The Muppet Movie (1979)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical
Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, Jerry Nelson
Director: James Frawley
Breakheart Pass (1975)
Mystery | Western
John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter
Director: Tom Gries
Tootsie (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Geena Davis
Director: Sydney Pollack
The Final Countdown (1980)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning
Director: Don Taylor
Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
Comedy | Crime
Two hopelessly-out-of-their-class conmen attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the nineteenth century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank robber in the world, and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
Starring: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren
Director: Mark Rydell
The Waiter (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama
A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul.
Starring: Charles Durning, Dan Lauria, Glenn Morshower, Robert Z'Dar
Director: Jason Konopisos-Alvarez
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Comedy | Musical
A town's Sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a television reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors, Robert Mandan
Director: Colin Higgins
Hi, Mom! / Son of Greetings (1970)
Comedy | Drama
A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and views in other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers black theater.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Jennifer Salt, Lara Parker, Paul Bartel, Charles Durning
Director: Brian De Palma
Tough Guys (1986)
Comedy
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fluegel, Eli Wallach
Director: Jeff Kanew
The Choirboys (1977)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Starring: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht, Tim McIntire
Director: Robert Aldrich
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Crime | Drama | Romance
The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was all history. And it's all true.
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Sully Boyar, Chris Sarandon, Lance Henriksen
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starting Over (1979)
Comedy | Romance
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation – seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him – he realizes where his loyalty lies.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen, Austin Pendleton
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Bleeding Hearts / Captured Hearts (2013)
Horror
The Van Houtens are sadistic, lunatic sisters. Through a deranged pact to "capture the hearts" of five men every year, they kidnap, rape, torture and kill their victims with systematic gory success. Their maniacal rampage may be in jeopardy, however, through an ironic twist of fate: a documentary filmmaker's car breaks down in Mansionville. While stranded and waiting for parts in the non-functioning town, he learns of the sisters, their secretive month-long vacation, and the many men who have disappeared. As the fresh meat is being brutalized and murdered, the filmmaker starts asking questions–and he begins making the connection. Is he on the road to an Oscar? Or an untimely, horrific death?
Starring: Robert Loggia, Charles Durning, Tony Todd, Dustin Diamond, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rachael Robbins, Suzi Lorraine
Director: Dylan Bank
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True Confessions (1981)
Crime | Drama
A Catholic Priest and a Homicide Detective, brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Kenneth McMillan, Ed Flanders, Cyril Cusack
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Sisters (1973)
Horror | Thriller
The Staten Island apartment of lovely model Danielle becomes the scene of a grisly murder that is witnessed by her neighbor, Grace, a reporter. But the police don't believe her story, so it's up to Grace to solve the murder mystery on her own.
Starring: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Lisle Wilson, Barnard Hughes
Director: Brian De Palma
Local Color (2006)
Drama
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The two form what appears to be at first a tenuous relationship. The kid wants to learn all the secrets the master has locked away inside his head and heart. Time has not been kind to the old master. His life appears pointless to him until the kid rekindles his interest in his work and ultimately gives him the will to live. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The kid learns to see the world through the master's eyes.
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Morgan, Ray Liotta, Charles Durning, Samantha Mathis, Ron Perlman, Diana Scarwid, Julie Lott
Director: George Gallo
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Horror | Thriller
Jill Johnson, a babysitter terrorized through phone calls by a psychopath 7 years ago, gains the help of a dedicated detective to find the killer once and for all when he returns.
Starring: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst
Director: Fred Walton
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Comedy | Drama
When the head of a large corporation dies, the Chairman installs a mailroom clerk as CEO so that he and the Board of Directors can become rich by shorting the stock. But the unassuming pawn takes his new position seriously and steadfastly pursues his own ideas, which only increase the company's worth.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning, John Mahoney, Jim True-Frost
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Good Dick (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
They're in their 20s. He works in a video store; he's eager, chatty, sleeps in his car. She rents adult films, looks disheveled, rarely speaks. He chats her up, she brushes him off. He takes her address from store records and contrives to run into her. He rings her doorbell; she tells him to go away. He invents a story of a great-aunt who's died; she lets him in but holds a butcher knife between them. So it goes. He presses for a relationship; she ignores him, insults him, or yells. He's persistent, inviting her out, cooking, washing her hair. Both have demons and, as their natures become more clear, his addictive personality and her sex nausea may be on a collision course.
Starring: Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, Martin Starr, Tom Arnold, Charles Durning
Director: Marianna Palka
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The Life Zone (2011)
Thriller
Kidnapped by a mysterious figure, three women find themselves trapped in an abandoned hospital. Held against their will for months, the prisoners are faced with life-transforming decisions and must struggle for their lives. Featuring a harrowing tale and a mind-blowing climactic twist, The Life Zone is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that’ll keep audiences guessing.
Starring: Robert Loggia, Lindsey Haun, Martin Kove, Charles Durning, Angela Little, Blanche Baker
Director: Rod Weber
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