
Richard C. Sarafian
Director · 1930 – 2013 · New York City, New York, USA
Richard Caspar Sarafian (April 28, 1930 – September 18, 2013) was an American television and film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer. Sarafian is best known as the director of the 1971 film Vanishing Point.
Movies23
Movie6.5ActionComedyMiles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
Blue Streak
1999 · 1.7K votes
Movie7.2DramaThrillerCorky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Bound
1996 · 1.1K votes
Movie5.3ComedyFamilyA group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.
Dr. Dolittle 2
2001 · 1.8K votes
Movie7.1ActionCrimeKowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Vanishing Point
1971 · 544 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Bulworth
1998 · 274 votes
Movie6.8RomanceDramaJohn Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.
Don Juan DeMarco
1994 · 823 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaNew York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Bugsy
1991 · 465 votes
Movie6.0DramaThrillerUnable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
The Crossing Guard
1995 · 294 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaJohn Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.
Gotti
1996 · 103 votes
Movie5.2DramaMusicA nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on raking in huge sums for himself from the event. Headlining is legendary musician Jack Fate, whose prison time is cut short with Sweetheart's help. Meanwhile, journalist Tom Friend investigates the corrupt concert and sets out to unmask the truth to the public.
Masked and Anonymous
2003 · 62 votes
Movie5.6ActionThrillerAfter a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a car full of maniacs.
The Road Killers
1994 · 38 votes
Movie4.6ActionThrillerKhalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?
The Next Man
1976 · 12 votes
Movie5.5DramaActionFact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Ruby
1992 · 31 votes
Movie4.9ActionComedyA New York DEA agent springs an outlaw from jail to lead him to stolen money in South America.
Gunmen
1993 · 85 votes
Movie7.0ActionDramaA forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
Street Justice
1987 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaHorrorThree young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien menace.
The Falling
1986 · 44 votes
Movie9.0DramaTommy is a 28-year-old man who escaped his hellish childhood by murdering his abusive father. After a prison stint, Tommy's work release program gives him a shot at a new life when he is placed as a cook at St. Michael's School in L.A, There he meets Guillermo, a neighborhood kid who is committed to keeping him out of trouble, and Sophia, a schoolteacher who educates him in a subject he knows nothing about--love.
Blink of an Eye
1999 · 1 votes
Movie3.3ActionCrimeA respected civic leader is caught between two rival underworld crime families on the verge of war.
Hitters
2002 · 6 votes
Movie5.5DramaMusicDoc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house. And now he's gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky, who's out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs.
Songwriter
1984 · 19 votes
Movie6.0HistoryDramaDrama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
Liberty
1986 · 2 votes
Movie4.0ThrillerRomanceMarsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?
Miami Hustle
1996 · 8 votes
Movie7.5ActionTV MovieA "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.
Long Time Gone
1986 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryA promotional short for Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973).
The Moviemakers
1973 · 1 votes
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TV7.7DramaAction & AdventureHe's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's brakes... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
MacGyver
1985 · 963 votes
TV6.6CrimeDramaVinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
Wiseguy
1987 · 37 votes
TV7.0ComedyFoley Square is a 1985-1986 United States comedic television series starring Margaret Colin which centers around an assistant district attorney in New York City. It was Colin's first starring role. Original episodes aired from December 11, 1985, to April 8, 1986.
Foley Square
1985 · 2 votes