Ben Gazzara

Ben Gazzara

Nascimento : 1930-08-28, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 2012-02-03

História

Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Gazzara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

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Filmes

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Self
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
Self
The grim woes that surrounded famed director Peter Bogdanovich and his film, "They All Laughed."
Ristabbanna
Chez Gino
Oncle Giovanni
Christopher Roth
Paul Andersen
A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own.
Il Volo
Inspired by the experiences of some small southern Italian municipalities which chose to integrate a set of Kurdish refugees into the dwindling population of their own people giving new life to the dying villages.
13: O Jogador
Schlondorff
Um homem que precisa de dinheiro participa de um jogo em que ricos sádicos apostam em quem sobreviverá durante um torneio de roleta russa.
Holy Money
Vatican's Banker
Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineyard in Sant'Angelo, the village his parents came from in Italy. Surprised by the large sum of money offered to him by a curious Italian "Master of Wine" for the land he just inherited, and considering the mysterious circumstances surrounding Dario's death, Anthony decides to drive down to Sant'Angelo. Anthony soon feels he's in the middle of something he doesn't understand and wants to leave, but... He gets tangled up in "Love's" web and suddenly finds himself the target of a crazy manhunt.
The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes
Himself
Producer Al Ruban, actor Ben Gazzara, and cinematographer Victor J. Kemper share their fond memories of director-actor John Cassavetes and of his filming Husbands (1970).
Eve
Joe
Kate is a young woman visiting her grandmother to talk about her mother "Eve" but instead she surprisingly ends up as both chauffeur and chaperone on her grandmother's romantic dinner date with a widower named Joe.
Empire State Building Murders
Paulie Genovese
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre.
Looking for Palladin
Jack Palladin
Brash young Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross (David Moscow) is dispatched to Guatemala, where he's assigned to locate missing star Jack Palladin (Ben Gazzara), a man Josh has never met but can't stand due to Palladin's long-ago relationship with his late mother. Despite receiving no help from the amused locals, Josh eventually finds his target hiding out as a cook at a restaurant but discovers that persuading the reluctant actor to return to Hollywood will be an uphill climb. Talia Shire costars in this independent comedy.
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
A Prince Called Toto
Self
Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man in one of Naples's poorest neighborhoods. As a child, he enlisted in the army simply to eat three square meals a day. Later, his dizzying success in show business brought him riches he had never dreamed of, plus stories of love and jealousy, the most important being with 16 year old Diana who eventually became his wife, only to leave him and inspire the Italian classic torch song Malafemmina, meaning bad woman.
Donne sbagliate
Franco Maresco
Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The commissioner and the judge Puglisi Corelli accuse her of collaborating with the mobster Franco Maresco. In jail meet three dams, Anna, Giulia and Elvira, who have been victims of Maresco. From this moment the four women join forces to find and kill the brawler.
Quiet Flows The Don
Secretov
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.
Paris, Te Amo
Ben (Quartier Latin)
Em Paris, o amor está por todos os lugares. Está nos bares, nos cafés, na Torre Eiffeil, até no metrô que circula abaixo de suas ruas. Paris, Te Amo é uma declaração à Cidade Luz através dos olhos de alguns dos maiores diretores do mundo incluindo Walter Salles ,os Irmãos Coen, Alfonso Cuarón, Wes Craven. Cada um retrata, de um jeito ou de outro, a alegria, a separação, os encontros inesperados e acima de tudo o amor.
The Shore
The devastating disappearance of a young girl haunts her grieving family in this fact-based tale feature debut from filmmaker Dionysius Zervos. Hungering for some quality alone time with her new boyfriend, Ray (Costas Mandylor), single mother Kaliope Harris (Izabella Miko) leaves her young daughter, Anna (Erika Shasho), in the care of loving grandmother Mrs. Harris (Lesley Ann Warren). An idyllic day at the beach turns to tragedy for the Harris family, however, when in the blink of an eye the precious young Anna seemingly disappears into the vast sand. While Mrs. Harris struggles to accept the startling disappearance, her enraged husband (Ben Gazzara) hounds the authorities to step up their search and Kaliope and Ray comb the beach in a desperate bid to retrace Anna's every step on that fateful and tragic day.
Bonjour Michel
michele Terranova
Dogville Confessions
Himself
This film depicts the intense drama that takes place during the making of Dogville. Lars von Trier and Nicole Kidman work through this creative process under very extreme conditions.
Dogville
Jack McKay
Anos 30, Dogville, um lugarejo nas Montanhas Rochosas. Grace (Nicole Kidman), uma bela desconhecida, aparece no lugar ao tentar fugir de gângsters. Com o apoio de Tom Edison (Paul Bettany), o auto-designado porta-voz da pequena comunidade, Grace é escondida pela pequena cidade e, em troca, trabalhará para eles. Fica acertado que após duas semanas ocorrerá uma votação para decidir se ela fica. Após este "período de testes" Grace é aprovada por unanimidade, mas quando a procura por ela se intensifica os moradores exigem algo mais em troca do risco de escondê-la. É quando ela descobre de modo duro que nesta cidade a bondade é algo bem relativo, pois Dogville começa a mostrar seus dentes. No entanto Grace carrega um segredo, que pode ser muito perigoso para a cidade.
L'ospite segreto
Ispettore di Polizia Solomos
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Himself
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Cegueira Histérica
Nick
Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey.
Home Sweet Hoboken
A waitress discovers a ring she thought was worthless is actually worth $10 million.
Jogando Para Sobreviver
Coach Halas
A estória de dois jogadores profissionais de futebol, Gale Sayes e Brian Piccolo, e de como sua amizade foi afetada, dentro e fora do campo, depois que Piccolo contraiu uma doença fatal.
Jack of Hearts
Batossa
A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption.
A lista
Depois de ser presa por solicitação, uma prostituta de alta classe ameaça com tornar pública uma lista dos seus melhores clientes e alguém recorre a matar para manter a lista em segredo. Enquanto isso, o juiz do caso luta com o seu dilema e um policial visa encontrar o assassino.
Nella terra di nessuno
L'avvocato Scalzi
Piovuto dal cielo
Shark in a Bottle
The Arranger
Guy Normal (probably not his real name) is clumsy, has amnesia, and has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous man who arranges killings for hire. The Arranger trains Guy to be a killer (and there's evidence that Guy perpetrated a mass murder in an Arizona post office), then sends him to do various jobs. Although Guy bumbles, the jobs get done. But Guy rebels against this life, tries to reconstruct his past, and falls in love with the Arranger's mistress (who also has no place else to go). When Guy becomes expendable, his days seem numbered. Can Guy outsmart the mastermind and the highly skilled assassins sent to kill him?
Very Mean Men
Gino Minetti
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men
Espíritos
Ben Stiles (Ricky Mabe) adora assustar as pessaos. Mas agora ele está prestes a passar pelo maior susto de sua vida, quando um misterioso fantasma que vaga no antigo e sombrio casarão de seu avô, faz suas aparições para ele e sua amiga Katherine (Elisha Cuthbert) arrastando-se para o sinistro e tenebroso mundo sobrenatural. Quem é ela? O que ela quer? Será que ele conseguirá se comunicar com os mortos? Agora Ben terá que colocar sua vida - e sua santidade - em perigo para revelar a chocante verdade por trás dessas aparições. Um filme que deixará você sem fôlego e de cabelos em pé!
Blue Moon
Frank Cavallo
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.
Poor Liza
The Narrator
A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman.
A Constant Forge
Self
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmmaker invented a realist style of unadorned narrative films heavily influenced by documentaries. This in-depth analysis of Cassavetes' life and work features interviews with key collaborators and ensemble regulars, and explores the making of classics like "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," "Opening Night" and "A Woman Under the Influence."
Thomas Crown - A Arte do Crime
Andrew Wallace
Quando um Monet avaliado em 100 milhões de dólares é roubado do Metropolitan em Nova York, Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan), um bilionário que está acostumado a ter tudo que deseja, não é nem ao longe considerado suspeito, mas Catherine Banning (Rene Russo), uma investigadora contratada para reaver a pintura (por 5% do seu valor), tem certeza que Thomas é o responsável. Paralelamente Catherine e Thomas se sentem atraídos e ela principalmente é afetada pelo ciúme, mas mesmo assim diz para Thomas que sabe que ele cometeu o roubo e espera um erro dele para pegá-lo. Os dois então começam a jogar, mas também se apaixonam e isto não estava nos planos de ninguém.
O Verão de Sam
Luigi
O verão de 1977 em Nova York foi marcado por um blackout, demissões em massa, a ascensão das discotecas e do Studio 54, e pelos primeiros passos do movimento punk nos EUA. É nesse cenário que surge um assassino em série conhecido como Filho de Sam, que matou várias mulheres e deixou toda a cidade em pânico. Basedo em fatos reais.
Paradise Cove
Duke Mantee
A 1999 film directed by Robert Clapsadle.
Felicidade
Lenny Jordan
Felicidade faz um retrato aguçado de uma série de pessoas interligadas por laços familiares ou sociais, todas elas vivendo em um estado de desespero ou de simples depressão, e levadas a tomar atitudes imorais ou criminosas. Verdadeiro, trágico e engraçado, o filme é obra cultuada e um marco no cinema americano dos anos 90.
Il tesoro di Damasco
Gregorio Kos
A mysterious black marble tablet is found in Syrian desert by an Arab terrorist after an attack on a UN scientific expedition.
Marilyn in Manhattan
Self
Angelo Nero
Padre Guelfi
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face of Medea of Carpi, noble woman processed to witchcraft. Shortly after the arrival of Jack, a country girl is killed in a mysterious way, dropping the suspicions of the Commissioner Gianzi on the young restorer, who is soon advised to not complete the work on the opera, because it would hide an ancient curse.
Illuminata
Old Flavio
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents
O Grande Lebowski
Jackie Treehorn
Jeff Lebowski, um entusiasta jogador de bowling, vê a sua casa arrombada por dois gangsters que julgam estar perante o multimilionário Jeffrey Lebowski, no intuito de reaver a dívida que a sua mulher tem para o pornógrafo Jackie Treehom. Mas enganaram-se, e bateram na porta errada, este não passa de um desempregado que se auto-intitula "The Dude". Mas o seu azar é tanto que quando decide visitar o tão procurado Lebowski em vez de receber a tão esperada recompensa vê-se envolvido no rapto da mulher deste.
Too Tired to Die
John Sage
Keith is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most of it
Buffalo 66
Jimmy Brown
Buffalo 66 conta a história de Billy Brown (Gallo), um rapaz solitário e excêntrico. Ex-presidiário, ele retorna a sua cidade após o longo período em que esteve preso. Durante este tempo, ele mentiu, dizendo aos seus pais, com quem nunca teve um bom relacionamento, que trabalhava, era casado e levava uma vida confortável. Para manter essa farsa, ele rapta uma garota (Christina Ricci) e decide obrigá-la a viver o papel de esposa. Surpreendentemente, a garota faz o papel tão bem que acaba cativando a todos, e uma estranha conexão surge entre ela e Billy. Mas Billy tem um plano que pode por tudo a perder.
Jack Valentine
Joe Buddha
Quando o policial Jack Valentine falha em impedir o assassinato de uma testemunha da máfia, ele tem que enfrentar o maior desafio de sua vida: encontrar os responsáveis em apenas dez dias ou ser expulso da força policial.
A Trapaça
Mr. Klein
O engenheiro corporativo Joe Ross inventou secretamente um processo muito lucrativo que ainda não foi patenteado. Com várias partes não confiáveis interessadas, é difícil saber quem está enganando quem… e o jogo está apenas começando.
Segredo Mortal
Frank Grieco
Victor Mallick (John Stockwell) está prestes a se casar. Seus amigos querem que sua despedida de solteiro seja inesquecível. Para isso, contratam duas lindas strippers. No meio da festa, uma delas morre. Furioso, o acompanhante da moça puxa uma arma, mas também acaba morto. Sem saber o que fazer, todos começam a entrar em desespero. Ao passo que a pressão aumenta, os amigos vão mostrando como realmente são, principalmente Dan, um perturbado veterano de guerra (Kevin Dillon), e Peter, um perigoso traficante (Andrew McCarthy), que se opõe radicalmente a chamar a polícia. A noite passa, a violência cresce e a dúvida continua: o que fazer com a outra stripper, a única testemunha do ocorrido?
Conspiração
Vicepresident Saxon
Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) é o assessor especial do Presidente dos Estados Unidos, que se torna o alvo principal de um assassino profissional após testemunhar o assassinato do professor Yuri Pochenko (Theodore Bikel). O criminoso já tinha matado outros cinco cientistas que trabalhavam com Pochenko quando tentou pela primeira vez eliminar o professor, que escapou de forma ardilosa. Aos poucos Bishop descobre que há uma conspiração na Casa Branca que planeja matar o presidente. Não sabendo em quem mais pode confiar ele pede ajuda a Amanda Givens ( Linda Hamilton), uma conhecida repórter.
Farmer & Chase
Farmer
A career thief forms a partnership with his reluctant son.
Vicious Circles
March
When a young man is arrested for dealing drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making some big money as a member of an exclusive group of prostitutes.
Ladykiller
Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky
Over a year after a chase to catch a serial slayer dubbed the 'LADYKILLER' ended in the death of his old partner. Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky sees a chance too redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow cops, when another serial killer, 'The Piggy Bank Murderer' starts preying on female students at a local campus. Slashing his victims throats with a switchblade before stuffing loose change into their mouths leaving behind the words "She Needed The Money" wherever he goes. Jack's search leads to a number one suspect in the form of Richard Darling an out-of-work actor drawn to the case for reasons unknown as he is drawn to the Jack's art student daughter, Jennifer who studying at the exact same college as the murders occur. As Jack finds himself becoming partnered to Richard who continues on being never far away when the next homicide occurs. Jack searches to uncover this killer of girls before he concludes his slaughter spree with Jennifer.
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
Himself
It’s tempting, when praising Cassavetes’s films, to resort to generalizations about the director’s admirable intentions; descriptions like “original,” “raw,” and “human,” while certainly true, need to be expanded upon in order to get at what makes Cassavetes’s work special, and the film’s interview subjects sometimes fall into the trap of leaving things at the level of simplification. But for those new to the director’s films, there’s still some good material here: the commentary from Cassavetes mainstays Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Al Ruban, Seymour Cassel, and (especially) Peter Falk is predictably engaging, and the selected footage from formative early works like Shadows and Faces is revealing of a filmmaker in the process of discovering his voice.
The Zone
Dick Althorp
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna.
Liberdade Selvagem
Warden Ferguson
Rodeo-cum-prison movie about an ageing rodeo star bonding with a young rookie while they both serve time.
Vidas Paralelas
Charlie Duke
Mulher reúne os antigos colegas de escola para matar as saudades. Um clima de nostalgia envolve a todos, até que um crime acontece, pondo um fim ao clima de coleguismo e trazendo à tona desavenças do passado
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Moshe
Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace accord. Richard is glad to go as it gives him a chance to see his girlfriend Esther, a psychologist. Esther's father Moshe is continually tormented by his Holocaust memories. Hammoudi, nicknamed "Local Radio," is Richard's taxi driver and guide. He tells Richard the story of his family which was uprooted in 1948 resulting in the disappearance of his grandmother. Mysteriously, her picture appeared in a recent Arabic newspaper. Richard, intrigued, decides to center his investigations upon "Local Radio's" story. As he delves deeper into their lives he discovers that the ancient rivalries between the Israeli's and Palestinians is far too deep and complex to be easily explained away.
Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
Amenophis III
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment just before she is married to the old Pharaoh Amanophis III. She must say goodbye to her lover, the sculptor Yame. But in Egypt she appears to have a great talent for power. After the death of Amanophis she collapses on the heir to the throne Akhematon.
Anything for John
Self
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-depth, candid interviews with his wife and muse Gena Rowlands as well as his most trusted friends and co-workers like Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, etc. Clips from Cassavetes' greatest films, and many rare photos illustrate this touching documentary.
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
Joseph Bonanno
The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York Mafia boss.
Blindsided
Ira Gold
An ex-cop is temporarily blinded when he steals cash from a money laundering operations. While recuperating in Mexico, the thief falls in love with a beautiful woman who has underworld connections. When the girl disappears, he returns to the United States to find her, risking death from the gangster
Per Sempre
Marcelo
Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful Berenice investigates his love life, to feel closer to him. With her findings, their relationship becomes mixed with a strong sense of seduction.
Lies Before Kisses
Grant Sanders
A wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accusations appear false until his own son testifies against him. Desperate to discredit her stepson, the publisher's wife tries to clear her husband's name, but is drawn deep into a tangled web.
People Like Us
Gus Bailey
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice.
Beyond the Ocean
Writer
A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he tries to avoid the insistent phone calls coming from Manhattan and records his philosophical ponderings about this mid-life crisis on videotape. Before long, he is partying with another burnt-out businessman and avidly avoiding the attentions of colleagues who have come to Bali to try and get him to come back to Manhattan.
Beyond the Ocean
John Tana
A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he tries to avoid the insistent phone calls coming from Manhattan and records his philosophical ponderings about this mid-life crisis on videotape. Before long, he is partying with another burnt-out businessman and avidly avoiding the attentions of colleagues who have come to Bali to try and get him to come back to Manhattan.
Beyond the Ocean
Director
A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he tries to avoid the insistent phone calls coming from Manhattan and records his philosophical ponderings about this mid-life crisis on videotape. Before long, he is partying with another burnt-out businessman and avidly avoiding the attentions of colleagues who have come to Bali to try and get him to come back to Manhattan.
Quicker Than the Eye
Ben Norell
An expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds himself hopelessly entangled in an elaborate terrorist assassination plot.
Matador de Aluguel
Brad Wesley
Dalton é um lendário segurança que chega a Jasper, Missouri com um propósito definido: restaurar a ordem no perigoso bar Double Deuce. Mas à medida que ele limpa o bar de maus elementos, arruaceiros e pistoleiros, ele acaba por atrair a ira do homem que os contrata: o famoso criminoso Brad Wesley.
Arena - John Cassavetes
Himself
Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fellow directors remember the man and his work.
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Don Bosco
Don Giovanni Bosco
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Capt. Tom Wright
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.
O Pesadelo do Século
Mike Zella
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
Downpayment on Murder
Harry Cardell
About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.
The Professor
Il Professore
Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new "boss of the bosses". With his sister's help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. Here he starts immediately a new relationship with "Cosa Nostra" (Italian American Mafia). He is going to seat on the peak of the most powerful criminal organization, and the Italian authorities are almost impotent.
Bitter Champagne
Paul Rivière
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.
A Letter to Three Wives
Porter Holloway
Three women are going on a trip that leaves incommunicado with the rest of the world and before they leave; a woman who either has a history or relationship with each of their husbands leaves them a letter that says that she is leaving with one of their husbands. As they wait to return so they could find out who it is, they each remember an important moment in their lives that involves them and their husbands...and the woman.
My Dearest Son
Antonio Morelli
A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help his only child, even if it means sharing his hell.
AIDS - Aconteceu Comigo
Nick Pierson
Um advogado descobre que tem AIDS e se vê obrigado a contar para a família e amigos do trabalho que é homossexual, que está infectado e que sua morte é inevitável, uma vez que a doença, nos anos 1980, ainda não tinha tratamento adequado.
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
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.
Telefonema na Madrugada
Alberto
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.
Uno scandalo perbene
The man with no memory
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
The Girl from Trieste
Dino Romani
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
Inchon
Maj. Frank Hallsworth
A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur.
A Question of Honor
Detective Joe DeFalco
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
Muito Riso e Muita Alegria
John Russo
A Agência de Detetive Odyssey de Nova York é contratada por dois clientes diferentes para seguir duas mulheres suspeitas de infidelidade. John Russo segue Angela Niotes, a elegante mulher de um rico industrial italiano, enquanto Charles Rutledge e Arthur Brodsky seguem Dolores Martin, a bela e jovem esposa de um marido muito ciumento. Seus respectivos casos se complicam quando John se apaixona por Angela e Charles se apaixona por Dolores.
Crônica de um Amor Louco
Charles Serking
O poeta / palestrante Charles Serking desperta de sua neblina alcoólica o suficiente para pegar um ônibus de volta para L.A. e mergulhar em uma orgia de bebida e depravação sexual.
A Herdeira
Rhys Williams
Sam Roffe, presidente de uma empresa farmacêutica multinacional, é morto enquanto praticava alpinismo. No início acham que é um acidente, mas depois o Inspetor Max Hornung deduz que Roffe foi assassinado. A filha de Sam, Elizabeth, assume o controle da empresa, e enquanto viaja através da Europa, ela logo se torna um alvo também. A suspeita recai sobre os primos Roffe, todos eles querem lançar na Bolsa ações da empresa e vender com um lucro enorme. Uma vez que isto vai contra a vontade do pai, Elizabeth rejeita seus conselhos e decide manter a empresa nas mãos da família. Enquanto o Inspetor Hornung investiga a fundo os primos, mais tentativas são feitas contra a vida de Elizabeth. Na esperança de revelar o culpado, Hormung é capaz de conectar essas tentativas a uma série de assassinatos de prostitutas, que são gravados em snuff filmes.
O Tatuado
Jack Flowers
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
Noite de Estréia
Manny Victor
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Anson 'Kip' Roberts
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
The Death of Richie
George Werner
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
A Viagem dos Condenados
Morris Troper
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
High Velocity
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive.
A Morte de um Bookmaker Chinês
Cosmo Vittelli
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.
Capone, O Gângster
Al Capone
Produção que narra a ascensão e queda do mais infame gângster de Chicago, Al Capone, e seu poder como o chefão da máfia italiana nos anos de 1920. O filme também descreve os anos seguintes à prisão de Capone.
Maneater
Nick Baron
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.
O Fator Netuno
Cmdr. Adrian Blake
Um comandante de um submarino experimental em alto mar, é chamado para resgatar uma equipe de pesquisadores aquáticos, presa nos destroços do laboratório no fundo do mar.
The Sicilian Connection
Joseph Coppola
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
Perseguição Sem Trégua
Steven Graves
O que começa como uma investigação de rotina rapidamente se transforma em uma corrida emocionante para salvar milhões da morte certa neste thriller tenso e emocionante. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, ER) "faz uma impressionante estreia na direção" (The Hollywood Reporter) neste jogo mortal de gato e rato em que as apostas não poderiam ser maiores! Quando o agente do governo Steven Graves (Ben Gazzara) investiga o extremista político James Wright (E.G. Marshall), ele descobre uma conspiração diabólica para explodir gás letal em San Diego durante a Convenção Republicana. O que é pior, um hacker de computador (Martin Sheen) forneceu a Wright um perfil psicológico para ajudá-lo a enganar Graves. Como Wright engenhosamente ilude Graves, Graves pode encontrar uma maneira de detê-lo antes que o pesadelo final comece?
The Family Rico
Eddie Rico
A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.
Fireball Forward
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
Silêncio Mortal
Doremus Connelly
Durante o belo, porém gelado inverno da Nova Inglaterra, uma família em uma fazenda isolada, passa por uam terrível experiência quando misteriosos telefonemas produzem arrepios e muita ansiedade. Michael Douglas interpreta um hipnotizador psicopata provocando situações que se sucedem levando todos ao limite da loucura até um final inesperado e explosivo.
Os Maridos
Harry
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
A Ponte de Remagen
Sgt. Angelo
À medida que os exércitos aliados se aproximam, os nazistas decidem explodir a última ponte do Reno, deixando seus próprios homens no lado errado rio. Será que isso vai acontecer? Em março de 1945, quando a Guerra na Europa está chegando ao fim, o Exército Aliado procurou desesperadamente uma ponte sobre o impenetrável rio Reno, para lançar um grande ataque no centro da Alemanha. "A Ponte de Remagem" conta a verdadeira história da batalha por esta última cabeça de ponte, tanto da perspectiva alemã como americana.
Enquanto Viverem as Ilusões
Card Player
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
Obsessão de Amar
Roger Bannon
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Carol for Another Christmas
Fred
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
Os Heróis Também Matam
Captain George Stubbs
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
Convicts 4
John Resko
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
Preceito de Honra
Dr. David Coleman
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
O Ladrão Apaixonado
Lello
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
Anatomia de um crime
Lt. Frederick Manion
Em um julgamento de assassinato, o advogado do réu alega que ele teve insanidade temporária, depois que a vítima estuprou sua esposa. Qual é a verdade?
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is Condemned".
O Rancoroso
Jocko de Paris
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.