Vincent Gardenia
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1920-01-07
Locus Natus: Naples, Italy
Et ut: Vince Gardenia
The Front Page
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
release : 1974.11.01popularis : 12.653
Moonstruck
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny,...
release : 1987.12.16popularis : 19.535
Mad Dog Coll
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
release : 1961.05.12popularis : 2.379
Little Shop of Horrors
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and...
release : 1986.12.19popularis : 29.498
Home Movies
A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star.
release : 1980.05.16popularis : 3.299
Heaven Can Wait
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him...
release : 1978.06.28popularis : 9.974
Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.
release : 1982.02.25popularis : 3.972
Little Murders
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and...
release : 1971.02.09popularis : 6.149
Skin Deep
Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's...
release : 1989.03.03popularis : 7.623
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.
release : 1980.06.24popularis : 5.036
Fire Sale
Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone....
release : 1977.06.09popularis : 3.093
Death Wish
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be...
release : 1974.07.24popularis : 24.329
Greased Lightning
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
release : 1977.07.01popularis : 5.525
Cold Turkey
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they...
release : 1971.02.19popularis : 3.193
Death Wish II
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
release : 1982.02.20popularis : 19.243
Where’s Poppa?
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he...
release : 1970.11.10popularis : 5.078
Murder, Inc.
Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man...
release : 1960.06.28popularis : 6.327
Cop Hater
Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.
release : 1958.10.01popularis : 2.4
The Big Racket
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the...
release : 1976.08.12popularis : 6.465
The Super
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge...
release : 1991.10.04popularis : 14.141
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20...
release : 1954.09.20popularis : 2.998
Hickey & Boggs
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
release : 1972.10.04popularis : 4.7
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years...
release : 1973.10.19popularis : 4.588
Movers & Shakers
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better...
release : 1985.05.03popularis : 7.332
The Third Day
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive...
release : 1965.08.04popularis : 3.923
Luna di miele in tre
Close to the honeymoon, hotel waiter wins a stay in Jamaica with a pin-up. Direction directed by Carlo Vanzina, with the star of "Deep Throat".
release : 1976.04.01popularis : 1.421
Deadheat
A man travels to Siena, Italy, looking for his father, a jockey whom he has never met. The father is dead, and in investigating the circumstances of...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.502
Bang the Drum Slowly
The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher...
release : 1973.08.26popularis : 5.469
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
release : 1990.12.09popularis : 3.011
Howard
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely...
release : 2018.04.22popularis : 5.766
Age-Old Friends
John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse...
release : 1989.12.16popularis : 0.575
Jenny
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam....
release : 1970.01.02popularis : 2.268
The House by the Edge of the Lake
A young university student returns to her family's country villa near a lake where years earlier had mother drowned. She is supposedly researching a...
release : 1979.09.28popularis : 6.028
Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack...
release : 1983.02.06popularis : 3.089
The Hustler
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the...
release : 1961.09.25popularis : 11.092
Dark Mirror
After attorney Frank Girard is murdered, Detective Al Church suspects that Ms. Leigh Cullen is the perpetrator, as she was supposedly last seen with...
release : 1984.03.05popularis : 0.954
Marciano
A highly romanticized dramatization of the life of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to have retired with a perfect record.
release : 1979.10.21popularis : 1.531
Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...
release : 1985.03.10popularis : 4.621
Goldie and the Boxer
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring...
release : 1979.12.30popularis : 2.555
La banca di Monate
Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do...
release : 1976.04.02popularis : 2.801
Firepower
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
release : 1979.04.27popularis : 4.193
Coney Island
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous....
release : 1991.02.04popularis : 2.002
Parrish
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's...
release : 1961.05.04popularis : 3.619
Thornwell
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents...
release : 1981.01.28popularis : 1.3
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
release : 1975.03.07popularis : 1.456
The Screaming Skull
Chemically-dependent doctor Ollie suffers from hallucinations (or are they?) of a talking skull and conducts experiments at the expense of his...
release : 1973.02.14popularis : 2.671
The Odd Squad
Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 3.887
The Dybbuk
The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a...
release : 1960.10.03popularis : 3.715
Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob
The first film based on the television series MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, consisting of a compilation of a two-part episode of the original series from 1967...
release : 1969.12.01popularis : 3.692
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families,...
release : 2006.01.31popularis : 4.182
A View from the Bridge
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised...
release : 1962.01.19popularis : 1.424
Brass
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.779
The Night America Trembled
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938. [An episode of the CBS anthology series...
release : 1957.09.09popularis : 0.717