An agoraphobic heroin addict seeks redemption by growing the rare and beautiful flower that will help him win the town's...
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2009
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A man with the ability to see the future and change the outcome of events before they occur is forced to choose between...
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2007
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Peter Falk, Rip Torn, Bill Cobbs, George Segal, and Coolio star in director Charlie Picerni's geriatric road comedy following...
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2007
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A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his upcoming birthday...
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Morris Applebaum
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2006
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The documentary Edge of Outside works as an introductory primer to the careers of some great filmmakers, but offers little...
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2006
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2006
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Writer/director Michael Meredith's ambitious first feature, Three Days of Rain, weaves together a large number of tales,...
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Waldo
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2005
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A middle-aged man finds himself dealing with the divorce of his elderly parents as well as many years of emotional baggage in...
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Sam Kleinman
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2005
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Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of...
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2004
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First telecast by CBS on November 28, 2004, When Angels Comes to Town is the third in a series of whimsical TV-movies...
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2004
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First telecast by CBS on November 30, 2003, the made-for-TV Finding John Christmas is a sequel to the previous year's A Town...
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2003
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The third TV movie produced for the TNT network's "Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentations," Wilder Days stars Peter Falk...
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James "Pop-Up" Morse
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2003
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Thirty-five years after his first television appearance in the feature-length Prescription: Murder, rumpled, raincoat-clad...
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Executive Producer, Lt. Columbo
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2003
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Director and screenwriter Walter Hill returns to one of his favorite themes -- desperate and violent men using force to...
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Emmanuel "Mendy" Ripstein
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2002
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Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Kattan stars in this mob comedy as Corky Romano, a veterinarian with a penchant for pop...
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Pops Romano
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2001
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In this reunion of Swingers co-stars Jon Favreau (making his feature directorial debut) and Vince Vaughn, the two star in a...
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Max
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2001
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Renowned character actor Joe Mantegna makes his directorial debut with this film adaptation of one of David Mamet's first...
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2001
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Peter Falk returns to the role of Lt. Columbo -- he of the grimy trenchcoat, dumb-like-a-fox interrogations, and the...
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2001
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Made for British television, this two-part adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure-fantasy novel The Lost World...
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2001
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How does a man convince the woman he loves that attempting to make him the toast of Broadway could be a really bad idea? Paul...
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Paul's Father
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2000
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Robert Wise brings his distinguished name and considerable directorial skill to this remake of a 1970 Rod Serling TV drama....
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Abel Shaddick
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2000
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1999
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In this feature-length episode of the enduring and endearing television detective drama, the world's most rumpled police...
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1998
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1997
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Based on a best-selling novel by Elmore Leonard, this crime drama centers upon a Florida bookie's attempts to leave behind...
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1997
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In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did...
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Rocky Holzcek
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1995
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Peter Falk returns as America's favorite rumpled detective. In this episode, the cigar-toting Lt. Columbo investigates a...
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1994
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In this episode of the long-running detective series, Lt. Columbo delves seven years into the past to look into a lucrative...
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1994
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Himself
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1993
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In this feature-length episode, the rumpled police lieutenant investigates a murder and finds himself the object of a...
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1993
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Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted...
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1992
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This is one of the many made for TV movies revolving around the popular disheveled character created by Peter Falk -...
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Lieutenant Columbo
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1992
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Larry's lack of knowledge pertaining to office gossip leaves him feeling left out in the lurch in this episode of HBO's...
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1992
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Peter Falk returns as dishevelled Lieutenant Columbo in this 2-hour TV special. This time, Columbo investigates the murder of...
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1992
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In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with an unscrupulous jeweler over a dead nephew and a winning...
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Lt Columbo
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1991
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In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with a brilliant defense attorney who kills his mistress. Trouble...
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1991
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Peter Falk is Lieutenant Columbo, and the murderer is known to the audience from the get-go. This much we know before ever...
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1991
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Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news...
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Pedro Carmichael
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1990
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Elaine May and Marlo Thomas star in this black comedy taking place in the black comedy capital of the world -- New York City....
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Roger Flan
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1990
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This documentary focuses on the person and the films of one of Germany's premiere post-war filmmakers, Wim Wenders. Wenders...
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1990
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The title of this 2-hour Columbo entry is one of the most grievous puns ever perpetrated on the public. The "crown" in...
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1990
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The murder of a popular romance novelist sets America's favorite rumpled detective on the case. Columbo gets off on the...
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1990
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This was one of the highest-rated of the Columbo 2-hour TV movies of the 1990s. The story begins as Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk)...
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1990
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Where Columbo (Peter Falk) goes, can murder be far behind? In Columbo Goes to College, the rumpled TV sleuth shows up on...
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1990
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The tenth season of Columbo episodes was seen on ABC, which in 1989 has resurrected the property after its removal from NBC...
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Lt. Columbo
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1990
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This is one of the many made for TV movies revolving around the popular disheveled character created by Peter Falk -...
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1990
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1990
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Dominick "Dino" Capisco
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1989
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Revived by ABC after eleven years' dormancy, the popular detective series Columbo proved so successful in its revitalized...
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Lt. Columbo
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1989
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It's an alluring title, to be sure, but faithful Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) does not stray from his never-seen wife in Columbo:...
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Columbo
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1989
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After an eleven-year-absence, Peter Falk once more dons his tattered raincoat and steps into the role of delightfully sloppy...
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Lt. Columbo
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1989
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1989
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After an absence of nearly a decade, Peter Falk returns to the role of dishevelled detective Columbo in Columbo Goes to the...
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1989
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Let's see: who is the character played by Fisher Stevens supposed to be? Stevens plays an egomaniacal Hollywood director,...
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1989
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1989
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Two hapless psychics unwittingly aid a criminal in his quest to obtain a mystic relic in this farcical adventure. Street...
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Harry Buscafusco
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1988
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Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings...
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Himself
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1988
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Diamonds and food are the subjects of Reading Rainbow: Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner. In the featured story, written by...
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1988
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Walter (Kent Andersson) is a retired sailor and former boxer who meets a 13-year-old prostitute and drug addict...
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John B. Svensson
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1988
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Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to...
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1987
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Happy New Year is an Americanized remake of the 1974 French film of the same name. Peter Falk and Charles Durning play Nick...
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Nick
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1987
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It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are...
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Steve Rickey
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1985
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Filmed in 1984, I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes was released in 1989, the year of the subject's death. Filmmaker...
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1984
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The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie,...
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1981
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Director Robert Aldrich's last film, All the Marbles stars Peter Falk as a "win-at-all-costs" type manager of a ladies...
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Harry
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1981
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Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very...
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Vince Ricardo
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1979
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The Conspirators was one of four Columbo feature-length TV specials irregularly scheduled during the 1977-1978 TV season. The...
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1978
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A handful of bumbling crooks pull off the heist of the century in spite of themselves in this blend of comedy and action....
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Tony Pino
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1978
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Directed by Arnold Shapiro, this 1970s documentary brought 17 juvenile delinquents to a maximum security New Jersey prison...
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1978
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Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou...
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Lou Peckinpaugh
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1978
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At first glance, How to Dial a Murder would seem to be a TV remake of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. But no, it's a 90-minute...
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1978
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1978
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Five new Columbo episodes, each running between 90 and 120 minutes, were produced for the series' seventh season as a...
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Lt. Columbo
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1977
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The setting for this 2-hour Columbo TV drama is a club for geniuses. One of the members is Theodore Bikel, whose business...
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1977
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Try and Catch Me could easily be the title of any episode of the TV series Columbo. It so happens, however, that this...
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1977
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1977
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Nickey (John Cassavetes) is a small-time Jewish gangster in trouble with the mob. He calls on his lifelong friend Mikey...
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Mikey
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1976
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Now You See Him was one of the more popular installments in the Columbo TV series. Jack Cassidy guest stars as "The Great...
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1976
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As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the...
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Sam Diamond
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1976
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Peter Falk launches his sixth season as the world's sloppiest, most disheveled and most diligent homicide detective in...
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Lt. Columbo
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1976
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Jeff Griffin (Peter Falk) is dying of cancer. Sarah Phoenix (Jill Clayburgh) is suffering from terminal leukemia. Ignored or...
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Jeff Griffin
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1976
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A Matter of Honor motivates the murder in this 2-hour Columbo episode. Ricardo Montalban guest stars as a famous retired...
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1976
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This 2-hour TV movie stars Janet Leigh as a onetime musical star who dreams of a comeback. Leigh's autocratic and much-older...
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1975
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1975
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Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) takes one of his rare vacations in the 90-minute mystery Troubled Waters. Even on a cruise ship, he...
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1975
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Season five of Columbo brings Peter Falk back to his signature role as a disheveled, seemingly absent-minded homicide...
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Lt. Columbo
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1975
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Still wearing the same old rumpled raincoat, chewing the same old unlit cigar, and trapping clever murderers with "just one...
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Lt. Columbo
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1974
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Swan Song first aired on March 3, 1974, as a 90-minute episode of Columbo. Johnny Cash stretches his acting range to play a...
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1974
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John Cassavetes' harrowing masterpiece charts the emotional meltdown of a suburban housewife and its effects on her...
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Nick Longhetti
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1974
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This 90-minute Columbo episode casts Dick Van Dyke in the image-busting role of a cold-blooded murderer. Van Dyke plays a...
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1974
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In this suspense movie, Lt. Colombo thwarts the evil scheme of a military academy commandant who is planning on murdering...
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1974
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Double Exposure originated as an episode of the TV series Columbo. Guest star Robert Culp plays Dr. Bart Keppler, a...
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1973
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1973
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A Stitch in Crime was first aired as an episode of TV's Columbo. Leonard Nimoy guest stars as a brilliant, ambitious heart...
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1973
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Season three of Columbo finds the series still a rotating component of the NBC Mystery Movie, still starring Peter Falk as...
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Lt. Columbo
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1973
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Requiem for a Falling Star features Anne Baxter as a fading movie queen. And is her face red--Baxter had intended to murder a...
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1973
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A slightly bizarre rare plant collector kills off his nephew to help finance his hobby. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
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1972
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Peter Falk is as shrewd and sloppy as ever as Lt. Columbo in the made-for-TV Most Crucial Game. Columbo's quarry this time is...
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1972
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Rumpled, raincoat-wearing, cigar-chomping Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) continues to play clever mind games with criminals who...
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Lt. Columbo
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1972
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1972
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Looking more like a unmade bed than one of the world's greatest homicide detectives, Lt. Columbo is still the best man to...
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Columbo
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1971
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Peter Falk stars as Lieutenant Columbo--and makes his directorial debut--in the 90-minute TV mystery Blueprint for Murder....
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1971
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Suitable for Framing is a 90-minute episode of TV's Columbo series. The special guest murderer this time is Ross Martin,...
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1971
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In this drama, a district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1971
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A squabble over a valuable art collection proves murder is not a pretty picture in this episode of the popular detective...
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1971
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Lt. Columbo
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1971
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Lt. Columbo
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1971
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Don't confuse this 1970 Italian/Yugoslav Operation Snafu with the 1962 British comedy-drama of the same name. While the...
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1970
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1970
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John Cassavetes wrote and directed this look at three middle-aged men thrown into a midlife crisis when one of their mutual...
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Archie
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1970
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A hardened criminal learns there's little loyalty on either side of the law in this drama from Italian director Giuliano...
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Charlie Adamo
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1969
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This decidedly different war movie follows Maj. Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster), a tired, one-eyed Army officer, as he...
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Sgt. Orlando Rossi
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1969
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Rabinoff
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1968
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In this suspenseful crime drama, a lawyer begins investigating the theft of some priceless Macedonian national treasures...
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1968
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Three friends play a game of musical chairs with their relationships in this quirky comedy based on the hit play by Murray...
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Milt Manville
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1967
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Prescription: Murder, a 1967 TV movie, represents the first appearance of Peter Falk as the rumpled but crafty detective...
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Lt. Columbo
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1967
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The 60-minute TV comedy Dear Deductible stars Peter Falk as a popular but improvident songwriter. After spending all of his...
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1967
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Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy....
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Lt. Bixbee
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1966
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1966
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In this drama, a Hungarian photographer is sad when she discovers that her handsome lover, no longer cares for her. ~ Sandra...
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1965
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Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white...
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Max
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1965
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The Russo/Italian coproduction Attack and Retreat was titled Italiano Brava Gente in Italy and Oni Shli Na Vostok in the...
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1964
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The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and...
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Guy Gisborne
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet...
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Police Chief
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1963
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Unable to get through to a particularly hostile patient, psychiatrist Peter Falk goes to gray-haired senior shrink...
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Young psychiatrist
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1962
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Two-bit evangelist Robert Evans (Peter Falk) attaches himself to a wealthy elderly woman named Naomi Freshwater...
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Robert Evans
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1962
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1962
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Made for the continuing TV series The Dick Powell Theatre, a truck driver (Peter Falk) cares for a pregnant woman...
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1962
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This sledgehammer attack on Cuban dictator Fidel Castro stars Peter Falk as bearded banana-republic revolutionary Ramos...
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Ramos Clemente
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1961
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Peter Falk guest stars as gangster Meyer Fine, a man who lives in mortal fear of sudden death. When a prominent young man...
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1961
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Season Three of The Untouchables begins with a return guest-star appearance by Peter Falk, this time in the role of mob...
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1961
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Joy Boy
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1961
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Jack Weston guest stars as Mr. Neal, a poker addict who has lost $500,000 in a marathon card game. Using the last of her...
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1960
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This episode boasts the presence of two "Lieutenant Columbos": Thomas Mitchell, who created the role of disheveled detective...
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1960
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This true crime story was hardly "ripped from today's headlines," since the events took place some 20 to 30 years before the...
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Abe Reles
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1960
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The short but bloody career of one of the most infamous outlaws of the 1930s is chronicled in this drama. Charles Arthur...
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1960
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Two film neophytes are of note in this otherwise lengthy, routine murder mystery by director William H. Witney -- Peter Falk...
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Tom Weber
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1960
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At the start of his film career and just a year before his appearance in Murder, Inc. would get him Academy Award notice,...
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Nico
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1959
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Wind Across the Everglades represents the once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between director Nicholas Ray and screenwriter...
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1958
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