A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.

Too Late Blues

1961

English

6.8

♡ 13

82%

John Cassavetes Director

Cliff Carnell as Charlie

Val Avery as Milt Frielobe

Nick Dennis as Nick Bubalinas

Seymour Cassel as Red

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.

Jinxed!

1982

English

4.7

♡ 8

30%

Action

Comedy

Don Siegel Director

Val Avery as Milt Hawkins

Ian Wolfe as Morley

Read Morgan as Reno Player

Jacqueline Scott as Woman Bettor

Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.

The Sting II

1983

English

4.9

♡ 6

10%

28%

Action

boxer

brooklyn, new york city

Jeremy Kagan Director

Karl Malden as Gus Macalinski

Bert Remsen as Kid Colors

Carl Gottlieb as Maitre D'

Val Avery as O'Malley

Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.

No Way to Treat a Lady

1968

English

7.0

♡ 7

89%

74%

Action

based on novel or book

Jack Smight Director

Val Avery as Bartender

Murray Hamilton as Inspector Haines

Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Brummel

Mary Boylan as Sadie's Neighbor

Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

Gloria

1980

English

7.1

♡ 15

91%

John Cassavetes Director

Julie Carmen as Jeri Dawn

Gaetano Lisi as Mister

Jerry Jaffe as Pittsburgh Cabbie

Val Avery as Sill

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

Edge of the City

1957

English

7.2

♡ 5

75%

Martin Ritt Director

Val Avery as Brother

Jack Warden as Charlie Malick

Robert F. Simon as George Nordmann

Ruth White as Katherine Nordmann

A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive and morally decaying city they live in.

In the Shadows

2001

English

4.9

♡ 3

39%

Ric Roman Waugh Director

Val Avery as Carlo Pierazzi

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Draven

Scott Waugh as Graham

James Caan as Lance Huston

When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?

The Pink Jungle

1968

English

5.9

♡ 1

95%

Delbert Mann Director

James Garner as Ben Morris

Nigel Green as Dennis McCune

Michael Ansara as Raul Ortega

Val Avery as Rodriguez

A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine.

A Fish in the Bathtub

1998

English

6.1

♡ 2

Joan Micklin Silver Director

Val Avery as Abe

Peter McRobbie as Father Malachy

Mark Ruffalo as Joel

Nicholas J. Giangiulio as Police Officer #2

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

Minnie and Moskowitz

1971

English

7.2

♡ 3

82%

los angeles, california

parking lot

Romance

John Cassavetes Director

Roberta Collins as Countergirl at Pink's Hot Dogs

Timothy Carey as Morgan Morgan

Seymour Cassel as Moskowitz

Val Avery as Zelmo Swift

Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.

The Laughing Policeman

1973

English

6.4

♡ 7

59%

san francisco, california

Thriller

Stuart Rosenberg Director

Joseph Bernard as Avakian's Brother

Louis Guss as Gus Niles

Cathy Lee Crosby as Kay

Val Avery as Pappas

When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1962

English

7.8

♡ 7

89%

Ralph Nelson Director

John Indrisano as Barfly Watching TV

Julie Harris as Grace Miller

Michael Conrad as Ma Greeny's Thug

Val Avery as Young fighter's promoter

Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.

Machine Gun McCain

1969

Italian

6.1

♡ 2

80%

Giuliano Montaldo Director

Annabella Andreoli as Assunta Esposito

Peter Falk as Charlie Adamo

Val Avery as Chuck Regan

Britt Ekland as Irene Tucker

After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.

Continental Divide

1981

English

6.2

♡ 5

73%

Michael Apted Director

Bruce Jarchow as Hellinger

Allen Garfield as Howard McDermott

Ron Dean as Plesko

Val Avery as Yablonowitz

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Hud

1963

English

7.8

♡ 18

86%

89%

Action

alcoholism

based on novel or book

Martin Ritt Director

John Indrisano as Barroom Brawler

Paul Newman as Hud Bannon

Val Avery as Jose

John Roy as Show Spectator

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1976

English

7.2

♡ 20

79%

los angeles, california

John Cassavetes Director

James Lew as Asian guard

Val Avery as Blair Benoit

Timothy Carey as Flo

Seymour Cassel as Mort Weil

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.

Black Caesar

1973

English

6.4

♡ 14

64%

62%

Action

blaxploitation

blaxploitation cinema

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Larry Cohen Director

William Wellman Jr. as Alfred Coleman

Val Avery as Cardoza

Andrew Duggan as Man at Shoeshine

Julius Harris as Mr. Gibbs

Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a pay-off gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage.

Love and Bullets

1979

English

5.6

♡ 8

35%

John Huston Director

Val Avery as Caruso

John Hallam as Cerutti

Charles Bronson as Charlie Congers

Andy Romano as FBI Agent Marty

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.

Renegade

2004

English

5.2

♡ 21

22%

Jan Kounen Director

Val Avery as Judge

Vincent Cassel as Mike Blueberry

Tchéky Karyo as Uncle

Djimon Hounsou as Woodhead

U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of a white sorcerer lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.

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Too Late Blues

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The Sting II

No Way to Treat a Lady

Gloria

Edge of the City

In the Shadows

The Pink Jungle

A Fish in the Bathtub

Minnie and Moskowitz

The Laughing Policeman

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Machine Gun McCain

Continental Divide

Hud

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Black Caesar

Love and Bullets

Renegade