5 Movies Starring Allen Garfield

The Owl and the Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussycat

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-11-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (2194 Reviews)

Director:

Herbert Ross

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Bill Manhoff (play)

Buck Henry (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Can a bickering odd couple in Manhattan become friends and maybe more? Owlish Felix is an unpublished writer who vents his frustration by reporting to the super that the woman in a neighboring flat takes the occasional payment for sex. She's Doris, more wildcat than pussycat, and when Felix's peeping-tom-tattle-tale routine gets her bounced from her apartment, she knocks at his door at 3 AM, aggressive and ticked off. They yell, lose another apartment, and pick up where they left off in a friend's flat and beyond. Dancing by the light of the moon seems unlikely for this owl and pussycat.

The Conversation

The Conversation

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-06-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (69112 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. He is a San Francisco-based electronic surveillance expert who owns and operates his own small surveillance business. He is renowned within the profession as being the best, one who designs and constructs his own surveillance equipment. He is an intensely private and solitary man in both his personal and professional life, which especially irks Stan, his business associate who often feels shut out of what is happening with their work. This privacy, which includes not letting anyone into his apartment and always telephoning his clients from pay phones is, in part, intended to control what happens around him. His and Stan's latest job (a difficult one) is to record the private discussion of a young couple meeting in crowded and noisy Union Square. The arrangement with his client, known only to him as "the director", is to provide the audio recording of the discussion and photographs of the couple directly to him alone in return for payment. Based on circumstances with the director's assistant, Martin Stett, and what Harry ultimately hears on the recording, Harry believes that the lives of the young couple are in jeopardy. Harry used to be detached from what he recorded, but is now concerned ever since the deaths of three people that were the direct result of a previous audio recording he made for another job. Harry not only has to decide if he will turn the recording over to the director, but also if he will try and save the couple's lives using information from the recording. As Harry goes on a quest to find out what exactly is happening on this case, he finds himself in the middle of his worst nightmare.

The Stunt Man

The Stunt Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-02-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (6566 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Rush

Cast:

Writer:

Lawrence B. Marcus (screenplay)

Richard Rush (adaptation)

Paul Brodeur (novel)

Fullplot:

While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes.

The Black Stallion Returns

The Black Stallion Returns

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-03-25

Languages:

English, Berber languages, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (1450 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Dalva

Cast:

Writer:

Walter Farley (novel)

Richard Kletter (screenplay)

Jerome Kass (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The Black is stolen from Alec by his former Arabian owners. Alec sets off on an adventure to Arabia to reclaim his beloved horse. Based on the books by Walter Farley.

Les patriotes

Les patriotes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-06-01

Languages:

French, English, Hebrew

Countries:

France

Runtime:

138 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (856 Reviews)

Director:

Eric Rochant

Genres:

Thriller

Cast:

Writer:

Eric Rochant (screenplay)

Fullplot:

At 18, Ariel Brenner leaves Paris and his family to live in Israel. He secretly joins the Mossad, the Isreali secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist... We will assist to the methods, the manipulations, the abuses, the machiavellism, the doubts of secret agents.

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