Richard Portnow Movies

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Turturro

Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robin Williams

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Morgan Freeman

A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust...

Genre: Music

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Forest Whitaker

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jamie Foxx

In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Randy Quaid

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Redford

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Halle Berry

"The Indian" is a touching drama about a negligent father who must face the son he abandoned years earlier, and the emotional wreckage he caused, in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Dallas

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vin Diesel

A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve-O

Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mae Whitman

Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chevy Chase

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stephen Dorff

The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ron Perlman

Samuel and his friends along with his trusted dog Athena have to go for the adventure of a lifetime, matching wits with a mob boss to solve Oscar's...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr.

A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mars Callahan

Two genius brothers grow up and grow apart as one becomes a successful surgeon and the other pursues a drug-fueled high life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Franco

A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it. Two prisoners...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeff Daniels

Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chris Diamantopoulos

A talented team of basketball players made up of little people enters a tournament to help a teammate's son go to college.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Rodman

Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Crystal

The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Glover

Four young gamblers come up with a plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jason Priestley

Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nathan Lane

A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josh Brolin

A big-city lawyer is called home to defend a local man accused of murder. Based on the Spoon River Anthology

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Lauren Sinclair

Alan is a gambler desperate to erase the huge sports debt he owes to a cruel but quirky Chicago mobster.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Len Austrevich

A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sophia Loren

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Cast: Nathan Rusk

Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Huston

Johnny is a bad guy trying to go straight and becomes smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl who is rebelling against her parents, all set among the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Dacascos

Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a "wish list" of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jennifer Esposito

Aspiring artist Ali must rebuild her life after a tragic accident kills her husband and their young child, and leaves her blind. Life in the dark...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisabeth Röhm

The story of a small-town high school football team in rural Ohio destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Natalie Imbruglia

Tony and Tina are excited to get married but they dread having the ceremony. Tina's mother and Tony's father used to be an item and neither parent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joey McIntyre

When the world is infected by a devastating disease a man is forced to take shelter in his home.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Marc Senter

Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al...

Genre: Action

Cast: Rutger Hauer

A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marisa Tomei

Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about...

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Cusack

Linda has a seemingly perfect marriage with her rugged and handsome husband Mark and an adorable 8 year old daughter, Chloe. But when Chloe is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura Allen

The wild and tempestuous relationship between icons Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rico Simonini

When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ron Eldard

Four exchange students meet in Berlin 20 years after graduating but picking up where they left off doesn't turn out to be as easy as they had hoped.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: James Russo

The wild and tempestuous relationship between icons Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rico Simonini

Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jennifer Jostyn

Transplanted from New York, Duke and his brother Frankie Romano live in a rundown LA apartment with their alcoholic mother (Karen Black).

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Carmine Giovinazzo

Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Fiore

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bryan Cranston

On his last night on the job, an unsuspecting LA cab driver gets roped into helping a wealthy investment banker cover up a brutal crime.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rhys Coiro

A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Louis Ferreira

A brilliant mathematician travels through time and space in search of the knowledge that would allow him to control his life and alter the events of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terence Cranendonk

Genetics professor Adam Slope clones his wife Dawn after she dies in a fire but the woman he creates is different than the woman he loved, so he...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jonathan Silverman

Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hurt

A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Virginia Madsen

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg

George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Martin

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Howard Stern

A security guard falls for a famous TV actress he is hired to protect while dealing with mobsters who want his hide for some sour business deal.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Stevens

The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mike Farrell

A time bomb is ticking in a small regional postal facility and his name is Oren Starks (Brad Garrett). Oren fits the profile of a new breed of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Brad Garrett

Ambitious young woman wants to get into TV news. She borrows a small camera from a friend and obtains incriminating pictures that two former East...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Brian Wimmer

An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Melanie Griffith

Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Christina Applegate

Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their...

Genre: Family

Cast: Charles Grodin

In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Oldman

Perfume creator Satin Chau is about to reveal her new designer scent, 'Puppy,' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Morgan Fairchild

Vera Parks, an overly intense and demanding Broadway director, gets fired from yet another job, leaving her no choice but to take a gig directing a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Melissa Gilbert

Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Peter Onorati

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosanna Arquette

At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Treat Williams finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Treat Williams

Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael Keaton

A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Robert Downey Jr.

Alex is the film student forced by his college professor to stop making Jackie Chan "homage" films and make "something from the heart" in order to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jennifer Rubin

Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Raymond Burr

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Johnny Depp

During her traumatic childhood with an abusive father, Emma relied on an imaginary friend for strength. She is now an artist struggling with mental...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Lacey Chabert

Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Forest Whitaker

When his son is kidnapped a man has to face his past demons in speaking to a Mafia don about it.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ann Jillian

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Aiello

A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gabriel Macht

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Travolta

Peter Gunn, a connoisseur of beautiful women and cool jazz, is an ex-cop turned private eye who's caught in the middle of a dangerous gang war.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Peter Strauss

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens,...

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Cast: Swoosie Kurtz

A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cliff DeYoung

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not the murderer in this case Perry Mason intents to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raymond Burr

An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.

Genre: Action

Cast: William Baldwin

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kerry Washington

Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Voight

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

Following the brutal murder of her husband and male kin, Sophia unites with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, in a fierce quest for vengeance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave

A filmmaker picks a "real" subject to shoot, and when she sees Guy on the street, she latches onto him. At first, Guy is enraged that someone is just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio

A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dennis Hopper

A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Segal

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Hershey

A young private investigator in LA tows the line between danger and heartbreak as he tries to help a woman to commit fraud in order to get the money...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jeremy Sumpter

Terrorists threaten to launch a missile armed with deadly disease at Europe. A special unit is put together to stop them.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tim Abell

On a USO tour during World War II, entertainer Eddie Sparks needs a partner to round out his act. Soon after hiring performer Dixie Leonard, Eddie...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Midler

In a twist on a Dickens novel, we meet Holly, a tightly-wound businesswoman who's spent her life running from the ghosts of her past. But this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robinne Lee