Road House (1989)
Action | Thriller
A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a Ph.D. in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets out to tame the Double Deuce for its owner.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, Marshall R. Teague, Julie Michaels
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Protector / Valentine's Day (1998)
Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was about to turn states evidence. The killing came as the mobster was with his girlfriend Alma. Jack suspects Alma of being involved – even more so when he finds her involved with one of the mob family, Michael. However he begins to fall for her himself and finds himself involved in the deadly game where not everything is what it seems.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Randy Quaid, Zehra Leverman, Rae Dawn Chong, Ben Gazzara, John Bourgeois
Director: Duane Clark
Opening Night (1977)
Drama
Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Cassavetes
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Crime | Drama
Gentlemen's club owner Cosmo Vitelli is a man dedicated to pretenses of composure and self-possession. When he runs afoul of a group of gangsters, Cosmo is forced to commit a horrible crime in a last-ditch effort to save his beloved club and his way of life.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey, Al Ruban, Morgan Woodward
Director: John Cassavetes
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Action | Drama | War
In the last days of World War II, the Allied Army desperatly searched for a bridgehead across the impenetrable Rhein River, in order to launch a major assault into the center of Germany. "Bridge at Remagen" tells the true story of the battle for this last bridgehead, from both the German and American perspective.
Starring: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Peter van Eyck
Director: John Guillermin
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
C.I.A. agent, Billy Brown brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only Billy's not really in the C.I.A., and his "wife," Layla is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents.
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Jan-Michael Vincent
Director: Vincent Gallo
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Action | Thriller
Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, Stephen Lang, Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Turturro
Director: George P. Cosmatos
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Joe Ross is a rising star. He's designed a process that will make his company millions. He wants a bonus for this work, but fears his boss will stiff him. He meets a wealthy stranger, Jimmy Dell, and they strike up an off-kilter friendship. When the boss seems to set Ross up to get nothing, he seeks Dell's help. Then he learns Dell is not what he seems, so he contacts an FBI agent through his tightly-wound assistant, Susan Ricci. The FBI asks him to help entrap Dell. He accepts, a sting is arranged, but suddenly it's he who's been conned out of the process and framed for murder. Bewildered and desperate, he enlists Susan's aid to prove his innocence.
Starring: Steve Martin, Ben Gazzara, Campbell Scott, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, Felicity Huffman
Director: David Mamet
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, George C. Scott, Orson Bean
Director: Otto Preminger
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Thomas Crown (Pierce Bronson) is a self-made billionaire who can buy anything he wants and is irresistible to women. But there are some things that money can't buy. Thomas Crown has run out of challenges. When an alarm sounds at a a world class museum and someone walks out with a priceless Monet, Crown is the last person the New York police suspect. Who would steal something he could easily afford to buy and why would he? But one person suspects him: Catherine Banning (Renne Ruso), the brilliant female investigator hired to retrieve the painting no matter what it takes. Catherine loves the chase as much as he does and she's on to his game. Crown has found his challenge. The Thomas Crown Affair is based on the 1968 movie with the same title starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunnaway.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Frankie R. Faison
Director: John McTiernan
