Victor Argo
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1934-11-05
Locus Natus: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Et ut: Vic Argo
Mean Streets
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
release : 1973.10.14popularis : 22.469
Dream House
Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite...
release : 1981.11.28popularis : 1.166
After Hours
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
release : 1985.08.16popularis : 14.48
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
release : 1999.10.06popularis : 18.848
The Last Temptation of Christ
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas...
release : 1988.05.28popularis : 18.242
Blue in the Face
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During...
release : 1995.09.15popularis : 8.006
Boxcar Bertha
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union...
release : 1972.06.14popularis : 10.684
The Funeral
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
release : 1996.01.26popularis : 9.664
Angel Eyes
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to...
release : 2001.05.18popularis : 11.211
Don't Say a Word
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic...
release : 2001.09.28popularis : 16.294
Bad Lieutenant
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his...
release : 1992.11.20popularis : 19.001
King of New York
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and...
release : 1990.07.18popularis : 20.509
McBain
Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes...
release : 1991.09.20popularis : 4.131
Double Whammy
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A...
release : 2001.10.17popularis : 9.248
Shadows and Fog
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
release : 1991.12.05popularis : 8.067
Lulu on the Bridge
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
release : 1998.09.06popularis : 6.503
Bridget
Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would "sell" him back if she offers enough money. When...
release : 2002.02.07popularis : 3.189
Hanky Panky
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's...
release : 1982.06.04popularis : 8.137
Her Alibi
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...
release : 1989.02.03popularis : 17.73
'R Xmas
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
release : 2001.10.04popularis : 8.549
The Yards
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife....
release : 2000.04.27popularis : 23.028
Off Beat
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance...
release : 1986.04.10popularis : 3.874
Falling in Love
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize...
release : 1984.11.21popularis : 8.882
New York Stories
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories...
release : 1989.03.10popularis : 9.569
Hot Tomorrows
A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest...
release : 1977.04.01popularis : 3.493
The Don Is Dead
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
release : 1973.11.14popularis : 7.289
Angela
Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe...
release : 2002.06.07popularis : 2.737
New Rose Hotel
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
release : 1999.03.19popularis : 10.002
Side Streets
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.
release : 1998.09.05popularis : 1.471
Which Way Is Up?
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid...
release : 1977.11.04popularis : 6.992
The Final Contract
David Sloan is 40 and is a Vietnam veteran unable to accept his violent past. Decides to consult a psychiatrist and gradually begins to understand...
release : 1993.02.07popularis : 1.204
Queenie in Love
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.
release : 2001.09.12popularis : 1.817
Going Nomad
El Cid Rivera is 33 and has never left Manhattan Island; neither have his childhood friends, whom he meets every day at the same bar around the same...
release : 1998.07.28popularis : 0.913
On the Run
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from...
release : 1999.01.29popularis : 0.839
Quick Change
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage...
release : 1990.07.13popularis : 18.993
Sins of Silence
A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape victim.
release : 1996.02.20popularis : 1.238
Tight as a Drum
A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.
release : 1974.02.11popularis : 1.158
Dangerous Game
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he...
release : 1993.10.13popularis : 5.826
Johnny Ryan
An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City.
release : 1990.07.29popularis : 1.053
Taxi Driver
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for...
release : 1976.02.09popularis : 52.225
Condition Red
Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.
release : 1995.12.08popularis : 2.252
Men Lie
Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.
release : 1994.01.13popularis : 2.559
Crimes and Misdemeanors
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker...
release : 1989.10.13popularis : 15.242
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O...
release : 1974.02.03popularis : 1.661
Lustre
"Lustre" chronicles a change in heart, a spiritual awakening through the rise of an unlikely holy man. Filmed on the streets of New York in the year...
release : 2005.08.17popularis : 1.313
Smoke
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul...
release : 1995.06.09popularis : 13.059
The Unholy Rollers
Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other...
release : 1972.11.10popularis : 4.459
Florida Straits
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a...
release : 1986.10.26popularis : 4.316
Monkey Trouble
Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little...
release : 1994.03.18popularis : 13.743
True Romance
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
release : 1993.09.09popularis : 19.721
Desperately Seeking Susan
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the...
release : 1985.03.29popularis : 12.509
Raw Deal
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief...
release : 1986.06.06popularis : 11.668
The Pick-up Artist
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
release : 1987.09.18popularis : 16.424
Household Saints
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
release : 1993.09.15popularis : 3.795
Next Stop Wonderland
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep...
release : 1998.08.21popularis : 5.918
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by...
release : 2003.09.12popularis : 1.427
Fast Food Fast Women
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going...
release : 2000.05.15popularis : 10.842
The Terminal Man
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the...
release : 1974.06.19popularis : 4.629
Coming Soon
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than...
release : 1999.06.08popularis : 8.783
Blue Moon
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.
release : 2000.01.16popularis : 1.278
Somebody to Love
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in...
release : 1994.09.27popularis : 3.001
The Rose
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
release : 1979.11.07popularis : 13.687
Music
Spiced with surreal, Kafkaesque twists, MUSIC is about a man who loves music and is fascinated by the fair sex. But he is not quite sure why and how...
release : 2003.06.04popularis : 1.241