Philip Bosco
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1930-09-26
Locus Natus: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Et ut:
Shaft
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...
release : 2000.06.15popularis : 16.727
Children of a Lesser God
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the...
release : 1986.09.13popularis : 19.215
Working Girl
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg...
release : 1988.12.20popularis : 13.073
Young at Heart
A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to...
release : 1995.03.12popularis : 1.764
The Money Pit
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with...
release : 1986.03.26popularis : 38.895
The First Wives Club
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the...
release : 1996.09.20popularis : 17.184
Kate & Leopold
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a...
release : 2001.12.25popularis : 19.801
Nobody's Fool
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for...
release : 1994.12.23popularis : 17.769
Safe Passage
Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her...
release : 1994.12.01popularis : 4.182
Another Woman
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some...
release : 1988.10.13popularis : 8.541
The Savages
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
release : 2007.11.28popularis : 9.96
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on....
release : 1984.06.22popularis : 9.768
My Best Friend's Wedding
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter...
release : 1997.06.19popularis : 21.888
Suspect
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and...
release : 1987.10.23popularis : 11.739
It Takes Two
Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play...
release : 1995.11.17popularis : 13.549
Freedomland
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
release : 2006.02.17popularis : 11.468
Deconstructing Harry
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated...
release : 1997.12.12popularis : 13.298
Abandon
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a...
release : 2002.10.14popularis : 19.02
F/X2
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation...
release : 1991.04.16popularis : 12.56
Angie
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll...
release : 1994.03.04popularis : 3.804
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors...
release : 1992.12.01popularis : 1.555
Heaven Help Us
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class...
release : 1985.02.08popularis : 5.408
Moon Over Broadway
A documentary portrait of the backstage efforts to stage the play Moon Over Buffalo on Broadway.
release : 1997.09.07popularis : 0.947
Mark Twain
Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.
release : 2002.01.14popularis : 3.139
Echoes in the Darkness
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion...
release : 1987.11.01popularis : 4.78
Liberty
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
release : 1986.06.23popularis : 2.014
Hogan's Goat
A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair...
release : 1971.10.18popularis : 0.676
No Ordinary Baby
A reporter gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the...
release : 2001.10.08popularis : 2.857
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Jennifer's life changes when Warner, now Vice President of the United States, decides to see her and her son, Joshua. At the same time, Jennifer is...
release : 1986.11.02popularis : 2.01
When the Evening Comes
Charlie Corrado is pushing forty and still lives with his grandparents, Martin and Marion Corrado. Although he feels safe in the environment they...
release : 2009.11.05popularis : 1.012
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
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
release : 1999.07.25popularis : 3.301
Hitch
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes...
release : 2005.02.11popularis : 28.555
Wonder Boys
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7...
release : 2000.02.22popularis : 9.883
Against the Wall
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
release : 1994.03.26popularis : 11.442
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
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
To one man, it was perfect natural resource to benefit thousands of people. To another, it was a beautiful, sacred land that mustn't be defiled under...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 0.692
Critical Care
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their...
release : 1997.10.31popularis : 5.238
Blue Steel
Megan Turner, a rookie NYC cop, foils an armed robbery on her first day and then engages in a cat-and-mouse game with one of the witnesses who...
release : 1990.03.16popularis : 8.73
Internal Affairs
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as...
release : 1988.11.06popularis : 0.983
Milk Money
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then...
release : 1994.08.31popularis : 12.454
The Luckiest Man in the World
New York City garment manufacturer Sam Posner is a liar, a bully and a cheat who makes life unpleasant for his wife, mistress and everyone else...
release : 1989.02.22popularis : 0.627
Read Between The Lines
When an illiterate toy maker has the right to his invention stolen, his grandson and the Harlem Globetrotters team up to get them back.
release : 1987.06.03popularis : 0.412
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.
release : 1994.03.29popularis : 3.079
A Lovely Way to Die
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's...
release : 1968.04.19popularis : 3.682
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
The Dream Team
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after...
release : 1989.04.07popularis : 14.522
Carriers
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.
release : 1998.01.01popularis : 2.374
True Colors
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
release : 1991.03.15popularis : 5.555
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car...
release : 2003.10.06popularis : 4.454
An Enemy of the People
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa...
release : 1966.12.02popularis : 2.634
3 Men and a Baby
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
release : 1987.11.27popularis : 12.491
Borough of Kings
Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's...
release : 2000.12.31popularis : 1.471
Flanagan
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he...
release : 1985.10.30popularis : 1.324
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips...
release : 2006.05.02popularis : 2.548
Twelfth Night
Ah, summer! School is out, work slows down and passions heat up in the warm summer air. Theatrically speaking, it's the perfect time for a sexy...
release : 1998.08.30popularis : 2.027
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
release : 2004.09.04popularis : 6.215
Trading Places
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
release : 1983.06.07popularis : 40.239
Straight Talk
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in...
release : 1992.04.03popularis : 6.03
Cupid & Cate
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of...
release : 2000.05.07popularis : 2.723
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous Broadway producer.
release : 1994.12.20popularis : 2.17
The Crash of 1929
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there...
release : 1990.11.19popularis : 2.261
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
Examine the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the...
release : 2010.05.10popularis : 3.409
Murder in Black and White
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
release : 1990.01.07popularis : 2.271
The Return of Eliot Ness
Detective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder with the help of the son.
release : 1991.11.10popularis : 0.971
Lincoln
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
release : 1992.12.26popularis : 0.871