Cast: Peter Falk

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Ben Gazzara · John Cassavetes · Joan Blondell

Synopsis A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Peter Falk · Katherine Cassavetes · Fred Draper

Synopsis John Cassavetes's A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative outlets. Instead, she pours all her energy into her family,...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Robin Wright · Cary Elwes · Mandy Patinkin · Chris Sarandon

Synopsis The Princess Bride (1987) is a whimsical tale of true love and high adventure. It follows the beautiful Buttercup, who is separated from her beloved farmhand, Westley, when he is presumed dead. Years later, she is betrothed to the nefarious...

Direction Charles Kiselyak

Cast Gena Rowlands · Peter Falk · Ben Gazzara · Seymour Cassel

Synopsis A look at the life, times, and art of independent film pioneer John Cassavetes through interviews with his family, friends, and admirers of his work.

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Bruno Ganz · Peter Falk · Solveig Dommartin · Otto Sander

Synopsis Wings of Desire (1987) is a poetic and meditative film set in divided Berlin. It follows two invisible angels, Damiel and Cassiel, who observe and comfort the city's inhabitants, listening to their thoughts and dreams. While Cassiel remains detached, Damiel...

Direction Robert Moore

Cast Alec Guinness · David Niven · Peter Sellers · Peter Falk

Synopsis Murder by Death (1976) is a comedic mystery that parodies classic detective stories. Five renowned sleuths and their sidekicks are invited to a secluded mansion by the eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain. He challenges them to solve a murder that will...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Tim Robbins · Greta Scacchi · Dina Merrill · Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating...

Direction Elaine May

Cast Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · Ned Beatty · Rose Arrick

Synopsis In the mob you trust no one. Not even your best friend.

Direction Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Peter Falk · Robert Culp · Pat Crowley · Ray Milland

Synopsis Brimmer, a short-tempered private detective, is hired by Arthur Kennicut, a prominent Los Angeles publisher, to investigate the publisher's wife's activities under suspicion of an extra-marital affair. Although his investigation discovers an affair with a golf instructor, Brimmer chooses not...

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Tony Curtis · Jack Lemmon · Natalie Wood · Peter Falk

Synopsis Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired...

Direction Richard Irving

Cast Peter Falk · Gene Barry · Katherine Justice · William Windom

Synopsis A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Direction Ben Gazzara

Cast Peter Falk · Richard Kiley · Rosemary Murphy · Michael McGuire

Synopsis A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a wife killer, but then expects an alibi in return.

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Otto Sander · Bruno Ganz · Nastassja Kinski · Martin Olbert

Synopsis A sequel to Wender's Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of desire), it again follows a group of angels in the German capital who look longingly upon the life of humans. Sequel from "Wings of Desire" (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987),...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Ben Gazzara · Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · Jenny Runacre

Synopsis A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.

Direction Richard Irving

Cast Peter Falk · Lee Grant · John Fink · Harold Gould

Synopsis A lawyer comes up with a clever plan to murder her husband. After the deed is done, a seemingly slow-witted, slovenly homicide detective is assigned to the case--but he's not nearly as incompetent as he appears to be.

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Peter Falk · Theodore Bikel · Kenneth Mars · Sorrell Booke

Synopsis Columbo this time tries to tackle a murderer who has one of the highest IQs in the world. The victim is a business partner who threatened to expose the killer for stealing money from his clients. The murderer uses all...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Synopsis In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), a dying criminal reveals the location of hidden treasure to a group of strangers. This sparks a frenzied, cross-country race as greed takes over, with each participant resorting to outrageous schemes...

Direction Hy Averback

Cast Peter Falk · Ross Martin · Don Ameche · Kim Hunter

Synopsis Noted art critic Dale Kingston kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. Despite Columbo's suspicions, all the clues point to the dead man's ex-wife. Can the lieutenant reveal the true culprit before it is too late?