Vincent Gardenia

A história do compositor Howard Ashman, que escreveu as letras de 'A Pequena Loja dos Horrores', 'A Pequena Sereia', 'Aladdin' e 'A Bela e a Fera' antes de morrer de AIDS no auge da crise em 1991.

Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Italian father is the source of believability for the film.

Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole until he brings it up to liveable standards.

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden".

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse Wilson and spends time with his best buddy Michael Aylott, who's slowly drifting into senility.

Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons — women and alcohol.

Loretta Castorini, uma contadora do Brooklyn com seus 30 e tantos anos, cujo marido morreu há vários anos em um acidente de ônibus, decide que é hora de se casar novamente. Então, ela aceita a proposta de um agradável, companheiro de meia idade chamado Johnny Cammareri. Loretta está convencida de seu primeiro casamento foi amaldiçoado porque ela e o marido haviam se casado na Câmara Municipal. Então ela está determinada a fazer as coisas direito desta vez, mesmo quando admite para sua mãe, Rose, que não está realmente apaixonada por Johnny. Ao que Rose responde: "Bom. Quando você o amar, ele vai deixá-la louca, porque eles sabem que podem". Rose fala por triste experiência, ela suspeita que seu marido, Cosmo, está traindo. Loretta está convencida de que casar com Johnny é a coisa certa a fazer. Até que ela conhece o irmão mais novo Ronny, que trabalha nos fornos em uma padaria do bairro e é mal-humorado e apaixonado. Então surgem as complicações dignas de uma ópera cômica.

Seymour Krelborn é um órfão que trabalha na floricultura do Sr. Mushnik. Ele passa seu tempo sendo explorado pelo patrão e sonhando acordado com Audrey, uma colega de trabalho. Um dia, após um eclipse solar, Seymour encontra uma planta estranha. Ele a compra e passa a chamá-la de Audrey II. Ao cuidar dela, ele acidentalmente corta o dedo e percebe que Audrey II tem um grande apetite por sangue. Com o tempo, a planta cresce cada vez mais, forçando Seymour a encontrar pessoas que possam servir de alimento para ela.

A man travels to Siena, Italy, looking for his father, a jockey whom he has never met. The father is dead, and in investigating the circumstances of the death, the son ends up involved in a plot of murder and intrigue.

Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". Enlisting the help of depressed screenwriter Herb Derman and rather off-centre director Sid Spokane to try and come up with an idea or two, Joe soon wishes he was not one of those people who always try to keep their promises.

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.

The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.

Um homem é encontrado morto e uma mulher é vista saindo de seu apartamento. Essa mulher tem uma gêmea e parece ser impossível descobrir qual delas é a assassina.

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack and Charley persuade him to impersonate the latter's aunt.

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

Paul Kersey, que teve a esposa assassinada, sai de Nova York e leva uma vida normal, deixando de lado seu sentimento de vingança. Mas quando sua filha é estuprada e morta, Kersey volta a fazer justiça com as próprias mãos.

Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!

The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.

Quando um avião transportando vários animais faz um pouso forçado em uma ilha deserta, a única chance de escapar é converter o avião em um barco. Quando Noah Dugan concorda em levar a missionária Bernadette Lafleur e sua carga de animais para uma ilha remota, é só porque ele está fugindo de uma dupla de bookmakers. O que nenhum deles sabe é que dois dos jovens estudantes da Miss Lafleur se juntaram clandestinamente aos animais e que o rádio transistor da Srta. Lafleur interferiu nos instrumentos do avião e agora eles todos estão fora do rumo. Após um pouso forçado em uma ilha remota, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby e Julie descobrem que não estão sozinhos. Juntamente com dois soldados japoneses que estão encalhados na ilha desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial, eles devem transformar o avião em um barco navegável se eles quiserem voltar para casa. Quando Bobby e Julie insistem que não podem deixar os animais para trás, o avião convertido realmente se torna uma segunda Arca de Noé.

A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star.

Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.

A highly romanticized dramatization of the life of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to have retired with a perfect record.

A young university student "Lillian" (Fani) returns to her family's country villa near a lake where years earlier had mother drowned. She is supposedly researching a local legend, a witch called Kira and strange symbol associated with her.

A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty), um jogador de futebol americano do Los Angeles Ram, é mandado acidentalmente para o Paraíso décadas antes da sua hora. Quando o erro é notado ele volta para a Terra, mas há um problema; Seu corpo foi cremado. Provisoriamente, habita o corpo de um mega industrial que foi assassinado por Julia Farnsworth (Julie Christie), sua esposa, e Tony Abbott (Charles Grodin), seu amante. Mas a morte não foi notada, assim quando Joe passa a habitar seu novo corpo Julia e Tony nada entendem, pois ela tinha certeza que o marido estava morto. Mas o que causa mais espanto é o comportamento de Joe no corpo do empresário, que era conhecido por ser maquiavélico, mas agora a boa índole de Joe comanda as empresas. Todos vêem um magnata altruísta, tanto que Bety Logan (Julie Christie), uma jovem que buscava reparar injustiças feito por uma das indústrias de Farnsworth, inicialmente desconfia da mudança mas gradativamente começa a se apaixonar por Joe.

This film is based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing champion in America.

Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorising a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth. As a result, the owner's young daughter is raped, and the violence continues. Discovering that the gang is associated with drug dealers, Palmieri is forbidden to continue investigating his case by his superior - so he takes matters into his own hands. Palmieri recruits a couple of men who have become victims of the gang and sets out for a bloody revenge.

Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do so, he then tries a robbery in his own bank.

Close to the honeymoon, hotel waiter wins a stay in Jamaica with a pin-up. Direction directed by Carlo Vanzina, with the star of "Deep Throat".

Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.

Hildy Johnson é o repórter TOP em um jornal de Chicago durante a década de 1920. Cansado de toda a confusão da profissão ele está determinado a deixar o emprego para se casar. Mas seu intriguento editor, Walter Burns, tem outros planos. É o dia anterior do culpado (mas insano) assassino, Earl Williams, ser levado para a forca e Burns tenta fazer Johnson ficar e escrever sua última história.

Em Nova York vive Paul Kersey, um homem pacífico que tem sua vida destroçada quando três marginais invadem seu apartamento, estupram sua filha, que fica em estado gravíssimo, e matam Joanna, sua mulher. Após uma viagem a uma cidade do Arizona, na qual todos andam armados e a criminalidade é mínima, Kersey, decide eliminar qualquer um que o ameace, pois a polícia se mostra incapaz de encontrar os culpados. Assim, Kersey se arma e começa a patrulhar as ruas, matando assassinos e ladrões e ficando obcecado em fazer justiça. Paralelamente ele é caçado por Frank Ochoa, um detetive da polícia que deseja encontrar o homem que está fazendo o trabalho dos tiras.

Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.

The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.

Chemically-dependent doctor Ollie suffers from hallucinations (or are they?) of a talking skull and conducts experiments at the expense of his wealthy wife, who hates him for letting their son die. Shot on video, this originally aired on late night TV. Though it aired in color, the only known surviving print is a black and white kinetoscope.

Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.

Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.

Alfred Chamberlain, who suffers from an inability to feel or to be passionate about anything, meets Patsy Newquist, who takes it upon herself to mold him into "a strong, vital, self-assured man that I can protect and take care of."

When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.

An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.

The first film based on the television series MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, consisting of a compilation of a two-part episode of the original series from 1967 called THE COUNCIL.

A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.

Um jogador de bilhar joga contra um campeão em um único jogo de alto risco.

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.

The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles.

Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.

A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938.