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Allen Garfield - filmography


  • Absence Of The Good on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Stephen Baldwin,  Rob Knepper,  Shawn Huff
    Director: John Flynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After the death of his only child, Homicide Detective Caleb Barnes is haunted by nightmares and visions of the boy, upsetting both his home and professional lives. While his wife's sorrow spirals further downward, he finds the chance for redemption in the pursuit of a killer whose diverse and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 135 members
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  • Wild Side on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Christopher Walken,  Joan Chen,  Steven Bauer
    Director: Donald Cammell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Anne Heche stars as Alex Lee, a loan officer who works as a high-class call girl by night, in this erotic thriller. When Alex is unwittingly caught up in a sting operation by the police, she is forced to agree to help catch a notorious underworld boss named Bruno (Walken) who had hired her one ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 785 members
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  • Diabolique on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Isabelle Adjani,  Chazz Palminteri
    Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this remake of the French classic, the wife of an abusive school headmaster joins forces with his mistress to do away with him. However, something goes wrong, and the two begin to get the feeling that their victim may not really be dead. When a private investigator becomes involved, the thread ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 873 members
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  • Cyborg 2 (1993)
    Starring: Elias Koteas,  Angelina Jolie,  Jack Palance
    Director: Michael Schroeder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This sci-fi actioner is set in the year 2074. The story is framed by the war between the two international corporate giants, Pinwheel Robotics and Kobayashi, responsible for manufacturing the cyborgs that 21st century technology has become dependent upon. In fact, most of the world is being run by ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 7 members
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  • Let It Ride (1989)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Teri Garr,  David Johansen
    Director: Joe Pytka
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Like most small-time compulsive gamblers, cabbie Jay Trotter (Dreyfus) tends to lose whenever he bets and has promised his wife Pam (Teri Garr) that he's given up betting at the track. But when he gets a tip on a sure thing the following weekend, he's sure he can't lose. He wins on a fifty dollar ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 292 members
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  • Beverly Hills Cop 2 on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Judge Reinhold,  John Ashton
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In BEVERLY HILLS COP II, Eddie Murphy is back as Axel Foley, a resourceful Detroit detective who doesn't exactly play by the rules. When his friend Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) is wounded in an event related to mysterious "alphabet crimes," Foley hightails it to California and reunites up with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 12,543 members
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  • The Cotton Club on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Gregory Hines,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience. Mixing historical figures ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 977 members
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  • Teachers (1984)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  JoBeth Williams,  Judd Hirsch
    Director: Arthur Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A teacher overcomes his frustration in a high-school full of flunkies. As he attempts to educate his students, his attempts to help them gets him into trouble with the school board, which only adds to his problems. With the support of his students he beats the school board and his frustration.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Get Crazy (1983)
    Starring: Malcolm McDowell,  Allen Garfield,  Daniel Stern
    Director: Allan Arkush
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
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  • The State of Things on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Alexandra Auder,  Allen Garfield,  Camila Mora-Scheihing
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    "The State of Things" is a 1982 road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It tells the story of a film director travelling from Portugal to Los Angeles in search of his missing producer. The soundtrack includes original music from Jim Jarmusch, Jürgen Knieper, as well as tracks from Joe Ely, X and The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 76 members
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  • One From The Heart on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Nastassja Kinski,  Frederic Forrest,  Teri Garr
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After completing Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola initially planned for his next picture to be an intimate romantic musical shot on a low budget in Las Vegas. Three years later, One from the Heart had mushroomed into a big-budget spectacular, shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 621 members
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  • Mother, Jugs and Speed (1976)
    Starring: Raquel Welch,  Harvey Keitel,  Bill Cosby
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This highly irreverent and satirical black comedy recounts the daily tragedies of a group of ambulance drivers at a run-down company in 1970s California. A smart-aleck blend of television's TAXI and M*A*S*H and precursor to BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, the film is set at the F? ambulance company, which ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 34 members
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  • The Conversation on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  John Cazale,  Allen Garfield
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Made between The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), and in part an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's art-movie classic Blow-Up (1966), The Conversation was a return to small-scale art films for Francis Ford Coppola. Sound surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,892 members
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  • Kojak on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Telly Savalas,  Ned Beatty,  Allen Garfield
    Director: Joseph Sargent,  Jeannot Szwarc
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Telly Savalas will best be remembered as the follically-challenged, lollipop-loving Theo Kojak of the eponymously-titled television crime drama, which ran from 1973-1978. Lt. Kojak was a tough-as-nails police detective who brought criminals to justice with his unique brand of unorthodox style that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 168 members
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  • The Organization on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Gerald S. O'Loughlin,  Sidney Poitier,  Barbara McNair
    Director: Don Medford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sidney Poitier makes his third appearance as Virgil Tibbs in this police thriller. While aiding a group of local vigilantes trying to bust an international drug ring, Tibbs uncovers evidence that ties the police department to organized crime. His discovery, and subsequent investigation, leads him ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 101 members
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  • Hi, Mom! on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Charles Durning,  Allen Garfield
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    John Rubin, a Vietnam Vet, returns to New York where he rents a rundown flat in the Greenwich Village. There he begins to film the people in their apartments across the street from him.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 294 members
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  • Putney Swope (1969)
    Starring: Stan Gottlieb,  Allen Garfield,  Archie Russell
    Director: Robert Downey Sr.
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, when a twist of fate lands him in the executive's chair, Swope is determined to make some significant changes.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 8 members
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Allen Garfield facts

5 most recent films

Absence Of The Good - 2.5 stars
Wild Side - 2.5 stars
Obsession - 3.0 stars
Diabolique - 2.5 stars
Cyborg 2 - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Conversation - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Conversation - 3.5 stars
Beverly Hills Cop 2 - 3.5 stars
Let It Ride - 3.5 stars
The State of Things - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Get Crazy - 3 stars
Sketches Of A Strangler - 1.5 stars
Busting - 2.0 stars
Blue Manhattan - 2.0 stars
Putney Swope - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert De Niro - 4 times - show films
Philip Bruns - 3 times - show films
Peter O'Toole - 3 times - show films
Sharon Farrell - 3 times - show films
Lara Parker - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Francis Ford Coppola - 7 times - show films
Brian De Palma - 4 times - show films
Richard Rush - 3 times - show films
Donald Cammell - 2 times - show films
Wim Wenders - 2 times - show films