Vincent Gardenia

A widowed Brooklyn book-keeper is torn between her fiancé and his brother. (imdb)

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks.

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match. (imdb)

A nerdish florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. (imdb)

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an over-anxious angel before he was supposed to die, comes back to life in the body of a recently-murdered millionaire. (imdb)

Karma comes into play when a wealthy wisecracking landlord is ordered by a court to live in the filthy building that he runs. (imdb)

The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season. (imdb)

John Ritter portrays a womanizing, drunken, alcholic writer who's life seems to be falling apart at the seams... (imdb)

Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story. (imdb)

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... (imdb)

A girl brings home her latest boyfriend to meet her parents. This is done against the background of random shootings that had just begun in NYC. How the family's failings are magnified by the social confusion of the times is the crux of the plot.

Paul Kersey, the vigilante, now lives in LA with his daughter, who is still recovering from her attack. He also has a new woman in his life. One day while with them, Kersey is mugged by some punks, Kersey fights back, but they get away. The leader wanting to get back at Kersey, goes to his house, but Kersey was not there, but his daughter is. So they kidnap her and assault her. After they were done, she leaped out of a window to her death. Kersey then grabs his gun and goes after them... (imdb)

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

When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies. What neither of them know is that two of Miss Lafleur's young students have stowed away with the animals... (imdb)

Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about a young man making the film. (imdb)

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals. (IMDB)

Adele Tasca is convinced that her late spouse, a chemist, was murdered by a filthy rich, reclusive entrepreneur, Stegner. When she reports her suspicions to the authorities at the U.S. Justice Department, the officials squeeze mobster Sal Hyman to put a contract out on Stegner. Hyman, in turn, persuades retiree gunsmith Jerry Fanon and his assistant Catlett to bring down Steiger once and for all. (Rotten Tomatoes)

A woman is dragged into a lake by an unseen killer and many years later, her daughter Lillian returns home where she is menaced by an axe-wielding maniac. She also has a psychic link with her evil sister Lilith who has been possessed by the spirit of the witch Kira... (eofftv.com)

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 will a huge prize. (imdb)

The hardworking detectives of the 87th Precinct in an unnamed city during a massive heat wave investigate the seemingly random murders of policemen. (imdb)

Based on the true-life book of lawman Burton Turkus, this movie chronicles the rise and fall of the organized crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated. Focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hitman Reles. (imdb)

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.

Filmmaker marries pregnant girl in order to avoid the draft. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)

This quirky melodrama opens with an automobile crash. The driver, Steve Mallory, comes out of unconsciousness with amnesia. As his memory slowly returns, he learns that he is a wealthy manufacturer of table china. His wife Alexandria wants to leave him, and his cousin Oliver Parsons wants Steve to sell him the family business. He also learns that the passenger in his car, a cocktail waitress named Holly Mitchell, was killed in the accident... (allmovie.com)

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

Benny and his wife Ruthie a getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russel. While Russel 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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Story of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangland killer in the 1930s. (imdb)

Biography of the 1961-1963 presidency of John F. Kennedy. (imdb)

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. When a boyhood buddy and fellow officer finds himself facing dismissal, the Chief finds himself at odds with his fellow officers. Meanwhile he is also working two cases involving the murder of senior citizens and a series of homicides occurring after kidnapings.

Fact-based drama about a US soldier who was the victim of torture by his own side, and was also administered drugs to him without his knowledge as part of an experiment. Starring Glynn Turman and Vincent Gardenia (tvguide.co.uk/detail/904854/110339198/conspiracy-exposed-the-james-thornwell-story-1981)

Joe Gallagher, a down-on-his luck boxer whose life and career undergo a change when an orphaned, little girl named Goldie is left in his care.

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

On the eve of his wedding trip (destination Sanremo) Alfredo Riva learns that he had won a contest of "Playmen" whose prize is a five-day vacation in Jamaica together, day and night, with the beautiful playmate Christine. (imdb)

A spy wants to "come in from the cold" since his last assignment resulted in the death of two innocent people. But the service cannot let a man quit.