5 Movies Starring James Farentino

Me, Natalie

Me, Natalie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-02-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

M

IMDB Ratings:

(593 Reviews)

Director:

Fred Coe

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

A. Martin Zweiback (screenplay)

Stanley Shapiro (story)

A. Martin Zweiback (story)

Fullplot:

Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-04-03

Languages:

English, Syriac

Countries:

Italy, UK

Runtime:

382 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.7 (10997 Reviews)

Fullplot:

A reverent depiction of the life of Christ using the Gospel accounts.

The Final Countdown

The Final Countdown

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-08-01

Languages:

English, Japanese, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (15086 Reviews)

Director:

Don Taylor

Genres:

ActionSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Thomas Hunter (story)

Peter Powell (story)

David Ambrose (story)

David Ambrose (screenplay)

Gerry Davis (screenplay)

Thomas Hunter (screenplay)

Peter Powell (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An American nuclear aircraft carrier and its crew are caught in a classic dilemma when a supernatural storm sends them back in time just before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.

Dead & Buried

Dead & Buried

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-05-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (6493 Reviews)

Director:

Gary Sherman

Cast:

Writer:

Jeff Millar (story)

Alex Stern (story)

Ronald Shusett (screenplay)

Dan O'Bannon (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sheriff Dan Gillis has a nice life with his wife, the teacher Janet Gillis, in the small coastal and friendly town of Potter's Bluff. When visitors are mysterious killed in the town, Sheriff Gillis investigates the cases carefully and finds that dead people are reanimating and coming back to life. Dan finds a book of witchcraft and voodoo in his wife's drawer and he suspects that she might be practicing black magic. Dan meets the coroner-mortician William G. Dobbs and learns the dreadful and surprising secret.

Her Alibi

Her Alibi

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-02-03

Languages:

English, Romanian, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (5244 Reviews)

Director:

Bruce Beresford

Fullplot:

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.

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