Search results for "Peter Falk"
My Darling Vivian (2020)

My Darling Vivian (2020)

My Darling Vivian (2020)
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The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash’s first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as…

Genre: Documentary
American Cowslip (2009)

American Cowslip (2009)

American Cowslip (2009)
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In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the…

Genre: Comedy
Next (2007)

Next (2007)

Next (2007)
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Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child…

Finding John Christmas (2005)

Finding John Christmas (2005)

Finding John Christmas (2005)
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When a photojournalist photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger John Christmas. After seeing the photo,…

Genre: Family, TV Movie
The Thing About My Folks (2005)

The Thing About My Folks (2005)

The Thing About My Folks (2005)
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Ben’s dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben’s mother (Sam’s wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben’s wife and his three sisters try…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Checking Out (2005)

Checking Out (2005)

Checking Out (2005)
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A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
When Angels Come to Town (2004)

When Angels Come to Town (2004)

When Angels Come to Town (2004)
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Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he meets a young woman without a family named Sally. As…

Undisputed (2002)

Undisputed (2002)

Undisputed (2002)
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Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion,…

The Lost World (2001)

The Lost World (2001)

The Lost World (2001)
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This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully…

A Town Without Christmas (2001)

A Town Without Christmas (2001)

A Town Without Christmas (2001)
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In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child’s letter to Santa Claus captures the nation’s attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world…

Corky Romano (2001)

Corky Romano (2001)

Corky Romano (2001)
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Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Made (2001)

Made (2001)

Made (2001)
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Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Lakeboat (2000)

Lakeboat (2000)

Lakeboat (2000)
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Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America’s Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which…

Genre: Comedy
A Constant Forge (2000)

A Constant Forge (2000)

A Constant Forge (2000)
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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…

Genre: Documentary
The Sunshine Boys (1996)

The Sunshine Boys (1996)

The Sunshine Boys (1996)
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90

Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)
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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…

Genre: Documentary
Columbo: Strange Bedfellows (1995)

Columbo: Strange Bedfellows (1995)

Columbo: Strange Bedfellows (1995)
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When Graham McVeigh kills his brother and frames a mob bookie for the crime and then kills the bookie and claims self-defense. He finds himself facing trouble from both Columbo…

Genre: Crime
Roommates (1995)

Roommates (1995)

Roommates (1995)
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108

An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Faraway, So Close! (1993)

Faraway, So Close! (1993)

Faraway, So Close! (1993)
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The film opens with the angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) standing on the statue of the Angel of Victory overlooking post-Cold War Berlin. Growing ever more despondent over his fate as…

Tune in Tomorrow… (1990)

Tune in Tomorrow… (1990)

Tune in Tomorrow… (1990)
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107

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the Spirit (1990)

In the Spirit (1990)

In the Spirit (1990)
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A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as…

Genre: Comedy
Cookie (1989)

Cookie (1989)

Cookie (1989)
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Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Vibes (1988)

Vibes (1988)

Vibes (1988)
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Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they’re contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find…

The Princess Bride (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987)
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In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of…

Big Trouble (1986)

Big Trouble (1986)

Big Trouble (1986)
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Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn’t making things any easier….

Genre: Action, Comedy
…All the Marbles (1981)

…All the Marbles (1981)

…All the Marbles (1981)
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113

A two-bit promoter tries to take a women’s wrestling team to the top.

The In-Laws (1979)

The In-Laws (1979)

The In-Laws (1979)
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103

In preparation for his daughter’s wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom’s father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag…

The Brink’s Job (1978)

The Brink’s Job (1978)

The Brink’s Job (1978)
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104

After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink’s security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn’t make the press….

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Cheap Detective (1978)

The Cheap Detective (1978)

The Cheap Detective (1978)
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Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner…

Mikey and Nicky (1976)

Mikey and Nicky (1976)

Mikey and Nicky (1976)
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In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who’s on his trail.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Murder by Death (1976)

Murder by Death (1976)

Murder by Death (1976)
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Lionel Twain invites the world’s five greatest detectives to a ‘dinner and murder’. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more…

Griffin and Phoenix (1976)

Griffin and Phoenix (1976)

Griffin and Phoenix (1976)
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Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
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Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile…

Genre: Drama
Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)

Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)

Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)
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A brilliant tort attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.

Husbands (1970)

Husbands (1970)

Husbands (1970)
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131

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.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Balcony (1963)

The Balcony (1963)

The Balcony (1963)
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The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy