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John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He appeared in many Hollywood films. He is most notable as a pioneer of American independent film. His films are noted for their use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style.
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30 May 1986
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making things any easier.
24 April 1969
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
15 February 1976
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment.
22 December 1977
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging.
16 April 1975
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation.
13 August 1982
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
18 January 2008
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
12 June 1968
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
16 August 2002
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
10 June 1956
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
02 December 1981
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down.
04 November 1977
A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.
04 January 1957
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.
22 December 1971
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love.
29 August 1997
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.
24 February 1982
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered.
20 March 1958
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
01 April 1969
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don.
22 December 1978
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
01 November 1961
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself.
18 November 1974
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick.
15 June 1967
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there.
12 November 1976
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game.
26 January 1968
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire.
24 February 1989
Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fellow directors remember the man and his work.
01 January 2006
A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being filmed just north of London, the short focuses mostly on star Lee Marvin enjoying his pursuits on his one day off a week.
01 October 1957
While in Havana, a musician gets involved with a crippled man and his beautiful wife... with deadly results.
20 November 2014
Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows.
14 April 1967
A gang of outlaw bikers strike a bargain with the Sheriff of a small beach town; let them stay and the town is safe.
01 July 1984
Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams.
10 January 1960
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
11 June 2006
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino.
21 January 1953
A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.
03 November 2011
This Argentinian dramedy gives us elements of Woody Allen’s nervous comedy and Cassavetes’ melodramatic roller coaster in a storm of egos that takes place on one decisive weekend in the lives of Juana, a popular actress about to star in an important theater production, and her husband Roman, a director suffering from writer’s block.
01 October 1980
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian.
01 April 1951
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide.
17 April 1988
The very first full-length documentary on Scorsese offers an invaluable look at how he was perceived by his colleagues, and himself, in 1977.
10 March 1978
When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse.
28 March 1971
A documentary behind the scenes of John Cassavetes' 'Husbands' (1970).
13 July 1955
A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.
05 June 2019
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.
02 October 1993
Get the scoop on the legendary actor-director-New Yorker John Cassavetes straight from the mouth of his friend, peer and co-star Peter Falk (Columbo) in Paul Joyce’s documentary, Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes.
22 January 1999
After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
06 October 2014
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
07 August 1959
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
07 July 1964
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
08 March 1985
Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship.
03 March 2021
A Woman Watches People.
09 August 1956
This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archival film elements available in high definition, some of the programs have not been seen since they were originally broadcast.
06 September 1993
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character.
14 October 1960
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
22 March 1984
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
05 April 1973
The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and on the prowl.
20 November 1968
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
01 June 1962
A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who begins to believe that the ex-con is his father.
08 December 1970
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together.
24 November 1968
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man.
01 January 2000
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies.
