Larry Pizer

Nacimiento : 1925-05-19,

Muerte : 2008-02-27

Películas

Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'
Himself
A 50-minute documentary on the making of the film featuring director Brian De Palma, producer Edward R. Pressman, the late star William Finley, star and composer Paul Williams, co-stars Jessica Harper and Gerrit Graham and more!
The Proprietor
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An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
In Custody
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Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. Merchant 's treatment is wry and good humored , as his characters - an aging Urdu poet (Shashi Kapoor) and a worshipful young college lecturer - clash despite their shared passion for the beauty of words.
Folks!
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Un yuppie levemente absorto en sí mismo se encarga de sus padres, incluido su padre senil, después de que su casa se incendie. Pero su vida personal y profesional se desmorona poco después.
Atrapa ese maniquí
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Un embrujo convierte a una hermosa campesina en una escultura de madera por haber cometido el error de enamorarse del príncipe heredero de un legendario reino europeo en los remotos tiempos de la Edad Media. El hechizo finalizará cuando encuentre su verdadero "alter-ego".
Sparks: The Price of Passion
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A female mayor (Victoria Principal) of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she receives blackmail photos of an overnight fling she had with a stranger and threats of blackmail. On top of all this, the city is under siege by a serial killer who hunts powerful women. When the FBI moves in for the investigation, the chief officer (Ted Wass) turns out to be the stranger. Ralph Waite shows up as a friend of the mayor pressuring her for the development. Elaine Stritch plays her mother, Hector Elizondo is the city attorney, and William Lucking is the police chief
Blind Witness
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Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
Dark Holiday
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American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
Where Are the Children?
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Thriller about the kidnapping of two children and the investigation that follows, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark.
Unnatural Causes
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Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a Veterans Administration benefits counselor who teams up with Coleman to fight a lopsided batted against the bureaucratic system for its cover up of the possible dangers of Agent Orange.
La última solución de Grace Quigley
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Grace Quigley es una anciana de Nueva York que afronta el final de su existencia sin alicientes por los que seguir viviendo. Un día es testigo de un asesinato cometido por un profesional llamado Seymour Flint. Quigley decide chantajearlo y le pide que a cambio de su silencio la mate a ella también de forma indolora.
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
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Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.
Demasiado asustada para gritar
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Tres chicas y un anciano son asesinados brutalmente en una casa y en pocas horas. La policía sospecha de Vicent, el extraño conserje de noche. A pesar de tenerlo bajo vigilancia, se repiten los mismos asesinatos misteriosos.
Regalo de amor
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Esta es una historia que nos lleva al mundo de las cosas pequeñas, de esas cosas que nos llegan directamente al corazón. Es Navidad. El matrimonio Broderick pasa apuros con su tienda de regalos. Las cosas no van bien y este año ningún Papá Noel saldrá a las calles a promocionar el local, las dificultades económicas ya les han obligado a realizar algún despido. Al llegar a su casa, Janet se encuentra con su madre enferma de un ataque al corazón. Esa noche, madre e hija hablan sobre el "lugar secreto", en el que todos nos encontraremos algún día. Los recuerdos traspasan el umbral de la memoria y cada Navidad Janet Broderick evocará emocionaa el dictado de su corazón.
Found Money
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Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
Svengali
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An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger. An adaptation of George L. Du Maurier's novel "Trilby"
Murder in Coweta County
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Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.
Keeping On
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A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
The Phantom of the Opera
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The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed killed in a fire, plans his revenge on all those he deems responsible for her suicide.
Timerider: El jinete del tiempo
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Swann, un experimentado piloto de motocross, se pierde mientras realiza unas pruebas con su nueva moto en el desierto. En su búsqueda descubre un poblado del lejano oeste, hasta que se da cuenta de que se encuentra en 1877. Sin saberlo, ha viajado a través del tiempo, por lo que deberá encontrar la forma de regresar.
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
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Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
La leyenda de Bill Doolin
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En 1893, dos chicas marchan hacia el Oeste dispuestas a vivir toda clase de aventuras. Adaptación de una novela de Robert Ward.
Stoned
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Jack is a motivated high school student who smokes cannabis for the first time, and falls in with a fast crowd. Will he wake up and realize what he's doing with his future before it's too late?
A Private Battle
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A dramatization of the story of noted writer/journalist Cornelius Ryan, author of "The Longest Day," and the valiant battle against terminal cancer that led him to write about his ordeal, with the help of his loving wife, while at the same time determined to complete "A Bridge Too Far," which he had spent years researching.
Paul's Case
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Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City.
My Old Man
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An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.
Los europeos
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Otoño de 1850. La familia Wentworth reside cerca de Boston. El disciplinado señor Wentworth ha dado una educación impecable a sus dos hijas, Gertrude y Charlotte. Un domingo de otoño, llega a la casa Félix, un joven alegre y simpático, que viene acompañado de su hermana Eugenia y que se presenta a Gertrude como su primo francés. Eugenia, que está casada con un príncipe, pretende anular su matrimonio. La llegada de estos parientes alterará las costumbres de la rigurosa e inocente familia Wentworth.
Night-Flowers
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Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the toxic bond soon takes a gruesome turn.
El fantasma del paraíso
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Swan, el mayor productor musical de su época, capaz de crear éxito tras éxito, busca un nuevo sonido para inaugurar su nuevo templo del Rock llamado “El Paraíso”. Para ello, encierra y roba a Winslow Leach, un compositor desfigurado y completamente desconocido, el trabajo de toda su vida, una versión Rock del mito alemán “Fausto”. Pero Leach, una vez en libertad, se enamora de la nueva estrella de la canción promocionada por el magnate y comenzará su particular venganza contra Swan.
The Optimists of Nine Elms
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A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life
All Neat in Black Stockings
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A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
Isadora
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Retrato de la atormentada vida de la bailarina Isadora Duncan, una mujer precursora, a quien la danza y el ballet moderno le deben su razón de ser actual. Durante los años 20, transformó con su baile el panorama artístico mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)
A las nueve cada noche
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Cuando muere su madre tras una larga enfermedad, los siete hermanos Hook la entierran en el jardín, pues temen ser separados y enviados a distintos orfanatos.
Morgan, un caso clínico
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Morgan es un artista que, influido por las ideas marxistas de su madre, siente la necesidad de rebelarse contra el orden social establecido y contra toda clase de convencionalismos. Pero esta actitud lo alejará cada vez más de la realidad y, poco a poco, contraerá una grave patología psicológica que lo lleva a identificarse con un gorila, animal al que se siente muy unido. Llegado a este punto, su mujer Leonie le pide el divorcio y, aunque Morgan intenta recuperarla, ella ha empezado a sentirse atraída por otro hombre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Four in the Morning
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The parallel stories of two couples in crises and their connections to a drowned woman found in a river.
The Party's Over
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This once controversial British movie that was filmed in ‘62 but released in ‘65 involves the fiancé of a depressed American heiress searching for her whereabouts amongst the Chelsea “beatnik” scene. Answers are hard to come by from the nihilistic hedonist youth that know her - but they provide mysterious hints to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
From First to Last
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Car manufacture at a Ford factory.
They Took Us to The Sea
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Made for the NSPCC by the noted film director John Krish, They Took Us To The Sea follows a group of children taken by Inspectors of the NSPCC on an outing from Birmingham to Weston-Super Mare.
Return to Life
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A refugee family comes to terms with living in England and adjusting to a new language and culture.
Dispute
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A BAFTA award winning dramatisation of a threatened strike at a factory.
I am a Mobile Librarian
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See how Sally Jenkins and her driver, Thomas, run Hertfordshire's mobile library service with military precision.
First on the Road
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A short film by Joseph Losey.