F. Murray AbrahamFilmography

Nature: The Dragon Chronicles

Synopsis: Romulus "Rom" Whitaker sustains a reputation as one of the world's most respected herpetologists (scientists who study reptiles and amphibians). But his fascination blossomed from a most unusual source: as a child, he fantasized constantly about validating the existence of real-life dragons. As an Read More

Perestroika

Actors: Sam Robards, Ally Sheedy, F. Murray Abraham, Oksana Stashenko, Jicky Schnee

Synopsis: Liquid Sky director Slava Tsukerman examines the Jewish emigration from the USSR in the 1970s through the tale of an astrophysicist who returns to Moscow in 1992 after having fled to the U.S. 17 years prior. Back in 1975, Sasha Greenberg (Sam Robards) was branded a traitor by his government Read More

Nature: Drakensberg: Barrier of Spears

Synopsis: South Africa's Drakensberg mountain range is a geologically unique landscape whose harsh physical terrain is nonetheless home to a diverse collection of flora and fauna. This nature documentary focuses on one of the Drakensberg's animal inhabitants, the eland species of antelope, which makes a Read More

Barbarossa

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan, F. Murray Abraham

Carnera: The Walking Mountain

Actors: Andrea Iaia, Paul Sorvino, Burt Young, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: Standing six and a half feet tall and weighing 265 pounds, Primo Carnera was one of the most formidable opponents in the history of heavyweight boxing, and in 1933, after becoming heavyweight champion of his native Italy, we went on to defeat Jack Sharkey in New York to become heavyweight champ of Read More

Nature: What Females Want... and Males Will Do

Actors: F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: This two-part biological documentary examines the process and practice of courtship as exhibited by numerous species in the animal kingdom. The first half explores behavior common to females and argues that they instinctively attempt to "shape the future" of their respective species by selecting Read More

Nature: The Beauty of Ugly

Actors: F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: Entitled The Beauty of Ugly, this episode of PBS's acclaimed Nature documentary series introduces the audience to a host of zoological species with pronounced "odd" or "unattractive" appearances - and discusses the ways in which the creatures' unique physiologies impart them with added behavioral Read More

Nature: Arctic Bears

Synopsis: As originally produced for - and broadcast on - PBS, this documentary program argues that the titular beasts represent one of nature's most remarkable species. The direct product of a global Ice Age, and the descendant of the traditional brown bear, the polar bear (or ursus martimus) Read More

Operation Lysistrata

Synopsis: In January 2003, two Manhattan activists, Sharron Bower and Kathryn Blume, conceived the idea of staging a public reading of Aristophanes's seminal anti-war comedy, Lysistrata, as a protest against the preemptive strike on Iraq and subsequent U.S. occupation. Word of their doings caught fire and Read More

Shark Swarm

Actors: John Schneider, Daryl Hannah, Armand Assante, F. Murray Abraham, Roark Critchlow

Synopsis: Tourist season sets the stage for terror when a greedy developer attempts to transform a quiet California fishing town into a gaudy tourist trap, and a swarm of man-eating Great Whites begin devouring anyone who dares venture into the once-peaceful waters. Decades of dumping has turned the Pacific Read More

Nature: Silence of the Bees

Synopsis: As originally produced for - and broadcast on - PBS, the documentary program Nature: The Silence of the Bees travels back to the winter of 2006, when an odd and enigmatic phenomenon transpired in the entomological realm: millions of honeybees vanished without a trace from their hives, thereby Read More

Nature: Superfish

Synopsis: The titular reference - "Superfish" - refers not to one particular species of fish, but to a whole class of aquatic vertebrae so enormous that they rank among the most intimidating "gamefish" in the Earth's seas and oceans. These include the swordfish, the sailfish, and the marlin (among others). Read More

Nature: The Wolf That Changed America

Synopsis: It marked an unusual and seldom-discussed battle between animal and man: in the year 1893, the bounty hunter Ernest Thompson Seton hearkened out to the rugged canyons of New Mexico to slay a wolf alternately christened "Lobo" and "King of the Currumpaw" by the locals. Lobo courted a legendary Read More

Nature: Prince of the Alps

Synopsis: This breathtaking nature film follows the awe inspiring life of a single red deer as he struggles for survival in nature's harsh conditions. Capturing the deer's life from his birth, the film shows how the newborn grows into a curious and precocious calf in his first six weeks, exploring the world Read More

Nature: Voyage of the Lonely Turtle

Actors: F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: As produced by PBS and aired as an episode of the series Nature, this documentary follows the obstacle-filled course of a loggerhead turtle named Adelita, on her once-in-a-lifetime, 9,000 mile journey from Mexican shores to the beach in Japan where she first hatched from an egg. En route, Adelita Read More

Nature: The Gorilla King

Actors: F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: What external dynamics or internal traits would prompt a 400-pound Silverback gorilla with a tortured familial history to relinquish the past and rise above his trauma, courageously leading a pack of 25 other primates for the duration of his lifetime? That's the question posed by this documentary Read More

Nature: Dogs That Changed the World, Part 1 - The Rise of the Dog

Extreme Lands of the Americas

Nature: Andes - The Dragon's Back

The Final Inquiry

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Daniele Liotti, Monica Cruz, F. Murray Abraham, Max von Sydow, Hristo Shopov

Synopsis: A Roman warrior on a quest to uncover the truth about Jesus of Nazareth becomes enamored with an Israeli beauty after rescuing the woman from a violent mugger in this Biblical-themed period drama starring Dolph Lundgren, F. Murray Abraham, Max Von Sydow, and Mónica Cruz. A solar eclipse has cast Read More

Nature: Sharkland

Actors: F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: F. Murray Abraham, classically trained star of the blockbuster features Amadeus (1984) and Finding Forrester (2000), hosts and narrates the PBS Nature special Sharkland. The program travels to the majestic, mysterious freezing waters around southern Africa, where a bizarre zoological phenomenon Read More

Nature: Supersize Crocs

Synopsis: The PBS animal documentary Nature: Supersize Crocs begins with an incredible legend. Amid worldwide terror over the cannibalistic proclivities of the crocodile, even more jolting rumors persist of an oversized species that allegedly spans up to 21 feet. On a heartbreaking note for zoologists Read More

The Stone Merchant

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Jordi Mollà, Jane March, F. Murray Abraham, Paco Reconti

Synopsis: A terrorist bombing victim who devoted his life to trumpeting the threat that Islam poses to western culture finds his marriage threatened by a converted Christian possessed by the vengeance of jihad in action specialist Renzo Martinelli's tense and topical thriller. Eschewing his career as a Read More

Blood Monkey

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Matt Reeves, Sebastian Armesto, Matthew Ryan

Synopsis: Six American graduate students studying apes in the African jungle discover a new species of killer chimpanzees that could prove to be the most formidable threat ever known to humankind. Upon first spotting this bizarre new breed, Greg, Dani, Amy, Josh, Sydney, and Seth were all assured by their Read More

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Actors: Robert De Niro, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Thornton Wilder's award-winning novel is given a lavish screen adaptation in this historical drama from writer and director Mary McGuckian. In Peru in 1714, a rickety bridge collapsed as five people were attempting to cross, forcing them to plunge to their deaths. Brother Fray Juniper (Gabriel Byrne Read More

NOVA: Newton's Dark Secrets

Synopsis: In addition to the reputation afforded him in the centuries following his death as a world-shaking scientific provocateur, Isaac Newton was also extraordinarily devout, and something of a mystic. As one who did his life's work during an unusual period when both modern science and theology were on Read More

Papa Rua Alguem 5555

Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Charlton Heston, F. Murray Abraham, Thomas Heinze, Alberto Bevilacqua

Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers

Actors: Sophia Loren, F. Murray Abraham, Angela Pagano, Elio Pandolfi, Armando Pugliese

Scarface

Actors: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, an exiled Cuban criminal who goes to work for Miami drug lord Robert Loggia. Montana rises to the top of Florida's crime chain, appropriating Loggia's cokehead mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer) in the process. Howard Hawks' "X Marks the Spot" motif in depicting the Read More

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites - The End of Days

Actors: Keith David

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites - The Book and the Sword

Actors: Keith David

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites - By the Rivers of Babylon

Actors: Keith David

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites - The Gift of the Jews

Actors: Keith David

Try To Remember: The Fantasticks

Synopsis: This documentary documents the final performance of the off-Broadway show The Fantastics and takes a look back at its 42 year run. Some of the revolving cast members in this show later went on to enjoy success in film and television such as Liza Minnelli, Glenn Close, and Ricardo Montalban. Read More

Piazza delle Cinque Lunes

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Rocca, Greg Wise, Aisha Cerami

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Keith David, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, René Auberjonois, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: Originally intended as a four-part miniseries, Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites made its U.S. debut as a two-part PBS special on May 14 and 21, 2003. Narrated by Keith David, with character voices provided by an impressive lineup of prominent actors, the program is dedicated to the Read More

Joshua

Actors: Tony Goldwyn, F. Murray Abraham, Kurt Fuller, Stacy Edwards, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: A mysterious stranger brings both spiritual comfort and a certain level of distrust to a small community in this drama based on the spiritual best-seller by Joseph Girzone. A mysterious man named Joshua (Tony Goldwyn) arrives in the small Midwestern town of Auburn sometime in the late 19th Read More

A Dream in Hanoi

Actors: Lorelle Browning, Doan Hoang Giang, Allen Nause, Do Ky, Ahn Dung

13 Ghosts

Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Alec Roberts, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathryn Anderson

Synopsis: This haunted house chiller is the second feature from Dark Castle Entertainment, the mid-budget outfit put together in 1999 to remake the cheesy horror genre pictures of William Castle by his daughter, Terry Castle, and producers Gilbert Adler, Robert Zemeckis, and Joel Silver. Financially ravaged Read More

I Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa

Actors: Edward Furlong, Raoul Bova, Marco Leonardi, Thomas Kretschmann, Stanislas Merhar

Synopsis: A handful of young knights are given the grave responsibility of rescuing one of the most sacred relics in Christianity in this lavish historical epic. In the year 1272, the bloody swath of the Crusades has swept much of Europe, and King Louis IX of France dies after a battle in Tunisia. After the Read More

American Experience: The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Synopsis: In April of 1906, the grand and thriving city of San Francisco was host to luminaries including writer Jack London, world-class opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. At 5:30 in the morning on April 18, one of the most disastrous earthquakes in U.S. history shook the Read More

Finding Forrester

Actors: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes

Synopsis: In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive novelist named Forrester (Sean Connery) -- who hasn't written anything since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades earlier -- and Jamal (Rob Brown), a Read More

Esther

Actors: Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham, Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: The tenth in a series of made-for-TV movies based on stories from the Bible, this drama stars Louise Lombard as Esther, a common Jewish woman who rose to wealth and power when she captured the heart of the King of Persia. Eventually, Esther opted to use her influence to win freedom and a better Read More

The Darkling

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: A poor man learns that obtaining wealth through evil means can command a terrible price in this made-for-TV horror story. Jeff Obold (Aiden Gillen) is a struggling auto mechanic whose personal life is a good bit more rewarding than his career; he has a lovely wife, Marla (Nina Siemaszko), and a Read More

Muppets from Space

Actors: Kirk Thatcher, Ken Kaufman, Mark Nutter, Thomas Wolfe, Dave Goelz, Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Brian Henson, Ray Liotta, David Arquette, Andie MacDowell

Synopsis: At long last, the secret of just what the Great Gonzo happens to be is revealed! As Gonzo and his friend Rizzo hit the road in search of their roots, Gonzo makes a shocking discovery: his parents are actually space aliens from another galaxy. After announcing this startling news on Miss Piggy's Read More

Excellent Cadavers

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Anna Galiena, Chazz Palminteri

Synopsis: A noble judge attempts to put an end to the corruption that plagues Palermo in director Ricky Tognazzi's adaptation of Alexander Stille's best-selling novel detailing the hazardous career of real-life judge Giovanni Falcone. The setting is Palermo, Italy, and the decade is the 1980s. As the grip Read More

The All New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy: For Love or Mummy

Actors: Bronson Pinchot, Gailard Sartain, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy return -- well, sort of -- in this comedy for the whole family. Bronson Pinchot plays the look-alike nephew of Stan Laurel, while Gailard Sartain appears as a man who bears a striking resemblance to his uncle, Oliver Hardy. Just like their uncles, when the younger Stan Read More

Noah's Ark

Actors: Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Kane, James Coburn

Synopsis: The biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood gets a decidedly unusual retelling in this film, produced as a two-part TV movie and first aired on NBC in May 1999. Noah Jon Voight is an ordinary laborer who one day begins receiving messages from God. It seems the Lord has a special assignment for Read More

Star Trek: Insurrection

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: Star Trek: Insurrection manages to recall the original 1960s series' spirit of liberalism, while transcending it for sheer boldness, embracing issues that are on the political cutting edge in the 1990s and beyond. The fact that the first 30 minutes are presented as a mystery only makes the Read More

Mimic

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: While one would imagine that the average New Yorker would be used to dealing with bugs after years of apartment dwelling, a scientific experiment gone wrong results in an insect that even Raid can't handle in this sci-fi/horror thriller. In Manhattan, cockroaches are spreading a deadly disease Read More

Color of Justice

Actors: Bruce Davison, F. Murray Abraham, Judd Hirsch

Synopsis: In this thought-provoking courtroom drama, the husband of a woman who was killed during a carjacking learns that justice can be hard to find when media hype and political agendas are added to the mix. The youths are captured and a trial date set. The quartet of carjackers are represented by Public Read More

Eruption

Actors: F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: Forces of politics and nature converge to throw a poor nation into chaos in this drama. Sam (Cyril O'Reilly) is a photojournalist from the United States who is on assignment in the South American country of San Pedro. While his stated goal is to cover a visit by the Pope, Sam also hopes to score Read More

Una Vacanza All'Inferno

Actors: Marco Leonardi, F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini, Mirca Viola, Rolando Ravello

Synopsis: In this Italian crime drama, unemployed Angelo (Marco Leonardi) is elated to receive an offer from Luciano (Alessandro Zamattio) to assist in a Bangkok video shoot. Unknown to Angelo, Luciano stashes inside the camera $10,000 worth of heroin, discovered at airport customs. Placed in a cell with Read More

Dead Man's Walk

Synopsis: Author Larry McMurtry revisits Gus and Woodrow, the aging lawmen from his bestselling Western novel Lonesome Dove, in their early days as young men determined to make a name for themselves as Texas Rangers in this made-for-TV prequel. Gus (David Arquette) and Woodrow (Jonny Lee Miller) join up Read More

National Geographic: Puma - Lion of the Andes

Synopsis: This is the story of a puma's life in the wilds of Chile, in a highly acclaimed, prize-winning documentary by wildlife cinematographer Hugh Miles. The elusive puma -- also known as a mountain lion or cougar -- is called the "golden ghost." Seldom seen and rarely photographed, the puma is shown Read More

Children of the Revolution

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths

Synopsis: Children of the Revolution is an Australian film whose cinematic roots go back to the sardonic comedies of Billy Wilder. It is set in two time periods, the 1950s and 1990s, and goes back and forth between them. In the 1990s, Australian politician Joe Welch (Richard Roxburgh) is having some serious Read More

Dillinger and Capone

Synopsis: In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham Read More

Baby Face Nelson

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Lisa Zane, Doug Wert, Martin Kove, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: This exciting crime drama recounts the life and times of one of the Prohibition's most famous and feared gangsters as he engages in a territorial battle with his nemesis Al Capone. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mighty Aphrodite

Actors: Woody Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rapaport, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: A dissatisfied Manhattan sportswriter finds more than he expected when he searches for the biological mother of his adopted child in Woody Allen's comedy. Writer-director Allen also plays Lenny, a slightly more relaxed incarnation of his usual neurotic screen persona. Lenny is trapped in a bad Read More

Jamila

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Linh-Dan Pham, Nikolai Kinski, Jason Connery

Synopsis: It's young love on the steppes in this romantic fable based on a 1956 story by Chingiz Aitmatov. The movie was filmed on the beautiful Kirghiz steppes. The story reflects the wistful memories of Seit, a N.Y. painter as he reminisces about his youthful, innocent love affair with Jamilia back in the Read More

Surviving the Game

Actors: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: The Richard Connell short story, The Most Dangerous Game, has been adapted for the screen many times. In this updated version, the rapper-actor Ice-T plays Mason, a homeless man whose best friend and his dog both die on the same day. Cole (Charles S. Dutton, a relief worker, tells Mason that Read More

Fresh

Actors: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Ron Brice

Synopsis: A bright young African-American boy attempts to survive life in the city by acting as an errand boy for a drug dealer in this thoughtful, sharply plotted drama. Known as Fresh, the young man must use his delivery jobs to support himself and his troubled sister, receiving nothing from his distant Read More

Nostradamus

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond

Synopsis: This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the future. Michel de Nostradamus (Tcheky Karyo) was the son in a Jewish family who posed as Catholics to be spared the wrath of the Inquisition. As a student of the renowned Read More

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Actors: Kim Miyori, John Neville, Jeffrey Nordling, Farrah Forke, Tim Russ

Synopsis: A scientific expedition to the earth's center goes awry, leaving the explorers marooned in a fantastic underground world. Adapted from Jules Verne's classic adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sweet Killing

Actors: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Based on Agnes Hall's novel Qualthrough, this suspenseful crime drama chronicles the comeuppance of a murderous banker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Last Action Hero

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Frank McRae, Anthony Quinn, Charles Dance, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a Read More

L'Affaire

Actors: Robert Hossein, F. Murray Abraham, Bruno Wolkowitch, Candice Patou

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, Kathy Ireland

Synopsis: The Lethal Weapon series and the rest of the buddy-cop genre receives the parody treatment in this low-brow comedy. Emilio Estevez stars as Jack Colt, the Mel Gibson-like loose cannon, while Samuel L. Jackson assumes the Danny Glover role as Wes Luger, his exasperated partner. Together, Colt and Read More

Mobsters

Actors: Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: In this fictionalized account based on true figures, a foursome of young thugs decides to team up and take control of New York's east side from the aging bosses who control it. Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) control the physical elements of the operation, while Read More

Cadence

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach, Blu Mankuma

Synopsis: When a young Caucasian military man is thrown into an all African-American barracks for punishment, he slowly earns the respect of his peers while they all are forced to contend with the prejudicial acts of a racist sergeant. Charlie Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Martin Sheen (who also directed) and Read More

National Geographic: Hawaii - Strangers in Paradise

Synopsis: Since man's arrival to the Hawaiian Islands over 2000 years ago, nearly 70% of the native plant and animal species have become extinct -- and many of the remaining species are in danger. Thus a tough battle lies ahead for scientists and conservationists trying to maintain what is left of native Read More

A Season of Giants

Actors: Mark Frankel, John Glover

Synopsis: Season of Giants succeeds more in ambition than in execution. This 195-minute TV movie proposes that a great professional rivalry existed between Renaissance geniuses Michelangelo (Mark Frankel) and Leonardo da Vinci (John Glover). While the Florentine and Roman scenery is authentic, certain Read More

First Circle

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Victor Garber, Laurent Malet, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Secrets of Dick Smith

By the Sword

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Eric Roberts, Mia Sara, Chris Rydell, Elaine Kagan

Synopsis: Villard (Eric Roberts) is an expert swordsman who runs a fencing school; he first learned the sport from his father, who was killed in a match when Villard was a young man. One day, an older gentleman (F. Murray Abraham) who looks down on his luck appears at Villard's fencing studio; he introduces Read More

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle Read More

Money

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Maryam D'Abo, Bruno Cremer, Christopher Plummer, F. Murray Abraham, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Stars and famous locations abound in this multinational production, a would-be "financial thriller" about swindles and betrayals among jet-set gazillionaires, which takes place in glamor spots all over the globe. Somebody has stolen millions of dollars from his father, and Frank Cimballi (Eric Stoltz Read More

Tikhiy Don

Actors: Natalya Andreichenko, F. Murray Abraham, Rupert Everett, Delphine Forrest, Ben Gazzara

The Third Solution

Actors: Treat Williams, F. Murray Abraham, Danny Aiello, Rita Rusic

Synopsis: In this spooky political thriller, the world seems on the brink of a nuclear holocaust when an old agreement between the Kremlin and the Vatican comes to light. It is an American tourist (at least he seems like a tourist) who exposes the potentially deadly "Third Solution," and now only one Read More

An Innocent Man

Actors: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Richard Young

Synopsis: In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. Then, one day, Jimmie decides to take a shower. While scrubbing himself clean, two crooked cops are getting themselves dirtier. Mike Parnell (David Rasche Read More

Intimate Power

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this drama stars Amber O'Shea as Aimee Dubuca De Rivery, a French girl sold into slavery, where she is purchased by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Beyond the Stars

Actors: Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Robert Foxworth, Sharon Stone, Olivia D'Abo

Synopsis: In Beyond the Stars Martin Sheen plays a former astronaut who befriends misunderstood teenager Christian Slater. Gradually warming up to the boy, the previously taciturn Sheen alludes to an incident in his past that he was ordered to keep secret. This disturbs Slater's dad Robert Foxworth-a former Read More

The Favorite

Actors: Amber O'Shea, F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams

Slipstream

Actors: Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton, Kitty Aldridge, Eleanor David, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, a fugitive named Byron (Bob Peck) is captured by cop Will Tasker (Mark Hamill) and his beautiful partner Belitski (Kitty Aldridge). But when bounty hunter Matt Owens (Bill Paxton) learns that there is a price on Byron's head, he tricks the police and absconds with the Read More

La Rosa dei Nomi

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Jean-Jacques Annaud

Synopsis: This documentary attempts to create an interesting and profitable encounter between the filmmakers, award-winning writer Umberto Eco, and Jean-Jacques Annaud, the director of a film based on one of Eco's more popular books The Name of the Rose and starring Sean Connery. In the process, the Read More

The Name of the Rose

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Elya Baskin, Michel Lonsdale, Ron Perlman, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., William Hickey

Synopsis: Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William Read More

Dream West

Synopsis: A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred Richard Chamberlain as colorful, controversial American explorer John Charles Fremont (1813-1890). The story detailed the visionary (and occasionally mercenary) Fremont's lifelong war Read More

Amadeus

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice

Synopsis: For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Read More

Marco Polo

Actors: Ken Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Tony Vogel, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary globetrotter Marco Polo. Newcomer Ken Marshall played the title character, a 14th century Venetian explorer who, among other accomplishments, firmly established the "silk route" Read More

Madman

Synopsis: A Soviet Jew defects to the Israeli Army so he can get even with the hated Russians in this 1979 film, the first big role for Sigourney Weaver (released the same year as her break in Alien). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Big Fix

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, Ofelia Medina

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss plays Moses Wine, an ex-Sixties radical who pays the bills as a private eye. Wine is hired to stem a smear campaign against a popular political candidate. Gradually the plot thickens into a murder case, involving a hippie leader whose values, like Wine's, have been severely Read More

Kojak: The Godson

Synopsis: After a long estrangement, Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) is reunited with his tenement-dwelling godson, 17-year-old Theo Kojak Moore (Todd Davis). But it is hardly a joyous reunion: Young Theo is now in charge of a street gang specializing in shaking down shopowners and pensioners. Even so, Kojak Read More

Sex and the Married Woman

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Sex and the Married Woman stars Joanna Pettet as a housewife and Barry Newman as her liberal-minded husband. Encouraging his wife to find her "inner self," Newman has no notion that Pettet will translate this invitation into writing a book based on the sex habits of her friends and neighbors. The Read More

The Ritz

Actors: Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Kaye Ballard, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: With The Ritz, Terrence McNally's hit Broadway play of the same name is cinematized by director Richard Lester. Jack Weston plays Gaetano Proclo, a minor mob flunky who's been targeted for elimination by his brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci (Jerry Stiller). Gaetano takes refuge in what he thinks Read More

All the President's Men

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jr.

Synopsis: Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Read More

All in the Family: The Unemployment Story, Part One

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Jinaki

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Archie suffers the humiliation of being fired from his job -- just as Mike is given a promotion. But this blow is a minor one compared to the heartache Archie endures when he makes his first trip to the unemployment office. Future Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham Read More

The Sunshine Boys

Actors: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, Carol Arthur

Synopsis: In this 1975 adaptation of Neil Simon's stage play, director Herbert Ross presents the story of two old-time Vaudvillians played by Walter Matthau and George Burns in his first starring role since 1939's Honolulu. After decades apart, the cantankerous duo is persuaded to reunite for a television Read More

Kojak: A Question of Answers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Kojak's two-part Season Three opener (originally seen as a single two-hour "special" episode), Kojak (Telly Savalas) continues putting pressure on an unjustly jailed man to turn state's evidence against the loan shark who framed him. This is the first step in an overall plan Read More

Kojak: A Question of Answers, Part 1

Synopsis: Season Three of Kojak begins with the first episode of a two-part story (originally seen as a single two-hour offering), in which NYPD lieutenant Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) is out to get the goods on a mob-controlled loan racket. The hoods specialize in killing those who can't pay up, meaning that Read More

Serpico

Actors: Al Pacino, Tony Roberts, Jack Kehoe, Cornelia Sharpe, Barbara Eda-Young

Synopsis: Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system. Neophyte officer Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is determined not to let his job get in the way of his individuality. Despite his Read More

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley

Synopsis: A lesser but still entertaining Neil Simon work, The Prisoner of Second Avenue was adapted to film in 1974. Jack Lemmon takes over the role played on Broadway by Peter Falk: Mel is a New York-based advertising man who goes through hell when he loses his job. The gods seem to conspire against him Read More

They Might Be Giants

Actors: Staats Cotsworth, George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Lester Rawlins, Rue McClanahan

Synopsis: George C. Scott stars as Justin Playfair, a retired, widowed judge who labors under the delusion that he's Sherlock Holmes. Feigning concern, Playfair's greedy brother Blevins (Lester Rawlins) hires psychologist Dr. Mildred Watson (Joanne Woodward) to certify that Justin is insane--and in so doing Read More