Movies: Allen Garfield

Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless children — 37 of them over the years — in the Chicago area, all of whom come back to visit when they discover he's terminally ill....

Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II....

A woman's truly evil twin steals her sister's wealthy beloved and marries him. After his death, she fakes her own demise and returns from the "dead" to claim her sister's identity--and to frame her for the murder of her husband....

Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing a winning blackjack system, he hatches a plan that takes years of preparation: to fake his death, a...

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail....

A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000...

This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fought crime in the city and corruption in the police department....

The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel....

Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation, and "investigated" under suspicion of secretly being Jewish....

A look into the cruelties and perversions of politicians....

Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big city. When he gets to the city, he discovers his uncle is running a gang of young jewel thieves....

An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him......

Anthology suspense / horror film with the creepy caretaker of a cemetery introducing some of its occupants and how each was murdered. Segments include "Made for Each Other," "Art Lover," "Whodunit to Whom" and "Avid Readers."...

A five-part story detailing women and sex. In "The Housewife", a door-to-door salesman makes love to a lonely housewife. In "The Roomates" a woman and her date have sex, they awaken the woman's roomate who joins them. In "The Sensualist" two women ma...

Jay is a young slacker who has to get a job in order to receive his inheritance. Rather than physically work, he fabricates an imaginary job in order to convince the attorney in charge of his trust fund....

“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Things (1984). A legendary production and a transitional work for the New German Cinema director as his ...

Henry, an apathetic file clerk at the All-State Collection Agency in New York City, spends most of his working hours sitting in the file room, daydreaming about leading the life of a Buddhist monk. In his free time, Henry roams Greenwich Village with...