Louis Zorich

Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treasure.

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected with the great themes that marked the 20th century. Glamour, fame, social criticism and Marilyn Monroe.

The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.

Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.

Two thugs, a substitute teacher, and a young student get tangled up in violent crimes that unexpectedly bind them together in an unforgiving day.

Lyman patrulha estradas, ajudando motoristas e salvando alguns animais. Sua vida toma um rumo estranho quando ele conhece um papagaio tagarela, portador de mensagens estranhas, e pede ajuda uma bibliotecária para achar os donos da ave.

Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) é um professor de ensino médio, que apesar de ter o dom nato para se comunicar com os jovens, só dá aulas como substituto, para não criar vinculos com ninguém. Mas quando ele é chamado para lecionar em uma escola pública, se encontra em meio à professores desmotivados e adolescentes violentos e desencantados com a vida, que só querem encontrar um apoio para substituir seus pais negligentes ou ausentes. Sofrendo uma crise familiar, Henry verá três mulheres entrando em sua vida e vai começar a perceber como ele pode fazer a diferença, mesmo que isso venha com um alto custo.

A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.

Eles são da máfia e um casal. A vida secreta dos dois corre risco de ser revelada quando a família decide os fazer uma visita.

Depois de lidar com a falta de amor e compreensão em casa desde criança, o jovem Joe atravessa agora uma dura adolescência, e encontra no crime uma forma de se livrar de suas frustrações.

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why.

A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a gambling debt.

Episode of Great Performances about Jim Henson

As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!

A vida urbana em uma cidade média dos Estados Unidos, repleta de problemas e questões raciais, corrupção policial e uma criminalidade crescente. Em meio a este contexto, Nick Rinaldi, filho de um empreiteiro, acaba se tornando um joguete nas mãos do poder político que tomou conta da cidade e tenta, a qualquer custo, fugir dessa rede de corrupção e ganância.

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.

Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine) é um trambiqueiro de classe que vive na Riviera francesa seduzindo milionárias americanas de meia idade. Seu estilo de vida passa a ser ameaçado após a chegada de Freddy Benson (Steve Martin), um vigarista folgado e bem menos sofisticado que também quer aplicar golpes no local. Após muita insistência, Freddy consegue convencer Jamieson a lhe ensinar alguns truques, mas logo ambos passam a disputar os mesmos alvos. Cansados da disputa, eles resolvem fazer uma aposta: Quem conseguir US$ 50 mil da primeira milionária que aparecer no local vence, com o derrotado tendo que deixar a Riviera.

The owner of a sleazy hotel, along with his friend, decides to videotape a room that is rented by a sexually active couple. Inadvertently recording their murders, the men are soon faced with a dilemma as the killers come looking for the tape.

Nancy fugiu da angústia de seu primeiro casamento após ser acusada da morte horrível de seus dois filhos. Muitos quilômetros e anos depois, ele se casou novamente e teve mais dois filhos. Mas apenas quando sua dor acalmou, a tragédia novamente bate em sua porta e seus dois filhos desaparecem sem deixar rastros ... e todos começam a suspeitar do envolvimento de Nancy.

Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.

Willy Loman passou toda sua vida acreditando que ele e sua família atingiriam o poder, seriam ricos e muito felizes. Porém, lutando dia a dia como um caixeiro viajante, ele está prestes a perder seu emprego. Willy não consegue mais pagar suas contas e começa a perder o senso de realidade derivando por coisas de seu passado e mergulhando em uma crise profunda e desesperadora. Enquanto isso, toda sua família, Linda sua esposa e seus filhos Biff e Happy, tentam lutar contra sua autodestruição e os fantasmas de seu passado.

Os Muppets vão tentar a vida em Nova York, onde esperam se tornar grandes artistas. A sorte não os ajuda e eles passam por períodos difíceis, morando em armários de estações rodoviárias. Até que um dia, um golpe de sorte torna possível seus sonhos. E eles invadem a Broadway!

Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.

A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance man). Includes narration taken directly from Ives's own writings, and reminiscence from those who knew him.

In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.

Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production.

Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.

Um detetive honesto é acusado de corrupção.

A lendária estrela Barbra Streisand traz sua magia para as telas como Henrietta, a dedicada mas maluca esposa do taxista Pete (Michael Sarrazin), que vai fazer qualquer coisa para que seu marido realize o sonho de mudar de profissão e melhorar de vida.

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.

After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.

An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.

Violinista de aldeia ucraniana e seus habitantes de origem judia são intimados pelo czar a deixar o país em apenas três dias. Começa assim o sofrido êxodo para os países ocidentais, onde são mostrados os dramas individuais de alguns personagens. Baseado no livro "Tevye's Daughters and play Tevye der Milkhiker", de Sholem Aleichem, por sua vez levado aos palcos da Broadway por Joseph Stein.

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.

Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos.

Um assistente de xerife do Arizona (Clint Eastwood) vai a Nova York para levar ao seu estado um homem suspeito de assassinato (Don Stroud). Mas, quando o prisioneiro escapa, o policial começa a persegui-lo, com métodos muito pessoais.