Cast: Allen Garfield

Direction Billy Wilder

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

Synopsis The Front Page (1974) is a comedic tale set in the bustling world of 1920s Chicago journalism. The story follows Hildy Johnson, a sharp-witted reporter eager to leave the newspaper business for a quieter life with his fiancée. However, on...

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

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

Synopsis In The Conversation (1974), Harry Caul is a meticulous surveillance expert hired to record a mysterious couple's conversation in a crowded plaza. As he obsessively analyzes the tapes, he grows paranoid about their potential meaning and the consequences of his...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are...

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

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

Synopsis 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 with the Jazz music that made it so famous. In...

Direction Eric Rochant

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

Synopsis 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 in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French...

Direction Wim Wenders

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

Synopsis 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 of a classical story it features a mosaic of situations....

Direction Robert Downey Sr.

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

Synopsis 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 Hollywood films, the white power structure, and nature of corporate...

Direction Michael Ritchie

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

Synopsis 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 the assurance that he will lose and not have to...

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...

Direction Mark Rydell

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

Synopsis 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 executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial,...

Direction Frank Darabont

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

Synopsis In The Majestic (2001), a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter loses his memory after a car accident and washes up in a small town. Mistaken for a long-lost war hero, he embraces his new identity and helps the community restore a dilapidated...

Direction Peter Hyams

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

Synopsis 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 department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing...

Direction Frank Pierson

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

Synopsis 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.

Direction Wim Wenders

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

Synopsis 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 the way she runs into another fugitive from the law...

Direction Richard Rush

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

Synopsis 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 stunt man, to replace one who earlier drowned in a...

Direction Roman Polanski

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

Synopsis The Ninth Gate (1999) follows Dean Corso, a rare book dealer hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a mysterious tome, "The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows." The book is said to summon the Devil and is one...

Direction Don Medford

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

Synopsis 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 Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance. Tibbs is understandably reticent about...

Direction Brian De Palma

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

Synopsis 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 people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with...

Direction Joe Pytka

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

Synopsis 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 day!

Direction Allan Arkush

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Allen Garfield · Daniel Stern · Gail Edwards