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John Cassavetes
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I'd recommend this 27 November 2004
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John Cassavetes - filmography
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Big Trouble
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: John Cassavetes
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A troubled production history notwithstanding, BIG TROUBLE remains a lighthearted updating of the classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Alan Arkin stars as Leonard Hoffman, an insurance salesman and father of triplets. When it becomes apparent that his dream of sending his three sons to Yale is ..read more »
 
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from 120 members
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Tempest
(1982)
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Susan Sarandon, Gena Rowlands
Director: Paul Mazursky
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This modernistic fantasy-drama, is about a New York architect Phillip (John Cassavetes), who is fedup with city living. He takes his wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands), an actress, and their daughter, Miranda (Molly Ringwald in her debut), to Greece to a barren island. There he meets a singer and a ..read more »
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The Incubus
(1981)
Starring: John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane
Director: John Hough
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Based on the terrifying novel by Ray Russell, John Hough's powerful rendering of a small town gripped in a wave of evil and fear, from which none will survive. Only one man has the secret of this extra-terrestrial nightmare. He alone knows the INCUBUS - the evil, the destruction, the carnage that ..read more »
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from 59 members
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
(1981)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Kenneth McMillan
Director: John Badham
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Ken Harrison is an artist that makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he make friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
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Gloria
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Juan Adames
Director: John Cassavetes
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Gloria, the quintessential "tough-talkin' dame" -- complete with time in prison and ties to the mob -- has put those days behind her, now living a quiet, solitary life. That changes when the Mafia marks her neighbors for death and Gloria is asked to care for their young son, Phil. She reluctantly ..read more »
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from 571 members
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The Fury
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress
Director: Brian De Palma
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In THE FURY, former government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) searches for his son (Andrew Stevens), kidnapped by a secret agency hoping to exploit the young man's telekinetic powers for their own ends. Meanwhile a young woman, Gillian (Amy Irving), begins to display her own psychic abilities ..read more »
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from 739 members
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Opening Night
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Cassavetes
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In Opening Night, ageing Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) begins rehearsals for her role in a play about a middle aged woman living in denial at the onset of her autumn years. A series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten preparations and when Myrtle witnesses the accidental ..read more »
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from 697 members
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Mikey And Nicky
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ned Beatty
Director: Elaine May
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Elaine May's tense, well-paced thriller is her third film, and one of her most innovative. Using three cameras that she sometimes left running for hours, May captured a spontaneous, real interaction between actor Peter Falk (of the TV series COLUMBO), and actor (and maverick director) John ..read more »
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from 175 members
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
(1976)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey
Director: John Cassavetes
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Ben Gazarra (Dogville) plays Cosmo Vitelli in crime thriller The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Cosmo owns a run down LA strip club called The Crazy Horse West and is in danger of losing his beloved club when he gambles away $23,000 one night. The mob offer to clear him of his debt if he agrees to ..read more »
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Two Minute Warning
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Beau Bridges
Director: Larry Peerce
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When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game, and his killing spree, to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However, his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper ..read more »
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from 118 members
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Minnie And Moskowitz
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery
Director: John Cassavetes
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Museum curator Minnie Moore's (Rowlands) life has not turned out how she expected, she s a divorcee who s just turned 40, with a boyfriend Jim (Cassavetes) who's married to someone else. A nasty break-up and a blind date that goes horribly wrong lead to a chance encounter with parking lot-attendant ..read more »
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from 39 members
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Husbands
(1970)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes
Director: John Cassavetes
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The quiet, simple family lives of Gus, Harry and Archie (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) are shattered when their best friend, Stuart, has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Now facing their mortality, the three men fall into their own midlife crises. First by spending their days playing ..read more »
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Faces
(1968)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin
Director: John Cassavetes
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Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ..read more »
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from 758 members
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Rosemary's Baby
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
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from 10,485 members
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The Dirty Dozen
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Twelve jailbirds will earn their freedom...if they survive a suicide mission against the Nazi brass. Tough-as-nails Lee Marvin leads a nothing-to-lose convict squad of Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and more in the all-time ..read more »
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from 5,644 members
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The Killers
(1964)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
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based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »
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from 67 members
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A Child Is Waiting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill
Director: John Cassavetes
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John Cassavetes's second effort as a studio director is an engrossing, sobering exposé of society's cruel prejudice toward children afflicted with mental retardation; the film focuses on an institution for those with Down's syndrome. A young boy, Reuben Widdicombe (Bruce Ritchey), arrives at the ..read more »
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from 61 members
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season One
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Vera Miles, Elisha Cook Jr., Joseph Cotten
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Join the legendary "Master of Suspense," Alfred Hitchcock, in all 39 original episodes of the first season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the Emmy Award-winning murder-mystery series. Join stellar guest stars including Cloris Leachman, Charles Bronson, Claude Rains, Lorne Green, Joanne Woodward, ..read more »
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John Cassavetes facts
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...that provided the excellent supporting cast which honed the whole performance. John Cassavetes, fresh from 'The Dirty Dozen' played the treacherous husband Guy and Charles Gr...
