Cast: Lainie Kazan

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lainie Kazan. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Trish Van Devere · Laurence Luckinbill · James McEachin

Synopsis An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover (who is also her boss); Lt. Columbo is on the case.

6.5

271 votes

6.5

271 votes

29th Street

1991 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

6.4

104 votes

6.4

104 votes

One From the Heart

1981 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Teri Garr · Frederic Forrest · Raul Julia · Nastassja Kinski

Synopsis Francis Ford Coppola directed this experimental musical about love in Las Vegas. Shot entirely at Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, the film stars Frederic Forrest (Hank) and Teri Garr (Frannie) as an unhappy couple breaking up on their five-year anniversary. Frannie is...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

My Favorite Year

1982 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Richard Benjamin

Cast Peter O'Toole · Mark Linn-Baker · Jessica Harper · Joseph Bologna

Synopsis Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Its a new medium and the rules were not fully established. Alan Swann, an Erol Flynn type actor with a drinking...

6.3

414 votes

6.3

414 votes

Beaches

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Garry Marshall

Cast Bette Midler · Barbara Hershey · John Heard · Spalding Gray

Synopsis A chance meeting of two young girls from totally different backgrounds becomes a friendship that lasts a lifetime. CC Bloom, an aggressive and outrageous Jewish girl from the Bronx, meets Hillary Whitney, a shy and proper WASP from San Francisco,...

6.1

673 votes

6.1

673 votes

The Journey of Natty Gann

1985 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Kagan

Cast Meredith Salenger · John Cusack · Jed · Ray Wise

Synopsis In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.

5.9

157 votes

5.9

157 votes

Direction Russell Mulcahy

Cast Bill Paxton · Lainie Kazan · Brad Dourif · Michael Lerner

Synopsis A hot-tempered convict with a butter addiction tries to get revenge, with the help of his mentally challenged brother, on the ice cream trucker who was responsible for his arrest, unaware the driver also has a dark secret too.

5.6

25 votes

5.6

25 votes

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Joel Zwick

Cast Nia Vardalos · John Corbett · Michael Constantine · Lainie Kazan

Synopsis Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula (Nia Vardalos). Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba's, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus (Michael Constantine) and Maria (Lainie Kazan) and smells like garlic bread. Her days...

Max

5.6

23K votes

5.6

23K votes

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Paul Reubens · Carl Reiner · James Belushi · James Coburn

Synopsis He might be made out of wood, but Pinocchio (Pee Wee's Playhouse's Paul Reubens) proves that puppets have hearts of gold in this retelling of the well-loved tale Pinocchio. A lonely puppet maker named Geppetto (Ocean's Eleven's/The Jerk's Carl Reiner)...

5.5

149 votes

5.5

149 votes

Lust in the Dust

1985 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Paul Bartel

Cast Tab Hunter · Divine · Lainie Kazan · Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis Dance-hall girl Rosie Velez (Divine), lost in the desert, is helped to safety by gunman Abel Wood (Tab Hunter). In the town of Chili Verde, at the saloon of Marguerita Ventura (Lainie Kazan), word of a treasure in gold brings...

5.3

48 votes

5.3

48 votes

Lady in Cement

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Frank Sinatra · Raquel Welch · Richard Conte · Martin Gabel

Synopsis Tony Rome is a Miami based detective who while diving in the ocean finds the body of a young woman. He is hired by Gronsky to find her killer.

5.1

269 votes

5.1

269 votes

Direction Paul Bartel

Cast Bob Balaban · Lainie Kazan · John McCook · Dana Gladstone

Synopsis Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the grave.

5.0

171 votes

5.0

171 votes

Out of the Dark

1988 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Michael Schroeder

Cast Cameron Dye · Karen Black · Bud Cort · Lynn Danielson-Rosenthal

Synopsis Suite Nothings, is a sleazy L.A. phone *fantasy* hot-line...in other words a phone-sex service, voiced by failed models, in which callers get to divulge their fantasies over the phone. Among them is Bobo, an individual who's twisted sense of humor,...

4.8

27 votes

4.8

27 votes

The Big Hit

1998 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Kirk Wong

Cast Mark Wahlberg · Lou Diamond Phillips · Christina Applegate · Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, is living a normal all-day life for his jewish fiancé Pam, but kills for money in Paris' organization. In addition, he has a relationship with a beauty from the neighbourhood and gets bothered by...

4.8

3K votes

4.8

3K votes

Pixels

2015 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Chris Columbus

Cast Adam Sandler · Michelle Monaghan · Peter Dinklage · Kevin James

Synopsis When aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using the games as models for their various assaults. President Will Cooper has to call on his childhood best friend, '80s...

4.6

16K votes

4.6

16K votes

The Crew

2000 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

4.6

307 votes

4.6

307 votes

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

2008 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Dennis Dugan

Cast Adam Sandler · John Turturro · Rob Schneider · Emmanuelle Chriqui

Synopsis A top Israeli Mossad agent named Zohan (Adam Sandler) fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York City. Though he wants to put his life of counter-terrorism behind him, he quickly finds...

4.4

19K votes

4.4

19K votes

The Associate

1996 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Donald Petrie

Cast Whoopi Goldberg · Dianne Wiest · Tim Daly · Kenny Kerr

Synopsis Whoopi Goldberg handles business her own way in this outrageous comedy hit! Whoopi plays a fast-track executive who starts her own company after a back-stabbing co-worker (Tim Daly) nabs her promotion. But when she's locked out of the stuffy corporate...

4.3

3K votes

4.3

3K votes

Red Riding Hood

2006 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Randal Kleiser

Cast Lainie Kazan · Henry Cavill · Morgan Thompson · Sam Oz Stone

Synopsis A young girl entrusted with the task of delivering a special package to her grandmother finds herself faced with a most unpleasant stalker in this retelling of the classic fairy tale starring Daniel Roebuck, Debi Mazar, Sam Stone, and Joey...

4.2

59 votes

4.2

59 votes