22. Miami Vice (2006)

R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris

Votes: 123,694 | Gross: $63.45M

23. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)

R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

Directors: Colin Strause, Greg Strause | Stars: Reiko Aylesworth, Steven Pasquale, Shareeka Epps, John Ortiz

Votes: 133,108 | Gross: $41.80M

24. Peppermint (2018)

R | 101 min | Action, Thriller

Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free.

Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba

Votes: 70,851 | Gross: $35.42M

25. The Drop (2014)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deeply into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living--no matter the cost.

Director: Michaël R. Roskam | Stars: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts

Votes: 162,010 | Gross: $10.72M

26. Steve Jobs (2015)

R | 122 min | Biography, Drama

Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels

Votes: 178,449 | Gross: $17.77M

27. Messiah (2020)

TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

When a C.I.A. officer investigates a man and his followers who attract international attention through acts of public disruption, she embarks on a global high-stakes mission to uncover whether he is a divine entity or a con artist.

Stars: Michelle Monaghan, Mehdi Dehbi, John Ortiz, Tomer Sisley

Votes: 46,889

28. Amistad (1997)

R | 155 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 82,749 | Gross: $44.18M

29. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

Director: Julius Onah | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl, John Ortiz

Votes: 112,981

30. A Dog's Purpose (2017)

PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A dog discovers the meaning of its own existence through the lives of the humans it teaches to laugh and love. Reincarnated as multiple canines over the course of five decades, the lovable pooch develops an unbreakable bond with Ethan.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, Bryce Gheisar

Votes: 79,024 | Gross: $64.51M

31. Going in Style (2017)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

Director: Zach Braff | Stars: Michael Caine, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret, Matt Dillon

Votes: 91,538 | Gross: $45.02M

32. The In Between (2022)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.

Director: Arie Posin | Stars: Joey King, Kyle Allen, Kim Dickens, John Ortiz

Votes: 10,172

33. Replicas (2018)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, John Ortiz

Votes: 42,010 | Gross: $4.05M

34. Blackhat (2015)

R | 133 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang

Votes: 64,286 | Gross: $7.10M

35. The Finest Hours (2016)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Drama, History

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana

Votes: 70,645 | Gross: $27.57M

36. Horse Girl (I) (2020)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Sarah, a socially isolated woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.

Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Alison Brie, Molly Shannon, Goldenite, Stella Chestnut

Votes: 20,009

37. Ransom (1996)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Multi-millionaire Tom Mullen's son is kidnapped, but after initially agreeing to pay the ransom Mullen then decides to use the ransom money as a bounty.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Mel Gibson, Gary Sinise, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte

Votes: 135,441 | Gross: $136.49M

38. The Guest Book (2017–2018)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

For a tiny cottage in a tiny town, this place sure will see lots of baggage. Each episode, new guests will bring their own special brand of crazy to this new TBS comedy from "My Name Is Earl (2005)" creator Gregory Thomas Garcia.

Stars: Carly Jibson, Eddie Steeples, Charles Robinson, Lou Wilson

Votes: 3,816

39. The Green Veil (2024– )

Drama | Post-production

Anthology series concerning oppression in America.

Stars: Irene Bedard, Steven Boyer, Hani Furstenberg, Isabelle Poloner

40. Two Lovers (2008)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce

Votes: 43,536 | Gross: $3.15M

41. Before Night Falls (2000)

R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovani Florido

Votes: 26,367 | Gross: $4.22M

42. Togetherness (2015–2016)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two couples living under the same roof struggle to keep their relationships alive while pursuing their individual dreams.

Stars: Mark Duplass, Melanie Lynskey, Amanda Peet, Steve Zissis

Votes: 9,323

43. New York Undercover (1994–2024)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Drugs, robbery, corruption, rape, murder. Cops versus criminals. The undercover war has started. Welcome to New York City.

Stars: Malik Yoba, Michael DeLorenzo, Patti D'Arbanville, Luna Lauren Velez

Votes: 2,958

44. Narc (2002)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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.

Director: Joe Carnahan | Stars: Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride, Dan Leis

Votes: 43,075 | Gross: $10.46M

45. Take the Lead (2006)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Music

A dance teacher offers to conduct detention for a group of misfit students by teaching them ballroom dancing. He overcomes their insecurities and prejudices, to enter them in a dance competition.

Director: Liz Friedlander | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 26,652 | Gross: $34.74M

46. Sgt. Bilko (1996)

PG | 93 min | Comedy

Sgt. Bilko is a well-liked conman in charge of the army base's motor pool, developing a hover tank and unofficially of gambling etc. One man hates Bilko and he's coming to inspect the base for possible closure.

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, Glenne Headly

Votes: 23,905 | Gross: $30.36M

47. Bad Monkey

Drama | Filming

It is based on Andrew Yancy, a detective demoted to restaurant inspector in Florida. A severed arm found by a tourist pulls Yancy into the world of greed and corruption that destroys the land and environment in Florida and the Bahamas.

Stars: Vince Vaughn, John Ortiz, Natalie Martinez, Alex Moffat

48. The Madness

Crime, Drama, Thriller | Post-production

Media pundit Muncie Daniels must fight for his innocence and his life after he stumbles upon a murder deep in the Poconos.

Stars: Marsha Stephanie Blake, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Dru Viergever, Chris Henry Coffey

49. Little America (2020–2022)

TV-14 | 533 min | Comedy, Drama

Inspired by the true stories featured by Epic Magazine, "Little America" goes beyond the headlines to look at the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring, surprising stories of immigrants in America, more relevant now than ever.

Stars: Peggy Lu, Mélanie Laurent, Suraj Sharma, Shaun Toub

Votes: 3,830

50. Luck (2011–2012)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Sport

A television series centered around characters who are tied to the same horse-racing track.

Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz, Richard Kind

Votes: 6,210