Cast: Allen Garfield

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


The Front Page

1974 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Susan Sarandon · Vincent Gardenia

Plot Chicago, 1929. Hildy Johnson, a reporter of a Chicago newspaper, wants to quit and get married, but the editor of the newspaper, Walter Burns, asks her to stay and write...

8.1

24K votes

8.1

24K votes

The Conversation

1974 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Gene Hackman · John Cazale · Allen Garfield · Cindy Williams

Plot Harry Caul is a nationally known expert on surveillance. The Director of a large company has hired him to record the conversations of two of the Director's employees. Some years...

7.3

17K votes

7.3

17K votes

Nashville

1975 · Movie · 159 min. · United States

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Ronee Blakley · Geraldine Chaplin · Barbara Harris · Keith Carradine

Plot Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Cotton Club

1984 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Richard Gere · Bob Hoskins · Diane Lane · Gregory Hines

Plot The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem, NYC, in the 20s. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

The Patriots

1994 · Movie · 138 min. · France

Direction Eric Rochant

Cast Yvan Attal · Sandrine Kiberlain · Nancy Allen · Richard Masur

Plot At 18, Ariel Brenner leaves Paris and his family to live in Israel. He secretly joins the Mossad, the Isreali secret service. After years of training, his first mission is...

6.7

47 votes

6.7

47 votes

The State of Things

1982 · Movie · 117 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Patrick Bauchau · Allen Garfield · Isabelle Weingarten · Geoffrey Carey

Plot A story about a group of film producers making a science fiction movie in the exteriors of Portugal.The black and white movie talks about a world-wide nuclear catastrophe, and instead...

6.6

627 votes

6.6

627 votes

Putney Swope

1969 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Robert Downey Sr.

Cast Arnold Johnson · Joe Madden · Antonio Fargas · Allen Garfield

Plot Putney Swope, a 1969 film written and directed by Robert Downey, Sr. and starring Arnold Johnson as Swope, is a comedy satirizing the advertising world, the portrayal of race in...

6.5

47 votes

6.5

47 votes

The Candidate

1972 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Michael Ritchie

Cast Robert Redford · Peter Boyle · Melvyn Douglas · Don Porter

Plot Bill McKay (Robert Redford) is an idealistic young lawyer and son of a famous governor who is pressured into running for the United States Senate against the popular incumbent, with...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

One From the Heart

1981 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

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

Plot 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...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Crime of the Century (TV)

1996 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast Stephen Rea · Isabella Rossellini · J.T. Walsh · Michael Moriarty

Plot In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and...

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

The Majestic

2001 · Movie · 152 min. · United States

Direction Frank Darabont

Cast Jim Carrey · Martin Landau · Laurie Holden · Bob Balaban

Plot Set against the backdrop of the 1950's Hollywood blacklist, a young, ambitious screenwriter (Jim Carrey) loses his job and his identity, only to find new courage, love and the power...

6.2

9K votes

6.2

9K votes

Busting

1974 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Elliott Gould · Robert Blake · Allen Garfield · Antonio Fargas

Plot LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police...

6.0

103 votes

6.0

103 votes

Citizen Cohn (TV)

1992 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast James Woods · Joe Don Baker · Joseph Bologna · Ed Flanders

Plot A harsh look at the life and times of Roy Marcus Cohn, Esquire, thorough flashbacks as he's dying of AIDS in a New York hospital.

6.0

44 votes

6.0

44 votes

Until the End of the World

1991 · Movie · 179 min. · Germany

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast William Hurt · Solveig Dommartin · Sam Neill · Max von Sydow

Plot Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On...

5.9

802 votes

5.9

802 votes

The Stunt Man

1980 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Richard Rush

Cast Peter O'Toole · Barbara Hershey · Steve Railsback · John Garwood

Plot Cameron is an ex-soldier on the run. He stumbles onto a movie location at a beach resort, and megalomaniacal director Eli Cross compels him to take the job of a...

5.8

542 votes

5.8

542 votes

The Ninth Gate

1999 · Movie · 133 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Johnny Depp · Lena Olin · Frank Langella · Emmanuelle Seigner

Plot Dean Corso (Johnny Depp), a rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

5.8

28K votes

5.8

28K votes

The Organization

1971 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford

Cast Sidney Poitier · Allen Garfield · Gerald S. O'Loughlin · Bernie Hamilton

Plot After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police...

5.7

169 votes

5.7

169 votes

Hi, Mom!

1970 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Robert De Niro · Charles Durning · Allen Garfield · Lara Parker

Plot Vietnam vet John Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwhich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the...

5.7

583 votes

5.7

583 votes

Let It Ride

1989 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Joe Pytka

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Teri Garr · David Johansen · Jennifer Tilly

Plot The story of Jay Trotter, a down and out loser who has a chance to make all his dreams come true on what eventually proves to be one helluva great...

5.6

103 votes

5.6

103 votes

Get Crazy

1983 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

5.6

49 votes

5.6

49 votes