
Paula Trueman
Actor · 1897 – 1994 · New York City, New York, USA
Paula Trueman (April 25, 1897 – March 23, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actress.
Movies24
Movie7.3DramaMusicExpecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.
Dirty Dancing
1987 · 6.7K votes
Movie7.7ComedyDramaNew York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Annie Hall
1977 · 4.3K votes
Movie7.5WesternAfter avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 · 1.3K votes
Movie6.8ComedyDrama37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Moonstruck
1987 · 1.1K votes
Movie6.3ComedyWesternA Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Paint Your Wagon
1969 · 288 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerScience FictionJoanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
The Stepford Wives
1975 · 384 votes
Movie6.1CrimeThrillerThief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
The Anderson Tapes
1971 · 188 votes
Movie7.4ComedyFictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Zelig
1983 · 938 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceKate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
Mrs. Soffel
1984 · 59 votes
Movie4.9ComedyMusicA loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.
Can't Stop the Music
1980 · 71 votes
Movie5.9ComedyGrace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.
Grace Quigley
1985 · 17 votes
Movie6.9DramaEpisodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · 23 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceThree ad agency buddies, who cannot seem to find fulfilling love, decide to place personal ads to find new romance. The resulting blind dates and ultimate results are about what one would expect.
Classified Love
1986 · 2 votes
- MovieHorror
A couple struggling with money wait for an elderly family member to die.
Attic Suite
1986
Movie10.0DramaSerio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Sweet Lorraine
1987 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFamilyA kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaHarry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Better Late Than Never
1979 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaTommy Wilhelm is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
Seize the Day
1986 · 28 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieFamily members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
The Last Tenant
1978
Movie6.8ComedyHorrorWhen a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
Homebodies
1974 · 17 votes
Movie5.9CrimeDramaCaddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Crime Without Passion
1934 · 26 votes
Movie6.8TV MovieScience FictionTo a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The android is equipped with everything needed as a parent and the boys are charmed. The daughter, however, still misses her mother and she bears no welcome for this interloper.
The Electric Grandmother
1982 · 11 votes
Movie7.5DramaTV MovieA conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.
OHMS
1980 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where she grew up, and reevaluate her Puerto Rican cultural roots.
Series4
TV7.1Action & AdventureCrimeRobert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
The Equalizer
1985 · 69 votes
TV7.2DramaSci-Fi & FantasyTales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
Tales from the Darkside
1984 · 95 votes
TV7.3CrimeDramaA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Kojak
1973 · 154 votes
TV6.5ComedyBilly is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February to April 1979. The series was based on Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's 1960 British play Billy Liar.
Billy
1979 · 2 votes