Estelle Omens
Actor · 1928 – 1983 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Movies15
Movie7.9CrimeDramaBased on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
Dog Day Afternoon
1975 · 3.5K votes
Movie7.2ThrillerCrimeA graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Marathon Man
1976 · 1.3K votes
Movie6.6ComedyDramaJack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...
Mr. Mom
1983 · 363 votes
Movie6.5ComedyCrimeNew Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
Stir Crazy
1980 · 496 votes
Movie6.4HorrorMysteryAfter a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Dead & Buried
1981 · 340 votes
Movie6.2Science FictionThrillerPlastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Looker
1981 · 138 votes
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceA composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.
Unfaithfully Yours
1984 · 54 votes
Movie7.3DramaMiddle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972 · 65 votes
Movie6.5DramaCrimeAfter murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with a bloodlust who works at a local factory.
Joe
1970 · 83 votes
Movie4.8ComedyRomanceWalter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a happily married couple, but they're not. Walter is so caught up in his career that he fails to keep up with Evelyn. So when she falls for the charms of Greg, a real estate Romeo, it takes Walter by surprise. Even more so, because he finds out about it from Stephanie, Greg's deserted TV weather girl girlfriend.
Loving Couples
1980 · 16 votes
Movie6.8DramaThrillerA policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
Contract on Cherry Street
1977 · 4 votes
Movie5.0CrimeDramaSix former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
Friendships, Secrets and Lies
1979 · 7 votes
Movie6.0DramaTV MovieA lonely widow who frequents Central Park becomes emotionally involved with two orphaned youngsters who have built an oasis for themselves there after fleeing from a foster home. A young Brooke Shields made her TV acting debut in a small role.
The Prince of Central Park
1977 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFantasyA deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.
Topper
1979 · 2 votes
Movie5.3ComedyWelcome to the Secret Cinema, now featuring a series of films on the real-life misadventures of Jane, a New York City office secretary. See Jane being sexually harassed by her boss, Mr. Troppogrosso. See Jane get dumped by her boyfriend, Dick. See Jane humiliated in lots of ways. And here's the kicker: Jane doesn't know that her life is being filmed, or that she's being set up by some of the people closest to her. But she's starting to have her suspicions.
The Secret Cinema
1967 · 20 votes
Series4
TV5.7DramaSt. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
St. Elsewhere
1982 · 93 votes
TV7.3ComedyBarney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
Barney Miller
1975 · 62 votes
TV7.2ComedyDramaDick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.
Newhart
1982 · 65 votes
TV5.3CrimeDramaCassie & Co. is an American drama series broadcast on NBC as a mid-season replacement. 13 episodes were produced, but it was pulled after four episodes in February 1982, with the rest airing in the summer. Angie Dickinson stars as Cassie Holland, a tough, divorced ex-cop who becomes a private detective, taking over a detective agency with her ex-con secretary Meryl (Dori Brenner) and gym instructor Benny (A. Martinez).
Cassie & Co.
1982 · 3 votes