Margo Winkler
Actor · b. 1935 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Margo Winkler is an American actress, who often played minor roles as receptionists, clerks or judges. She is known for her minor roles in several of Martin Scorsese's films which her husband Irwin Winkler produced. She is best known for her roles in Goodfellas (1990) as Belle Kessler and as the receptionist in The King of Comedy (1983) whom Robert De Niro's character approaches on numerous occasions. She is also known for her role as Barbara in Life as a House (2001). She made her screen debut in 1970 in Stuart Hagmann's The Strawberry Statement. In 1999 she appeared in her son Charles Winkler's picture Rocky Marciano, and her last appearance was in 2006 in her husband Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave as a waiting room mother.
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Movie8.5DramaCrimeThe true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
GoodFellas
1990 · 14K votes
Movie7.8DramaComedyAspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
The King of Comedy
1982 · 2.7K votes
Movie7.5ComedyThrillerDesperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
After Hours
1985 · 1.8K votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaAngela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night, she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization, who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence in order to protect the project.
The Net
1995 · 1.6K votes
Movie6.5DramaThrillerOwing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
Guilty by Suspicion
1991 · 202 votes
Movie6.5RomanceDramaAn egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
New York, New York
1977 · 518 votes
Movie5.4WarDramaThe day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
Home of the Brave
2006 · 200 votes
Movie7.1DramaWhen a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Life as a House
2001 · 462 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceA blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
At First Sight
1999 · 267 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaA broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Author! Author!
1982 · 121 votes
Movie7.1DramaThrillerA lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Music Box
1989 · 188 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaLooking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
Night and the City
1992 · 82 votes
Movie5.9DramaTV MovieStep into the ring with one of America's greatest legends...and stand a couple of rounds with greatness! "Pulling no punches" (LA Daily News), Jon Favreau (Swingers) and OscarÂ(r) winner* George C. Scott give TKO performances in this outstanding biography of the only undefeated world heavyweight champion in the history of boxing! In the small blue-collar town of Brockton, Massachusetts, young Rocky Marciano (Favreau) turns to the ring as his ticket out. Training twice as hard and twice as long as anyone else, he pounds his way to victory and his reputation quickly spreads as "the guy to beat." But behind the gloves Rocky is unhappy with his gift and he's thinking of retiring. So, with the fate of his career hanging in the balance, he finds a way to unleash his thunder againthis time against his biggest hero: Joe Louis!
Rocky Marciano
1999 · 19 votes
Movie5.2ComedyCrimeA Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1971 · 24 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaBored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Up the Sandbox
1972 · 25 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaDefying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
Busting
1974 · 59 votes
Movie5.1ComedyThrillerA detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
Peeper
1975 · 15 votes
Movie3.8ComedyA young actor's fascination with Rober De Niro's TAXI DRIVER persona leads him into a morass of strange and obsessional behaviors.
You Talkin' to Me?
1987 · 5 votes
Movie5.9DramaRomanceA college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
The Strawberry Statement
1970 · 43 votes
Movie4.4ComedyDramaAfter attending his 23rd funeral for a friend with AIDS, Troy and his friends hatch a plan to steal the HIV drugs that they need. One sucessful heist leads to another and another until they have so much inventory they decide to begin their own community distribution program.
Red Ribbon Blues
1995 · 5 votes
Movie5.5DramaDocumentaryAn aspiring teacher (Hughley) takes the one job he's offered, a position at a school inside a prison.
Shackles
2005 · 6 votes