Results for : Peter Boyle

A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. There mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip

Director: Alan Myerson

Genres: Drama , Comedy , Crime

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Jane Fonda, Howard Hesseman, John Savage

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.

Director: Howard Zieff

Genres: Thriller , Comedy

Actors: James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman, Louise Lasser, Allen Garfield

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Director: Jud Taylor

Genres: TV Movie , Drama

Actors: Peter Boyle, John Forsythe, Burgess Meredith, Patricia Neal, Jean Stapleton

This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.

Director: Howard Zieff

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Lorraine Bracco

A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Director: James Goldstone

Genres: Adventure , Action , Comedy

Actors: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges

Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.

Director: Patrick Cousans

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Gene Wilder, Michael Gruskoff, Stanford C. Allen, Gerald Hirschfeld, William D. Gordean

In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arsonist in exchange for apparent sexual favors from Jake's wife, Flora.

Director: Don Scardino

Genres: Drama

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Ray Sharkey, Peter Boyle, Anthony Quinn

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

Director: Mel Brooks

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

Director: Peter Yates

Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco

In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's partner, who is also the brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.

Director: Dick Lowry

Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller , TV Movie

Actors: Peter Boyle, Courtney B. Vance, Morris Chestnut, Michael Boatman, Jaime Tirelli

In this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan. Po and his managers resort to drastic measures to goad Kurt into the ring for a rematch.

Director: Albert Pyun

Genres: Action , Adventure

Actors: Sasha Mitchell, Peter Boyle, Dennis Chan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, John Diehl

A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them have been having an affair.

Director: Rocky Lang

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Bill Pullman, Julie Brown, Peter Boyle, Brent Jennings, James Le Gros

A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.

Director: Peter Medak

Genres: Adventure , Comedy

Actors: Peter Sellers, Anthony Franciosa, Spike Milligan, Clive Revill, Peter Boyle

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up if the Artificial Intelligence fail) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Genres: Science Fiction

Actors: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Corin Nemec

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée.

Director: Andrew Bergman

Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance , Thriller

Actors: Nicolas Cage, James Caan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Peter Boyle, Pat Morita

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #4: FOLLOW YOUR OWN STAR is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For this latest tape, our deep dive into behind-the-scenes horror is complemented by an even deeper dive into television from Dimension X. .”

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Genres: Documentary , Mystery

Actors: John Carpenter, Billy Crystal, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Debra Hill

In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino (Peter Falk), a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis (Peter Boyle), who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...

Director: William Friedkin

Genres: Comedy , Crime

Actors: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands

A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for himself or just for his money.

Director: Jerry Belson

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle, Jackie Cooper

In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.

Director: William Reilly

Genres: Drama , Action , Crime

Actors: John Turturro, Rod Steiger, Katherine Borowitz, Dennis Farina, Peter Boyle

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

Director: Wim Wenders

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear, Lydia Lei

Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North follows the military career of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, beginning with his Naval Academy days through to his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Director: Mike Robe

Genres: Thriller , TV Movie , Drama

Actors: David Keith, Barnard Hughes, Annette O'Toole, Peter Boyle, Paul Dooley

When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes care of 21 cows.

Director: Michael Bergmann

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Robert Petkoff, Calista Flockhart, Peter Boyle, Robert Vaughn, Dina Merrill

Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.

Director: Herbert Ross

Genres: Drama

Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Caan, Marcia Rodd, Erin Allin O'Reilly

Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.

Director: Marc Forster

Genres: Drama , Romance

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Sean Combs, Coronji Calhoun

John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects.

Director: Haskell Wexler

Genres: Drama

Actors: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

Director: Phillip Schuman

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, David Bowie, Peter Bull, Tommy Chong

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Director: Art Linson

Genres: Comedy , Drama , History

Actors: Bill Murray, Peter Boyle, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong

An emotionally disturbed young boy shuts out all of his family and friends. A counselor tries to help bring him and his family together again.

Director: Donald Wrye

Genres: Drama

Actors: Peter Boyle, Scott Jacoby, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Tyne Daly, Robert Reed

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

Director: Carlo Lizzani

Genres: Crime , Drama

Actors: Peter Boyle, Paula Prentiss, Fred Williamson, Rip Torn, Charles Cioffi

After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Terry begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.

Director: Bob Clark

Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp, Darren McGavin

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 violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genres: Crime , Drama

Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd

A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.

Director: Peter Medak

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Peter Medak, Maggie Abbott, Thomas Baptiste

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.

Director: Paul Schrader

Genres: Crime , Drama

Actors: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent, Leonard Gaines

The talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.

Director: Will Mackenzie

Genres: TV Movie , Fantasy , Comedy

Actors: Peter Boyle, George Newbern, Amy Yasbeck, Frank McRae, Courtney Barilla

Ad executive Bill Compton confronts and murders his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend. Wandering into a local bar, Bill encounters a drunken, bigoted factory worker with a bloodlust, Joe Curran. When Bill confesses the murder to Joe, the two strike up an uneasy alliance, leading to a wild adventure.

Director: John G. Avildsen

Genres: Drama , Thriller , Crime

Actors: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon, Patrick McDermott, K Callan

Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Genres: Comedy , Family , Adventure

Actors: Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, Liliana Mumy, Judge Reinhold

A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.

Director: Glenn Jordan

Genres: Drama , TV Movie

Actors: Karen Allen, Barry Bostwick, Julie Fulton, Richard Jenkins, Brian Kerwin

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Director: Michael Ritchie

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter, Allen Garfield

An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.

Director: Jim Drake

Genres: Action , Comedy

Actors: John Candy, Donna Dixon, Matt Frewer, Joe Flaherty, Lee Van Cleef

During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes.

Director: Larry Elikann

Genres: Drama , Science Fiction , Thriller , TV Movie

Actors: Ray Baker, Peter Boyle, Patricia Charbonneau, Perry King, Michael O'Keefe

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.

Director: James Frawley

Genres: Comedy , Western

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson, Lee Purcell

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Director: Amy Heckerling

Genres: Action , Comedy , Thriller , Crime

Actors: Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo

For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.

Director: Mel Damski

Genres: Comedy , Adventure

Actors: Graham Chapman, Martin Hewitt, Eric Idle, Peter Cook, Michael Hordern

A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in the early 1970s. The group put on shows called "F.T.A.", which stood for "F**k the Army", and was aimed at convincing soldiers to voice their opposition to the Vietnam War, which was raging at the time. Various singers, actors and other entertainers performed antiwar songs and skits during the show.

Director: Francine Parker

Genres: Documentary , Music , Comedy

Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Pamela Donegan, Len Chandler, Michael Alaimo

Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

Director: Jack Shea

Genres: Comedy , Science Fiction

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Sherry Jackson, Keenan Wynn, Susan Oliver, Ed Begley